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...brilliantly lighted auction ring at New York's Saratoga race track one night last week stood a handsome bay colt. Among the overflow crowd of 1,600 at the open-air pavilion moved white-jacketed "spotters," alert for the telltale gestures-a casual nod, a lifted finger-that signifies a bid. The first horse went quickly. "Sold for $30,000," boomed Auctioneer Milton Dance Jr., rapping his gavel for emphasis. By the time Auctioneer Dance's gavel had fallen for the 48th and last time. $319,500 worth of horseflesh-all paid for in cash-had changed hands...
...painted by a foreigner -Spanish fellow by the name of Goya-and caught the duke just as he looked the day after his victory at Salamanca in 1812. Britain thus regards the portrait as a national treasure. When U.S. Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman bought the Duke of Wellington at auction (TIME. June 23). Britain-firsters of all kinds raised pained howls of protest. Collector Wrightsman thereupon offered to sell it to London's National Gallery at cost-the $392,000 that he had paid for it. Last week. Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd announced that the National Gallery...
...room and a "borning" or "measles" room with a tiny cradle. From then on, the Americans began to indulge themselves. An 1825 Greek Revival room from Manhattan is as elegant as Claverton Manor itself. On the other hand, the museum offers a country store with period posters ("SOCIAL DANCE," "AUCTION! !") and gingerbread...
...recently uncovered forgeries in the garden of her Montmartre home. While Lucie grandly called the ten-minute conflagration the salvation of her henpecked husband's reputation, a few witnesses cattily concluded that she was just trying to protect the market value of her collection (a recent Utrillo auction price: $52,000), insisted that the longtime alcoholic painter-in order to earn the purchase price of more liquor than his wife allowed him-had moonlighted a great many works she never saw, including some that wound up in last week's ashes...
...John Walker, director of Washington's National Gallery, they are getting too touchy by half. It fell to him the night after the auction to give the trustees of Britain's National Art Collection Fund a quiet chiding...