Catalogue of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum:
Description This book is the first of three volumes, which altogether will comprise the first catalogue of the holdings of the J. Paul Getty Museum. It contains all the paintings belonging to the museum as of October, 1971, plus a few of the more important acquisitions made before the manuscript was submitted to the printer five months later. We are putting on paper what we own and what we have so far learned about it. For the same reasons that one cannot at present sum up the growth of the collection, it is impossible to fully acknowledge here the contribu...