Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fell well short of the $2,300,000 paid last fall by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art for Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; but still and all, the smaller (34 in. by 30 in.) and less ambitious St. Bartholomew had brought the fourth highest auction price yet for a single painting. When the painting was knocked down (to Agnew's, another big London art dealer), the old gentleman got up and drove off to his castle in Shropshire. He had spoken to no one during the sale, and no one had spoken...
Today, for all his hatred of "lionization," even the dustiest pamphlet by Dodgson fetches a fortune at auction...
...promote himself under the name of Dealer Y, Dr. Hofmann pointed out, he could carry the process one step farther and create a demand for Painter X by buying him under the name of Collector Z. Says Hofmann: "The unknown painter who buys his own works at auction to increase their value is not unknown to modern...
...Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries went 23 of her spare baubles, from a $45 sapphire ring to a $47,000 pair of ruby-and-diamond earrings, for an auction that earned her $92,610 in loose change...
...hears new aphorisms from his bene factor's mistress ( Nadia Gray). "Life is an auction." she tells him. "Men put up their muscles or their brains, women their bodies. It's all the same." Sellers finally comprehends. Putting up his brains, trimming his beard, he pursues what he can now clearly see is the good life. He overpowers the crook he works for and spirals upward, swiftly becoming an international financier, running stupendous treasuries through his fingers like sand. The camel jumps gracefully through the eye of the needle into the sheer heaven of riches on earth...