Word: auctions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...across town just to make an issue of Lindley Park. Some white spokesmen argued that the city should get rid of the headache by closing both pools. Last week the city council did even more; it voted (7 to 1) to sell both pools at public auction...
...Chicago fund-raising fiesta aimed at giving chronically indigent Poetry Magazine a dollar transfusion, cerebral Bollingen Prizewinning Poet John Crowe Ransom helped dredge up more than $20,000 (mostly in donations), read some "rather grim" Ransom works to the audience of 750, then sat back to enjoy an auction of books and literary curios. Most curious curio, one of a batch of letters sent over the years to various magazine editors: a terse note from Calvin Coolidge to Sumner Blossom, onetime editor of American Magazine. Wrote Cautious Cal: "I have not written anything on the subject to which you refer...
From the start it was clear that the auction of the art, furniture and silver collection of the late French-born Wall Street Banker and Investment Counselor Georges Lurcy was going to be a major event in the art world. The catalogue, under the terms of Lurcy's will, was printed in two handsome, hardbound volumes, sold for $7.50. On hand to compete for 65 choice paintings ranging from Bonnard to Vuillard. and other treasures, Was a select list that included top U.S., British and European dealers plus no less than 250 U.S. millionaire art collectors. The results...
Just how intelligent was apparent last week to dealers and art collectors, 4,100 of whom turned up in one day to preview the collection. Faced with more than 4,000 applications for tickets to the auction, Parke-Bernet sent out 850 for the main, velvet-draped salesroom, another 700 for side galleries, where for the first time at a U.S. auction bidders could view the works in black and white on closed-circuit TV, have their bids transmitted by loudspeaker. Forewarned of the expected crush, Millionaire Collectors Nelson Rockefeller and Winthrop Aldrich arrived 1½ hours early...
...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...