It was a bargain basement at Sotheby’s in Tel Aviv at the semi-annual auction of international and Israeli art. A Chagall painting, “Le Bouquet Sur Le Toit,” estimated at $180,000 to $200,000, sold for $145,000. Many of the lots sold were underbid.
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