Graham Arader

A woman employee of Jerry's called me in 1999 and told me that a Bierstadt that I had given him had been sold for $1,800,000 Jerry had told me the day before that he had sold it for $800,000 and had wired me $720,000 sayng he had taken a 10 % commission I called the owner, Richard Fox, that I had been representing and asked him what to do. He had given me a number of paintings to sell for him so he could raise the money for the Fox School of Business of Temple University. Richard was the founder of Chesterbrook in Pennsylvania and had just sold his last section for 60m So it was Jerry's lucky day. Richard had raised the money to fund his school and he said to drop it. Of course, he suggested I take a zero commission on that and another $3,000,000 of pictures that I was later able to sell for him The best part was that I stopped speaking to Jerry that year. So he never has had another chance to beat me and my life has been far better I told Mike Frost about this and he laug...