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> including a rare Vermeer What does this mean? Wasn't Vermeer a painter, and therefore all of his works were one of a kind (unless he painted copies)?
by tivert 3y ago
> including a rare Vermeer
What does this mean? Wasn't Vermeer a painter, and therefore all of his works were one of a kind (unless he painted copies)?
- johnnyo 3y agoI dont know about the details of this particular painting, but Rarity here could refer to something like the type of paint used, the size, or even the subject matter or time period.
- yostrovs 3y agoAnd he only painted about 35 works it seems, which basically means all are rare. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Johannes_Vermeer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Johanne...
- sandspar 3y agoVermeer is the "shiny Pokemon card" of painters. Some museum recently announced they'd gathered a temporary collection of 20-odd Vermeers. Tickets for the show were sold out within minutes - a year ahead of time. Normally if you wanted to assemble a "complete collection" of Vermeers you've seen, you'd have to travel to like 10 different countries. Guys online talking about having no hesitation paying for a ten hour flight and two-day vacation for the sole reason of seeing this exhibit.
- maratc 3y ago> Some museum recently announced they'd gathered a temporary collection of 20-odd Vermeers. That would be Rijks in 2023[0], they had 28 Vermeers on display, tickets sold out within two months, half a year ahead of time. [0] https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/vermeer https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/vermeer
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- suchire 3y agoVermeer made only low dozens of paintings as opposed to, say, Monet, who made thousands, so likely they just mean something like “including one of Vermeer’s paintings, which are rare”
- pvg 3y agoIt's just the opposite of a well-done Vermeer.
- gumby 3y agoMany of the “majors” had a factory in which the “master” or headline figure might sketch out a painting, have it filled out by someone else, and then perhaps be finished off by the master. Sometimes multiple versions of the same painting were produced. The Vermeers and Van Goughs didn’t have all that infrastructure (and Vermeer painted little, or at least little survives)
- tikhonj 3y agoI'd read this as "rare because it is a Vermeer" rather than "rare for* a Vermeer".
- pradn 3y agoThere's only ~34 paintings firmly attributed to Vermeer, and - fun fact - 11 of them are on 5th Avenue in New York (between The Met and The Frick). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Johannes_Vermeer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Johannes_...