Word: contini
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...assembling, lending and giving of his masterpieces that the announcement of the gift to Washington came as a popular surprise. Only persons long associated with him in this undertaking have been Stephen Pichetto, the Metropolitan's restorer and technical adviser of painting, Florence Art Dealer Count A. Contini-Bonacossa, and for a period, the late Lord Duveen. A merchant who cultivated his mind while he was accumulating his chain of 240 stores, Mr. Kress did not need much help. It was about 25 years ago that he first started making large-scale purchases. Every summer he took time...