Events which distinguished the 1922-23 art season:
¶ Sale of the de la Rochefoucauld tapestries, (Hunt of the Unicorn, price $1,100,000) to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
¶ G. J. Demotte's gift of examples of French Gothic art to museums in New York, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Cambridge, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Chicago, Brooklyn, Washington, Detroit.
¶ Purchase by the Duveens of a Van Dyck and a Cuyp from the Earl of Brownlow's collection.
¶ Disposal of the Salomon art treasures for a total of $1,292,847.
¶ Opening of the new galleries of the American Art Association.
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