Word: self-portrait
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...than a man's hand." An object which qualified for the Cook collection appeared in New York's art mart last week, a 16th Century portrait four and one-half inches in diameter. Comedian Cook is an unlikely purchaser, however, for the picture is the only authenticated self-portrait in oils of Hans Holbein the Younger, was last valued at $100,000 and is held for much more than that by the firm of Elkan & Abraham Silberman...
Possibly the best known picture in the entire collection is the self-portrait of the aging Rembrandt in a velvet cap. Other famed numbers include Titian's Man in a Red Cap, Titian's portrait of the bearded, obscene Pietro Aretino; Raeburn's portraits of James Cruickshank & wife; the immensely valuable St. Francis in Ecstacy by Giovanni Bellini; eleven Fragonard panels for which Frick reputedly paid J. P. Morgan more than...
Calling on other museums, public-spirited dealers and generous owners, the Brooklyn Museum was able to assemble 16 El Grecos, including the Worcester Art Museum's Magdalen, and the Metropolitan's View of Toledo. Three Velazquez' were borrowed: a self-portrait belonging to Jules S. Bache, a St. Peter from the Nelson Gallery of Kansas City and Don Balthazar Carlos and his Dwarf from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...
Like most modern satirists, Artist Citron is shrewd enough not to omit herself. A picture of a broad-beamed young woman sprawled on a stool and scowling at a drawing board is supposed to be a self-portrait. Minna Citron is actually much better looking. She was born Minna Wright of Newark, N. J. Henry Citron, to whom she has been married 18 years, is a Brooklyn paper box manufacturer...
...rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were for the most part in Renoir's early manner. Outstanding were a luscious Bather and a self-portrait of the old gentleman in a white duck...