Word: bernet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racks his brain for superlatives. And it is the greybeards, full of probity, in the museum pantheon who toll the bell. But roles were reversed last week when New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bid a paltry $225 for a sculpture at a Parke-Bernet auction, then gleefully announced that its new acquisition might be worth more than...
...Park Avenue triplex. The fabulously ill-kempt collection, amassed over 60 years and often valued at $1,000,000 survived until last week, when all but a dozen of the finest pieces willed to her sisters and niece were sold at auction in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries for a total...
...Estaque. It was the sort ot keen observation of nature that Cézanne captured consummately in oils And last week, eighty years after he finished it, his Houses at L'Estaque sold for $800,000 to a private U.S. collector at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries It was a world's record for a Cézanne and the highlight of the biggest money-making art auction in recent history...
...sale was 43 modern works from the collection of Belgian Industrialist Philippe Dotrement. Adding a fillip to the occasion was the first appearance as auctioneer of Peter Wilson, the 6-ft. 4-in. chairman of Sotheby's of London, who last year bought out Manhattan's Parke-Bernet. Wilson suavely built up the prices with Etonian aplomb. "You have to act like a croupier in a casino," he had explained beforehand. "Not a flash. Not a flicker...
...Even a newcomer like Robert Rauschenberg garnered a record $15,000 for his 1956 Gloria. In all, the collection brought $510,000, making the total for the evening $2,855,000. "This is a record for a sale of modern art in the Western hemisphere," proudly announced Parke-Bernet. "It was a Roman orgy," groaned one exhausted bidder...