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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Duveen. None heard the rumors more quickly than stalwart, ruddy Sir Joseph Duveen. Whenever and wherever art dealers come in conflict over some priceless item, Sir Joseph is usually found sitting sedately nearest the prize with a millionaire look which defines and demands his desire. Duveen is unquestionably the most potent name in art marts of both hemispheres. The Duveen offices in Manhattan have an air of grim impregnability rather than a cordial fagade...
...picture business. . . . He has established such contacts with the richest clientele in the world that scarcely anyone else can sell an oil painting. He has built up such a business that when he condemns that picture it is dead, and he knows it. He has had competitors who have found that he uses the tactics of condemning a picture or a work of art offered for sale by a rival. He is the man who is going to sell all the old paintings...
...seemed wise to let Leonardo da Vinci lie quietly in his undiscovered grave in Amboise by the sunny river Loire; to sell pictures for whatever they may bring regardless of recondite aspersions. The New York World editorialized: "We believe it would be a good idea if the court found out whether the talesmen know a Corot from a Wallace Nutting, and whether the Louvre is an art museum, a hotel or a disease. . . . There is grave danger that the verdict will be i cent to the plaintiff, 'with costs on the said Devinchey...
...called love is an enigma. One reaches a stage at which he thinks he has this delicate subject thoroughly solved and classified in the mind. Suddenly some new experience, some new sensation will present itself and your picture vanishes away in thin air. Such, indeed, is the situation we found ourselves in after trying to absorb the intent of Edna Bryner's recent novel, "While The Bride-Groom Tarried...
...main weakness in the system lies in a popular misconception of the value of a college education and even further academic work for a doctorate, it will indeed be difficult to change the ideas of approximately one hundred and twenty million people. The solution must as a result be found by the colleges and carried out by a more intelligent method of raising the standards of admission...