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Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer
noun
- a painting (1653) by Rembrandt.
Example Sentences
His great painting Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer was nearly lost while being sent by ship to Sicily.
The previous year, Day & Meyer had stored a Rembrandt, “Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer,” auctioned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $2.3 million, then thought to be a record price for a painting.
Over his desk he keeps an incongruous pair of portraits: an original of Ali by LeRoy Neiman and a print of Rembrandt's Aristotle contemplating the Bust of Homer.
To most people visiting the Met, Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, bought amid vast publicity in 1961 for $2.3 million, is still "the two-million-dollar Rembrandt."
The price it was supposed to bring at Sotheby's next June was �1,000,000, or $500,000 more than the record-breaking $2,300,000 that the Metropolitan Museum of Art paid last November for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer.
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