Here's the latest Newsletter, which covers this controversion subject: http://www.iphotocentral.com/news/issue_view.php/199/189 . Too much bad information has been circulating about this auction. The newsletter has a lot of other important stories as well, which are noted below:
FRENCH POLICE INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE FORGERY OF 19TH-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS AUCTIONED AT ARTCURIAL DEAUVILLE; CLASSIC PHOTOGRAPHY LOS ANGELES SHOW A MORE PERSONALLY SIZED FAIR; PHOTO LA STRUGGLES TO FIND ITSELF; NEWS ABOUT CONTEMPORARY WORKS ARTISTS; THE MALCOLMSON COLLECTION--"PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTED US"; FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER LILLIAN BASSMAN DIES; YASUHIRO ISHIMOTO PASSES AWAY IN TOKYO; EUGENE "GENE" PRAKAPAS PASSES AWAY; WINE AND PHOTOGRAPHS: SINGER CELLARS SCORES HIGH; ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE PHOTOS WANTED; PHOTO BOOKS: KALISHER'S THE ALIENATED PHOTOGRAPHER; THREE BOOKS OF MILLER'S VINTAGE AMERICANA IMAGERY; FELICE BEATO; AND DEALER HERTZMANN'S CATALOG