Word: perugino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 of Perugia, which was sadly below the house estimate of $200,000. The institute also bought Frans Hals's Man with a Herring for $145,000, more than three times as much as the Ericksons paid for it in 1925. Wildenstein...
...steady stream of experts paraded by the collection in admiration and envy. Sir Kenneth Clark was charmed, and so was Critic Alfred Frankfurter, editor of Art News. "She would ask me hundreds of questions," says Frankfurter, "about why certain artists were important in their time. She wondered why Perugino was not considered to be as good as Raphael." Though she was eager for advice, she had wisdom of her own. Among her purchases was Perugino's St. Augustine with Members of the Fraternity of Perugia. "It was a sophisticated choice," says Frankfurter. "It is one of the greatest...