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...cash is plentiful in the current U.S. art market-and pedigreed paintings are scarce. Average collectors may well be confused by recent auction prices. So may experts. (The jolt of the year was a Bellini from the Jules Bache collection. Bache had paid $160,000 for it; a dealer got it last month at auction...
Billy Rose, jigger-sized impresario of jumbo-sized shows which provide him with a jeroboam-sized bankroll, peeled off $29,500 for silver banqueting and tea services at a Manhattan auction...
...shrewd, balding Lewis W. Douglas, who as Deputy Administrator of War Shipping helped to operate the U.S. merchant fleet during the most critical period of the war (May 1942 to April 1944), came up with an answer. Said he (in the Atlantic Monthly): sell three-fourths of it at auction...
...Alice fetched ?15,400 at auction, and to date, in its 80 years of life, Alice has sold uncounted millions of copies. "How did it happen." asks Florence Becker Lennon, "that the Reverend Charles Dodgson, 30 years of age, lecturer on mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford . . . gave birth to one of the most famous stories of all time...
...They very soon came upon a Gryphon . . . (If you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture)." - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Manhattan collectors last week came upon Lewis Carroll's fantastic Gryphon in all his original scaly glory. Up at auction was the largest group in the U.S. of the great Sir John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice, Through the Looking-Glass and other drawings (collection of the late Bronson Winthrop, onetime law partner of War Secretary Henry L. Stim-son). The Gryphon, as well as the King and Queen of Hearts...