The Art Market, Collectors and Agents: Then and Now
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 taste of collectors and the importance of writers, critics,
museum curators and dealers in influencing these changes. The papers
demonstrate how examining the role of agents through their
correspondence with clients, day books or private records, bring new
insights into the workings of the art world through the detailed
evidence of how transactions were negotiated.
Colloquium organized by A. Turpin and Susan Bracken (Seminar on Collecting & Display), Stéphane Castelluccio and Mickael Szanto (Centre André Chastel, CNRS, Université Paris-Sorbonne).
PROGRAMME
Tamsin Foulkes, PhD. Candidate, University of Nottingham: James Thornhill as an agent-collector in early eighteenth-century Paris
Dr. Corina Meyer, Institute of Art History, University of Stuttgart: ‘To see once again the glorious picture by Moretto before it is forever lost for Rome’: Johann David Passavant’s (1787-1861) recommendations and selection of paintings
Dr. Gemma Avinyó Fontanet, Universitat de Lleida. Spain: Marià Manent ou le poète qui est devenu marchand: de Barcelone à New York
Alice Ensabella, PhD Candidate, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble: Promoting Themselves. Strategies and dynamics of early Surrealism’s art market
Dr. Madeleine Fidell Beaufort, independent scholar, Paris:Samuel P. Avery and the emerging American art market of the late nineteenth century
Dr. Louise Arizzoli, University of Mississippi: Dealing with Allegories of the Four Parts of the World: James Hazen Hyde 1876-1959) and his Network
Mackenzie Mallon, The Nelson Atkins Museum: Laying the Foundation: Harold Woodbury Parsons and the Making of an American Museum
Emanuele Sbardella, Ph.D Candidate, Technische, Universität Berlin: The Numismatic Market under National Socialism, illustrated by the case study of the coin collection of Alexander Hauser”
Jamin An, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles: New Art and ‘New Dealing’: Changing Conditions of Artistic Support, 1960s-70s
Dr. Tina Kosak, France Stele Institute of Art History, ZRC SAZU Ljubljana: Conquering New Art Markets: International Art Dealers and Local ‘Agents’ in Inner Austria in the Second Half of the 17th Century
Laura Popoviciu, PhD candidate, Warburg Institute, London: Shaping the Taste of British Diplomats in 18th-Century Venice
Dr. Susanna Avery-Quash, Senior Research Curator (History of
Collecting), National Gallery London: Art Agents and the National Gallery during the Nineteenth Century
Dr. Christine Howald, Technische, Universität Berlin: Asian agents & the Chinese Market in the 19th century
Dr. Renata Schellenberg, Mount Allison University, Sackville, Canada: Commerce, Culture and Connoisseurship: The Emergence of the Art Dealer in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Dr. Frances Suzman Jowell, PhD, Harvard University, independent scholar: Çe n’est pas ma faute si, dans toutes les collections, les hollandais priment tout’: Thoré- Bürger’s promotion of 17th century Dutch paintings in the Parisian art market of the 1860s
Pamella Guerdat, PhD candidate, Institute for Art History & Museology Université de Neuchâtel: René Gimpel (1881-1945) et le modèle du musée américain : De la théorie au don
Camille Mesdagh, PhD candidate, Sorbonne, Paris IV: Alfred Beurdeley (1808-1882), a dealer in curiosities and his network / Le réseau commercial d’un marchand de curiosités : l’example d’Alfred Beurdeley (1808 1882)
Dr. Julie Verlaine, Paris IV: Du marchand d’art au galeriste : l’itinéraire de Daniel
Templon et 50 ans évolution du marché de l’art occidental