Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winston Churchill retouching Peter Paul Rubens? During the war, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson told a TV interviewer, it happened to a painting by Rubens and Artist Frans Snyders that hangs at the P.M.'s country house, Chequers. Although the canvas was supposed to depict Aesop's fable...
Director Wilder grows ecstatic about his new acquisition. "I adore the originality of its shape," he says. "It isn't the old-fashioned Rubens couch; it's more like Giacometti." Eames agrees that the Chaise "is comfortable and works," but he has one reservation: "I'm sad...