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...years ago Ivy Chamberlain, handsome, Junoesque wife of then Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, had an idea for a great Italian Art exhibition to be held in London. She formed a committee on which were art wise Sir Joseph Duveen, Roger Fry, Viscount Lascelles (Princess Mary's husband), Sir William Llewellyn. They wrote a letter to Premier Mussolini who became interested, put Dr. Modigliani in charge of a committee...
Later Lady Chamberlain went to Rome to discuss plans with the Premier, to get his official consent to remove the pictures. In Germanv she enlisted the aid of then Chancellor Stresemann, in Spain she talked with King Alfonso. Sir Joseph Duveen arranged for U. S. loans...
...Jesus, painted yellow and green, looked down past his canvas feet last week into the appraising eyes of Sir Joseph Duveen...
...headed for the U. S. in 1926, in a steamer cabin next to the suite occupied by Queen Marie of Rumania, whom he had begun to paint in Paris. He finished her commission after landing and proceeded, with introductions from Sir Joseph Duveen, to accommodate alert Manhattanites. In Philadelphia he painted Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury and all six of the A. Atwater Kents. He went to Detroit to paint Col. Lindbergh at the behest of Edsel Ford, who wanted to give the portrait to the city. But Col. Lindbergh backed out of the engagement lest all U. S. cities make...
...Chandor work, Sir Joseph Duveen has written: "What his portraits reveal is the impression of personal dignity coupled always with charm. The material likeness is there, presented by a sound craftsman; but above all, there is the caste and character discerned by the artist whose eyes are always open to the poetic and imaginative values of his subject...