Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Daniel Ridgway Knight’s “Among the Poppies”
Among the Poppies. here is a beauty by Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924) from our more recently sold archives. This particular painting is among Knight’s earliest works in which he features a young peasant woman walking through, or standing in, a … More…
Ribner on a Repainting by Jean-Francois Millet
Ribner on a Repainting by Millet. Here is an interesting article in the recently published Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide’s online journal discussing Millet’s Captivity of the Jews in Babylon. At the Salon of 1848 Millet exhibited two works … The Winnower … More…
Painting of the Day (just hit the SOLD archives): Daniel Ridgway Knight’s “Water Carrier”
Wooing The Public To Recover A John Constable In Switzerland
Wooing the Public to Recover Art – here is a very interesting story about one family’s attempt to recover a John Constable that was looted from their family during the war. The work is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in … More…
Sender to Sell After Closing Hedge Fund
Contemporary art collector and founder of Exis Capital Management, Inc., Adam Sender, announced he will be selling off nearly 400 works of art after closing the doors to his hedge fund last month. Sender started Exis in 1998 and once … More…