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In all, some 600 art dealers and fanciers (of whom Christie's calculated that at least 50 were serious bidders) showed up for the sale. Bidding started at $294,000, then leaped first by $1,500 bounds, then by $3,000, then by $30,000. It was a three...
Building His Dream House. The price De Kooning commands is not negligible. Last month one of his works reached an alltime high auction price of $40,000. With his peers in the abstract expressionist movement either dead, like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, or caught in a price slump, De...
Disenchanted Argonaut. The would-be buyers, negotiating back in Manhattan, are big men themselves. They are mostly onetime U.S. Defense Department officials who in 1958 bought out the New York-based Marine Transport Lines, which is bidding for the Niarchos fleet and is anxious to keep it out of foreign...
It grants its loans for 50 years and gives a ten-year grace period before repayment must begin. In return, it insists on approving all projects financed by its loans, and makes sure that the contracts for all projects are open to competitive international bidding.
Fearful Contradictions. Like Moses from the mountain, Swift came raging out of the peat bogs to cry doom and damnation on the idolatrous race of men. He is God's angry man, a prophet of the wrath to come who screams with infernal glee as he opens the vials...