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Prints at the Fogg--woodcuts, engravings, etchings and drypoints from Durer to Franz Kline. This is an excellently planned exhibit, in the L-shaped gallery in the back corner that nobody ever visits its purpose is to be a teaching tool for the Freshman seminar on Prints and Printmaking, and it does a good job of explaining how the various kinds of prints and papers are made...
Finally, a reminder. The Goya show at the Museum of Fine Arts is the finest show of graphic work in this area since the similar one the MFA presented on Durer three years ago. I'll discuss it more thoroughly next week, but if you get a chance this weekend, go see it. It is outstanding...
...18th century English painter Thomas Patch, worth a patch above $30,000. A Connecticut man brought in a trifle inherited from his Uncle Harold that was diagnosed as a contemporary portrait of George Washington on glass ($300). A man from New York brought in a musty print by Albrecht Durer...
From the Diary of a Snail concludes with a lecture on Durer's engraving Melancholia I, describing the modern predicament in terms of various types of melancholy. Grass criticizes the melancholy of the utopians and ideologues. He praises the melancholy of the snail, working his way along the progressive path, and that of the writer brooding over his work. In the end it all sounds suspiciously like the voice of a snail who, having left his artistic shell, is not sure just where to go next...
...Venice, Botticelli's Madonna and Child, Giotto's Jesus, Fra Angelico's Assumption, etc. Few museums equal the Gardner's extensive collection of Italian masters. But Berenson was not to stop at conquering Italian walls; sensing Mrs. Jack's interest in a bargain, he induced her to buy Durer, Holbein, Rubens, and Rembrandt...