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...core of old master drawings and prints assembled, over a lifetime of passionate connoisseurship, by Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen (1738-1822). At a time when any crocodile can become a "major" collector by scrawling a digit and six zeroes on a check for a B+ Van Gogh, it is worth recalling what Albert and his wife Marie Christine achieved. Until they began collecting in 1773, under the tutelage of the Austrian ambassador to Venice, drawings and prints had been regarded mainly as curiosities or reference objects and were seldom collected in a systematic way. Albert was the first...
Harvard Astronomy professor announces the completion of a study which art historians said might lead to a re-evaluation of traditional interpretations of some of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings...
Basing his novel theory on a year-long scientific analysis of mysterious astronomical patterns in several van Gogh paintings. Professor of Astronomy Charles A. Whitney concluded that Van Gogh produced an almost exact reproduction of the night sky in his own time...
More recently, New York City's Museum of Modern Art created a minor controversy when the director of its department of painting and sculpture, William Rubin, had the work of a few early modern masters, among them Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh, refitted in no-frills borders. Part of Rubin's rationale was that undistracting borders would help to clarify continuities between the early modern painters and their inheritors, from Picasso through Johns, whose work elsewhere in the museum is likewise in simple frames. "Very successful," says Thomas Messer, director of the nearby Guggenheim Museum, which...
...almost did not go to the Van Gogh exhibit because your article warned that "the general public will see very little ... Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they will find their hope to experience Van Gogh's art in its true quality thwarted." I found the railings only inches from the wall, and could be nose to nose with Van Gogh's tremendous talent for as long as I wished...