Word: goldschmidt
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...Gogh's Public Garden at Aries fell to Manhattan Dealers Rosenberg & Stiebel for $369,600, highest price ever for a Van Gogh. (Goldschmidt bought it for about...
Rolls-Royces and Bentleys jammed London's narrow St. George Street one night last week, unloaded enough celebrities to make a smash Covent Garden opening night. Their objective: Sotheby's, the staid auction house where seven impressionist paintings from the collection of the late banker Jakob Goldschmidt were going under the hammer...
...Edouard Manet's La Rue de Berne was knocked down to Georges Keller of Manhattan's Carstairs Gallery for $316,400, highest recorded price ever for a Manet. (Goldschmidt paid $64,000 in 1931.) Two other routine Manets also soared up into this fiscal stratosphere; one brought $182,000, the other...
...spidery hooks, loops and slashes of the ancient musical-note symbols called neumes. * The sheet resembled the earliest known neumatic documents, but was probably at least 100 years older. Yale's Latin Professor Clarence Mendell had bought the document in 1938 from London's E. P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd. Experts traced it back to Luxeuil, after that to the abbey library at Admont, Austria, where it had come to rest as part of the bookbinding of a 12th century manuscript. There it remained until 1937, when it was sold to Goldschmidt...
...government to authorize him, at the age of 22, to conduct an expedition to an unexplored area of Cambodia, where he had deduced that 1,000-year-old Khmer statues still lay undiscovered along the ancient Royal Way to Angkor Vat. In 1923, he and his first wife, Clara Goldschmidt, plunged into Cambodia's jungles, found the statues, and lugged them out on oxcarts. The French colonial authorities promptly impounded them as historical monuments, and put Malraux on trial for trying to remove them. His wife rushed back to France, succeeded in getting an impressive list of important writers...