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...Scot commissioned such painters as Sir John Lavery, Sir David Cameron, Allan Ramsay or Alexander Eraser to do his portrait or a bit of native scenery, his heirs somehow managed to keep the picture in the family and few have had to be sold to buyers like Sir Joseph Duveen or Sotheby's of London. The canny private owners were induced to loosen up and loan their paintings for this year's display...
With the notable exception of Duveen Bros. Inc., who frequently lend pictures to other exhibitions but never admit the general public to their own, major Manhattan art marts have come to consider themselves semi-public institutions, frequently stage expensive, elaborate loan exhibitions that can bring them nothing but prestige. Well in the top rank of such shows was one that opened in Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week, the most complete showing of the works of Toulouse-Lautrec the U. S. has ever seen...
...Weill, president of the Council of the National Museums of France, senior partner of the international banking house of Lazard Freres & Cie , this anthology of fragilities changed hands last March. The reported price of $5,000,000 paid by happy Dealer Georges Wildenstein established him firmly as the French Duveen...
...film library-one of the museum's most important adjuncts-with a discreet projection room that will hold just 50 seats. In the basement will be a lecture room to hold more than 500 people. The Museum's board of trustees, which includes Mrs. Rockefeller, Lord Duveen, Edsel Ford, John Hay Whitney and Marshall Field, will meet in the most public board room any of them has ever seen: a penthouse of clear plate glass. To pay for the building, trustees and other friends of the museum contributed some...
...property of sour-faced Philosopher Voltaire, who gave it to his great admirer, Frederick the Great of Prussia. Claiming it as his personal property, Wilhelm II was able to ship it out of Germany to his exile at Doom, later was forced to sell it to Sir Joseph Duveen who passed it on for a handsome consideration to Mr. Bache...