Picture This (Picador Books)

by JosephHeller (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.39

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $3.24

  In 1961, the Metropolitan Museum in New York paid $2,3000,000 for the painting Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer by Rembrandt. It was the highest price ever paid for a painting. Rembrandt received 500 guilders for the same picture and fought off debtors all his life. Heller examines the painting out of its frame as a representation of history, travelling through Greece, Holland, England and America encompassing life from 500 BC to the present day. The author also wrote Catch 22 , Something Happened , Good as Gold and God Knows .