. . . "Hauser + Wirth gallery bought Eva Hesse's early (1965) painting, An Ear in a Pond (an exhibition of Hesse sculpture, including works from the same series, has just opened at the Jewish Museum) -- Hauser + Wirth handles the Hesse estate -- for a handsome $2,256,000 (est. $1,000,000-$1,500,000), and private dealer Neal Meltzer won a lively, graphic de Kooning painting from the Nelson Rockefeller col" .