The idea for this inaugural sale developed last summer, after Leslie Hindman held a special sale in August of couture items from the collection of the Ebony Fashion Fair show, collected by the late Eunice W. Johnson and consigned to Leslie Hindman by her daughter, Linda Johnson Rice, chairman of Johnson Publishing Company, LLC, which is the publisher of EBONY and JET magazines.
Featuring books published in the year 1900 that were collected by the late Robert Rosenthal, curator of Special Collections from 1953 to 1989, this exhibition recaptures the forgotten culture of the turn of the century.
I found it on the Internet, along with the fact that it was bought from the sale of a portion of the prestigious Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, a huge cache of pictures that had been collected by the late Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bofnemisza of Lugano, Switzerland, evidently one of the few European collectors with more than a passing interest in historical American art.
The project was aided by data collected by the late M. Ramsay.
Tiles, carpet fragments, antiques, drawings and paintings voraciously collected by the late Sir Howard Hodgkin are to appear at auction.
It is a well-endowed religious outfit, fed by the loot collected by the late Sir John Templeton, a ruthless financier with a pious streak.
They were collected by the late Geoffrey Ford, who was for many years the librarian at Bristol University, and will now return to his old workplace.
The team's work has already led to an extra £200m in income tax being collected by telling late payers on tax forms that most people in their towns had already paid their tax.
A sale of works of art collected by the late designer Yves Saint Laurent brought in $264m, well ahead of the estimate of $232m (though a Chinese buyer refused to pay for some bronzes as a nationalist protest).
They were collected by the late Prof. Hamada, Hyogo University of Agriculture, in 1957 and 1958.
