Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...against Sir Joseph Duveen, London dealer, for reflections upon the authenticity of art works sold by Demotte; the melodramatic trial in Paris of Jean Vigoroux, former agent of Demotte, which precipitated many wild charges of fakery in the Metropolitan, Louvre, etc.; and the accidental death of Demotte by a gunshot at the hand of a friend, on a hunting trip last Summer (TIME, June 11, July 23, Sept. 17). The Duveen suit is not yet settled, but the Vigoroux affair was adjusted in the French courts, favorably to the Demottes. The scandals have not seriously affected the Demotte reputation...