Last March Manhattan’s Knoedler Galleries held an embarrassed showing of some of the works of Jules Pascin. The pictures were poorly chosen, the show was poorly attended, poorly criticized.

London Frieze Week evening sales total £96,536,220 / €111,499,334 / $117,774,188, setting nine auction records for modern and contemporary artists.

Last week for the first time since 1927 works by such debatable modernists as Amédé Modigliani, Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, Jules Pascin and Maurice Utrillo were opened to the rude winter ...