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Critics called it the garage sale of the century. Tongue-in-cheek comparisons were made with the opening of King Tut's tomb. But the auction of more than 10,000 items owned by America's most infamous artist, which ran throughout last week and had two more days to go this week, turned out to be a fitting tribute to the huckster of hype. "If he's sitting up there watching, he's probably having a ball," said Diana Brooks, president of Sotheby's North America, which conducted the sale in its Manhattan showrooms...
...Side was so cluttered with the fruits of his shopping binges that only two or three rooms were habitable. Picassos were stuffed in closets. Jewels were squirreled away in the canopy of his antique four-poster bed. "He was chronically, almost neurotically, acquisitive," writes Biographer David Bourdon in the auction catalog. "He was forever searching for that mythical five-dollar find that would turn out to be worth $1 million...
...original Bloomingdale's price tag of $20, and two other cheap cartoon watches sold for $2,640. "It's not the article, it's who it belonged to," explained Steve Taenaka, a hair stylist who bid $1,000 for a Mickey Mouse watch and lost. He settled for the auction's six-volume catalog, a relative bargain...
...diamond earclips signed by Salvador Dali fetched $55,000. Sotheby's termed Warhol's collection of more than sixty 18th and 19th century chairs, tables, beds, mirrors, desks, sewing tables -- and even a doorway -- "the most important offering of American classical and Federal furniture to be sold at auction in many years...
...nude serenade had been purchased last week at Cabot House's annual Dutch Auction. "It was a good deal, for $52," said Brenda Wood, who was the highest bidder. Wood, who was visiting her daughter, Cabot resident Lori Wood '88, decided to buy the serenade for herself...