Author: AUCTION CATALOGUE: SIMON.
Title: Collection de Dr. James Simon de Berlin. Catalogue des tableaux - miniatures - bronzes - sculptures - ivoires (etc.). Vente publique à Amsterdam, 25 et 6 Octobre 1927.
Description: Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 1927. Folio. [xiii], 50 pp. & 44 plates. Wrappers. ¶ Introduction in German & French by Wilhelm Bode. 52 Paintings, mainly Dutch 17th century; 58 bronzes, mainly Italian 16th century; etc. ¶ James Simon (Berlin 1851-1932), well-known German banker and philantropist, who financed a.o. excavations in Egypt. He donated the famous head of Nofertete to the Berlin Egypt Museum. Wilhelm von Bode, director of the Berlin Museum, was collection advisor to James Simon.

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