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Amidst a buzz of rumors, the Cleveland Museum of Art paid an estimated $550,000 in 1959 for Rubens' Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Chase. Last week Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty said he had gambled more than $400,000 that Cleveland has a fake. New Year...
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'...