Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because most of them are still wet, the pictures in Appel's latest Amsterdam show hang high out of reach of inquiring fingers. To demonstrate their wetness last week, the museum curator, who admires the artist, thrust one thumb into an inch-thick gob of red. "Appel doesn't mind," he reassured his visitor, smiling...
...VERY BRUNDAGE of Chicago made his millions in the building business and his fame in sports as perennial president of the U.S. and later International Olympics. Even before 1936 (when he fired Eleanor Holm from the Olympic swimming team for sipping champagne) and until last week (when he insisted that the East and West Germans field an Olympic team under one flag), Brundage has been a highhanded, battle-scarred figure. But he has a softer side, demonstrated by his consuming interest in contemplative Oriental art. Over the years Brundage has amassed a collection of sculptures, paintings and artifacts from Iran...
...Brundage is increasingly concerned over the future of his collection, has offered it to San Francisco's M. H. de Young Museum. Last week city officials were debating the conditions of the gift: 1) a $3,000.000 addition to the museum, in the form of an Oriental wing, designed to meet Brundage's specifications, and 2) a Brundage-approved curator and staff for the collection. If the price is steep, the prize is nothing short of fabulous. Best of the lot are Brundage's bronzes, dating back 30 centuries to the almost mythical Shang-Yin dynasty...
...Stockbroker Paul Gauguin turned from the busy world of men and money to the pursuit of nature and art. On the evidence of his paintings, he enjoyed life thereafter, though he was dirt-poor. By last week the busy world had fully caught up with Gauguin. In just 30 seconds at Sotheby's in London, one of the happy renegade's last South Sea canvases was sold for a record $364,000. Other high prices in the auction of 185 impressionists and postimpressionists: $406,000 for Cezanne's Peasant in a Blue Blouse...
...This week Danville (pop. now 10,000) celebrated the 150th anniversary of Pioneer Surgeon McDowell's pioneering operation. Appropriately-for McDowell had once served as its postmaster-Danville's post office was the first to sell a new 4? commemorative stamp...