Normally people wait for the auction catalogs or buy from gallery shows.
But some real estate experts say Chelsea's fate may be different, because a healthy number of the neighborhood's arts businesses had the foresight to buy their gallery and studio spaces, rather than lease them.
The $82.5m paid for that painting in 1990 is the equivalent of $148.6m at today's prices, enough to acquire a Bacon and still have change to buy a gallery to hang it in.
Josiah offered to buy the gallery and its paintings back from Tassie for £10,000 (worth about £ now), but Tassie refused and auctioned the paintings at Christie's.
As Naomi tells it, "Lou bought the gallery but didn't know what to do with it.
Many publishers rejected it before Harper and Brothers, convinced it had a major new talent on its hands, bought "The Gallery" and Burns's next two books as well.
This year, for example, to increase the selection of work by black artists, the committee has bought the gallery's first Kerry James Marshall work, the 1994 painting "Great American".
Last night, Vivian Horan, a Manhattan dealer, bought "The Gallery at the Academy I" (1992) for $200,500, more than twice its high estimate of $90,000.
This year, when Killala's own forensic testing cast doubt on the Motherwell it had bought, the gallery sued Mr. Weissman and Dedalus, demanding the return of the $650,000 paid for the "Spanish Elegy".
Include the gay community (may consist of "sedate partners who just bought art gallery" and "screaming drag queens of the night").
