Word: rembrandt
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Greater than Rembrandt...
...enjoyment to all except strict operatic purists. The setting, which depicted a market place in ancient Lima, Peru, was in the best Russian tradition of a colorful and decorative, essentially two-dimensioned background. And against it the elaborate perfection of the actors' costume and make-up? created a Rembrandt effect of warmth and color...
Part of the $3,000,000 collection of the late Senator William A. Clark of Montana was willed to the Metropolitan Museum, or, as an alternate, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Part, including Rubens' "Magdalene," Gainsborough's "Covered Wagon," Rembrandt's "Woman with a Fan," was left to his heirs. Last week the legatees announced that they would sell their share at auction in January in Manhattan...
...chief strength and treasure? A steam of tears rose from a dozen editorial pages. With the lamentable psychology of one who does not count his chickens until they have been run over, the press pointed out that Leverhulme's collection included two paintings by Rembrandt, several by Frans Hals, Gainsborough's portrait of Squire Nuttall, Reynolds' "Countess of Thanet" and "Venus," Sir Martin Shee's "Boys of the Annesley Family," not to mention numerous Turners, Raeburns, Romneys, Lawrences...
...They exhibited together in Germany; a German critic bracketed them in the phrase "The Blue Four. *By Gainsborough (TIME, Jan. 26). †By Rembrandt...