A Storied Rembrandt Goes to a Mystery Bidder
A mysterious collector went on a Dutch buying spree yesterday at Sotheby's, paying $4.27 million for a much-watched Rembrandt portrait and another $1.87 million for a Jan Steen and a Gerrit Dou. The bidder, identified only as a New York collector and Paddle No. LO179, snapped up the works in the first hour of the old master paintings sale, starting with Rembrandt's "Study of an ...