PAPER CHASE
by Deborah Ripley



The Halloween print auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New  York were fairly lackluster, with the seasonable exception of the extraordinary Edvard Munch Vampire prints that were the top sellers at both houses. Sotheby’s hand-colored example  fetched  $1,202,500, and Christie’s gorgeous  Vampire II  brought  $662,500, from an online bidder, no less.  

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