Word: duveens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parke brought down his hammer on some of the most grandiose sales in art history. Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures as the manuscript of the Gettysburg Address and a lock of George Washington's hair...
...dreaming of supping with the dead, "I'm sure, Oscar, you were the life and soul of the party."). The New Yorker series on Beerbohm is likely to grow into a book, as did The Worcester Account (on which The Cold Wind and the Warm is based) and Duveen...
...Duveen, a history of the British house of art dealers, is considered one of Behrman's finest journalistic accomplishments. The Duveens, however, are not among its admirers. Lady Duveen--whom he has never met--spits, Behrman says, whenever she hears his name. "Of course," he adds, "she may have a glandular condition...
...Austria to Hungary, and finally to the U.S. in 1921, Sculptor Gross came to feel the same sense of intimacy toward stone, and finally to forms cast in bronze. Last week a one-man show of 30 of his wood, stone and bronze pieces opened at Manhattan's Duveen-Graham gallery. By late afternoon a long line of visitors stretched in front of the gallery, patiently waiting their turn to see what was inside...
Today the bronzes are part of the fabulous collection left the gallery by one of its top benefactors, five-and-dime Millionaire Samuel H. Kress. He got them, along with many of his finest paintings and sculptures, from Joseph Duveen (later Lord Duveen of Millbank), Lucullan art dealer extraordinary to such U.S. millionaire clients as John D. Rockefeller Jr., Andrew Mellon, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., Henry Clay Frick. Duveen staggered the art world in Depression 1930 by buying up the whole Dreyfus collection for $5,000,000. Then, believing it sound business to upstage his millionaire clients, :he pounced...