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...equally reptilian." His fangs proved golden. An Arp marble brought $26,000, more than treble its previous high in a major auction house. Equally, two Calder mobiles went for $9,000 and $10,000 (v. $2,400). Miro fetched $57,500 (v. $30,000). Even a newcomer like Robert Rauschenberg garnered a record $15,000 for his 1956 Gloria. In all, the collection brought $510,000, making the total for the evening $2,855,000. "This is a record for a sale of modern art in the Western hemisphere," proudly announced Parke-Bernet. "It was a Roman orgy," groaned...
...exhibition, "Three Centuries of American Painting," ranges from Copley to Calder, from a Stuart portrait of Washington (circa 1796) to a circa tomorrow Rauschenberg. So who had eyes for Art? For the 260 preview-and-dinner guests, all lovingly culled by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum from Who's Most, the picture to remember was Lady Bird Johnson, wearing a black faille strapless gown for the occasion. It was fastened, as the New York Times was constrained to note, "with a great buckle smack in the middle of her back," and completed by a matching stole forming "a portrait...
Rosenberg's parting selection originates from Norway to Mexico, from 1899 to 1962. From the looks of it, the revolution is not over. Pop art's precursor, Robert Rauschenberg, found a way to reproduce and overlap news photographs of lifeboat survivors and crowd scenes in his blue 1962 lithograph, Stunt Man I. Each of an edition of 37 now costs upwards of $200, if one can be found. Though no longer so cheap, graphics are still finer for many than are oils. There may be no end to Saint Jakob's ladder...
icniV ad odranoeL. "The proof of good painting comes when intelligence is part of it," he believes, and adds: "Abstract expressionism was not intellectual at all for me. It is under the yoke of the retinal; I see no grey matter there. Jasper Johns, one of our lights, and Rauschenberg are much more than that; they have intelligence in addition to painting facilities. A technique can be learned, but you can't learn to have an original imagination...
...star seemed dwindling. Three Tobeys went for a total of $34,000, or $8,500 below top estimates. But Willem de Kooning's flowing landscape, Merritt Parkway (TIME, May 18, 1959), garnered his top auction price, an even $40,000. And for the first time a Robert Rauschenberg was put up for bids. A 1959 "combine" (it includes a tie and a zipper) called Summer Storm popped right through the ceiling, to $13,000, or nearly twice the estimated price...