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Word: rubenses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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If it takes discretion, judgment, finesse and expertise to run a first-rate art museum, it should take no less of those qualities to run a first-rate art auction house such as Christie's of London. Consider last week's strange case of the "discovered" Rubens.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: How to Smell a Rubens | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

Scent on the Hill. When Paris came in the auction-house door, judgment apparently flew out the window. Christie's director, David Carritt, was on vacation, and his evaluators, incredibly, attributed the work to a mediocre 17th century copyist named Lankrink, appraised it at $280, and placed it in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: How to Smell a Rubens | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

Anthills & Bullrings. Eisenstaedt learned to train his vision long before he turned to the camera as a career. A German artilleryman whose legs were nearly ripped off by shrapnel in World War I, he existed afterward by odd jobs -until 1928, when he sold his first picture to the Berliner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: The Witness | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

Papa had a bad temper, says Hotch. When he drank, he sometimes grew quarrelsome and querulous with his fourth wife, "Miss Mary," whom he adored and once described as "my pocket Rubens." He slyly made sport of pestering strangers by extravagantly praising something they wore. He was also a hypochondriac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Days | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

In 1618, Rubens sold the 7-ft. by 10-ft. oil to the British Ambassador to The Hague for 600 florins. A surviving letter, signed by the artist, describes the work as "Daniel amidst many lions, which are taken from the life. Original, the whole by my hand." Rubens is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A RARE RUBENS BY RUBENS | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

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