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10 Old Masters That Changed The Art Market. #2: The 1965 sale of Rembrandt’s 'Portrait of the Artist’s Son Titus' is the stuff of legend. But for our auctioneer Peter Chance, the sale remains ‘the worst moment’ of his working life.
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Prior to the introduction of the paddle system, buyers were allowed to choose their own bidding signals. The American industrialist and collector Norton Simon sent a letter to Christie’s before the sale, explaining, ‘If he is sitting he is bidding; if he stands he has stopped bidding. If he sits down again he is not bidding until he raises his finger. Having raised his finger he is bidding again until he stands up again.’
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Unfortunately, Chance misinterpreted Simon’s sitting and finger-raising, and sold the work to Marlborough Fine Art in London. Enraged, Simon approached the auctioneer’s rostrum and demanded that bidding be reopened.
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Simon went on to win the auction, spending an additional 60,000 guineas to secure the work. Today the portrait hangs in his museum in Pasadena, California.
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Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), Portrait of the Artist’s Son Titus, c. 1655. Sold for 760,000 guineas on 19 March 1965 at Christie's in London. © Norton Simon Foundation, Pasadena, CA, USA/Bridgeman Images
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