Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This painting was sold, last week, by Sir Joseph Duveen to Manhattan Banker Jules Semon Bache for $600,000.* It had been owned by Florentines, Russians, Roman royalty, and had been missing for a period of 300 years. In 1925 Sir Joseph bought it from Oscar Huldschinksy, a Berlin collector. Banker Bache will not hang it in a serried gallery, but in his Fifth Avenue home. There, as private decoration, are three Titians, three Rembrandts, four Holbeins, a Hals, a Watteau, a Fragonard, and many another picture of rank. The collection is among the finest...
...Joseph Duveen, international art tycoon, has emerged unscathed if not triumphant from three $500,000 libel suits. In 1915 Art Dealer Edgar Gorer failed to prove that Sir Joseph's opinionizing had spoiled the sale of a Kang Hsi vase to the late, great collector Henry Clay Frick. In 1921 Mrs. Harry Hahn of Kansas City brought a suit which only last fortnight came to a bootless halt (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). In 1923 suit was brought by the late Art Dealer George Joseph Demotte of Manhattan, which ceased when Mr. Demotte was accidentally shot to death while...
...book collector's service to the mind of mankind cannot be overestimated. Private collections are a joy to their possessor, and often enable scholarship to perform work more congenially than is possible in a public institution. By placing their valuable possessions at the disposal of scholars and learned societies, many collectors have enriched literature. By their public spirit they have glorified public collections. It is not difficult to realize the value to scholars, and thence to literature, of the accessibility of books in such collections as the Widener at Harvard, the Huntington in California, and the Morgan in New York...
Next comes the most interesting part of his library for the man who aspires to become a serious collector. There is always some one author or subject in which he becomes keenly interested individually; as the classics, poetry, or the theatre. Consider the man interested in the theatre. He can easily acquire first editions of nearly all the few great plays of the last twenty-five years. In collecting these, he is almost certain to find one author whose work will interest him more than the others. Now he is experiencing his first real thrill in the effort to procure...
Here, for example, are 17 miscellaneous resignations which the President must study, accept or reject. Mr. Forster has already sent the usual form letter acknowledging their receipt. And whom does the President wish to appoint Collector of the Port of New Orleans? Mr. Forster guessed it. Here is the lucky man's name, all in proper form for submission to the Senate for confirmation. . . . Now here is a report and a recommendation from the Tariff Commission for a 50% duty increase on cheesecloth. If the President wishes to follow this recommendation, Mr. Forster will prepare the customary order and proclamation...