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...Eight Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) art dealers debated whether to sue Dr. Van Dyke for " collective libel." The matter was temporarily dropped but may be taken up when Messrs. F. Kleinberger and Roland F. Knoedler, and Sir Joseph Duveen, leading dealers, return from Europe. Dr. Van Dyke fears no action...
Died. George Joseph Demotte, Manhattan and Paris antiquarian, art dealer, near Chaumont-sur-Tharonne, France. Returned from hunting, he was killed by the accidental discharge of a friend's rifle. Last Spring, he brought suit for libel against Sir Joseph Duveen, English art dealer, alleging that the latter stated that an enameled Virgin and Child had not, as Demotte represented, belonged to Queen Isabella the Catholic, of Spain. The case is now pending in the U. S. courts. In the French courts is also pending his suit for breach of confidence against M. Jean Vigoroux, French antiquarian, his former...
...most important paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, leading portrait painter of the English school in the 18th Century, were purchased by Americans at the private sale of the late Sir Charles Tennant (father of Mrs. H. H. Asquith) through Duveen Brothers, New York. The buyers and prices were not announced. The pictures...
Many of the charges are vague and anonymous. Some of them are ridiculous. Art experts are reserved in their comment-and for good reason. It may cost $500,000 to say another dealer's wares are fake. Sir Joseph Duveen is even now being sued for that amount for alleged aspersions on the genuineness of a statue. Others have faced similar suits...
There was big bidding for the Brownlow pictures sold in London. Duveen offered ?14,700 for Van Dyck's Anton Triest. As the hammer was falling Knoedler challenged. Bidding continued for 90 seconds. The picture went to Duveen...