£285,000 ART SALE.
MR. FIMCK BUYS THE MORGAN FRAGONARDS. Now York, 'Eob. 24. It ig announced that the Fragoiiard panels from the Morgan collection, which, as announced a few days ago, were disposed of by Mr J. P. Morgan to Messrs Duveen for an unnamed sum, have been purchased by Mr H. C. Frick, who has paid Messrs Duveen tho sum of £235,000. Mr 11. 0. Frick is the famous PitlSr burg steel magnate, and one of tho leading /wncrican collectors, He wnn tbo purchaser of Lord Feversbam's Rembrandt portrait in 1912. Tbo Morgan Fragonards we.ro painted for Mino. Dv Barry, the mistress of Louis XV, of France, It "is stated that tho late Mr J. Pierpont MVgnn paid £200,000 for thorn.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2601, 9 April 1915, Page 4
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