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...lapsed into the madness that took his life. Portrait de Mademoiselle Ravoux survived, was bought in 1921 for $20,000, along with two other Van Gogh works, by a sharp-eyed Pennsylvania clergyman named Theodore Pitcairn. Last week at Christie's in London, it was sold at auction to an anonymous collector for $441,000-the highest price ever paid for a Van Gogh. The proceeds will go to Pastor Pitcairn's Swedenborgian Lord's New Church in Bryn Athyn...
...Paris' Palais Galliera last week, Daumier earned back the 12 francs, with interest, as the largest group of his works ever put up for auction went on the block. The 338 sculptures, drawings and lithographs were only a fraction of the collection of a French banker and founder of breweries through out North Africa named René Gaston-Dreyfus, 80, who began buying Daumiers before World...
...outsize format, contains 435 plates of U.S. fowl by the naturalist engraver. Only 129 sets are known to exist. The price nearly doubled the last sale of Audubon's Ele phant, which went in 1959 for $36,400. ¶At London's Christie's auction house, a 241-piece dinner service of 18th century tobacco-leaf Chinese porcelain sold for $97,000. Made under Ch'ien Lung, a ruler of the Manchu dynasty, the service is patterned in rose-colored tobacco leaves, a style designed to appeal to the then-new Western trade. Only 20 years...
Occasionally his sense of showmanship swept him overboard. Asked recently if the bust of a woman purported to be after Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra di Benci, which the Met bought at a Parke-Bernet auction for $225, was really a Leonardo, Rorimer winced, said, "If you never see it exhibited in the Met, you will know...
Oysters & Bequests. At home with his wife Kay, he preferred to relax with slippers and pipe, thumb through old auction catalogues. Occasionally he turned cook, entertained friends with gourmet Chinese dinners, including a sauce that he maintained had 99 ingredients...