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...The New York taxi entrepreneur Robert Scull put his art collection up for sale in 1973 at Sotheby Parke-Bernet, an event that was headlined “Profit Without Honor” in New York Magazine....
...She cites key moments such as the Scull sale of 1973, when the taxi cab entrepreneur Robert Scull sold more than 50 works by artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns at Sotheby Parke-Bernet auction...
...To settle their debts, Nazli was forced to sell off a large part of her jewellery collection at Sotheby Parke Bernet in New York in November 1975....
...One wintry wartime day in 1945, businessman Henry Pearlman was walking down New York’s Park Avenue when a painting by Chaim Soutine hanging in the window at Parke-Bernet auction house caught his eye....
...Ivory recalls an occasion during the making of Jane Austen in Manhattan, on location in the old Parke Bernet saleroom: “While the cameraman checked the light, I saw with dismay that Ismail had raised his...
...Parke-Bernet offered to take on the sale but at a commission rate of 23.5 per cent....
...Originally, his son James struck out on his own, leaving for New York in 1969 to put together the first contemporary art auctions at Parke Bernet, the Madison Avenue auction house owned by Sotheby’s....
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