Word: berensons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Colin Simpson said yesterday in a telephone interview from Surrey, England, that Harvard is claiming unjustly copyrights to what he said was previously undiscovered archival information used in his book on early 20th century art connoisseur Bernard Berenson (Class...
...University is trying to halt publication of his book, Simpson said, because Harvard University Press plans to publish in May, 1987, the second volume of Ernest Samuels' "Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend." Samuels is Berenson's official biographer...
Simpson claims that the archives of Lord Duveen, a famous art dealer, show the underside of Berenson, whose critical expertise determined the value of many famous paintings. Berenson may have collected a 25 percent profit on all art works sold by Duveen, many of which Berenson authenticated for clients, Simpson argues in his unpublished manuscript...
Michaelson said that some of the material Simpson uses in his book was taken from papers left to Harvard in one of Berenson's wills and was used without authorization...
...Harvard lawyer said the University retains the copyright to information on Berenson contained in the Duveen archives, despite the fact that the archives are currently in the possession of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York...