Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Francisco Goya acknowledged only three masters: "Nature, Velasquez and Rembrandt." His careful study of all three was made apparent last week in a fine survey of Goya's work staged by a Manhattan gallery. The show also pointed up the strength and poignancy of Goya's feelings, which set him well apart from the mainstream...
...surviving Rembrandt paintings, some 170 are in U.S. collections; he is the nation's favorite old master. A fortnight ago St. Louis announced that it had bought a fine portrait from Rembrandt's last and best period (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week the Cleveland Museum of Art, which had two early Rembrandts already, also bought a late one: Portrait of a Student. In 1910, Banker Otto Kahn paid more than $100,000 to get the canvas from a Leningrad collection. His heirs, who sold it for an estimated $125,000, gave the proceeds to the Metropolitan Opera Association...
...City Art Museum of St. Louis put a mighty fine and correspondingly expensive new acquisition on show. It was a Portrait of a Young Man by Rembrandt, bought from the collection of London's late Otto Gutekunst for $130,000. The museum is tax-supported, but private citizens had pitched in $37,500 to help close its biggest deal...
...opening day, 3,000 people piled in for a look at the picture. Few disagreed with the experts' contention that it was worth what it cost. A product of Rembrandt's last, dirt-poor years, it glowed with a human warmth and depth that his earlier, slicker works lacked. The sitter's pensive, bloodshot eyes pierced the murk in which Rembrandt had muffled him; his melancholy, tight little smile reminded some visitors of the Mono, Lisa. Like her, the Young Man seemed to be silently inviting the spectator to enter the timeless, painted world in which...
Fourment, Dierick Bouts's The Annunciation and Rembrandt's Pallas Athena (for which the artist's adolescent son Titus had posed in a glittering helmet and shield). Gulbenkian had bought all three of them from the famous Hermitage collection of the Russian czars, after persuading the Soviet Union to part with them...