Word: hooch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most spirited bidding in the furniture section last week was for a secretaire by Martin Carlin, cabinetmaker to Louis XVI, which Dealer Edward Duveen bought for $40,000. Top price among the paintings: $87,500, by Thomas Agnew & Sons for Pieter de Hooch's quiet Dutch Courtyard. Less costly but equally decorous were van de Velde's Calm Sea with Shipping ($10,500) and Metsu's Woman Cleaning Fish ($14,000). Victor Rothschild's ancestors apparently did not go in for nudes...
...They were pictures-anyone-would-like-to-own, ranging from 15th Century Venetian Cima de Conegliano to ultra-modern Pablo Picasso. Included were important works by such headliners as Rubens, Fragonard, Van Dyck, Gainsborough. Gilbert Stuart, Cezanne, and those favorites of jocular undergraduates, Neri di Bicci and Pieter de Hooch. It was impossible to decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont de Bois, for which they would like to receive about $200,000. Almost alone of New York's important galleries, the firm...