Janet Flanner

The record-breaking price of close to seven million francs recently paid to a French collector by the London National Gallery for a large and controversial Cezanne, "Legs Grandes Baigneuses," naturally set a new high-water mark in talk in Paris art circles about picture prices vs. aesthetic values, about why collectors collect and what their judgments are worth.

— from Paris Journal, 1965-70 (Paris Journal)