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Meanwhile, smaller museums can barely afford enough guards, relying instead on elderly docents. Just last month A Winter Landscape by the Dutch painter Esaias van de Velde was stolen from the Wallraf Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany. The thief testified at trial that, after finding only two guards for three floors, he simply slipped the painting, valued at $240,000, under his shirt and went out the door. He told the court, "It's probably more difficult to steal a T shirt...
...been a machine gunner in the war, and his drawings did to war-weary Germans what Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front did in words. By 1923, he had sold an enormous triptych, Trench, to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne for 10,000 gold marks, or nearly $3,000. Carrying on as lance bearer of the Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity), Dix went on to influence Max Beckmann and Georg Grosz with his sharp-edged, magical realism that applied the techniques of the old masters to the social misery of the anarchic Weimar Republic...
...progress of 30 years' work. Maurice Sterne has never been a headliner for art publicity, nor has he ever lacked customers. Of all the works on view last week, less than 60 are still available for purchase. Lenders include almost every important modern museum from the Wallraf-Richartz in Cologne through the Corcoran, the Metropolitan, the Carnegie Institute, to the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego and most of the important collectors in the U. S. In good times his canvases bring as much as $10,000 or $12,000 each...
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