Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the collection of the late Henry Oppenheimer, Foucquet's Portrait of an Ecclesiastic was the biggest single item in what many a dealer considered the most important sale of Old Masters' drawings ever held. Bidding with minute, professional nods, Lord Duveen and more than 200 other experts and spectators saw the 460 Oppenheimer drawings knocked down in three afternoons for some $500,000. Outbid by Lord Duveen on the Foucquet portrait, Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries got a Study of San Sebastian by Filippino Lippi for $6,825. London's Colnaghi & Co. paid...
...Tory imperialists to vow, in memory of the "first Englishman to see in his mind the British Empire as it is seen today in fact," that "not one yard of territory shall be torn from the Empire." Sir Austen read a telegram of congratulation from King Edward VIII. A portrait of Old Joe 50 ft. high was unveiled and the crowd could not help seeing the striking resemblance to Son Austen on the platform...
...reason Cleveland was able to assemble so imposing a show was that collectors' resistance to lending their treasures had been largely broken three years ago by the art-beggars from Chicago's Century of Progress. Notable Milliken borrowings were Memling's Portrait of a Man Holding a Carnation from J. P. Morgan, a Titian and a Raphael from Paris' haughty Louvre Museum and two great Italian works from Italy's Italico Brass. Among Clevelanders who lent Director Milliken 79 pictures in all were three members of the Hanna family and the estate of Cleveland...
...Madman was a basket containing scraps of glass, scissor blades. Beside it hung a pair of white dancing slippers, their heels encased in paper cutlet frills, a waiter's jacket strung with liqueur glasses half filled with creme de menthe. Tory visitors bristled at The Minotaure, a portrait of the late, great Lord Kitchener of Khartum with a tiny, sad-faced child clinging to his chin...
Modest Teacher Sirs: Below is a translation of a letter which Constantin N. Cotolan has addressed to you c/o my humble person together with a portrait photograph of himself for TiME-readers' edification. ALEXANDRA IRINA DIMANCESCO San Francisco, Calif...