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The rise of the dealer.(Art)
JOSEPH DUVEEN was a legendary trans-Atlantic art dealer whose career of selling paintings to the very wealthy was based on the simplest of premises: that Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money. By 1910, Duveen had spent US$10,500,000 buying the collections of Oskar Hainauer, Rodolphe Kann and Maurice Kann and found himself with an overflowing storehouse of paintings, silver, ceramics, bronzes, tapestries and objets de virtu, no immediate purchasers and a monumental debt. Duveen was still selling pictures and sculptures from this trove up to the time of his death in 1939. Their early acquisition and leisurely sale over nearly four decades has been called ...
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- Magazine article from: Apollo Anscombe, Isabelle January 1, 2005 700+ words
...41042 2 A biography of the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen, a man 'as predatory as...curiosity about what drove Joe Duveen's desire to be the greatest art dealer of his time. The...Several of the works of art Duveen sold to major American collectors...
- The art of the deal; Flogging culture to Americans.(A new biography of Joseph...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 20, 2004 700+ words
...Pierpont Morgan died in 1913, his art collection was valued at $60m...purchases by a small group of art dealers that included Knoedler...almost entirely dependent on art dealers for advice. Often...pack was Joseph (later Lord) Duveen, descendant of a family of Dutch...
- Gafcon Inc.(Construction)(promotion of Robin Duveen)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Chin, Yoo Mi July 30, 2007 700+ words
Gafcon Inc., a California-based construction management firm, has promoted Robin Duveen to Los Angeles division manager. Duveen previously served as program manager for the Sweetwater Union High School District bond program.
- Sir Joseph Duveen.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Antiques and Collecting: Unravelling the truth behind vast art collection; One...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) October 6, 2001 700+ words
...looked towards Europe to supply them with their great works of art, often seeking the advice of the great Joseph Duveen, perhaps the greatest art dealer in modern history. It was Duveen who sold masterpieces to the Huntington family, the Mellons...
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 18, 1998 700+ words
THE greatest art dealer of the century...to have been Joseph Duveen (1869-1939...there was a lot of art. With Duveen as the middleman...Marlborough says smugly. Duveen was made a lord...However, in the art world it seems unlikely...
- Changing Aesthetic Tastes Affect Art Investments.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Lightfoot, Warwick September 3, 1998 700+ words
...per cent tariff on art imported to America...millionaire market was Lord Duveen of Millbank. Reitlinger...prudent. It protected Duveen's market from future...expert on Victorian art and a former director...commercial promoter such as Duveen working in cahoots with an academic art ...
- Collectors & museums: relationships that underpin the art world: collectors and...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Fenton, James July 1, 2008 700+ words
...were encouraged by the Seattle Art Museum to think of themselves...collection for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. In 1930...foundation of the National Gallery of Art when he declared ringingly...defence was the dealer Joseph Duveen, who had been selling paintings...