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...ceilings imported from Italian palaces, a ballroom 63 ft. long and 45 ft. high, it was decorated by the late, famed Stanford White. All its furnishings and every fixture that can be detached will be aucioned off April 29 and 30. Among the furnishings: paintings by Gainsborough and Van Dyck, 35 tapestries...
...gallery of nine over-average Rembrandts; 3) a bevy of British mantelpiece portraits, including Sir Joshua Reynolds' famed $500,000 portrait of Lady Elizabeth Compton; 4) top-flight pictures by Dutchmen Vermeer and Frans Hals, Flemings van Eyck, Memling, Rubens and van Dyck. Conservative by present-day museum standards, the Gallery is long on portraiture, short on Spanish art, entirely lacking in important French works...
...Other Decker "portraits": Harpo Marx as the Blue Boy, Fanny Brice as Mono, Lisa, Mickey Rooney as a Van Dyck sissy...
What whetted dealers' and collectors' interest in the Ryan sale were its Rembrandts and Dürers, 56 engravings by pioneer Engraver Martin Schongauer, a complete series of Van Dyck's 20 portrait etchings. Sent over by the Belgian Government to buy the entire Van Dyck set was Dealer Richard H. Zinser. He made a group bid of $28,000 'for them, saw them knocked down individually for a total of $40,500. The Van Dyck self-portrait he lost to Knoedler's at $6,600. For Rembrandt's The Three Trees Dealer Zinser...
...patron saint of Generosity, was born on Dec. 6, do their giving then. Dutchmen conceive the Saint as a bishop whose ecclesiastic dignity is above lugging presents around in a sack. This is done by his far from humble minion, Black Peter, a capering minstrel in braided doublet, van Dyck ruff and Renaissance plumed...