Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war years no gilt-edged Old Masters of the Andrew Mellon-J. P. Morgan class have changed hands at auction. Recent sales: a Fra Lippo Lippi, $30,000; a Van Dyck, $10,000; a Tintoretto, $41,000; a Rembrandt, $11,500; a Velasquez, $15,500. But many a...
* In an abandoned copper mine near Seigen, the U.S. First Army last week recovered other art treasures the Nazis removed from bombed German cities, possibly from French museums. Chief item: the famed, gold-and-jeweled "Reliquary of the Magi" sarcophagus from the Cologne Cathedral. Other items: the bones of Charlemagne...
* Founded in 1805, after more than a dozen years of urgent petitions and civic meetings engineered by Charles Willson Peale, most popular American portrait painter of his time (post-Copley, pre-Stuart and Trumbull). An insatiable art lover, Philadelphia's Peale gave his children such names as Raphaelle, Rembrandt...
Titian to Kaufman. He and his wife Eleanor Holm have a 55-acre estate at Mt. Kisco, N.Y., a $200,000 town house containing fancy bathtubs, $500,000 worth of Titians, Rubens, Holbeins, Daumiers, Utrillos and El Grecos. The house is virtually his office, and a dressing gown his usual...
Park Commissioner Vesey did not take this lying on the grass. Ripped he: "If we had the opportunity to make the same purchase tomorrow, I would certainly do it." The controversy gathered momentum, spilled over into local editorial columns (under such puzzling title-lines as "Art, or Beauty, or Both...