Word: auction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once remarked, "everyone will be famous for at least 15 minutes." Warhol's own 15 minutes has been very long. His fame is self-replicating: like a perpetual-motion machine, it grinds on amid the iridescent cavorting of his superstars and the thump of heavy, if rigged auction prices ($60,000 from a Swiss dealer for a Campbell's soup can recently). It has reached the point where Warhol is not so much famous for doing something-he rarely turns out any paintings beyond a few commissioned portraits a year, and no longer directs his own films...
...this was decisively demonstrated last week in Parke-Bernet's Manhattan auction rooms, where Millionaire Norton Simon was putting some of his $80 million collection on the block...
...Here I have a cue card for an early Hitler speech," the auctioneer announced in his nasal Bavarian accent. "The words that Hitler penciled on it repeat the pattern to be followed in his harangue: 'November 1918-Criminals-The Political Situation Today-Our Irrevocable Demands-The Coming Elections-Our Candidates-Our Tactics-The Jews.' " Bidding in the stuffy auction room on Munich's fashionable Maximilianstrasse started briskly. The scruffy cue card was quickly knocked down to a broker acting on behalf of an anonymous British collector. Price...
Esoteric Impulses. All told, the Munich auction last week sold some five dozen Hitler souvenirs, all of them from the estate of the late Anny Winter, who was Hitler's housekeeper from 1929 to 1945. Anny's ardor for collecting just about anything Hitler touched netted her grandnephews a windfall...
Even before Berenson began to cultivate Mrs. Jack's taste in the arts, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gardner had bought a few paintings on their own- based on their own likes and dislikes. The Concert by Vermeer was bought at the Hotel Druout auction galleries in Paris in 1892; the little Dutch girl seated at the piano with the light streaming in through the window captivated Belle Gardner. In the Gardner Museum's Dutch room today, where the light falls on the stone floor, the Vermeer shines as one of the most exquisite of the artist's works anywhere...