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"Sale" as part of the party display name #34

Closed workergnome closed 9 years ago

workergnome commented 9 years ago

Things like the "Kirkwood Sale, Christie's, New York, NY" display as just "Kirkwood", not "Kirkwood Sale" or "Christie's". What's the right thing to do here? Are sales different than the gallery that the sale was held at?

workergnome commented 9 years ago

tentatively implemented this—it's more a style question here.

workergnome commented 9 years ago

@BergFulton — do you have an optionion on this?

BergFulton commented 9 years ago

We can double check with Costas/Lulu here, but when I see things like "Kirkwood Sale, Christie's NY", it feels to me like this was a major auction of this person's artwork, either as a liquidation of their estate or a sale for another somewhat major reason. These sales are often events on their own.

If an owner is just sick of looking at that hideous painting, they may only consign that one to Christie's, and Christie's sells it in a themed sale, usually things like "Important Early American Pictures" or some such.

As it stands right now, if the record reflects ""Kirkwood Sale, Christies, NYC" I'm changing that to Christie's as the party, NYC as location, and footnoting that this is the Kirkwood sale.

I think it could go both ways, really. The sale wouldn't happen without Kirkwood, but Christie's is the party selling it and in custody of the object.

workergnome commented 9 years ago

In practice, this has not shown to be useful. Remove it.