Neve was himself a major collector, and owned 160 Old Master paintings, including many by Murillo.
But most of the truly career-minded will try for an old master, by hook or by crook.
In the 20th century Colnaghi, under a succession of expert directors, became renowned for its Old Master drawings.
When an old master's painting fetches tens of millions on the auction block, it makes headlines around the world.
The collection spans a range of styles and eras, including old master paintings and drawings, rare works by impressionist greats, African art and more.
It is 50 years since the price of Old Master and Modern pictures, at all levels of quality, was in rough equilibrium.
As in years past, the houses wind down with sales of Old Master paintings and antiquities from Europe, Africa, and the Near East.
The gallery's glory days came in the late 19th century when Otto Gutekunst became its director and moved the firm into Old Master paintings.
In fact, after Number Two, it is the best of the roughly 50 courses in the area, including several by the old master, Donald Ross.
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The exhibit at the Old Master Picture Gallery is an in-depth look at the painting's composition, acquisition and reception a story told through paintings, sketches, letters and objects.
Beyond his predecessors, Hals was the first virtuoso of the visible brushstroke, but no other Old Master seems to have made art so little for his own fulfillment.
You could frame the television like a painting (with help from specialty framers) and hang it above the fireplace, but the notion of "Masterpiece Theater" as Old Master is questionable.
So what he is alleged to have done is sent empty boxes, devoid of the said old master, to his office in Connecticut, where there is no relevant sales tax.
Mr. Rush said that the campus's now-closed Kresge museum will move its collection, including 7, 000 objects of Greek and Roman antiquities, Old Master paintings and 20th-century sculpture, into the new space.
Years later, what you thought was a daub by a chimp with a paintbrush turns out to be an old master - and you have to pay through the nose for it!
During the robber-baron years, when wealthy industrialists and newly minted tycoons avidly acquired Old Master art as signs of status, Americans' appetite for Rembrandts was so keen that attributions were often extremely optimistic.
When Lugt died in 1970 at the age of 86, on Rembrandt's birthday (July 15th), the foundation held 6, 000 Old Master drawings, thousands of etchings and artists letters, as well as the miniatures and frames.
"The rise to the fourth most popular museum and gallery in the world reflects the enduring appeal and relevance of Old Master paintings today, and the strength of engaging exhibitions with a wide appeal, " a statement said.
It is where Old Master dealers showcase their newly attributed Rembrandts, Modern dealers spotlight their newly-discovered Van Goghs , and Contemporary dealers grab attention with not only the top names, but the most desirable works to be found.
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"In the auction context, this is really the most intensely moving, powerful and wonderful drawing that we have ever had, " Gregory Rubinstein, Sotheby's head of Old Master drawings, said in an online discussion of the work with other Sotheby's specialists.
Take, for example, the work of 80-year-old master Robert Rauschenberg, who has been making people see the world in a new way since he debuted his "combines" (so called because they combine painting and collage) at the Leo Castelli gallery in the late 1950s.
For instance, you can turn your living room and adjacent powder room into a first-floor master suite and let your adult children have your old master bedroom, or combine your son's old bedroom with the guest room and a secondary bath to create a second master suite upstairs.
At best, the argument that this show "surveys various ways museums inspire the making of works of art" is evident in a few of the photographs on view most notably the large Cindy Sherman portrait that conjures up an Old Master painting (and wonderfully confuses you as to precisely which one it might be).
Other strategic loans to fill occasional historical gaps remind us of the amazing old-master paintings still in private collections.
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Pulitzer panelists used their prerogative to skirt traditional rules by purchasing the CD and nominating the 77-year-old jazz master.
Until the French Revolution, there were few opportunities to see old-master paintings outside sale-rooms, churches, palaces and private houses.
Instead of faking restorations, Malskat forged old-master and modern paintings.
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Most of them were returned after 1815, but the French royal collection remained accessible in the Louvre, and it was in England, with spectacular private collections but no national gallery, that old-master exhibitions were first established.
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