Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English antique dealer, the commercial gallery was carried to the pinnacle of poshery by his son, Baron Duveen of Millbank, who became so legendary a dealer that 24 years after his death in 1939, a hit Broadway play, Lord Pengo, made fiction of his exploits. He bought and sold Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer three times, always handled, as his motto affirmed, "nothing but recognized masterpieces." His clients were equally well recognized -Mellon, Morgan, Frick, Rockefeller, Kress, Altman, Bache-and Duveen steered their taste in building superb, now mostly public collections...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. The museum supplements its large collection of Rembrandt paintings with a selection of his prints, and puts on view a painting by Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy lent to New Amsterdam by old Amsterdam...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. The museum supplements its large collection of Rembrandt paintings (33, including the $2,300,000 Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer) with a selection of the Dutch master's prints. "World's Fairs-the Architecture of Fantasy" makes a retrospective visit to 16 past expositions by means of prints, photographs, posters and souvenirs...
...circle knew the eternal future and remembered the past but had no sense of their present horror. In the drama, they fulfill Goodman's ideals of stillness and deadly substance within a stagelike space that he derives from such of his idols as Masaccio, Velásquez and Rembrandt...
...Leopoldstrasse. There are plenty of alternative diversions. Munich's many art galleries include the famed Alte Pinakothek, with its splendid collections of DÜrer, Rembrandt, Raphael, Titian and Rubens. Munich claims to be the birthplace of modern art, and indeed its Blaue Reiter group pioneered in the abstract movement; Munich's galleries today are loaded with the works of Kandinsky and Klee. Schwabing, the city's bohemian quarter, which won its reputation thanks to Kandinsky & Co., is still an art center, with more than 2,000 painters and sculptors at work...