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Between Salz's Old World grace and Heller's breezy New York style, the range of dealers is wide. One New York firm, Rosenberg and Stiebel, which numbers Oilman Paul Getty and CBS Chairman William Paley among its customers, traces itself back for more than 100 years to an antique dealer in Frankfurt. Its rising generation includes American-born and -educated Gerald Stiebel, 25, great-grandson of the founder. Rosenberg and Stiebel handle million-dollar sales with casual aplomb. The Metropolitan bought the Merode altarpiece for the Cloisters through them ("Probably our most important sale," says Father Eric...
...bidding opened at a cool million from "a private individual," as Marion said. From then on, it leaped at $100,000 a bid until only two competitors were left in the race. The venerable international firm of Rosenberg & Stiebel was representing the Cleveland Museum of Art; James Rorimer was bidding for the Met. The gentleman from Rosenberg & Stiebel did his bidding with a gesture of the hand, Rorimer with cocked thumb reinforced with a wink. After an eternal four minutes, Rorimer winked for the last time. The Rembrandt was his for $2,300,000, the highest known price ever paid...
...Gogh's Public Garden at Aries fell to Manhattan Dealers Rosenberg & Stiebel for $369,600, highest price ever for a Van Gogh. (Goldschmidt bought it for about...
...armchairs went for $2,500 each; marble-topped, gilded and painted Louis XV commodes for $14,000. Prize bid of the whole sale was for Renoir's sunny landscape La Serre, expected to bring between $120,000 and $140,000, which went to Manhattan's Rosenberg & Stiebel for an even $200,000. The dealer refused to say for whom he was bidding. But sharp-eyed reporters could hardly fail to note the jubilation of Henry Ford 11 and his wife when the painting was knocked down, or miss Mrs. Ford's breathless "thank you" to her husband...
...Institute of Arts has on display its newest (and sixth) Rembrandt, the small (8½ by 6½ in.) A Woman Weeping, donated by Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Co., and his wife. Last year Mrs. Ford spotted the small Rembrandt in Manhattan's Rosenberg & Stiebel Inc., felt that it was "one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen." The Fords decided to buy it, paid an estimated $50,000, and made it their first gift to the Detroit museum...