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Last week Pam Holliday, who once greeted patrons at the door of Pam's Frontier Room, was busily auctioning off its furnishings. "I have very expensive lawyers," she explained. A witty redhead who can barely raise her left hand under the weight of diamond and emerald rings, Pam insists that she taught her girls all the social graces: "You might say it was a type of charm school." Buyers, many of them female, came from miles around to buy Pamorabilia and get her autograph (price: $2). Among the hottest items at the auction: oven timers, an electric vibrator pillow...
...increasingly abstract and incandescent color of Tiffany's later works, such as Pumpkin and Beets, 1900-05, as abstractly designed as any action painter might wish. Also on display is a solid representation of Tiffany's famed lamps and lampshades (one recently brought $360,000 at auction...
...pledged money due him from his holdings in the Dallas Tornado soccer team and the Chicago Bulls basketball team. Lamar also added his art collection. A prized possession: Frederic Edwin Church's The Icebergs, which he bought last October for $2.5 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for an American painting...
...situation. With ebullience, he threw himself into the role of the maestro, designing sets and costumes for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, marrying one of its dancers, and allowing a conventional style of portraiture, often as insipid as the $3 million Acrobat sold to Japan in last week's Garbisch auction, to alternate with a highly decorative form of cubism. "Decorative," of course, is no longer a cuss word, and his best flat-pattern cubist paintings of the early '20s, with their gravely shuttling collage-like overlaps of bright and dark color, are marvels of pictorial intelligence. The two versions...
Diana Firestone and her husband Bert, owner of 1975 Derby winner Foolish Pleasure, bought Genuine Risk at auction for $32,000. Her bloodlines were impressive: her sire, Exclusive Native, was also the sire of Affirmed, the 1978 Triple Crown winner, and her grandsire, Gallant Man, won the Belmont Stakes in 1957. The Firestones, who breed and occasionally break their own horses at the family's Virginia farm, register the colts under Mr. Firestone's name and the fillies under Mrs. Firestone...