Word: balthus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been organized by Thomas Messer, the former director of New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, for La Caixa, Spain's leading private cultural foundation. It is a big affair-some 540 paintings, sculptures, photographs and architectural samples-and it leaves room for much wrangling about choices. (No Balthus? Why nothing by Jean Halion...
Some Chicagoans will be unhappy to see one of their favorite paintings in the Art Institute, the cat-eyed, Balthus-like Young Woman at an Open Half- Door, signed "Rembrandt f. 1645," being given to Hoogstraten. And hell may freeze over before everyone accepts the revisionist view that the sublime Polish Rider, in New York City's Frick Collection, is really by "Rembrandt...