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 ...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 ...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 ...Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe GERMANY 30 May — 6 September 2015 The centrepiece of the show will be the presentation of Karoline Luise’s Mahlerey Cabinet, a collection that once boasted more than 200 paintings, most of which are still preserved in the Kunsthalle today. Her original collect...
Continue reading ...Kristel Smentek Series : Studies in Art Historiography Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiquity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century European art world. Focusing on the trajectory of...
Continue reading ...Edited by Christoph Vogtherr, Wallace Collection, UK and Monica Preti and Guillaume Faroult, Musée du Louvre, France The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, scholars will welcome this collection...
Continue reading ...Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, GERMANY 10–12 September 2014 Caroline Louise of Baden (1723–1783) shaped the art collection of the margraves of Baden more than any other before or since. Her original collection included Dutch masterpieces of the 17th century and great works of French painti...
Continue reading ...Diana Scarisbrick Benjamin Zucker Elihu Yale (1649–1721) is famous for the name of Yale University, of which he was an early benefactor. He made his fortune in India, trading in diamonds. Arriving there in 1672, he rose through the East India Company from clerk to governor. When he returned to...
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 ...Stéphane Castelluccio This beautifully illustrated volume traces the changing market for Chinese and Japanese porcelain in Paris from the early years of the reign of Louis XIV (1643–1715) through the eighteenth century. The increase in the quantity and variety of East Asian wares imported duri...
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 ...The binomial art-money, nowadays even obvious, existed in the past as well, although through partially different forms and mechanisms. Traditionally one of the centres of the pictorial market was Rome, favourite destination of artists and travellers coming from every part of the globe. The book reco...
Continue reading ...The European expansion to Asia was driven by the desire for spices and Asian luxury products. Its results, however, exceeded the mere exchange of commodities and precious metals. The meeting of Asia and Europe signaled not only the beginnings of a global market but also a change in taste and lifesty...
Continue reading ...Specific Object/David Platzker, New York, NY, USA 28 February-29 April 2011 The exhibition celebrates two unique books: Sammlung Ludwig : Art of the Sixties and Hans Haacke’s The Chocolate Master / Der Pralinenmeister.The amalgam of these two publications not only reflect on the economics and ...
Continue reading ...Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, SWITZERLAND 1 October 2009-29 August 2010 The exhibition will illustrate a consequential phenomenon that first emerged during the 17th and 18th centuries in the former Low Countries: the rapid expansion of the art market. (...more at Ville de Genève website.....
Continue reading ...Hotel Albuquerque, NM, USA 18-21 March 2010 Session of note: Wendy Wassyng Roworth (chair): Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture New Scholars Session [Rose Logie: The Artful Voyeur: Watteau, Drawing, and Spectatorship; Anne-Louise G. Fonesca: Mythological Painting in Eighteen...
Continue reading ...Hyatt Regency Chicago, IL, USA 10-13 February 2010 Notable sessions include: Maureen Pelta (chair): Lost! [Kandice Rawlings: The Pull of the Unknown: Jan van Eyck's Saint Jerome; Arthur J. Di Furia: "Outstanding works ... shamefully destroyed": Maerten van Heemskerck's Lost Altarpieces and th...
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