Sentences with phrase «old master drawings»

Image: Installation view of Old Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gallery Archives
It is focused in three areas: sixteenth - and seventeenth - century old master drawings from the Mannerist period, modern and contemporary drawings, and photography.
Before that, she worked for Jan Krugier Gallery, the exclusive agent to the Marina Picasso Estate, and served as a specialist in Old Master drawings at Christie's, leading the New York department.
She oversaw the Suida - Manning Collection of Old Master drawings at Vassar before it was acquired by The Blanton in 1998.
Evelyn Karet, Independent Scholar and former Visiting Scholar, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Clark University, Boston, presents her lecture Collecting Old Master Drawings in Northern Renaissance Italy before Vasari: Motivations and Patterns of Collecting on Friday, March 4, 2016.
Michael Werner, New York and Colnaghi, London have collaborated to present a unique exhibition pairing old master drawings with modern and contemporary works on paper.
Catherine Whistler is the Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, and is a leading expert on Old Master Drawings.
The National Gallery of Art's collection of French old master drawings is remarkable for its breadth, depth, and individual masterpieces.
This unique exhibition will provide a rare opportunity to view old master drawings and modern and contemporary works on paper, highlighting and pairing major works from two key galleries in the Contemporary and Old Master art worlds.
Katrin has spent 30 years dealing in Old Master Drawings as Katrin Bellinger at Colnaghi, and has enriched major museums and private collections worldwide.
At the same time, it is clear that, on seeing even Old Master drawings at the Met, there is a common language recognized not only as acceptable but necessary during a particular time.
Originally the Salon's visitors were almost entirely French; reflecting this, tastes favoured Old Master drawings of French interest.
As the audience has diversified, so has the Salon's offering — it now embraces a mix of Old Master drawings through to contemporary works on paper; although French Old Master, and 19th - and 20th - century pieces remain its core.
The corresponding old master drawings, such as Domenico Beccafumi's «Head of an Old Man with Open Mouth» (ca. 1529 — 35) also use the medium to suggest the weight and movement of the head turning in light.
Inherently fragile and often extremely rare, Old Master drawings don't make it into public view very often — still less into public sales.
In an interview with Garbo's grandniece, Gray Horan, I learned that the bold eye that led her great - aunt to acquire «safe» works such as two Renoir paintings and Old Master drawings also had an unflinching affinity for Modernism, as exemplified by the Delaunay.
'' I felt there was more of a buzz, and better material» reports Old Master drawings dealer Katrin Bellinger, who is a co-owner of the Colnaghi gallery, London.
He leaves in place a robust exhibition program that includes the fall 2014 spectacular Forbidden City: Imperial Treasures from the Palace Museum, Beijing, and in 2015 - 16, major survey exhibitions of American art, French paintings, and Italian old master drawings.
Ann Philbin, who succeeded her in running the center in 1990 and is now director of the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, said of Ms. Beck in an email, «Amazingly, she would ask the most important museums all over the world to lend their precious rare old master drawings to this funky warehouse space in Lower Manhattan — and they would — because its reputation for innovation, connoisseurship and excellence preceded it.»
The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited Old Master drawings from the collection of its honorary trustee Jean Bonna, although it organized the show itself.
Comprised of several major gifts and purchases — including the private collections of Leo Steinberg, John and Barbara Duncan, and James and Mari Michener, as well as nearly four hundred Old Master drawings acquired as part of the Suida - Manning Collection — the Blanton's collection has an international reputation for its extraordinary works on paper and serves as a resource for art historians and other researchers in the field.
May 9, 2017, 4 p.m. — 7 p.m. (Gilder Lehrman Hall) Symposium: Minding the Time: New Dialogues with Old Master Drawings Organized with The Drawing Center
Hugo Chapman, The Simon Sainsbury Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London, presents his keynote address Parallels, Patterns and Reversals: The British Museum as a Template for Collecting Old Master Drawings on Friday, March 4, 2016.
In 1973, he announced that the cellist Janos Scholz had donated 1,500 Old Master drawings from his collection, the largest in private hands in the United States.
Noël Annesley, Honorary Chairman, Christie's Fine Art, London, began his career at Christie's auction house in London in 1964 and has followed the market in old master drawings for over half a century, witnessing its highs and lows and once - in - a-lifetime opportunities.
He has also gone through the house's vast collection of old master drawings to curate a small display of head portraits.
There have been a number of similar exhibitions at other museums in recent years that were controversial for similar reasons, including «Sensations» at the Brooklyn Museum, which featured works from the collection of Charles Saatchi, and an exhibition of Old Master drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the collection of Jean Bonna, an honorary trustee of the Met.
We could have laid down a cellarful of Chateau Lafite, or picked up an Old Master drawing, or a share of a lovely little place in Spain.
Ever wondered how the old masters drew and painted so perfectly?
Inside the house, Craig - Martin highlights sculptures from the Devonshire Collection, and selects particularly engaging portraits for the Old Master Drawings Cabinet, including drawings by Hans Holbein, Annibale Carracci and Domenico Ghirlandaio.
The exhibition was organized by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator and head of the department of old master drawings, National Gallery of Art.
A visit to the exhibition will offer a remarkable journey through many facets of European draftsmanship, revealing the broadly diverse ways the artists responded to their individual worlds and expressed their unique creativity,» said Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator and head of the department of old master drawings, National Gallery of Art.
Some 400 old master drawings have been cataloged in recent years, and a selection of 140 of the finest works is presented in full - page format and color in this catalog, together with explanatory texts and supporting illustrations.
Stacey Sell, associate curator, department of old master drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, is the coordinating curator for the presentation in Washington.
The exhibition is curated by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator and head of the department of old master drawings, National Gallery of Art.
Brian Sewell collection produces slew of Old Master drawing attributions The late Brian Sewell knew a decent Old Master drawing when he saw one.
A Christie's spokesperson said the glut of attributions was due to the fact that Old Master drawings are often unsigned and usually less well documented than paintings: «Many of the works were bought 20 — 30 years ago so it's not surprising that advances have been made that now help to narrow down and in many of the cases confirm a revised attribution.
The Weld Collection of Old Master Drawings was funded in 1995.
In 1910 Pierpont Morgan established the core of the Morgan's holdings when he purchased a collection of about fifteen hundred old master drawings from the English artist - collector Charles Fairfax Murray.
Through fellow collector Eugene V. Thaw, already then renowned as a dealer in old master drawings, they met Andre Emmerich, proprietor of one of Manhattan's leading contemporary art galleries.
Gifts and purchases of old master drawings have continued at Vassar, under the director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center since 1991, James Mundy (class of 1974), whose specialty is sixteenth - century Italian drawings.
Getty announces acquisition of 16 Old Master drawings The J. Paul Getty Museum has announced that it has acquired 16 Old Master drawings and a painting by Watteau.
Kimberly Schenck, head of paper conservation at the National Gallery of Art, demonstrates the process of preparing the paper; Mark Leithauser, the Gallery's chief of design, demonstrates various ways of drawing with metal; and Stacey Sell, associate curator in the department of old master drawings, comments on the techniques used by the artists.
The conceptual, visual, or technical relationships between them are emphasized, showing not only what contemporary drawings owe to the art of the past but also how our interpretation of old master drawings is indebted to contemporary practices.
Matthew Barney, whose drawings we showed last year, found in the Morgan's collections old master drawings, books, and medieval manuscripts that related directly to his work and which were displayed alongside his drawings.
They could just concentrate on presenting their collections well, and perhaps putting on the occasional erudite exhibition of old master drawings — indeed, the Courtauld is about to do just that.
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