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...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...
...part of his collection in Paris, Brussels, Utrecht, Bern and London. Chato himself was on hand for the sparkling opening at London's Tate Gallery. The show's 79 paintings (worth, says Chato, about $14 million) ranged from gilded early Italians through paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens and Hals, and on into a luxurious display of French impressionists. Included for the first time were 33 brand-new purchases which had not even been seen in Sao Paulo. Centerpiece of the show: a fine Renoir, Baigneuse au Griffon, a nude against a background of muted brown...
...thought "looked good." Local collectors were doubtful, but Hirsch sent detail photographs of the painting to Belgian Historian Leo van Puyvelde. The verdict: Van Puyvelde had examined that very painting before in 1937. It is, he wrote, L'Erection de la Croix, a "genuine work by Anthony Van Dyck, where the creative power of the painter expresses itself masterfully." Estimated value...
...stiff religious painting, called a Rubens and valued at $5,000, which was probably painted by a follower of Van Dyck...