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...million, including $770,000 for a Peter Paul Rubens (see opposite page), until last week the highest price ever paid at an auction. A Gauguin Tahitian scene, owned by George Goodyear of Buffalo, fetched $364,000. Cezanne's Peasant in a Blue Blouse got $406,000; and Gainsborough's Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews brought $364,000, the top price ever paid at an auction for an English painting...
From the estate of former Massachusetts Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller-which last spring left a Turner, a Gainsborough and a Reynolds to Washington's National Gallery of Art-came nine paintings worth $500,000 to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, including two Renoirs, a Monet, two Romneys and Van Dyck's portrait of Charles I's daughter, Princess Mary (just prior to her 1641 marriage to Prince William of Orange at age nine...
Newly hung in Washington's National Gallery of Art were a Turner, a Gainsborough and a Reynolds, left to the museum by a onetime Boston auto dealer who died in 1958: Alvan Tufts Fuller, better known as the Massachusetts governor who refused to stay the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. Also included in the Fuller estate: $80,646.94 in paychecks that he collected during his 13 years in public office and decided never to cash...
Valued conservatively at $3,000,000, the collection ranged from a delicate Madonna and Child by the Venetian master Carlo Crivelli to works, mostly portraits, by Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Jean Honoré Fragonard, George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. In money terms, the prize of the lot was one of the three Rembrandts: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Commissioned in 1653 by a Sicilian nobleman named Don Antonio Ruffo, it was one of the finest masterpieces in any private collection...
Sonja Henie's own favorite works these days are the flamboyant but powerful abstractions of Russian-born Nicolas de Stael. She owns seven of them-quite a change from Messrs. Gainsborough and Renoir...