European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                � tvs a .t#fn., next to Kiosk is a very Plain affair. Linkers this it Stuttgart s self portrait of Rembrandt. Its authenticity u questioned. Is it a Rembrandt in in by Bill Durens a Stuttgart Bureau a tithe mystery of the Stuttgart Rem Al Brandt grows As Alice would say curl user and  like Alice stut garters have been Ina wonderland for about two months Over their self portrait of Rembrandt purchased by the City for $900.000. Shortly after the City purchased the Rembrandt in december from London Art dealer Edward specimen doubt was Caston its authenticity. A Munich Art connoisseur Martin Porky announced that in his opinion the Rembrandt is a fake. Rembrandt experts from the nether lands and Belgium were asked for. Opinions and responded with careful non committal statements. And the local newspapers and a National Magazine dug into the history of the paint ing and found what one newspaper called a dark  the painting supposedly was once owned by Cardinal a Espuite of Majorca. How Ever a Magazine reporter visited Majorca and found no record of it on the inventory of possessions left by the Cardinal who died in the mid-18th Century. An administrator of the Bishop s Palace in Polma declared thai he had never heard of a Rembrandt in the Possession of the Cardinal and the heir to the Cardinal s Palace and Art collection Don Fernando Truyol Morell said he never looked upon the painting As a Rembrandt and neither did he Ever pretend to sell Itas one. The painting was displayed at a Palm Charity Bazaar in 1950 and was listed As 1962 the stars and stripes a self portrait of Rembrandt it a indicated at the Bazaar that it was on be from Truyol collection. After that murkier Clouds gather around the painting. Truyol said he sold the painting in the Spring of 1960jeronlmo Juan Tous of Palma but could t recall the Price it , a Magazine reporter quoted Tous As saving that he did t buy paintings but rather introduced Speelman of Truyol. The Case of the Rembrandt Bec even Darker when some one ask How the painting found its Way to lond because it is illegal to Export work Sart from Spain. Speelman vacationing on the River was quoted As saying he thought it Watanen out of Spain during the 1936-39 civil War but the painting it was noted shown in Palma at the Charity Bazaar 1950. There the Case rests leaving the cite fathers the state Art gallery and the Loop citizens to speculate on their Rembrandt the 22-by-27-Inch painting naturally attracted new interest in the state when it s on View parking around gallery is As difficult As divining thing s past. Missing for to Days last week we under further examination the re twas Back on View again this week gallery is open mondays saturday sundays from 10 onto. To 4 . And tuesdays wednesdays and fridays10 . To 9 . The stat gallery located at 32 Necko str. A a poo. Ill r