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...bidding at Christie's auction house in London started at $250,000 and went up by $50,000 leaps. Finally, the auctioneer called "Sold!" For $1,159,200, Los Angeles Industrialist and Art Collector Norton Simon had acquired a self-portrait made when Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn was in his early 30s. Steep though it was, the price was a record for neither Rembrandt nor Norton Simon. The collector has already spent $2,200,000 for a portrait of the artist's son and an un disclosed sum for one of Rembrandt's common-law wife. Said...
With high excitement two U.S. museums this week are celebrating the acquisition of works by a painter who has always been a sound investment-the 17th century master of northern European painting, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. In both cases the prices were even higher than the excitement...
...destined to tower over the painters of the northern Renaissance as Leonardo da Vinci towered over the masters of the Italian Renaissance. To mark the anniversary, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum (State Museum) is staging an exhibition of 100 of the greatest paintings and 123 etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, chosen from 63 collections, including Leningrad's world-famous Hermitage (see color pages). At the same time, Rotterdam's Boymans Museum is exhibiting 268 of Rembrandt's drawings. Best testimony to Rembrandt's enduring attraction: the record-breaking crowds of more than 140,000 European...
...bankrupt old Painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, inspired by this scene from the Gospels, painted his famous St. Peter Denying Christ. Last week Americans, studying at first hand the burnished faces of servant woman and erring Peter, could still warm themselves before the glowing picture...
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, to give his full name, lived from 1606 to 1669. Although his paintings date from anywhere between 1627 and 1669, his etchings all seem to have been done between 1639 and 1660. In subject matter they are divided into portraits, landscapes, and Bible stories...