Word: roussel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oversee the making of some of the reproductions, which are produced by leading art-reproduction craftsmen in America and Europe, he hired Christine Roussel, former manager of the Reproduction Studio of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, as one of his advisers. Rockefeller personally supervised the recasting of the bronze objects and the hand painting of the copies of his rare Meissen china. For the reproduction of paintings, he decided against the often used lithographic method in favor of the Cibachrome photographic process, which closely captures the color of the originals...
...bookkeeping was vague, his meanness unpleasant-it was Vollard who kept Gauguin on short rations in Tahiti-and his narcissism immense. "The most beautiful woman who ever lived," said Picasso, "never had her portrait painted, drawn or engraved more often than Vollard-by Cézanne, Renoir, Roussel, Bonnard, Forain, almost everybody in fact. He had the vanity of a woman, that man." But he also had an exquisitely tuned eye and a great deal of patience; the combination enabled Vollard, as publisher, to master the innumerable problems involved in producing major collaborations between artist and text...
Heidi Ratner, flute, with Barbara von Schleinitz, piano, perform works of Poulnc, Roussel and Bach. Dunster Library...
Alexandria Quartet. Mozart Flute Quartets (in A and D); Beethoven: Serenade for Flute, Violin, Viola; Roussel: String Trio. Free. Sunday, March...
...have played the part with particular bravura in Britain and France. Climaxing a long contest, they outbid the U.S.'s Sherwin-Williams Co. to win a controlling interest in Berger, Jenson & Nicholson Ltd., a major British paint producer. In France, Hoechst executives encouraged a merger of two concerns, Roussel-Uclaf and Centrale de Dynamite, which together sell about $200 million worth of Pharmaceuticals a year -or almost as much as Rhone-Pou-lenc, the French pharmaceutical leader. Hoechst has ties to both concerns and will come out owning 20% to 25% of the merged company...