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...dealer today is less flamboyant, though in his own way no less dramatic. The dean of all dealers is the erudite Georges Wildenstein, who has never let the spotlight linger on himself for long. In 1956, the rival M. Knoedler & Co. sued the house of Wildenstein, alleging that someone had been tapping the wires of a Knoedler scout. Eventually the whole matter was dropped, and Wildenstein himself was apparently never involved. He would hardly need to use such tactics, for the one irreplaceable asset of his house is himself. A scholar in his own right, Wildenstein not only possesses...
Handling Living Artists. The big houses such as Wildenstein, Duveen, Knoedler and Rosenberg have the experience and the capital to be able to hang on to a purchase for years, if necessary, until the market is ripe for selling. Smaller dealers, who more often handle the works of living artists, either place artists on a kind of salary in return for a certain number of pictures a year-the favored method in Europe-or take work on consignment and sell it for a straight one-third commission. The percentage is not as exorbitant as it sounds, for the business entails...
Besides Aristotle, the Erickson collection contained two other Rembrandts. A handsome Prince of Orange went to Knoedler's for $110,000, and a small Portrait of an Old Man was snagged by a London dealer for $180,000. Crivelli's 1472 Madonna and Child, which British Critic Roger Fry said was "one of Crivelli's greatest designs," brought $220,000; in 1886 it had been sold at Christie's in London for ?131.5. Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts paid $125,000 for Perugino's St. Augustine with Members of the Confraternity...
...friends have known that Soby, while helping guide the museum's buying. >has for years been assembling a collection of his own, using the fortune he inherited from his family's interests in Connecticut shade-tobacco growing and pay-telephone manufacturing. Last week 57th Street's Knoedler Galleries put on display Soby's 70 paintings, drawings and sculptures...
...three square-headed giants had no eyes and indeed no faces, but they somehow lived up to their name, The Watchers. Elsewhere in Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week, a Lion seemed to roar through a megaphone mouth, eerie beasts trotted around on spiky iron legs, and headless winged figures danced an unearthly ballet. The menagerie was the work of a burly, mussed-looking man named Lynn Chadwick, at 46 a major talent in the new wave of British sculptors who followed, but did not take after, the great Henry Moore...