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...Terrace caught the eye of the Rev. Theodore Pitcairn, a Swedenborgian pastor from Bryn Athyn, Pa., and an heir to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass fortune. Pitcairn, now 74, who explains with a twinkle that he selects paintings not for investment but because "I have a feeling for them," bought the Monet from a Manhattan gallery for $11,000. Last week The Terrace was up for auction at Christie's in London on behalf of Pitcairn's Beneficia Foundation. The winning bid of $1,410,000 by London Art Dealer Geoffrey Agnew was nearly triple the record auction price...
...lucid portrait of the couple's 16-year-old daughter before he lapsed into the madness that took his life. Portrait de Mademoiselle Ravoux survived, was bought in 1921 for $20,000, along with two other Van Gogh works, by a sharp-eyed Pennsylvania clergyman named Theodore Pitcairn. Last week at Christie's in London, it was sold at auction to an anonymous collector for $441,000-the highest price ever paid for a Van Gogh. The proceeds will go to Pastor Pitcairn's Swedenborgian Lord's New Church in Bryn Athyn...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "The Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee,'" narrated by Orson Welles, is about 19 young Americans on an 18-month windjammer cruise from Gloucester, Mass., to the Galapagos, Pitcairn, Melanesia, Bali and beyond...
...alone last year turned over $3,000,000 worth of stamps by auction or private sale. Several small nations that philatelists consider particularly interesting-including Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino, the Vatican and lately Ghana-depend on selling their stamps to collectors as a way of replenishing their treasuries. Pitcairn Island, where the Bounty mutineers settled, receives almost half its revenue from stamps that never see Pitcairn but pass directly to stamp dealers from a printing plant in London. Since collectors by nature covet every issue of their specialties, such stamps are quickly bought up despite the large numbers printed...
Wrangler (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Tennessee Ernie Ford's summer replacement is a nomadic cowpoke named Pitcairn (Jason Evers...