Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexican narcotics wholesaler. But the author is not wholly a praiser of his own beat-romantic past. He admits to behavior so much worse than square that it is cubic, or even tesseractical. He confesses, for instance, to paying his way to Europe and rubbernecking around the Louvre. Rembrandt and Franz Hals, he reports, are great...
...refurbished with special funds from the Assembly, to view 700 works, few of which had ever been seen by the present generation. Covering the walls almost from floor to ceiling, the paintings ranged in time from a superb 14th century primitive (The Flagellation of Christ) through the works of Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Tintoretto, Vermeer, Fragonard, Rubens and Van Dyck, and on down to 1800. When Paris finally digests this show, another lot from the buried reserves, which som officials estimate to number as many a 2,000 items, will be put on display. And this month 22 new rooms...
...took what there was." Emphasizing his view, he added: "Gauguin went to Tahiti, but the Gauguin who painted before Tahiti remained. Van Gogh in Holland-The Potato-Eaters-is very important. Experience, yes. Gauguin had an experience. But experience is not a passport to the company of Rembrandt." What is? "Genius...
...spends weekends during the summer in his white-brick mansion in a pine forest near Holland's Haarlem. Called Koekoeks Duin (Cuckoo's Dune) when Loudon bought it five years ago, it is hung with tapestries and paintings (among them a self-portrait of the young Rembrandt), stocked with old editions, and graced with an icebox liquor cabinet hidden behind a fake bookshelf (Loudon's drink: Scotch and soda). He is an excellent dancer, likes to golf (in the 90s), spent a week last winter skiing in Switzerland with his wife and two of his sons, Fred...
...case, it's too big." In what had been billed as the major sale of old Dutch masters since World War II, London's Christie's gallery last week hoped to get a fortune for its client -especially since the lot included Rembrandt's "lost" Juno. But after an agonizing period of unenthusiastic bidding, the auctioneer finally declared: "Fifty thousand guineas [$147,000], Himmelheid." Himmelheid was only a name-a face-saving fiction for Rembrandt's battered and fading goddess, whom no one wanted enough to put up the 100,000 guineas the sellers...