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...Salesmanship. Rosenberg started his art-buying career at 18 when he went to England for his father, a successful Paris art dealer. Among his first wise investments were two Van Gogh drawings for $20 each. Edouard Manet's Portrait of Victorine Meurend for $200. (In 1928, Rosenberg rebought the picture for $40,000, sold it again at a profit. It now hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Art). At 20, he took over his father's Paris salon. By paying better prices than competing dealers, Rosenberg kept artists like Picasso, Matisse, Braque and others in his stable...
...more prizes his value increases, his stud fees or her puppies are worth more money. With this speculative element in the sport, breeding pedigreed dogs becomes a business. Talavera Margaret, for instance, the winner of the show, was when very young sold by her breeder for $15. Later, he rebought her and sold her for $1,250, a fraction of her present value. The prizes offered in dog shows, unlike those for horse races, promise no great profits; these are to be secured merely by owning a dog whose puppies or self will be accepted in exchange for large sums...
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