Word: rembrandt
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...Roman goddess of wealth and marriage, and it took plenty of the former before Armand Hammer, 78, could latch on to Rembrandt's Juno. The perdurable Occidental Petroleum Corp. chairman, who recently received a $3,000 fine for making illegal contributions to the 1972 Nixon campaign, bought the 17th century masterpiece for $3.25 million from Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf II. The most highly priced Rembrandt ever sold, the painting will eventually land in the Los Angeles County Museum. "The seller was asking $5 million," said the magnate philosophically, "so I think $3.25 million is a bargain...
...Armand Hammer, perhaps the world's most flamboyant businessman even at the age of 77, didn't want it that way. He wasn't content with presenting "Juno", his recently purchased $3.25-million Rembrandt, without a touch of the swashbuckler...
...three-month presentation of Juno - the most expensive Rembrandt ever purchased -- isn't all that Harvard stands to gain out of Hammer's presence...
...Wertheim Collection of Impressionists brought out the story-teller in Hammer. After hearing Slive discourse on how Van Gogh's art was considered degenerate by the Nazis, Hammer related a story about his newly-purchased Rembrandt...
...egotistical collection," says Saint Laurent. "I thought like a painter or a writer. I put in it all I had in me, all my favorite painters-Vermeer, Delacroix, Ingres, La Tour, Rembrandt. It's the collection of a painter. Then there is the theatrical side-I love the opera and the music hall, and there was some of that. Then I put in my favorite heroines, like Madame Bovary and Catherine of Russia...