Word: auction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collector bought a painting for $2,700. He kept it for some 15 years and then sold it to Dr. Irving F. Burton, a Detroit pediatrician, for approximately $37,000. Five years later Dr. Burton sent it to Sotheby Parke Bernet, where it was auctioned with the rest of his collection last month. It was knocked down for $250,000. Thus far the script looks banal-"Impressionism for Fun and Profit." But the painting was not by an Impressionist, nor even by a European. It was Steelworkers -Noontime, by Thomas Anshutz, and its price established an auction record...
...store, shoppers bought plenty of Italian and French dresses that were specially designed for the promotion, as well as bed linens with prints of Leonardo's inventions and Italian silk ties with the insigne of the House of Borgia.) This week, in Sakowitz's annual wine auction, the store will sell off rare vintages, including one of the eight remaining Jeroboams of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1929. All this activity has been more than culturally rewarding. In the past ten years, sales of Sakowitz Inc. have risen 150%, to some $60 million, and net profits -which are a family...
Works donated by collectors and by the artists themselves for the auction represented such artists as Joan Miro whose child-like graphic form went for $450. George Rickey whose kinetic sculpture of coiled wires sold for $1100, and Richard Anuskiewicz whose optical color patterns of acrylic on board brought $2350. Harvard's artists were represented by Toshi Katayama's silkscreen from the Kyoto Series selling for $175 and a color polaroid of toys and toothbrush by photographer Fred Brink...
...also to the smaller groups within these larger stratifications. Of course the measure of his tactics and socio-political awareness depends on the evidence he provides in November. Roger Sonnabend of the Committee for Art for McGovern '72 explained how one can measure the success of such an auction: "The most important measure is in November (the reason for this sale and auction). But also everybody should have a good time and a very exciting evening...
Another implication of the auction besides money was the strength of McGovern's interest in the arts through such programs as the National Endowment for the Arts. Andrew Hyde, present director of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Arts and commentator expert for the auction, said. Assuming this auction is successful, we can talk with reason about the power of supporting arts programs like the National Endowment. It is obvious and important that people here tonight are those who care about the arts in this context, especially those in New England who are concerned about support for the arts and about...