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Unmentioned in the agreement was the fate of Van Beuningen's most sensational buy, a Vermeer Last Supper that Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans in 1947 identified as having been painted by Art Forger Hans van Meegeren (TIME, July 30, 1945 et seq.). The master faker's masterpiece is currently stored in the basement of the museum that Rotterdamers will henceforth know as the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum...
...technique Bohrod used in a recent self-portrait (see cut), which he painted for Detroit Collector Lawrence A. Fleischman (TIME, Sept. 10, 1956). The miniature of Vermeer's classic painter represents the artist, while the other symbols range through the eye (a glass one borrowed from a doctor), the heart (a piece of an old valentine), the hand (drawn like a 19th century steel engraving) and the mind (depicted by the half walnut, which looks, says Bohrod, like a brain case...
...Czernin Vermeer is "The Artist in His Studio," by Delft Painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), considered by many to be his greatest work. Hitler bought it from Count Czernin-Morzin in 1940 for more than $500,000; it now hangs in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum...
Recalling Fogg Museum Mentor Paul Sachs's advice always to put quality first ("Buy the Czernin Vermeer"), Director Cunningham said with justifiable pride: "As far as I'm concerned, they're all Czernin Vermeers*-the Ribera would hang very comfortably in the Prado, and so would the Zurbar...
Twentieth-century tastes in art have rescued from oblivion or minor status an imposing list of old masters, e.g., Italy's Piero della Francesca, Spain's El Greco, The Netherlands' Vermeer. Still least-known of the rediscovered old masters is France's 17th century Georges de La Tour (TIME, July 12, 1948), three of whose works have just been acquired by U.S. museums (see color page). The wonder seems less that such paintings are recognized as masterworks than that they were ever consigned to the attic...