Word: overpaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan Museum's great Havemeyer Collection (TIME, March 24). It had been labeled "School of Titian," but Director Valentiner, observing the sensitively rendered fingers of the Doge's hand upon his sword hilt, gambled $400 and had an expert scrape off layers of 30-year-old overpaint. In his judgment that this was a real work of Titian he was soon joined by no less a master of the genuine picture market than Sir Joseph Duveen...
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