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From the offices of sleek Sir Joseph Duveen, international art dealer, who had originally sold the paintings to Collector Hamilton, came a gala descriptive brochure. In it were pontifical utterances of Bernhard Berenson, famed European art critic who hovers eruditely in the background of most Duveen dealings...
...crowd gazed at each other for ten minutes of increasing bewilderment, the auction proved a fiasco. True, the Crucifixion was sold for $375,000, breaking the U. S. record. But there was no feverish bidding, there were no great names. The picture was quietly repurchased by Sir Joseph Duveen himself. The Madonna and Child went to Leon Schinasi, Manhattan tobacco merchant, for a paltry $125,000. The auctioneer had to face the fact that between the appraisal total and the realized total was a difference...
...persistent rumor described Collector Hamilton as Dealer Duveen's close colleague, the sale as, in reality, a Duveen sale. Collector Hamilton's careful avoidance of reporters and photographers enhanced this rumor...
After college he went to the Philippines, where he organized anil financed cocoanut oil mills (Philippine Refining Corp.). During the War, Hamilton products sold well, the Hamilton fortune mightily increased. Returning to the U. S., he lived quietly in Great Neck, L. I. Sir Joseph Duveen and others were commissioned to start an Italian collection for the Hamilton home. They bought paintings by Veneziano, dei-Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio, Botticelli. Titian. The Hamilton home became a Renaissance rarity, authentic in painting, sculpture, tapestry, velvet, bric-a-brac. When it proved too small to hold the collections, Collector Hamilton moved...
...appraised by New York State at $19,747,687, of which $17,305,594 went to the Metropolitan. ¶Last week Justice William Harman Black of the New York State Supreme Court refused the motion of defense counsel to dismiss the $500,000 damage suit brought against Sir Joseph Duveen, international art dealer, by Mrs. Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Another trial may now be begun upon the motion of either party...