Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was another consideration: if the jury should decide that Leonardo had been the painter, Sir Joseph's remarks might cost him as much...
Duveen. None heard the rumors more quickly than stalwart, ruddy Sir Joseph Duveen. Whenever and wherever art dealers come in conflict over some priceless item, Sir Joseph is usually found sitting sedately nearest the prize with a millionaire look which defines and demands his desire. Duveen is unquestionably the most potent name in art marts of both hemispheres. The Duveen offices in Manhattan have an air of grim impregnability rather than a cordial fagade...
When asked for his opinion of the Lar-doux painting, Sir Joseph's crisp moustache twitched and his mobile eyebrows performed a stately and scornful ascension. "The picture," he declared, "is a copy, hundreds of which have been made of this and other Leonardo subjects and offered in the market as genuine. Leonardo never made a replica of his work. His original La Belle Ferronière is in the Louvre...
Suit. The Kansas City museum did not buy the painting. Mrs. Hahn sued Sir Joseph for $500,000 libel...
Ammunition. Then for eight years the trial was held in abeyance while both sides collected ammunition. Expert minions of Sir Joseph and of Mrs. Hahn went to the Louvre, taking the Lardoux painting with them. They peered, compared, photographed, microphotographed, studied old scripts, gathered historical data...