Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Philadelphia Museum announced last week that it had bought a Rubens masterpiece, Prometheus Bound, to help celebrate its diamond jubilee. Purchased from a London dealer for a price estimated at somewhere between $65,000 and $100,000, the picture had belonged to the Dukes of Manchester for almost three...
What Washington gallerygoers saw was only a part of Gulbenkian's collection, but it was enough to establish him as one of the most assiduous art buyers of the 20th Century. Among the prize packages in the show at the National were Rubens' luxurious, full-length portrait of...
Together with Ascot, his family home in Leighton Buzzard, Banker Anthony de Rothschild, third son of Leopold, turned over his "priceless" art collection (paintings by Hogarth, Rubens and Gainsborough, Ming and Sung dynasty Chinese porcelain, etc.) to the British National Trust.
This week the De Young Museum put the Bellini Doge on display along with the Verrocchio boy and a picture of Christ and the Magdalen, painted in collaboration by Flemish Masters Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Bruegel the Elder, which Heil also bought cheap from a Canadian dealer last spring...
Levine's newest interests: Byzantine-rich canvases of imaginary kings, handsome studies of generously fleshed women reminiscent of Rubens and Renoir, playful classical allegories. But he is still a city boy. His next big project, he announced, would be a "gigantic" canvas of a pawnshop. Said Levine: "A pawnshop...