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27 October 1927Gregorian
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He was born on Oct. 27, 1927, in Washington Heights in Manhattan. His father was a heating contractor, his mother a schoolteacher. They named him for the socialist leader Eugene Victor Debs, who had died the previous year. (English)
Eugène Victor Thaw
9 October 2017
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Eugene V. Thaw, a major American collector of European old master art and one of the world’s most respected dealers in the field, died on Wednesday at his home in Cherry Valley, N.Y. He was 90.His death was confirmed by Katie Flanagan, president of a charitable trust established by Mr. Thaw and his wife, Clare E. Thaw, who shared his art-collecting enthusiasms. (English)
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As his fortunes improved, he decided to become a private dealer, renting a street-level apartment on East 78th Street, where he began to handle old masters under the tutelage of Rudolph Heinemann, an older dealer he credits as his mentor. (English)
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His personal collection featured more than 400 drawings, including rare works by Goya, Van Gogh and Andrea Mantegna and price-setting items by Rembrandt and Samuel Palmer. (English)
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Before long, these clients included major museums — the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington — and private buyers like Paul Mellon and Norton Simon, whose Pasadena museum Mr. Thaw did much to shape. (English)
1950
1999
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What happened in those days to me was that I learned the technique of buying in shares. And more or less from the time I got into the international market for good paintings and good art, I found I could have better opportunities if I had more things but owned them in shares with other dealers who trusted each other. And I began to work closely - I did work closely, even through the beginning era, with Stephen Hahn, who was my first contact for buying in shares with major things. (English)
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A Park Avenue art dealer testified earlier about his business associations with Von Bulow and his sale in 1981 of the defendant's personal art collection for about $1.15 million. Eugene V. Thaw, head of E.V. Thaw and Co. Inc., said he currently is Involved with Von Bulow in an international art trading firm called Artemis and a second firm that offers advice on art investments. THAW WAS called to support defense contentions Von Bulow had expertise in business and did not need his wife's fortune. Thaw told Famiglietti that Von Bulow's desire to sell his collection of Old Masters paintings, two drawings and three sculptures had "something to do with his current problems." After an objection from Fahrlnger, he conceded his opinion that Von Bulow may have been In need of money was "only a supposition." Famiglietti asked if the art works sold last year Included any purchased by Mrs. von Bulow after the couple were married. Thaw said knowing the history of major art works is part of his business. "I'm absolutely convinced none of them were purchased by his wife and all of them predated his marriage," Thaw said. (English)
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In 1962, Mr. Thaw became a founding member of the Art Dealers Association of America, which he once described as “a fractious, individualistic, secretive, eccentric but talented group of venture capitalists.” (English)
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“The thieves that stole the statuette stole other items as well, including ivory tablets of the 9th and 13th centuries, early Christian glass artifacts from the catacombs of Rome, and Italic and Roman statuettes,” said Zabel.A Swiss dealer sold the sculpture later that decade, and it made its way to New York. Court documents indicate that collector Eugene Thaw, of E.V. Thaw & Co., bought the work “without knowledge of the theft” at some point during the 1960s or ’70s. Thaw consigned the statue with New York gallery Ward & Co. in the 1990s, but it never found a buyer. In 2012, the Italian government tracked down the piece, and began working to see it returned to the Oliveriano. (English)
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At age 75, Eisenmann was arrested and sent to the Theriesenstandt Ghetto in September 1942 and eventually killed at the Treblinka concentration camp. Her estate was later seized and auctioned off. After the war, in 1949, the Cranach painting resurfaced in a Sotheby’s sale in London, where it had been consigned by dealer Hans W. Lange, the head of an eponymous auction house known for forced sales of Jewish-owned property. It sold for £700. Later, it passed through the hands of New York dealers Hugo Perls and the Knoedler gallery before Thaw bought it around 1968. (English)
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