The bid won the tea caddy, and with the buyer’s commission tacking on another $600, it came in at six times the estimate. “I definitely went a little more than I thought I was going to,” Mr. Gohr, 48, said afterward, still processing what had happened. On Tuesday night alone, more than $600 million was raised thanks to the sale of 44 first-rate artworks the couple gathered. Mrs. Rockefeller died in 1996, and her husband, the last surviving grandson of John D. Rockefeller, died last year at 101. But those like Mr. Gohr who filed into Christie’s Rockefeller Center headquarters discovered that they were not the only ones drawn by the Rockefeller mystique.

Source: New York Times May 09, 2018 23:11 UTC