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Professor Arthur Pope '01 of the Fine Arts Department will give a talk at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon in the Fogg Museum on the painting by Titian which is now on exhibit there. The picture, the property of Sir, Joseph Duveen, well-known London art collecter, was painted, it is estimated, about 1538. It represents a full-bearded Venetian with a falcon in one hand, perhaps the portrait of Giorgio Cornaro. It will remain at the Fogg Museum only a few days...
Through the kindness of Sir Joseph Duveen of London, art collector and son of the well-known Dutch-English art dealer and benefactor, Sir Joseph Joel Duveen, who died in 1908, there is now at the Fogg Art Museum a painting by Titian, which will remain there as a loan for a few days. Professor Arthur Pope of the Fine Arts Department will give a talk on the painting at 3.30 o'clock Monday afternoon...
Last week he offered Sir Joseph Duveen $250,000 for a picture, The Laughing Mandolin Player, by Franz Hals, 17th Century Dutch painter. The deal was closed. It was generally considered the most important art transaction since Henry E. Huntington of California bought from the same dealer Gainsborough's Blue Boy, or since John D. Rockefeller, Jr., bought for $1,100,000 the Verteuil tapestries (TIME, March...
Last week he offered Sir Joseph Duveen $250,000 for a picture, The Laughing Mandolin Player, by Franz Hals, 17th Century Dutch painter. The deal was closed. It was generally considered the most important art transaction since Henry E. Huntington of California bought from the same dealer Gainsborough's Blue Boy, or since John D. Rockefeller, Jr., bought for $1,100,000 the Verteuil tapestries (TIME, March...
...dealer in medieval art, succeeded to the Presidency of the $2,000,000-corporation, and essayed to carry on as manager of Demotte's New York branch. Still fresh in the minds of art followers are the $500,000 damage suit of the elder Demotte against Sir Joseph Duveen, London dealer, for reflections upon the authenticity of art works sold by Demotte; the melodramatic trial in Paris of Jean Vigoroux, former agent of Demotte, which precipitated many wild charges of fakery in the Metropolitan, Louvre, etc.; and the accidental death of Demotte by a gunshot at the hand...