Show DAMAGES ASKED fOR DEfEATING ART SAlE I Critic Who Declared Painting Painting Paint Paint- I ing bIg Not Genuine Sued I for 50 NEW YORK Nov 5 5 Damages o of are ro asked in a suit sUlt bro brought brough i today against Sir Sir Joseph Duveen in international international international in- in art dealer and who who is alleged to have havo prevented the sale sate of the tho tho painting Belle owned b by Mrs Andre Hahn of Paris Parts t to the Kansas City art institute by expressing expressing th the opinion that the paintIng painting paint paint- ing Ing as a copy and not the origInal work of Leonardo da Vinci The painting according to Mr Hahns Hahn's complaint had been ox ex by Georges the of official o- o expert of the French government govern govern- government ment and pronounced by him gen gen- This It said he had established by many many met lods including identification identification cation of ot the fingerprints In the p paint as those of ot the great areat master Tho The painting wits was was brought to this I. I country last year and negotiations for Its sale were vero about to be bo concluded when a a New Now York newspaper on June Juno 17 1920 published an Interview with Mr Duveen in which he was quoted as saying The picture sent to Kansas City is a copy hundreds of which have been made of ot this and other Leonardo subjects and offered In the market as genuine g Leonardo never made mafle a replica of his work His original Belle Is in the Louvre Georges certificate Is Js worthless worth worth- less if it really relates to the Kansas City picture He lie is not an expert on th the thi work of Leonardo La Belle Bello which is a of Lucrezia mistress I I I of ira i Francis I in which the eyes oyes have have much the same ha haunting unfathomable I able expression of Da Vinci's Mona MonaLisa MonaLisa MonaLisa Lisa at one time hung in thel the i Louvre From there there s so old reports have It the painting was stolen and I Ifor for tor a century or more passed pissed through many hands and more adventure I It came carne to America last year as I Ithe the result of he municipal patriotism i of wealthy men of Kansas City who backed the Kansas City art institute and offered to pay for r it I |