Word: himmelheid
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...masters since World War II, London's Christie's gallery last week hoped to get a fortune for its client -especially since the lot included Rembrandt's "lost" Juno. But after an agonizing period of unenthusiastic bidding, the auctioneer finally declared: "Fifty thousand guineas [$147,000], Himmelheid." Himmelheid was only a name-a face-saving fiction for Rembrandt's battered and fading goddess, whom no one wanted enough to put up the 100,000 guineas the sellers had hoped for. "If you won't pay," they had said in effect, "we won't play...
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