Durand's painting "Kindred Spirits" (1849), a depiction of the poet William Cullen Bryant and the painter Thomas Cole in a Catskills landscape, in a closed auction something New Yorkers considered a betrayal of their artistic and literary patrimony.
Authorities dismantled Yukos in a closedauction, and its key assets were ultimately acquired by state-controlled Rosneft, which is slated to go public on the London Stock Exchange this summer in one of the largest initial offerings ever.