Word: holbein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Especially appealing: William Blake's watercolors (through May 24), Houdon's perfectly balanced terra-cotta sculpture of Diana the Huntress, Bellini's St. Francis in Ecstasy, Holbein's Sir Thomas More, La Tour's Education oj the Virgin, Fragonard's series of canvases representing "The Progress of Love," commissioned and rejected by Madame Du Barry...
...privileges in the coming term." For the second time that day Gridley smiled sardonically. He was thinking about the new tunnel he had found, the one that led to squash court 9 in Lowell House. He was still smiling when he loaded the 1516 New Testament of Erasmus with Holbein capitals into a Coop laundry bag and trudged back to his room...
...studies or for their own sake, all the drawings are strangely affecting. Leonardo's Leda-possibly a study for the painting that has been lost-has a sensual rhythm not often revealed by Leonardo. Rembrandt's landscapes and village scenes are masterful mixtures of meticulousness and freedom. Holbein could almost carve with his crayon, and Rubens, with his delicate and flowing line, could transform an act of drudgery into an act of grace. Somehow, the workings of genius are never more clear than in drawings of the quality of the collection at Chatsworth...
...Erickson sale also showed that great art can go down as well as up. A Raeburn that the Ericksons bought for $100,000 in 1927 went for $60,000; a regal Gainsborough that cost $300,000 in 1928 went for a dismal $35,000. A Holbein portrait also went for $35,000, which was $95,000 less than the Ericksons paid. The painting that took the worst tumble was a Van Dyck: it cost the Ericksons $200,000 plus two paintings, went for $27,000 last week...
...Great Forgery, by Edith Simon. The hero of this ironical novel, a scruffy old painter who forges a Holbein to show the art experts up as Philistines, is a fine, randy character who bears a strong resemblance to Joyce Gary's Gulley Jimson...