Redaktionelle Bemerkung
"Georges Joseph Demotte, a Belgian-born collector and dealer of Islamic and medieval art, had businesses in Paris (first at 27, rue de Berri, and later at 23, rue de Provence) and New York City (first at 25 East Seventy-Eighth Street and later at 8 East Fifty-Seventh Street). Demotte was killed in a hunting accident on the estate of the Parisian antiques dealer, Otto Wegener, on September 3, 1923. Questions have been raised as to whether his death was accidental. He was involved in a lawsuit with Joseph Duveen and a forgery scandal at the time of his death. After his death, his seventeen-year-old son, Lucien Demotte (1906–1934), took over the presidency of the Demotte businesses in Paris and New York." - Georges Demotte (1877–1923) — Dumbarton Oaks (doaks.org)
"Lucien Demotte was a Belgian art dealer born in Manhattan County, New York. In 1923, at the age of seventeen, Demotte inherited the art galleries of his father, George Demotte, in Paris, at 27 rue de Berri, and in New York, at 8 East 57th Street. The galleries specialized in the sale of medieval French art. He married twice, first to Andrée Kridel Wildenstein, daughter of the art dealer Felix Wildenstein, in 1931, and then to Simonne Thibault in 1933. He died of pneumonia on October 10, 1934, in New York." - Lucien Demotte (1906–1934) — Dumbarton Oaks (doaks.org)
