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When the exquisite Christ at Emmaus was found in the linen closet of a Paris house (TIME, Sept. 19, 1938) it was one of the big art stories of the decade. It was a soft-colored, realistic painting in the early style of Old Master (17th Century) Jan Vermeer. The Christ was authenticated by impeccable Dutch art experts, and bought by Rotterdam's Boymans Museum. Last week, a Dutch Nazi confessed that he had painted the "Vermeer" himself -and, what's more, had knocked off six others, plus two Pieter de Hooches for good measure. Total reward...
...paintings were racked on pipeline scaffolds set up in the huge, thermostated hall where Financier Stotesbury once gave concerts for 1,000 guests. Among the hidden paintings were ten Rembrandts, Breugel's Harvesters, El Greco's View of Toledo, Titian's Venus and the Lute Player, Vermeer's Lady with the Lute, Daumier's Third Class Carriage, Raphael's Virgin and Child Enthroned, a spate of Italian primitives, twelve Sargents, twelve Winslow Homers. The priceless Sèvres porcelains were never unpacked. The medieval tapestries stayed on their long rollers. All were guarded...
...best canvases, almost a year to the day before his death left to Washington's National Art Gallery (and to Philadelphia's dismay) some $50,000,000 worth of oil paint's primest pedigrees: more than 100 "best-of-brush," over such names as Titian, Vermeer, Rembrandt...
...because Rockwell is commercial? ... If so, would you say that the work of Michelangelo, Franz Hals and Velasquez is also not art? They did their stuff to order for the Popes, Medicis, burghers and princes. ... Is it because Rockwell enjoys detail? If so, where does that put Vermeer, Dürer and Holbein? Is it because he puts the light of beauty ("sweetness," if you like) into the tired and commonplace? And if so, where does that leave Raphael, Correggio, Botticelli & Co.? . . . My impulse is to say "Nuts...
...Figures of Gainsborough, El Greco, Vermeer's outputs are approximate...