LONDON.- As it launches a major exhibition of actress portraits, the National Portrait Gallery has announced the acquisition of a large and rarely seen picture of three of eighteenth-century society’s most glamorous and notorious women – as t…
National Portrait Gallery Acquires Rare Picture of Society Beauties as Macbeth’s Witches
LONDON.- As it launches a major exhibition of actress portraits, the National Portrait Gallery has announced the acquisition of a large and rarely seen picture of three of eighteenth-century society’s most glamorous and notorious women – as t…
Zeitgeist and Glamour: the Decades of the Jet Set at the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf
DUSSELDORF.- The Sixties. It is as if a new era has dawned, a ‘revolution of the young’ has begun: new faces, incredible music, unusual beauties, a change of fashion, style, and taste, another way of life. Everyone wants to be a part of it and everyone…
Moroccan: Magic Orientalist Pictures & Islamic Art Announced at Sotheby’s in Paris
PARIS.- Sotheby’s next sale of Orientalist art in Paris, on March 30, will include a selection of works by artists who lived in Morocco. Several landscapes and scenes from Moroccan daily life by Jacques Majorelle reflect his close links to the cou…
Japanese Art Dealers Association Announces Asia Week Exhibitions
NEW YORK, NY.- A robust panorama of traditional Japanese fine arts will be on view at the galleries of six leading dealers this Fall, including rarely seen 12th century Kyozo, or mirrors bearing drawings of gods, imperial screens once part of the furni…