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Season's biggest sale at Parke-Bernet was 18th-Century British Painter John Hoppner's Portrait of Miss Frances Beresjord (see cut), bought for $39,000 by the famous art-dealing firm of Duveen's. It was lavishly topped, however, by the season's record high ($175,000), for Renoir's Mussel Fishers at Berneval (one of the two highest-priced Renoirs in existence). The buyer: Merion, Pa.'s terrible-tempered Dr. Albert C. Barnes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boom In Old Masters | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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