A licence to print money

The Independent - London | May 18, 1994| | Copyright

Christie's saleroom is packed; the auctioneer has barely broken sweat by the time the picture has passed its estimate of pounds 15,000- pounds 20,000. The early bidders - a bald-headed man at the front of the room, a thin man with a pony-tail and a nervous woman in a green coat - have fallen away, and all attention is on the two who remain: a sombre man in a side aisle and a voice on the end of a phone. The hammer falls and heads drop to peruse the reproduction of a photograph in the catalogue. It is a self-portrait by Alvin Langdon Coburn, taken in 1905 when Coburn was 23 and the young turk ...

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