Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reader's titillation, she learns not only that she is the daughter of a slave woman, but that the plantation and she herself with it are being sold for taxes. Soon Amantha (Yvonne De Carlo in the movie) is trembling on the block at a slave auction. A lounging lecher decides to examine the goods, when whack!-a silver-headed cane smashes his wrist. The hero (Clark Gable) pays $2,000, and takes Amantha off to his manor house...
...velvet block at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet auction gallery last week was a yellowish nude by Pierre Bonnard, and the bidding had already reached $99,000. There, for a moment, it stayed, until the auctioneer breezily pointed out that "it would be much nicer to be able to tell your friends that it cost $100,000." Minutes later, the painting went for $101,000 -$7,000 more than the Bonnard auction record...
...evening's end the patrons-art lovers and investors alike-had bid a total of $1,098,775 for 39 works-a sizable sum even at Parke-Bernet, which is one of the world's three biggest art and rare books auction houses. Aside from the Bonnard, two other paintings broke records. A splendid, red-faced Valet de Chambre by Chaim Soutine brought $76,000, nearly four times Soutine's auction record of seven years ago. An even bigger leap in value: a pair of superbly winsome lovers by Marc Chagall for $77,500, whose auction price...
...Whistler, an Eakins, a Cassatt, a Prendergast, two Homers, and twelve paintings by George Inness, who lived in Montclair most of his life. It has a Portrait of Caleb Whitefoord by Gilbert Stuart that was at one time thought to be lost; mentioned in a London auction catalogue in 1834, it was not heard of again until a former president of the museum found it in a private collection in 1945. The museum's Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament is one of five historical canvases done for the Earl of Grosvenor in 1782 by Benjamin West, the Pennsylvanian...
...brilliantly lighted auction ring at New York's Saratoga race track one night last week stood a handsome bay colt. Among the overflow crowd of 1,600 at the open-air pavilion moved white-jacketed "spotters," alert for the telltale gestures-a casual nod, a lifted finger-that signifies a bid. The first horse went quickly. "Sold for $30,000," boomed Auctioneer Milton Dance Jr., rapping his gavel for emphasis. By the time Auctioneer Dance's gavel had fallen for the 48th and last time. $319,500 worth of horseflesh-all paid for in cash-had changed hands...