Newport Previews: Edouard Cortès’s Place de l’Opéra
In the mid-nineteenth century, Emperor Napoleon III commissioned Georges-Eugène Haussmann to undertake an urban renovation program in Paris, beautifying the city center and aggrandizing its appearance. Consequently, street scenes of the French capital became much more popular among collectors. Another … More…
London’s National Gallery Gifted Its First Kauffman
London’s National Gallery has recently received an incredible new donation from Texas, including a mythological work by the eighteenth-century painter Angelica Kauffman. Born in Switzerland, Kauffman made her career as a painter primarily in Rome and London. She was highly … More…
Newport Previews: The Miami by Antonio Jacobsen
When curating our selections for the art fairs we attend, we always try to be conscious of bringing paintings that match the show’s location. And with the annual art show in Newport, Rhode Island, water subjects and nautical themes seem … More…
The Lewis Collection at Sotheby’s London
On Wednesday, June 24th, Sotheby’s hosted a prelude to their Modern & Contemporary evening sale featuring pieces from the collection of British businessman Joe Lewis. With his daughter Vivienne, Lewis assembled a collection estimated at a billion dollars, consisting mainly … More…
First-Edition Wuthering Heights Appears at Christie’s
Those interested in revisiting Wuthering Heights following the recent film adaptation may wish to take note of the Christie’s auction on June 30th, The Exceptional Sale: Masterworks Across Cultures, which included many significant works of art. Among the lots was … More…
Painting of the Week: Eugène Galien-Laloue’s Boulevard de la Madeleine
Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854 – 1941) invited his viewers to step directly into the animated theater of daily life in Belle Époque Paris. He returned again and again to the city’s great landmarks, capturing them across seasons, crowds, and changing light. … More…
Giacometti in the Temple
Last Friday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened a small new exhibition that places two very different artworks in the same space: several sculptures by the twentieth-century Swiss master Alberto Giacometti and the museum’s Roman-era Egyptian temple. … More…
Italian Senate Displays Caravaggio’s Barberini Portrait
The papal Caravaggio portrait purchased by the Italian state for €30 million earlier this year will now go on public display at the Italian Senate. Starting on May 28th, Michelangelo da Caravaggio’s 1598 painting Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini will … More…
London Exhibition Features Lost Carrington Work
A lost work by the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington will be put on display for the first time since its creation in a Spanish psychiatric hospital. The Freud Museum in London is currently hosting an exhibition on Leonora Carrington, subtitled … More…
Christie’s Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings
On Tuesday, June 2nd, Christie’s New York hosted their Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings auction. The expected star of the sale was a bust-length portrait attributed to El Greco. While the painting cannot be definitively attributed to the Greek-born … More…
Mitsuru Watanabe Shines at Christie’s
When one of the historical artists we specialize in has a painting come up at auction, we pay extra attention to the results. It offers a bit of a litmus test of the market for their works. However, when one … More…
Met Museum & Neue Galerie Announce Merger
The Neue Galerie, one of the top attractions on New York’s Museum Mile, has announced a merger with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Founded in 2001 by art collector and philanthropist Ronald Lauder, the Neue Galerie was created to showcase … More…
Looted Painting Found With Nazi Collaborator’s Heirs
A looted painting has been discovered in the possession of the descendants of a Dutch man who collaborated with the Nazis during the occupation of the Netherlands. Toon Kelder was a Dutch painter who lived and worked in the Hague. … More…
The Newhouse Collection at Christie’s
On Monday, May 18th, Christie’s Rockefeller Center location in New York hosted the sale featuring the art collection of S.I. Newhouse. Through the company Advance Publications, Newhouse and his brother Donald operated the parent company of dozens of local newspapers … More…
Musée d’Orsay Exhibits Nazi-Looted Art
The Musée d’Orsay in Paris will dedicate a gallery to exhibiting works of art looted during the Second World War. After the war, many European governments, including France, took it upon themselves to track down the owners of artworks and … More…
Bronze Laocoön Smashes Auction Record
As a prelude to their Old Masters evening sale, Sotheby’s London hosted a single-lot auction that shattered the record for the most expensive work of neoclassical sculpture ever sold. Laocoön and His Sons is a bronze recreation of an ancient … More…