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From the first crack of the hammer by veteran Auctioneer Louis J. Marion, paintings by Picasso, Signac, Pissarro, Lautrec were knocked down at the top prices Parke-Bernet had noted in their confidential books. But when a handsome view of the Tuileries by Edouard Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was placed on the stand, there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener...
...settlement, was on the telephone from Montreal (where he is touring in The Middle of the Night), picked up Derain's Vase of Flowers for $5,500, Georges Braque's The Sausage for $12,000. ¶ Mrs. David Rockefeller went $11,000 over estimates to buy Paul Signac's pointillist Beach Scene, St. Brieuc...
...Cranes in the Moonlight by Japan's leading lithographer, Yoshinobu Masuda, 51, and Zebras, by Swiss Painter Hans Erni. What gladdens lithograph fans most, however, is that the current boom is matching quality with quantity. Not since the days when such lithographers as Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and Signac were at work has the outlook been so bright. Says Cincinnati's Print Curator Gustave von Groschwitz: "The current boom will equal and already looks as if it will surpass the golden age of the 1890s...
Other paintings on display at the gallery-each in four to six copies-were by Picasso, Dufy, Klee, Vlaminck, Signac and Derain. The facsimiles had been made by 28-year-old Janine Aeply and her husband Jean Fautrier on hand presses in a little studio ten miles outside Paris...
...however, the Met would spend good money for Picassos. The two it chose were from eras when Picasso was painting in a classic style: the Woman in White, painted in 1923, and the 1905 Coiffure. The Met also agreed to buy from the Modern three Seurat drawings, paintings by Signac, Cézanne, Redon, Rouault and Matisse; sculptures by Maillol, Despiau and Kolbe, and a raft of U.S. folk art-all for $191,000. That would give the Modern more money to spend on contemporaries and relative unknowns-who might some day become "classic...