Word: wildenstein
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...people always look for ideas in painting?" asked the great French Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir. "When I look at a masterpiece, I am satisfied merely to enjoy it." Last week at Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery plenty of satisfied art lovers were thoroughly enjoying themselves. The reason: the first big U.S. show of Master Renoir's paintings in a decade...
Insured for $500,000, the masterpiece had made the trip from Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to be part of the most impressive Rembrandt show to be held in the U.S. in more than 15 years. It had taken officials of Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery more than a year to organize the show; it was that hard to dislodge Rembrandts from their home museums...
...Stoffels, finished in 1666, when he had gained the resigned wisdom of an aging, ruined man waiting for death. It was part of Rembrandt's misfortune that such later pictures had left the stolid burghers of Amsterdam cold. Last week they helped to make the show at the Wildenstein the warmest in Manhattan...
...Wildenstein Gallery in Paris steamed like a Turkish bath as some 1,700 visitors crowded in for a peek at the modern French Christmas pictures on the walls...
Nonetheless, the popularity of the Hallmark contest had spread like wildfire. Last week Philippe Huisman, director of exhibitions for Paris' Wildenstein galleries and Hallmark's French representative, announced with pride that over 5,000 entries had been received...