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...official mind of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art only two men have ever really used paint. One was Rembrandt the Dutchman. The other was Titian the Venetian. Of some 300 closely-held authentic Titians, the Metropolitan until last week had only two. Then it bought a third from Duveen Bros., Inc. and called it "the most important purchase of a single piece of art ever made by the museum." Asked the price of this jewel, the Museum's Director Herbert Eustis Winlock replied, "We never talk prices. They don't mean anything." A good guess...
...Titian was Venus and the Lute Player. Lord Duveen, after buying it from the third Earl of Leicester in 1932, lent it to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition and to Venice's great Titian exhibition where it hung with the famed Venus of Urbino (TIME...
Venus and the Lute Player, finished when the world's longest-living (99) painter was about 83, is in Titian's "yellow & blue" period with overtones of the preceding "red & green." No diet-disciplined Hollywood beauty, the great-hipped, heavy-stomached Venus lies on a violet couch while a Cupid crowns her with flowers, and a boyish nobleman serenades her with a lute. The paint job is superb, the composition dramatic. Credited with being the first intimations of 18th Century Impressionism are the blue mountains, the wide vague plain in the background...
...Greco was a Greek painter who founded a "Spanish" school, and lived from 1548 until 1614, or slightly later. Coming under the influence of Titian in Italy for a time, he later settled in Toledo, supported by the patronage of Philip II of Spain, and in his later life produced some remarkable works of a religious nature...
...years ago the art columns of Manhattan newspapers were filled with attacks on the stodgy direction of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Museum, it was charged, was willing to spend a quarter of a million for a Titian when it already owned several; its collection was appallingly weak in French Post-Impressionists; its interest in living U. S. painters seemed to have died with Winslow Homer. From all sides the suggestion loudly arose that Manhattan should have a museum comparable to the Luxembourg in Paris that could buy and exhibit modern paintings, not with the idea of preserving eternal...