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Show Wyi tf 1111 irMKii utijtgpi DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1973 D 1 IHliqBi-pRicBy Diana art coUectIons Ed Loercher a new record for a living American artist, and Elie Nadelemans primitive wood sculpture, Tango: A Pair of Figures, sold for $130,000, breaking the previous American sculpture recoid by $5,000. The implications of the phenomenal success of this auction have reverberated throughout the art world. First of all, it provided an index, dramatic to tl.e point of disbelief, of how art prices continue to catapult. There were those who protested privately after the auction the excessiveness and absurdity of the prices. But as Marion reThe value of a work is what its marked, sold for." Evidently inspired by such hard economic truths, the Wall Street Journal even published an article evaluating art as the new international currency and investment. Secondly, the sale underscored the influence of the art auction on prices. Since Parke-BemGalleries was acquired by the powerful British auction house, Sothebys, in 1984, its sales have tripled and almost everything it touches turns to gold, in a financial sense at least. Marion reported in January of this year that net sales were up by almost $8.5 million since the beginning of the season (last September), a rise of more than 50 percent. There are several reasons w hy the art auction has become so popular. Essentially, it offers the opportunity for a rapid, virtually definite, relatively reliable, and highly competitive sale. It also obviates the complications that frequently arise during private transactions between dealers and collectors. Marion compared the art auction to the stock market. If you open the New York Times and read through the list of several thousand boring companies, how do you really find people who are interested in buying all these? Well, at least there they have numbers to go on, but thats the charm of the stock market. The stock market is, after all, an auction sale that takes place every day for whatever it is six hours. Well, an art sale here is the same thing. This is the stock market for the art world. NEW YORK, N.Y. The room smelled of perfume and mo. ey. As the auctioneer's voice fired prices into the elegant crowd jammed two rooms of Sotneby Parke Bemet (SPB) no one moved, except to give a surreptitious signal to one of the bid spotters. tht A head nodded arms reimperceptibly, mained folded, a gold pen flicked the air like a serpents tongue. The excitement was primi- tive: It could have been a bullfight, a horse race, or the coliseum. The painting in mestion, Little Joe with artist Yasuo by the Japanese-America- n Kuniyoshi, was sold for a $220,000. Chief auctioneer John Marion, who is also the president of SPB, the nation's leading art auction house, commented in an interview later that he was afraid he had made a mistake and jumped the bid by $100,000. Money was almost meaningless, he added. Ive never had that feeling before. It was a shock. Cow record-breakin- g This particular Kuniyoshi was part of the Edith Halpert collection of early American paintings auctioned off by SPB recently for an unprecedented grand total for an American painting sale of $3,670,675. The staggeringly high prices w'hich the paintings brought were unanticipated even by SPB officialdom and broke a total of 17 previous records. y The Kuniyoshi garnered the highest price ever paid for a 20th century American painting (surpassing the previous record of $75,000 for a Roy Lichtenstein) and also for a 20th century work of art (compared with the $S0,000 for a David Smith sculpture). Stuart Davis Hot Still Scape for Su Colors broke the same records, though not by so wide a margin. Georgia OKeefes Workshop in drama PROVO at 'Y' An exciting five-wee- k theater experience is in store for junior and senior high school students at the eighth annual Brigham Young University theater workshop not through July 28, sponsored by the Speech and Dramatic Arts Department and the Department of Special Courses and Conferences. Directed by Dr. Charles W. Whitman, associate professor of dramatic arts, the work-sl- u p will include acting, voice, lighting, scenery construction, painting and design, makeup, e and sound, with a play production performed for a summer term audience. full-scal- Now in his eighth year as workshop director. Dr. Whitman is a veteran actor with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Dallas Theater Center, the Cleveland Playhouse, and Centennial Minnesota the Showboat. A former director of the Footlighters Community Theater in Minneapolis, he has taught theater arts at the versity of Minnesota and ramento and Chico State leges in California. The astronomical prices that the paintings commanded at the Halpert auction are attributable to several factors, according to James Maroney, head of SPB's American painting department. Maroney cited Mrs. Halperts reputation as a sponsor of early 20th century American art; the unstable monetary situation which is causing more people to invest in art; and the mounting collector interest in American art. $120,000 and scored Christian Science Monitor News Service UniSacCol- Poppies went for Another major consideration is the expansion of the international market, especially in Japan. Three Japanese dealers bought 16 paintings for $632,000 at the Halpert auction, including 9 of the 11 Kuniyoshi's and 4 Shahns. There were obvious ethnic reasons for their interest in the Kuniyoshis, but this does not belie the Japanese art invasion, as SPB terms it. One theory is tnat the countrys pervasive westernization has inevitably spilled over into the art sphere. Another more concrete explanation is that affluent Japinese are eagerly looking for a stable investment as a safeguard against inflation. Until recently, Japanese buyers" have concentrated on impressionist and modern paintings and especially Oriental art which is enjoying an extraordinary vogue in international art circles these days. The Halpert auction was significant in that it marked the first major Japanese foray into American art, and their enthusiasm Indicated that we need not look beyond our own shores for the next collecting trend. Finally, not. to be discounted in the analysis of any auction is the nature of auctions themselves. Auction fever is not a myth; it exists and causes bidders to behave like gamto take chances they didnt plan to blers take, to pay more than they can afford, to mutter at the end, What did I do? and a man to say to his friends .at the exit, Did you get anything? There seems to be an association of money with power that intoxicates and drives the bidding higher and higher. By Michael S. Barrett - NEW YORK (UPI) Mary Travers is more than a singer who helped pave the way for the folk onslaught of the '60s. She is electric, politically concerned about minded, America and the way we all live. Miss Travers, the Mary of the folk trio. Peter, Paid and Mary:. has been on her own since 1970 when she, Peter Yarrow and Paul Stook and she ey were divorced. has been working steadily on television, college campuses, night club floors and the stage of Carnegie HallFor a week in July in St Louis she takes on a new role, that of Nellie Forbush. the bubbly Mary Martin character of South Pacific. It will be the second time in her career that she has performed in musicals. Her first experience was in the chorus line of The 1957 Next a President. Broadway flop. Miss Travers career as a solo performer in the past three years has been gratifying, she said in an interview. She has three records - has it been since you've thought how lucky are? That you have a roof over your head, a house with comfortable furniture, enough to eat. a warm bed? There are many, many to whom these simple things are an impossible dream. As examples, read the list below. Why not share your good fortune with some of them? Just call the Community Services Council, Volunteer Services at How long you and inquire. individual to share one hour per week Wanted with a misdemeanant probationer. No experience necessary, training will be provided. ' This Is the time that migrant workers are in the fields and their families need help. Tne Utah Migrant Council needs volunteers to work in the Day Care and Head Start Center Nursey. This is in the Midvale area. ' them Would you pick up a bag of clothes and launder vour washer (No diapers included). Volunteers are needed io do laundry take out. Baby clothes, towels, sheets, etc. incurred will be paid by Soap softener, etc. or any expense Center, If you are certified to instruct, Swimmers Y.M.C.A. can use your services in summer program. in Heres your chance to help kids less fortunate to engage healthful activity. 6 are nil. I wouldn't accept anything. You come to a point where it would be very easy to do that, but very destructive in terms of one's own career. she said. I think Peter and Paul are much too serious about what we did than to potsky with It s not a thing it to take We took an enormous the time. I responsibility take it as an enormous responsibility now as I'm sure they do. Its tawdry to become a caricature of your own self. One reason she has become so independent is the success she scored at Carnegie Hall earlier this year. It had a lot of special qualities about it because New York was where I was she said, and brought up. no matter what you say, it is the big apple for very irrational reasons it becomes very important . . . Carnegie has a a certain certain elan, ambience, a certain status. Mary Travers goes beyond her role as a folk singer and shows interest in America's political past and future. Louisville, Kv but grew up in Greenwich Village. She joined a group known as the Song Swappers, then performed in the. Broadway musical, meeting Peter and Paul in 1961. The decade that followed was a turbulent period that saw the rise of the black man in America, the assassination of a President, the escalation of a war thousands of .miles from home and a violent presidential convention in Chicago. In that period I was exposed to an awful lot of important moments his home. Leeds to be in working order. and referral service for the elderly needs a volunteer who can repair donated wneel chairs. runThere are many needs for these if they could be put in ning order. Kitchen set,and living room couch Furniture Needed and chair are needed by a deserving family. old fridge has quit and another Refrigerator needed is needed by family. 11 South 400 The Indian Walk-in- , for resident and a reference as point ans in need, needs a donation ol a 40 Indians a yanned goods. Up to walk-iseeking he , n West, which operates transient urban Indiaewing machine and day come in to the f in $7.95. action-packe-d book This tells the true story of how two rookie cops in the New York City police department set that ancient, tradition-bound- , red establishment on its collective ear. 20s. tape-snarle- d Rookie cops Dave Greenberg and BobHantz set out to clean up sin city . has written a paced, exciting book which you wont be able to Whittemore Edward PiM iv'l eamiuinr Phonel-Round-tri- p 6 fu;ii 54-26- 21 and one way fares JYailaMp' , mass-produce- d 849G0. Headquarters for the art committee are in the Purple Mushroom art gallery in Park Citv. OPEN MON. THRU SAT. PRESENTS Country recording artist BOB EDGAR and The Live Country Music of The Cottonwoods DINNER SHOW 8:30 400 Sealing Capacity Giant Steaks Shrimp Chicken Help Yourself Salad Bor t 20-O- i. Shrimp-Ki- n DINE AND DANCE TO THE NASVHILLE AU 7300 So. 9th East FRIDAY i SOUND AGES WELCOME 255-999- SAT. RESERVATIONS 2 SUGGESTED TORTS GEIY presents tanrcwsi nwifci NsWone"-,c- UnljM! (I vlBSEHl iBSUlt- k lit v Outdoors at Park City ESS- Bridal Veil 1:30 P.M. 10 a.m. to dusk both days, is open to both amateurs and However, this professionals. year's work will be juried to exempt such things as commercial items. V. McCarthy .jOS m SI. 315 hi; The event, which is held on Park Citys Main Street from tj .aitR.atlhi Departure Times Metier 11:15 19. i li)Wl llrtl , LSOMom- I and fast I CREW COOP 18 Each artist is required to pay an entry fee for a booth to display and demonstrate his art during the festival. Interested artists should write for an application, to Park City Art Festival Committee. P.O. Box 292, Park Citv, Utah Park City Resort Outdoor Summer Theatre - o tival, Aug. If someone would give me a road map of what happens politically, I could tell you what happens musically. I dont think its politics I think its a whole, total societal reaction. put down. Trouble is, when you finish you still wont know the real- life Batman and Robin. Their story is well told here, but they themselves emerge as cardboard figures. Its a shame in an otherwise fascinating book, but the reader doesnt feel fear when they do, doesnt hurt when theyre hit, is barely even outraged when their bosses try to draw them up short. and made a real dent in doing it. They wound up being called Batman and Robin by the very people they were out to get dope pushers, who both feared and respected them in their which exploits of derring-dled to their getting gold detective shields while still in their single-hande- All artists and craftsmen are invited to participate in the annual Park City Art Fes- The events taking place in America politically will be mirrored by music, if you believe in the theory that music is a mirror of society which I do. she said. You will see a struggle for a more truthful, a more constructive reaching out in the music to communicate with the people, such as we had in the 60s . . . True story of rookie cops The Super Cops: The True Story of the Cops Called Batman and Robin by L. Y. Whitmore; Steing and Day: Artists ; craftsmen invited to exhibit She wonders how current events even Watergate will reflect in music. was, I played a part in it. I was with (Sen. Eugene) McCarthy at the window (in Chicago) . . . and saw the children he saw. She participated in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Kings civil rights march on Washington in 1963. the 1965 Selma. Ala., march for racial equality, and the beginnings of the antiwar movement. The songs Peter, Paul and Mary sang often were or became radical comments on society: Blowin in if I had a the Wind. All my Trials, Hammer, Too Much of Nothing. Miss Travers now wants to she said. And behistory, cause of the nature of who I - 3 beds, Young Mother needs Problem Situation so her livable home radio, or T.B., and chairs to make her of pickmeans no has She to her. be can retruned cnildren them delivered. ing the items up and would need to have Wheel chair needed for an older man who is falling in put it down in writing. Im writing a book, for Delacourt. Basically it is a book about growing up in New York, the logical questions of who I am, where I am and why I have been doing what I have been doing all these years. And about the 60s, how they came about, what they really were in my opinion, why folk music was popular, why it is now. the political ramifications of music and 'how it interrelates, and how society is reflected in its music and vice versa. two of them big sellers and a fourth in the works. The chances of Peter. Paul and Mary coming together again Helping hand I ... 'There should be more people aware of this exhibit it really is delightful," commented one viewer at the annual Utah Arts and Crafts Guild display last weekend at Snowbird resort. On exhibit was a variety of craft projects ranging from ceramics, to weaving to glass work to photography with some metal sculpture included for a wide range of interest. A juried exhibitors crafts showing is currently being held at the Snowbird resort through July 6. Mary Travers: more than a folk singer Miss Travers was born in , Craft show attracts patrons '7ijtDtB Directed and Choreographed by ,y Musical Direction ly Set Design by CMS mi oid-fashhm- LlJilllC HsllCf LeGrand Anderson Parry Merkley Performances' Fridays and Saturdays June 29 - September I (except July 7, 14.21 and August 1! and 25). Special performances July 4,24 and September! i All performances at 8p.m. Tickets at Park City Ticket Building : h 4 Adults $5.00 Children Corner, 12) S2.G0 5 |
