Word: rembrandt
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...great Dutchman, Rembrandt, lived in Amsterdam most of his life, put into his greatest pictures the faces of Amsterdam's burghers, surgeons, soldiers. Last week in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, went on view more indisputable Rembrandt pictures than have ever been seen before in one place. Included were the Rijksmuseum's own nine Rembrandts and 36 more borrowed from abroad for the summer. Among the U. S. importations were Andrew Mellon's Self Portrait, a sharp-chinned, bloated, anxious man of 53 with a Vandyke beard (see cut); Julius Haass...
...Dutch by no means rate Rembrandt the greatest Dutchman ever. The Rijksmuseum ordinarily shows its Rembrandts scattered among other 17th Century Dutch masters such as Jan Steen and Frans Hals, in some six rooms. Four years ago a Dutch court methodically turned down the whimsical application of U. S. Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon, collateral descendant of Rembrandt's wife, to have Rembrandt's 262-year-old bankruptcy wiped from the records...
...great Gobelin tapestries of boar-hunting and falconry went for $11,000 apiece. A Gainsborough was knocked down for $6,700, a Joshua Reynolds landscape for only $1,600, a Jan Steen for $3,200, a Rembrandt Peale Washington for $3,400. A Chippendale mahogany and needlepoint settee sold for $2,600; two silver chocolate pots and brandy saucepan for $820. Three Gothic stained & painted glass panels and a roundel were taken out of the west window for $1,400. Then the auctioneers walked all over the house, auctioning as they went, sold off even the servants' billiard table...
...years ago as an art student in Pans Grant Wood affected a flaming pair of pink whiskers and a béret basque. As the Rembrandt of Iowa and Director of the Stone City art colony, Artist Wood now works in blue denim overalls...
...Rembrandt's Self Portrait is one of that Dutchman's few works whose authenticity has never been questioned. In his varying fortunes he used to paint himself either when he was too poor to hire a model or when he wanted to display his sudden riches on canvas. Mr. Mellon's Rembrandt shows the artist when he was not rolling in wealth...