Word: dyck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dyck gained freshness and spontaneity by painting directly on the canvas after only the barest preliminary sketches. His armed soldiers enter the picture like a torrent, then eddy about the calm figure of Christ...
AFTER nearly two years of negotiations, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Director Richard S. Davis this week announced the acquisition of a handsome new Easter gift for Minneapolis: Anthony van Dyck's Betrayal of Christ. Bought for an estimated $135,000 from a Manhattan art dealer, the painting is a blazing work done by the 17th century Flemish painter when he was barely 23. It has long been recognized as one of the century's outstanding religious paintings, is ranked by Director Davis as "a breath of genius...
...Easter story. Van Dyck chose to depict the high moment of treachery when Judas kisses Jesus, betraying his identity to the onrushing soldiers and servants of Jerusalem's chief priests and elders. For Van Dyck, who was Peter Paul Rubens' favorite pupil, such a scene of action-packed drama was an ideal subject. He gave it all of his young mastery of whirling shapes, lurid lighting and heightened emotion...
...mature judgment of a man whose love for collecting per se began in his teens with the pursuit of autographs. The drawings include one of the few fourteenth century drawings to be found in this country, and a superb one at that. Here are works by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, Brueghel, Durer, and a little gem by Poussin, all of which are exquisite draughtsmanship in the highest sense of the word...
...which, as a $3,360,000 installment on his inheritance tax, he will hand over Hardwick Hall, one of the finest Elizabethan mansions in existence, together with its 934-acre park, and eight major works of art from the Chatsworth collection, including works by Rembrandt, Memling. Holbein and Van Dyck. The paintings will go to British museums. Hardwick Hall will be administered by the National Trust, and be open to the public four days a week, though the 86-year-old Dowager Duchess of Devonshire may live there for the rest of her days. The deal...