Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reluctant lecturer. Author Baldwin has now begun to exhort his own people to accept the past and learn to live with it. "I beg the black people of this country," said he last week, "to do something which I know to be very difficult: to be proud of the auction block, and all that rope, and all that fire, and all that pain...
Newest name to be linked with Eliza beth Taylor is, of all people, Vincent Van Gogh. Liz's yen for the finer things crept into the news when California Art Dealer Francis Taylor, representing his daughter, traipsed off to Sotheby's London auction rooms and paid $257,600 for a Van Gogh landscape, View of the Asylum and Chapel of St. Remy. Already on loan from Liz to the Los Angeles Museum are a Renoir, a Cassatt, a Modigliani, a Rouault and a Frans Hals...
...rest is 18th century. I love Louis XV and Louis XVI." Until his death at 83 in January, only guests to the white stone Fribourg mansion off upper Fifth Avenue ever saw his big collection of furniture, art objects and painting; now it is to be knocked down at auction. Peter Wilson, suave chairman of the world's biggest auction house. Sotheby's of London, was in Manhattan last week to supervise the cataloguing of the collection, and it will be sold at seven different auctions in London next June and October...
...dilemma; in a large estate, if a collection is bequeathed intact, the heirs must scrape up and give the Government cash equal to as much as 61% of the value of the art-even more in some cases. Fribourg ordered that after his death his collection should be auctioned; if he had left it to his wife, she would have had to raise cash in the millions to keep it. He lamented that he would not be present at the auction. "This will be the biggest sale of the century," Fribourg said, and in a way he could be right...
...known to his galleries in Paris, Manhattan, London and Buenos Aires-is an awesome figure who probably knows more about the peregrinations of Europe's masterpieces than any man alive. But it is not just his huge file of photographs or his unparalleled collection of auction catalogues, or even his incredible memory, that accounts for his ability to spot a fake or dismiss a work of mediocrity within the blink of an eyelid. His father, who fled his native Alsace when the Prussians swarmed through it in 1870 and started the secondhand store in Paris from which the great...