Live Auction Arts of France. Lot Ricky and Sandra were destined for each other. They loved each other; they live an enchanted life and they shared their happiness and good fortune unstintingly. Ricky had the dashing good looks of a fifties' movie star - he always reminded me of Errol Flynn.
And Sandra! To see the Baroness in ballgown and jewels setting forth from Claridges, in her sea-green Rolls Royce, was to see a rare and exotic beauty in full sail. The Portanova's house in River Oaks, Houston was crammed full of wonderful pictures, furniture and objets de vertu. I remember one dinner party there; forty people were seated beside the pool at tables which Sandra had caused to be set with their Salvador Dali vermeil flatware together with the huge 'Moth and Flame' candelabras, which illuminated the event.
Their house in Acapulco was no less full of the beautiful and the extraordinary culled from their travels all over the world. They assembled marvelous tablescapes and the dining room was never set with the same arrangement.
They lived an enchanted life and the world is poorer for their absence. Reclaimed by the artist in ; his sale, Paris, 27 June , lot 5, where bought in by the Nattier family 'sept dessus de porte Quatre Vertus Possibly M.
Princesse de Faucigny-Cystria. Baron M. Mercure de France , September , p. Eloge de M. Barillet, Recherches historiques sur le Temple , , p. Dussieux, Paris, , II, pp. Mantz, 'J. Dayot, L'Image de la femme , Paris, , p. Nattier, peintre de la cour de Louis XV , Paris, , pp.
