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...major items would probably have fetched the same prices if they had been offered to 40 dealers in a room, but the prices of all the other pieces get swept along during a sale like this." Lee himself swept down $294,000 for a Rembrandt drawing, setting another record...
Truth was in line, not in color or tone. Some of Blake's most acrid denunciations were reserved for Rembrandt and Rubens, in whose "dark caverns" and "hellish brownness" the true lessons of Raphael and Michelangelo were, in his opinion, lost. His own images were overwhelmingly linear, his style based on outline and infill. The line recalls its 16th century sources in mannerist engravings (Blake never crossed the channel, and so had to depend on prints for his contact with Michelangelo). His famous Glad Day, showing Albion, the spirit of resurgent England, in mid-dance with his arms flung...
Edward Gorey, illustrator and set designer (Dracula): "I think style chooses you. If I could choose, I would draw like Rembrandt. He could turn a splotch into a landscape...
...Orchestra--try to catch one of their concerts some time during the week. Or walk down Huntington Ave., away from the John Hancock Building, and stop when you see a horse to your right. The building behind the statue is the Museum of Fine Arts, featuring an exhibit of Rembrandt etchings. Beware--the MFA is closed on Mondays, but open every other day. Other points of interest: The Gardner Museum and the Museum of Science. While at the Science Museum, stay for evening shows in the Hayden Planetarium of a laser musical, Lovelight, and what is billed as a laser...
Towering above them is Rembrandt van Rijn, the greatest Dutch artist of the 17th century and one of half a dozen supreme draftsmen in the history of the West. The show contains ten Rem brandt drawings, and to see them in the context of work by his more gifted students is to be reminded of the difficulties of attribution. They imitated just what, one would think, was inimitable in his style: Ferdinand Bol, for instance, got Rembrandt's quick hooking line down so pat that he reproduced it unconsciously. They could not, however, approach the beautiful, sure clarity with...