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$2,500,00) and take the rest on consignment.The final deal put together via Gus Mayer and Gutekunst in London,
Knoedler’s and Charles Henschel with Carman Messmore as the ‘point man’ for Mellon was:

Frans Hals Portrait of aYoung Man April 1930 $ 559,190
Rembrandt A Girl with a Broom
Rembrandt A Polish Nobleman May 1930 $223,563
Rubens Portrait of Isabella Brandt June 1930 $502,899
Van Eyck The Annunciation July-Nov $1,084,953
Rembrandt A Turk
Rembrandt AWoman Holding a Pink January 1931 $745,500
Van Dyck Philip, LordWharton February 1931 $223,562
Van Dyck Portrait of a Flemish Lady
Van Dyck Susana Fourment and Daughter $838,350
Raphael St. George and the Dragon $167,543
Velazquez Portrait of Pope Innocent X March 1931 $402,333
Botticelli Adoration of the Magi
Rembrandt Joseph and Potiphar’sWife April 1931 $195,602
Veronese The Finding of Moses $1,710,558
Van Dyck William II of Nassau and Orange
Hals Portrait of an Officer $6,654,053
Chardin The House of Cards
Perugino The Crucifixion
Raphael The Alba Madonna
Titian Venus with a Mirror
Total

At around this time my father made a trip to Biarritz, the south-west of France and the Pyrenees. Completely at

odds with my knowledge of him in later years when he always seemed so cautious at this period he had a

predilection to gamble. Apparently he looked so young at 31 that the Casino would not let him through the doors

without returning to his hotel to fetch a passport proving he was over 21. There followed a night of catastrophe

losing about a one hundred thousand marks then the equivalent of roughly $23,800, a huge sum when compared
to the purchasing power of the time and what this might have purchased in terms of paintings in Russia!6 A

6. To calculate the current day 2012 value of $23,800 1930 dollars there are various methods. A simple Purchasing Power Calculator would say the
relative value is $310,000.00.This answer is obtained by multiplying $23800 by the percentage increase in the CPI from 1930 to 2010. If you want to
compare the value of a $23800 Income orWealth, in 1930 there are four choices. In 2010 the relative: historic standard of living value of that income
or wealth is $311,000 but the contemporary standard of living value of that income or wealth is $628,320.

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