Collecting But even though you may never be able to own a masterpiece by Cellini or Holbein, their work is waiting to be seen, studied, and enjoyed in museums everywhere.

Today the lover of fine paintings who cannot afford to buy them can acquire excellent reproductions at extremely low prices. There have been almost miraculous improvements in printing processes since the turn of the century, and the best of the current reproductions almost duplicate the originals.

These excellent reproductions, well worth framing, are on sale at many art museums. A particularly fine group of such pictures in full color is included with each issue of the New York Metropolitan Museum's Seminars in Art. The full set would give you a veritable museum in your home, representing the works of great artists such as Van Gogh, El Greco, Marin, Dufy, Braque, Raphael, Rubens, Whistler, Renoir, Degas, Da Vinci, Durand, and many others.

The Metropolitan Seminars, by the way, are a series of beautifully printed, handsomely designed books on art appreciation. Written for the layman who has little or no knowledge of art—the person "who knows what he likes"—they bring new meaning to the paintings you have looked at so casually in the museums and galleries.




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July 5, 2008