Word: modiglianis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caribbean and tailored like a German banker, a diminutive block of energy, velvety charm and wolfish flair for business. He is also a showman, and every detail of Marlborough's presentation comes under his supervision. Nothing gets left to chance or whim. Thus when selling a Modigliani or a Picasso in Japan, Lloyd reveals it to the client in a lined box with a lid instead of hanging it framed on a wall; that is how Japanese collectors are used to packing their scrolls. "Lloyd-san," purrs his Tokyo partner Torii, "almost seems to understand Zen." Marlborough prints...
...read with distress of the Metropolitan Museum's recent selling of lesser art works [Feb. 26]. It seems likely to me that there are many smaller museums throughout our nation that could have afforded to purchase these pieces of art and would have been happy to have a Modigliani of lesser quality than none...
...bequest was considerable, but so is the acrimony it has since roused. In the past year, the Met has quietly sold or traded off 50 of the 211 paintings Adelaide de Groot willed to the museum on her death in 1967, including works by Rousseau, Modigliani, Picasso, Gris and Bonnard. The New York Times's persistent reporting of this, over the past five months, has taken on the character of a vendetta. Sometimes the Times seems to hint darkly at sins where there were no sins-or at most only dubious transactions. But the publicity has caused a violent...
...Dealers' Association of America; one prominent scholar, John Rewald, wrote an article in Art in America demanding Hoving's resignation. Then the Met revealed another secret deal with Marlborough. At first it seemed that the museum had swapped two more De Groot paintings, a Modigliani and a Juan Gris, for Becca, a sculpture by David Smith and a painting by California Artist Richard Diebenkorn. Later the Met disclosed that the swap had cost the Met not two but six works - another Gris, a Bonnard, a Picasso and a Renoir...
Marlborough, by contrast, got Modigliani's Red Head for $50,000-with the astounding guarantee that if it proved to be a fake (both Rousseau and Geldzahler doubted its authenticity) the Met should give $60,000 back to Marlborough. Presumably the extra $10,000 was for air fare, since Red Head promptly went to Tokyo, where an anonymous Japanese bought it for between...