Word: cima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catholic assemblage of paintings with just one thing in common: none needed special advertising; all were eminently salable-for the proper price. They were pictures-anyone-would-like-to-own, ranging from 15th Century Venetian Cima de Conegliano to ultra-modern Pablo Picasso. Included were important works by such headliners as Rubens, Fragonard, Van Dyck, Gainsborough. Gilbert Stuart, Cezanne, and those favorites of jocular undergraduates, Neri di Bicci and Pieter de Hooch. It was impossible to decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont...
Boston. Edward Jackson Holmes, director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, paid $35,000 for two tiny wood panel paintings, supposedly by Giambattista Cima de Conegliano. They were proven fakes. For his two Coneglianos and $85,000 he was offered a Velasquez portrait of a man, which hung proudly in the museum for several weeks. A fake also, it is now ignominiously in the cellar...