Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result last week was one of the merriest fund-raising functions ever. At San Diego's community auditorium, the auction was set in motion at 7:30 p.m. by COMBO President Robert Peterson and did not stop until the last thump of the gavel at 3:30 a.m. Meanwhile, 750 diners ate, drank, laughed and shouted themselves hoarse...
...auction's end, COMBO happily counted up the proceeds. They amounted to $230,000-enough to buy the symphony a portable acoustical shell, to finance an opera production of Faust, and to start construction on a new rehearsal hall for the Old Globe Theater...
Normally it is the auctioneer who points in ecstasy at some modest morsel of art and racks his brain for superlatives. And it is the greybeards, full of probity, in the museum pantheon who toll the bell. But roles were reversed last week when New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bid a paltry $225 for a sculpture at a Parke-Bernet auction, then gleefully announced that its new acquisition might be worth more than...
...which owns Parke-Bernet, far from convinced. Said he, in no mood to quarrel with a major customer: "If this proves to have come from the workshop of Verrocchio, Mr. Rorimer and his curator are to be congratulated on being the only connoisseurs to recognize the fact before the auction." As for the Metropolitan, at worst it was stuck with a sculpture that had once sold for $200,000. And besides, the girl is pretty...
...abstract expressionism received its first definitive testing on the auction block. The creative heyday of the movement is over; the question was, how much of it survives in cash values Of 20 paintings, 13 belonged to Robert C. Scull a New York taxicab-fleet owner who has embraced pop art. His purpose m selling was to bankroll his new foundaion to support younger artists with-dealers. "Let the oldtimers pay for tomorrow," he said. They did. Top price -$37,000-was for Willem de Kooning's 1955 Police Gazette; Barnett Newman's Tundra, consisting of a red horizontal...