Word: rembrandt
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...most engaging new celebrity in Washington last week was a 320-year-old boy dressed in a grey-brown tunic and a plumed velvet hat. In a chastely simple lobby of the National Gallery of Art, where the Mona Lisa hung last year on its visit to the U.S., Rembrandt's delicate 251 inch by 22 inch portrait of his son Titus was unveiled for a six-week-long stay before moving on to its permanent home in the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Art lovers flocked to see the study that Rembrandt lovingly painted shortly after...
...recent years has leaped from catsup to culture by assembling a $45 million assortment of art that ranks as one of the U.S.'s most impressive private collections. He is thus not only one of the few individual collectors with the money and desire for a first-class Rembrandt, but also that even rarer creature: a man who pursues great paintings and additional companies with equal vigor, thereby establishing a collector's reputation in both business...
...This will be the first ideological building in our time dedicated to the rebirth of man," Kiesler declared. Furthermore, as Bartos pointed out, "the scrolls are not visual as a Rembrandt is visual. Only scholars can actually decipher them. It was up to us to say something about them. We built up an air of mystery." This they did by burrowing the bulk of the shrine underground like a cave...
...scrutinized it and agreed on its authenticity. Experts evaluated it as high as $400,000. To make finally certain, Slive strung the painting around his neck in a bag and flew off to Holland. "I felt just like James Bond," confesses Slive. The concurrence of the six leading Dutch Rembrandt scholars made the sleuthing worthwhile. Boston Businessman William A. Coolidge agreed to finance the purchase, and this week Harvard's Fogg Museum is proudly announcing its newest acquisition, the first and only Rembrandt oil to enter the collection. The purchase price: a relatively modest...
...rough estimate of a dark continent, suggestive like an ominous travel poster, but nonetheless full of color and intrigue. In Dutch Masters and Cigars II, he is producing high comedy rather than striving for high seriousness. Art to him can be puns, quipping conceits between cigars and Rembrandt. Only a delightful puff here and there separates it from thin...