Word: duveen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's best addresses has long been 720 Fifth Avenue. There, for 40 years, Duveen Bros., dealers in old masters, have peddled Rembrandts, Raphaels and Gainsboroughs to Mellons, Morgans and Rockefellers. Last week Duveen's had moved into new and smaller quarters on a residential side street. The reason: "The old location was getting a bit too commercial...
...Duveen's new headquarters shows other signs of the times. Now the firm's $10 million collection, heretofore seen only by customers with a million-dollar gleam in their eyes, will be on rotating display downstairs, where anyone with bus fare can come in and look it over. Customers who mean business will still be shown upstairs to velvet-hung rooms where they can look more meaningly...
...Sempach burghers themselves had ordered the windows removed in 1814 to let more light into their hall. Afterward they were sold to a composer for a handful of pocket change and their travels began. One of the Rothschilds bought them in 1853. Duveen Bros., the London art dealers, got hold of them in 1897 and offered them to the Swiss National Museum for $1,250 apiece. While the Swiss deliberated, the elder J. P. Morgan snapped them up. In 1942, Honegger bought them at an auction of part of the Morgan Collection, had them fitted into window frames...