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Russian highlights include Archipenko's monumental nudes and a gleeful Mare Chagall work, "Self portrait with woman." In 1921, Chagall had not yet emigrated from Russia. A leading art educator in Vitebsk, he portrays himself happy, in familiar surroundings, a woman floating breezily from his hand like a kite...
...grey horse reared and refused in the center ring, the crowd groaned its disappointment: again it happened, and again the accompanying condolence. The horse obviously had no intentions of cooperating, for a third display of stubborness resulted in its early elimination. Polite applause and master and mare exeunt...
...suited his sexual proclivities. Several hundred of his erotic drawings were burned by his wife after he died, and most of the survivors are about either masochism or hair fetishism or both. But he did produce one of the great sexual images of the 18th century with The Night mare (1781). The painting ought not to work. It is too literal, too obvious. Its spectral horse with Ping Pong ball eyes puffs and blows through a fold in the cur tain, and the goblin looks like an irri table Irish dwarf. It is, in fact, the kind of painting that...
Born. To Secretariat, horse racing's 1973 Triple Crown winner, whose potential as a superstud was sold to a syndicate for more than $6 million, and Leola, a 13-year-old Appaloosa mare: a male red chestnut colt, the stallion's first offspring; on a farm near Winona, Minn...
Ballet Lessons. "I like to work with animals," explained Foreman recently after tossing his Doberman, Stocky, into the swimming pool and riding his aging mare, Lady, around his backyard corral. "Some day I'll have as many dogs as you can count," he says. Considering the sort of dogs he buys, that could come to quite a sum. This summer Foreman paid $27,000 for yet another prizewinning German shepherd...