Steven Fusco of Estates Unlimited was forced to make a tough call during the gallery's first serious Fine Art sale as the anticipated top lot was revealed to be stolen art.
As the firm was making final preparations for its auction this past Sunday morning, a small army of police officers were making preparations of their own outside the hall.
When a young New Yorker followed his fancy to Paris in the 1920s, he laid the foundation for both a remarkable collection of art and an equally remarkable business career.
The museum assembles 30 works from its collections that illustrate the predominance of this color in American art and social life since the Eighteenth Century.