Word: holbeins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collector Bache's favorite painters were Raphael, Holbein, Goya, Fragonard. But he seldom ventured to buy paintings without the advice of Britain's No. 1 art dealer, Lord Duveen, whose merchandising motto was: "Nothing but recognized masterpieces." The result is a popular quip: "The Bache collection-too, too Duveen !", and a group of paintings unmarred by any of the second-and third-rate art that usually creeps into such galleries...
...commercial? ... If so, would you say that the work of Michelangelo, Franz Hals and Velasquez is also not art? They did their stuff to order for the Popes, Medicis, burghers and princes. ... Is it because Rockwell enjoys detail? If so, where does that put Vermeer, Dürer and Holbein? Is it because he puts the light of beauty ("sweetness," if you like) into the tired and commonplace? And if so, where does that leave Raphael, Correggio, Botticelli & Co.? . . . My impulse is to say "Nuts...
Showman Rose last week showed repoiters a Rubens, a Titian, an Ambrosius Holbein (elder brother of the more famed Hans the Younger), which he bought from Manhattan's E. and A. Silberman Galleries. The Rubens, a portrait of Elizabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Spain, had been until lately in one of Europe's ex-royal families. The Titian, Portrait of a Nobleman, came from a Vienna museum. Said Mr. Rose: "The money that I have made has come from the public. If my collection grows important enough to warrant turning it over to the public after my death...