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...transcontinental auction of paintings and sculptures for the benefit of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was held in Manhattan's flossy Parke-Bernet Galleries, with the proceedings carried to Dallas, Chicago and Los Angeles by closed-circuit TV. Top price knocked down was $200,000 for Cézanne's familiar Les Pommes, donated by U.S. Ambassador to Belgium William A. M. Burden. But the "sensation of the sale," according to Parke-Bernet, was the $145,000 paid by a New York gallery for Cubist Georges Braque's Composition: The Violin. Donor of the painting...
Until last week, the best-kept secret in the art auction world was: Who put up the record $770,000 to buy Rubens' Adoration of the Magi through London Dealer Leonard Koetser (TIME, July 6)? The Daily Express offered $1,500 for any clue, after nine months got the tip-off from one of Koetser's former employees...
...record for English canvases. Hundreds of other rich Americans were supplying themselves with high-priced ancestral portraits from England at about the same time. But the fashion waned and almost disappeared until last week, when Gainsborough's Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews fetched a fat $364,000 at auction in London...
...islands the thick walls became mildewed and pocked, the plank beds began to rot, and rust spread slowly over the huge locks and chains. Last week the deserted colony was put up for public auction. It was one of a number of "chattels"-a dry canal, 15 coast guard stations, five silos, two restaurants, two sand dunes, 43 prisons-that the French government is eager to get rid of, and in this case, anxious to forget...
...help you, my dear?" she inquired. Off they went-but not to the right address. They went instead to a dingy house in a dark street, where the girl was imprisoned, raped, beaten and tortured. Then she was shipped off to the flesh marts of the Continent, sold at auction to the highest bidder. She never saw home or family again...