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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,
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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
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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
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is deeply interested in art and
music and has been studying
music with the great Nadia
Boulanger in Paris for four
years. Lehman is well aware
of the difficulties of passing
the collection intact (o his
son due to taxes on so large
an estate. Some breaking up
of the collection on Lehman's
aeain seems inevitable.
Lehman, a slight, erect man
with receding gray hair, was
a student at Yale when his
banker father and his mother,
Carrie, caught the princely
fever for collecting then in
fecting American empire
builders. The father enlisted
his son's aid in building the
collection, which started cau
tiously with three porlrails
a conventional Hembrandt, a
decorative Goya, and a super
ficial Hoppner.
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.
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