While it is not uncommon for experts to differ on such matters — Is that painting by the old master or the school of the old master?
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For instance, Pascale Marthine Tayou's exhibition, "Beautiful," incorporates old master pieces into site-specific mixed-media installations: "Pascale's Eggs" (2014) features countless differently colored alabaster eggs framing the old master works.
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There was no pretense of working like an old master.
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It's a delightfully flamboyant recycling of European old master portraiture.
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"The old master had failed to master change," he added.
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My old master decided that, like he decided everything else.
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Like many old master Chinese artists, he makes gestural black pictures.
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It's instructive in some ways to look to an old master.
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He then went on to build up the old master collection.
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The old master let my pappy walk—don't ask me why.
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Told the old master she never wanted no part in running.
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The world of old master arts and antiques has been on edge for the last year, as two old master paintings sold at Sotheby's were pronounced "modern fakes" in two separate complaints filed by the auction house.
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To reconstruct an Old Master painting, you first have to deconstruct it.
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Old Master paintings he acquired from cash-poor European aristocrats to wealthy
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Rembrandt was certainly not the only old master who painted black subjects.
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You know, and old master didn't tell you no one was free.
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Fact of it is, I had an understanding with my old master.
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European old master paintings and sculptures, Tefaf's core staples, are predictably strong.
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Tefaf Maastricht is Europe's largest marketplace for old-master paintings and antiques.
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Carroll was certainly interested in much contemporary; old master art as well.
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But the old master of triangulation will have no luck in the middle.
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The experiential value of encountering old master paintings amid the trappings of luxury.
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The old master had a stretch about a decade ago when he was
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And of course, in European old master visual art, handwriting is relatively unimportant.
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You can paint still lifes, landscapes, animals, old master paintings, or even abstractions.
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A few examples follow of old master works, currently — or coming up — for sale.
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They are visually striking, like Pop art reproductions of oversaturated Old Master still lifes.
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And actually, the Met has a rather good representation by old master women painters.
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The Morgan, known best for old master drawings, hadn't been on Mr. Anderson's list.
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"The number of Old Master galleries returning is a big story," Ms. Siddall said.
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"Perhaps they would rather put their resources into other, potentially more profitable departments," said Nicholas Hall, the former co-chairman of old master paintings at Christie's, who left in July, along with Benjamin Peronnet, Christie's head of old master and 52017th-century drawings.
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Does making old master attributions help you evaluate Jackson Pollock, Eva Hesse, or Jeff Koons?
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Cultured Traveler Hieronymus Bosch is a kind of populist superstar among the old-master painters.
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A Swann Galleries sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints hit over $19393,000 in sales.
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Art fairs are focused on different genres, including contemporary art, old master paintings and photography.
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Alissa replaced the light fixture in the old master bedroom with a chandelier and added beanbags.
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"I won't be around for all that," the 82-year-old master of musical Minimalism said.
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Daylight is not kind to paintings, and Vo is borrowing an Old Master for this exhibition.
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It's sometimes said that forgers of old-master paintings are accomplished artists in their own right.
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A new acquisition by The Getty augments their already significant collection of European Old Master works.
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It was also the first time since 1985 that an old master had achieved this benchmark.
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A stable house in the former distillery now resembles the cabinet rooms in old master museums.
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Perspective is minimized and a rococo palette competes with a hint of Dutch old master sobriety.
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Take an old master: Try to unpack the layers and craftsmanship in "Las Meninas" by Velázquez.
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After that, the old master sold us south—two lost boys sent down into the Deep.
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A recent restoration has revealed the work to be an original by the Dutch Old Master.
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But a collaboration between Sotheby's Old Master department and Fat Free Art is doing just that.
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There is no denying that the raison d'être of the project is a marketing ploy: the paintings are a selection from those that will be auctioned by Sotheby's as part of Old Master week, when the other big hitters Christies and Bonhams similarly mount Old Master sales.
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Christie's Old Master Prints sale in New York brought in a total of $4,895,750 on January 29.
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Merchandise from across the globe was displayed with exhibitions of Old Master paintings and exotic objets d'art.
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He is not the first to suggest that old master painters used optics for their famous portraits.
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Even with the use of optics, Rembrandt was deserving of the title "old master," Mr. O'Neill said.
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"It's mushrooming into a big scandal," said Bob Haboldt, an art dealer in Dutch old master paintings.
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CreditCreditPhilip Montgomery for The New York Times The Brahms Violin Concerto is a musical old master painting.
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Shot after shot evokes some French or Dutch Old Master, using rich, luminous colors and deft choreography.
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Some Old Master from the 16th century painted this part of a church, but who in particular?
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But, as ever with an old master picture, the devil — and the delight — is in the detail.
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Sotheby's Old Master catalogues sit on the polished chrome shop furnishings nestled with the bags and shoes.
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If the Old Master Venetians had painted abstractly, they might have done sensuously handsome works like these.
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It's exceedingly rare, maybe even unprecedented, that an exhibition fuses contemporary street art with Old Master paintings.
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We once spent an instructive day driving around the very old old master sites of Etruscan art.
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Sotheby's single-lot "Old Master Q – Rock 'n Roll" (1964) online sale brought in $650,000 on August 10.
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Sotheby's sale of Old Master Drawings in New York brought in a total of $15,056,875 on January 7313.
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In front of you, there is a line of stunning European old master paintings to observe and explore.
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And I thought old master was dead, but he had been off to the war and come back.
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Old master pictures, represented by more than 50 specialist dealers, remain the less-than-fashionable core of Tefaf.
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John Currin, a highly successful artist whose paintings make use of Old Master techniques, has expressed similar doubts.
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So, time to time, my old master would hire me out and split whatever I made with me.
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"It was like I was watching some old master, although she was in this young body," he said.
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Almost none of them are making work that could fit alongside the Old Master works in Venetian churches.
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And he says almost nothing about a perhaps related question, why interest in old master European art is diminishing.
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Sotheby's took an upbeat tone about Wednesday's night's results, which it said set records for two Old Master artists.
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In the late 80s, Sherman worked on a series of large-scale history portraits mocking Old Master oil paintings.
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Christie's sale of Old Master & British Drawings in New York brought in a total of $2,671,173 on January 31.
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From an early age, he has said, he was exposed to old master paintings that shaped his extravagant aesthetic.
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"These are old backbreaking places," said Randy Robertson, the 2003-year-old master of Lock and Dam No. 2200.
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"Monrovia," filmed in a tiny, mostly white heartland town, is the latest work from an 88-year-old master.
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A Christie's sale of Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolors topped out at £3,374,2110 (~$225,280,230) across 22.37 works.
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In this Flemish old master, Adriaen Isenbrandt's "The Flight Into Egypt," one goes right through the Virgin Mary's neck.
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I can see the aesthetic and sacred significance of these Old Master sculptures, and I do admire Ray's works.
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En route, the Rodgers sent ashore Charles Putnam, the ship's 07553-year-old master, and seven other crew members.
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Could the concerns of Old Master history painting be taken up by visual artists making use of new media?
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Sotheby's appointed Otto Naumann as a senior vice president and client development director in its old master paintings division.
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Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham's London shop is hosting an art display of paintings from Sotheby's Old Master sale.
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Hope the buyer understands conservation issues…" Old Master dealer Robert B. Simon shot back on the same post, "Dr.
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Philip Frenzel, a 25-year-old master&aposs student at Aalen University in Germany, knew the feeling all too well.
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Credit...Steve Lazarides The contrast between the 21980th-century old master and 22015st-century disrupter couldn't have been more extreme.
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At first glance, it's tempting to dismiss "The Battle of Nancy" (1831) as just another Old Master picture valorizing war.
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At Christie's over the last few weeks, two experts in old master paintings and drawings quietly left the auction house.
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Sotheby's Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art sale in London brought in a total of £2750,2439,2000 (~$22,2892,2500) on December 24.
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We meet Jeff Koons in his high-tech studio, surrounded by assistants making his old master-inspired "Gazing Ball" paintings.
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And the aim here, I surmise, is to demonstrate some hidden unity between Old Master sculpture and some contemporary artworks.
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But in his twenty-first year he walked up to his old master and told him straight—'I'm grown now.
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New York audiences generally know about guitars, but when it comes to old master Japanese art we really need instruction.
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After high school, she studied painting at a small art school where the class toured the old master works of Italy.
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Swann Galleries's sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints in New York brought in a total of $1,722,680 on May 2.
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The controversial critic, who passed away last year, began his career as an Old Master drawings specialist at the auction house.
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Black artists have been making use of the conventions of Old Master paintings to reimagine blackness for the past fifty years.
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The collection spans Old Master works by Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix to contemporary pieces by Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg.
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The works on display will include both Old Master and contemporary works, as well as rare and new-to-market pieces.
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She painted, over and over again, portraits of figures in Albanian attire, wildflower still lifes, and copies of old master paintings.
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To many, "Portrait of a Man" was that rare find, a truly great old master painting that had simply never surfaced.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A Swann Galleries sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints hit over $398,000 in sales.
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From the stacks of his local public libraries, Young pulled illustrated catalogues filled with van Gogh's sunflowers and Old Master paintings.
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Swift spent the latter part of 2019 fighting with music executive Scooter Braun over his ownership of her old master recordings.
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O.K., maybe not in stained glass windows or old master paintings, where they're frozen in transcendent agony amid instruments of torture.
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Those works include Impressionist and modern art, contemporary art, 19th-century European paintings, old master paintings, American art and Chinese art.
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Their palette is considerably darker than her subsequent work, and they are also more brushy, more rendered, more Old Master-ish.
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Sotheby's sale of Old Master and British works on paper brought in a total of £5,668,813 (~$7.5 million) on July 4.
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Year-over-year sales of old master paintings, 19th-century and Russian art shrank 20133 percent to £154.9 million (roughly $220.6 million).
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"The Old Master," showing a tree trunk spray painted with the familiar phallic graffiti, can arguably sit in all of these camps.
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The Kremer Collection launched the Kremer Museum, a virtual reality platform to explore seventy 17th-century Flemish Old Master paintings in detail.
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Christie's, for example, trains its old master specialists for six to seven years, whereas its contemporary experts get three to four years.
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There was also a smattering of old master sales, like a 1560s portrait of a gentleman by the Italian painter Antonio Campi.
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On March 21, for example, the French auction house Artcurial held a 195-lot sale of old master and 19th-century art.
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Andrew Fletcher, a senior director at Sotheby's, said after the sale that all three of the bidders were known old master buyers.
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Such data makes it clear that for the old master market to thrive, let alone expand, it needs to widen its appeal.
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Yet there remain thousands of more mainstream old master paintings in auctions, galleries and art fairs that struggle to attract any interest.
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He took all the money for himself, said he had no notion for any agreement with my old master, nor any banking.
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And so when an old master altarpiece moves from church to museum, it ceases to be a sacred artifact and becomes an artwork.
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He had a hundred and fifty screens made from pictures of Old Master paintings, urban scenes, astronauts, President Kennedy, birds, and other allurements.
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The price, given by a telephone buyer, was the third-highest ever achieved for an old master drawing at auction, according to Christie's.
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The double-sided artwork was rediscovered in March 2016 in a private French collection by Thaddée Prate, an old master specialist at Tajan.
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Just past the locked door, with its laser-radiation danger warning, cameras were aimed at the vibrant oils of a Flemish old master.
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Below, one book looks at how old master paintings have influenced the development of museums, while another offers a guided tour across Europe.
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Lowe disguises this problem as much as he can by employing a classic optical trick—he coats his printouts in Old Master varnish.
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Christie's sale of Old Master and British drawings and watercolors in London brought in a total of £2,062,375 (~$2.7 million) on July 3.
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Sotheby's sale of Old Master sculpture and works of art in London brought in a total of £3,551,813 (~$4.7 million) on July 3.
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In a telephone interview on Wednesday, Mr. Turquin, a Paris-based expert and dealer in old master paintings, declined to name the museum.
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Initially, she made the gesso herself from rabbit-skin glue and whiting, a traditional method she learned while studying old master techniques at Cooper.
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Over time, the Thaws' collection diversified, but Old Master and modern drawings were always its heart—not to mention how Thaw made his money.
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The American soldier killed in a roadside bombing in Syria has been identified by the Department of Defense as 36-year-old Master Sgt.
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The museum has two very unusual specialties — a strong old master collection, including five canvases by Peter Paul Rubens, and a circus-related collection.
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Retaining its original frame, and fresh from a private Italian collection, this was regarded by many as the outstanding old master of the fair.
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The issues presented by The Other's Gaze are not what one expects to see within the Prado's comprehensive collection of canonical old master artists.
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In "Dutch Interior (I)" and "Portrait of Mistress Mills in 1750," (1928 and 1929, respectively), Miró slyly translates old master paintings into biomorphic language.
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Most startling of all was the astronomically high "Rembrandt class" price, so called because the amount paid was more typical of old master paintings.
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At this point in his life (Stern turned 92 in February), the poet has settled into a serenity reminiscent of his old master Whitman.
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Here was Cohen, an old master of his art, serving up the thick cream of his catalogue with a soulful corps of exacting musicians.
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But the canvas's wildness is undercut by the hushed, dimly lit, dark gray room in which it hangs, the stodgiest of Old Master settings.
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"It's much more difficult to sell ivory," said Florian Eitle-Böhler, director of the old master sculpture dealers Julius Böhler Kunsthandlung, based in Starnberg, Germany.
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More worrying was the news that the slump was not just in Old Master paintings, in which buyers have for some time been losing interest.
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The court cited an October 2015 decision of an Israeli planning committee to promote an old master plan for Jewish population growth in that area.
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Christie's Old Master Works on Paper: Prints and Drawings for under £5,000 online brought in a total of £275,3673 (~$352,000) on November 28–December 2875.
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They are derived from Old Master paintings and prints, about half of them from Giotto's frescos for the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua (dedicated in 21966).
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Ms. Kuang, 28, is an old master paintings conservator for the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
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Ms. Kuang, 238, is an old master paintings conservator for the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
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Sotheby's has filed a second lawsuit related to the sale of works originally attributed to European old master painters that it now says are forgeries.
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The Rubik Mona Lisa was created in 2005 and is the first in Invader's "Rubikcubism" series, in which he recreates well-known Old Master works.
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"He's not in this for the short term, and not as an investor," said Ben Hall, the deputy chairman of old master paintings at Christie's.
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The director's plans for the museum's new building center around rotating exhibitions that would eliminate the permanent display of Old Master collections in dedicated galleries.
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The industrialist and philanthropist Henry Clay Frick admired his 18th-century gilded furnishings almost as much as the old master paintings that graced his palatial home.
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Of the ability to generate patterns, and copy them, to reimagine any image in the style of any other, be it Old Master or photo filter?
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Her paintings have often drawn comparison to the supposed timelessness of Old Master portraiture, as well as historical and contemporary traditions — and omissions — of black figuration.
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The combination of old master devices and minimalist forms is not a new move, having been central to the work of Peter Schuyff in the 1980s.
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The five-story Upper East Side townhouse that served as a consulate was long ago repurposed as the headquarters of a dealer of old master paintings.
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"It's one of the most important Old Master discoveries in the past 15 years," the winning bidder, art dealer Fabrizio Moretti, told the New York Times.
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No wonder one of those pianists, the 90-year-old master Dick Hyman, confessed to being bewildered at the start of the early show on Friday.
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Mr. Jelgersma had classic taste and regularly bought big-ticket paintings from dealers who exhibit at the world's biggest fair of old master art, Tefaf Maastricht.
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In contrast, the History Portraits (133) still disturb, with their cursory reprises of old master portraits of both sexes, replete with undisguised body and facial prosthetics.
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"The market for old masters is in rude health," Alexander Bell, Sotheby's worldwide co-chairman of old master paintings, said in a statement after the sale.
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Like the great titans of industry during the Gilded Age, hedge fund managers recently have been spending their riches on famous contemporary and Old Master art pieces.
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"My heart sank," said Mr. Bowron, who is chairman of the French, Italian, Spanish and English old master paintings vetting committee for the fair, known as Tefaf.
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The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands, is a cornucopia like those sometimes depicted in the old master paintings on view, spilling over with riches.
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It's virtually empty, apart from an upright piano and a few wooden chairs, along with a copy of an old master painting that looms above the mantel.
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"Tefaf has changed exponentially over the years," said Johnny van Haeften, an old-master dealer in London who was exhibiting at his 30th and final Tefaf fair.
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The limited-edition collaboration between the auction house and streetwear site Highsnobiety brands t-shirts and hoodies with Old Master paintings from Sotheby's upcoming Masters Week 2020.
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The Pecks have spent "millions" collecting old master drawings for the last 40 years, buying them at auctions and almost never through art dealers, Dr. Peck said.
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Christopher Rothko's essay and also the account by Jasper Sharp, a curator of this exhibition, focus on what Mark Rothko learnt from seeing Old Master European art.
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Christie's sale of Important Old Master Paintings from the Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection: Evening sale in London brought in a total of £21,389,250 (~$20003,862,000) on December 6.
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In 1997, it acquired a 50 percent share in the New York contemporary dealership Deitch Projects, and in 2006 it bought the old master traders Noortman Master Paintings.
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Now the Carnegie Museum of Art has taken on 100 of the pieces in the collection — a cache that includes sculptures, Old Master etchings, still lifes, and more.
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Wolf referred the painting, to Eric Turquin, an Old Master appraiser based in Paris — already notorious for his role in the confirmation of a long-lost Carvaggio work.
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"Orazio is the very best of the Caravaggisti, but people feel there's no name after Caravaggio," said Otto Naumann, a dealer in old master paintings in New York.
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While the palace is known for its tapestries, old master paintings, antiques and furniture, the North Portico tells the story of one of the building's more eccentric inhabitants.
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A decision was therefore made to try to realign the fair with its original identity, to create more space for antiques, and to bring back old master paintings.
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Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the nationality of Jan Brueghel the Elder, an old master painter known for floral still lifes.
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Other items that have come on the market are books, old master paintings, a gilded Baroque table, stone mosaic portraits of birds and an agate ewer and basin.
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"There is extraordinary consensus it is by Leonardo," said Nicholas Hall, the former co-chairman of old master paintings at Christie's, who now runs his own Manhattan gallery.
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Let's go back to the different collections that we have, which is Renaissance bronzes, old master paintings, a dozen post-World War II artists, and now emerging artists.
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We would copy the Old Master paintings and we'd roam the museums all over Italy, adoring this particular aesthetic to the point where you would forget other aesthetics.
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The encyclopedic visual literacy that has long characterized Wall's pictures (with their compositional echoes of Old Master paintings) has been pared back, allowing more psychological complexity to emerge.
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The auction included more than 100 old master drawings donated to Rugby in the 19th century by a former student there, the collector and antiquarian Matthew Holbeche Bloxam.
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The encyclopedic visual literacy that has long characterized Wall's pictures (with their compositional echoes of old master paintings) has been pared back, allowing more psychological complexity to emerge.
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Willi Drost, the director of the Gdansk art museum during the war, was an avid buyer of Dutch old master paintings, according to the Origins Unknown Agency report.
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Jonathan Green, an owner of the Richard Green Gallery in London, which specializes in old master paintings, said that Sotheby's price estimate for the July auction seems fair.
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In 2015, old master auctions had declined to $561 million, while equivalent sales of contemporary art stood at $6.8 billion, according to the 2016 Tefaf Art Market Report.
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Mr. Prate, 22013, asked for a second opinion from Patrick de Bayser, an independent dealer and adviser in old master drawings, who examined the St. Sebastian in Paris.
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"Any painting of that age will almost always have had a history of interventions," he said, calling them part of "the natural life cycle of old master paintings."
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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.
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The artwork, by Alphonso Wong, was the cover for the second issue of Old Master Q, a popular 1960s comic that appeared in newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong.
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While Meghan will be picking up tips from the 92-year-old master of more than seven decades of royal outings, Lacey believes the learning comes from both sides.
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Carbon-14 dating, the best known of these tools, which uses the predictable decay of the radioactive carbon-14 isotope, can tell the age of Old Master wood panels.
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Perhaps that's for the best: After long hours of scrutinizing Rembrandts and Vermeers, it's relaxing to enter an old-master-free zone for lunch, dinner or a midafternoon pause.
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When Bernard has his final hallucination of Robert by the seashore, the old master tells his student that the splendor of the seas dwarf all of humankind's great magic.
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Although there was no record of Hals having made the work, the experts' consensus was that "Portrait of a Man" was that wondrous find: a previously unknown Old Master.
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It also has provided a rare accounting of the size and worth of the family's old master and Impressionist works now stored in Switzerland, Singapore and the United States.
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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.
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The encyclopedic visual literacy that has long characterized Mr. Wall's pictures (with their compositional echoes of old master paintings) has been pared back, allowing more psychological complexity to emerge.
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Todd Levin, an art adviser and curator based in New York, who buys contemporary and old master works on behalf of clients, said he was "stunned" by the move.
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Mr. Wiley, who will be painting Mr. Obama, is highly regarded for his vibrant portraits — predominantly of men he meets through street casting — that evoke European old master paintings.
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And so our ability to tell expansive stories in the ancient world, in the old master world, and the contemporary world, I think the obligation is exactly the same.
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But her show, called "No Simple Matter," is a triumph that could have been a disaster, a paragon of old-master virtue jumping on the make-it-new bandwagon.
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Many of the master's paintings have also suffered from dirt and decay and, in some cases, coats of varnish deliberately applied to give them more of an "Old Master" look.
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Facebook in fight over artistic nudity Facebook is blocking Belgian museums from promoting the paintings of the old master Peter Paul Rubens, apparently because they contain bare breasts and buttocks.
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Mining numerous periods throughout Western art history, Condo combines Old Master techniques, Cubism, and comic book imagery to create hybrid canvases that reflect a true appreciation of painting's myriad possibilities.
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The 28th edition of this high-end fair, which will now be held annually, has been bolstered by a contingent of old master dealers from the defunct Paris Tableau event.
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"Might you do that?" asked interviewer Tracy Smith, wondering whether Swift might make up for not getting rights to her old master recordings by going in to cut new ones.
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Roughly 50 of Mr. Hirst's new works will go on display in the state rooms of a building that once housed a world-class collection of European old master paintings.
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Shortly after Ms. Kollsman died, George Wachter, chairman of Sotheby's North America and South America and co-chairman of Sotheby's old master paintings worldwide, wrote a letter evaluating the works.
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Works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Elizabeth Catlett are part of the collection, with other galleries devoted to old master paintings and ancient Byzantine, Islamic and African art.
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Mr. Thaw, who died in 2018 at the age of 90, was an art gallery owner and philanthropist considered one of the world's greatest collectors of European old master drawings.
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The London gallery Colnaghi, re-energized by its recent merger with the Madrid and London dealers Coll & Cortés, was one of the few old master specialists registering big-ticket sales.
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How do you feel about a president who is willing to undermine Ukraine's military, which is now fighting a proxy war against its old master, Russia, for purely selfish reasons?
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For his portrait, the former president chose Kehinde Wiley, who is famous for his depiction of African Americans posed in the style of Old Master paintings with pops of color.
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Photogrammetry is deft at capturing sculptural form, but it is less suited to recording the glossy surface of Old Master paintings—the glare caused by a flash results in errors.
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Wiley is a Yale University-trained painter famous for his depiction of African-Americans posed in the style of Old Master paintings, regal, formal and filled with pops of color.
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Another de La Rochefoucauld, who happened to work at the Louvre, got a recommendation for an art historian: Stephane Pinta of the Cabinet Turquin, an expert in old-master paintings.
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Duly influenced by classical European art and culture, he sees his self-portraits as modern re-imaginings of large-scale Greek sculpture, or as contemporary takes on Old Master paintings.
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Her new book "Seizing Beauty," out next week, took six years to photograph and brings together all these experiences: It features 65 sumptuous color images inspired by old master still lifes.
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But will demand for the fair's traditional "destination" strength of old master art and objects be set for an upgrade, too — particularly if collectors tire of today's increasingly formulaic contemporary market?
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Absolutely not," he added, although he did say that if a rare old master by another great artist did come on the market "perhaps it does raise the bar a little.
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Sorry You Couldn't Make It is the sound of an old master letting go of the idea of making music that might chart, and instead making what comes to him naturally.
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The more artful, less forceful Sevastova — a 28-year-old master of the drop shot — is ranked 20th and reached the quarterfinals of the United States Open in 2016 and 153.
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He has juggled bids on items as varied as old master and Impressionist paintings, antique furniture, and more contemporary treasures that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret Thatcher and Eric Clapton.
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He's a beautiful stylist and an erudite companion (conversant in John Ashbery, Hermann Hesse, old master paintings, Tupac Shakur, catholic interests shared by almost every straight boy I knew in college).
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Please, watch a master (as in, literally an Old Master) at work: Because she's a very good person, however, Britney did not stop with gifting the world footage of her talents.
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The second and larger show, "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible," is a classic Met product, updated: an old-master-style historical survey with fabulous loans, a scholarly theme and a new-master twist.
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Then the choir of eight men and women (here costumed as if out of Dutch old master paintings) sing a setting of the document of Dutch independence, rendered in block declamatory chords.
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For many dealers in the niche collecting fields of old master paintings and decorative arts, TEFAF Maastricht represents one of the few opportunities to connect in person with international curators and collectors.
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But it was also significant to note that last year, Christie's regular auctions of old master, 19th-century and Russian art were down 11 percent at £205.4 million, or about $293 million.
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Quoting from Old Master paintings is nothing new, but it is a particular kind of appropriation that literalizes the illusionism of painting, fleshing out two-dimensional images and granting them physical space.
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The collection ranges from the late-19th-century, chapeau-shaped "Bowler Hat" by Hayakawa Shokosai I, an old master of the trade, to the more recognizably basketlike "Muso" (2012), by Fujinuma Noboru.
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Wiley, who says he "was trained to paint the body by copying Old Master paintings," is known for his portraits of African-Americans and reinterpretations of classic artworks, according to his website.
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This doesn't sound terribly out of character for a 25-year-old master of dribble penetration and acrobatic shot-making, and one who holds himself in high regard, as Irving surely does.
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You need support to put songs across, here organized by 74-year-old master drummer Jim Keltner (John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, you bet Randy Newman, also Russ Giguere, Henry Gross, Firefall).
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Meanwhile TEFAF Maastricht, the market leader, had come to be accused of complacency, seemingly stuck in an opulent rut, its fame as a source for important Old Master oils having outlived their availability.
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If Dillashaw can beat the old master of the bantamweight division, we can marvel at his rounded game, admit he's the real deal, and call him the man to carry the torch forwards.
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The book's more than 180 images of famous fans wearing their pearl necklaces range from old master paintings to Marilyn Minter's erotically charged photograph, "Split," of a red-lipped woman eating her pearls.
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People think that's not what pure artists do, but I was in the National Gallery last weekend looking at these old master artists and realized this is true with all artists throughout history.
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The last great artist who was not a modernist, Delacroix synthesized very complex visual and verbal traditions in stunning works that, by summarizing the old master European worldview, open the way to modernism.
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Wiley's early style, seen on this canvas, evolved to his well-known Old Master paintings that fuse religious and pop culture iconography, presenting lush portraits whose Black subjects are awash in regal opulence.
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There are new people out there who haven't got a clue, and there is a larger group of old master buyers who used to be there, but who are now buying different things.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A few hours after old master Roger Federer reminded everyone of his enduring magic, Alexander Zverev, the man leading the next generation of men's tennis, dazzled on his ATP Finals debut.
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"Popular culture is certainly having an effect," Alex Bell, Sotheby's worldwide co-chairman of old master paintings, said Wednesday night after his 66-lot auction raised 42.6 million pounds, or about $56.3 million.
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Though the final total of £30.2 million was less than half what Sotheby's achieved at its October contemporary sale, it was up 6.33 percent from the equivalent old master event a year ago.
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Yet it is hard to avoid the impression that "The Hard Problem" — which often feels like the work of a precocious young neophyte rather than an old master — has yet to solve itself.
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Her favorite Old Master, she told me, dating to her days in Rome, is Andrea Mantegna—the brother-in-law of Giovanni Bellini, who is as astringently flinty as Bellini is meltingly honeyed.
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It follows the now 94-year-old master as he works with vendors to secure the finest ingredients, manages, and mentors his staff, and prepares his son to succeed him when he retires.
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In 2016, after rumors of other potential forgeries in the world of European old master paintings circulated in the art world, the buyer asked Sotheby's to seek an independent assessment of the painting.
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In a cheeky nod to this process of critical reevaluation, the galleries are largely arranged such that Rodin's works and Old Master paintings from the museum's collection encircle and literally gaze upon Lucas's art.
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It is not clear how much has been achieved, but the 225-year-old London old master dealership Colnaghi has adopted this minimalist palette for its new building on Bury Street in St. James's.
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Their theory, known as the Hockney-Falco thesis, generated controversy among scientists and art historians, some of whom took the findings as an implication that old master painters had "cheated" to produce their works.
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They dispense with the niceties of Analytic Cubism — the transparencies, drifting brushwork, old master browns and delicate scaffoldings of line — for solid overlapping shapes whose radiant pinks and terra cottas seem lit from within.
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The 29 vetting committees specialize in everything from ancient art, old master paintings, and modern and contemporary art to sculpture and design, photography, clocks and watches, ceramics, jewelry, glass, icons, silver, furniture and wallpaper.
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But in this account of old master exhibitions and how they informed the development of museums, the art historian Francis Haskell explains that many of these pieces were previously displayed in churches or galleries.
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The former president chose Kehinde Wiley, a Yale University-trained painter famous for his depiction of African-Americans posed in the style of Old Master paintings, regal, formal and filled with pops of color.
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Setting Charles Ray's figurative sculptures in dialogue with nine Old Master works from the Hill Collection of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, this dramatic confrontation-and-collaboration is sited on two floors of a Kunsthalle.
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Since then, it has donated more than $130 million worth of European Old Master paintings and sculptures to the museum, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fra Bartolomeo, and Jacopo Bellini, and others.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — Since its announcement, the Royal Academy's Charles I: King and Collector was destined to be the old master show of the decade, if not of living memory.
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During the run of the show, six Old Master paintings from Sotheby's Master Painting sale on June 8 head downtown to Fat Free Art's gallery space, where they'll be displayed alongside their reinterpreted counterparts.
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The work is estimated to sell for $2.5 million to $250 million and will be auctioned among 2000 other Old Master drawings and other objects from the collection of King William II of the Netherlands.
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After a summer rehaul, the museum has reopened its European art galleries with rarely seen works from the museum's permanent collection, restored Old Master paintings and sculptures, and a collection of Impressionist and Modern masterworks.
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"Contrapposto Studies" may represent a change of attitude for Nauman; he wouldn't be the first avant-garde artist to abandon the edginess that made his reputation in order to slip quietly into old master mode.
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"People who buy into the old master field have more connoisseurship — maybe more passion," said Christophe Van de Weghe, a Madison Avenue dealer specializing in blue-chip work by modern masters from Matisse to Basquiat.
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Aware that Yankee buyers in Europe were being treated as easy marks, Forbes saw that, if he was to avoid being swindled, he needed to educate himself in the material construction of Old Master paintings.
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"We can literally trace its movement across Europe during the war years — and before and after — through the marks on the back of the canvas," said David Pollack, a Sotheby's specialist in old master paintings.
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Swift's public feud with Braun and Borchetta began this summer when Borchetta, the founder of Swift's old record label Big Machine Records, sold the label, and with it, Swift's old master recordings to Scott Braun.
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The art trade here faced that perennial challenge as old master auctions, the Masterpiece fair and the London Art Week gallery trail tried to reinvigorate interest in artworks and objects from before the 20th century.
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But they do use old-master sales — primarily at Sotheby's and Christie's in New York and London, and occasionally at smaller houses — to scoop up Dutch treasures that have made it to the auction block.
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Presented in dimly lit rooms, as Rothko desired, with fabric-covered walls, within the brightly lit Kunsthistorisches Museum galleries devoted to its Old Master collection, this exhibition thus offers a compact summary of his career.
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Nor do I think it will have any great impact, short- or long-term, on the Old Master market, though of course it might lower standards in terms of what people are willing to buy.
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Since the financial crisis Old Master and 19th Century Art has been the worst performers on the Coutts index by some margin, with prices down by more than 40 percent on a cost-adjusted return basis.
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In its final auction devoted wholly to its former chairman's collection, Sotheby's sold $24,16303,750 worth of Old Master artworks on Wednesday night, right in the middle of the $21 million to $30 million it had projected.
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"The Wrightsman bequest is the culmination of a half century of giving that has transformed the collection of Old Master paintings, taking it in totally new directions," said Keith Christiansen, the Met's chairman of European paintings.
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Art Bartschi of Geneva was one of 58 newcomers at the fair, exhibiting 10 new paintings by Antoine Roegiers, a Belgian artist who blurs the imagery of old master paintings to resemble out-of-focus photographs.
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At a time when contemporary art is all the rage among collectors, viewers and donors, many experts are questioning whether old master artwork — once the most coveted — can stay relevant at auction houses, galleries and museums.
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Eugene V. Thaw, a major American collector of European old master art and one of the world's most respected dealers in the field, died on Wednesday at his home in Cherry Valley, N.Y. He was 21981.
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Yet just when you start to think that the old master is on autopilot, he turns a sharp corner with a wrench that surprises you into spontaneous tears or giggles or, as often as not, both.
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In a report and testimony to the court, Mr. Wachter defended his initial valuation of "Maypole" by saying that Russian collectors had driven a significant surge in the market demand for old master paintings after 2005.
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Progressive Democrats are using Taylor Swift as political leverage against the private equity industry after Swift publicly noted that The Carlyle Group had helped finance a deal whereby Swift lost control of her old master recordings.
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Accomplished, unimpeachably correct if not exactly heart-quickening, it features dozens of old master drawings — the Morgan's primary focus — but there are also 14 French paintings, permitted to travel while the Nationalmuseum is closed for renovations.
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A British court ruled on Wednesday that an art investment firm, Fairlight Art Ventures, was liable for its role selling a painting attributed to the Dutch old master Frans Hals that was later deemed a forgery.
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My spirits revived on the museum's sixth-floor outdoor terrace, with a suite of hilarious figure sculptures by Nicole Eisenman, who, at the venerable age of fifty-four, comes off as the show's sole Old Master.
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By way of perspective, however, the aggregate £27 million with fees generated by the two houses' relatively small old master sales was 7 percent below the £29.1 million achieved at the equivalent evening auctions last December.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A new study of Rembrandt's self-portraits provides more evidence to theories that the 17th-century artist, among other Old Master painters, used optics to produce his remarkably accurate works.
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The museum was attempting to purchase an idyllic landscape painting by 251th century British painter John Constable, "A View of Hampstead Heath: Child's Hill, Harrow in the Distance" (222), from Old Master art dealer Simon C. Dickinson.
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A 2017 portrait of Jay-Z, neither sat for nor gleaned from a photograph, was instead constructed from memory, and so we can rightly describe it as an imagined portrait of an Old Master: besuited, unruffled, arrived.
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AT 222 MINUTES 25 SECONDS Mitsuko Uchida, a 241-year-old master of Schubert's piano sonatas, performed six of them in two recitals at Carnegie Hall last week; I would have happily stayed for an entire cycle.
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Since Mr. Pedrosa came on as artistic director in 2014, he has transformed an institution that advertises itself as having the most significant collection of old master European art in the Southern Hemisphere into a cultural laboratory.
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Whisked via fellowship from his native Kansas to a garret in central Madrid, 24-year-old Adam heads each morning to the Prado museum and parks himself before the old master altarpieces like a premodern attending Mass.
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This body of work reflects Mr. Morris's abilities as a consummate craftsman who possesses a fine-tuned intellect with a philosophical bent, the prowess of an agile athlete and the talent to draw like an old master.
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I studied with Ad Reinhardt in the '60s, and he has been a constant inspiration, but I suppose that by now he is in the category of old master, as is Duchamp, whom everyone has drawn on.
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The reinstalled galleries feature rarely seen works from the museum's permanent collection, restored Old Master paintings and sculptures, and a collection of Impressionist and Modern masterworks bequeathed to the museum after the death of Dallas philanthropist Margaret McDermott.
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LONDON — One of the problems for a billionaire wanting to put together a trophy collection of old master art is that the supply of documented works by the most illustrious sculptors and painters has all but dried up.
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They will be offering not just old master paintings and sculpture, for which Maastricht is famed, but also jewelry, antiquities, books and manuscripts, American paintings and decorative arts, drawings, European furniture and African, Oceanic, Islamic and Asian art.
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A painting attributed to Austrian artist Martin Ferdinand Quadal, is going to auction on April 27 in the Old Master Paintings auction at Bonhams in London, likewise depicting the cat in her last moments above a translucent bowl.
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Mr. Cerruti's penchant for old-master paintings and luxurious 18th-century furniture harks back to the elaborate "Rothschild taste" of interior decoration, as found in the Nissim de Comondo museum in Paris and the Wallace Collection in London.
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In a modest brick apartment house on Staten Island, the antiques collector George Way crammed British and Dutch furniture and art to the ceiling, scarcely leaving circulation routes between 17th-century armchairs and old master portraits of noblewomen.
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In this new animated preschool series, Sunny (Lilla Crawford), a 10-year-old master hair stylist with her own mobile salon, the Glam Van, uses creative problem-solving to save the day in her seaside town, Friendly Falls.
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With 173 works — Mantegna to Matisse — from a spectacular ensemble (I mean, really, truly) assembled by Eugene V. and Clare Eddy Thaw over some 70 years, this is sure to be the old master sleeper of this season.
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In 2006, the Dutch government announced that it would return to Mr. Goudstikker's heirs more than 200 old master paintings that had been obtained in July 1940 by the Nazi leader Hermann Göring and his dealer, Mr. Miedl.
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Betsy Wieseman was named head of northern European paintings; Shelley Langdale was named head of modern prints and drawings; Brooks Rich was named associate curator of Old Master prints; and Aaron Wile was named associate curator of French paintings.
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"This is truly the Holy Grail of art rediscoveries," said Alan Wintermute, Christie's senior specialist for Old Master paintings, explaining that the portrait sometimes called the male Mona Lisa had long been thought to have been lost or destroyed.
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NDiaye's metamorphoses of people into animals—thoroughly hypothetical in Three Strong Women, seemingly actual in Ladivine—are at once a homage to a truly old master, Ovid, and a deeply contemporary swerve away from psychological investigation into pure storytelling.
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The final price, given by an unidentified buyer represented on the telephone by Francis Outred, Christie's European head of contemporary art, was the highest given for an old master in 250 years of Christie's sales (not accounting for inflation).
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The work stood out to Thaddée Prate, Tajan's director of Old Master pictures, amid the man's portfolio of 14 drawings; after consulting other experts, Prate determined that it is indeed a work by the hand of the Renaissance artist.
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The double-sided drawing — a study of a basket of flowers is on the reverse — was bought for €3,900, with fees, by Daniel Vanel, a doctor and collector based in Bologna, Italy, who owns about 100 old master drawings.
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MILAN — Stephen K. Bannon leaned back in an armchair opposite a copy of a painting by an Italian old master and explained his modest efforts to build a vast network of European populists to demolish the Continent's political establishment.
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It's often what's being depicted and celebrated in old-master canvases from the Golden Age of the 17th century, the era that is Six's specialty: warm domestic scenes, merry companies hoisting tankards, still lifes of tables laden with food.
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Available for free download in the Apple App Store, the pack makes a great addition to other art-related emoji sets, such as Hyo Hong's Cindy Sherman icons and Molly Young and Teddy Blanks's emoji of Old Master paintings.
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Swift herself had been trying to buy her old master recordings for years, she wrote, but Big Machine founder Scott Borchetta — "someone for whom the term 'loyalty' is clearly just a contractual concept," per Swift — had refused to budge.
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Since the discovery, Hoyt Sherman Place has undertaken a major effort to restore the damaged piece to its original glory, beginning with a long search for a restoration expert with expertise in Old Master paintings on wood panel, rather than canvas.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The super-rich have seen their jewelry, fine wine and musical instrument collections jump in value again but the Old Master paintings and garages full of classic cars have been a bit of a drag, according to new figures.
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A few weeks earlier the FSB had raided a vast mansion belonging to Andrei Belyaninov, the head of the customs service and a former KGB officer, and found $670,000 in cash, a one-kilo gold ingot and assorted old-master paintings.
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The designer opened up her Dover Street flagship store to the esteemed art dealer Sotheby's London, which displayed an array of "Old Master" art from Peter Paul Rubens, Lucas Cranach the Elder and more of "Victoria's favourites" around the store.
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"It's the most important fair in the world for old master and 19th-century drawings," said Peter van den Brink, director of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, Germany, who was at the Salon du Dessin as a private collector.
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"Over the last 30 years, Paris has slid dramatically from being a major art center," said Guy Stair Sainty, owner of the Stair Sainty Gallery in London, which sells old master paintings and has been participating in the Biennale since 1986.
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Also kept quiet was the price of a newly discovered half-length canvas of St. Stephen from the 1640s by the Neapolitan baroque painter Bernardo Cavallino, which sold before the fair opened by the Rome dealership Giacometti Old Master Paintings.
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This was more than double the previous record for art sold at auction, $179.4 million for a Picasso in 2015, and five times more than the highest price ever paid for an old master, $76.7 million for a Rubens in 2002.
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Where: 210 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles Hours: 26am–220pm, Tuesday through Friday; 22019am–224pm, Saturday through Sunday (free admission) The Hammer Museum was founded in 2019, built around the Old Master and Impressionist collection of oilman and philanthropist Armand Hammer.
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"It certainly was not ideal," said Ms. Lee, who came up with the idea of recasting the downstairs space as an unconventional master bedroom, with the master bathroom upstairs, along with a spacious closet (in what was the old master bedroom).
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Of course, if an exceptional old master work does come up for sale, a spectacular one-off result can be achieved — such as the £44.9 million that a telephone buyer paid in July for Rubens's "Lot and His Daughters" at Christie's.
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As I see it, the early modernists' fascination with El Greco's old master pictures was one step towards the creation of André Malraux's "museum without walls," which made it possible to appreciate art, on purely aesthetic grounds, from every visual culture.
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His entirely undefensive, marvelously buoyant book tells the history of connoisseurship with references to Giovanni Morelli, Roberto Longhi, Bernard Berenson, and some other more recent figures, many of them female, who have made significant attributions of European old master drawings and paintings.
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Three top executives have left Christie's: Paul R. Provost, the senior vice president and director of trusts, estates & appraisals; Nicholas Hall, international head of old master paintings and 19th Century Art; and Cathy Elkies, head of Christie's 20th and 21st Century design.
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On the walls are a series of landscape paintings hung together so that their horizons create an unbroken line; a copy of Titian's "Venus of Urbino" (1538) repainted with bikini suntan lines; and old-master-type portraits of children with red clown noses.
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The art and antiques exhibitors increased by more than 2275 percent, to 2000, bolstered by old master dealers from the discontinued Paris Tableau fair, whose last edition was held in November, right at the time that terrorist attacks took place in the city.
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Mr. Wiley, born in Los Angeles in 1977, gained a following in the early 2000s with his crisp, glossy, life-size paintings of young African-American men dressed in hip-hop styles, but depicted in the old-master manner of European royal portraits.
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A cardinal rule for spinning out a compelling drama, the old master Anton Chekov wisely suggested, holds that a rifle seen hanging on the wall in the first act had better go off with a bang before the final curtain comes down.
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"We were approached by Fat Free with the concept to collaborate with them and the artists they represent with the aim of juxtaposing two sectors of the art world that rarely, if ever, meet," says Sotheby's Old Master Paintings Specialist David Pollack.
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And although photography is now her primary medium—Allchurch best known for her intricate photo collages based on Old Master paintings—that sculptural background can still be glimpsed in the way she digitally assembles hundreds of photographs into fantastical tableaux of British buildings and monuments.
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THE ARTS Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about the dwindling market for old master paintings omitted the given name and the title of an expert who commented on contemporary artists who talk with passion about the genius of old masters.
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And while members of his campaign say they cannot imagine a more valuable political spouse to have, in interviews as well as hacked emails released by WikiLeaks, Mr. Clinton has sometimes come off as an old master struggling to get with the new program.
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It is the 12th artwork to break the $100 million mark at auction, and a new high for any old master at auction, surpassing Rubens's "Massacre of the Innocents," which sold for $76.7 million in 2002 (or more than $20153 million, adjusted for inflation).
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His wife did not like his initial purchase, but together they began to collect under the guidance of one of the Netherlands' leading old master dealers, Robert Noortman, and accumulated one of the world's most respected troves of Dutch and Flemish masters in private hands.
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Actually, as Mr. Cerruti would have pointed out, if he were still around poring over his sale catalogs, a major old master painting, say by Pontormo now costs tens of millions, while Mr. Pistoletto's current auction high is a slightly less giddy $4.9 million.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Strange Little Beast, Annie Lapin's first exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian, hints at the artist's ability — and perhaps desire — to paint like an Old Master, but it also indicates an understanding that she cannot live in the past.
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According to French investigators and their own accounts, Colnaghi and the Weiss Gallery have been associated with old master paintings that went through the hands of the French art collector Giuliano Ruffini, who is at the center of a French police investigation involving possible forgeries.
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The donation, made by Sheldon Peck, a retired orthodontist and former Harvard professor, and his wife, Leena, encompasses 140 works on paper valued at $17 million, including 134 European old master drawings, along with an $8 million endowment to support development of the museum.
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To plan a painting ahead of time, let alone square off a drawing as if it were an Old Master study for a Baroque battle scene, could not be further from the attitude of the Abstract Expressionists, who had adopted Gorky as a posthumous member.
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The possible Caravaggio is currently on view in the Paris office of Old Master painting dealer Eric Turquin who, along with auctioneer Marc Labarde, has been working to authenticate the work since it was first found by a family in Toulouse in April 2014.
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First recorded in the private collection of King Charles I, the work was auctioned in 1763 before vanishing until 1900, by which time Christ's face and hair had been painted over - once a "quite common" practice, according to Alan Wintermute, Christie's senior specialist for Old Master paintings.
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A MINUS Jenny Lewis: On the Line (Warner Bros.) The rare 21st-century singer-songwriter whose level of craft renders her good enough for 76-year-old master drummer Jim Keltner loses the spring in her step that made her so 21st-century by proving it.
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The old master dealer Bob Haboldt of Paris sold a pair of 17th-century Dutch still lifes by Herman Verelst for €175,53; the Tomasso Brothers of London found a buyer for a baroque-period silver "Cristo Morto" by the Augsburg sculptor Caspar Riss for about €100,000.
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One of its '20103s-style photo ads has its 69-year-old master watchmaker and charismatic frontman, Gilbert O. Gudjonsson, peering through a watchmaker's eyepiece while his three business colleagues, clad in matching rubber swim caps, gawk at a statuesque bathing beauty beside a swimming pool.
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And while it may be hard to envision the Frick's Rembrandts, Goyas and Renoirs in the Marcel Breuer-designed Brutalist building, Ian Wardropper, the Frick's director, said the museum would use the Breuer as an opportunity to juxtapose its old master art collection with contemporary loans.
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Mr. Wiley, who was the subject of two exhibitions during Mr. Lehman's tenure at the Brooklyn Museum, reserved the couple one of his equestrian series — riffing on specific old master paintings, but updated with contemporary African-American subjects — but it turned out that it wouldn't fit.
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When the European Fine Art Fair arrived in New York and set up in Park Avenue Armory four years ago, it was enough to be exactly what it was: a fair that boasted European old master paintings and antiquities and catered to museum curators and high-end connoisseurs.
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More recent predecessors for Erizku's Beyoncé photos include Kehinde Wiley, who in 2012 began painting black women in poses from Old Master paintings to correct their historical exclusion from the canon of beauty, and Mickalene Thomas, who recreates European paintings to represent black women as agents of self-representation.
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I'd usually be sleep deprived and hungover, a raw, exposed nerve from my nightly escapades over-romancing the punk lifestyle, but in that dilated condition the bizarre sense of space and presence in those old master paintings completely cracked me open—I mean it left me totally dumbstruck.
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Pulling together threads of her 20-year career working with old master drawings at Christie's, the Marina Picasso estate at the Jan Krugier Gallery and as a director of the contemporary art gallery White Cube in London, she aims to create "conversation among artworks from different genres," she said.
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With its old master paintings and Baroque antiques, one might imagine that the house isn't welcoming, but the design has the opposite effect: The deep armchairs and down-filled sofas, worn rugs and large fireplaces make the home an inviting place to return after a day on the slopes.
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But the Leonardo — as the artist is referred to in the profession, rather than da Vinci — had its own unique challenges: While the painting technically belonged in an old master auction, Christie's placed it in its postwar and contemporary sale to attract the wealthiest buyers in the market.
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The Frick, a museum known for its old master paintings and European objets d'art, announced on Monday that the series would begin next April, and that each edition would feature one work of art, an essay by a curator and another written piece by an artist or writer.
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" While acknowledging that the old masters market can be "very spiky," Alexander Bell, the worldwide co-chairman of Sotheby's old master paintings department, said: "We still very much believe in old masters," adding that "we've all got to evolve in the way we present our material and engage with our clients.
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At the beginning of the Renaissance, in the 16th century, aristocrats and scholars began to fill rooms with exotic artifacts from far-flung territories — horns said to have belonged to unicorns, brilliant red coral, animal skeletons, chalices made of silver or coconut shells — often displayed among Old Master paintings and sculptures.
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The 10-year-old master plan for that project originally called for about one million square feet of office space, but Mr. Barnhart said the ownership group had revised its plan to reflect current market conditions and would soon submit an application proposing a mix of retail, office and residential space.
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A guarantee of a minimum, undisclosed bid, by a third party, ensures that the price is certain to set a new high for an old master at auction, beating the $76.7 million achieved in 2002 at Sotheby's in London for the Rubens masterpiece "The Massacre of the Innocents" ($83.5 million today).
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At the old master evening auctions here earlier this month, Sotheby's hung works against walls painted an almost-black shade of gray, while Christie's "Classic Week" view, aiming for crossover appeal with eclectic collectors, had rooms filled with old masters (on dark blue) next to those showing Japanese and Surrealist art.
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With awareness of this underrated talent at surely its highest point, it makes sense that another new discovery, "Portrait Historié," was entered into Christie's prestigious Old Master evening sale on December 6, two lots away from a significant Van Dyck portrait and with a low asking price of 80,000 British Pounds (~ $101,216).
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The wall colors might have been different (black at Sotheby's, blue at Christie's), but these latest old master offerings — featuring a "Head of Christ" by Rembrandt, portraits by Anthony Van Dyck and Frans Hals, and landscapes by the Brueghel family — were put on show much the same way they have been for centuries.
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The first day of sales totaled $76.2 million and marked the highest sales total for a Sotheby's Old Masters drawing auction: $15.1 million, $11.7 million of which came from Andrea Mantegna's "The Triumph of Alexandria," which set the record for the most expensive Old Master drawing ever sold in the United States.
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And that, more or less, is what happened to Thaddée Prate, director of old master pictures at the Tajan auction house here, which is to announce on Monday the discovery of a drawing that a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art says is by Leonardo, the Renaissance genius and master draftsman.
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"It's the way he characterizes the figures, just with a few squiggles," said Charles Beddington, a London-based dealer in old-master pictures, standing in front of a painting, "Old Somerset House From the River Thames," that he was offering at Tefaf Maastricht, Europe's biggest and most prestigious international art and antiques fair.
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How easy it would be then, upon reviewing the one-time Spice Girl, now fashion designer Victoria Beckham's pop-up display of 16 Old Master paintings in her flagship Mayfair store, to level the same withering summary at her: she likes art, and even enjoys buying it, and hanging it on her walls.
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" Recalling the Clive James who has unapologetically commuted between high and low culture, between translating Dante and hanging out at the Playboy mansion, we might enjoy seeing him refract "Boardwalk Empire" through the old master glow of Raphael and pour the nectar of Nietzsche and Camus over Bubbles, the shopping-cart philosopher from "The Wire.
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It is clear that for him — and presumably for much of his audience — ideas of biblical and historical events in Palestine were shaped fundamentally by paintings and prints and other representations circulating widely at the time: old master paintings of St. Veronica, "fanciful pictures of Belshazzar's feast," steel engravings of women at a well.
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But on Wednesday the New York dealer Van de Weghe did sell an elaborately detailed 1986 Jean-Michel Basquiat drawing with an asking price of $2.2 million, and the London-based old master dealership Moretti Fine Art found a buyer for a little circa 1400 Florentine painting, "Christ at the Column," priced at $200,000.
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Yes, there is an increase in the number of Old Master specialist galleries this year — 14 this year, including newcomers Galerie Canesso, De Jonckheere, Galerie G Sarti and Stair Sainty Gallery — indicating, perhaps, an expectation of a more serious collecting audience than, say, Masterpiece, but the inclusiveness of some displays really do push this display principle to its limit.
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They informed the vaulted, glorious set designs and Old Master imagery of many of his productions—work which paid so poorly that for years, before the film of "Romeo and Juliet" made him rich, he had to boost his income by selling, sadly, the Matisse drawings that had been a present from his dear friend Coco Chanel.
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And yet, he is not a traditional literary or history painter — for what old master would conceive of anything like his various images after Shakespeare's Hamlet, or his "The Death of Sardanapalus" (123-212), represented in the exhibition Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by his small copy after the famous enormous work in the Louvre?
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Erizku's Beyoncé photographs are perhaps most like Thomas' paintings of black women, which use poses from the paintings of Edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, and other European artists, but with an important difference: Whereas Thomas reworks her art-historical references to establish distance between model and viewer, Erizku's use of Old Master conventions make his photographs of Beyoncé appear more inviting.
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The last sections of the exhibition examine lesser-known aspects of Fantin-Latour's working methods, his paintings and lithographs illustrating the music and operas of Berlioz, Wagner and Schumann, and his "imaginary works," inspired by classical myths, which draw on his intimate knowledge of old master painting, especially of the Venetian Renaissance, gained during his many years as a copyist at the Louvre.
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Indeed, apart perhaps from Caravaggio, what old master could have conceived of compositions like his Saint Sebastian Tended by the Holy Women (26), in which two woman furtively remove arrows from the saint's sprawled dead body, or Christ on the Cross (22019), in which the voluptuous Mary Magdalene, clad in red and prone passionately on the ground below, stares upward at Christ?
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Exceptional auction prices, such as the $44.9 million bid for that Rubens — or indeed the five-times estimate £1.1 million given by an English collector at Bonhams on July 6 for the earliest known self-portrait by the early 17th-century British painter William Dobson — create a sense that the old master market is at least ticking, if not booming.
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But Erizku and Beyoncé have made one important change from most of their Old Master predecessors: In these photographs, rather than looking into the distance like Botticelli's Venus, or having her eyes closed like Giorgione's, Beyoncé is looking directly at the viewer, as if to acknowledge that she knows we feel compelled to look at her, perhaps out of desire or longing to be like her.
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Drawing on their remarkable Lunder Collection of old master prints, the Colby curators set up a dialogue between Spero's work and two of Goya's famous print series', Los Disparates (The Follies, 1815-23), which ran through early November and was replaced with additional works by Spero, and Los Caprichos (The Caprices, 1797–98), a bound copy of which is currently displayed in a vitrine.
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The specialist representing the underbidder, Francois de Poortere, Christie's head of old master paintings, on the other hand, was less visible to the spectators and had a specialist in Asian art standing behind him, which led many to speculate that he was representing Liu Yiqian, a former taxi driver turned billionaire art collector, who purchased a nude by Amedeo Modigliani at Christie's for $170.4 million in 2015.
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When we remember Olitski's traditional art education at the National Academy School and his saying that, as a young artist, he "wanted to be Rembrandt," we begin to see paintings such as "Tut Pink" not only as modernist affirmations of the associative power of color, but also as chromatically rich distillations of the dramatic chiaroscuro of old master painting, detached from illusion but still capable of stirring us.
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Yet they are only the tip of the magnificent iceberg of some 850 pieces from the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. Assembled over nearly three decades, the collection was given to the Fenimore by the Thaws, benefactors of several New York institutions, especially the Morgan Library & Museum, which opens an exhibition of old master and Modern drawings from its Thaw Collection this month.
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Each year I attend the TEFAF New York fine and decorative art fair, I'm reminded of how much social status is codified in the style of dress of the majority of the patrons (and sales people): in the Park Avenue location itself, in the amenities available (which include an oyster bar) in the wares for sale, which include precious objects, from old master paintings to classical statuary to medieval armory, jewelry, and those aforementioned swans.
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Featuring spectacular and thought-provoking Old Master paintings from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the exhibition showcases more than twenty paintings and etchings of women found in the Bible masterfully rendered by 16th and 17-century artists, including: Pietro da Cortona, Fede Galizia, Pordenone, Giovanni Andrea Sirani and Francesco del Cairo, concluding with modern and contemporary works, including the sensuous "Salome" (1901) by Robert Henri, and "Portrait of Mamma Bush" (2010) by Mickalene Thomas.
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The first day of its annual Masters Week in New York raked in $22020 million and saw the highest sales total for a Sotheby's Old Masters drawing auction ($20203 million; $22020 million of which came from Andrea Mantegna's "The Triumph of Alexandria," which set the record for the most expensive Old Master drawing ever sold in the United States.) Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's "Madonna of the Rosary with Angels" led the house's painting sale, selling for almost three times the artist's previous record at auction.
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Finely observed but never precious, they're a thrilling demonstration of artistic self-reflection undertaken for its own sake — particularly a sequence that starts with an image of a photo of James Joyce taped to a foggy window and ends with the back of James Caan's neck on a Trinitron TV. Opening this weekend at 5) Gavin Brown's palatial establishment on West 127th Street is a show of balletic nudes in green fields and huge new landscapes roiling with stormy energy by the 92-year-old master of slick painterly flatness, Alex Katz (through Aug. 3).
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Albert Dubois-Pillet, "Barges on the Seine," oil on canvas, 1877-78, $48,000 Simon Dickinson Gallery in London Jakob Marrel, "Roses, Tulips, Iris," oil on panel, 1644, $51606,000 Pier Leone Ghezzi, "Susannah and the Elders," oil on canvas, late 1720s-early 1730s, £330,000 ($434,500) Jan Brueghel the Elder, "Landscape," oil on copper, 1606, $591,000 Francesco Zuccarelli, "View of the River Thames From Richmond Hill," oil on canvas, 1752, $525,000 Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about the dwindling market for old master paintings omitted the given name and the title of an expert who commented on contemporary artists who talk with passion about the genius of old masters.
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