Michaelina Wautier: Female painter of the Flemish Baroque back in vogue
Now here is an artist who could paint! The first ever exhibition for a long-forgotten 17th-century female artist is to be held at the Rubens House in Antwerp in 2018. Michaelina Wautier is probably the first woman who successfully painted works … More…
AVAILABLE: Antoine Blanchard’s “Châtelet, Quai de Gesvres”
Source: Châtelet, Quai de Gesvres – here is the other early example from Antoine Blanchard‘s Paris street scene series that we recently added to our available online inventory. Théâtre du Châtelet is one of the theaters designed by Gabriel Davioud at … More…
Shia LaBeouf arrested at anti-Trump art installation in New York
Shia LaBeouf was taken away by police following altercation at the site of his He Will Not Divide Us art installation, which is planned to run for Trump’s first term. According to the article, he was handcuffed by police on Wednesday … More…
AVAILABLE: Antoine Blanchard’s “Cafe de la Paix, Place de l’Opera”
Source: Cafe de la Paix, Place de l’Opera – here is one of two paintings by the 20th century French artist Antoine Blanchard (1910-1988) that we just added to our available online inventory. The Café de la Paix is located in … More…
Botticelli exhibit at Muscarelle Museum of Art
Botticelli and the Search for the Divine – One of only two of Botticelli’s paintings of an isolated Venus will be on view for the first time in the U.S., together with other Botticelli mythologies and portraits, in the exhibit … More…
SOLD: Edouard Cortes’s “Place de la Madeleine”
Source: Place de la Madeleine – we are still seeing great interest in the Paris street scene paintings … this Edouard Cortes will soon be leaving the country for its new home. La Madeleine, a church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, … More…
75 Arrested in European Crackdown on Art Trafficking
Another story from the Dark Side of the Art (Antiques) world. According to Raphael Minder’s NYT article, The European police have arrested 75 people and recovered about 3,500 stolen archaeological artifacts and other artworks as part of the dismantling of an … More…
Art Market Mines Gold on Instagram – The New York Times
Social media is now a must for many art galleries today. People seem to be obsessed with their phones and more of them are using sites like Instagram, as well as Facebook and Twitter, to not only follow their favorite dealers … More…
SOLD: Antoine Blanchard’s “Marche aux fleurs, Madeleine”
Source: Marche aux fleurs, Madeleine – this scene of the flower market alongside the Madeleine in Paris by Antoine Blanchard (1910-1988) made its way to a new home this week. The flower markets of Paris were abundant, the oldest of which … More…