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...application and some skill, and that he has a palate for champagne which, it is whispered, he is in a position to indulge. He is generous in his benefactions, and he collects autographs. . . . His taste in the arts is unpretentious, but it is his own and not Sir Joseph Duveen's. He has a partiality for race courses, and usually contrives to put a little on the loser. When he is traveling, his aversion to solitude at breakfast taxes the ingenuity of his secretaries, who have to provide a daily quota of guests at unseasonable hours...
...impossible to decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont de Bois, for which they would like to receive about $200,000. Almost alone of New York's important galleries, the firm of Duveen Bros, refused to take part in the show. Reason: Sir Joseph was out of town; his three brothers could do nothing without...
...exhibition of French painting of the Eighteenth Century was opened Sunday at the Fogg Art Museum and will continue for two weeks, ending March 2. There are about 30 pictures, the majority lent by Felix Wildenstein, Paris. The other contributors are Sir Joseph Duveen and the California palace of Legion of Honor...
...whose galleries in New York have also sent several works by Pablo Picasso to the exhibition of the famous French artist now being held at the galleries of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art. Three, however, including the celebrated "Fete Champetre" of Watteau, have been loaned by Sir Joseph Duveen, while yet another has been sent from the California Palace of the Legion of Honor...
...asserting that her picture which she believes is da Vinci's La Belle Ferronierc was a copy of an original in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18, 1928 ct scq.). Commented Art Digest at the time: "If Sir Joseph had not settled the famous case of Hahti v. Duveen . . . The Art Digest on authority which it considers infallible, would have expected a witness to have been produced . . . who would have sworn that he painted at least 20 pictures that have passed into the collections of leading American connoisseurs . . . as the works of immortal old masters, fully authenticated by the experts...