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...himself has the reputation of being able to hear "a death rattle before the doctor is called." Actually it is largely Wilson's aristocratic soft sell and impressive presence (he is 6 ft. 4 in. tall) that brought to Sotheby's such tasks as the record-breaking Goldschmidt collection sale in 1958 and Rubens' Adoration of the Magi, which in 1959 went for a record...
...Abandoning) the project because of bitterness between Arabs and Jews would merely increase... bitterness. Arthur Goldschmidt...
...Sotheby's sale in 1958 that most dramatically set the level of the recent market. On the block were seven French paintings from the collection of the late Jakob Goldschmidt of New York; the collection's Cezannes, Renoirs and Manets established new highs for these artists (see color, center spread) and served notice on museums and collectors that the scarcity of great works of art had now pushed their value to such heights that collectors had better start buying before things got out of hand...
Staggered and stunned, bidders poured into the night air, set off for consolation champagne parties, tried to figure out what it all meant. Overall, Goldschmidt's seven oils had set an alltime record of $2,186,800, easily surpassing last year's Lurcy sale in Manhattan, when 65 paintings racked up $1,708,500 (TIME, Nov. 18). But it had also distorted the art market beyond both sense and sensibility, made old masters seem bargains. Rubens' Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, just acquired by the National Gallery, was bought last year in London for a mere...
With six of the seven Goldschmidt paintings bought for U.S. collectors, the experts began guessing for whom the dealers were fronting. Hottest rumor: the record-breaking Cezanne and two Manets had been bought for Philanthropist Paul Mellon. Eventual destination: the National Gallery, Washington...