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Sonja Henie herself owned a Gainsborough and a Renoir before she married Onstad, but to her own surprise she quickly caught her husband's enthusiasm for more contemporary art. Since their marriage, the collection has more than doubled, and almost all of the new acquisitions have been abstract. "At first, I guess it was a kind of sport," says Sonja of her purchases. "Just to tease my husband. Very soon it became something more. I became fascinated by the abstract things and felt I understood their meaning...
Sonja Henie's own favorite works these days are the flamboyant but powerful abstractions of Russian-born Nicolas de Stael. She owns seven of them-quite a change from Messrs. Gainsborough and Renoir...
...Chicago show. New York's Juster Gallery offered such signed works as a Miró color etching for $90, a Picasso poster for $75. The Associated American Artists started with Raphael Soyer at $14.75, and its unsigned prints included a $19.50 Manet, a $32.50 Chagall, a $40 Renoir, a $70 Cézanne, a $190 Rouault...
...affections to his younger brother Eugene, who in time became her husband. Their house on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne became one of Paris' brightest salons. Impressionists Claude Monet and Edgar Degas were members of the circle, and so was a struggling artist named Auguste Renoir...
...dusky young people from Guinea. Les Ballets Africains has toured the world for six years and made its U.S. debut last year, but, because the troupe had been too long exposed to civilization, northern style ("certain intellectuals thought we could be cultured by being acquainted with Rimbaud. Picasso and Renoir"), the directors reorganized the company, recruited an almost entirely new group of Guinea dancers most of whom had never set foot on a stage...