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Word: feilchenfeldt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1978-1978
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...Jack Nicholson put in a successful bid of $7,728 for a Tiepolo chalk sketch. French Idol Alain Delon also bid on old master drawings, but came away emptyhanded. "The prices were very high," he said. "Not too high for me, but for the pictures." When Zurich Dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt, bidding for a German museum, paid $1,177,600 for a small watercolor by Albrecht Dtirer, reporters asked if he had not gone overboard. He answered coolly: "It went more or less according to plan." Said Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Sale of the Century | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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