1963 Press Photo Leslie Hyam looks at Franz Hals' "The Lute Player" - nox04058

Franz Hals' "The Lute Player," is admired by Leslie Hyam, president of New York's Parke-Bernet Galleries, after its purchase tonight for $600,000, the highest price ever paid for a work by the 17th Century Dutch artist. A London art dealer, bidding at the auction transatlantic telephone, bought the painting for an unidentified private collector.

Photo is dated 1963.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.