Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fogg Art Museum's Dutch art specialist last week defended the authenticity of two Rembrandt portraits in the museum, which a team of scholars earlier this month said were probably not painted by the Dutch masters...
...produced almost as many self-portraits as Rembrandt, who painted himself 60 times. The first face of Raphael Soyer is dated 1917. The artist printed it on a sheet of cheap paper with engraving plates he heated on the gas burner in the family kitchen in The Bronx. Though coarsely crosshatched, its composition a tad askew, the engraving is a riveting reflection of the artist at 18, staring at the mirror with the same unswerving, enigmatic gaze that he would cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon...
...posed, immobile, amid the crowds that passed through his pictures. In 1959 he pulled his glasses onto his forehead, and, in a rare gesture of self-revelation, put himself in the company of the masters who inspired him, entitling the improbable work Self-Portrait with Self-Portraits of Rembrandt, Corot and Degas. Returning to a busy Manhattan street for one of his most recent paintings, he once again plays the role of the bystander. Dressed in the now familiar gray suit and Chico hat, arms hanging loosely-perhaps helplessly-at his sides, the artist looks searchingly at the viewer...
...American Art in Evanston, Ill. The painting was meant to be a sort of early-American effort at cultural packaging: 38 of the world's greatest masterpieces all on one canvas. Depicted, in remarkable detail, are the works of such artists as Da Vinci, Rubens, Raphael, Titian and Rembrandt. Conceived by Morse and Novelist James Fenimore Cooper (the creator along with Cooper and his family are the spectators in the work), Gallery was painted by Morse in 1832, about the same time he turned his inventive talents to the telegraph and Morse code. Terra, a chemical industry magnate...
That marriage, however, is not totally certain. The deal still has to be accepted by stockholders of both Du Pont and Conoco. For two months a flock of suitors had fought over Conoco in a bidding battle as frenzied as an auction for a newly discovered Rembrandt. The other most serious contenders: cash-laden Seagram Co. of Canada, the world's largest liquor distiller, and Texaco, the third biggest U.S. oil firm...