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NEW YORK, May 8. The highest price ever obtained for a painting at a public auction was paid by Sir Joseph Duveen who gave 375,000 dollars for “The Crucifixion,” by Piero Della Francesca from the collection of Carl Hamilton, which was sold at Anderson’s Galleries. From the same collection Mr Leon Schinasi, the cigarettes manufacturer, took Filippo Lippi’s “Madonna and Child,” for 125,000 dollars. Sales totalling half a million dollars were over in eight minutes. '
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 May 1929, Page 5
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