Word: duveens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought over four years ago by Lord Duveen and shown at the Fogg. The head is the work of the conservative, elegant wing of late Renaissance sculpture which at first sight appears to be a copy of some portrait of Marcus Aurelius with its finely shaped head, its mass of close curls and prominent brooding eyes, all familiar from his equestrian statue as emperor and his marble bust...
...mind of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art only two men have ever really used paint. One was Rembrandt the Dutchman. The other was Titian the Venetian. Of some 300 closely-held authentic Titians, the Metropolitan until last week had only two. Then it bought a third from Duveen Bros., Inc. and called it "the most important purchase of a single piece of art ever made by the museum." Asked the price of this jewel, the Museum's Director Herbert Eustis Winlock replied, "We never talk prices. They don't mean anything." A good guess...
...Titian was Venus and the Lute Player. Lord Duveen, after buying it from the third Earl of Leicester in 1932, lent it to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition and to Venice's great Titian exhibition where it hung with the famed Venus of Urbino (TIME...
Nearly 50 years ago this and three other Siena back panels were found in an Italian antique shop by the late British Collector Robert Henry Benson. In 1927 his entire collection was bought by Lord Duveen for $3,000,000, brought to the U. S. Lord Duveen quickly wrote off a third of his investment by selling the four Duccios for $1,000,000, two to John D. Rockefeller Jr., one to the Frick Collection, and the fourth to Mr. Mackay who sold it to Mr. Kress for exactly what he paid for it less the Duveen commission...
...unexpected stroke for Mellon's contention that he will really give the U. S. his great sugar plum fell last week when Duveen popped out, under the Government's cross-questioning, that he (Duveen) actually suggested a definite site for the Mellon museum: a spot "by the obelisk near the pond" (Duveen British for the Washington Monument), that he had recommended a British architect to Mellon and that he had actually seen rough sketches of the museum plans...