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• VERED'S RECAP - Auction Flubs - Go Get'em Marilyn

  A handout photograph made available by Profiles in History, shows Marilyn Monroe wearing the iconic pink satin gown in the Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend sequence in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes that will highlight Profiles in History's auction on 10-12 June 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA. The gown was worn by Marilyn as the gold-digging Lorelei Lee in one of cinema's most memorable song and dance sequences as she performed Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friends.

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  Posted In: History, Auction on 10.15.2011

• Vered's Art Market Recap - by Janet Lehr

  I'M THINKING 1950. What a difference a year makes - Just this morning I thought, 'where' was art in 1950?' We have been intensely involved in the sale of a Jackson Pollock, a very beautiful, lyric, powerful 'drip painting'. I read, "Picasso compared to Pollock seemed like a quiet conformist, a painter out of the past" Iconoclastic? Do we see art at this junction today? Food for future thought...

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  Posted In: History on 2.12.2011