Self-portrait with Hat
Etching
4.3 x 4 cms
1 3/4 x 1 5/8 ins
1 3/4 x 1 5/8 ins
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As it happens, there has lately been a Rembrandt and Vincent exhibition. And to me, of course, the world is a more marvelous place for their having been here. Art has nothing to do with being ‘a contemporary’ or ‘being in advance of one’s time’. One could call Rembrandt a man in advance of his time. He’s the first really great modern painter and modern psychologist.
For me, Rembrandt’s late self-portraits are the greatest series of paintings that has ever been painted. One has never seen anything like them. Of all the old boys, Rembrandt is, to me, the most living. It is the character of his work. Unlike a romantic baroque Italian immersed in mythology, he painted the domestic scene. If I see a sheet of marvelous little studies of Saskia or of the household; or his own final dream of a series of self-portraits, it is that which,quite apart from his supreme genius, makes him for me such a living person – more so than a tremendous fellow like Holbein. Holbein left one chalk drawing of himself. It is a wonderful thing. The cool restraint and energyless vitality of this man are quite frightening. But with Rembrandt the door to the room is always open.
Albert Houthuesen from Walk To The Moon – The Story of Albert Houthuesen, by Richard Nathanson
For me, Rembrandt’s late self-portraits are the greatest series of paintings that has ever been painted. One has never seen anything like them. Of all the old boys, Rembrandt is, to me, the most living. It is the character of his work. Unlike a romantic baroque Italian immersed in mythology, he painted the domestic scene. If I see a sheet of marvelous little studies of Saskia or of the household; or his own final dream of a series of self-portraits, it is that which,quite apart from his supreme genius, makes him for me such a living person – more so than a tremendous fellow like Holbein. Holbein left one chalk drawing of himself. It is a wonderful thing. The cool restraint and energyless vitality of this man are quite frightening. But with Rembrandt the door to the room is always open.
Albert Houthuesen from Walk To The Moon – The Story of Albert Houthuesen, by Richard Nathanson
As it happens, there has lately been a Rembrandt and Vincent exhibition. And to me, of course, the world is a more marvelous place for their having been here. Art has nothing to do with being ‘a contemporary’ or ‘being in advance of one’s time’. One could call Rembrandt a man in advance of his time. He’s the first really great modern painter and modern psychologist.
For me, Rembrandt’s late self-portraits are the greatest series of paintings that has ever been painted. One has never seen anything like them. Of all the old boys, Rembrandt is, to me, the most living. It is the character of his work. Unlike a romantic baroque Italian immersed in mythology, he painted the domestic scene. If I see a sheet of marvelous little studies of Saskia or of the household; or his own final dream of a series of self-portraits, it is that which,quite apart from his supreme genius, makes him for me such a living person – more so than a tremendous fellow like Holbein. Holbein left one chalk drawing of himself. It is a wonderful thing. The cool restraint and energyless vitality of this man are quite frightening. But with Rembrandt the door to the room is always open.
Albert Houthuesen from Walk To The Moon – The Story of Albert Houthuesen, by Richard Nathanson
For me, Rembrandt’s late self-portraits are the greatest series of paintings that has ever been painted. One has never seen anything like them. Of all the old boys, Rembrandt is, to me, the most living. It is the character of his work. Unlike a romantic baroque Italian immersed in mythology, he painted the domestic scene. If I see a sheet of marvelous little studies of Saskia or of the household; or his own final dream of a series of self-portraits, it is that which,quite apart from his supreme genius, makes him for me such a living person – more so than a tremendous fellow like Holbein. Holbein left one chalk drawing of himself. It is a wonderful thing. The cool restraint and energyless vitality of this man are quite frightening. But with Rembrandt the door to the room is always open.
Albert Houthuesen from Walk To The Moon – The Story of Albert Houthuesen, by Richard Nathanson
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