Word: sales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McKay said that the Meeses failed to report a net capital gain of $20,706 on the sale of $54,581 in securities...
...Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956). It went for $567,000 to David Juda of London's Annely Juda Gallery, one of a growing number of Western dealers specializing in Russian art. Several other Rodchenko works drew high bids, including the cubist-inspired Composition, 1916. The second highest price of $ the sale, however, was fetched by a contemporary Soviet artist, Grisha Bruskin, 43, who has been harassed by the KGB for displaying his paintings to foreigners. An anonymous buyer paid $416,000 for his Fundamental Lexicon, a witty but inconsequential series of 32 panels depicting statues of ordinary citizens in heroic poses...
...sale was a stupendous windfall for Bruskin and other living artists, some of whom could scarcely show their work two years ago and still have to scrounge for materials and studio space. They will receive 60% of the auction prices -- 10% in pounds that they can use abroad and the rest in so-called gold rubles, which have up to five times the purchasing power of ordinary rubles. (The Soviet state will get 32%, and Sotheby's the remaining 8%.) Two relative unknowns, Svetlana Kopystiansky and her husband Igor, were stunned as Pop Singer Elton John put in a winning...
Bradbury suggests that writers to whom the best-seller list and the movie sale are but distant dreams must become survivalists. As he says, there comes a time when the need for a pair or two of lamb's-wool socks and a typewriter with a functioning letter R on its keyboard will overwhelm high literary principle. When that happens, he implies, it is O.K. to respond favorably to the mail's more dubious propositions -- to adapt a classic for television, for example, or address an academic conference (especially if its venue is warm and equipped with Jacuzzis). He draws...
...longer suppressed, Russian modernist painting emerges in the international market as Sotheby' s holds a $3.6 million sale in Moscow...