Word: auctioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...welcome opportunity to forget their depressing post-Christmas trade. A new light of encouragement has been cast upon their slackened business. Out of the noise and traffic of a materialistic metropolis has come the report that literature still commands enormous prices. For the purchase of valuable collections at public auction, buyers were not found wanting, even though the bidding ran unusually high...
...buyers, Messrs. Colnaghi of London, will shortly offer it at public auction in Manhattan...
...impressionist, scarcely paid for their own paint. When he died in 1903, he left a studio cluttered with his own work and that of his friends (Mary Cassatt, Monet, Manet, Seurat, Cezanne). Until last week these were kept as mementos by the Pissarro family. Then they sold them at auction in Paris. The total return was about...
Whether or not Critic Pach's salvos affected Metropolitan dictators, they announced a February auction of 200 paintings of an evidently admitted stupidity...
...Dick before Walter Biggar, who traveled from Dalbeattie, Scotland, to do the judging. Emma Goecke, 17, his big sister, took Dick to judgment. Clarence was sick to his stomach. If Dick won the grand champion steer prize, that would be Dick's end. He would be sold at auction (as is the live stock show's custom), killed and eaten at some rich Christmas carouse...