LONDON.- The Courtauld Institute of Art announce a major philanthropic gift of £600,000 from the International Music and Art Foundation to create the IMAF Centre for the Study and Conservation of Drawings at The Courtauld Gallery. Ranging from the ear…
Unprecedented Discovery of Imperial Correspondence to Go on Sale at the Hotel des Ventes in Geneva
GENEVA.- Geneva based auctioneers Hôtel des Ventes will be selling a highly important and unique collection of extensive correspondence, photographs and drawings exchanged between H.I.H Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, H.I.H Grand Duchess Xenia Alexan…
Property from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp to Be Offered During Old Masters Week
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s will offer drawings, furniture and decorations from the private residences of museum director and art collector Charles Ryskamp on 25 January 2011, as a highlight of Old Masters Week in New York. Mr. Ryskamp served as Dire…
Property from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp to Be Offered During Old Masters Week
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s will offer drawings, furniture and decorations from the private residences of museum director and art collector Charles Ryskamp on 25 January 2011, as a highlight of Old Masters Week in New York. Mr. Ryskamp served as Dire…
New Works by Grayson Perry to Go on Show in Manchester
LONDON.- Two major new works by Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry are to go on show in Manchester in the New Year. They have just been bought for Manchester Art Gallery’s permanent collection. The Art Fund gave £24,025 to help the Gallery…
Exhibition on Treatments and Techniques Used to Conserve Rare Works on Paper at the Getty
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Works on paper are inherently more fragile—in terms of sensitivity to light and handling—than mediums such as canvas, panel, bronze, or clay, and often show the passage of time more acutely than their counterparts. Frequent …
Exhibition on Treatments and Techniques Used to Conserve Rare Works on Paper at the Getty
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Works on paper are inherently more fragile—in terms of sensitivity to light and handling—than mediums such as canvas, panel, bronze, or clay, and often show the passage of time more acutely than their counterparts. Frequent …
Study Photographs and Paintings by Norman Rockwell at the Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN, NY.-To create many of his iconic, quintessentially American paintings, most of which served as magazine covers, Norman Rockwell worked from carefully staged study photographs that are on view for the first time, alongside his paintings, drawi…
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Presents an Overview of Alberto Giacometti’s Mature Work
GERMANY.- Space does not exist, it has to be created… Every sculpture based on the assumption that space exists is wrong; there is only the illusion of space. – Alberto Giacometti, Notes, circa 1949. For the first time in 12 years, the Kunstmuseum W…
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Presents an Overview of Aberto Giacometti’s Mature Work
GERMANY.- Space does not exist, it has to be created… Every sculpture based on the assumption that space exists is wrong; there is only the illusion of space. – Alberto Giacometti, Notes, circa 1949. For the first time in 12 years, the Kunstmuseum W…