BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Le Pho’s (French/Vietnamese, 1907-2001) “Le Couture” was the top lot of three days of sales, September 13-15, at Nye & Company. The three-day auction event was anchored in large part by an anonymous private Princeton, N.J., collection that had been compiled over the second half of the Twentieth Century by one of New Jersey’s preeminent industrial families, the matriarch of which donated her house and contents to benefit an educational institution. An online buyer from California, bidding on Invaluable, paid $115,200, including buyer’s premium, outlasting absentee bids and other competition on the phones and online. Estimated $40/60,000, the circa 28½-by-39-inch composition, which was painted in oil on silk, had provenance to the Galerie Romanet in Paris. It was the highest price paid of more than 1,000 lots offered in the sale, which celebrated the firm’s 20th year in business, and which will be the focus of an upcoming review in a forthcoming issue.