Beauty, Beast Earn $6.8 Million as New Money Buys Old Masters
Saturday, January 30th, 2010By Lindsay Pollock Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Hendrick Goltzius’ 1612 depiction of an erotic encounter between a voluptuous sleeping damsel and a satyr, once owned by Nazi Hermann Goering, fetched $6.8 million yesterday atSotheby’s in New York from an unidentified European collector who was bidding by phone. The 6-foot-wide painting, “Jupiter and Antiope,” was ...