Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, FRANCE 13-15 November 2019 Les femmes ont occupé une place majeure dans la modernisation du métier de marchand d'art, progressivement remplacé par celui de galeriste. Laboratoires des avant-gardes, les enseignes dirigées par des femmes œuvrèrent à la déc...
Continue reading ...In spite of the huge number of paintings by this artist in the Prado, Luca Giordano (Naples, 1634–1705) is seldom studied and is therefore little known to the public, who often do not see beyond the cliché of his prodigious speed of execution. The present volume sets out to remedy this lack of kn...
Continue reading ...Exhibition: 23 September-31 December 2017 Conference: 10-11 November 2017 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA Nearly 100 years ago, the Wadsworth Atheneum received an extraordinary gift of more than 1,350 works of art from the collection of financier J. Pierpont Morgan. These objects, an arra...
Continue reading ...The British School at Rome (via A. Gramsci, 61) 22 June 2017 A cura di Francesca Parrilla e Matteo Borchia I sezione Linda Borean (Università di Udine): L’artista nel ruolo di collezionista nella Venezia barocca Cecilia Vicentini (Università eCampus/Università di Ferrara): Invent...
Continue reading ...Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, NY, USA 3-4 March 2017 This two-day symposium focuses on collections of American art formed during the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century and concludes with a conversation with Alice Walton, the greatest ...
Continue reading ...University of Leeds, UK 30–31 March 2017 The Centre for the Study of the Art and Antiques Market at the University of Leeds announces the international two-day conference exploring the relationship between the ‘private’ and ‘public’ spheres of the art market and the museum. This interd...
Continue reading ...13-15 October 2016 Bauakademie am Schinkelplatz, Berlin, GERMANY In the wake of the Western expansion, a fast growing number of non-European artefacts entered the European market. They initially made their way into princely cabinets of curiosities. Made possible by the forced opening and exploit...
Continue reading ...Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, FRANCE 20-21 October 2016 The focus of the conference is to explore the changing and complex nature of the role of agent in the art market during the Early Modern Period. Papers will explore shifts in the dynamics of the market, the changing...
Continue reading ...The Frick Center for the History of Collecting in America, New York, NY, USA, 28 June 2016 American collectors at the turn of the 20th century eagerly sought out Medieval and Renaissance art once held in the collection of the notorious art dealer Frédéric Spitzer, 1816–1890. Paola Cordera,...
Continue reading ...By Catherine Hickley In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized 1,280 paintings, drawings and prints by artists including Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Chagall, Otto Dix and Paul Klee. Former Bloomberg arts reporter Catherine Hickley has de...
Continue reading ...Edited by Inge Reist, The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950 14 essays examine points of similarity and difference in the approaches to art collecting practiced in Britain and the United States. Unlike most of th...
Continue reading ...The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Watson Library Digitization Initiative has digitized 898 catalogs and checklists published by Knoedler between 1869 and 1946. Knoedler & Company, established in 1857, was among the most important art dealers in New York City. Representing artists with an inter...
Continue reading ...The influential intercontinental art dealer Alexander Iolas, active between 1945 and 1987, has been called the “proto-Gagosian” of his day because he had galleries in Athens, Rome, Geneva, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Paris. A former ballet dancer and a grand eccentric, he was passionate about a...
Continue reading ...Schwaben Akademie, Kloster Irsee, GERMANY 13-16 June 2014 Cabinets of prints and drawings belong to the earliest art collections of Early Modern Europe. Some of them achieved astounding longevity such as the Florentine Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe at the Uffizi. The fame which they acquired then d...
Continue reading ...Vortragsreihe am Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Leipzig, GERMANY Juni-Juli 2014 Durch das plötzliche Auftauchen der Sammlung Cornelius Gurlitt sowie durch den von George Clooney produzierten Hollywoodfilm Monument Men sind in jüngster Zeit wieder Themenfelder in die allgemeine ...
Continue reading ...The Institute of Historical Research and The Wallace Collection, London, UK 1 & 2 July 2014 With the developing interest in the history of collecting, this two-day workshop aims to bring out new research in the area of collecting and art markets in the early modern era 1700-1900. The...
Continue reading ...Paul Mellon British Centre for Studies in British Art, London, UK 2 May 2014 This one-day conference will address the issue of connoisseurship in relation to historic, modern and contemporary British art studies. Speakers from different sphere - art dealers, museum curators, conservators, art...
Continue reading ...What is art worth? How can a work by Pablo Picasso be sold for more than $100,000,000? This fascinating book explains the market for art—and art’s value for all of us. In straightforward prose that doesn’t mystify art or deny its special allure, prominent art dealer and market expert Michae...
Continue reading ...Beginning in 1933, Jewish collectors were under extraordinary pressure from German officials to surrender their treasures - paintings, manuscripts, musical instruments, and all manner of objets d'art. Collectors reluctantly agreed to one-sided sales of masterpieces at ludicrously low prices in excha...
Continue reading ...The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends, Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard, and many others. (...more at Van Gogh Museum website.....
Continue reading ...A “smootherboy” (the self-congratulatory gang name adopted by public school- and Oxbridge-educated male staff at Sotheby’s), Richard Day entered the art world by putting together a small prints exhibition on Cork Street with the remaining £50 of his army earnings. As an evidently sociable...
Continue reading ...Questa pubblicazione, la terza di una collana specificatamente dedicata al collezionismo artistico a Venezia in età moderna, prende in esame il Settecento, il secolo definito della "gloria" di Venezia, particolarmente ricco e articolato per l'evoluzione del gusto e degli orientamenti del fenomeno, ...
Continue reading ...A dozen years ago the art dealer Richard L. Feigen attended an auction of European paintings at Sotheby’s in London and found a picture he liked: a richly colored scene of a religious vision, with a hovering saint and four angels, all topped by shimmering gold halos, that was attributed to a minor...
Continue reading ...Founded in 1872, the Munich based Galerie Heinemann was one of the most important German art dealing companies until it got "aryanized" by the National Socialists in 1938. In 1972, the Heinemann family gave the remaining business records of the gallery to the Deutsches Kunstarchiv at the Germanis...
Continue reading ...Leo Castelli was called generous, shrewd, tireless, mercurial, magical, and charmingly cagey; a constant whirlwind of invention; a man with Old World charm, courage, audacity, dedication; and always a gentleman “in a business where it is sometimes rather difficult to be anything of the sort.” ...
Continue reading ...Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., was counted among the foremost French and American art dealers in antiquities and decorative arts and was among the first to foster and support the growth and appreciation for collecting in the field of contemporary European art. The company's clients included most...
Continue reading ...Bernhard A. Böhmer (1892–1945) gehörte zu den vier Kunsthändlern, die mit dem Verkauf der 1937 in deutschen Museen als "entartet" beschlagnahmten Kunstwerke beauftragt waren. Dokumente weisen jedoch darauf hin, dass bei Böhmer in Güstrow nicht nur die offiziell über ihn "verwerteten" Kunstwe...
Continue reading ...White Columns, New York, NY, USA 15 January-27 February 2010 The photographs are presented in the White Columns Bulletin Board project space as a part of an occasional and ongoing series of displays at White Columns of ‘found’ photographs. (...more at White Columns website...)...
Continue reading ...James Graham & Sons, New York, NY, USA 20 November 2009 - 5 January 2010 These imagined maps—colored renderings made in painstaking detail—reflect the John Zinsser's longstanding interest in New York galleries and their role in recent art history. Here, they're presented installation-sty...
Continue reading ...10 April-31 July 2011 Centrum Judaicum Berlin, 10 April-31 July 2011 Depicting the development of 14 art dealerships and galleries in Berlin, the exhibition explores the way the Nazis took over this formerly independent sector of life. Among these 14 art dealerships are big, well known busine...
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