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Word: rubenses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Staggered and stunned, bidders poured into the night air, set off for consolation champagne parties, tried to figure out what it all meant. Overall, Goldschmidt's seven oils had set an alltime record of $2,186,800, easily surpassing last year's Lurcy sale in Manhattan, when 65...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Testing the Highs | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

It is interesting to note that the number of outraged letters you are receiving on abstract impressionist art is increasing. Why can't the general public recognize that we are never again going back to painting like Rembrandt, Vermeer and Rubens-or even to Watteau, Poussin and Renoir? I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Pallas and Arachne disappeared after the Archduke Charles of Austria sacked the Torre de la Parada in 1710. But Rubens' oil sketches, delivered to Philip with the finished works, were bequeathed to a worthy duke and survived in various Spanish and Belgian art collections. Virginia's Director Leslie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Picture in the Picture | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Cheek feels that he has double reason to rejoice at his new find. First, he points out, "it was done at the height of Rubens' powers, and for one of his most important and knowing clients." Secondly, Rubens at the time was running one of the greatest picturemaking factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Picture in the Picture | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

One of the richest hoards of Western art still in private hands is the collection amassed by Dutch Businessman (coal) Daniel George van Beuningen. In the years of avid collecting before his death three years ago. the man all Rotterdam knew as "D.G." gathered together so many works that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Treasure at a Bargain | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

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