Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he offered Sir Joseph Duveen $250,000 for a picture, The Laughing Mandolin Player, by Franz Hals, 17th Century Dutch painter. The deal was closed. It was generally considered the most important art transaction since Henry E. Huntington of California bought from the same dealer Gainsborough's Blue Boy, or since John D. Rockefeller, Jr., bought for $1,100,000 the Verteuil tapestries (TIME, March...
Died. Thomas Ellis Kirby, 77, internationally famed art dealer and critic and "world's greatest art auctioneer"; at Haverford, Pa., of eczema. His sales totaled over...
...extraordinary episode was the appearance on the stage of Thomas McDermott, an ice dealer of Jersey City. Mr. McDermott is an opera goer, though not of the Golden Horseshoe variety. For years he has listened to the opera from a seat high in the family circle, where, be it observed, the acoustics are particularly fine. He has heard almost every performance in which Scotti has sung. He began a speech of homage to Scotti, but had spoken only a few words when emotion overcame him, and he could only clasp Scotti's hands...
...there may be prodigies, but in business there is only hard-headed experience. When George Joseph Demotte, noted art dealer of Manhattan and Paris died accidentally while hunting in France, he left several unfinished libel suits (TIME, Dec. 17), a well grounded reputation, a $2,000,000 art business...
...house of Demotte added another canto to its tragi-comedy when Lucien, 17-year-old son of the late George Joseph Demotte, millionaire collector and dealer in medieval art, succeeded to the Presidency of the $2,000,000-corporation, and essayed to carry on as manager of Demotte's New York branch. Still fresh in the minds of art followers are the $500,000 damage suit of the elder Demotte against Sir Joseph Duveen, London dealer, for reflections upon the authenticity of art works sold by Demotte; the melodramatic trial in Paris of Jean Vigoroux, former agent of Demotte...