Peter Jonathan Bell and Kristi A. NelsonWith contributions by Tanja Bernsau, Kathryn Griffith, Neville Rowley, and Nancy Yeide As the Allies advanced into Germany in April 1945, General Patton’s Third Army discovered the collections of the Berlin State Museums hidden in a salt mine 2,100 feet underground. Placed in the care of the “Monuments Men,”
Continue reading ...The German Lost Art Foundation, in cooperation with Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e. V., Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung und Restitution – Bibliotheken, Deutscher Bibliotheksverband e. V., Deutscher Museumsbund e. V., and ICOM Deutschland e. V. have published the “Provenance Research Manual to Identify Cultural Property Seized Due to Persecution During the National Socialist Era”. The English translation of the
Continue reading ...Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, FRANCE 13-15 November 2019 Les femmes ont occupé une place majeure dans la modernisation du métier de marchand d’art, progressivement remplacé par celui de galeriste. Laboratoires des avant-gardes, les enseignes dirigées par des femmes œuvrèrent à la découverte d’artistes notoires, soutinrent des mouvements dès leur émergence, contribuèrent à la diffusion
Continue reading ...The Centre de recherche du château de Versailles has launched the Visiteurs Database listing the accounts of foreign visitors to the domain, the Palace and the Court of Versailles, between the second half of the 17th century and the end of the 19th century. The database is part of the research programme “Court identities and
Continue reading ...The Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project is a scholarly resource dedicated to the life and oeuvre of the American-born abstract expressionist Sam Francis (1923–1994). The first installment documents all currently known unique works on paper and canvas and panel paintings attributed to the artist from 1945 through 1949. The Sam Francis Foundation will regularly release
Continue reading ...Luca Giordano (Naples, 1634–1705) is seldom studied and is therefore little known to the public, who often do not see beyond the cliché of his prodigious speed of execution. The present volume sets out to remedy this lack of knowledge.
Continue reading ...This book reunites the collection for the first time in nearly ninety years, under the expert guidance of Roman sculpture specialist Elizabeth Angelicoussis.
Continue reading ...Morgan: Mind of the Collector explores Pierpont’s groundbreaking collecting career through its impact on art scholarship, the art market, and the redefining of collecting in American and European culture.
Continue reading ...The British School at Rome (via A. Gramsci, 61) 22 June 2017 A cura di Francesca Parrilla e Matteo Borchia I sezione Linda Borean (Università di Udine): L’artista nel ruolo di collezionista nella Venezia barocca Cecilia Vicentini (Università eCampus/Università di Ferrara): Inventari, testamenti e lasciti: carte di artisti ferraresi Mauro Pavesi (Università Cattolica del Sacro
Continue reading ...This sumptuously illustrated book considers the ways in which these powerful, intelligent women left lasting marks on British society, and the cultures of the wider world, through a broad range of activities: the promotion of the court as a dynastic forum for the Hanoverian regime; the enrichment of the royal library and art collections; the advancement of science and trade; and the creation of gardens and menageries.
Continue reading ...The Centre for the Study of the Art and Antiques Market at the University of Leeds announces the international two-day conference exploring the relationship between the ‘private’ and ‘public’ spheres of the art market and the museum. This interdisciplinary conference offers the opportunity to hear new research in the fields of art market studies, museum studies, and the histories of collecting.
Continue reading ...This two-day symposium focuses on collections of American art formed during the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century and concludes with a conversation with Alice Walton, the greatest living collector of American art and the founder of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Presentations not only examine the tastes and activities of private collectors and dealers, but also explore specific areas of collecting, such as Connecticut collectors, patrons and collectors of American Pre-Raphaelite art, collections of private clubs, and the trade in faked Colonial portraits.
Continue reading ...In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence and a marker of rank and status. This book takes a fresh, comparative approach to these ideas, drawing together new scholarship to examine three related areas in a wide variety of European contexts.
Continue reading ...In the wake of the Western expansion, a fast growing number of non-European artefacts entered the European market. They initially made their way into princely cabinets of curiosities. Made possible by the forced opening and exploitation of more and more parts of the world and pushed by social and technological changes of the time, the 18th century brought a boom of the market of non-European artefacts in Europe. This came along with the emergence of a broader collecting culture and the development of a rich museumscape.
Continue reading ...Papers will explore shifts in the dynamics of the market, the changing taste of collectors and the importance of writers, critics, museum curators and dealers in influencing these changes.
Continue reading ...This conference is the first in a series associated with the Paul Mellon Centre’s flagship research project Art in the British Country House: Collecting and Display, which investigates the collection and display of works of art in the country house in Britain from the sixteenth century to the present day.
Continue reading ...American collectors at the turn of the 20th century eagerly sought out Medieval and Renaissance art once held in the collection of the notorious art dealer Frédéric Spitzer, 1816–1890.
Continue reading ...Former Bloomberg arts reporter Catherine Hickley has delved into archives and conducted dozens of interviews to uncover the story behind the headlines. Her book illuminates a dark period of German history, untangling a web of deceit and silence that has prevented the heirs of Jewish collectors from recovering art stolen from their families more than seven decades ago by the Nazis.
Continue reading ...El trabajo de investigación, que es la base de la publicación, está centrado en las obras medievales y del siglo XVI, aragonesas, que actualmente están en los Estados Unidos.
Continue reading ...Only recently has scholarship in history of collecting and anthropology has begun to address the role imperial expansion on collecting and museums in reference to European and particularly British colonialism
Continue reading ...The conference will revisit terrain mapped out by Haskell in Rediscoveries in Art, namely the transformation of the art world between the 1770s and 1870s, a period when war, revolution, plunder and state-formation brought fundamental changes to the knowledge of and trade in Old Master paintings.
Continue reading ...Le sujet s’inscrit dans le thème transversal et séduisant du voyage, de l’Italie dans toute sa diversité archéologique, urbaine, insulaire… à la fin du siècle des Lumières.
Continue reading ...6th international conference on the confiscation, thefts and transfers of works of art as a result of Nazi rule over Czechoslovakia and Europe during the Second World War and in the post-war period organized by Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of Cultural Assets of WWII Victims p.b.o.
Continue reading ...With entries on more than 480 paintings and 250 drawings, this magnificent two-volume set provides the most complete examination to date of Batoni’s entire oeuvre.
Continue reading ...In the mid-eighteenth century, English gentlemen filled their houses with copies and casts of classical statuary while the following generation preferred authentic antique originals.
Continue reading ...Her original collection included Dutch masterpieces of the 17th century and great works of French painting from the 18th century, among them canvases by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, David Teniers, and Jean Siméon Chardin.
Continue reading ...As well as placing the Sixtus V cabinet within the contexts of Roman manufacture and English collecting, the book brings to life its Roman provenance and its subsequent residence at Stourhead after the banker Henry Hoare bought it in about 1740.
Continue reading ...The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library Digitization Initiative has digitized 898 catalogs and checklists published by Knoedler between 1869 and 1946.
Continue reading ...14 essays examine points of similarity and difference in the approaches to art collecting practiced in Britain and the United States.
Continue reading ...Using a wide range of sources, the book studies the patrons and the publics, the collecting policies, the temporary exhibitions, and the architecture of these institutions, as well as the complex range of reasons for their foundation.
Continue reading ...National Gallery, London, UK
5 March 2015
In offering cultural, historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian art by early nineteenth-century writers, Dr McCue illuminates the important role they played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism.
Continue reading ...Drawing on significant unpublished archival material as well as on histories of science, publishing, collecting and display, this book shows how Mariette and his colleagues’ practices of classification and interpretation of the graphic arts gave rise to new conceptions of artistic authorship and to a history of art that transcended the biographies of individual artists.
Continue reading ...The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, an online catalogue raisonné is the first installment of the artist’s complete works.
Continue reading ...In a lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues, Owning the Past chronicles a story of pride, rivalry, snobbery, and myopic obsession with posterity and possession.
Continue reading ...The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, scholars will welcome this collection of essays by internationally recognised experts that gathers together for the first time varied and stimulating perspectives on the nineteenth-century collector and art market for French eighteenth-century art, and ultimately the formation of collections that form part of such august institutions as the Louvre and the National Gallery in London.
Continue reading ...The Richard Wilson Online catalogue raisonné has been compiled by Dr Paul
Spencer-Longhurst (Senior Research Fellow) with the collaboration of Professor David Solkin (Curator of the exhibition, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction, 1982-83) and Kate Lowry (formerly Chief Conservator at the National Museum Wales, Cardiff), with the assistance of Maisoon Rehani (Project Coordinator) and Peter Thomas (Technical Project Consultant).
Editors: Patrick Eyres and James Lomax Lord Raby’s celebrated silver wine cistern was saved for the nation after a major appeal in 2011. It was part of the spectacular group of silver provided by the government for his important embassy to Berlin (1705-1711). He received even more silver as ambassador to the Dutch Republic (1711-1714)
Continue reading ...Now online: The official website for the American artist Morris Louis (1912-1962), developed and authorized by The Estate of Morris Louis, The Marcella Brenner Revocable Trust, The Morris Louis Art Trust, The Estate of Marcella Brenner, and Diane Upright Fine Arts, LLC, the exclusive Agent for The Estate of Morris Louis.
Continue reading ...The influential intercontinental art dealer Alexander Iolas, active between 1945 and 1987, has been called the “proto-Gagosian” of his day because he had galleries in Athens, Rome, Geneva, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Paris.
Continue reading ...As a regent he gave the young kingdom of Württemberg a historical identity; his multifarious initiatives as a collector and patron, however, have all but sunk into oblivion. The holdings of the Staatsgalerie, which opened in 1843, were expanded by artworks in royal ownership as well as by personal gifts.
Continue reading ...Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, GERMANY
10–12 September 2014
Caroline Louise of Baden (1723–1783) shaped the art collection of the margraves of Baden more than any other before or since. Her original collection included Dutch masterpieces of the 17th century and great works of French painting from the 18th century, among them canvases by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, David Teniers, and Jean Siméon Chardin
Continue reading ...Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence, ITALY
24 June-8 December 2014
This exhibition proposes to offer a critical-bibliographic picture of this very important cultural phenomenon concerning the history of taste and collecting in Italy between the late XVIII century and early XIX century. Among other things, this phenomenon exerted a considerable and direct influence on the formation of the major public art collections in the most important European countries.
Continue reading ...Mapping Titian allows users to visualize one of the most fundamental concerns of the discipline of Art History: the interrelationship between an artwork and its changing historical context. Focusing on the paintings executed by the Venetian Renaissance artist, Titian (ca. 1488-1576), this site offers a searchable provenance index of his attributed pictures and allows users
Continue reading ...Olaf Peters (Editor)
With contributions from Olaf Peters, Mario von Lüttichau, Ines Schlenker, Karsten Müller, Aya Soika, Bernhard Fulda, Karl Stamm, Ernst Ploil and Ruth Heftrig
This book accompanies the exhibition at Neue Galerie New York, devoted to a reconstruction of the infamous Nazi display of modern art — the first major museum since the presentation originated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991.
Continue reading ...Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair, London, UK
6 June 2014
Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, will be joined by a panel of experts to discuss the status and meaning of collecting today.
Continue reading ...Diana Scarisbrick
Benjamin Zucker
Elihu Yale (1649–1721) is famous for the name of Yale University, of which he was an early benefactor. He made his fortune in India, trading in diamonds. Arriving there in 1672, he rose through the East India Company from clerk to governor. When he returned to London in 1699 he brought with him gems, furniture and textiles. In the milieu of portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller and physician Sir Hans Sloane he established a fashionable household where he had assembled some ten thousand items.
Vortragsreihe am Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Leipzig, GERMANY
Juni-Juli 2014
Durch das plötzliche Auftauchen der Sammlung Cornelius Gurlitt sowie durch den von George Clooney produzierten Hollywoodfilm Monument Men sind in jüngster Zeit wieder Themenfelder in die allgemeine Wahrnehmung gerückt, die unter dem Begriff “Raubkunst” subsumiert werden und zu den drängenden Problemen kunsthistorischer Forschung wie Praxis gehören. Das Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Leipzig nimmt diese Debatte zum Anlass, um in einer Vortragsreihe zentrale Aspekte der Raub und Zwangsenteignung insbesondere während der NS-Herrschaft sowie die Probleme der Provenienzforschung durch ausgewiesene Spezialistinnen und Spezialisten vorzustellen und so einen Beitrag zu den aktuellen Diskussionen zu liefern.
Continue reading ...Schwaben Akademie, Kloster Irsee
13-16 June 2014
Cabinets of prints and drawings belong to the earliest art collections of Early Modern Europe. Some of them achieved astounding longevity such as the Florentine Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe at the Uffizi. The fame which they acquired then demanded for an ordered and scientific display. Keepers were employed to ensure that fellow enthusiasts as well as visiting courtiers, diplomats and also artists might have access to the print room. Documenting an encyclopaedic approach to knowledge, prints and drawings often depicted parts of the collection in the form of a paper museum. They spread its fame, and with it the renown of its owner, across Europe and into new worlds of collecting East and West.
Continue reading ...The Institute of Historical Research and The Wallace Collection, London, UK
1 & 2 July 2014
With the developing interest in the history of collecting, this two-day workshop aims to bring out new research in the area of collecting and art markets in the early modern era 1700-1900. The focus of this workshop will be on the collector and his circles, whether friends, advisors or dealers, so as to give further understanding to the context in which individual collectors acquired and displayed their collections. Recent research on art markets and on individual collectors has revealed the fascinating and complex background of individual collectors. Further discussions of the international connections between artists, dealers and collectors have shown how these networks stretch across disciplines and countries.
Continue reading ...Paul Mellon British Centre for Studies in British Art, London, UK
2 May 2014
This one-day conference will address the issue of connoisseurship in relation to historic, modern and contemporary British art studies.
Continue reading ...Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
August 10, 2013 – February 24, 2014
European art of the 18th century increasingly emphasized civility, elegance, comfort, and informality. During the first half of the century, the Rococo style of art and decoration, characterized by lightness, grace, playfulness, and intimacy, spread throughout Europe.
Continue reading ...Guido Cornini and Claudia Lega
Catalogue for the exhibition held at Sala delle Nozze Aldobrandini, Musei Vaticani, Rome.
This exhibition will bring back to life in the Vatican the charm of the eighteenth-century collections of the Profane Museums at the time of Pius VI, before the Napoleonic requisitions. It offers a unique opportunity to see reunited, in their original museum context, works previously exhibited in the Museum and now conserved in prestigious international cultural institutions.
Continue reading ...P. Humfrey (ed.)
This volume comprises sixteen essays on the reception of Titian by British painters, collectors and critics in the long nineteenth century. The main focus falls on the first three decades of the century, in the aftermath of the exhibition of the celebrated Orléans collection in London in 1798-99.
Continue reading ...Les sœurs de Napoléon Ier, Élisa, Pauline et Caroline, eurent toutes trois un destin italien : la première fut élevée par son frère au rang de princesse de Lucques, puis de grande-duchesse de Toscane, représentante de l’Empereur en Italie. La deuxième épousa un prince romain, Camille Borghèse, et vécut avec lui entre Paris et Rome, en s’attirant dans les deux villes le titre de reine de la beauté. Enfin la cadette, mariée au général Joachim Murat, régna avec lui sur Naples avec un faste inégalé. L’exposition (au musée Marmottan Monet à Paris, du 03 octobre 2013 au 02 février 2014) évoque les trois destins des sœurs Bonaparte, forgés dans le Paris consulaire et brillamment parachevés en Italie sous l’Empire.
Continue reading ...This beautifully illustrated volume traces the changing market for Chinese and Japanese porcelain in Paris from the early years of the reign of Louis XIV (1643–1715) through the eighteenth century. The increase in the quantity and variety of East Asian wares imported during this period spurred efforts to record and analyze them, resulting in a profusion of inventories, sales catalogues, and treatises. These contemporary sources—many never published before—provide a comprehensive picture of porcelains: when they were first available; what kinds were most admired during various periods; where and at what price they were sold; who owned them; and how they were displayed and used.
Continue reading ...The first volume in two centuries on Alexandre Lenoir’s Museum of French Monuments in Paris, this study presents a comprehensive picture of a seminal project of French Revolutionary cultural policy, one crucial to the development of the modern museum institution. The book offers a new critical perspective of the Museum’s importance and continuing relevance to the history of material culture and collecting, through juxtaposition with its main opponent, the respected connoisseur and theorist Quatremère de Quincy. This innovative approach highlights the cultural and intellectual context of the debate, situating it in the dilemmas of emerging modernity, the idea of nationhood, and changing attitudes to art and its histories.
Continue reading ...A critical contribution to the burgeoning field of Spanish colonial art, Behind Closed Doors reveals how art and luxury goods together signaled the identity and status of Spanish Americans struggling to claim their place in a fluid New World hierarchy.
Continue reading ...Samuel Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones, first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curiosity cabinets, or Wunderkammern, to princely collectors in sixteenth-century Europe and, by so doing, inspire them to develop their own such collections.
Continue reading ...Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt. Drawing on a wealth of material including European travelogues of the East and Asian reports of the West, Ting Chang explores the politics of mobility and cross-cultural encounter in the nineteenth century.
Continue reading ...The Wallace Collection, London, UNITED KINGDOM
26 June 2013
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
18 June–8 September 2013
4 April-11 August 2013
Gallery at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, NY, USA
This fascinating book examines responses to the excavations by 18th- and 19th-century monarchs, statesmen, scholars, and archaeologists, as well as by artists, architects, designers, writers, and tourists.
Continue reading ...Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
10 January-23 February 2013
The Grolier Club, New York, NY, USA
5 December 2012-2 February 2013
Forty years after Picasso’s death, while his paintings are among the most expensive ever sold, the problem of how to authenticate his work remains a challenge.
Continue reading ...University of York, UK
8 December 2012
Italy’s specialist art theft police have tracked down and brought home a 400-year-old copy of a lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece – an incomplete fresco painting of the Battle of Anghiari.
Continue reading ...Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK
15-16 June 2012
The Gallery of Lost Art is an immersive, online exhibition that tells the fascinating stories of artworks that have disappeared.
Continue reading ...What is art worth? How can a work by Pablo Picasso be sold for more than $100,000,000? This fascinating book explains the market for art—and art’s value for all of us.
Continue reading ...Giorgione is notorious for his elusiveness in the written records of his day.
Continue reading ...Symposium presented by Christie’s and Union Union Internationale des Avocats, Milano, ITALY
23 June 2011
Le propos de cet ouvrage porte sur les collectionneurs de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle, et son enjeu consiste à cerner la spécificité d’un collectionneur par rapport aux formes anciennes et contemporaines de la collection.
Continue reading ...Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, FRANCE
31 May-1 June 2011
6-7 May 2011
United States National Archives
Washington, DC
The Frick Center for the History of Collecting in America, New York, NY, USA
6-7 May 2011
Universally recognized as a brilliant and gifted 18th-century artist, Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was regarded by Horace Walpole as one of the three greatest painters in England, along with his friends Reynolds and Gainsborough.
Continue reading ...The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
30 April-10 July 2011
10 April-31 July 2011
Centrum Judaicum Berlin, 10 April-31 July 2011
Specific Object/David Platzker, New York, NY, USA
28 February-29 April 2011
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
20 February-30 May 2011
The Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA
23 January-24 April 2011
Alan Riding is an esteemed journalist, long a European cultural correspondent for the New York Times and, before that, the author of what is still the best modern introduction to Mexico, Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans. Since 1985 the book has sold nearly half a million copies. And the Show Went On deserves
Continue reading ...When it comes to art, “private” and “public” take on confused, tangled meanings.
Continue reading ...The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
12 October 2010-2 January 2011
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, SWEDEN
30 September 2010-23 January 2011
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
14 September 2010-9 January 2011
Beginning in 1933, Jewish collectors were under extraordinary pressure from German officials to surrender their treasures – paintings, manuscripts, musical instruments, and all manner of objets d’art.
Continue reading ...Founded in 1872, the Munich based Galerie Heinemann was one of the most important German art dealing companies until it got “aryanized” by the National Socialists in 1938.
Continue reading ...National Gallery, London, UNITED KINGDOM
30 June-12 December 2010
Château des ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, FRANCE
26 June-7 November 2010
Das Gesamtverzeichnis der 1937/38 in deutschen Museen beschlagnahmten Werke “entarteter Kunst” wird ab April 2010 kontinuierlich komplexweise nach nochmaliger Überprüfung der Einträge ins Netz gestellt. Es kann nur nach Künstlern und Werken befragt werden, soweit sie bereits für das Netz freigegeben wurden. Das Gesamtverzeichnis fußt auf dem von den Nationalsozialisten angelegten Beschlagnahmeinventar. Die Angaben sind
Continue reading ...Commission for Art Recovery
4-5 March 2010
New York, New York
Austrian Consulate
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, USA
24 June-19 September 1010
Leo Castelli was called generous, shrewd, tireless, mercurial, magical, and charmingly cagey; a constant whirlwind of invention; a man with Old World charm, courage, audacity, dedication; and always a gentleman “in a business where it is sometimes rather difficult to be anything of the sort.”
Continue reading ...Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2-3 December 2010
National Portrait Gallery and The Courtauld Institute of Art
2-4 December 2010
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
18 October 2010
Boston College, Brighton, MA, USA
15-16 October 2010
In Room 38 of the Louvre’s Richelieu Wing hangs “The Astronomer” by the Dutch master Jan Vermeer. It is an exquisite painting. The stargazer sits before a celestial globe, his fingers spanning the constellation Pegasus. He wears a teal Japanese silk robe, a style favored by Dutch burghers in the late 17th century. He is lost in thought and bathed in a golden light.
Continue reading ...Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, CA, USA
16 October 2010
Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
7 October 2010
The Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), the “Special Task Force” headed by Adolf Hitler’s leading ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, was one of the main Nazi agencies engaged in the plunder of cultural valuables in Nazi-occupied countries during the Second World War. A particularly notorious operation by the ERR was the plunder of art from French Jewish and a number of Belgian Jewish collections from 1940 to 1944 that were brought to the Jeu de Paume building in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris for processing by the ERR Sonderstab Bildende Kunst or “Special Staff for Pictorial Art.”
Continue reading ...A dozen years ago the art dealer Richard L. Feigen attended an auction of European paintings at Sotheby’s in London and found a picture he liked: a richly colored scene of a religious vision, with a hovering saint and four angels, all topped by shimmering gold halos, that was attributed to a minor Italian painter.
Continue reading ...Bernhard A. Böhmer (1892–1945) gehörte zu den vier Kunsthändlern, die mit dem Verkauf der 1937 in deutschen Museen als “entartet” beschlagnahmten Kunstwerke beauftragt waren. Dokumente weisen jedoch darauf hin, dass bei Böhmer in Güstrow nicht nur die offiziell über ihn “verwerteten” Kunstwerke lagerten. Nach dem Krieg ließ die Zentralstelle für Volksbildung in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone
Continue reading ...In most exhibitions in the Sainsbury Wing the pictures are dominant, the words on the walls discreet. In Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries the words are large and insistent.
Continue reading ...Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, FRANCE
25-26 June 2010
This catalogue records an exhibition that pays tribute to the Prince Eugene of Savoy’s many achievements.
Continue reading ...Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
12 May-22 August 2010
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
15-16 April 2010
Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY, USA
13 April-27 May 2010
Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., was counted among the foremost French and American art dealers in antiquities and decorative arts and was among the first to foster and support the growth and appreciation for collecting in the field of contemporary European art. The company’s clients included most of the major American and European art collectors
Continue reading ...Mauritshuis, The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS
25 March-27 June 2010
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, UNITED KINGDOM
19 March-31 October 2010
Hotel Albuquerque, NM, USA
18-21 March 2010
Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX, USA
7 March-18 July 2010
The Montias database, compiled by late Yale University Professor John Michael Montias, contains information from 1,280 inventories of goods (paintings, prints, sculpture, furniture, etc.) owned by people living in 17th century Amsterdam.
Continue reading ...From the weekly shopping list to the Ten Commandments, our lives are shaped by lists. Whether dashed off as a quick reminder, or carefully constructed as an inventory, this humble form of documentation provides insight into its maker’s personal habits and decision-making processes.
Continue reading ...Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UNITED KINGDOM
6 March-4 July 2010
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
2 March-13 June 2010
Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY, USA
5 March 2010
The European expansion to Asia was driven by the desire for spices and Asian luxury products. Its results, however, exceeded the mere exchange of commodities and precious metals. The meeting of Asia and Europe signaled not only the beginnings of a global market but also a change in taste and lifestyle that influences our lives
Continue reading ...Hyatt Regency Chicago, IL, USA
10-13 February 2010
The binomial art-money, nowadays even obvious, existed in the past as well, although through partially different forms and mechanisms.
Continue reading ...The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
20 January-18 April 2010
White Columns, New York, NY, USA
15 January-27 February 2010
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
8 December 2009-28 February 2010
James Graham & Sons, New York, NY, USA
20 November 2009 – 5 January 2010
The Louvre, as imagined by the French Revolution—it opened during the Reign of Terror—and then as realized by Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon under Napoleon, was the first encyclopedic public museum, dedicated to providing a new setting for art objects taken from their original location. They would be displayed in a way that would be instructive to a
Continue reading ...Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires sur l’Allemagne, Paris, FRANCE
20 November 2009-18 June 2010
Musée national des Châteaux de Malmaison et Boix-Préau, Rueil-Malmaison, FRANCE
14 November 2009-8 March 2010
Fachtagung der Kulturinitiative Rhein-Main, Museum Wiesbaden, 11. November 2009
Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UNITED KINGDOM
10 October 2009-17 January 2010
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
1 October 2009-29 August 2010
Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, ITALY
1 October-12 November 2009
A “smootherboy” (the self-congratulatory gang name adopted by public school- and Oxbridge-educated male staff at Sotheby’s), Richard Day entered the art world by putting together a small prints exhibition on Cork Street with the remaining £50 of his army earnings.
Continue reading ...The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) makes the internet’s largest Interactive Holocaust Collection available for the first time ever. Included among the National Archives records available online at are concentration camp registers and documents from Dachau, Mauthausen, Auschwitz, and Flossenburg, the “Ardelia Hall Collection” of records relating to the Nazi looting of Jewish possessions,
Continue reading ...The letters are the window to Van Gogh’s universe.
Continue reading ...L’opera, frutto di oltre dieci anni di ricerca, consiste nella catalogazione sistematica di tutti i pittori fiorentini od operanti per lungo tempo nel capoluogo toscano tra i primi del Seicento e la fine del Settecento. Insieme agli artisti già famosi, sui quali esistono studi monografici di vario tipo, la pubblicazione mette a fuoco, collateralmente, l’attività di personalità degne del massimo interesse poco note o, in alcuni casi, quasi del tutto sconosciute alla critica contemporanea.
Continue reading ...The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture,
in collaboration with the New York Historical Society, New York, NY, USA
18 September 2009-3 January 2010
Quantity took priority over quality in Hermann Goering’s sprawling art collection, much of it plundered from Jews.
Continue reading ...During the darkest days of World War II, a ragtag band of British and American art scholars braved the battlefields of Europe to rescue thousands of cultural treasures from Nazi pillage and the collateral damage of armed conflict.
Continue reading ...Questa pubblicazione, la terza di una collana specificatamente dedicata al collezionismo artistico a Venezia in età moderna, prende in esame il Settecento, il secolo definito della “gloria” di Venezia, particolarmente ricco e articolato per l’evoluzione del gusto e degli orientamenti del fenomeno, con elementi di continuità e altri di contrasto con l’epoca che lo precede.
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