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V Art Connoisseur Undecided On Giving Away Collection Cuba Report Raid sy -Piraie- craft ""O J Miami -dm- Cuban broad-) The raiders appari By FREDERICK M. WINSH1P , New York-CPIt-The greatest private collection of European art in the Western Hemis phere, owned by New York investment banker, Robert Lehman, is the current object 01 tile inexorable pressures both economic and social which have forced most great American collections to "go puniic. But there are few indica tions that Lehman, a full-time businessman at 70, will follow in the footsteps of Henry Clay trick, Johesph E. Widener Andrew Mellon, Henry E Huntington, and Samuel H Kress, all of whose collections now are in the public domain Lord Duveen, the persuasive art dealer, convinced these millionaire clients that they 'ought to leave their art to the public, at the same time perpetuating their names High inheritance taxes have resulted in other princely benefactions, and special tax laws have been designed to encourage gifts to museums Lehman stands firm against them. Began in 1911 Lord Duveen also sold to Lehman's father, Philip Leh man, who began the Lehman collections in 1911. Robert Lehman became his father's partner in collecting, and also dealt with Duveen. But their collection did not pass to the public on the elder Lehman's death in 1947. although Rob ert Lehman has given approxi mately 100 paintings and old master drawings to various American museums. The core of the collection-500 paint ings and drawings and 500 other major works of decora tive art-is still in Robert Leh man's possession and until this week had never been seen in Its entirety by anyone but art experts and personal friends. Nearly 1,000 persons have paid $50 a ticket for the privi lege of trouping through Rob ert Lehman's private museum in Manhattan's West 54th st. on eight evenings beginning Nov. 27. The proceeds go to the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, of which Lehman is a trustee, for graduate scholarships. Af ter the last exhibit evening, i-nnm-, ,7 ii ... rife! h -i fit -4 4t tutf 1 1' i : i rnn tfi i wgr u - i ''tihmmmr--n i i i fj - --I 1 MASTERPIECES - Guard John Ruane in New York City watches over religious mas terpieces of Italian primitive paintings in private museum of New York investment banker Robert Lehman, (UPI photo) Dec. 6, Lehman will again lock the door on his treasures. whose value is conservatively estimated at S75.000.000. Over the years, Lehman has used only a fraction of his collection for loan exhibits at the Cincinnati museum and Paris' Louvre. From 1954 to 1061 he filled four large gal leries at the Metropolitan Mu seum, of which he is vice president, with 90 selected masterwork paintings repre senting major European schools from the 12th to the 20th centuries, Gothic tapes tries, Italian renaissance fur niture and Majolica pottery, German bronzes, renaissance and baroquet jewelry, church vestments, Limoges enamels. would become a permanent by a former marriage, Robert, loan. But Lehman was home sick for his paintings. "I miss them," he said sim ply. Refurnished House Two years ago he began fo refurnish his father's five- story, whitestone mansion top posite Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art) as a proper mu seum. The smallest salons, al ready treated in the 1920's version of Italian Palazzo style, were aheathed in an tique velvets and brocades, all entirely fireproofed. Mu seum lighting, central air con ditioning and humidity con trol were installed. Every door and window was elab orately rewired with the latest medieval illuminated manu-j electric protective devices. A scripts, and antique Persian carpets. The exhibit gave pleasure to hundreds of thou sands of museum visitors and the Metropolitan hoped h Court Records DISTRICT COURT Gervjg Eugene Nicholf. overload, "Raymond Earl Smith, violation of basie rule, 510. Claude Pease Specific, violation ot basic rule, $15. Curtis Darreil Weaver, failure to slop. S3. Dorothv Edwin Lewtzon, failure to tcld rieht of way, Donald Paul Strong, violation of bapip rule. S3. Walter Fanning Larsen. expired vehicle license, 5. Louise Conner Day, no left turn iignal, $5. Norman Robert Marlow. over load. S72 Irene Kathryn Backer, improper turn. S3. , , , Eucene Boyd Hoover, violation of basic rule. $lfl. 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Joanne Gloria Allison vs. George I. Allison divorce decree. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Denmt Lee Strauss. 2548 Sandy Terrace, and Linda Mae Mediord, 121 South Main St.. Phoenix. Noel Wayne Brarishaw. 420 Boardnisn st.. Mcdfnrd and jtinnita fave Linehrrry Wyatt. 45 North Columbus st.. Med ford. Norman William Theel. no ad dress given. Marian Yavonnie War ren. 335 South Oranrr st., Mcdford. Kenneth Major oRse. Hayfork, Calif, and Carol Gate Graves. 813 Franquette at., Medford. Korea Government Lifts Martial Law Seoul, Korea - IVPJ - The Republic of Korea's military regime has taken another step toward the promised re turn to civilian government and announced the lifting of martial law. The surprise move came less than two weeks before the nation is to vote on a new constitution drafted by the mililary rulers. The announcement, issued in the name of Gen. Park Chung Hee head of the military junta and acting pres ident made it clear the military still remains in firm control. Violators of junta decrees still will be tried by military courts. private staff of guards was set up and two curatorial as sistants wore installed along with other staff members. Lehman quietly withdrew his treasures from the Metro politan museum 14 months ago. These works were added to those already in the man sion together with others from Lehman's own 18-room Park A'venue apartment, the Wil liam street office of Lehman Bros., from his country home, and from warehouses. At long last this fall the collector had "the best of Lehman" in one place where he could enjoy them with his wife, Lee, and their friends (usually after dinner prepared in a modern kitchen off the tapestry-hung dining room). "Whenrver we have guests, they just stop talking and look," says Mrs. Lehman, an attractive young brunette. The elaborate "gathering in" of the Lehman treasures has led to speculation that Lehman eventually will open the mansion as a museum similar to the collection housed in the elegant Frick mansion on Fifth Avenue. There also is a rumor that he is planning to bequeath the collection to the Metropolitan museum with the Lehman house becoming a branch similar to the Cloisters. But Lehman actually has not made up his mind. Son Interested "Mrs. Lehman and I hope to live in the house from time to time and use it for enter taining," said Lehman. "I do not have plans beyond that." Lehman's 24-year-old son FITTS SEA FOOD & POULTRY 131 West Main St. Jgss? Pll0n 773'8497 CAIIFORNIA FRESH LOBSTERS OYSTERS $149 gyi 95 FARM FRESH EGGS - GRADE "AA" SMALL 2 00Z. 69c Jumbo Prawn SQUID Kippered Alnkt Retl ::r i5v p. 5195 p79c. lUTEFKK IdthoSprins Icttand Pickled H.rrin9 Fancy Fillet Rainbow SAIT HERRING 21211" -I25 lb. leu 49c ib h.n69o (b CATFISH FIUETS Deep Sea Bonelen-Skinle 69 lb. 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But soon Bobert Lehman, influenced by James Jackson Jarvcs' collection at the Yale gallery, began buying Italian primitives, starting with two Francesco Cossa portraits. This developed into one of the biggest art buying sprees of the 20th century. By 1920 the Lehmans acquired scores of works tracing the develop ment of Italian art from the Byzantinesque to the high renaissance in the schools of Siena, Florence, Venice and Ferrara. The solemn richness of these religious works strikes the visitor with full impact on entering the 54th street man sion, TwI Roomt There are 12 rooms of art on four antique-furnished floors connected by a graceful stairs also hung with master pieces. One drawing room alone contains the greatest of El Greco's of versions of St. Jerome and his "Christ Bear ing the Cross"; Velasquez's "Inanta Maria Theresa"; Be Hooch's wonderfully atmos pheric "Figures in an In terior"; Terborch's faintlv sa tiric portraits of a Burgomas ter and Wife; Goya's Dearly 'Countess A 1 1 a m i r a and Daughter; and two Item brandts including the renown ed portrait of the syphilitic artist, Gerard De Laircsse. whose face is a death's head symbol of all the world's tal ented and doomed. There see Madonnas bv the dozens, most notably Crivel- li s pale pear-hung, panel and an earlier Bellini. The Chef d'Oeuvre is Botticelli's small. leather delicate "Annuncia tion", Robert's birthday gift to his father in 1929. The extraordinary ranee of this private collection, paral leled only by that of the reign ing Prince Franz Joseph of Lichtensiein, is revealed as one climbs higher in the man sion. Here are Memling's mag nificent Annnnrition," sev eral Cranachs, Holbein's "Por trait of Erasmus'" and the celebrated portrait of Suz anne De Bourbon by the Frenchman known only as master of Moulins. At the top of the stairs is Lehman's latest acquisition, a shimmering Canaletto view of Venice. But the collector claims he is not really adding to the collection, "I'm jxist leaving it as it sits now-good things are very scarce now," lie says. He is referring to the fact that al most all great old masters have been acquired by mu seums, leaving none for the private collector. Form Boll Call The top floors are closely hung with sunny oils forming a roll call ot French impres sionists and post impressionists- Ccianne, Van Gogh, Re noir, Bonnard's exceptional "Tea Time," Gauguir.'s monu mental "Tahitian Bathers," Vlaminck, Signac, Degas' famed "Modiste," Dcrain, and Marquet's finest painting. Portrait of a Sergeant. One large room on the fourth floor is devoted to what may well be the best private collection of master- work drawings in America, and perhaps the world, includ ing Durer's self-portrait, Leon ardo Da Vinci's studies of a bear and fiaure and Rem brandt's "Last Supper." Whatever thi fnint-o t i Lehman collection, it stands today as a symbol of exquisite collecting taste by a father and son who could afford the best. Few collections speak so Floqucrftly of the joys of acquisition of .Master Works for private pleasure. The pres ent generation may never again share these joys on such an opulent scale, but satisfac tions -still are there for the possession of only one or two good things. A 5 l U,5,r Russia Announce Agreement on Space Washington -W- The Unit ed States and Russia have announced an agreement to 2k Miami -tint- Cuban broad-) The raiders apparently es- casts reported that a "piraie" ; caped unstained. landing craft raided Cuba's The attack was the first of coast Tuesday mghi, firing I its kind reported since ,he!f tof'' tor the peace ... , .... , , . ; ful use of space in the field iu uifi .no sweeping .e ,aiot weather. geomagnetism, beach with machine-gun fire. flober- land communications. There was no report of casu alties. Although the radio reports described the attacking vessel as a landing cralt, they made no mention oi its putting anti-' Castro guerrillas ashore. The scene of the atiack was described only as "Juan Fran cisco Beach"-an area tenta tively placed in Manlantas Province, on the north coast i east of Havana. 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