Apter Fredericks at IFAADS, New York
Apter-Fredericks - International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show
Apter-Fredericks enjoyed a highly successful show at The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show, 16 to 22 October 2009, where many of the rare pieces of English furniture shown by the leading London dealer were acquired by old and new clients.
Christie's South Kensington
Ismail Merchant Collection auctioned at Christie's realises over half million pounds
COLLECTION OF LEGENDARY FILM PRODUCER ISMAIL MERCHANT REALISES OVER HALF MILLION POUNDS AT CHRISTIE’S TODAY (7 October)
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.
Hermitage Amsterdam
Hermitage Amsterdam New Venue to open June 2009
From June 2009, a major new European cultural destination, the greatly expanded Hermitage Amsterdam, will welcome visitors to its elegantly restored 17th-century building in the historic heart of Amsterdam. Founded to bring the richness and grandeur of Russia’s artistic heritage to one of the West’s most charming capitals, this independent cultural institution will inaugurate its spacious new home — ten times the size of the previous building — with the exhibition At the Russian Court, a dazzling display of more than 1,800 treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. The Press View will be held on Thursday 18 June.
Hermitage Amsterdam attracts over 360,000 visitors in first 100 days
Monday 28 September was exactly one hundred days since the Hermitage Amsterdam opened its doors and, since the first weekend, when the museum stayed open continuously for 31 hours, just over 360,000 visitors and guests have passed through its doors. This figure already equals the estimated target for the first year. Research shows that nearly 80% of the visitors came to Amsterdam especially for the Hermitage Amsterdam, and that 1 in 6 comes from abroad. The figure of 360,000 includes 45,000 guests and 110,000 visitors through the BankGiro Loterij campaign.
Master Paintings Week
Master Paintings Week
The first Master Paintings Week, London, 4 to 10 July, has been voted a resounding success by the two auction houses and twenty-three galleries taking part, the latter reporting up to 100 visitors a day from all over the world.
Mauritshuis
Mauritshuis Unveils Preliminary Design
The preliminary design for the 22 million euro project ‘Mauritshuis building for the future’ was unveiled in The Hague on 22 June.
The ambitious design links Plein 26, the Art Deco building opposite the Mauritshuis which is part of the Nieuwe of Littéraire Sociëteit de Witte, with the museum by means of an underground foyer, thus doubling the square footage and increasing its potential. The project is expected to be completed by mid 2014.
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.
William Orpen: An Onlooker in France
William Orpen was the only official war artist to publish an extensive memoir of his experiences in the Great War. This compelling narrative was first published in 1921 and reprinted in 1924 with additional illustrations. In this fully revised edition 97 paintings and drawings have been reproduced in colour and keyed to the narrative, resulting in a perceptive and poignant account by the artist.
Bernadette of Lourdes: Paintings by Greg Tricker
Foreword by Sister Wendy Beckett, Essay by Philip Vann
Publication Date: 12 November 2008
“… And there was Sculpture”
“… And there was Sculpture” marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), the first avant-garde sculptor in Britain. The book is a comprehensive introduction to the young Epstein, a study of his personality, his art, his culture, his milieu, his domestic ménages, his Jewishness, his un-Jewishness, his vision, his lovers and again his art, for Epstein lived, starved and suffered all for his art.
Johan Zoffany: Artist and Adventurer
To be published in December 2009 to mark the bicentenary of the artist’s death. Paul Holberton Publishing is pleased to announce the first comprehensive biography of the portrait painter Johan Zoffany, one of the leading figures of 18th-century British art.
German Master Drawings
In late 2007 the National Gallery of Art, Washington, acquired one of the finest private collections of Old Master drawings, which had been passionately assembled by Wolfgang Ratjen (1943–1997) over three decades. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, from 16 May to 28 November 2010.
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.
Phillip King Presents Sculpture to The Courtauld
Phillip King (b.1934), one of Britain’s foremost sculptors and former president of the Royal Academy of Arts, and his wife, the novelist Judy Corbalis, have presented to The Courtauld Gallery one of King’s seminal early sculptures: Drift, 1961
The Khalili Collections
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.
Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Canadian Works of Art: The Thomson Collection
Ken Thomson formed what is without doubt the most significant and important collection of Canadian art in private hands. Comprising over 750 works of art assembled over fifty years, it is distinguished by its remarkable breadth, the high quality of its individual works, and the rarity of many of its objects.
Chinese Snuff Bottles: Thomson Collection
Ken Thomson’s love of small, intricate carvings inevitably led him to the field of Chinese snuff bottles. These exquisite objects embody in miniature all of China’s fine arts as well as its legends, myths and folklore. Robert Hall, one of the leading dealers in the field, helped Ken Thomson build up a collection of some 300 of the finest snuff bottles available, 115 of which will be on permanent display at the AGO with a further 150 available for rotating displays.
European Works of Art: The Thomson Collection
One of the finest collections of its kind in private hands in the world, comprises some 900 objects, primarily northern European sculpture and decorative arts dating from the early Middle Ages to the mid 19th century. The Collection has both sacred and secular objects including a renowned assemblage of medieval and Baroque ivories, as well as superb examples of silver, Limoges enamel, boxwood carving, medieval manuscripts, carved portrait medallions and nearly 100 portrait miniatures from the 16th to the 19th centuries. His Collection includes acknowledged masterpieces of extreme rarity and others by some of the most sought-after artists of their day.
Ken Thomson Collector
In 2002, Kenneth Roy Thomson (1923-2006) set in motion what has been described as one of the most significant acts of philanthropy in Canadian history when he agreed to donate his priceless art collection to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. The Collection comprises some 2,000 Canadian and European paintings and objects which will be housed in a series of galleries in a transformed AGO which has been designed by the world-renowned architect Frank Gehry who was born and raised in Toronto. Ken Thomson also contributed over $100 million towards the transformation of the AGO. The most important private art collection in Canada be on view from Friday 14 November 2008.
Rubens’s The Massacre of the Innocents at The Thomson Collection
The jewel in the crown in the Thomson Collection is undoubtedly The Massacre of the Innocents, the masterpiece of Peter Paul Rubens’s early maturity. The late Ken Thomson bought the work at Sotheby’s in London in July 2002 for £49.5 million, at the time the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction.
Ship Models: Thomson Collection
This Collection spans some 350 years and contains examples of exquisite workmanship and some of the masterpieces of the genre. Foremost are rare late 17th and 18th century British dockyard models, made to scale for the Royal Navy and wealthy individuals. There is also a large number of models made by some of the 120,000 prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars. These models, made from wood and bone, with rigging of silk and human hair, were produced by teams of skilled craftsmen and sold to local British collectors who gathered at the prison gates. The shipbuilders’ models extend from the mid 19th century to the Second World War, representing a diversity of both model style and ship type ranging from tugs, dredgers and trawlers to cargo vessels, passenger steamers, private yachts, corvettes, battleships, cruisers, torpedo boats, destroyers and two aircraft carriers.
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.
