Word: dyck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paintings included Rembrandt's Old Man Seated, Rubens' Flight Into Egypt, Flemish Dierick Bouts' The Annunciation and outstanding canvases by Corot, Degas, Boucher, Guardi, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Van Dyck, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Eventually Gulbenkian made the same offer he had made London: all the pictures free forever-if the gallery built a special Gulbenkian annex to house them. With regret the National Gallery refused, stuck grimly to the rule that its permanent works be displayed by schools and periods, not by collectors...
JAMES VAN DYCK CARD New York City
...with Italian primitives. The rest of the Clarks' collection, housed in residences both in the U.S. and abroad, is so large and dispersed that Museum Director Peter Guille has yet to catalogue it. But in paintings already shown, the Clarks have included such Old World masters as Van Dyck, Frans Hals, Degas and Goya, plus outstanding works by two of the most popular U.S. painters (opposite...
...museum officers settled for 200-odd major and minor old masters at an average price of only $4,000. Result: a sampling of eight main schools of Western painting, ranging from Balthazar Van der Ast to Francisco de Zurbaran and including Rubens' Holy Family with Saint Anne, Van Dyck's Duchess of Lennox, Murillo's Esau Selling His Birthright...
...confidence, reattributing the canvas to an "unknown Genoese of the 18th century." Back it went to the storeroom. Recently, the experts took counsel all over again and decided to have it cleaned. Revealed in the cleaning process: the date 1620 and the apparently authentic signature of Anthony Van Dyck, who went to Genoa from his native Antwerp at just about that time...