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...Jean Foucquet, who etched his subject's fleshy, self-assured features in silverpoint on a small piece of cream-colored paper. Last week, at Christie, Manson & Woods's famed London salesrooms ("Christie's''), this little picture was auctioned off to Lord Duveen of Millbank, world's No. 1 art agent...
...part of the collection of the late Henry Oppenheimer, Foucquet's Portrait of an Ecclesiastic was the biggest single item in what many a dealer considered the most important sale of Old Masters' drawings ever held. Bidding with minute, professional nods, Lord Duveen and more than 200 other experts and spectators saw the 460 Oppenheimer drawings knocked down in three afternoons for some $500,000. Outbid by Lord Duveen on the Foucquet portrait, Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries got a Study of San Sebastian by Filippino Lippi for $6,825. London's Colnaghi & Co. paid...
...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...