Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington Castrologists wondered if there might be another reason why Castro seemed eager to negotiate. Was Castro, feeling his control threatened by the Communists around him. shifting to a Khrushchev-style "coexistence" line with the U.S.? Whatever the explanation, the official U.S. reaction to the prisoner offer was no sale. "The U.S. cannot engage in a negotiation like that," said President Kennedy...
...learned enough about antiques to brazen it out at Sotheby's. For his first auction in 1938, he practiced all weekend by "auctioning" off every stick of their furniture to his young wife and their baby's nurse. Even now he scarcely sleeps the night before a sale. "Selling pictures is not like selling boots," he says...
Going Modern. Sotheby's is 218 years old, but it was not until the 1950s that it stepped to the front. In 1954 the British government ended all currency restrictions art sales, and Sotheby's 260 catalogues a year ever since then have stressed its unique ability to make sales without taxes. That same year, when Wilson was an assistant to the director for modern art, he promoted a charity sale of modern works from Henry Moore to Graham Sutherland. This sort of thing had never been done at rival Christie's, which only now is getting...
Every day Sotheby secretaries clip the obituary pages of the London Times and send along the pertinent stories to the nine directors for porcelain, jade and Eastern art, medals and coins, manuscripts and so on, who must estimate the art-sale possibilities of the estate. Wilson himself has the reputation of being able to hear "a death rattle before the doctor is called." Actually it is largely Wilson's aristocratic soft sell and impressive presence (he is 6 ft. 4 in. tall) that brought to Sotheby's such tasks as the record-breaking Goldschmidt collection sale...
...sale, Wilson pored over the catalogue, noting in his private code bids already phoned in and the reserve price below which Maugham would not sell. From his opening announcement-"Lot No. 1. Roderick O'Conor's Still Life with Vegetables"-he presided over the sale without a flicker of nervousness, apart from shooting a cuff now and then. The 35 paintings went for $1,466,864, including $244,000-the highest price ever paid at auction for a living artist-for a Picasso curiosity that showed The Death of Harlequin on one side and Woman Seated...