Word: christus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...display from the collection's total of more than 1,000 works. The finest U.S. collection still in private hands-and the first to be shown abroad-the Lehman collection boasts several of the world's great paintings by Rembrandt, Goya, El Greco, Memling and Petrus Christus (see color pages), includes an eye-stunning array of tapestries. Renaissance furniture, jewelry, enamels, bronzes and even diamond-studded snuff boxes. It represents collecting on a grand scale not likely to be repeated...
Staying clear of the High Renaissance masterpieces, the Lehmans on their regular summer trips to Europe sought out bargains to their taste, rapidly expanded the collection to include other Italian, Spanish, French and Flemish masters (including the prize of the collection, Petrus Christus' The Legend of St. Eligius and St. Godeberta, bought for $144,000 in 1921), filled it in with matching period pieces of Renaissance furniture, tapestries and majolica plates. Robert Lehman, who as a boy accompanied his parents on their art forays, exults: "It was a fascinating way to get an education...
...Eyck color-a clear, deep crimson." As to the value of Detroit's find, one of 30-odd Van Eycks in existence, Richardson pointed out that Manhattan's Frick Collection paid a reported $750,000 for a Virgin and Child by Van Eyck and his follower, Petrus Christus. Already one dealer has offered Detroit $400,000 for its St. Jerome. But Director Richardson had a firm answer: the painting is not for sale...
There are a few simple mountain ballads that sing a gentler tune, and The Christus of Guadalajara shows an embracing awareness of the meaning c-Christian pity. It is true that most of these poems, some of them rich in language and nearly all steeped in emotion, are bearish on the human condition. No one reading them or seeing Williams' latest play (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) is apt to suppose that Tennessee Williams is changing his point of view. But not even Williams can stew complacently in pessimism all the time. He knows that there really...
MANHATTAN'S staid Frick Collection last week put on display the elaborately splendid painting opposite. Begun by Jan van Eyck, and finished after his death by his disciple Petrus Christus, it has the grace and precision, the atmosphere of Tightness and relaxation, common to Early Flemish masterpieces. The picture shows the Virgin and Child flanked by Saints Barbara and Elizabeth of Hungary. Kneeling in adoration is the Carthusian prior who commissioned the painting for his church in 1441. Acquired a century ago by Paris' Baron de Rothschild, the picture has now passed to the Frick-for a rumored...