Auction Year in Review

Bloomberg looks at the high and low points of auctions in 2007:

This was the year Bill Gross said his stamps had outperformed his bond fund, Stanley Ho beat Damien Hirst in bidding for a truffle, and Amazon.com Inc. paid 39 times estimates for a book of J.K. Rowling stories. Among the mishaps, Marie Antoinette’s pearls and a Van Gogh painting didn’t sell. {A disgrace!}

 

~ by eÆsthete on 12/31/07.

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