Category Archives: Art From The Past

Fame and the Founding Father

“So I am to beautify a nonentity, am I?” These text, attributed to the seventy-six gathering old Patriarch Mallord William Historian on his deathbed, supply a revelatory insight into the dressage ambitiousness that fueled his lengthened and disputable advancement. For … Continue reading

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Questions Over Fixing Torn Picasso

Since 1952 “The Actor,” a rare Rose Period Picasso, has hung prominently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, along with other examples of early paintings by this Spanish master. But on Monday it could be found in a new, temporary … Continue reading

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