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...well on its way to the U. S. last week. Its value: $6,000,000. Its sale price: undisclosed. Purchaser of the collection and agent for its ultimate distribution to U. S. tycoons was the one firm of art dealers capable of handling a transaction of that magnitude: Duveen Brothers of London, Paris & New York...
...years dealers have been delicately led to understand that for a sufficient price, the Dreyfus collection was for sale. There was no lack of offers, but the Dreyfus family were not to be rushed into a sale. Only last week, before the potent checkbook of suave Sir Joseph Duveen, did the Dreyfuses capitulate. Other dealers wagered that if he did not pay the appraised price of $6,000,000 he paid something very close...
...unfair to Prince Liechtenstein of Liechtenstein to call the Dreyfus collection the "greatest private collection in the world," but Duveen Brothers got a good deal for their money. The collection is notably strong in sculpture: Verrocchio, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Mino da Fiesole, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Andrea Riccio. Painters include: Giovanni Bellini, Fra Filippo Lippi, Pesellino, Ghirlandaio. There is also a collection of medals and small bronzes which art critics call irreplaceable...
...Buyers. So long and so spectacularly has Sir Joseph Duveen, baronet, been in the public prints* that many people forget the existence of his brothers four- Ernest, Edward, Benjamin, Charles. Charles Duveen left the firm of Duveen Bros, years ago to start a New York furniture shop of his own under the name of Charles of London. Sir Joseph's son-in-law, Armand Lowengard manages the Paris branch. But though Ernest, Edward and Benjamin are partners in the company, actively engaged in its traffickings, the public is not far wrong in believing that Sir Joseph is Duveen Brothers...
...hand upon his sword hilt, gambled $400 and had an expert scrape off layers of 30-year-old overpaint. In his judgment that this was a real work of Titian he was soon joined by no less a master of the genuine picture market than Sir Joseph Duveen...