Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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> In five days of November, impressionist, modern and contemporary art sales at SPB netted nearly $21 million, close to the firm's entire 1967-68 turnover.
Not since the first hammer dropped to the highest bidder have sales of valuables commanded such audiences, such publicity, such prices. While anything that is relatively rare is sure to fetch a pretty penny at auction these days, things of beauty and lasting worth-"objects of virtue" to the trade...
> A huge painting of scarlet lips suspended over a landscape, the work of American-born Dadaist and Photographer Man Ray, sold Nov. 5 at Sotheby Parke Bernet in Manhattan for $750,000. It was by far the highest price ever paid at auction for a surrealist work.
> Earlier this month in Manhattan, the highest amount ever brought by a poster at auction -$26,000-went for Toulouse-Lautrec's color lithograph of Parisian Cabaret Singer Aristide Bruant.
> A study for the Rodin sculpture Burghers of Calais-not the final work-went for $255,237 in Monaco. The price set a record for any Rodin bronze.