Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between October 1958 and July 1959, the gross at Sotheby's was $16 million, including $770,000 for a Peter Paul Rubens (see opposite page), until last week the highest price ever paid at an auction. A Gauguin Tahitian scene, owned by George Goodyear of Buffalo, fetched $364,000...
1961 will be one of the greatest wine years of the century. That was the word from Marcel Lugan, director of France's National Confederation of Wine and Wine Spirits of Appellations of Origin. In a transport of sedimentality, Lugan rhapsodized to newsmen that "the wines of 1960 are...
"European painting is studied and tired, missing the freshness of spring." says Belgian Industrialist Philippe Dotremont. "American painting bursts forth from the ground like flowers, disengaged from tradition and the past. If a man moves by plane rather than oxcart, why must he prefer Rubens to Pollock?"
When Bon Vivant Georges Lurcy died in Manhattan in 1953, the Paris-born banker who had prospered as a House of Rothschild protege left an estate that included three houses and a famed art collection. After the bulk of his gallery was auctioned off for $2,200,000, Lurcy'...
...that the brush stroke should never be visible, the new painters reveled in color and pigment. "Yes. to be sure," grumped Ingres, "Rubens was a great painter, but he is that great painter who has ruined every thing." He flatly refused to let his students even look at the Rubenses in the Louvre. When, years after Ingres was elected to the French Academy, Delacroix was also chosen. Ingres roared with indignation: "Now the wolf is loose in the sheepfold...