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...forms of the Arlesian landscape, its patchwork of fields and tree-lined roads, were already embedded in his Dutch background-"it reminds one of Holland: everything is flat, only one thinks rather of the Holland of Ruisdael or Hobbema than of Holland as it is"-but the color was like nothing in Van Gogh's previous life. Seeing his desire for "radical" color confirmed in the actual landscape gave him confidence. It affected even those paintings in which no landscape occurs, like the self-portrait of Vincent with a shaved head, gazing not at but past the viewer with...
...patrons as Gypsy Rose Lee, Actress Madeleine Carroll, and International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas J. Watson. Last week many of the guests returned for the first sale in Parke-Bernet's new auction room (seating capacity 600). Up on the stage went 61 paintings by Rubens, Romney, Hobbema and others; when the hammer fell on the last of them, a total of $46,690 had been paid out. On succeeding days there were sales of jewelry once worn by James B. ("Diamond Jim") Brady, paintings and sculpture collected by Cinema Director Josef von Sternberg...
...times the price of admission (50?). On the somber, dignified Duveen walls were spread 15 Rembrandts, 15 of the finest of Frans Hals's broad-brushed portraits, Vermeer Van Delft's world-famed $500,000 The Milkmaid (see cut), meticulous landscapes, still lifes and street scenes by Hobbema, Jan Steen, Nicolaes Maes and dozens of minor masters...
...niches of Patron Severance's palace had come: Sir Joshua Reynolds' idyllic portrait of The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke; a batch of first-water Rembrandts, including a famed Portrait of a Youth; Flemish Primitive Aelbrecht Bouts's well-known Annunciation; landscapes and portraits by Hobbema, Cuyp, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Turner and Van Dyck; remarkable collections of 15th-Century Italian sculpture, medieval Gothic tapestries, ceramics and an assortment of furniture equaled only in the Rockefeller and Hamilton Rice collections. The late John L. Severance had done his picking & choosing with an eye to the needs...
Manhattan's Knoedler Gallery managed to secure Meindert Hobbema's The Hamlet in the Wood for $158,400, the highest price of the auction. Messrs. Colnaghi of London bought Rembrandt's Portrait of Burgomaster Six for $39,600, the world's record price for an etching. A total of 64 paintings and 10 Rembrandt etchings were sold. The sales realized $925,012. Of this sum $250,000 had changed hands in four minutes. Auctioner Muller could well afford to smile on the River Amstel. His firm had received the customary 10%, amounting in this case...