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Through the Russian Revolution the painting remained in Moscow, then mysteriously disappeared-to turn up later in Paris in the Gulbenkian Collection. By that time the painting had become a part of American folklore, and later generations, who considered the picture (if they considered it at all) about as innocuous as the White Rock girl, wondered what all the shouting had been about. This week they will have a chance to see for themselves. Bought by Philadelphia Main Liner William Coxe Wright, September Morn was presented to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Current market value of the pre-World...
Fabulous Offer. In 1936 Collector Gulbenkian lent 30 of his finest paintings to London's National Gallery, later offered the gallery all the paintings as an outright gift on condition that they be housed separately, not spread thin among the museum's other masterpieces. The offer was refused. So, soon after the war, Gulbenkian packed up his 30 pictures, added ten more masterpieces to make the parcel even more attractive, and shipped it all to Washington's National Gallery, on a loan basis...
...paintings included Rembrandt's Old Man Seated, Rubens' Flight Into Egypt, Flemish Dierick Bouts' The Annunciation and outstanding canvases by Corot, Degas, Boucher, Guardi, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Van Dyck, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Eventually Gulbenkian made the same offer he had made London: all the pictures free forever-if the gallery built a special Gulbenkian annex to house them. With regret the National Gallery refused, stuck grimly to the rule that its permanent works be displayed by schools and periods, not by collectors...
Home, at Last. When Gulbenkian died in 1955 in Lisbon, where he lived much of his last 13 years in a drearily decorated Hotel Aviz suite, he left the bulk of his estate and his entire art collection to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with instructions to build a Gulbenkian Museum. Last week foundation trustees announced that land had been bought in Lisbon, and that the museum would be completed in about three years...
When the museum is ready, the 40 Gulbenkian masterpieces now in Washington on a loan basis will be packed up and shipped off to the kind of permanent home that their collector could never find for himself but finally managed to establish for his paintings...