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...testing previous highs. Last week the center of action was Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, where one blue chip found a dynamic investor willing to bid it up to a new record price. The buyer was California Collector-Industrialist Norton Simon, who paid $1,550,000 for Auguste Renoir's Le Pont des Arts, upsetting the previous auction record for impressionist paintings, set by the Metropolitan Museum when it paid $1,410,000 for Monet's The Terrace at Ste. Adresse a year...
Still, the festival has always performed a valuable service in offering certain films that were either too flawed or too offbeat for commercial distribution. The program directors' taste in revivals remains impeccable. Jean Renoir's Toni, made in 1934, is a gentle, loving tribute to the peasants of pre-Civil War Spain. The uncut version of Max Ophuls' Lola Montes (1955), never commercially released in the U.S., is one of the most sumptuous romances ever filmed. Among the other festival highlights...
...center of the house is the sparsely furnished, 67½-ft.-long great hall, used for formal receptions and large cocktail parties. On its walls hang 16 prize paintings by impressionists and postimpressionists, including a voluptuous Renoir Bather, and a darkly rich, superbly foreshortened Degas Girl on a Cushion. For any other collection, these 16 would be more than enough, but the adjoining dining room is fairly aglow with the Kreegers' most spectacular collection-within-a-collection. Eight mistily magnetic Monets offer a wide range of insights into the painter's gifts, from the crisp precision...
Defending Renoir's estate were his two sons, Cinema Director Jean (La Grande Illusion) and Ceramist Coco, and his grandson, Cameraman Claude. They contended that the Spaniard was merely a competent craftsman. "For there to be true co-authorship," argued the Renoirs' attorneys, "the law insists upon common inspiration and mutual control. Obviously in this case there was neither." Besides, the lawyers said, Guino has already received something of an added bonus-the family sponsored his career long after Renoir's death and even commissioned him to do a bust for the grave...
...court. And when the courtroom debate finally ended, he asked Paris Art Dealer Alfred Daber to spend up to six months studying the essential question: Do the disputed works bear Guino's "personal stamp, even a modest one," or can they be considered "as belonging entirely to Auguste Renoir in spite of Guino's skill and dexterity"? The final decision will presumably be based on Daber's artistic critique...