Word: rembrandt
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...intermittent war of nerves between painters and public has been going on for centuries. Rembrandt's compassionate paintings of events in the Bible were called rotten, and they sold not at all. Children, incited by their elders, mocked Van Gogh in the streets of Arles. True, many of the world's best painters, from Raphael to Renoir, were ardently embraced by the public even before they died. There have been periods of peace; yet the war continues. This spring it is kicking up a lot of dust. Among the latest skirmishes...
...illustrators who made Henri's studio their rendezvous. There, between amateur theatricals, impromptu concerts and Welsh-rarebit feasts, Henri preached a two-fisted approach to painting, drove home his lessons with references to the exciting "modern" works of Courbet and Manet-plus such old masters as Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Goya and Velásquez. Soon his eager listeners, including such star pupils as William Glackens, Everett Shinn. George Luks and John Sloan, were spending their off hours carrying out Henri's advice: "Forget about art and paint pictures of what interests you in life...
This time Theodore (The Mudlark) Bonnet has sited his wide-ranging fancy on the shore of San Francisco Bay. The whisky-spattered portrait that has hung so long over Dan McClatchy's bar in Llagas, a chicken town near San Francisco, turns out to be a real Rembrandt. Carried away by sudden fame and the hope of fortune, Dan fancies up his place and reopens it as the "Lost Dutchman." Feature writers, artists and slumming socialites flock in; they make even more of Dan, a rare, pure specimen of pre-Fire, South-of-Market Irishman, than of his Rembrandt...
...Rembrandt portrait, probably of his son Titus, so little known that it has been overlooked even by most Rembrandt scholars, was purchased by the Wadsworth Atheneum of Hartford, Conn, for a price estimated...
...museum considered it well worth the purchase price, cited the opinion of Harvard's Rembrandt Scholar Jakob Rosenberg: "The portrait of a young man with beret and gold chain is one of the finest Rembrandts that ever came to this country." Last exhibited 45 years ago at London's Royal Academy, the painting has been hidden from view since then in a private English collection. Covered with coats of varnish. Hartford's new Rembrandt had to be painstakingly cleaned before the artist's original signature was uncovered. The date. 1655, placed the painting in the period...