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...dreaming up a boy's novel," recalled Art Scholar Henri Defoer, head custodian of the Archiepiscopal Museum in Utrecht. Two years ago, while visiting an elderly spinster in eastern Holland to examine a holy statue, he spotted something of greater interest-a painting that hinted of the early Rembrandt. Defoer spent the next two years in research trying to verify his discovery. This week he jubilantly announced his museum's acquisition of Rembrandt's Doop van de Kamerling (The Baptism of the Moor), the artist's second oldest known work. Painted in 1626 when Rembrandt...
...water jacket with one swipe of his tachi. But the art swords in this show were not meant for such ends. Their unblemished state testifies that they can rarely, if ever, have seen battle. Kept in a Shinto shrine or an armory, polished no more often than a Rembrandt is cleaned, they are among the best-preserved artifacts of their...
Thaw, 47, is probably the most successful private art dealer of his generation. His special interest as a collector, however, is master drawings, which he began to buy in the early '50s. The whole collection-including numerous works by Era Bartolomeo, Rembrandt, the Tiepolos, Rubens, Claude, Watteau, Goya, Degas and Cezanne-is to be given to the Morgan Library, and this is its first public viewing. Through 1976 it will be seen, after the Morgan showing, at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Canada...
...that make a painting. Yet, the fact remains, drawings may seem more revealing just because they are less "finished." Traditionally, a painting is a rounded utterance, decisive and final in every particular. But to see how that speech was constructed, one turns to the drawings and studies. Here is Rembrandt, in The Finding of Moses (one of half a dozen...
...subject matter is probably as much the cause. Matisse and Picasso got away with graceful, terse summarizations of the female nude. And Van Gogh is said to be the individual talent interacting with the artistic tradition when he hacked out the bad imitations of Delacroix and Rembrandt. But because Lichtenstein glorifies and celebrates the succinct essence of hamburgers, comic strips and warehouses, because he reworks Monet's Haystacks and Picasso's Bull with the slick techniques of modern graphics, he is lowered to insultable altitudes--down from the ivory tower of unintelligibility which protects most artists, thanks to the vanity...