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...Christie's contemporary art sale in New York last month, the top lot was a huge mural painting by Mark Rothko that the auction house hailed as a "masterwork" and "of particular importance." When the bidding was over, No. 9 (White and Black on Wine) had sold for $16.4 million - a record for a Rothko at auction, as Christie's was quick to point out. What Christie's didn't trumpet was the identity of the seller: François Pinault, the self-made French billionaire whose holdings happen to include Christie's itself. The Rothko was in good company...
...this time around, Harvard’s team, which in January was carbon copied on a letter from the mayor to the Turnpike Authority protesting the auction, knew that City Hall would oppose the sale even before they made a bid. As the cash-strapped Turnpike Authority pushed ahead, Harvard eagerly followed...
Gates found the work, entitled “The Bondwoman’s Narrative,” in an auction catalogue in the summer of 2001 and purchased it for $9,775. Appraised recently, the document was found to be worth $350,000. The mid-nineteenth century account is believed to have been written by an escaped slave, Hannah Crafts...
...million was the winning bid for the working manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a Sotheby's auction in London...
Unfortunately for the girls, however, PLUR, which also included Seth N. “Fatboy” Kisch ’04 at the time, was sold for $90 to another blocking group. In the same auction, PLUR bought the naming rights to their Thursdayfest...