Word: duveen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Portraitists: Gainsborough. Reynolds and Romney are returning to favor, though nowhere near the inflated level to which Lord Duveen, the famed Seeing Eye dealer for U.S. millionaires, pushed them during the boom of the 1920s. Then, wealthy Easterners (e.g., Andrew Mellon, Jules Bache) bought them; now, Texas oilmen do. The wide-ranging oilmen, one happy dealer explained last week, "prefer to buy their English pictures in England...
...Barbizon School: 19th century French Landscapists Daubigny, Theodore Rousseau and Millet, long in eclipse because Duveen frowned upon them, are back in favor, have increased as much as ten times in value in the last four years...
...Mike finds it difficult to remember any name (he once forgot how to spell one of his own aliases), this move should pay off. And it will be necessary for Mike to have someone like Crocker on hand in California if his latest venture pans out: to do over Duveen's former five-story art gallery in Manhattan and open up Romanoff's Fifth Aveaue...
Hearty Joseph Duveen, who died (in 1939) Lord Duveen of Millbank, bullied and cajoled two generations of U.S. multimillionaires into amassing some of the greatest private art collections in history. Today the firm is headed by two mild-mannered former Duveen assistants, President Edward Fowles and Vice President Bertram Boggis. The old "super-customers," as Vice President Boggis calls them, have disappeared. In their place are some "very good customers." Who they are, Fowles and Boggis prefer not to say. "Nobody would deal with you if you were so indiscreet as to tell...
...Duveen's sees one big problem ahead: the scarcity of old masters. "You can't keep draining Europe forever," says President Fowles. "Finally you get to the bottom of the barrel." But Duveen's barrel is still well padded. For sale last week : five Rembrandts, four Botticellis, six Bellinis, three Titians, three Gainsboroughs, two Giorgiones, one Fra Angelico, one Castagno and 600 other lesser English, Dutch, French and Italian old lights...