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It was only two years ago that Sotheby's auctioned Irises to Australian plutocrat Alan Bond for a record $53.9 million. The timing was critical. Coming as it did one month after the 1987 stock-market crash, the sale allowed Sotheby's to claim that works of art held their...
Whether the price of Irises will go up remains to be seen. By selling it so soon, if he sells it, Bond risks lowering its value, since it is in part the elusiveness of great masterpieces that gives them their cachet. "It's certainly a lovely picture," says Burge wistfully...
It was a grand night for singing. Bob Dylan wrapped his angry adenoids around the Gershwin ballad Soon, and Madeline Kahn, Maureen McGovern and Julia Migenes ganged up gorgeously on Someone to Watch Over Me. Last week's gala tribute to George and Ira at the Brooklyn Academy of Music...
Two weeks before the auction, Christie's New York president, Christopher Burge, told Aryeh that the house would not sell his egg. The reason was that Snowman now said it was not an Imperial egg but rather one of Faberge's pretty but less valuable baubles. Other experts noted that...
The real joy of the evening comes from the two central performances. Peters is cuddly yet tough. She gives vocal color and emotional depth to songs ranging from a succession of one-liners about the social advantages of an English accent to an all-purpose tirade, Take That Look off...