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...Just to tabulate her possessions, the Manhattan auction house, Parke-Bernet, has published a 313-page illustrated catalogue. Sale of the 1,021 listed items will take two weeks, is expected to bring over $1.000.000. not counting the 167 lots of jewelry. Among the jewels are two of the most famous Oriental pearl necklaces ever assembled, a strand of 55 and another of 73 matched and graduated pearls, which in 1916 Mrs. Rovensky (then Mrs. Plant) received from her multimillionaire husband. Commodore Plant had taken them as payment of $1,000,000 for their house at 52nd Street and Fifth...
...result, the British revival, which has spread back to 19th century painting and produced a record $56,000 for a Turner seascape and $30,000 for a Constable in a Manhattan auction last month, has once again made contemporary British art a much-sought-after prize. Manhattan's Galerie Chalette. currently showing eleven British sculptors, has to date sold 19 pieces. Another Manhattan art dealer, who has already plunged heavily in British painting, confidently predicts: "An investment of $100,000 today in good British art will bring $400,000 in four years...
Near Berastegui sprawls a 17,000-acre ranch that Rojas recently bought in an unusual auction. Originally the judge in charge of the sale insisted that the bidding start at 2,500,000 pesos. He was abruptly dismissed from his post. His successor lowered the starting bid by 800,000 pesos, and Rojas, the sole bidder, snapped up for 1,700,000 an estate worth an estimated...
...portrait commissions kept dwindling as he labored for months over each painting. His heavy brushstroke and thick overpainting, plus his untidy habit of cleaning brushes on his own clothing, struck his townsmen as uncouth. At 52, Rembrandt was forced to put his house and goods up for auction...
Slaves could marry, but the union was not legally recognized in the South. One Kentucky minister with auction-block separations in mind amended the words in slave weddings to "till death or distance do you part." Women slaves were often prey to the master's amatory whims. Some historians hold that even the great Jefferson fathered mulatto offspring and he was twitted for it in caustic verse...