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Another great portrait of the 15th Century mercenary (scowling as usual, in a velvet cap and gold brocaded tunic) was the highlight of a loan exhibition of Renaissance portraits at the Knoedler Galleries. By Giovanni Bellini, it is the property of Lord Duveen of Millbank. There were plenty of other masterpieces to remind the public of the treasury of Old Masters still in private hands in Manhattan. Among them: Castagno's Portrait of a Young Man, lent by J. P. Morgan; another young man, by Botticelli, lent by Clarence Hungerford Mackay; Fouquet's John, Bastard of Orleans, lent...
...Cowper Madonna is another Raphael less well known than the Alba but considered by many a critic to be a superior work of art. Lord Duveen of Millbank bought it from Lady Desborough for $800,000 for Mr. Mellon...
...Edith Rockefeller McCormick ($330.617), Mrs. Whitelaw Reid ($116,015) (TIME, Dec. 4; Jan. 15; May 14). The late Mrs. Benjamin Stern's library and 18th Century French collection brought $243,142. The highest price for anything was paid at the Ryan auction by canny Lord Duveen of Millbank who bid $102,500 for a marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary item was Francis Scott Key's manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner," sold for $24,000 to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach as agent for Baltimore's Walters...
...look like a Hollywood opening. Totally unable to see what the museum had to show, the guests milled slowly up & down stairs and looked at one another. Besides Soviet Ambassador Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, they included: Mary Pickford, Otto H. Kahn, Dolores Del Rio, Leopold Stokowski, Henry Seidel Canby, Lord Duveen, Frank Sullivan, Katharine Hepburn, the young ladies of the Ballet Russe, Charles A. Lindbergh and most of the Rockefellers. Most critics went back next morning for a quieter look at the best exhibition of stage decor and costume ever held in the U. S.: 700 costume plates, plans, drawings...
...bronze doors to let the public see a $4,000,000 collection sumptuously housed in a $2,500,000 marble palace. The Governors of Missouri and Kansas were there. So were the presidents of their State universities, not to mention half the tycoons of the Midwest. Led by Lord Duveen, dealers and art critics arrived from New York, Chicago, Paris, Venice, Madrid...