Word: vincent
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...lucky object was by Vincent van Gogh -- the largest and best known of seven paintings of sunflowers in a pot that he had done in Arles between August 1888 and January 1889. It was bought through telephone bids by an anonymous collector. It was the next to the last in the sunflowers series still left in private hands, since four are in museums and one was destroyed in Yokohama during World...
What the eager art world saw at Christie's on Monday of last week, Van Gogh's 134th birthday, was less a market transaction than a quasi-religious rite. The house was being washed in the blood of Vincent, the Lamb of Modernism. (And none too soon, skeptics might say, since less than two years ago the president of Christie's, David Bathurst, had to admit that he had tried to rig the market by falsely announcing he had sold a Van Gogh and a Gauguin...
...record. On vinyl, "We love our audience" night or might not be the real McCoy. But when it's emphasized with stony eyes and a bony accusing finger, the phrase's contemptuous undertones hit full force. Murphy leaves us with the feeling that maybe he's taking his usual Vincent Price routine...
...Allison Masters '89 J. Nicholas Rosenthal '87 M. Algernon Saal '87 Editorial Editor N. Sigmund Wurf '87 Features Editors M. Estelle Harris '88 J. Lynn Mnookin '88 Sports Editor J. Arabella Dorman '88 Copy Editor Sarah Bayliss '87 Business Editor Amy J. Merritt '89 Photography Editor John C. Vincent...
...gentleman spy was also native to the U.S. Founded in 1917, a clique known as the Room used the cover of international travel and scientific expeditions to gather information that it passed on to Washington and London. The Room's membership list read like the Social Register: Vincent Astor, Kermit Roosevelt, David Bruce (Andrew Mellon's son-in-law), Nelson Doubleday and a gilt edging of Wall Streeters and lawyers...