Word: gainsboroughs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exceeding by $75,000 the previous record price for a single painting, paid by Sir Joseph Duveen for Gainsborough's Blue Boy (now in the Huntington Library in Pasadena, Calif...
...Three hundred and fifty eight . . . nine . . . three hundred and sixty . . . three hundred and sixty . . . three hundred and sixty . . . fair warning . . . three hundred and sixty . . . are you all through . . . three hundred and sixty thousand dollars for this masterpiece by Thomas Gainsborough...
...auctioneer dropped his hammer and a boy trotted out behind the curtain to lift The Harvest Waggon off the stage and replace it with Frans Hals' A Young Cavalier. Sir Joseph Duveen had just bought the Gainsborough for a price that set a record for U. S. picture auctions. The painting, a large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged...
...world's record for public art auctions; this is $370,000 which Sir Joseph Duveen paid for Lawrence's Pinkie, in England. The world's record price for a single painting was also paid by Sir Joseph Duveen; $850,000 for Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, which he bought direct from the Duke of Westminster...
...time of Queen Elizabeth. Various stucco wings added to its ugliness through the ages. Among other things, it contained "many a bad watercolour by ladies of the place, living and dead; a few portraits in the drawing-room, one of which, almost black, was reputed to be a Gainsborough." Rackham had come into the possession of Mrs. Hilda Maple, a widow with a business head. She filled it with bogus antiques, planned to sell it at a huge profit. But her nephew, John Maple, who considered himself the rightful heir of Rackham, resolved to buy it at a humble figure...