Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Estorick Collection
This museum shows works from the remarkable collection of modern Italian art created by Eric and Salome Estorick. Powerful images by the main protagonists of the early 20th-century Italian avant-garde Futurist movement, including Balla, Boccioni, Carrà, Severini and Russolo, are on permanent view.
Gilbert Collection
The Gilbert Collection
The Trustees of the Gilbert Collection are delighted to announce that the superb collection of gold, silver, micromosaics and gold boxes, given to the nation by the late Sir Arthur Gilbert in 1996, will move from its current home in Somerset House to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Gilbert Collection is one of the most important collections of works of art ever gifted to Britain and it is appropriate that it should find its long-term home in the world’s largest and finest museum of decorative arts which receives around 2.5 million visits every year. The Gilbert Collection will be free to the public for the first time when it goes on display at the V&A.
MD Flacks
Rare Chinese Cabinets Sold for US$1 Million
An extremely rare and fine pair of tapered huanghuali cabinets, which was the highlight of MD Flacks’ exhibition of Classical Chinese Furniture and Scholars’ Objects from the Ming and early Qing Dynasties, 17th to 18th centuries, has been sold for around $US1 million.
Millon & Associés
Millon & Associés
Millon & Associés, founded in the 19th century, is today France’s leading independent auction house for sales of art and one of the most dynamic auction firms in Paris and at the Hôtel Drouot.
Paul Holberton Publishing
Hogarth, France & British Art
"The Book has the air of brilliant performance about it, of the excitement of meticulous research and proved discovery"
Brian Sewell, Evening Standard
Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594)
Paul Holberton Publishing is proud to publish the English language edition of Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), the major catalogue accompanying the once in a lifetime single venue exhibition at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, which is on view to the public from 29 January to 13 May 2007.
Transformation of Knowledge
Lawrence J. Schoenberg’s extraordinary collection of manuscripts is a direct and evocative testament to the range of human knowledge – mathematical, medical, astronomical, technological – as it evolved in the medieval and early modern era. Transformation of Knowledge, a richly illustrated catalogue of Schoenberg’s collection, edited by Crofton Black with a preface by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and an introduction by Christopher de Hamel.
‘No Equal in any Land’:
This is the most substantial publication ever devoted to the artist André Beauneveu, and a timely reassessment of one of the most gifted and exciting figures in the history of art of the Low Countries and France.
Paul Holberton publishes Award Winning Catalogue
The sixth annual The Art Newspaper & AXA Art Exhibition Catalogue Award for the best exhibition catalogue of the year published in the UK and Eire has been given to Xanto: Pottery Painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance, published by Paul Holberton for The Wallace Collection.
Masters and Pupils
This ground-breaking book is about a family tree. Dr Gert-Rudolf Flick traces the ‘apostolic succession’ from Perugino in Italy in the fifteenth century to Edouard Manet in France in the nineteenth, as one painter passed on his knowledge to the next generation. He shows how, over the centuries, the nature of artistic instruction changed, passing from the guild system and the individual workshop to the academy and elaborate institutions of state.
Painting at the Edge of the World:
In the Grand Canyon and on the icy flanks of Mount Everest, deep in rainforests and deserts, under water and at the mouths of live volcanoes – Tony Foster paints his expansive watercolours at the edges of the world. Presented here with personal accounts of his journeys, they are an exultant testament to the power of art and the richness and fragility of our planet.
Prince Henry Revived
There can be few examples of more intensive fashioning and self-fashioning of a Renaissance figure than that of Prince Henry (1594–1612). Two decades after Roy Strong’s revelatory Henry Prince of Wales and England’s Lost Renaissance, this collection of essays re-examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural response to Prince Henry and presents many new findings in the context of recent scholarship.
Sam Fogg
Sam Fogg buys Record-Breaking Ivory
Sam Fogg, one of the world’s leading dealers in Medieval art, was delighted to be the successful buyer, on behalf of a client, of the rare and exceptional French ivory diptych of the Passion for €4,064,250 (£2,910,928) ($5,967,985) (hammer price €3,600,000) at Sotheby’s in Paris on Monday 19 November 2007 (lot 11, estimate €1,200,000-€2,000,000). This figure sets a new world auction record price for a Medieval ivory.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Important Collection of British Art Gifted to the Clark
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is delighted to announce that the Manton Foundation has donated a significant collection of British paintings, oil sketches, watercolours, and other works on paper by J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, and Thomas Gainsborough, among others. As part of this gift, the foundation has contributed $50 million to endow the Clark’s acclaimed Research and Academic Program, a leading international centre for discussion and scholarship in the visual arts.
The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery has one of the most important and best-loved collections of European paintings and drawings in Britain, ranging from the Renaissance to the 20th century and including an outstanding collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, including Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere which was recently voted the nation's third greatest painting in a poll run by the Radio 4 Today Programme.
Looted drawings return
The Courtauld will return two looted drawings in its collection to the heirs of Dr Arthur Feldmann. A third drawing in the collection acknowledged to have been looted is to be presented to the Courtauld by Dr Feldmann’s heirs.
Courtauld Receives Gift of Turner Watercolours
Eight works by J.M.W. Turner are part of an exceptional bequest of British watercolours announced today by The Courtauld Gallery. The bequest of fifty-one works by Miss Dorothy Scharf is the most significant single addition to the Courtauld’s distinguished collection of works on paper for over twenty-five years.
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The Khalili Collections
Information about The Khalili Collections
Since 1970, Prof Nasser D. Khalili has assembled, under the auspices of The Khalili Family Trust, a number of impressive art collections in a broad range of fields including arts of the Islamic world, Japanese art of the Meiji period, Indian and Swedish textiles, and Spanish damascened metalwork as well as of Near and Middle Eastern antiquities.
The State Hermitage Museum
Hermitage Stolen Art Alert
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, announced on Monday 31 July 2006, that 221 Russian works of art were missing from its high security store of Russian jewellery and precious metals. The police and government authorities have been informed and a list of the missing items has been sent to Interpol and the Art Loss Register in London. The 221 items are worth around 130 million roubles or $5m.
Worth Press Limited
The Timeline History of Islamic Art and Architecture
The Timeline History of Islamic Art and Architecture by Professor Nasser D. Khalili, published by Worth Press in November 2005, is a major new work which provides a comprehensive overview of the arts of Islam for the general reader. Never before has there been a publication that brings every aspect of this vast subject together both geographically and chronologically.
