ART IN MELBOURNE
£25,000 FOR A PAINTING MELBOURNE. May 15 The. committee of _ the Felton Bequest has completed another expensive purchase. It lias paid £25,000 for Tiepolo's "Banquet of Cleopatra," a famous painting by the Venetian master, which came from the Imperial Hermitage collection in St. Petersburg of the Tsars. The picture measures 12ft. by 9ft.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21492, 16 May 1933, Page 9
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56ART IN MELBOURNE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21492, 16 May 1933, Page 9
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