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...collector solely on the strength of the Hollywood actor's selections. He made his first modest purchase when he picked up Winslow Homer's A Voice from the Cliffs (which now hangs in his Manhattan penthouse office) and a Renoir landscape at a Parke-Bernet auction in Manhattan in 1949. His first major purchase was Renoir's The Two Sisters, for which he paid $53,200 at Paris' famed Cognacq collection sales in 1952 which touched off a boom in Impressionist paintings. He bought his collection's ' most important single work, El Greco...
...busy for casual gallery browsing, Niarchos relies on auction catalogues, a network of watchful employees and the tips (as well as enthusiasms) of his well-heeled collector friends. His behind-the-scenes maneuvering reached a climax when he bought the Robinsons' collection without seeing anything more than a catalogue (though his handsome Greek wife Eugenie, who often drops in at galleries, did fly to Los Angeles under an assumed name for a firsthand look...
Take Yvonne De Carlo-a feat that is simplicity itself according to the script. Raised as a white belle amidst Kentucky's bluegrass, she learns that her mamma was a Negro, and she is hauled off to be knocked down for $5,000 at a New Orleans slave auction. Her gallant buyer: an aging Rhett Butler, again played by Clark Gable (under the assumed name of Hamish Bond...
...moved to the block one day last week at Sotheby & Co., London auctioneers, the atmosphere became electric. Lot 40 consisted of two small (18 in. by 13 in.) heraldic glass panels. Dated 1588, they bore on the left the coat of arms (three red mullets and red and white bars) of John Washington, George Washington's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Probably made for John's grandson Robert, the panels had stayed in the Washington 16th century Sulgrave Manor for almost 300 years, but recently turned up as kitchen windows in the Northamptonshire home of Litt...
...break between Gauguin and Bernard came when Gauguin proclaimed himself, in Bernard's words, "the chief of the symbolist school in painting," and Bernard felt that he had been betrayed. Years after the event Bernard recalled that his indignant sister tackled Gauguin in the middle of an auction room. "Monsieur Gauguin," she cried, "you are a traitor. You have violated your pledge and are doing the greatest harm to my brother, who has been the true initiator of the art which you now claim for yourself." According to Bernard, "Gauguin did not answer, and withdrew...