Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stolen Frans Hals's portraits of Isaak Abrahamsz Massa (conservatively valued by gallery officials at $120,000) and Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne ($80,000), Rembrandt's portraits of a Lady with a Lap Dog ($150,000) and a Lady with a Handkerchief ($250,000), Pierre Renoir's Portrait of Claude ($20,000), Peter Paul Rubens' The Elevation of the Cross ($20,000). It was probably the biggest art robbery in modern times, and certainly the most sensational since Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre...
...then abandoned them. Though both are relatively low-rated by today's art buyers, the thieves probably were not exercising esthetic discrimination. For one thing, they had time to pilfer $40 from a cashbox, proving their main interest to be monetary. For another, they left a Tintoretto, another Renoir and a Degas untouched...
...lavish and witty host to society and royalty. Socialites, politicians, ambassadors and industrialists come to admire his golden-eyed. part-Cherokee wife Rosita (the eighth best-dressed woman in the U.S.), his superb table and cellars, and his tastefully decorated walls (three dozen major works by Renoir, Matisse, Degas, Modigliani, Picasso, Goya...
...ripe young secretary. But the most surprising development of this renaissance is artistic. A lifelong doodler, the AWOL diplomat tries a little weekend sketching and (here we Gauguin!) is startled to find that he is an artist of astonishing power-a Rubens, perhaps, with a touch of Renoir. Within a year he is in Paris, painting his broad-hipped housemaid by day, panting for her by night. But the late-blooming bohemian's idyl is broken by Edith, who shows up to buy a painting and promptly recognizes the lamster. Will he turn worm and let himself be stuffed...
...works put up for auction by American Collector Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Paul Cezanne's portrait of his wife went for $112,000; Georges Braque's cubist Woman with Mandolin brought $100,800. more than double the previous top price for a Braque canvas; a pair of Renoir portraits (Ambroise Vollard as a Toreador and Misia Sert) sold for $61,600 and $44,800. Total sale: $613,256, which Chrysler will give to his Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, Mass., opened last year to show part of his massive (some 4,000 works valued at between $12 million...