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When Duke forward John Smith took a pass down low and jammed it home for the first hoop of the game, his move became an act of classical athleticism. And when Crimson Co-Captain Keith Webster squeezed in a dipsy-do-lay-up, it had the flavor of a Renoir...
...other volumes share the same aim. Florence Cassen Mayers' red ABC (Abrams; $9.95) uses objects in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: D is for a Renoir dancer; N is for an Audubon nest; V is for a Degas violinist. Mayers also offers a matching blue volume (Abrams; $9.95), with works from the Museum of Modern Art in New York: F is for a Jasper Johns flag; N is for a starry night by Van Gogh; G is for an appropriate goat by Pablo Picasso. After all, he was the artist who said it took him a lifetime...
...night record -- an astonishing $42,372,000 -- and individual milestones for nine artists. Mondrian's Composition in a Square with Red Corner sold for $5.06 million, the second highest price ever paid for a 20th century painting (Yo: Picasso, a self-portrait, went for $5.83 million in 1981). Renoir's La Coiffure was gaveled down at $3.52 million; Joan Miro's Woman in the Night at $2.53 million; and Henry Moore's Reclining Figure (Festival) at $1.76 million. Sotheby's great rival, Christie's, rang up $30.6 million over two days. Most of the top-ticket items were purchased...
...style. He and his wife maintain a costly apartment overlooking Manhattan's East River but spend much of their time on a 200-acre estate in suburban Westchester County, where guards patrol a laser-controlled entrance gate to the property. Inside the Georgian-style house, paintings by Monet and Renoir adorn the walls, and valuable works dot a nearby sculpture garden. Recently Boesky applied to local town planners for permission to add a dome to the residence, to give it, said his architect, a more "Jeffersonian look...
...unpopularity of modernist sculpture, as compared with painting, is a fact of life. Americans, especially, seem to prefer painting to sculpture because of its greater power of illusion and fantasy. (Sculpture is resistant stuff, hard to fantasize about. Renoir used to provoke erotic reveries; Maillol, never. You can imagine a painted body as flesh, but a sculpted one remains stone -- hence the archetypal frustration expressed in the myth of Pygmalion.) Combine the relative unpopularity of modern sculpture with its awesome complexity as a subject and one sees the problem of this show. There has not, in fact, been such...