Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Estorick Collection
This museum shows works from the remarkable collection of modern Italian art created by Eric and Salome Estorick. Powerful images by the main protagonists of the early 20th-century Italian avant-garde Futurist movement, including Balla, Boccioni, Carrà, Severini and Russolo, are on permanent view.
Haboldt & Co.
SINGULAR VISION
Singular Vision. Haboldt & Co.’s Old Master Paintings and Drawings since 1983, a ravishing publication celebrating thirty years of dealing in Old Masters, will be published in April 2012 by the respected Dutch dealer Bob Haboldt. The business was founded in New York in 1983 and today also has premises in Amsterdam and Paris. During these thirty years more than 2,000 paintings and drawings have passed through his hands and, in homage to these works of art, some 500 examples are illustrated in the book, many life-size.
The handsome publication is not only a personal record of Bob Haboldt’s career and the works he has handled along the way, but it is also an expression of what he finds most intriguing about these special paintings and drawings. Over twenty eminent scholars have contributed essays to the publication, a tribute to the esteem in which Bob Haboldt is held amongst his peers.
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Hermitage Amsterdam
Hermitage Amsterdam New Venue to open June 2009
From June 2009, a major new European cultural destination, the greatly expanded Hermitage Amsterdam, will welcome visitors to its elegantly restored 17th-century building in the historic heart of Amsterdam. Founded to bring the richness and grandeur of Russia’s artistic heritage to one of the West’s most charming capitals, this independent cultural institution will inaugurate its spacious new home — ten times the size of the previous building — with the exhibition At the Russian Court, a dazzling display of more than 1,800 treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. The Press View will be held on Thursday 18 June.
Hermitage Amsterdam attracts over 360,000 visitors in first 100 days
Monday 28 September was exactly one hundred days since the Hermitage Amsterdam opened its doors and, since the first weekend, when the museum stayed open continuously for 31 hours, just over 360,000 visitors and guests have passed through its doors. This figure already equals the estimated target for the first year. Research shows that nearly 80% of the visitors came to Amsterdam especially for the Hermitage Amsterdam, and that 1 in 6 comes from abroad. The figure of 360,000 includes 45,000 guests and 110,000 visitors through the BankGiro Loterij campaign.
Hermitage Amsterdam Welcomes Millionth Visitor
Last weekend, the Hermitage Amsterdam received its millionth visitor. Since opening on 20 June 2009, the museum has now welcomed one million visitors and guests. On 18 September, a major exhibition will open on the life of a great Greek hero The Immortal Alexander the Great: the myth, the reality, his journey, his legacy (until 18 March 2011). For further information see Alexander the Great
Mauritshuis
Mauritshuis Unveils Preliminary Design
The preliminary design for the 22 million euro project ‘Mauritshuis building for the future’ was unveiled in The Hague on 22 June.
The ambitious design links Plein 26, the Art Deco building opposite the Mauritshuis which is part of the Nieuwe of Littéraire Sociëteit de Witte, with the museum by means of an underground foyer, thus doubling the square footage and increasing its potential. The project is expected to be completed by mid 2014.
Palazzo Strozzi
Palazzo Strozzi Exhibitions attract 230,000 visitors
The recent exhibitions at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, attracted a total of 230,000 visitors and much critical acclaim in the international press. Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici, the first ever exhibition devoted to the paintings of this major 16th century artist, attracted over 140,000 visitors, while Michelangelo Pistoletto’s installation Square Metre of Infinity in a Mirror Cube was visited by over 60,000, and Portraits of Power, in the CCCS, attracted over 26,000 people. Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Chairman of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi said, “Palazzo Strozzi has succeeded in consolidating its reputation in the international arena, building on the work of the past few years to attract a new, inquisitive, intelligent and quality audience from both Italy and abroad, lured by the challenge that Florence faces in reconciling its Renaissance past with a vibrant present.”
Paul Holberton Publishing
Paul Holberton publishes Award Winning Catalogue
The sixth annual The Art Newspaper & AXA Art Exhibition Catalogue Award for the best exhibition catalogue of the year published in the UK and Eire has been given to Xanto: Pottery Painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance, published by Paul Holberton for The Wallace Collection.
Masters and Pupils
This ground-breaking book is about a family tree. Dr Gert-Rudolf Flick traces the ‘apostolic succession’ from Perugino in Italy in the fifteenth century to Edouard Manet in France in the nineteenth, as one painter passed on his knowledge to the next generation. He shows how, over the centuries, the nature of artistic instruction changed, passing from the guild system and the individual workshop to the academy and elaborate institutions of state.
Prince Henry Revived
There can be few examples of more intensive fashioning and self-fashioning of a Renaissance figure than that of Prince Henry (1594–1612). Two decades after Roy Strong’s revelatory Henry Prince of Wales and England’s Lost Renaissance, this collection of essays re-examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural response to Prince Henry and presents many new findings in the context of recent scholarship.
William Orpen: An Onlooker in France
William Orpen was the only official war artist to publish an extensive memoir of his experiences in the Great War. This compelling narrative was first published in 1921 and reprinted in 1924 with additional illustrations. In this fully revised edition 97 paintings and drawings have been reproduced in colour and keyed to the narrative, resulting in a perceptive and poignant account by the artist.
Bernadette of Lourdes: Paintings by Greg Tricker
Foreword by Sister Wendy Beckett, Essay by Philip Vann
Publication Date: 12 November 2008
“… And there was Sculpture”
“… And there was Sculpture” marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), the first avant-garde sculptor in Britain. The book is a comprehensive introduction to the young Epstein, a study of his personality, his art, his culture, his milieu, his domestic ménages, his Jewishness, his un-Jewishness, his vision, his lovers and again his art, for Epstein lived, starved and suffered all for his art.
Johan Zoffany: Artist and Adventurer
To be published in December 2009 to mark the bicentenary of the artist’s death. Paul Holberton Publishing is pleased to announce the first comprehensive biography of the portrait painter Johan Zoffany, one of the leading figures of 18th-century British art.
German Master Drawings
In late 2007 the National Gallery of Art, Washington, acquired one of the finest private collections of Old Master drawings, which had been passionately assembled by Wolfgang Ratjen (1943–1997) over three decades. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, from 16 May to 28 November 2010.
Regarding Thomas Rowlandson 1757-1827
This new biography of Thomas Rowlandson by James Payne and Matthew Payne is destined to become the standard work on this great British artist. In more than a decade’s research, using church and official records, newspaper reports, contemporary accounts, sales catalogues and, of course, the pictures themselves, the authors shed new light on Rowlandson’s family background, his education and art training in London and Paris, his Huguenot connections, his personal and professional associations, and his travels in Britain and abroad.
Twombly and Poussin
Although 350 years apart, the careers of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) and Cy Twombly (1928-2011) followed parallel paths. Each artist arrived as a foreigner in Rome at the age of thirty, and stayed to become the leading painter of their respective eras. The two artists track each other across the centuries, setting up a dialogue that can inform how we see each of them: Twombly through Poussin, Poussin through Twombly. Out of such dialogues, revelations can come.
Stanley Spencer and The English Garden
Spencer paints landscape as [the Pre-Raphaelites] did … with the same prodigious delight in all the facts of nature for their own sake. He loves to paint nettles and grasses leaf by leaf, blade by blade, as they did. He loves it all too much to leave anything out.
Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) is perhaps best known for his mystical biblical scenes and candid self-portraits, but it was his magnificent paintings of gardens, houses and landscapes, set in the small alleys and overgrown backyards of his home village of Cookham, which proved more popular during his lifetime. Published to accompany the exhibition Stanley Spencer and the English Garden at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, from 25 June to 2 October 2011, this book is the first to focus specifically on Spencer’s landscape paintings, and to consider them as a group, rather than as punctuation marks between the figure paintings. The artist’s depictions of suburban environments are examined in the context of the rapid urbanization that took place in the English countryside between the two world wars, and the enduring English obsession with gardens.
Food for the Flames: Idols and Missionaries in Central Polynesia
Twenty-five years after Captain Cook’s historic voyage, the London Missionary Society sent its first representatives to the South Seas landing on Tahiti in 1797. Their goal was to eradicate heathenism and idolatry but, unwittingly, they became agents for the preservation of Polynesian culture through their diligent recording of language and religious practices. REVIEW COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
Casemate Athena to Distribute Western Art Books in USA
Paul Holberton publishing is delighted to announce that from 1 August 2011 Casemate Athena will be responsible for the distribution of Western art books in the United States of America
This Blessed Plot, This Earth
This beautifully designed book celebrates the career of Jonathan Horne MBE FSA (1940-2010), international authority on English pottery and for forty years a London dealer at the top of his field.
Caravaggio’s Eye
This book concentrates on a few crucial years of Caravaggio’s development, in order to cast light on what made the artist such a revolutionary figure. It argues that this revolution was one of technique rather than style, and involved the sophisticated use of a camera obscura and so-called ‘burning’ or parabolic mirrors, exploiting new advances in glassmaking and optics. Because the results Caravaggio obtained by his new methods were so different, he created a sensation. These innovations were rapidly assimilated and the artistic establishment worked successfully to restore their way of doing things, so that the true novelty of his art in the 1590s has been obscured.
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
This publication will be the only available English-language monograph to date on the High Renaissance sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (c. 1455-1528), who earned the nickname ‘Antico’ with his highly refined reductions of Greco-Roman antiquities. His bronzes – many of which were produced at the brilliant court of Isabella d’Este at Mantua – were remarkable for being meticulously cast and finely cleaned and finished, designed for close appreciation in the privacy of a courtly studiolo. His black patination and exquisite detailing, such as gilded hair and silver-inlaid eyes, are characteristic.
Spanish Drawings in The Courtauld Gallery: Complete Catalogue
Exploring the rich, intriguing and varied territory of Spanish drawings, this catalogue will serve as a comprehensive introduction to a field in which there is surprisingly little available in English.
Jean de Carpentin's Book of Hours
In the 1470s, one of the most innovative artists working in Bruges illuminated a Book of Hours for Jean de Carpentin, lord of Gravile and a prominent citizen of Normandy. Known as the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book after one of his other masterpieces, this artist and members of his workshop enriched the pages of Carpentin’s manuscript with miniatures, historiated initials, and boldly coloured borders in which human figures, monsters and monkeys are framed by twisting branches of acanthus.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Announces Campus Expansion Milestones
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute recently announced the launch of the final phase of its campus expansion project and a series of programmes that will extend the Clark’s reach and engagement during the time of construction on its Williamstown site. The series of programmes, called ClarkNOW, encompasses more than 60 projects over the next three years in Williamstown, New York, and around the globe, including exhibitions, installations, and academic programmes.
The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery has one of the most important and best-loved collections of European paintings and drawings in Britain, ranging from the Renaissance to the 20th century and including an outstanding collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, including Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere and Van Gogh's Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear.
Courtauld Receives Gift of Turner Watercolours
Eight works by J.M.W. Turner are part of an exceptional bequest of British watercolours announced today by The Courtauld Gallery. The bequest of fifty-one works by Miss Dorothy Scharf is the most significant single addition to the Courtauld’s distinguished collection of works on paper for over twenty-five years.
Phillip King Presents Sculpture to The Courtauld
Phillip King (b.1934), one of Britain’s foremost sculptors and former president of the Royal Academy of Arts, and his wife, the novelist Judy Corbalis, have presented to The Courtauld Gallery one of King’s seminal early sculptures: Drift, 1961
Francis Bacon Loan to The Courtauld Gallery
The Estate of Francis Bacon has generously placed an important painting by the artist on loan to The Courtauld. Untitled (Crouching Figures), c.1952, is initially on display alongside Honoré Daumier’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, c.1870, in recognition of Bacon’s admiration for Daumier’s masterpiece.
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Courtauld Experts Reveal the Full Beauty of Petra's 2,000-Year-Old Cave Painting
Experts from London's Courtauld Institute of Art recently completed the conservation of a rare and exquisite Nabataean wall painting at the World Heritage site of Petra in Jordan, for the Petra National Trust. Conservators Stephen Rickerby and Lisa Shekede from the Courtauld’s Conservation of Wall Painting Department worked on the project for three years.
Meeting the HEFCE Matched Funding Challenge
On 1 November 2010 The Courtauld Institute of Art announced that it had raised £7 million towards the target of £8.25 million needed to meet the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s (HEFCE) matched funding challenge. The Government, through HEFCE, is running a major three-year matched funding programme to encourage and inspire private funding for universities. The Courtauld, as part of this scheme, must raise £8.25 million to qualify for the 1:3 matched-funding grant of £2.75 million from the Government. The Courtauld needs to find the remaining £1.2 million by 31 July 2011.
Medieval Ivories Brought to Light
On 15 December 2010 the Gothic Ivories Project, hosted by The Courtauld Institute of Art, goes online. The website makes available the first 700 objects from a database that already numbers more than 3,000 ivories. A detailed entry has been written for each piece and the vast majority are illustrated by high resolution colour images, with multiple views.
Courtauld Conservation Experts Undertake New Research of Wall Paintings in Bhutan
During the last three years, experts from The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, have been given unique access by the Government of Bhutan’s Department of Culture to undertake scientific research of the kingdom’s wall paintings. Many of these are now under threat either because the traditional buildings in which they survive are damaged by fire or flood, or due to the ravages of time on the paintings themselves. An understanding of how the paintings were made will lead to an understanding of how they deteriorate and, ultimately, how they can best be preserved.
The Courtauld Institute of Art expands into the Arts of Asia
The Courtauld Institute of Art is delighted to announce the establishment of two new faculty teaching and research posts in Asian art history as a major step in the expansion of its curriculum beyond the Western tradition as part of its engagement with world art history.
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the first post will be based chronologically in the period from 1000 to 1750 AD. It will be defined thematically and focus on questions of imperialism and artistic patronage from the perspective of empires outside the Western world, from any major region of Asia.
The Courtauld Meets the HEFCE Matched Funding Challenge
The Courtauld is delighted to announce that, thanks to the generosity of more than 2,800 donors from a wide range of supporters including alumni and staff, parents and friends, it has not only met, but significantly exceeded, the HEFCE matched funding programme challenge of £8.25 million by raising the extraordinary sum of £9.5 million [£9,539,448].
The Khalili Collections
The Khalili Collections
Since 1970, Prof Nasser D. Khalili has assembled, under the auspices of The Khalili Family Trust, a number of impressive art collections in a broad range of fields including arts of the Islamic world, Japanese art of the Meiji period, Indian and Swedish textiles, and Spanish damascened metalwork as well as of Near and Middle Eastern antiquities.
Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Canadian Works of Art: The Thomson Collection
Ken Thomson formed what is without doubt the most significant and important collection of Canadian art in private hands. Comprising over 750 works of art assembled over fifty years, it is distinguished by its remarkable breadth, the high quality of its individual works, and the rarity of many of its objects.
Chinese Snuff Bottles: Thomson Collection
Ken Thomson’s love of small, intricate carvings inevitably led him to the field of Chinese snuff bottles. These exquisite objects embody in miniature all of China’s fine arts as well as its legends, myths and folklore. Robert Hall, one of the leading dealers in the field, helped Ken Thomson build up a collection of some 300 of the finest snuff bottles available, 115 of which will be on permanent display at the AGO with a further 150 available for rotating displays.
European Works of Art: The Thomson Collection
One of the finest collections of its kind in private hands in the world, comprises some 900 objects, primarily northern European sculpture and decorative arts dating from the early Middle Ages to the mid 19th century. The Collection has both sacred and secular objects including a renowned assemblage of medieval and Baroque ivories, as well as superb examples of silver, Limoges enamel, boxwood carving, medieval manuscripts, carved portrait medallions and nearly 100 portrait miniatures from the 16th to the 19th centuries. His Collection includes acknowledged masterpieces of extreme rarity and others by some of the most sought-after artists of their day.
Ken Thomson Collector
In 2002, Kenneth Roy Thomson (1923-2006) set in motion what has been described as one of the most significant acts of philanthropy in Canadian history when he agreed to donate his priceless art collection to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. The Collection comprises some 2,000 Canadian and European paintings and objects which will be housed in a series of galleries in a transformed AGO which has been designed by the world-renowned architect Frank Gehry who was born and raised in Toronto. Ken Thomson also contributed over $100 million towards the transformation of the AGO. The most important private art collection in Canada be on view from Friday 14 November 2008.
Rubens’s The Massacre of the Innocents at The Thomson Collection
The jewel in the crown in the Thomson Collection is undoubtedly The Massacre of the Innocents, the masterpiece of Peter Paul Rubens’s early maturity. The late Ken Thomson bought the work at Sotheby’s in London in July 2002 for £49.5 million, at the time the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction.
Ship Models: Thomson Collection
This Collection spans some 350 years and contains examples of exquisite workmanship and some of the masterpieces of the genre. Foremost are rare late 17th and 18th century British dockyard models, made to scale for the Royal Navy and wealthy individuals. There is also a large number of models made by some of the 120,000 prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars. These models, made from wood and bone, with rigging of silk and human hair, were produced by teams of skilled craftsmen and sold to local British collectors who gathered at the prison gates. The shipbuilders’ models extend from the mid 19th century to the Second World War, representing a diversity of both model style and ship type ranging from tugs, dredgers and trawlers to cargo vessels, passenger steamers, private yachts, corvettes, battleships, cruisers, torpedo boats, destroyers and two aircraft carriers.
Worth Press Limited
The Timeline History of Islamic Art and Architecture
The Timeline History of Islamic Art and Architecture by Professor Nasser D. Khalili, published by Worth Press in November 2005, is a major new work which provides a comprehensive overview of the arts of Islam for the general reader. Never before has there been a publication that brings every aspect of this vast subject together both geographically and chronologically.
