Word: duveens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement of the gift to Washington came as a popular surprise. Only persons long associated with him in this undertaking have been Stephen Pichetto, the Metropolitan's restorer and technical adviser of painting, Florence Art Dealer Count A. Contini-Bonacossa, and for a period, the late Lord Duveen. A merchant who cultivated his mind while he was accumulating his chain of 240 stores, Mr. Kress did not need much help. It was about 25 years ago that he first started making large-scale purchases. Every summer he took time off to visit European spas and ferret the art centres...
Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, et al. If pressed to name his favorite Uncle Sam will smile; he doted on all of them, but might admit that Duccio di Buoninsegna's The Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew (purchased for $250,000 through Lord Duveen four years ago from the Clarence Mackay collection) was perhaps his best-loved "child...
...company of softly shining young ladies and gents look on. This unselfconscious little idyll pleased Frederick the Great, Francophile King of Prussia, and he had his ambassador buy it. Until 1918 it hung in the collection of the royal family at Potsdam. Clevelander Beaumont got it through Dealer Joseph Duveen...
...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...