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...strength of the collection lies in its vast variety of impressionists and post-impressionists-a variety so rich that it provides offbeat works of artists whose characteristic style has become almost too familiar. Sāo Paulo has, for instance, several Renoir nudes in his well-known manner. But the eye-opener is the full-length Bather with Griffon, painted in 1870 when Renoir was still seeing through the eyes of his mentor Courbet. It depicts Renoir's first mistress, Lise Tréhot. No later Renoir nude was more lushly sensuous...
...Memoirs of Fanny Hill which omits the sexual detail. A vast Goldsmith collection, including the first Swedish translations of the Vicar of Wakefield and The Citizen of the World. First editions of Balzac, Stendahl, and Baudelaire. A theatre collection which includes letters of Booth, working scripts of Jean Renoir, letters of John Gielgud, and manuscripts of Shaw. First editions of Appolinaire, Claudel, Camus. Four of Banhoeffer's manuscripts, written during his imprisonment. Letters of Gorkii and Pasternak, of Joyce, O'Casey, Eliot, and Yeats. Working papers of John Updike. A copy of Churchill's Step by Step that John Kennedy...
...work Simon acquired was not an example of Renoir's mature style. Le Pont des Arts was painted around 1868, when the artist was only 27. Curiously, it was the sense of unfulfilled talent that most attracted Simon to this crisp, crystalline Paris cityscape...
Cats and Dogs. Norton Simon made doubly sure that the prize would not escape him; five minutes before the sale began he had two long-distance telephone lines open from his Fullerton, Calif., office to Parke-Bernet. Then, as the bidding of Renoir's early master piece reached the million mark, he shifted from his representative, Manhattan Dealer Stephen Hahn, directly to Parke-Bernet's chairman, Peter Wilson, who relayed Simon's bids inconspicuously from behind a screen on the auction-room podium. "I had a hunch that it could have gone for as much...
What keeps the art market boiling is the knowledge that Renoir's Le Pont des Arts cost only $19,500 when its previous owner, Manhattan Collector Mrs. W. Clifford Klenk, bought it in 1941. The inevitable result has been to pull into the bull market a host of amateur speculators. To satisfy them, dealers are hustling out the "cats and dogs," in Wall Street parlance: stocks with a glamorous look but shaky prospects...