Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furniture, tapestries, rugs, statues-these were sold at three other sessions of the auction of Judge Gary's collection. The last was by far the most spectacular; this brought the total for the entire sale to $2,297,763, the largest amount ever returned at a U. S. art auction. The most notable piece purchased on the last afternoon was a small marble bust by Jean Antoine Houdon; the head was that of a plump and imperious baby girl, the daughter of the artist. The woman who got the bust was later discovered to be a buyer...
...Joseph Duveen did not come away empty handed. For $106,000 he bought a royal Ispahan palace carpet and a marquetry boudoir table for $71,000. The Galleries of the American Art Association were crowded with notables, most of them watching dealers bid for them. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts bought a carpet. All of Judge Gary's things were "good," that is, authentic...
...world's record for public art auctions; this is $370,000 which Sir Joseph Duveen paid for Lawrence's Pinkie, in England. The world's record price for a single painting was also paid by Sir Joseph Duveen; $850,000 for Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, which he bought direct from the Duke of Westminster...
Among the artists represented in the current exhibit are such well-known artists as Rembrandt, Rubens, and Van Dyke, all of whom painted during the seventeenth century, the high water period of Dutch and Flemish art...
...interesting to know the state of Otway's health when he wrote The Orphan and the countless other minute facts such as might be required on a daily examination paper in many of our English courses. But art is long and life is short as several astute gentlemen have observed before out time, and such microscopic examinations of limited fields are quire meaningless to the large majority inadequately prepared for these courses. (Yale News...