Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rembrandts go, Woman Weeping is relatively unknown. It first came to public view in 1914 at a London auction, where it was bought by Berlin Banker Oskar Huldschinsky for ?1,470 ($7,158.90 at the time), top Rembrandt price of the year. What makes the painting choice is that it dates from Rembrandt's early 50s, when he had risen by force of character above the shallows of his personal life to enter his last and greatest period. In Woman Weeping, his mistress and favorite model, Hendrickje Stoffels (who was censured repeatedly by the church elders for her life...
...Manhattan showplace, Mayer six months ago leased a choice 6,900 square feet of ground and second-story space in Madison Avenue's Hotel Carlyle, at 77th Street facing Parke-Bernet's auction headquarters. To give his gallery a really new look, Mayer called in as architects M.I.T.-educated Armand Bartos, 46, and Vienna-born Frederick J. Kiesler, 64, famed for such pioneering structures as his 1920 houses cantilevered out from masts like suspension bridges and his 1952 egg-shaped "Endless House...
...With the auction room jammed and an overflow crowd standing at the red velvet barrier rope to be admitted. Manhattan's leading auction house. Parke-Bernet. last week auctioned all but the last of the fabulous contents of the Rovensky Fifth Avenue mansion (TIME, Jan. 21). Bids for the art collection, including $69,000 for a pair of Boucher classic allegories, totaled $1,264,410. Mrs. Rovensky's two Oriental pearl necklaces (which were once exchanged for Carder's present Fifth Ave nue headquarters), now considered to be worth only one-tenth their original value, still brought...
...Just to tabulate her possessions, the Manhattan auction house, Parke-Bernet, has published a 313-page illustrated catalogue. Sale of the 1,021 listed items will take two weeks, is expected to bring over $1.000.000. not counting the 167 lots of jewelry. Among the jewels are two of the most famous Oriental pearl necklaces ever assembled, a strand of 55 and another of 73 matched and graduated pearls, which in 1916 Mrs. Rovensky (then Mrs. Plant) received from her multimillionaire husband. Commodore Plant had taken them as payment of $1,000,000 for their house at 52nd Street and Fifth...
...Parke-Bernet auction catalogue the bell tolled for the era: "Here was someone who believed with great sincerity that the social order was immutably secure; that the meaning of wealth . . . was that it should be translated into an environment of beauty and dignity, as its proper appanages; and that once the eye was trained to the pursuit, the appeal of great craftsmanship was irresistible, and its ownership a justification of one's position." Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr., a close personal friend of Mrs. Rovensky, put it more simply: "It was one of the most beautiful houses...