Word: schoeller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Francoise Sagan (real name: Franchise Quoirez), 22, bestselling French novelist (Bonjour Tristesse, A Certain Smile), who has often expressed the belief that young girls should marry men in their 40s; and Guy Schoeller, 42, her publisher, to whom she dedicated her third book (Those Without Shadows); she for the first time, he for the second; in Paris...
...week took place in Paris, where Dans un Mois, Dans un An (In a Month, In a Year), the third novel in four years by Franchise (Bonjour, Tristesse) Sagan, 22, appeared, to the tune of a phenomenal first printing of 200,000 copies. Dedicated to Publisher Guy Schoeller, mid-fortyish, the man she has announced she will marry next winter, the book proved to be another bedtime story, no longer in the first person singular like the previous two, but still very personal. Its characters hop from boredom to boudoir and back again, and when asked what it all means...
...Schoeller learned to trust his senses, and backed them up with hard study. Today, he has huge cardboard files crammed with information on his specialty, the 19th century masters. He knows the painters' lives almost as well as his own: "You must be able to say, 'Corot was ill in bed that winter and did no painting. He was at Cannes on such a date-hence the canvas marked "Corot, Paris" is false...
Monet Remembered. Occasionally Schoeller needs a little time. He asks his client to bring a disputed painting back the next day when he has "fresh eyes." Once he makes a decision, laboratory tests rarely prove him wrong. He remembers a friend who bet 50,000 francs that he owned a genuine Monet; indeed, he had the artist's written assurance to prove it. Schoeller still insisted it was false. Finally Monet himself remembered: it was a scene from his childhood haunts. A friend had painted it, but when Monet saw the picture years later, it looked so familiar...
...small office last week, André Schoeller ruled a Corot, a Monet and a Renoir all frauds. A wealthy woman had brought him her latest purchase: 2,000,000 francs' worth of "genuine old masters," likewise all frauds. And he reported to a group of heirs, who supposed they had a fortune in Van Goghs and Cézannes: "Not a single genuine Cézanne or Van Gogh in the lot." But he was able to offer a consolation: he ruled them "all good examples of the French school of the 19th century." Thanks to the prestige...