Sentences with phrase «old master paintings left»

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

Not exact matches

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.

He never left Holland, and scoured the markets for paintings and prints by the old masters.

Fast forward to the 20th century, when British painter David Hockney noticed something unusual about old master paintings that had escaped notice despite the thousands of dissertations on the same: everyone is left - handed.

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.

In fact, although he only once briefly left England and his own propaganda asserted his Englishness and often attacked the Old Masters, his background in printmaking, more closely aware of Continental art than most British painting, and apparently his ability to quickly absorb lessons from other painters, meant that he was more aware of, and made more use of, Continental art than most of his contemporaries.