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When the bidding reached ?100,000 ($280,000), the bulky old gentleman in the puce-and-green-striped tie emitted a genteel "whew," and he blinked his eyes incredulously at every ?10,000 jump thereafter. The work on sale last week at Sotheby's in London was his: Rembrandt's brooding St. Bartholomew, one of the most important Rembrandts still left in private hands. The final price of $532,000 fell well short of the $2,300,000 paid last fall by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art for Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; but still...
...England's more romantic collections. He inherited more than 90 paintings that hang helter-skelter in ill-lit confusion in the library and the drafty halls of Downton Castle. Ten years ago, the major wired the castle for electricity, and now a TV set sits smack beneath Rembrandt's Flight into Egypt. A caged budgerigar chirps beneath Rembrandt's The Cradle. In addition, there is a Van Dyck ("A lovely one of a galloping horse," says the major) Rubens' portrait of Grotius ("Actually, they tell me now it may be a Van Dyck"), and a painting...
...refugee from the Grand Guignol is now widely considered to be Britain's most exciting painter. At 52, Bacon deserves his success, for he has resisted every trend and fashion in art to hack out a path all his own. Though shaped by such old masters as Rembrandt, Daumier and Velasquez ("He haunts me so much I can't let him go"), he has been as much influenced by the here and now of the photograph as by anything else. War, terrorism, gory accidents-these fleeting instants of agony fascinate Bacon. His torn and dislocated figures often seem...
...began with a sweeping declaration: ''The word civilized is opposed to the word barbarous; the word cultured, first of all, to the word ignorant . . . Knowledge is the study of Rembrandt, Shakespeare or Monteverdi; culture is our emotion on seeing The Night Watch, a performance of Macbeth...
Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries -the mortuary-like bureau of cultural standards which inNovember auctioned off the "Million-Dollar Rembrandt" for$2,300,000 - last week provided some even more provocative insightsinto the values of U.S. collectors. Where a penciled score by FredericChopin went for $40, a set of letters from John Glenn to an auto dealer fetched $425 and a collection of Charles Lindbergh memorabilia brought $3,500. Sharpest reflection of the spirit of the age, however, was theprice commanded by some correspondence of Sigmund Freud...