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JOHN A. CURRAN Managing Editor The Sault Daily Star Sault Ste. Marie...
Almost as soon as Monet's The Terrace at Ste. Adresse was knocked down to a London dealer for $1,411,200, thus setting an auction record for an impressionist painting (TIME, Dec. 8), the rumor spread that the buyer was the Metropolitan. Making it official, President Arthur A. Houghton Jr. announced that the Monet had indeed been bought for the Met, by "a small group of intimate friends," presumably including Houghton and Investment Banker Robert Lehman...
When Claude Monet painted The Terrace at Ste. Adresse in 1866, he was a young unknown of 25, visiting at the family villa outside Le Havre. There he painted his father sunning on a poppy-laden terrace with pennants flapping overhead and the bustling harbor beyond. To critics today, the painting's brilliant colors seem to mark a historic moment, the "thrusting open of French doors to the whole world of light outside." But the fashion of the 1860s was for brownish landscapes of the Barbizon school; Monet was able to sell his work for only $41. Six years...
...with fantasy, Expo crowds are also showing a healthy liking for good old-fashioned realism. At the International Sculpture Garden on the Ile Ste. Hé1ène, which includes 55 works from 17 countries, four out of five fairgoers applaud Ivan Chadre's Stones Are the Arms of the Proletariat. "I can relate to it," says one Ontario housewife pushing her two-year-old in a gocart...
...trying out his fractured French, touring small stores and factories. Just before the last election, Diefenbaker was so unpopular in Quebec that there was real question whether he would be safe on a campaign swing through French Canada. But tempers cool, and now 1,200 citizens turned up in Ste. Perpétue (pop. 1,160) to cheer his campaign promises: abolition of the 11% sales tax on farm machinery, training schools for farmers, low-interest farm credit. Everywhere, he pecked away at the scandals singeing Mike Pearson's administration. "This government," he said, "is trying to make...