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...months, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries and London's Sotheby's and Christie's have been bidding for the job. Last week it went to Parke-Bernet, whose auction next November should make art history. In 1928 Erickson paid Duveen Bros. $750,000 for the Rembrandt Aristotle. After the crash, he sold it back for $500,000, but in 1936 bought it again for $590,000. With the art market of today, Aristotle seems a cinch to break the $1,000,000 mark, which would be the highest price ever paid for a painting...
...Miseries and Misfortunes of War were on display in Frankfurt, leading off an exhibition that bore the single-word title "Krieg." Goya was often lurid; Callot proves an exponent of unrelenting realism. Now honored as the "Father of French Etching," Callot was widely respected in his own day. Rembrandt owned a complete portfolio of his etchings, and some of Rembrandt's early work bears a strong resemblance to Callot's. Later, Hogarth was an avid collector; such diverse notables as Goethe and Sir Walter Scott were admirers; and Anatole France remembered having dreams about Callot's graphic...
...annual report, John P. Coolidge, Director of the Museum, cited contributions of Chinese textiles and ceramics, several outstanding Greek vases, a Rembrandt self-portrait, and the Fogg's first Gilbert Stuart painting...
Public activities were "substantial rather than spectacular," because the Museum was working on long term plans. The Fogg did present 27 exhibitions during the year, most important a showing of "Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections...
...they have seen it more than 60 times-may have a more serious complaint: Why has the print been darkened? Every color has been tainted with sepia, and in some scenes the effect is downright morbid. Is this somebody's idea of what DeMille once described as "Rembrandt lighting?" Hardly. The Technicolor elements have aged; their chemical colors have "wandered," as the experts...