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Titian to Kaufman. He and his wife Eleanor Holm have a 55-acre estate at Mt. Kisco, N.Y., a $200,000 town house containing fancy bathtubs, $500,000 worth of Titians, Rubens, Holbeins, Daumiers, Utrillos and El Grecos. The house is virtually his office, and a dressing gown his usual...
Stout, glad-handed Park Commissioner John B. Vesey of Memphis, wanted his city to have 1) the largest zoo in the U.S., 2) an eye-catching art collection. With the zoo the Commissioner was doing splendidly. But last week his art boom had the mange. He had spent some $25...
Park Commissioner Vesey did not take this lying on the grass. Ripped he: "If we had the opportunity to make the same purchase tomorrow, I would certainly do it." The controversy gathered momentum, spilled over into local editorial columns (under such puzzling title-lines as "Art, or Beauty, or Both...
In Manhattan, the Metropolitan Museum wound up a mammoth moving job. Safely stowed in a secret steel and concrete country house 100 miles from New York are 10,000 art treasures-enough to be the nucleus of another great museum. The Metropolitan has been laying evacuation plans for two years...
Rubens' first wife was perfect in every respect save passion; his second, who was 16 when he married her in his 503, had passion alone to recommend her. But for an aging man who had been careful all his life, that was enough. He painted her as Venus in...