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Rembrant's life-size paintings of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit will soon be sent to Paris, where they will be put on display at the Louvre for five years. The two-meter tall portraits have been at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for the past five years. The Rijksmuseum will first examine the portraits in their restoration studio before sending them to France. "They can be seen in the Louvre from February 21, after which they can be admired again by the public in the Rijksmuseum from 2029." the Amsterdam museum said.
It only took a few minutes of telephone bidding for the 1932 painting depicting one of the Spanish artist s companions and muses, the French painter Marie-Therese Walter, to be sold.
Traditionally reserved for an artist’s greatest works, the term “masterpiece” now appears routinely in auction catalogues, and may just mean a work is good, novel or expensive