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...tell the success story of a picture." What precise, soft-spoken Dr. Richardson had to tell was news indeed. The small (only 8 ¼-in. by 5 ¼in.) painting that the museum had bought in 1925 for $18,000 had at last been identified. Its painter: Jan van Eyck, one of the most highly valued Flemish artists. "There is no longer any question," said Richardson triumphantly. "It is the work of one hand only, and that one hand is Van Eyck's." Authentication of the painting-St. Jerome in His Study, showing the 4th century scholar who made...
Sections of the carefully detailed Gothic craftsmanship seemed like Van Eyck's work. But the red-brown robe was uninspired and dull, and the floor area was badly wrinkled...
...them down in the town of Decency, Conn. But when they finish the play they are writing, they intend to take care of that. Wise Acres is the name of the play, and into it they have tooled such precious dialogue as: "There's Ronnie Ten Eyck. He's living with his mother." "Oh, really? I thought that was all over...
When he closed the $750,000 sale of Van Eyck's Madonna to the Frick Collection, he was pledged to secrecy for six months; within a matter of days, however, the big deal was the talk of 5 7th street. When an antique dealer accused him of blabbing about their business deals, Heinemann, a discreet man, indignantly denied the charge. "Well," he quoted the antique dealer as saying, "Rouseck at Wildenstein asked me why I was getting all those old paintings from you-said they had better ones at Wildenstein." Rouseck denied any knowledge of three wiretaps that were...
...Northern tradition of Van Eyck, making art a mirror of nature, also continued in Durer. In the series of "Madonnas" done between 1495 and 1511 there is the crispness and detail, that are associated with Durer's greatest powers of draughtsmanship. His capacity for fantasy as well as natural representation, a legacy of the gothic cathedrals, is evident in the drawings on apocalyptical themes (see cut). General religious discontent in Germany fed the imagination of the people. They felt particularly close to apocalyptical events which many suspected would occur in their own time. We notice too in St. Michael...