Henry F. Pulitzer
Henry F. Pulitzer was an art collector[1] and connoisseur. He is also referred to as being a media mogul.[2] He was the owner of the Pulitzer galleries in London and Bern, Switzerland.
Pulitzer purchased the Isleworth Mona Lisa from English art collector Hugh Blaker.[3][4] He acquired it from the Blaker estate by selling his Kensington estate and all its contents. In 1966, he wrote and published a book, Where is the Mona Lisa? in which he presented the case that this painting was the unfinished portrait of Lisa del Giocondo by Leonardo da Vinci.[5]
Pulitzer left the painting to his girlfriend in his will. It then spent 40 years in the vault of a Swiss bank, from which it emerged to an enormous amount of attention in the art world and in the media.[3]
References
- ↑ Wright, Tom (14 January 2015). "A Second Mona Lisa? Science Offers Few Clues". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ↑ ZEIT ONLINE GmbH, Hamburg, Germany (2011-06-16). "Kunstmarkt: Sie lächelt, als wär sie es wirklich | ZEIT ONLINE". Zeit.de. Retrieved 2013-12-08.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Brooks, Richard (23 September 2012). "Earlier Mona Lisa shows her face". Times of London.
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ "London's Monad". Monalogue.org. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
- ↑ Henry F. Pulitzer, ‘Where is the Mona Lisa’, 1966
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