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The Rubens, Cezanne,
and Van Gogh shown here
brought that fantastic
sum at recent auctions
an example of how
the art world currently
is hitting the jack pot
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The fashionable audience in Sothe
by's Art Galleries in London watched
art history in the making one evening
last summer. The painting on auction
was a large Rubens, his "Adoration of
the Magi," being sold by the family of
the Duke of Westminster to pay off in
heritance taxes. And since it was one of
the finest examples of the painter's work
not yet in a museum, everyone expected
it would bring a high price.
But even the best guessers were as
tounded as the bidding reached and
passed the half-million-dollar mark.
Finally, only two bidders were left to
fight for possession of the painting, and
one dealer offered $770,000. The bid was
not topped. The Rubens canvas had just
brought the highest price ever paid for
a painting at an auction.
Though impressive, this is not an ex
ceptional case. Rubens is an "old mas
ter," but even modern painting brings
fabulous sums today. A few months be
fore "the Rubens sale, Sotheby's auc
tioned off "Boy in a Red Vest" by Paul
Cezanne, the French postimpressionist
who died in 1906. The painting, which
had originally been sold by the artist for
$340, finally went for $616,000.
Apparently Cezanne's paintings of
subjects in bright clothes are in great
demand, for last November his "Peasant
in a Blue Blouse" brought $406,000 at the
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"Public Gardens at Aries" by Vail Gogh. Courtesy Horry N. Abroms, Inc.
same gallery. Meanwhile a Gauguin, "I
Await the Letter," sold for $364,000, the
highest price ever brought by this legen
dary painter who died impoverished.
What happened at Sotheby's was a
repetition of what has been going on in
other art centers throughout the world.
The Renaissance was a definite period
of art production several centuries ago.
But there has never been a renaissance
of art-buying to equal that of today.
In November, 1958, 7,000 buyers
sought admission to an auction at the
Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York,
but only 2,000 got in. The others stood
outside in the main waiting room and
watched via closed-circuit television.
At an auction in London the same
month, a tiny sketch by Giovanni
Bellini, no larger than your hand, sold
for $44,100. A pen-and-ink sketch five
inches square by Albrecht Diirer went
for $11,760. At the New York auction, a
Monet sold at a bargain price of $85,000,
and a Modigliani for $66,000. (In 1944
you could have bought a Modigliani for
about $1,600.)
A painting by Vincent Van Gogh,
"Public Gardens at Aries," sold in Lon
don recently for $369,000, but during his
lifetime Van Gogh sold but one work!
Probably no painter, however, would
be as surprised as Cezanne at the
vogue his works are enjoying today. Ce
zanne, fortunately, was a man of inde
pendent means. He painted as he
pleased. Often after a day of work he
tossed his paintings away. He even used
some old canvases for scrubbing floors,
or so the legend goes. After his death,
a few of his works sold for between $9
and $43 apiece!
Picasso, who is very much alive and
prosperous, walked through Paris as a
young man with his paintings under his
arms. The dealers wouldn't buy them or
even take them as gifts. Today you
- might be able to pick one up for as little
as $185,000. One was auctioned for that
amount in 1957. The same painting sold
just two years before for $45,000.
The most sought-after works today
are those by the impressionists, a group
of French artists who broke with tradi
tional painting in the 1870s: such men as
Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir. The post
impressionists in turn broke with the
impressionists: artists such as Cezanne,
Seurat, Van Gogh, and Gauguin.
The boom in art has even affected
people who can't afford to buy master
pieces. Many try their own hand at
painting. In the last dozen years, en
rollment has increased many times in
the painting classes of such old schools
as New York's Pratt Institute and the
Art Institute of Chicago. And budding
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