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Collections and Critiques

Boston Museum of Fine Arts Announces Exhibition to Open April 3

An exhibition of paints of Durer and Goya is being arranged by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to open on April 3. The exhibition is in commemoraion of the four hundredth anniversary of Durer's death and the one hundredth anniversary of Goya's death, which occur on April 6 and 16 respectively.

Seven rooms of the print department will be devoted to the Durers, which will be arranged, chronologically and will consist of all the engravings and etchings, about 150 woodcuts, and about 100 facsimiles of drawings. The facsimiles are being hung with the prints to which they are related.

Lithographs, etchings, and aquatints by Goya are to be put on exhibit in two other rooms in the same department. Both the Durer and Goya collections in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts rank among the most important in the country for completeness and quality of impression.

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