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...years of canny buying, with expert prompting from Britain's No. 1 merchant of art, Lord Duveen of Millbank, made the Bache collection eminently worth seeing. Every great European art period from the Renaissance through the 18th Century is represented. Included are: three Bellinis, a Botticelli, a Fra Filippo Lippi, three Titians, Diirer's Portrait of a Lady, a half-dozen Holbeins and Halses, three Rembrandts, two Vermeers, a scattering of 18th-Century Frenchmen and Britons. Outstanding...
Sponsored by Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, the finest exhibition of old Dutch masters the U.S. has seen in a generation this week lured throngs of Manhattan gallery-goers to Fifth Avenue's palatial Duveen Galleries. Purpose of the exhibition: to raise funds for Dutch refugees...
...exhibition of great art, the show was worth many times the price of admission (50?). On the somber, dignified Duveen walls were spread 15 Rembrandts, 15 of the finest of Frans Hals's broad-brushed portraits, Vermeer Van Delft's world-famed $500,000 The Milkmaid (see cut), meticulous landscapes, still lifes and street scenes by Hobbema, Jan Steen, Nicolaes Maes and dozens of minor masters...
Season's biggest sale at Parke-Bernet was 18th-Century British Painter John Hoppner's Portrait of Miss Frances Beresjord (see cut), bought for $39,000 by the famous art-dealing firm of Duveen's. It was lavishly topped, however, by the season's record high ($175,000), for Renoir's Mussel Fishers at Berneval (one of the two highest-priced Renoirs in existence). The buyer: Merion, Pa.'s terrible-tempered Dr. Albert C. Barnes...
...Rockefellers, Webbs, Fricks, Blums, and others, now appear on the roster. The founders of the older museums were strong-minded, opinionated, dictatorial men with a curious one-sided sense of public obligation. All the larger American cities had them-mostly new millionaires determined to show that they could bid Duveen more per square inch of canvas and cubic inch of marble or bronze than any European competitor...