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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...
...Prices are up slightly from a year ago even though there are more cars for sale, and the hottest used seller is the car that also leads the new-auto field: Chevrolet. Volkswagen also ranks high as a used car; last week at a wholesale auto auction, the place where the trade sets its prices, a 1960 VW carried a wholesale price of $1,080 v. $1,000 for a 1960 Ford Galaxie that when new cost $1,000 more than the VW. Because a bright red used car of any make attracts attention to the lot, it is worth...
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...