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...woman, attributed to David and valued at some $100,000 - was not by David at all. The real artist was Constance Marie Charpentier, an obscure but obviously admiring David follower. Last week, David was in the news again. In the scholarly French review Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Dealer Georges Wildenstein proclaimed that another painting attributed to David - a portrait of the violinist Antonio Bartolommeo Bruni, which the Frick Museum bought in 1952 - was actually by another female admirer...
...dealer today is less flamboyant, though in his own way no less dramatic. The dean of all dealers is the erudite Georges Wildenstein, who has never let the spotlight linger on himself for long. In 1956, the rival M. Knoedler & Co. sued the house of Wildenstein, alleging that someone had been tapping the wires of a Knoedler scout. Eventually the whole matter was dropped, and Wildenstein himself was apparently never involved. He would hardly need to use such tactics, for the one irreplaceable asset of his house is himself. A scholar in his own right, Wildenstein not only possesses...
Handling Living Artists. The big houses such as Wildenstein, Duveen, Knoedler and Rosenberg have the experience and the capital to be able to hang on to a purchase for years, if necessary, until the market is ripe for selling. Smaller dealers, who more often handle the works of living artists, either place artists on a kind of salary in return for a certain number of pictures a year-the favored method in Europe-or take work on consignment and sell it for a straight one-third commission. The percentage is not as exorbitant as it sounds, for the business entails...
From now on, the Erickson name will more likely be linked to his small but choice collection of paintings, bought largely with the guidance of Dealers Wildenstein and Duveen. Erickson began collecting in 1922, when he bought a portrait of a strange little boy by George Romney. English painters-Romney, Gainsborough, Raeburn-were fashionable in the '20s, but Erickson and his wife Anna were also willing to wander into richer pastures...
...Augustine with Members of the Confraternity of Perugia, which was sadly below the house estimate of $200,000. The institute also bought Frans Hals's Man with a Herring for $145,000, more than three times as much as the Ericksons paid for it in 1925. Wildenstein bid a surprising $175,000 for Jean MarcNattier's La Marquise de Baglion, as Flora -an indication that things will be looking up for the Nattier market after the long decline from the $240,000 the Ericksons paid for the Marquise...