The picture fetched $1.53 million, neatly doubling the high estimate.
At times he found it difficult to make a living, though, as he put it: "If it did not sell, then it must be all right," and he never asked his dealer about the prices that his pictures fetched.
The corollary of the almost exclusive attention now accorded to abstract considerations is that the most beautiful pictures often fetch comparatively modest prices.
The two pictures that fetched more than $50 million, both at Christie's, were painted in New York more than 50 years ago.
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The oldest of the Oscars on sale, Skippy's best picture statuette from 1931, fetched $301,973.
With ordinary television cameras banned from the courtroom, pictures of the trial would fetch quite a price.Meanwhile, lawyers from the prosecution and the defence have begun the tortuous process of selecting a jury of 12 people from a pool of around 350.
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Alexander Historical Auctions, in Maryland, estimates the picture, taken by photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, could fetch as much as $10,000 £7,5000) when it goes on sale on Tuesday.
