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...Crest toothpaste commercial shows a pert black housewife bidding on antiques at an auction that is in a presumably wealthy white neighborhood; in another, a black science teacher lectures white parents on what to do to keep Junior's teeth bright. In toy commercials, white, Negro and Oriental children frolic together in an idyllic suburban setting that exists only in some copywriter's imagination. In Ad-Land, there is no discrimination between whites and nonwhites, at least in one sense: both are treated unrealistically...
...Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, where one blue chip found a dynamic investor willing to bid it up to a new record price. The buyer was California Collector-Industrialist Norton Simon, who paid $1,550,000 for Auguste Renoir's Le Pont des Arts, upsetting the previous auction record for impressionist paintings, set by the Metropolitan Museum when it paid $1,410,000 for Monet's The Terrace at Ste. Adresse a year...
...Parke-Bernet. Then, as the bidding of Renoir's early master piece reached the million mark, he shifted from his representative, Manhattan Dealer Stephen Hahn, directly to Parke-Bernet's chairman, Peter Wilson, who relayed Simon's bids inconspicuously from behind a screen on the auction-room podium. "I had a hunch that it could have gone for as much as $2,500,000," said Simon afterward. He added: "I would not have paid that, but I would certainly have gone higher than...
...Parke-Bernet's auction, other paintings of value brought high prices: a Pissarro went for a record $260,000, a 1906 Picasso for $430,000, believed to be a record for the Rose Period. A fauve-period Dufy, Les Trois Ombrellas, was bought by Houston's John Beck for $140,000, double the auction high set for a Dufy only three years ago. But dreary works by Vlaminck, Van Dongen and lesser artists were also bid skyhigh. Still, some paintings failed to meet their reserve price (at which the owner prefers to keep possession rather than sell). Claude...
Author Gaia Servadio is the beautiful Italian-born wife of William Mostyn-Owen, an art expert at Christie's, the London auction house. She has modeled, acted in experimental films, exhibited her paintings in Milan and Rome, and covered last year's Arab-Israeli war for the Daily Telegraph...