Monday, Jun. 25, 1923
A Million Dollar Year
Events which distinguished the 1922-23 art season:
P: Sale of the de la Rochefoucauld tapestries, (Hunt of the Unicorn, price $1,100,000) to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
P: G. J. Demotte's gift of examples of French Gothic art to museums in New York, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Cambridge, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Chicago, Brooklyn, Washington, Detroit.
P: Purchase by the Duveens of a Van Dyck and a Cuyp from the Earl of Brownlow's collection.
P: Disposal of the Salomon art treasures for a total of $1,292,847.
P: Opening of the new galleries of the American Art Association.