Einstein and Beethoven in tune with bidding tastes
Successful lots in a Bonhams New York (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) March 9 auction included, at $85,000 (£61,595), a letter that Einstein wrote to his son, Hans Albert, on the very day in September 1945 that the Second World War officially ended.
It was one in which he notes that through his work on the special theory of relativity, he had “a …