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...Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, a first edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America went for $60,000. The four-volume "Elephant Folio," so called for its outsize format, contains 435 plates of U.S. fowl by the naturalist engraver. Only 129 sets are known to exist. The price nearly doubled the last sale of Audubon's Ele phant, which went in 1959 for $36,400. ¶At London's Christie's auction house, a 241-piece dinner service of 18th century tobacco-leaf Chinese porcelain sold for $97,000. Made under...
Occasionally his sense of showmanship swept him overboard. Asked recently if the bust of a woman purported to be after Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra di Benci, which the Met bought at a Parke-Bernet auction for $225, was really a Leonardo, Rorimer winced, said, "If you never see it exhibited in the Met, you will know...
Just to move her collection through the auction halls last week required eight separate sales in seven days. Said an appraiser for New York's Parke-Bernet Galleries, after picking through her 26-room Manhattan triplex penthouse at 625 Park Avenue: "She even had closets leading to closets." But many of her choicest treasures were kept in her Ile St. Louis flat in Paris (see color pages). On the sales' opening day, a La Fresnaye cubist painting of garden tools brought $100,000. Chagall's Lovers and the Moon fetched $24,000, and the Bonnard landscape...
...York art scene has taken on an English accent. Sotheby's of London owns Parke-Bernet. At times there are as many young British artists in the U.S. as there are in London. One of them, Gerald Laing, 29, is little known in his native land and admits that his in spiration is the American...
...this still left Peter Wilson, chairman of Sotheby's of London, which owns Parke-Bernet, far from convinced. Said he, in no mood to quarrel with a major customer: "If this proves to have come from the workshop of Verrocchio, Mr. Rorimer and his curator are to be congratulated on being the only connoisseurs to recognize the fact before the auction." As for the Metropolitan, at worst it was stuck with a sculpture that had once sold for $200,000. And besides, the girl is pretty...