Word: saskia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days. Fortnight ago at London's Christie's, his son, Titus, brought the second-largest price of any painting ever auctioned (only $64,000 less than the Metropolitan's $2,300,000 Aristotle). Last week, at the rival auction house of Sotheby & Co., his plump wife, Saskia as Minerva, brought $350,000, followed by a stunning study of an old man from the collection of U.S. Tin Plate Magnate William B. Leeds, which was knocked down for $392,000. Titus had given Christie's an alltime auction record of $3,321,581; the two Rembrandts helped...
...Aristotle, it is a painting rich in charm, warm with sentiment. It shows an angelic child dressed in a grey-brown tunic and wearing a yellow cap topped with red and yellow plumes. Theatrical? Yes. But Rembrandt had reason for wanting to please the lad. His mother, Saskia, had died, and the servant girl Hendrickje Stoffels had only recently entered the house to care for him. To Rembrandt, his son Titus had become every bit a prince, and should be painted that...
...three Rembrandts given to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford (see overleaf) show a moody trio. The young artist is lost to everything but his own thoughts. The gentle Saskia shows two complementary aspects of Rembrandt: the artist who could look into his wife's mind and yet remain fascinated by the texture of her heavily embroidered gown. The brooding landscape displays Rembrandt's vision of landscape as a wide stage on which the drama of nature is acted-trees pitted against sky, light battling with shadow, serenity threatened by a gathering storm...
...thirds of the purchase price, which gives it full possession. By order of the mayor, this week is "Rembrandt for Denver Week." The painting was done around 1632, one year after Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam. He took lodgings with a gentleman named Hendrick van Uylenburgh, whose orphaned young cousin Saskia charmed him. Saskia was of patrician background (her father had been a burgomaster), but the miller's son from Leiden successfully wooed her, and the two were married in 1634. Rembrandt painted Saskia several times, often in the role of a mythological heroine. As in many of his early...
...Then Saskia died, and that same year Rembrandt suffered a professional calamity. He painted on commission The Shooting Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (better known as The Night Watch), in which he infuriated many of the patrons by hiding them in his brilliant interplay of shadows. After that, Rembrandt was to know bankruptcy and the death of one loved one after another, including his only son. The years of tragedy were upon...