Art: At Christie's

Approximately $100,000 was realized at an auction of 63 of the paintings from the collection of the Duke of Westminster (onetime owner of the Gainsborough Blue Boy), the top price being $32,550, paid by an anonymous Parisian dealer for The Repose of the Holy Family, by Nicolas Poussin. Murillo's St. John with the Lamb went for $9,375; Memling's Virgin and Child Enthroned to a New York dealer for $9,185 and Van Dyck's Virgin and Child with St. Catherine brought $17,750. The sensation of the sale occurred when three huge canvases by Rubens, part of a series ordered...