Sentences with word «connoisseurship»

«This was our first year at The Art Show, and what stood out the most was the high level of connoisseurship of the visitors who came throughout the week — it feels very distinct from the other New York fairs,» said James Fuentes, Owner of James Fuentes.

Daniel Hamparsumyan, director of sales and exhibitions at Leila Heller Gallery, said they were «extremely pleased at the level of connoisseurship by British and foreign collectors attending Masterpiece,» after it sold Pablo Picasso's 1967 pencil and wash on paper work Trois Têtes for a «mid six figure sum» to a private European collector.

This exhibition presents old master and nineteenth - century works from The Heckscher Museum Permanent Collection, providing a framework for connoisseurship issues, such as authenticity and attribution.

At the latter extreme you have the show at the Saatchi Gallery called New Blood, a quaintly vampirical title that signals the presence of a mass of new stuff, almost all of which (except for some pictures by that sturdy and perennially interesting talent Paula Rego) vividly testifies to the patron - dealer - promoter's lack of any kind of connoisseurship at all.

The contributors raise questions about Cornell's artistic processes while drawing parallels with historical modes of inquiry such as connoisseurship, exploration and classification.

There were also marvels from Asia, acquired with connoisseurship by both father and son.

I had just begun working as an exhibitions installer at the Harvard University Art Museums and we were installing Extreme Connoisseurship, a show curated by Linda Norden from, if I recall correctly, the Fogg's collection -LSB-.....]

In French drawing at the Morgan Library, reality was there all along, and in contrast to connoisseurship from the days of Pierre - Jean Mariette it offers a handy overview of its time.

Alcohol e-commerce leader showcases best in creativity and connoisseurship among booze bloggers

The result is a kind of obtrusive tranquillity achieved through her own connoisseurship of material.

Connoisseurship Now», which took a closer look at the discipline and how it contributes to art history today.

It also reminds us that in his time Clark himself developed an innovative method for studying works of art — one that struck a balance between the then - prevailing disciplines of connoisseurship on the one hand and iconography on the other.

The fishy Leonardo, heavily repainted, with contested provenance, maybe not by the master at all, was only the triumph of pure marketing over connoisseurship.

His spiritual qualities as well as his profound connoisseurship endowed his advocacy of the classical tradition with its irrepressible vitality, and its lofty aim.

Alcohol connoisseurship entails not only a love of the trade, but an understanding of its relationship to other businesses such as the restaurant industry.

I'm so thrilled that this new edition makes Vincent Price's incomparable personality and down - to - earth connoisseurship available to another generation of food lovers everywhere.»

Wearing Roberto Cavalli is to fashion what buying expensive champagne, shaking the bottle and spraying it over your friends is to wine connoisseurship.

In the comic book, he's a walk - on, the sad - sack victim of the girls» personal - ads prank, but Zwigoff, with cowriter Clowes's assistance and blessing, expanded Seymour's passing, passive role to a pivotal degree — very much along the lines of Zwigoff's documentary portrait of his friend R. Crumb, with a whole panoply of asocial misanthropy introduced, along with blues connoisseurship, record collecting, and cartooning.

Repeat viewings could short your brain's connoisseurship circuits.

Moreover the specific location of the pending Anantara property offers a perfect fit with the brand's promise of immersing story collecting travellers in the world's most enchanting settings through unique discovery experiences, underpinned by true connoisseurship and luxurious, heartfelt hospitality.»

The first major survey of Matisse's output during World War I uses cutting - edge technology and old - fashioned connoisseurship to reveal his radical system of scraping, scratching, and repainting.

The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for a traveling seminar in drawings connoisseurship and the art market.

In addition, Greenberg's theories proved well - suited for a burgeoning art market, which found connoisseurship an easy sell.

This broad approach is a more typical kind of artist collection, but a rare few, such as Howard Hodgkin's stunning collection of Indian paintings, show more connoisseurship.

His subtle connoisseurship and deep learning were balanced by a keen commercial sense.

Beloved fixtures of the art world, the Dictrows have applied tremendous connoisseurship to collecting the best new and emergent art over the past three decades.

Serial work removes the issue of uniqueness and its requisite connoisseurship, and therefore creates more reliable price points in the tracking of works of art as tradable commodities.

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Such callow connoisseurship is a bit like preferring one's fruit unripe and undersized - especially today, as the twice - annual shopping raids on art schools from Yale to Goldsmiths bring in dwindling returns.

To judge between them was a matter of rarified connoisseurship.

She teaches connoisseurship and design history at the New York School of Interior Design.

In these works, Asper wipes away the last vestiges of self from the self - portrait, her gloves hiding her «artist's hands» and, with them, expunging everything that conservative phrase from connoisseurship connotes.

«For some time, I had been interested in working with Robert, and in doing so here to circumscribe connoisseurship and mere conformity.

Richter sets incredibly high standards for himself, and is a harsh critic of himself and of the clichés present in his work; he dismisses «virtuosity» and relies instead upon connoisseurship and rigorous editing.

Each calendar year, TYFA produces major exhibitions and promotes scholarship, broad connoisseurship, and public programming through collaboration with art historians, critics, and museum professionals, who contribute to the galleries» events and publications.

Formed in 2006 as an artist - run alternative gallery space, the group has exhibited their drawing, video, sound, and performance projects throughout the United States and in Mexico City, and has been widely recognized for its «inventive construction, loving attention to detail and keen - eyed connoisseurship.»

One of the largest and most refined collections of early American furniture in private hands, as well as major Dutch paintings, American paintings, and works on paper, including some 40 floral watercolors by Redouté, acquired with great connoisseurship together over four decades by George M. and Linda H. Kaufman, have been promised to the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

«I have long admired Jason Busch's seasoned connoisseurship and passion for art, not to mention his ability to cultivate patrons across collecting categories,» says Mr. Jacques.

Characterised by innovation and inventiveness, and imbued with a spirit of dynamic, responsive connoisseurship excited by the cutting - edge, Next Chapter is a collection befitting its time.

The artist gave the eulogy, a loving remembrance that also captured Hopps» brilliant connoisseurship and his penchant for «stealing» art to make a point.

Their foresight and connoisseurship helped to define the scope of the Guggenheim's holdings of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and modern art.

Though Harvard trained (think connoisseurship) David is essentially a populist, albeit (in view of his training) perhaps with deeply buried elitist leanings.

> Connoisseurship and the Making, Appraising, Replicating and Undoing of Art's Images artwatchuk > Authentication in Art (AiA) Congress 7 - 9 May

Chicago has a long history of active connoisseurship, as the primo collections of the AIC, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Arts Club of Chicago, and other institutions will attest.

The gallery strives to inspire visitors with eclectic exhibitions that foster connoisseurship.