Sentences with phrase «old master paintings»

The collection of old master paintings is on view in the Dining Room.

The service has been used by collectors and museums to determine the value of important works of art from old master paintings to contemporary art installations.

You'll see favorites in natural light, the way old masters painted them.

His detailed and rendered Old master paintings surrounded by geometric forms and color build a dialogue with the viewer allowing them to contemplate first the past before looking at the future.

But its collection of old master paintings is comparatively modest.

In Rio de Janeiro, Wiley's inspirations did not rest in old master paintings hanging on the walls of powerful institutions, but allowed the work to be impacted by the iconic nationalistic sculptures found around the city, which he might argue are the cultural equivalent to the David or Velasquez paintings referenced in his earlier work.

He showed the work of art to another visiting expert, Piers Davies, Specialist of Old Master Paintings with Christie's, New York.

Then, only two anonymous bidders were left, Prince Bader and another person represented in the room by François de Poortere, the head of old master paintings at Christie's.

The binder in oil paint — oil, goes yellow over time, this causes the subtle glow on old master paintings with acrylics they are colourfast, the binder — acrylic polymer doesn't yellow over time.

Cecily Brown's lush gestural oil paintings draw inspiration from old master paintings as well as contemporary, political - based imagery, hovering somewhere between abstraction and representation with her loose, painterly, blurred brushstrokes.

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Thompson's works at Donald Morris take European old master paintings as their inspiration, translating Boucher, Botticelli and a bevy of Dutch painters into compositions featuring flat, bright unmodulated color.

Featuring about 30 works from local collections, the show traces the burgeoning enthusiasm for Old Master paintings in Seattle over the last 20 years.

These were included in the important Old Master paintings sale.

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«It was a sorry day in English naval history,» said George Gordon, co-chairman of Sotheby's old master paintings department worldwide.

This survey includes Old Master paintings from Italy, France, England, and The Netherlands, as well as works by modern and contemporary artists.

«This is the most important old master painting to have been sold at auction in my lifetime.»

The Kremer Collection launched the Kremer Museum, a virtual reality platform to explore seventy 17th - century Flemish Old Master paintings in detail.

Outrage surrounds a 17th - century Dutch old master painting stolen by the Nazis, which is to be auctioned in Vienna

Indeed, having studied Old Master painting under Paul Feeley at Benington College in her early years, Frankenthaler was surely very familiar with both the rich palettes and chiaroscuro technique (dramatic use of light and shadow) first employed by Renaissance masters Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian.

But where Scully builds upon an architectural framework, with reference, as the title signifies, to the palette of Spanish old master painting, Wool is appropriating enlarged digitalized markings from his own earlier works on paper.

The Young Masters Art Prize Exhibition Part 1 which took place at Sphinx Fine Art, W8 in October 2012, saw shortlisted artists» work hung alongside Old Masters paintings from the Sphinx Fine Art Collection.

She writes regularly on the subject, «decoding» garments like powdered wigs, padded hips, ruffs and even the infamous codpiece, in the hopes of bringing Old Master Paintings to a wider audience.

The superb permanent collections hold Old Master paintings, British art (including work by Bristol School artists), Eastern art, ceramics, silverware and glassware, Egyptian mummies and Assyrian reliefs, archaeological artefacts and natural history exhibits.

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Her life - size oil paintings explore contemporary narratives coupled with Old Master painting techniques that include use of light, tonal harmony and composition.

«Jeff Koons to lend works to new Old Master paintings in art fair in Paris.»

«We are not in Rome and we don't want to go there,» he said, expressing his concern that artists should paint contemporary life as they knew it, instead of following the tradition of copying Italian Old Master paintings.

+ Peter Paul Rubens» Lot and His Daughters sold at Christie's this week for $ 58 million dollars, making it the most expensive Old Master painting ever sold at the auction house.

Applying old master painting techniques in the manner of Bosch or Brueghel to his works on canvas, the artist depicts hyper - realistic figurative imagery in portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.

View Old Master painting through a new lens with the National Gallery's first major exhibition of photography.

George Wachter» 73, P»12 Joint International Department head, co-chairman Old Master Paintings Worldwide, Sotheby's, New York

«It's the beginning of a really good, strong turn,» says Christie's Old Master painting expert Anthony Crichton - Stuart.

He attracted attention at age eleven recreating old master paintings with pastel and chalk on the pavement in front of Cologne Cathedral.

Krinzinger eternalizes perishable Old Master paintings in technically elaborate digital photographs, focusing on specific subjects such as hands or breasts.

Archaelogists» grainy photographs of Palaeolithic stone carvings and low resolutions jpegs of Flemish Old Master paintings serve as motifs, and seem to refer back to a past in which painting and sculpture functioned as both parable and symbol.

Highlights of the collection include highly prized Old Master paintings and drawings, led by Nicolas Lancret's outstanding Autumn, one of four allegories of the seasons painted during the artist's career - making commission from his patron Jean - François Leriget de la Faye (1674 - 1731).

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Postcard reproductions of Old Master paintings sequestered from Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and sold by Christie's on behalf of the Philippine Commission on Good Government.

Serious fans of contemporary art might have wanted to contrast his farcical old master paintings with the sombre installation by Miroslaw Balka in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.

Internationally recognized as a premier museum and research center, the Frick is known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts.

Home to the Earl and Countess of Harewood, this superb Robert Adam palace houses Old Master paintings, family portraits and modern art.

Four old master paintings left to the National Gallery by a Dutch aristocrat who died in 2015 will this week go on public display.