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...success of Presumed Innocent and anticipates complaints that the new novel does not repeat the formula of the old. "But that was intentional," he says. "I was wildly afraid of self-imitation when I began the second book. And I'm proud of The Burden of Proof, particularly the portrait of Sandy Stern and his complicated involvements in family life...
Seated under a portrait of Lenin in his Foreign Ministry office in Moscow last week, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Komplektov explained that initial response to Washington's strategy. "We never believed that Central America was the key to improved superpower relations," he said. "We did, however, believe that Central America is especially important because conservatives consider the region as a litmus test of a President's toughness." This led Moscow to misinterpret Bush's opening. "Who was Bush but Reagan's man?" says Yuri Pavlov, the Soviet's top Latin America policy assistant. "That's how we incorrectly looked...
...article on art forgeries ((ART, May 7)), Robert Hughes described Hans van Meegeren, who specialized in pseudo Vermeers, as a "talentless and paranoid academic hack." I knew Van Meegeren in the 1940s in the Netherlands when I was a teenager, and his portrait of my father now hangs in my home. He was undoubtedly paranoid. However, he was also very gifted, as numerous paintings and drawings can testify. To judge artists only by the imitations they make is to conclude a priori that they are not original in their...
...Tuesday night at Christie's, Van Gogh's melancholy portrait of his physician, Dr. Gachet, sold to the Japanese dealer Hideto Kobayashi for $82.5 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for a work of art. Kobayashi bought the painting on behalf of noted Japanese collector Ryoei Saito, a paper-manufacturing executive. Two nights later, at Sotheby's, Kobayashi again acted for Saito in bidding $78.1 million for one of the best Renoirs in America, Au Moulin de la Galette...
...auction houses had placed vastly inflated reserves, or minimum acceptable bids, on their paintings. Says Richard Feigen, an international art dealer: "Their estimates and reserves are now insane, sometimes double what the market will bear." Prices for older masterpieces are expected to hold up well. Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet should bring more than $40 million at auction this week. Other safe bets: 20th century classics (Picasso, Matisse) and postwar Americans (Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko). But experts think prices will soften dramatically for paintings by some young superstars (David Salle, Eric Fischl, Anselm Kiefer). Says Feigen: "No more...