Children in Art Across the Centuries at Musée Marmottan
Images of children down the years in art have varied between the cutesy, the cloying, the comic and the heart-rending. A selection of all of these are on show in Paris with an exhibition that showcases...
View ArticleParis Gets Set for Big Art Week: Fairs, Drawings, Design and More
France in the springtime means that it is almost time for Paris Art Week, the marquee seasonal event that in 2016 brings together ever-larger rival and complementary fairs. The capital’s center will...
View ArticleThe Archaic Candour of Henri Rousseau at the Musée d’Orsay
The Musée d’Orsay is currently showing an exhibition that aims to answer the question: was the French artist Henri Rousseau a product of the 19th century or an exponent of 20th century art? Titled “The...
View ArticleAlBahie Announces Inaugural Islamic and Orientalist Art Sale in Qatar
The newly founded Qatar-based auction house, AlBahie, has announced details of its inaugural sale on April 5. Founded by HE Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Thani and Mr. Ashraf Abu Issa, AlBahie is...
View ArticleThe 5 Top Booths at Salon du Dessin Paris 2016
Many visitors gathered in the Palais Brongniart for the opening of the 25th anniversary of the Salon du Dessin. The fair, running through April 4, is the leading event for works on paper, attracting...
View Article‘Dutch Days’ Seminar Series to Bring Insight into the Dutch Golden Age to...
As part of “Dutch Days,” a festival that brings Dutch culture past and present to Hong Kong, leading curators from the Netherlands will be taking audiences on a journey to the Dutch Golden Age.The...
View ArticleOn the Block: A Week of Classics at Christie’s New York
“When collectors come to Rockefeller Center in April, I hope they’ll be struck by the diversity and quality of the things they’re viewing and be energized by the objects in a different way,” says Jussi...
View ArticleViews from the Top: John Auerbach of Christie's On Online Auctions
AGE: 38HAILS FROM: Atlanta, GeorgiaPOSITION: International Managing Director, Digital & eCommerce InitiativesSPECIALTY: Digital & eCommerceMOST MEMORABLE SALE AT CHRISTIE’S: American Art Online...
View Article“Caravaggio Masterpiece” Poured Over by Experts to Confirm Authenticity
The story is worth being told in a novel.A canvas stored in an attic for more than a century and a half in a house near Toulouse, south-west of France, is being hailed as a long-lost second version of...
View ArticleLa Biennale des Antiquaires 2016 Unveils Exhibitors List; up 30%
The Biennale des Antiquaires will take place Sep 10‑18 and organizers have unveiled the initial list of exhibitors with numbers up around 30 percent on the 2014 biennale, thanks in part to the...
View ArticleSponsored: 7 Hidden Treasures for Sale at a 104-Year-Old New Orleans Art...
If you thought New Orleans was just about decadent food, jubilant jazz, and the world’s most raucous celebrations, think again. This unique gem among the great American cities is also home to one of...
View ArticleSotheby’s to Offer Monuments Men Recovered Rothschild Metsu
Sotheby’s will offer Dutch painter Gabriel Metsu’s “An Officer Paying Court to a Young Woman,” one of the finest Dutch genre scenes remaining in private hands, during its Master Paintings sale in New...
View ArticleWorks by Gaitonde, Sabavala Lead Christie’s South Asian Sale in London
Christie’s will offer major works by Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Jehangir Sabavala, Maqbool Fida Husain, Jamini Roy, Bhupen Khakhar, Ramkinkar Baij, Meera Mukherjee, Sadanand Bakre, and Himmat Shah during its...
View ArticleVIDEO: 60 Works in 60 Seconds at Spring Masters New York 2016
Survey the mix of art and design on display at the fair’s third edition, happening May 6 through May 9 at the Park Avenue Armory.
View ArticleCharles Gleyre’s Reputation Reexamined in Orsay Show
Charles Gleyre is a painter who has often been mistreated by art history. A new show in Paris aims to set the record straight and rehabilitate his reputation.The Musée d’Orsay does a good job in...
View ArticleVenus, Remixed: The Cult of Botticelli Thrives at the V&A
“It is difficult to speak adequately, perhaps even intelligibly, of Sandro Botticelli.” So wrote Henry James in 1909. Nonetheless, such qualms did not prevent him from having a go. Nor was art...
View ArticleFine Watchmaking to be Showcased at Biennale des Antiquaires
The Richemont Group’s jewelry houses won’t be at the upcoming edition of the Biennale des Antiquaires, but the group will still have an indirect presence at the Parisian event this September by way of...
View ArticleDanish Master Eckersberg’s Nudes, Landscapes at Custodia Paris: Interview
Danish master Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg is getting his first monographic show in France – some 163 years after his death.After the Statens Museum for Kunst of Copenhagen and the Kunsthalle of...
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