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Bernheimer Colnaghi XXVth Biennale des Antiquaires
Bernheimer-Colnaghi at XXVth Biennale des Antiquaires
Bernheimer-Colnaghi will bring a superb selection of Old Master Paintings to the XXVth Biennale des Antiquaires which takes place at the Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris, from Wednesday 15 to Wednesday 22 September 2010. It is very appropriate that the venerable firm should come to Paris in its 250th anniversary year as its remarkable story began in that city in 1760 when Colnaghi was founded by an enterprising firework manufacturer, Giovanni Battista Torre.
15 to 22 September 2010
Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS)
Large Mirror Cube
The CCCS – Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina – has invited one of the most celebrated contemporary artists in Italy to present an installation which will be shown in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi, a spectacular example of Renaissance architecture in Florence.
1 October 2010 to 23 January 2011
Portraits and Power
The exhibition explores its theme from two main standpoints: it analyses power as an expression of the charisma of those individuals who have become icons or symbols of their age; and it probes the power of institutions and social models that either represent themselves or are represented in a critical light.
1 October 2010 to 23 January 2011
Colnaghi Ltd
Colnaghi Celebrates 250th Anniversary with Commemorative Publication
To mark its 250th anniversary, Colnaghi is publishing Colnaghi – The History, an illustrated commemorative survey of the world’s oldest commercial art gallery and the only survivor of the grand Old Master galleries in London’s Old Bond Street. During the 250 years of the firm’s remarkable history, Colnaghi has been printseller to the Prince Regent, pioneer of photographic publishing and purveyor of some of the greatest Old Master paintings, drawings and prints to private collectors and museums around the world.
Ends Friday 31 December 2010
COLNAGHI - 250 Years of Dealing in Art
Colnaghi, the world’s oldest commercial art gallery, will mount a fascinating exhibition to commemorate its 250th anniversary from 16 June to 30 July 2010. The exhibition, Colnaghi – 250 Years of Dealing in Art, which coincides with the London art fairs and the second staging of Master Paintings Week (3 to 9 July 2010) will draw upon some of the hidden treasures of the Colnaghi archive and also include a selection of prints, photographs, drawings and manuscripts to illustrate their long history. Visitors will have the opportunity to scrutinise old account books recording some of the great art deals of the past and piece together the progress of various sales from unpublished letters in the Colnaghi archive.
Ends today
Bernheimer Fine Art Photography presents Julian Schnabel Polaroids
Bernheimer Fine Art Photography is proud to present an exhibition of large-scale Polaroids by the American artist and film director Julian Schnabel which will be on show at Colnaghi, celebrating its 250th anniversary this year, at 15 Old Bond Street, London W1.
6 October to 12 November 2010
Eskenazi Limited
Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition
Eskenazi Limited, one of the world’s most respected dealers in Chinese art, is celebrating its golden jubilee with an exhibition of twelve exceptional pieces which have been acquired over the past ten years and set aside especially for this event.
4 to 30 November 2010
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Siren City: Photographs of Naples by Johnnie Shand Kydd
Some fifty striking and evocative black and white photographs of Naples by the acclaimed photographer Johnnie Shand Kydd will be shown at the Estorick Collection. This is the first time that these works have been exhibited in the UK following their debut in Madre, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Naples.
Ends Sunday 12 September 2010
Against Mussolini: Art and the Fall of a Dictator
Powerful works of anti-Fascist imagery will be on display at the Estorick Collection. While several major exhibitions have been devoted to exploring the propaganda imagery of Fascist Italy, art produced by those hostile to Mussolini and his regime has received surprisingly little attention in recent years. The exhibition will draw on a wide range of material – painting, sculpture, graphic design and documentation – to provide a comprehensive and illuminating study of this under-explored area of modern Italian culture.
22 September to 19 November 2010
Hermitage Amsterdam
Matisse to Malevich: Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage
he Hermitage has one of the world’s finest collections of French painting of the early 20th century, from which about 75 works by Matisse, Picasso, Van Dongen, De Vlaminck, Derain and many of their contemporaries have been selected for this exhibition. As well as works by the world-famous French masters, such equally celebrated Russian contemporaries as Malevich and Kandinsky will be represented.
Further information about this exhibition will be available shortly. Please contact us if you have any queries.
Ends Friday 17 September 2010
The Immortal Alexander the Great
This is the first time that any Dutch museum has devoted an exhibition to Alexander the Great, his journey to the East, and the influence of Hellenism. The exhibition spans a period of almost 2,500 years and includes over 350 masterpieces, among them the famous Gonzaga cameo, from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
18 September 2010 to 18 March 2011
Palazzo Strozzi
Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici
One of the greatest painters of the sixteenth century, Agnolo di Cosimo Tori, known as Bronzino (1503-1572), embodied the fullness of the ‘modern manner’ in the years of the government of Cosimo I de’ Medici. The exhibition will bring together a wide variety of Bronzino’s masterpieces, some of them displayed together for the first time, in addition to a selection of drawings from the greatest museums in the world.
24 September 2010 to 23 January 2011
Major Works Conserved Especially for Bronzino Exhibition
The Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence is currently restoring three of Bronzino’s masterpieces, which will be included in the landmark exhibition Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence.
24 September 2010 to 23 January 2011
The Courtauld Gallery
Masterpiece by Reynolds on view after major conservation
The Courtauld Gallery is proud to unveil Sir Joshua Reynolds’s late masterpiece Cupid and Psyche after major conservation. It forms the centrepiece of the Gallery’s new temporary display The Courtauld Collects! 20 Years of Acquisitions on view from 17 June to 19 September 2010.
Ends Sunday 19 September 2010
The Courtauld Collects: 20 Years of Acquisitions
This special summer display presents a rich selection of works of art acquired by The Courtauld Gallery since it moved to Somerset House twenty years ago. The Courtauld Gallery is sometimes described as a ‘collection of collections’ and has grown historically through the generosity of private individuals who have endowed it with the remarkable collections which they formed.
Ends Sunday 19 September 2010
Cézanne's Card Players
Paul Cézanne’s paintings of peasants playing cards have long been considered among his most important and powerful works. This landmark exhibition will be the first to bring together the majority of these remarkable paintings alongside a magnificent group of Cézanne’s closely related portraits of Provençal peasants and rarely seen preparatory sketches and related drawings.
21 October 2010 to 16 January 2011
Tomasso Brothers in New York
Scultura III
Major pieces of European sculpture will be presented by Tomasso Brothers Fine Art in their third annual New York exhibition, Scultura III, which will take place at Otto Naumann, 22 East 80th Street, from Thursday 21 to Sunday 31 October 2010. The two previous exhibitions attracted wide critical acclaim from collectors, art historians and museum curators for the quality and rarity of the pieces, and this year’s event promises to be as exciting.
21 September to 31 October 2010
