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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1961.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT

PAYS

$2.6 MILLION FOR RENOIRS

Dancer with Tambourine

New

terminal opened

ocean

And experts

are shocked the_price

at

London, Apr. 25. The British Government is to give £163,500 (HK$2.6 million) to help tho National Gallery in London buy a pair of pictures by the French painter, Renoir.

The paintings are "La pictures in the 1880's for after he become increasingly Danseuse au Tambourin" and 1900

arthritis crippled with

and "La Danseuse aux Castagnetter."

with patrited painfully with brushes The model portrayed the tambourine was a hair strapped to his wrists, He diedt dresser's assistant Georgette in 1919 when he was 78. Pigeant, who is still alive.

When M Garignot saw her some time ago sho recalled golog with Renoir to buy the blue slippers which she weara

in the painting.

For the portrait of the other dancer there were two models: for the head. an Italian called Marla, and for the body, a girl called Gabrielle, who was both Renoir's servant and his favour- ite model in bi tater years.

Very fine

Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Chancellor

of the Exchequer, tok!

House of Commons:

"These pletures, which painted in 1909 by Renoir

the

were

The paintings were bought from M. Philippe Gangnat, of Paris, son of M. Maurice Gong- nat. who commissioned them.

The spokesinan added that the pictures were painted on tall canvasses, a little over live feet high by' about two feet wide.

They were considered to be an effective composition when hung side by side. Each picture is signed and 'daled "Renoir, '99,"

Ardent

The two pictures were eam- miloted by the late owner's father, M. Maurice Gangnat, probably the most for who was

of all collectors of

Dancer with Castanets

BBC mystery

voice tells

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Milford Haven, Apr. 25,

his friend Maurice Gangnat, are ardent When Mr Richard Wood, very fine examples of the nr Renoir's works.

London, Apr. 25. 0: period, which

painted in the They were Minister of Power, open-tist's later

summer of 1000 to hang in his A man and a woman, claim- ed tho British Petroleum present is poorly represented in

coun- dining room in Paris, on either ing to be "the voice of public collections in this Company's now accan try.

side of the replace with y

nuclear disarmament", terminal near here, ho "In view of the exceptional

mirror between. China Mail

were heard for como brought into operation importance of this acquisition

Special.

minutes on the BBC tole- one of the few installa-have decided to make a special Exchequer grant of £183,500

vision sound wavelength tions in the world cap-

towards the cost,"

after the programmes had oblc of handling 100,-

closed down. 000-ton tankers.

At a luncheon later, Mr Wood sand the new terminal was of "immense signideance" for the future.

He predicted that if the, Bri- Uch oil industry followed the trend for the Free World as a whole, British refineries should double their output by the early

1970's.

Mr M. R. Bridgeman, BP's chairman, said the

company

i aimed at using tankers of 50,000 and 67,000 tons, but if the Suez Canal were deepened! "we might be able to False our sights a bit and build tankers of 70.000 tons or more."

The £6,500.000 terminal com- prises a coastal strip ot 140 ACTES.

The oll is pumped from the; two mooring berths into storageį tanie, and then it flaws 50 miles through an underground pipe- Time to a refinery near Swansen, -Chin Mall Sprint.

Sydney, Apr. 25. American Negro singer Billy Daniels collapsed shortly before he was due to appear in a night

club here today.

He did not say what the total cost of the pictures was.

Six figures

Embargo

A National Gallery spokesman no serious

said later be could not give any, ide of the cust of the paintings except that it did not exered six hpures.

The balance of the purchase price being met from National Gallery funds, but considerable astonistament was expressed in London art circles at the magni- tude of the price. for Renair paintings of this period.

The previous highest price Britain for a Reno'r £72,000 for his HLA Pensee" at the Goldschmidt ole in 1958. It is now owned by property magnate Mr Jack Cotton and hangs in his suite

Paid was

at the Dorchester Hotel.

Extraordinary

Lord

obstacle to trade

London, Apr. 25, Lonsdowne, Foreign Undersecretary, said to-

was

broadcast

heard The against a background of crack- ling noises.

The woman said, "On Apri 29, Parlament Square will be occupied by demonstrators sit- ting in the road, protesting in a manner which tunnot ignored, against nuclear weapons of mass destruction."

be

The man said, "We in the pro- test understand the simple truth there is no real defence. What day that British trade is said about civil defence is n It is a hoax Intended with the Sino-Soviet bloc cruel lie.

was not appreciably im- to get you to die quietly."

Mr Michael Randle, secretary peded by items of strategic of the "Committee of 100", an significance on the cm-anti-H-bomb bargoed exports list.

The chic! reasons was bloc's lack of sterling.

said that group,

set all-nuclear operators had

the up a secret station In

of London lo pub- the northwest Sald one art expert: "Assum

BBC lielse their cause on the ing that the National Gallery has

The list was kept constantly frequency after the BBC trans- contributed only something like

under review by Britain und mitter closed down. £1,500 From its Own funds, her allies.

They would limit their time £165,000 is a staggering price

Lord Elibank, a Liberal peer, on the air to about five minutes to pay for two late Renairs. I had suggested in the House of to baffle monitoring systems,

A BBC spokerman amazed."

Lords that the embargoed should be abolished apart frem mented: "If these people llcence army, munition, military equip- operating without ment and machinery especially then it is a matter for the Post designed for their production Office."-China Mall Special.

Commented think it's price to

another expert:

july.

an extraordinary highly It is

His agent said he had received unlikely that they would have

for per-fetched anything like that price blood transfusions forated diodenal ulcer and that at a sale."

condition

serious. With

his

Reuter

thut It is generally agreed Renoir painted his best

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