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...have to know your business around here, and its a mighty complicated one. First you break your back talking Jupiter or that Venus for a ride, and the next minute you have to give some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...
...Venus de Milo...
Illustrations for Poe, illustrations for Oscar Wilde, illustrations for the Yellow Book-marvelously adroit and facile pen and inks. "Salome," epicene and sleepy, the "Woman In the Moon," "Venus" in a modern gown, Pierrots, Sapphos, gigolos, whatnots. None of Beardsley's more obscene drawings are part of the sale...
...splash on page 71, to the day before his death." In 1911 he paid a million dollars for three Gainsboroughs. His Gutenberg Bible (often mistaken for the famed copy from the library of Cardinal Mazarin*) is worth $50,000; he has on his shelf the first edition of Venus and Adonis, the oldest existing edition of any work by Shakespeare. He has, in short, the most valuable collection of first editions in the world, and the most complete Americana. (To catalogue it cost $40,000.) These things and his magnificent 500-acre home at San Marino will...
...Venus and Bacchus hold alternate sway...