Supported by the Marshall Plan, the new Deutschmark superseded dubious old paintings, and even American cigarettes, as the medium of exchange.
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Now, it's a living relic, with a handful of clubby, wood-paneled rooms decked out in historic paraphernalia, framed old paintings, photographs and menus.
What the neighborhood lacked in luxuries it made up for in junk shops, where broken old paintings of no artistic merit could be bought for mere shillings.
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This is the era of the mesmerizing 32, 000-year-old paintings in the caves at Chauvet or the ornate grave goods found at the burial site at Sungir outside of Moscow.
Neve was himself a major collector, and owned 160 Old Master paintings, including many by Murillo.
The collection spans a range of styles and eras, including old master paintings and drawings, rare works by impressionist greats, African art and more.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Other strategic loans to fill occasional historical gaps remind us of the amazing old-master paintings still in private collections.
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Until the French Revolution, there were few opportunities to see old-master paintings outside sale-rooms, churches, palaces and private houses.
In the early 1960s, the Rojtman family, known for its substantial collection of old-master paintings, acquired the gem, later loaning it to several exhibitions, including the diamond show at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1998.
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.
Then he found out about Paleolithic cave art, and became determined to find a Bavarian cave with paintings as old and remarkable as the ones in France.
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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He got in touch with Tenzin and spent the next six months looking for design inspiration in everything from flea-market cast-offs to old brickwork and Raoul Dufy paintings.
Instead of faking restorations, Malskat forged old-master and modern paintings.
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He is heralding the advent of the new religion, and the wall-paintings above him depict Old Testament scenes regarded by medieval theologians as events that prefigure Jesus' life and fate.
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In 1940, four teenagers, following their dog when it disappeared down a hole near Lascaux, France, discovered 17, 000-year-old drawings now known as the Lascaux Cave Paintings.
For the series of paintings at Gagosian, he overlaid old publicity stills from the 1940s and '50s with silk-screened images such as a bolt, banana or lemon.
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He was referring to "The Voyage of Life, " a series of allegorical paintings about childhood, youth, manhood and old age, a set of which resides at the National Gallery in Washington.
Many of its dust-jackets carried reproductions of paintings: Impressionist and Modern as well as by old masters.
Sid Simmons, a 74-year-old blind man, will also show off his talent, paintings of scenes of his youth from memory.
Amir Bar-Lev directed this disquieting documentary, centered on the family of Marla Olmstead, a four-year-old girl who became a media sensation in 2004, when her abstract paintings began to sell for thousands of dollars.
Asked what effect the paintings might have on the couple's 10-year-old daughter, Greta, Martin shrugs.
In 1993 paintings by a struggling, little-known 22-year-old, Jenny Saville, caught Saatchi's eye, and he set her up in a studio, paying her to work for a year making art for his gallery.
Mr Ondaatje has filled the house with the collection of Sri Lankan antiquities he had begun as a schoolboy old maps and prints of Colombo, talipot palm-leaf manuscripts, bird paintings from the Calcutta school, pre-colonial furniture, betel-nut cutters, swords, knives and firearms.
The pieces include a rare Gutenberg bible, paintings by Monet and Matisse, and priceless 5, 000 year-old gold artefacts known as Priam's Treasure.
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