Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — High Art Price Despite Size. [ARTICLE]

High Art Price Despite Size.

What are declared to be the two highest priced paintings In the world, In proportion to their size, are being shown In the Kleinberger galleries. One, “The Portrait of a Man,” by Hans Memling, is a small panel, ten and a half by eight Inches, and the other, by the same master, supposed to be a portrait of one of the sons of Philippe le Ben, duke of is twelve and a half by ten and a fourth inches. ” v, While the exact price paid for- the canvases has not been announced, it is known that It reached weUt into six figures. They are magnificent specimens of the work of Memling, who is known as the Raphael of Flemish art