Crowds of 30,000 came to view items over a nine-day period, and the $4.7 million generated at auction were the third-highest in auction history at the time, behind Norton Simon's $12.7 million and the $7.5 million for items from the estate of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge.
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The top-selling lot in the sale was for a John Singer Sargent portrait of Millicent Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, which sold for $210,000, setting a record for the artist's work.
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A self-described "cabinetmaker who fashioned large pedestals for small statues", Sonnenberg represented such individuals as Samuel Goldwyn, Robert Lehman, William S. Paley and David O. Selznick.
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