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Simpson claims that the archives of Lord Duveen, a famous art dealer, show the underside of Berenson, whose critical expertise determined the value of many famous paintings. Berenson may have collected a 25 percent profit on all art works sold by Duveen, many of which Berenson authenticated for clients, Simpson argues in his unpublished manuscript...
...Harvard lawyer said the University retains the copyright to information on Berenson contained in the Duveen archives, despite the fact that the archives are currently in the possession of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York...
Simpson used the Duveen archives to gain keyinformation about Berenson's relationship to theart dealer. The Duveen archives were left to theMetropolitan Museum in New York by Edward Fowles,a Duveen associate, under the condition that thearchives remain sealed until...
...Simpson said he had the legal right toexamine the Duveen archives and include thematerial in his Berenson biography...
...adaptation of Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944), he successfully fused comedy with drama. A celebrated raconteur, Behrman delighted his many friends, among them Greta Garbo, for whom he did the screenplays of Queen Christina and Anna Karenina. In later years Behrman wrote biographies of Lord Duveen and Max Beerbohm and, at 75, his first novel, The Burning Glass, about a young playwright in the America and Europe...