Word: auction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willed to the Metropolitan Museum, or, as an alternate, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Part, including Rubens' "Magdalene," Gainsborough's "Covered Wagon," Rembrandt's "Woman with a Fan," was left to his heirs. Last week the legatees announced that they would sell their share at auction in January in Manhattan...
...Fippanys could not have stayed there long if Jim Pickett had not paid down all his savings at the public auction. After that they lived there always. Mr. Fippany found some trucking to do. Jim got on the Transcript. Addie went to school. Mrs. Fippany took in, not boarders, but "remunerative guests...
...week with a group of 8,000 privately owned stores in the U. S., Canada, England and elsewhere, and with 190 stores owned outright by the Liggett companies. He did not get ahead without setbacks, however. In the panic of 1907 he was hard up, held a cash auction and within an hour had checks and orders for $92,000 in his silk hat. In 1914, again in difficulties, he started his one-cent sale department that now does a business of several million dollars a year. Besides his business ability, his other attainments are attested by an anecdote...
...quiet corner. Sir Gerald Du Maurier stared from a bench, uttering little cries of admiration. Lord Beatty stood up near the pulpit and facing him, packed along wooden forms like rooks on a wire, were all the famed Art collectors, connoisseurs in England. They had come to Christie's auction rooms to bid for the odds and ends that John Singer Sargent left around his studio when he died (TIME, Apr. 27). The auctioneer turned suavely to the gentlemen on the forms, nodding at a raised finger that meant 200 guineas, catching a wink that raised the bid by several...
...Portrait of the Painter Guille- quin brought 250,000 francs. The Louvre got Durameau's Partie de Cartes aux Bougies for 36,000 francs and Saint Aubin's Rêve for 76,000 francs. Hubert Robert's Vouté reached 8,000 francs. By auction, Durighiello's Venus Accroupie, excavated in Asia Minor, brought 305,500 francs; his Apollon Citharède,113,000 francs...