Word: xv
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senior Writer Michael Demarest, who wrote the story on the growing rage to collect everything from Bruegels to Barbie dolls, is a traditionalist in these matters. "A Louis XV marquetry cabinet would be nice," he says, "though I would be quite content to receive a second painting by Jack Yeats [Poet William Butler Yeats' brother] to go with the one I have." Demarest began covering the auction scene-and, inevitably, acquiring some treasures for himself-while stationed in TIME'S London bureau from 1958 to 1961. "It was convenient," he says, "and I got very good advice. Sotheby...
...high prices limited to paintings. Earlier this year auctioneers gaveled record prices for a French snuffbox ($150,000), a Roman glass bowl ($1.9 million), an American weather vane ($25,000), a Louis XV marquetry cabinet ($1.8 million), a Fabergé hippopotamus cigarette lighter ($55,000), a book of photographs ($100,000), a 2nd century A.D Roman head ($94,000). Per auctionem ad astra...
...another one of the generals from whose ranks both leaders came. The Philippines, however, has no credible mechanism to assure an orderly succession. Marcos' one-man rule recalls Louis XIV's declaration, "L 'état c 'est moi," and the warning sometimes attributed to Louis XV, "Après moi le déluge...
...Akram Ojjeh, a Saudi Arabian entrepreneur who lives in France. Even Sotheby's normally unflappable chief auctioneer Peter C. Wilson was astonished at the frenetic pace of the bidding, which often drove prices three or four times as high as most dealers had expected. A pair of Louis XV corner cabinets went for $608,920, and a folio cabinet fetched $655,760. But the most breathtaking buy was a garishly ornate Louis XV corner cabinet. The contenders were two agents working for anonymous buyers and Art Dealer Andrew Ciechanowieski of London's Heim Gallery. As the salon fell...
Last week, at least, he demonstrated that he could. Despite strong Soviet advice to the Spanish Communists to stay with Leninism, the congress voted with Carrillo on Thesis XV, 968 to 248 to set a Communist precedent by dropping the party's Leninist label. With old Moscow friend La Pasionaria unaccountably absent and Carrillo grinning broadly, the delegates attempted to soften the blow by chanting "Lenin, Lenin, Lenin." The municipal elections anticipated later this year will be the first test of Carrillo's triumph-and new strategy...