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This former head of the Metropolitan finds Rembrandt boring

A review of ‘Rendez-vous with Art’, by Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford. It’s a minor miracle that this book doesn’t lapse into self-indulgent meandering

27 September 2014

8:00 AM

27 September 2014

8:00 AM

Rendez-vous with Art Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford

Thames & Hudson, pp.248, £19.95, ISBN: 9780500239247

Surely only a double-act of the stature of Philippe de Montebello, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1977 to 2008 but also a colossus of the art world more generally, and Martin Gayford, the eminent critic who has doubled as the recording angel of the pensées of Lucian Freud and David Hockney, could have sold the idea of producing a record of conversations about looking at works of art to a publisher.

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