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That’s when former Fogg Director Seymour Slive bought it for Harvard, Jordan said. “He comes across this painting, and he says it says Rembrandt on the bottom. And he says it’s not a Rembrandt price and others must have come to a conclusion that this is not a real Rembrandt...
...Slive was intrigued enough to bring it to the Fogg for $35,000. Jordan said Slive was well aware of its questionable history, but decided to call E. A. Silberman Galleries regardless to see if any records remained from the original transaction. Silberman Galleries, according to Jordan, said all their records had been sent to Europe and lost...
...public, but that need not be the case with intelligent work, suggests Curator of Drawings William Robinson. On the contrary, the most perfect exhibit ever at the Fogg, he says, was a collection of landscapes by Dutch master Jacob van Ruisdael that was shown in 1982. "Director Seymour Slive successfully combined a major artist's unfamiliar, though brilliant, work with exemplary scholarship, and 2,500 people came on a single afternoon...
...have missed the lottery for Seymour Slive's class Rembrandt and His Contemporaries, but you can still see the works of this master. In conjunction with the class, the Fogg is presenting an intimate exhibit of works by Rembrandt and others in a two-part showing. The first of these skillfully displays 17th century Dutch drawings and etchings. and are of a remarkable quality...
Although Thompson said he was "not at all" pleased with Slive's previous decision to exclude sophomores from his class, he added that he is "ultimately pleased to take the class...