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...scenes from the story of Christ's life. Painted about 1516 for a convent at Isenheim, Alsace, the intense, now-gruesome, now-radiant Altar Screen is easily the most important set of medieval paintings any German produced. Most experts agree that the work ranks above the best of Holbein the Younger, Dürer and Cranach...
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...
Most Britishers think of art as a way to have their pictures taken. Portraitists have flourished in England ever since the Ger man Holbein, the Flemish Van Dyck came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. For 200 years Eng land has painted most of its own portraits, in good times even manages to export a surplus crop. Such British painters as Augustus John, Simon Elwes, Frank O. Salisbury, the late Anglicized Philip de Laszló have reaped a golden harvest from U. S. tycoons and socialites anxious to show a good face to posterity...