He was 50 when he started collecting the Old Masters that are his legacy.
Many of its dust-jackets carried reproductions of paintings: Impressionist and Modern as well as by old masters.
Over the past ten years, there has been a steady decline in prices among modern, impressionist, and old masters.
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All this has downgraded the Old Masters on an American-dominated art market and elevated Van Gogh, Monet and Picasso.
But for better or worse, Old Masters in general have nothing like the market clout of their twentieth century cousins.
This trend accompanied a steady decline in prices for modern, impressionist, and old masters over the same time period, according to artnet.
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But Mr van Rijn said that it was not just Italy's auction houses who were behind the "non-stop supply of Old Masters" leaving Italy.
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Some 200 guests were wined, dined and entertained among the Old Masters by the great pianist Alfred Brendel, long a friend of Sir Ronald's.
He was inspired by the Academy's life classes and after travelling extensively in France and Italy found further inspiration in the Venetian Old Masters.
Old Masters, typically a steady segment of the marketplace that includes European artists from the Renaissance era like Rembrandt and Tintoretto, enjoyed a robust season.
Galleries will close, artists will have a tougher time showing and buyers will likely opt for paintings from old masters rather than recent art school grads.
He treats Italy like his own private attic, coaxing a few famous but mostly obscure old masters out of private collections, regional museums, palaces and churches.
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Trying for a more modern look, it nailed up a wall of grey panels on which it is showing a mix of Old Masters and contemporary works.
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Just as old masters often depicted sages and poets as tiny figures amid mountains and forests, he saw current events and players as just one more element in his vast land.
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The museum, a stone's throw from the river, is surrounded by tasteful inner-city apartments and close to the striking Bonnefanten, where art works by modern and old masters find a comfortable home together.
Instead -- following more than a year of tests, X-rays and research -- it was confirmed as a Velazquez, and so became the highlight of Wednesday's old masters sale at Bonhams in London.
The achievement of the renovation is that it hasn't forsaken any of that spark, while making a powerful statement that American art deserves the same respect as the Old Masters and Impressionists in its collection.
It is true that many in the EU assume the Polish objection, on the environmental grounds, is a cynical ploy, a shield for the true political objection and wariness towards their old masters, the Russians.
Between the early 1960s and his death in 1996, Hebborn created an estimated 1, 000 drawings in the manner of various Old Masters, artfully mixed in with thousands more of legitimate origin that he handled as a dealer.
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And though neither of the Big Two New York auction houses hold frame sales per se, the scene had become much livelier in London, where, for example, Bonhams now schedules four a year concurrent with auctions of Old Masters paintings.
Many famous performers play modern violins alongside their old masters, not least because they are often more resistant to the rigours of air travel and central heating, but also because they may be more suitable for certain kinds of music.
At the national academies of art that began to be established throughout western Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, students were trained to scrutinize posed models through the filter of antique sculpture and such approved old masters as Raphael.
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He composed music, wrote passable poetry (always in French), bought Old Masters on the European art market, collected porcelain, patronised architects (who frequently worked from the king's own drawings) and more or less single-handedly conducted the affairs of the Prussian state.
On a day when countless eighth graders across the country saw their orthodontists and fretted over potential dates for the middle school graduation dance, Guan calmly played in the world's most famous golf tournament in a threesome that included Ben Crenshaw, the 61-year-old former Masters champion who is old enough to be Guan's grandfather.
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The promoters expanded the dance tent and added a second EDM-only venue, an igloo-shaped nightclub with air conditioning, wood floors and reproductions of paintings by old European masters on the walls.
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The 24-year-old part time Masters student was victorious in the 100m and 200m.
"It's nice to have this award and for Darren to present it to me, " said the 48-year-old former US Masters champion.
Set on curving stone streets, the old town retains a bohemian air, and the numerous museums and galleries here are bursting with the work of modern masters and artists of old.
The 58-year-old Payne has headed the Masters media committee since 2000.
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