A fully restored Sahara sold at a Paris auction in March for $23,500.

These Leonardo pictures are two of the five drapery studies acquired at a 1900 Paris auction by the Comtesse de Behague.

Sonja Kramarsky, the consignor, is the daughter of Siegfried Kramarsky, a German-born New York banker and philanthropist who purchased the painting in 1932 for about $8,800 at a Paris auction.

According to Gabet, a couple purchased the head at a Paris auction in the early 1900s, and Bellanger bought it from the sister in 1955.

The only Type 55 to appear on the open market in the last 10 years was sold by Christie's at a Paris auction last February for a world record £1,108,000.

Reputed Relic of Cross Sold Two slivers of olive wood said to have come from the cross on which Jesus died were sold for over $18,000 at a Paris auction.

He enjoyed the reputation of being a 'formidable salesman', and most important Paris auctions... were held on his premises because the Hôtel Drouot accommodations were insufficient.

As Mr. DeLorenzo explained, he had bought the tables at a Paris auction.

Since 1932, when it was purchased for $8,800 at a Paris auction by Siegfried Kramarsky, a German-born New York banker and philanthropist, the painting has been in the Kramarsky family collection in the United States.

In 1986, she paid $75,000 for one plate in a Paris auction.