Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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London's auctioneers thought they had seen the ultimate in auctions a year ago, when a Rubens brought $770,000. But there seems no end to the art-market boom, or limits to its surprises. Last week Sotheby's put up for sale a 168-piece silver service...
Last week Parisians swarmed into seven big galleries, freshly painted and refurbished with special funds from the Assembly, to view 700 works, few of which had ever been seen by the present generation. Covering the walls almost from floor to ceiling, the paintings ranged in time from a superb 14th...
Until last week, the best-kept secret in the art auction world was: Who put up the record $770,000 to buy Rubens' Adoration of the Magi through London Dealer Leonard Koetser (TIME, July 6)? The Daily Express offered $1,500 for any clue, after nine months got the...
LAST THE BUYER IS UNMASKED! The buyer: wealthy ("I have a bit of property") Major A. E. Allnat, who headed up a patriotic syndicate to keep the Rubens in England and turn it over to the National Gallery. "Frankly," said the major when tracked down, "I do not like the...
In point of numbers, Rubens dominates the Pinakothek, with no less than 74 examples. Van Dyck comes next with 26, and Rembrandt has ten. Such Italians as Titian, Tintoretto and Raphael are splendidly if sparsely represented. But the real heart of the museum is Dürer and the northerners...