Word: bernet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year ago Pequot's directors reluctantly decided to sell some of the books. They asked Manhattan's Parke-Bernet auction galleries for an appraisal. The expert who came to look got an eyeful. There were papers signed by England's Queen Elizabeth I and Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII; a complete set of autographs of America's Founding Fathers (estimated value: $50,000), including the rarest of all, Georgia's Button Gwinnett; a priceless law journal kept by Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull from 1715 to 1747; the full minutes of the town...
After reading your article on the Parke-Bernet Galleries [TIME, Nov. 28], I am wondering what became of Sabine...
This auction took place at the Parke-Bernet Galleries when the estate of Judge Gary was dispersed in 1928 for a total of $2.3 million, "an alltime U.S. record...
...store adjoining 57th Street's famed antique shops. Over the galleries' door, to symbolize art and industry, is a 14-by-10-foot sculpture of Venus and Manhattan, a reclining male. (Because Venus' bosom protrudes more than the permissible 18 inches over the sidewalk, Parke-Bernet pays $25 a year to the city for the privilege...
...Hiram Parke's party were such art patrons as Gypsy Rose Lee, Actress Madeleine Carroll, and International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas J. Watson. Last week many of the guests returned for the first sale in Parke-Bernet's new auction room (seating capacity 600). Up on the stage went 61 paintings by Rubens, Romney, Hobbema and others; when the hammer fell on the last of them, a total of $46,690 had been paid out. On succeeding days there were sales of jewelry once worn by James B. ("Diamond Jim") Brady, paintings and sculpture collected by Cinema...