Word: titian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee, Director Eckhardt publicly announced the awful truth: The museum has been the victim of a mammoth hoax. Said he: "With the exception of the Canadian paintings and the eleven old German paintings on permanent loan, there is almost nothing which is really worthwhile in the permanent collection . . . The Titian is not a Titian, the Rubens is not a Rubens, and the Correggio not a Correggio...
...fooled even the experts. Among the best forgeries: a Goya Crockery Seller on old canvas, with small, fanlike cracks to simulate age, a clever Pissarro landscape with false documentation of past owners, along with dazzling phonies labeled Da Vinci, Rubens, Corot. There was even a fake fake-a forged Titian which later turned out to hide, under layers of paint, another Titian adjudged genuine...
...decor of each gallery was adapted to the pictures it housed: one roomful of Rembrandts was placed against rich red brocade draperies; against a green brocade background Titian's Venus and the Lute Player took on a sensual grandeur. Other rooms were done in soft pastel shades or fine-grained wood veneers: Jan Vermeer's wonderfully clean Young Woman with a Water Jug was flanked by two exquisite German vases in a cool green room...
Michelangelo, Murillo, Tintoretto, Greuze, Utrillo, Renoir, Fragonard, Matisse, And the Brueghels, pére et fils, Monet, Manet, Turner, Giotto, Dufy, Degas, Titian, Watteau, From Da Vinci to The Greek Each one had his own technique. Artzy's trademark is his flair For the isolated hair...
...first show of 36 Italian and Spanish paintings of the 15th to 18th century, a "permanent loan" from Collector Samuel H. Kress, 90, the dime-store tycoon (TIME, April 27). Among the best of Houston's windfall: a warm-hued Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds by Titian and his brother Francesco, fascinating with its bright but strangely stormy sky; Goya's A Maja and Two Toreros, its gaily clad figures oddly accented by the sinister tones of its wooded background. Under Kress conditions, Houston would not have gotten the pictures unless they could be displayed...