LONDON.- The 2011 London Map Fair, taking place in the historic surroundings of the Royal Geographical Society, is the most established and largest antiquarian map fair in Europe: over forty of the leading national and international specialist map deal…
Sotheby’s to Offer a Newly Discovered Work By Sir Anthony Van Dyck at London Sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s today announces that it will sell a newly discovered portrait by the great 17th Century Flemish painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck in its 6th July 2011 sale of Old Master and British Paintings in London. The intense and psychologicall…
Bonhams & Butterfields to Offer Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On June 13, 2011 at Bonhams & Butterfields in Los Angeles, the firm will offer Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts. Highlights from the 550-lot sale will include property from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with a focus…
The Fruit of Promise: Citrus Fruits in Art and Culture at the Germanisches National Museum
NUREMBERG.- Bitter oranges and lemons are found in portraits since the 15th century. Varied meanings are tied up with the fruits. In the Baroque age, it was popular to symbolize the descent of a portrait subject from the Dutch ruling dynasty of Orange…
The Musée d’art de Joliette in Quebec Highlights Selected Portraits
Quebec.- Until September 4th, the Musée d’art de Joliette in Quebec is showing “Beyond Sight: Portraits from the MAJ’s Collection”. This thematic exhibition features more than 60 portraits from the Musée’s collection. Both original in its conce…
The Highlight of Sotheby’s Amsterdam Old Master Paintings Sale: A School Class by Jan Steen
AMSTERDAM.- The highlight of the Old Master Paintings sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam on Tuesday, 10th May, 2011 is A school class with a sleeping schoolmaster by Dutch Golden Age Artist Jan Steen (1626-1979). This painting may be regarded as one of J…
The Garden Comes to Life at Summers Place Auctions
WEST SUSSEX.- An important collection of 17th and 18th Century Italian marble sculpture will be offered in the hugely popular sale of Garden Statuary and Ornament – both antique and modern – at Summers Place Auctions (in association with Sotheby&#…
Speed Art Museum will Bring Caravaggio’s "The Fortune Teller" to the United States this May
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum announced today that it will bring Caravaggio’s pivotal work, The Fortune Teller, to the United States this May. The painting rarely travels and this will mark only the second time the work has ever been on vi…
The Rijksmuseum, Closed Since 2003, Won’t Completely Reopen Until 2012
Amsterdam.- Sad news this week for Amsterdam museum-goers as the city announced that the Rijksmuseum, which was most recently scheduled to reopen after a renovation in 2010, now won’t complete the massive overhaul until late 2012 or early 2013. Th…
Royal Collection Presents Exhibition of 42 Paintings of Dutch 17th-Century Landscapes
LONDON.- This exhibition of 42 paintings draws on the Royal Collection’s rich holdings of Dutch 17th-century landscapes, including works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van der Heyden and Meyndert Hobbema. By the 17th century, landscape …