Word: duveen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Sir Joseph Duveen purchased from Lady Desborough, after secret bidding had determined his offer of $875,000* to be the most advantageous, Raphael's Madonna and Child, painted in 1508, probably the most notable Raphael Madonna extant outside of museums...
...extraordinary that the Hearst syndicate, raising the price with habitual exaggeration to $1,250,000, should have described the painting as "Raphael's masterpiece, Madonna and Child . . ."; or that the Daily News, Manhattan tabloid, should have printed a reproduction of a Raphael Madonna which was not the one Duveen had bought, in the apparently idiotic assurance that there exists only one Madonna and that Raphael painted...
...Exceeding by $75,000 the previous record price for a single painting, paid by Sir Joseph Duveen for Gainsborough's Blue Boy (now in the Huntington Library in Pasadena, Calif...
...Joseph Duveen did not come away empty handed. For $106,000 he bought a royal Ispahan palace carpet and a marquetry boudoir table for $71,000. The Galleries of the American Art Association were crowded with notables, most of them watching dealers bid for them. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts bought a carpet. All of Judge Gary's things were "good," that is, authentic...
...world's record for public art auctions; this is $370,000 which Sir Joseph Duveen paid for Lawrence's Pinkie, in England. The world's record price for a single painting was also paid by Sir Joseph Duveen; $850,000 for Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, which he bought direct from the Duke of Westminster...