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Last week, while the old country grappled with Hitler's Blitzkrieg, Grand Rapids' happier Dutch went to their prim, pillared Art Gallery to see the biggest collection of Dutch art Grand Rapids had ever seen. With eleven top-flight portraits by Rembrandt and Frans Hals as its central attraction, the exhibition (valued at some $2,000,000) covered 500 years of finely-turned painting, from the squirming, mystical fantasies of 15th-Century Hieronymus Bosch to the geometric designs of 20th-century Piet Mondrian. What made Grand Rapids Dutch almost as proud: the name of practically every artist...
...have hung successively a Rouault Christ, a Whistler view of the Thames, a Modigliani woman with red hair, an Utrillo landscape, an oil sketch of a screaming woman from Picasso's Guernica. Last week it was the Picasso's turn to move out. Tom Mitchell had a Rembrandt...
...Mitchell prize appears in no Rembrandt catalogue. A refugee Polish prince brought it to the U. S. this winter. The prince took his small (10 by 12 in.) painting of the head of a bearded man to Manhattan's Silberman Galleries. There Dr. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts and top U. S. authority on Dutch painting, promptly identified it as a Rembrandt, a study for the head of Christ in The Supper at Emmaus, one of the Louvre's masterpieces...
Dealer David Silberman showed Cinemactor Mitchell the Christ along with some modern paintings (Mitchell hitherto had bought only moderns). His eye hit the Rembrandt and stayed there. "I saw something in that Christ's face I hadn't seen before," said he. "It wasn't an emaciated, lifeless symbol of a man. It was a human, bewildered Christ. This Christ was real flesh and blood and soul." For that flesh and blood and soul Tom Mitchell plunked down about...
What whetted dealers' and collectors' interest in the Ryan sale were its Rembrandts and Dürers, 56 engravings by pioneer Engraver Martin Schongauer, a complete series of Van Dyck's 20 portrait etchings. Sent over by the Belgian Government to buy the entire Van Dyck set was Dealer Richard H. Zinser. He made a group bid of $28,000 'for them, saw them knocked down individually for a total of $40,500. The Van Dyck self-portrait he lost to Knoedler's at $6,600. For Rembrandt's The Three Trees Dealer Zinser...