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Died. Arnold Seligmann, 61, famed Paris art connoisseur, founder-president of Arnold Seligmann & Son (antiques & old masters) with Paris & Manhattan offices; of heart disease; in Paris. He advised Art Collectors William Randolph Hearst, the late John Pierpont Morgan, the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, the Rothschild family, the late Paul Dutasta...
...Paris, an auctioneer's hammer was falling upon the properties of the late M. Paul Dutasta, secretary of the Versailles Peace Conference. They were bidding for a portrait of Mme. Rouill de Lestang, who was a handsome woman enough but more than ever desirable on a canvas signed by Maurice Quentin de Latour (1704-88), whose pastels were the glory of the Salons for 37 years, and won him a court paintership under Louis XV. Up and down went the bids, three-quarters of a million, eight-tenths, nine-tenths, the whole of a million francs (approximately...
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