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Article: Exquisite Portraits, Fauvist Hues And a Handful of Spiritual Quests.(Culture)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2005
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Byline: Mario Naves
Unless you're a devotee of 15th-century Netherlandish painting, chances are you've only stopped to give a cursory look at Hans Memling's diminutive painting on panel, Portrait of a Man (c. 1470), as you've made your way to the Frick Collection's big-name, box-office draws. That's less likely to be the case next month, when the venerable institution mounts Memling's Portraits, an exhibition of more than 20 examples of the genre, as well as paintings by his school. Given that Memling's corpus amounts to 100 paintings or so, it's clear that portraiture counts as a significant and maybe defining component of his oeuvre.
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