Word: titus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dressed in a grey-brown tunic and a plumed velvet hat. In a chastely simple lobby of the National Gallery of Art, where the Mona Lisa hung last year on its visit to the U.S., Rembrandt's delicate 251 inch by 22 inch portrait of his son Titus was unveiled for a six-week-long stay before moving on to its permanent home in the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Art lovers flocked to see the study that Rembrandt lovingly painted shortly after the death of the child's mother, and the lines were lengthened by those...
Money & Desire. The man who bought Titus and brought it to the U.S., after a year of stalking it, is perhaps the only man in the world who could and would execute such a coup. As head of California's rapidly expanding Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc., Norton Winfred Simon is the ruler of a business complex that embraces two dozen companies in fields as diverse as publishing and steel. A comfortable millionaire?about $100 million at latest count?who grew rich primarily by canning tomato products, Simon in recent years has leaped from catsup to culture by assembling...
...unveiling luncheon (filet of sole espagnole) given by National Gallery Director John Walker and attended by such notables as Navy Secretary Paul Nitze, Dutch Ambassador Carl Schurmann, Pittsburgh Art Patron Paul Mellon and William Walton, chairman of the Federal Government's Commission of Fine Arts. Then Titus was ceremoniously brought from the gallery's basement, and while flashbulbs popped and TV cameras whirred, hung before red velvet in its place of honor. Yet, for all the trouble and cost he had incurred to acquire Titus, the lean, craggy six-footer with the deepset eyes and anguished look clearly...
...that Hunt is going to keep on growing, that Norton Simon will continue to cast his acquisitive eye on companies as well as on paintings?and that what comes of it all will be, in its own way, as rare and distinctive in the world of business as a Titus is in the world...
...function more effectively out of the public eye, has become known as a mysterious operator in both the business and art worlds. Such privacy, however, is increasingly hard for him to maintain. He has been deluged by a flood of requests and offers since the London sale of Titus, including thousands of pleas for handouts, dozens of propositions from art pushers, and an offer from an Englishwoman to sell him a 150-year-old pub. By dint of his business acumen, his acquisition of great art and his generosity in lending that art through the Norton Simon Foundation...