Word: duveens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Timbal. During the post-war depression of 1870, the entire Timbal collection went to Gustave Dreyfus, a French engineer who made money out of the Suez Canal. In its turn the Dreyfus collection went up for auction in Paris. It was bought in its entirety by Sir Joseph Duveen. The Cleveland Museum, which had already picked several choice morsels at the dispersal of the Guelph Treasure, sent emissaries to Sir Joseph. They came back with the Delia Robbia plaque which shows the head of a tousled-haired young boy, mouth open as in adenoids. He is supposed...
Married. Dorothy Rose Duveen, only daughter of art-dealing Sir Joseph Duveen of London and Manhattan; and William Francis Cuthbert Garthwaite, 25, eldest son of Ship Merchant Sir William Garthwaite who owns the S. V. Garthpool, the last square-rigged ocean-going ship to sail the British flag; in London...
Engaged. Dorothy Rose Duveen, only daughter of Sir Joseph Duveen, London and Manhattan art dealer; and William Francis Cuthbert Garthwaite, 25, son of Sir William Garthwaite, British ship owner and banker; in London...
...application and some skill, and that he has a palate for champagne which, it is whispered, he is in a position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions, and he collects autographs. . . . His taste in the arts is unpretentious, but it is his own and not Sir Joseph Duveen's. He has a partiality for race courses, and usually contrives to put a little on the loser. When he is traveling, his aversion to solitude at breakfast taxes the ingenuity of his secretaries, who have to provide a daily quota of guests at unseasonable hours...
...impossible to decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont de Bois, for which they would like to receive about $200,000. Almost alone of New York's important galleries, the firm of Duveen Bros, refused to take part in the show. Reason: Sir Joseph was out of town; his three brothers could do nothing without...