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...Kiesinger's Minister for All German Affairs, has already gone on record as favoring recognition, if such a step could bring about an easing of present restrictions. There is a totally new spirit in Bonn today which Mr. Rosberg has failed to depict. Gebhard Schweigler '67 Lutz Hoppner...
When the late Philip Lehman, head of Wall Street's Lehman Bros., and his wife started collecting in 1911, they began cautiously by buying a conventional Hoppner, Rembrandt's Portrait of an Elderly Man, Goya's Countess Altamira, and two matching portraits by 15th century painter Francesco del Cossa. Their first modest plunge, which today would strain most museum budgets, barely caused a ripple in an art world then dominated by such high, wide spenders as J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Clay Frick and Benjamin Altman...
...Foundation, legislators later turned over a four-story building to house the collection, authorized another $341,000 for renovations. The museum hopes to keep growing with private donations, has already received such gifts as three 16th century tapestries from Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke, two British portraits by Raeburn and Hoppner from John Hay Whitney and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney...
...lady in the picture had good looks and a title: Lady Georgiana Gordon. Moreover, she was by the respected hand of 18th Century British Portraitist John Hoppner. But she was in poor condition, her complexion sallowed by a thick coat of yellow varnish. When the Brooklyn Museum got her as a gift in 1934, officials dismissed Lady Georgiana as an inferior Hoppner, sent her to the basement. Recently, Brooklyn assigned Restorer Sheldon Keck to give her a thorough face lifting...
Season's biggest sale at Parke-Bernet was 18th-Century British Painter John Hoppner's Portrait of Miss Frances Beresjord (see cut), bought for $39,000 by the famous art-dealing firm of Duveen's. It was lavishly topped, however, by the season's record high ($175,000), for Renoir's Mussel Fishers at Berneval (one of the two highest-priced Renoirs in existence). The buyer: Merion, Pa.'s terrible-tempered Dr. Albert C. Barnes...