Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dyck, $10,000; a Tintoretto, $41,000; a Rembrandt, $11,500; a Velasquez, $15,500. But many a painting with a dazzling signature has fetched a four-figure price: a Rubens for $6,900; a Goya for $3,500; a Gainsborough at $6,000; an El Greco...
...cache in a Seigen (Germany) copper mine (TIME, April 16) was reported to contain Rubens' Descent to Hades, El Greco's Cross Carrier, Rembrandt's Self Portrait, Van Dyck's Holy Family, was estimated at some...
...Normal" people discredited Rembrandt, misunderstood El Greco, reviled Blake, ignored Cézanne, drove Van Gogh to suicide and Gauguin into exile...
Venus and 13 Bachelors. Soon some 450 great paintings were racked on pipeline scaffolds set up in the huge, thermostated hall where Financier Stotesbury once gave concerts for 1,000 guests. Among the hidden paintings were ten Rembrandts, Breugel's Harvesters, El Greco's View of Toledo, Titian's Venus and the Lute Player, Vermeer's Lady with the Lute, Daumier's Third Class Carriage, Raphael's Virgin and Child Enthroned, a spate of Italian primitives, twelve Sargents, twelve Winslow Homers. The priceless Sèvres porcelains were never unpacked. The medieval tapestries stayed...
...Underwood's cofounder; in Tucson, Ariz. Onetime Kansas door-to-door salesman of stereoscopic views, by 1890 he and his brother had offices throughout the U.S. and Europe. To improve their wares, Bert learned photography, in 1897 sent his syndicate off to a good start by covering the Greco-Turkish War for Harper's Weekly and the Illustrated London News...