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Until the last few decades, "restorers" hid more pictures, under new and falsely prettifying layers of paint and varnish, than they cleaned. Modern practitioners take the bolder course of removing past additions in order to restore pictures to something approximating their original state. Sometimes they scrub with too much enthusiasm, destroying the translucent glazes of a picture surface and reducing it to the artist's bare beginnings. More often, as in the case of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (TIME, Oct. 4), they succeed in bringing back much of the painting's original bloom and freshness...
...young man with beret and gold chain is one of the finest Rembrandts that ever came to this country." Last exhibited 45 years ago at London's Royal Academy, the painting has been hidden from view since then in a private English collection. Covered with coats of varnish. Hartford's new Rembrandt had to be painstakingly cleaned before the artist's original signature was uncovered. The date. 1655, placed the painting in the period when family misfortunes and declining popularity had led Rembrandt to retire to his house in Amsterdam's Jewish quarter. There he painted...
Dripless Paint. An odorless paint that will not splash was put on sale by Superior Paint & Varnish Corp. of Chicago. The paint, which looks like thick whipped cream, thins out under the friction of the brush. Price...
...beautiful photograph brings waves of tender nostalgia . . . Thanks to the habitual dove-grey Paris sky, I first learned to see color in the wet stones of the misty buildings ... in the black trunks of the chestnut trees and in their rich green leaves shining from the rain's varnish . . . What man who has not felt the wet seeping into his shoes as he hunches his shoulders under the late October rain on a lonely Paris boulevard has ever fully savored Paul Verlaine's tender and melancholy verse...
Died. Adrian D. (for Dwight) Joyce, 81, chairman of the board of the far-flung Glidden Co.; of a heart ailment; in Cleveland. Resourceful Tycoon Joyce bought the Glidden Varnish Co. in 1917, turned waste materials into byproducts and byproducts into big business; in 37 years he built Glidden from a $2,500,000-a-year company to one nearly 100 times that size, ranging the market from powdered copper to charcoal, from soybeans to sandwich spreads...