[DOC] [TLE] Untitled - Sotheby's [PAR] London bookseller Samuel Baker, founder of Sotheby's, holds his first auction ... 
1961. Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer sells to the ... York, 
with Louis Marion as auctioneer, for a record $2.3 million, an auction record for a 
... in New York for $7.04 million, the highest price paid for a work of art at auction. [DOC] [TLE] Record-setting art sales of a half-century - Fortune [PAR] Feb 28, 2014 ... Best Buy Brings Back Free Shipping For the Holidays 5:31 PM EDT ... 1961 
Parke-Bernet Galleries (later acquired by Sotheby's) sells Rembrandt's Aristotle 
Contemplating the Bust of Homer to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $2.3 
million, at the time a record for any painting sold at auction. 1970 Diego... [DOC] [TLE] Day & Meyer, Murray & Young: Warehouse of the Rich - The New ... [PAR] Oct 28, 2011 ... Trucks loaded with Portovault units would travel back and forth ... The previous 
year, Day & Meyer had stored a Rembrandt, Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of 
Homer, ... of Art for $2.3 million, then thought to be a record price for a painting. 
... Mr. Cavanaugh was on the third floor working in his archive in... [DOC] [TLE] Rising Art Prices Worry Museums - NYTimes.com [PAR] Oct 17, 1987 ... The astronomical figures brought at auction by two van Gogh ... But the critical 
issue, in his view, was that high art market prices ... market boom really went back 
to the sale, in 1961, of Rembrandt's ''Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer'' 
to the Metropolitan Museum for $2.3 million, then a record price. [DOC] [TLE] Buyout Footage - News From 1961 Archive Film Stock Footage ... [PAR] Newsreels 1961 Collection (page 10 of 11) ; World Events Sports Lifestyles ... 
The Prime Minister of India sets off on a ten-day tour of the U.S. after his ... A 
Rembrandt masterpiece, 'Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer' brings a 
price triple that ... Bought for a record $2.3 million, it is the 'must see' attraction in 
New York. [DOC] [TLE]   "The Rescue Artist"  Dolnick Edward - RuLit ... [PAR] In 1961, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art paid $2.3 million for Rembrandt's 
Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, the price set a record that more than 
doubled the previous high. ... The $6 million Renoir is now worth $20 million, and 
the most important of his paintings would go for a lot more. (In 1868 Renoir... [DOC] [TLE] Louis Marion, the former head of the Parke-Bernet Galleries... - UPI ... [PAR] Dec 12, 1984 ... 'He was on your side and he wanted you to buy that piece. ... He was the 
auctioneer who sold Rembrandt's 'Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer' 
from the Erickson Collection in 1961 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $2.3 
million ... That record would stand until 1979 when his son John auctioned... [DOC] [TLE] the metropolitan in new york and other rogue museums - Erenow [PAR] Benjamin Altman left his Rembrandt and Limoges enamels to the museum. In 
1961, the Met paid a record $2.3 million for Rembrandt's Aristotle ... for a price 
that must have exceeded the 2.2 million that the Wildenstein Gallery had paid at 
auction ... In 1966, the museum had bought a treasure of gold, silver, bronze, and
... [DOC] [TLE] J. Paul Getty's Million-Dollar Mistake | Los Angeles County Museum ... [PAR] Jul 6, 2009 ... ... its large Rembrandt Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer in 1961. ... 
Getty's record, such as it was, didn't last long. ... But soon scholars were voicing 
doubts about his buy. ... Norton Simon bought Adam and Eve in good faith. ... 
Was the requirement that victims pay back the Nazi purchase price fair? [DOC] [TLE] The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah  Page 2 [PAR] 16, 1961 Rembrandt Auctions At $2.3 Million Tops NEW YORK

Question: Back in 1961 his "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer" brought a record price of $2.3 million
Answer: Rembrandt