Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With high excitement two U.S. museums this week are celebrating the acquisition of works by a painter who has always been a sound investment-the 17th century master of northern European painting, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. In both cases the prices were even higher than the excitement...
...Boston the Museum of Fine Arts announced its new double acquisition, matching portraits of the Rev. Johannes Elison and his wife, Maria Bockenolle, of Norwich, England, painted in 1634 during Rembrandt's early years as a successful portrait painter in Amsterdam. Boston Museum trustees used up the whole of their five-year-old William K. Richardson fund to pay for the pair of life-sized portraits, largest single purchase in the museum's 80-year-old history. The price: just under...
...Henri Matisse, whom he first met in 1906 when Matisse was 37. By 1914 Shchukin had loaded up with 36 Matisse paintings. Collector Shchukin's second stroke of luck happened when Matisse passed him along to Picasso, and the Russian merchant became one of the young Spanish painter's first important patrons. Shchukin had the good sense not to haggle over prices; after all, he was picking up Picasso "blue period" works for as little...
John P. Coolidge '35, professor of Fine Arts, will moderate the discussion. Speakers will be Ben Shahn, painter and this year's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer; Francis H. Taylor, director of the Worcester Art Museum; Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music; and Gregory Tucker, pianist and composer...
...Sistine Chapel." French Painter Andre Massno started the bandwagon five years ago by boldly calling Monet's Water Lily panels in Paris' Orangerie "the Sistine Chapel of impressionism." Collector Walter Chrysler Jr. and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art both climbed aboard, bought late-Monet paintings (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). The Monet boom resounded even louder with a show of his late works last summer by Paris Art Dealer Katia Granoff, who bought from Monet's son, Michel, the paintings that for decades had been stored at Monet's Giverny studio (where several collected shrapnel...