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...Cowper Madonna is another Raphael less well known than the Alba but considered by many a critic to be a superior work of art. Lord Duveen of Millbank bought it from Lady Desborough for $800,000 for Mr. Mellon...
...Edith Rockefeller McCormick ($330.617), Mrs. Whitelaw Reid ($116,015) (TIME, Dec. 4; Jan. 15; May 14). The late Mrs. Benjamin Stern's library and 18th Century French collection brought $243,142. The highest price for anything was paid at the Ryan auction by canny Lord Duveen of Millbank who bid $102,500 for a marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary item was Francis Scott Key's manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner," sold for $24,000 to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach as agent for Baltimore's Walters...
Fingers snapped and the bids jumped up last week in Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries until the auctioneer's ivory hammer knocked down a 15th Century portrait bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana to Lord Duveen of Millbank, for $102,500. It was the highest price paid at an art auction in New York since Depression, high water mark in the three day sale of the heterogeneous art collection of shrewd old Thomas Fortune Ryan. Relatives, collectors, and many of the original dealers from whom he bought them bid up the rest...
Last winter British Art Dealer Sir Joseph Duveen finished a long wait when King George V, no Duveen enthusiast, made him Lord Duveen of Millbank. Part-payment on the title was his gift to Britain of a new wing for London's National Portrait Gallery. Last week ruddy Duveen, a Lord at last, listened proudly in the Gallery's great tapestry-hung hall while King George ceremoniously declared the wing open through the "generosity of . . . Sir Joseph Duveen." Listening too were Queen Mary and Prime Minister MacDonald. From pictures on the walls Britain's dead great looked...
...people would think of making pilgrimage to Worcester, Mass. A grimy New England manufacturing town, it has a great many traffic lights, quick-lunchrooms and overhead trolley wires. Yet shepherded by none less than the newly created Joseph, Baron Duveen of Millbank, 150 critics, painters, art dealers, collectors, reporters, pressagents and others piled into a special train at New York's Grand Central Station last week bound for Worcester...