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...usually replaces the old team with his own men (he is an unabashed raider of other companies' personnel, has already hired away 15 executives for Wheeling from other steel companies), gets so impatient that he frequently pounds the table and yells. Says Jean Fowles, whose husband sold Manhattan's Duveen Gallery to Simon for $15 million last year: "The thing about Norton is that he's terribly impatient with stupidity. When someone insists that 'this is a good way because we've always done it this way,' he simply can't stand it." Simon's public attack on Wheeling Steel...
Pittsburgh Financier Andrew Mellon built Washington's $15 million National Gallery of Art in 1937 to house the $50 million art collection he assembled with the aid of Dealer Joseph Duveen. His son, Paul Mellon, 57, a perceptive critic in his own right, has assembled a second superb collection of 18th and 19th century British painting. Now it looks as though the younger Mellon will build another public gallery in Washington for his 500-odd works of art, which are now hung in Mellon's various homes except when the paintings go on tour. Last week he appointed...
...nearly a century Manhattan's Duveen Brothers Inc. built the most distinguished name in art dealing. Founded in 1877 by an English antique dealer, the commercial gallery was carried to the pinnacle of poshery by his son, Baron Duveen of Millbank, who became so legendary a dealer that 24 years after his death in 1939, a hit Broadway play, Lord Pengo, made fiction of his exploits. He bought and sold Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer three times, always handled, as his motto affirmed, "nothing but recognized masterpieces." His clients were equally well recognized -Mellon, Morgan...
FLEMISH MASTERS-Duveen, 18 East 79th. No Rembrandts, but no letdown either, because in this show Rembrandt's countrymen outdo themselves: Portrait by Van Dyck, Nymph by Rubens, The Last Judgment by Hieronymus Bosch, The Madonna and Child with Angels by Hans Memling. Sundry other splendors. Through March...
...William Blake can the romantic prophet who enthroned man's imagination be seen so amply. There are now 278 Turner oils. Before Rothenstein took over in 1938, the subtle, chromatic late Turners such as Norham Castle, Sunrise were kept in storage. Now their pale fire blazes across five Duveen Rooms...