Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where admirers were not welcome or allowed. The posthumous chance to enter this forbidden space and ooh and aah over--and maybe buy one of--Jackie's personal possessions figured to be irresistible to plenty of people, and Sotheby's was not disappointed in its expectations. Its fat, glossy catalog of the lots up for auction sold more than 100,000 copies (at $90 hardback, $45 paper). During the five days that the objects were on public view before the sale, roughly 40,000 people stood in line to make their way through Sotheby's galleries, eyeing the merchandise...
Experienced auctiongoers understood that the estimated sales prices in the Sotheby's catalog reflected an assessor's evaluation of fair market value, i.e., what an object would bring if it did not possess the added cachet of having belonged to someone famous. For things owned by Jackie, fair market value was obviously, at least to those familiar with the occult workings of renown, just the starting point. The tension and electricity in the auction room hummed around the question: How high the markup...
...sale, that were given to the kids," says Salinger. He adds that the children rigorously culled their mother's mountains of things to select important and appropriate items for the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston (which will also receive most of the $2.5 million from the catalog sales). In April 1995, Caroline and John donated a huge trove of items to the library, including Jackie's wedding dress, 38,000 pages of documents, 4,500 photographs and 200 artifacts and works...
...objects. The second is the coherence of its frame: everything comes from the Chinese imperial collections as they developed over the centuries; thus what we see is the slowly changing profile of the highest court taste. And the third is that the museum's 650-page tome of a catalog, prepared under the supervision of Wen C. Fong, the Met's curator of Chinese art, is probably the best introduction to its subject in print...
...concessions had to be made. The 11th century painting often considered to be the greatest masterpiece of Northern Sung dynasty landscape, Fan K'uan's Travelers Amid Streams and Mountains, stayed in Taipei, as did the hardly less important scroll by Kuo Hsi, Early Spring, 1072, which graces the catalog's cover. Moreover, there are time limits within the show itself. Its paintings and calligraphies--because of their age and fragility--have to be removed and replaced periodically by others of similar quality and era during the show's run in New York City and later in Chicago, San Francisco...