The Dadaists loved cartoons but they also loved old masters.
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The trouble is, old masters have become an unpredictable market.
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Naturally, he grew up to become an old masters specialist.
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So all I had was recordings of the old masters.
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A century ago, our art market focused on Italian Old Masters.
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Neither is it for the clientele who usually buy Old Masters.
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Old Masters where it logically belonged, attesting to the privileged place of
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Pollock was also drawn to Old Masters, El Greco being his favorite.
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From Old Masters to Abstract Expressionists to Dansaekhwa, it's all been forged.
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But then the works going under the hammer weren't exactly old masters.
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The wall-mounted relief sculptures of the Old Masters presented figurative subjects.
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MADRID — Old Masters have always outnumbered Old Mistresses, especially at the Prado.
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Half of our business in 1969 was old masters pictures and furniture.
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"London has been historically a center of Old Masters," Ms. Siddall added.
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"I'm in love with the old masters, totally fascinated with them," Tavormina says.
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To be sure, there is still a public appetite for viewing old masters.
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TEFAF Antiques, design, old masters and art on the Upper East Side. Oct.
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The Old Masters Night Sale at Sotheby's saw £56,205,950 (~$70 million) in sales.
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Many Old Masters, most notably Rembrandt, made multiples, and Abstract Expressionists continued this practice.
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Sotheby's continues to deliver on its promise to make Old Masters paintings hip again.
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Unlike those old masters, though, she is free from conventions of genre and form.
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In recent years, have you been more inspired by old masters rather than contemporaries?
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The old-masters world, too, tends to prefer discretion — if not modesty — to showiness.
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Not all his interests skew modern or contemporary; Bowie also collected the Old Masters.
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"She said, 'it's a nonsense game; you can't do it with old masters,'" Norman recalled.
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Born in Vienna, he is conversant in the old masters, modern art and Minecraft too.
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Where Mr. Obama's choice, Kehinde Wiley, makes ornate paintings that clearly reference Old Masters, Mrs.
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Many of these technically dazzling reinterpretations of old masters were presented in elaborate antique frames.
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I think a lot of people would be surprised that you have collected old masters.
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In later pieces, she imitates the style of Old Masters, upending art's historically male gaze.
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Christie's Old Masters sale in New York brought in a total of $32,982,250 on May 18903.
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The society has the largest collection of Spanish old masters outside of the Prado in Spain.
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"The auctions were thin," said John Lloyd, a private dealer in old masters based in London.
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"Tefaf was a fair you went to for old masters, jewelry and fantastic designs," he said.
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So Early Rubens requires zero interest in Old Masters to appreciate what it has to offer.
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Mr. Taubman's old masters, carrying a minimum valuation of $21 million, will be sold on Jan. 27.
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Handbags painted with Old Masters and slogans sit stylishly on show with miniature versions of his sculptures.
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This year, paintings from Old Masters sat alongside the cutting edge; the same was true of sculptures.
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Gimmes for me were XANADU, GAS PEDAL, OPAQUENESS, ROE V. WADE, the anagram OLD MASTERS and ALCHEMIST.
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Sotheby's Old Masters Day sale in London brought in a total of £4,353,625 (~$5,565,000) on December 6.
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Sotheby's Old Masters Evening sale in London brought in a total of £30,209,41893 (~$41883,41873,41863) on December 41853.
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Christie's sale of Old Masters in New York brought in a total of $9,454,500 on October 30.
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We have maybe 30 old masters in the collection — works by Bruegel and Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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Young Bomberg and the Old Masters continues at the National Gallery (Trafalgar Square, London) through March 1.
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Christie's Old Masters Day sale in London brought in a total of £191083,191073,191063 (~$191053,191043,191033) on December 191023.
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Christie's Old Masters Evening sale in London brought in a total of £20,851,750 (~$26,187,000) on December 6.
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George Dawe was an English artist who hoped to become one of Britain's answer to the Old Masters.
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Fans of hip-hop and indie music suddenly find themselves seeking out the music of the old masters.
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An appreciation for old masters, experts say, also requires a deeper history of collecting and an educated eye.
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Moving forward, the collection will focus solely on contemporary art, but the old masters will have their place.
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Although the Leonardo would typically be placed among old masters, Christie's said it belonged in a contemporary sale.
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"We're the tortoise to contemporary art's hare," said Johnny Van Haeften, a London-based dealer in old masters.
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This time round, Christie's and Sotheby's pre-Christmas evening auctions of old masters netted a combined £46.8 million.
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A pop star turned fashion designer may seem like an unlikely figurehead for a sale of old masters.
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If you can't say it with words, you can now say it with expressions from Old Masters paintings.
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Old masters have proved a hard sell at this elegant event, but so too have 20th century masters.
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In 2005, European old masters generated $655 million of auction sales, compared with $1.6 billion for contemporary works.
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Out went the old masters; and, under Rebay's guidance, in came some zany new ones, Kandinsky among them.
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Christie's Old Masters Day Sale in London brought in a total of £4,619,500 (~$6.1 million) on July 6253.
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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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Its buyers, Old Masters dealers Robert Simon and Alexander Parrish, were responsible for its re-authentication as a Leonardo.
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"My work has been influenced more by the old masters, which I find more and more fascinating," she says.
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I feel so lucky to design something in this city and to have this conversation with the old masters.
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The London dealer Guy Sainty, who has long specialized in old masters, said that he is mystified and frustrated.
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More than any other mid-743th-century practitioners, those French artists now seem like the old masters of photography.
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He acknowledged that the presence of Old Masters doesn't usually give a boost to the visibility of women artists.
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He focused mostly on local painters from the 19th century, though he also sold contemporary art and old masters.
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Sotheby's Old Masters paintings are on view in Victoria Beckham's Dover Street store in Mayfair (London) until June 27.
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Now is not the time to invest your hard-earned savings in the ostensibly stable Old Masters market, Pisces.
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Here they were comfortable winners over surprise package Russia, and secured a place in the final against old masters Germany.
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In 2014, he had been a 20-year-old Masters rookie who completed the tournament in a tie for second.
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Wiley is known for his vibrant portraits of African-American men referencing the visual language of European Old Masters painting.
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Mr. Milano is grateful for the spotlight that Jay-Z and Beyoncé's video extravaganza has shined on the old masters.
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The memories of Beyoncé, Victoria Beckham and others displaying a fascination over the summer with European old masters have faded.
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"You just don't see paintings like that any more," said Derek Johns, a dealer in old masters, based in London.
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The difficulty with Young Bomberg and the Old Masters is that its theme is too ambitious for the space allotted.
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"If I can show what I do next to old masters, it does service to my artists," Mr. Benda said.
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He studied art history in college, then was hired by Sotheby's in London as a junior specialist in old masters.
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"There are hardly any younger collectors" who are interested in the old masters, the former Mauritshuis director Frits Duparc said.
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Sotheby's Old Masters day and evening sales in London brought in a total of £47,238,775 (~$62 million) on July 4.
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Peter Paul Rubens' "Portrait of a Venetian Nobleman" was sold for £5,416,400 (~$20023 million) at Sotheby's Old Masters Evening Sale.
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According to Christie's, the price of the painting reflects the sheer rarity of paintings by da Vinci, and by Old Masters.
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In Erizku's images, Beyoncé exudes self-confidence and cultural awareness by performing the conventions of the Old Masters as her own.
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But if I'm looking to maximize my profits, well, that's the classics: da Vinci, or really any of the old masters.
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Also, the Museum of Black Civilizations has opened in Senegal, Sotheby's will host a sale of female Old Masters, and more.
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Albers appraised craftsmanship above all else, paying homage to old masters rather than emphasizing any "untaught" qualities valorized by earlier modernists.
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An entire floor of Degas's Paris house was stuffed with easels displaying old masters, which favoured visitors were allowed to view.
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This week, a rainbow in Toledo's Old Masters' galleries, American artists and politics, the failed state of the internet, and more.
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He acknowledged that collecting fashion had shifted toward more recent artworks, but added that old masters represented an alternative investment strategy.
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And with rich fruits and long branches of leaves, her fall arrangements have a beautiful way of recalling old masters Paintings.
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The old masters play the straight man in the background while the paint on top adds humor or creates a joke.
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It was Dodie Müller, a painter and Jan's widow, who suggested to Thompson that he study the Old Masters, which he did.
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Dealers in old masters and historic objects made positive noises about meeting the "right people" and having "serious conversations" at the Biennale.
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"Old masters could become more popular again, but it's doubtful if it could swing back in a big way," Ms. McAndrew said.
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The museum contains an encyclopedic collection of art from the old masters to Impressionists to an 11,000-square-foot contemporary design gallery.
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Fabrizio Moretti, a London dealer in old masters who collects contemporary art, said the estimates are too high for these established names.
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The art was of the anodyne motel variety — an old-masters-esque tableau, a canvas of a zebra standing in a forest.
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You get 10 huge tableaux vivants of Old Masters paintings — one actress posing naked for a living re-creation of Rembrandt's 'Danae.
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"I think it was begun by Caravaggio and finished by another artist," said Fabrizio Moretti, a leading old masters dealer in London.
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He stalled sending back the works of Old Masters, ultimately saving world treasures from the grubby hands of Hitler, Goebbels, and Goering.
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It also cautions against indulging your basest instincts, so, actually, maybe you should give up on that Old Masters forgery scheme after all.
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"The way I look at it right now, I look at them equal," said the 22-year-old Masters and U.S. Open champion.
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His house is hung with old masters, but this elephant-head wall fountain will be spouting in a garden full of contemporary sculpture.
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Traff originally got the startup bug in Asia, where he launched a company that would sell low-cost copies of old masters paintings.
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A recently discovered work by a long-overlooked Baroque painter didn't attract the interest that Christie's prestigious Old Masters auction seemed to expect.
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He supported his Impressionist friends by buying their paintings; later he was able to acquire favoured old masters such as Ingres and Delacroix.
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Some longstanding exhibitors, like Otto Naumann, a New York dealer in old masters, are debating whether to continue showing at Maastricht at all.
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"Rubens's time has come," said Mr. Haboldt, an old masters specialist with locations in Paris, New York and Amsterdam, who was the underbidder.
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It identified three categories: Old Masters (a description that denotes the longstanding gender bias), "blue chip" works, and the "speculative" or "growth" arena.
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"It's an iconic picture and an iconic name," Jean-Luc Baroni, a dealer in old masters, based in London, said of the Leonardo.
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Young Bomberg and the Old Masters, presented in a finite form, could have been so much bigger, more ambitious, and more intellectually adventurous.
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We have a notion of the old masters that they are all old dead white men, which doesn't apply to these artists at all.
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Borrowing from the Old Masters, he recasts Black men as figures like Napoleon, riding high on a white horse as he commands his army.
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By the time her son was 4 months old, Masters was debt-free and job-free, and able to focus on building her website.
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OLD MASTERS NOW: CELEBRATING THE JOHNSON COLLECTION About 90 works by Botticelli, Bosch, Titian, Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Manet, Monet and Whistler. Nov. 3–Feb.
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After centuries of trading, market-fresh "AAA" old masters are in chronically short supply, making competition all the more intense when they do appear.
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Sotheby's is now contemplating legal action against London-based Old Masters dealer Mark Weiss, who was the source of the purported Gentileschi and Hals paintings.
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But this portrait is by Bernini, who, along with Donatello, is one of a dozen or so old masters whose genius is regarded as timeless.
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"We have no intention of selling old masters pictures or 18th-, 19th-century pictures, because these markets are now so small and dwindling," he added.
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Recently, Mr. Lin and Ms. Lei, who earned a graduate degree in arts administration at Columbia University, have taken a keen interest in old masters.
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"For a change, Sotheby's didn't have such a good sale," said Johan Bosch van Rosenthal, an art adviser in Amsterdam who specializes in old masters.
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Demand at Christie's 36-lot mixed owner sale of old masters that followed was also patchy, with a third of the lots failing to sell.
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Maybe the "Salvator Mundi" — now expected to hang in the Louvre Abu Dhabi — did stimulate some extra interest in this latest crop of old masters.
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"The Leonardo sale helped a great deal, because even people who were not interested said to themselves: 'Old masters can fetch enormous prices,'" he said.
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One catalog, in 22010, offers rich descriptions of old masters paintings and drawings from a huge trove of art donated by Charles and Jayne Wrightsman.
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The list of Old Masters in "Unfinished" includes five Titians, two Leonardos, and paintings by Jan van Eyck, El Greco, Poussin, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velázquez.
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What is the connection between these bathers and depictions of Mary, most often with the infant Jesus, so familiar from Catholic churches and Old Masters collections?
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He was perhaps the first to market photographic nude studies to artists, and he even used them to test the anatomical accuracy of the Old Masters.
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In the case of lead tin yellow, a cheery hue sometimes described as the "yellow of the old masters," it was lost and then found again.
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Sotheby's New York old masters sale late last month raised $97.5 million, the auction house's highest total for a New York "Masters Week" in five years.
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The 200 square meter location is slated to open later this month and will feature display dedicated to the 17th-century Old Masters, Rembrandt and Rubens.
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He was at no pains to conceal the influence of Venetian and Flemish Old Masters—Veronese and Tintoretto in particular, but Rubens more than any other.
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Yet a spectacular price for a one-off trophy could not mask the systemic issues of both supply and demand that continue to face old masters.
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Inside the 323th century manor, its walls hung with neo-Gothic tapestries and old masters-style paintings, a low mechanical buzz fills the workshop's ground floor.
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El Greco, the visionary religious painter of the Spanish Renaissance, is one of a select group of old masters whose work can appeal to contemporary tastes.
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Two-thirds of the 68 lots in Sotheby's Wednesday night sale of old masters had not been seen on the market for at least 50 years.
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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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David Nolta: I don't believe that this sale will have any impact at all on the field of the History of Art focusing on Old Masters.
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And Borchetta is a traitor for selling them to Braun behind her back without giving Swift a fair opportunity to buy her old masters for herself.
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"I'm not acquiring the way I was in the early 2000s," he says, when he amassed many dozens of original artworks, "from Old Masters to contemporary works".
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The authors of the Luxembourg report conclude that conditions are ripe for a "severe correction," particularly in the post-war and contemporary, American, and Old Masters categories.
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Prior to this, leading British critics held up art as an elite object for worship, appraised for quality and attribution, with the Old Masters viewed as demigods.
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We know that we cannot live up to the perfect standards set by our old masters; and yet all we have to enforce good behaviour is ourselves.
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The New York Times reported the Geneva site alone stores treasures from ancient Rome, museum-quality paintings by old masters and an estimated 1,000 works by Picasso.
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And at a time when contemporary art is all the rage, experts are questioning whether the Old Masters are still relevant at auction houses, galleries and museums.
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Christie's sale of Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art Sold to Benefit Rugby School in London brought in a total of £14,794,8753 (~$18,852,000) on December 4.
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Though Blaise Cendrars had deep knowledge of the legacy and voices of the old masters from the near and distant literary past, he left everything behind him.
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By contrast, the trade in old masters, with its thinner client base and paucity of commercial names, places a disproportionate premium on works new to the market.
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Despite this inhospitable landscape, Jan Six decided in 2009 to set himself up as an independent dealer in Dutch old masters, with a particular specialty in portraits.
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Country's old masters are still the best, and the breakthrough alternatives bridging the gap between these two tentpoles a little too indebted to the old Nashville studio sound.
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But then some other paintings by Old Masters — most notably one by Lucas Cranach the Elder, all apparently sold by the same man, Giuliano Ruffini — came under suspicion.
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"We are interested in giving the 19th century a push," said Anthony Crichton-Stuart, director of Agnews, which in recent years has been more associated with old masters.
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Among the 18,000 works in its permanent collection, 13,000 are works on paper — drawings, prints and photography — but only a "handful" are by Dutch and Flemish old masters.
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THURSDAYSTYLES A picture caption with the No Regrets column last Thursday, about a Sotheby's auction of old masters by female artists, misidentified a woman shown at the event.
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Art historian Bendor Grosvenor speculated that this hypothetical forger may be "the best ever," and that the effect on the Old Masters art market is hard to overestimate.
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Maybe don't get too excited: There's always the threat of the same old masters of the universe getting behind the new internet and finding a way to reassert control.
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The remaining Taubman property, much of which comes up at an old masters sale on Wednesday, has a low estimate of about $24 million but could also fall short.
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Since China and the Islamic world had many connoisseurs, to what extent, one wonders, are their ways of thinking similar to those of commentators dealing with European old masters?
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Founded in 1982, the small graduate school is known for teaching the techniques of Leonardo da Vinci and other old masters who used anatomical studies to perfect their craft.
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Christie's, which has already created themed sale weeks and auctions that mix collecting categories, has moved up its sales of old masters and 19th-century art to Oct. 26.
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In addition to pieces Mr. de Rothschild inherited, he has bought for his personal collection many works of Pop Art, English School paintings and old masters over the years.
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The gallery will draw mostly from the Hill collection, valued at more than $800 million, which includes prime examples of Modern and contemporary art, as well as old masters.
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But dealers, who have been struggling to sell their existing stocks of old masters in their galleries and at fairs, were conspicuously inactive as buyers at these evening sales.
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On Thursday, Sotheby's announced that the prominent New York trader Otto Naumann had given up dealing to join the auction house as a senior vice president for old masters.
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For example, Guy Stair Sainty, a London-based dealer in old masters, took a less than sanguine view of the board's ambition to establish itself as a global brand.
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But clearly, after the extraordinary price for that Leonardo, if auction houses can find exceptional works by famous names, the best old masters look set to reach new heights.
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None was more connoisseur-driven than the European Fine Art Fair, or Tefaf, the granddaddy of old masters events, held every March in the southern tip of the Netherlands.
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She added that her affinity for jewelry created by artists made the company feel like a natural extension to her background as a specialist in old masters and sculpture.
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AMSTERDAM — How safe is it to buy old masters at Tefaf Maastricht, which bills itself as one of the most intensely vetted and reliable art fairs in the world?
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My two-bit theory is this: The old masters of horror made more squirm-inducing movies than their successors in part because they had more shame about their work.
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Topping the lots, Samuel Cooper's "portrait of a Gentleman" (circa 270) sold for £28,2171 (~$2000,210) The Old Masters Day Sale at Sotheby's sold £8933,7,2000 (~$27.4 million) worth of art.
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To take that idea and flip it, crafting an R&B record where the melodies are sampled, recalls how the actual Pablo Picasso treated the work of the old masters.
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Eduard Asser's daguerreotype from 1842 of his daughter casts leaden chiaroscuro over her face, drawing on the visual language of the Old Masters that hang just along the museum's corridor.
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He now specializes in — and has patented — a process of covering large wooden disks with gold leaf, then projecting slow motion films infused with allusions to old masters onto them.
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Start in the grand, original palazzo, completed in 1906, which the architect Charles McKim designed to house the financier J. Pierpont Morgan's collection of manuscripts, early books and old masters.
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In 2018, 85 percent of the ARTnews list of 200 top collectors said they collected contemporary art in one form or another; only 6 percent said they collected old masters.
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The very idea of old masters may seem distant to some, but the National Gallery, which has a strong collection of them, including six paintings by Tintoretto, fights that perception.
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The artist Meg Cranston called this acknowledgment of the old masters a growing emphasis for Mr. Baldessari, who was her teacher at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1980s.
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The specialist on Dutch and Flemish old masters then spent 18 months using X-ray techniques and analysis of paint samples to prove he had in fact bought a real Rembrandt.
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Mr. Dibbits was educated at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and at the University of Cambridge, and had previously served as the director of the old masters department at Christie's in London.
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Old Masters Cotton Tea Towel, available at Food52, $30These tea towels more practically display the dramatic still life scenes that are typically found on oil wall-hangings: fruit, oysters, cheese, etc.
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The detente follows last week's Swift-Braun-Borchetta flare up involving the sort of music business minutiae that doesn't commonly interest the general public — the particulars of re-recording old masters.
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Egg tempera was the medium of choice for Old Masters like Michelangelo, but once oil paint replaced it in the early 16th century, the once-omnipresent art technique became quickly antiquated.
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So she is working on a mask made of copper, the traditional material used to make their stills, which she will photograph in one of her old masters-inspired self-portraits.
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Stephanie Wiles, an expert in old masters drawings and a museum leader at Cornell University, will be the next director of the Yale University Art Gallery, the university announced on Wednesday.
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She said that Mr. Pistoletto had replied that if works by long-admired old masters cost less than one of his own early mirror works, then something had gone tremendously wrong.
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Unlike contemporary art, old masters (as the terminology implies) also have the problem of being a rigid, male-dominated canon with limited opportunity for artists to be critically and commercially reassessed.
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In 1987 a collection of old masters, including works by Raphael, Titian and El Greco, was seized in France from Adnan M. Khashoggi, a wealthy Saudi arms dealer and Marcos associate.
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In the unfolding Old Masters scandal, the actions of Sotheby's and the National Gallery are especially significant as major institutions having to do damage control after having unwittingly handled dodgy works.
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"The museum's not just throwing up the old masters," said Lionel McPherson, associate professor of philosophy at Tufts University and a participant on a "Political Intent" panel on violence and the media.
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Ms. Beckham paid a whistle-stop visit to New York City last Thursday to promote her fashion line, a collaboration with Reebok and a Sotheby's auction of old masters by female artists.
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More recently, he turned to old masters paintings for his source material, borrowing details from works at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt for one series and Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes for another.
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Charles Beddington, an old masters painting dealer who had worked as a specialist at Christie's, recognized the artwork, which he had seen in the home of the owner some 15 years earlier.
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For some time now, the availability of Old Masters — of good pictures with good provenances — has been dwindling, and the stream of good old pictures is today little more than a trickle.
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LONDON (Reuters) - From Old Masters' self-portraits to contemporary selfies taken on phones, a London exhibition explores the creative potential of a mode of expression whose modern form is often derided as inane.
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In the 20th century auction houses began to realise they were running out of Old Masters to offer, says Ed Dolman of Phillips, but art itself did not cease to be cultural capital.
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The show will include at least four new "Gazing Ball" paintings and sculptures (the former inspired by old masters, the latter by Duchamp ready-mades) and at least one stainless steel "Ballerina" sculpture.
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"A lot of museums are focused on a false dichotomy — if they get young people in through contemporary exhibitions they'll stay and get interested in old masters," said Ian Wardropper, the Frick's director.
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The Golden Age magnates, ordering all their furniture from Paris, along with walls full of Old Masters from Duveen, had zero intrinsic taste, but a lingering memory of, and yearning for, European culture.
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At the sale, three anonymous bidders, represented by Christie's co-chairman, head of Old Masters, and co-chairman of Post-War and Contemporary Art, rapidly escalated the painting's price to a historic record.
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The 19th-century building adjacent to the palace, which was also damaged in World War II, will be home to a permanent exhibition juxtaposing its old masters collection with a variety of sculpture.
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"When you threaten cultural sites, people do believe him, because it kind of feels like he's crazy," a 26-year-old masters student working in public relations who lives in Tehran, told me.
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Literary classics by old masters like Eugene O'Neill, Racine and Gertrude Stein have been regularly anatomized and reconstituted by means that include the latest in vision-shaping technology (computers, cameras, sound equipment, etc.).
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He said he was surprised to see the highly decorative 21976 Pietro Luchini painting "La Sultana," depicting an elaborately dressed Ottoman beauty and priced at €22.7,23.3, among the unsold old masters on Monday.
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Saliha P.P., a 22-year-old masters student, said she was on the Jamia campus when she saw more than 100 policemen storm the campus, fire tear gas and charge students with batons.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim (21916-236), a New York industrialist and seasoned collector of old masters, probably never heard of Kandinsky until around 21914, when, at his wife's insistence, he had his portrait done.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — With the allegedly imminent publication of a list of 2121 suspected fake paintings, the Old Masters market appears to be bracing itself for a major scandal.
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It is an attempt to widen the market for Old Masters by encroaching on fashion's territory, and in that respect it cannot be faulted for getting one up on its auction house rivals.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads With their paintings of bacchanalian revelry and swaggery Dionysus, Old Masters like Caravaggio, Poussin, and Rubens were a bit like the hip-hop videographers of their day.
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Yeah, they're re-buying, and because a lot of these companies were run by foreign multinationals, they didn't do the due diligence to understand that the tidal wave of cash was repurposing old masters.
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Manhattan had the Metropolitan Museum of Art uptown and a few commercial galleries in midtown, but they typically peddled the kind of safe, canonised work (landscapes, Old Masters) preferred by the city's wealthy elite.
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The artist did spells in other artists' studios, but the principal arena of his further studies was the Louvre, where he made the first of scores of commercial copies of old masters in 18903.
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Still, despite the spam, Medieval Reactions distinguishes itself from the pack of various "parody" Twitter accounts because, simply put, contrasting the works of the old masters and recycled meme humor is just viscerally hilarious.
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Dealers in old masters and Louis XV furniture had been reduced to spectators as crowds of carefully shepherded Asian clients splashed hundreds of thousands on "haute joaillerie" (high-end jewelry), but not much else.
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The two paintings, which were given to the museum in 1893, are workhorse Rembrandts, long considered too important to the museum's narrative of Dutch art and the old masters to remove from the walls.
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But while some old masters fetishized the male body in barely coded ways, the idea of an openly queer artist expressing his desires from a queer perspective was only born in the last century.
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The whole point of their collecting was to create what Mr. Kaplan called "a lending library for old masters," which includes loans for special exhibitions as well as loans to bolster long-term installations.
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Ms. von Hellermann's quick, immediate-looking approach has the breathlessness and dynamism of an old Disney animation film, but she draws from a panoply of historical painting styles, from old masters to Marc Chagall.
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This vital man of great appetites and fierce arguments had spent nearly seven decades devoted to the pleasures of this world, swaddled in cashmere and surrounded by Old Masters in his posh Fifth Avenue flat.
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He was a strange man who made occasionally impressive, predominantly weird, sometimes god-awful art in thrall to a programmatic sense of mission: to exalt rural America in a manner adapted from Flemish Old Masters.
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Bolstered by the Rubens, Christie's raised £65.4 million with fees from its 43-lot evening auction of old masters, more than three times the £19 million the company achieved at its equivalent auction last July.
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Repeated studies of source imagery from internet pornography to old masters, in media including ink, watercolor and gouache, achieve an illuminating meditative clarity wholly separate from the virtues (or otherwise) of any given single piece.
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In part, these exceptions were a recognition of their standing in the art world where their galleries often handled the sale of Dutch Golden Age old masters for whom the Nazis had a special attraction.
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Barkley L. Hendricks, a painter who gave new representation to ordinary black men and women, memorializing them in portraits that echoed the grand manner of the old masters, died on Tuesday in New London, Conn.
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That collector is Mr. Hill, who recently retired as a vice chairman of the private equity firm Blackstone and who has amassed a noteworthy collection of Modern and contemporary art as well as old masters.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In what's being called "the biggest art scandal in a century," French police are investigating about $255 million worth of paintings attributed to Old Masters that they suspect are forgeries.
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Freed from Gibbons's riotous acanthus, he let other influences crowd boldly in: the peonies, roses and lilies of Dutch Old Masters, the vegetable heads of Arcimboldo and a touch of modern cynicism in insect-blighted leaves.
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"It is one of the very rare paintings for which we know about the history since the beginning," Astrid Centner-d'Oultremont, head of the Old Masters department at Christie's Paris, told Reuters TV in an interview.
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On a recent, drizzly Sunday, about half a dozen of the old masters gathered in the lobby of the former P.S. 62 building, on Grand Street, a hulking brick structure now called the Seward Park Campus.
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Sotheby's main old masters sale of 214 paintings Tuesday evening did, however, include a rediscovered oil on panel study of the "Head of Christ" by Rembrandt that had been in the same family collection since 22008.
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Hester Diamond, a New York art collector, art dealer and interior designer who joined with her first husband in amassing an astonishing Modernist collection before tossing it aside in favor of old masters, died on Jan.
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"Within old masters, I think Dutch art is so much more approachable than, say, Italian religious art or overblown Baroque," said Ronni Baer, curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, by way of explaining its popularity.
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LH: One thing that strikes me about this body of work is that by painting on top of the old masters' works, you're taking advantage of the fact that the past, and the canvas, can't speak.
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Until this past year, the museum had hosted just one major, ticketed exhibition with a catalogue devoted to a woman or an artist of color — Joyce J. Scott: Kickin' it with the Old Masters in 2000.
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JS: You have done a lot of work that involves copying from old masters: copies of portraits by Jacques Louis David, Francisco Goya, and paintings based on individual elements from Winslow Homer's "Dressing for the Carnival" (1877).
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Awkward to get to (unless by private plane), overstocked with unfashionable old masters and situated in the middle of a continent with plenty of economic problems, Tefaf has been looking to widen its reach for some time.
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"If you look back at old masters, you can extract a lot about the role of women, either encased in a giant pile of fabric or lounging horizontally — dead or fainting or sleeping," said Ms. Al-Hadid.
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But will it have any effect on the wider market for historic pictures, particularly since the "Salvator Mundi" was not offered in a mainstream sale of old masters, but, incongruously, in an evening auction of contemporary art?
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The gallery's moodily lit presentation of recently sourced paintings and sculptures — and a lavish dinner for 2000 clients at the nearby Michelin-starred restaurant Chateau Neercanne — showed how old masters could continue to find 230st-century buyers.
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The African American artist combined the influence of both Old Masters and Abstract Expressionists in his paintings, including those currently on view in the exhibition Beat Generation the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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London-based Old Masters dealer Fabrizio Moretti is suing David Zwirner and his namesake gallery for allegedly failing to deliver Jeff Koons's sculpture "Gazing Ball (Centaur and Lapith Maiden)" (2013), which Moretti bought in 2014 for $2 million.
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Their departures followed a year of spotty sales, in which the values of works by old masters — a pantheon of European painters working before around 1800 — fell by 33 percent, according to the 2016 Tefaf Art Market Report.
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On March 11, for example, Christie's announced that it would be selling a Peter Paul Rubens tour de force, "Lot and His Daughters," dating from 1613-1614, in its evening old masters auction in London on July 7.
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The elite event, which began on March 11, draws some of the world's pre-eminent jewelers and jewelry dealers to present the best of their collections alongside Old Masters, 20th-century master works and precious antiques and antiquities.
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The museum was founded in 1963 by the City of Miami Beach with a donation from a legacy collection of historical art from John and Johanna Bass and is heavy on old masters including El Greco and Botticelli.
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"The Anxiety of Influence, A Theory of Poetry," Harold Bloom A young poet who is up against old masters must clear an imaginative space for himself through a creative misunderstanding or misreading of the poets of the past.
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Paintings by old masters, for example, are not as popular among wealthy private collectors as they once were, prompting auction houses to come up with increasingly inventive (some might say desperate) ways to make the old feel new.
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This is why it is useful to go back to the old masters, who had no doubts that the problems they faced were profound, even if many of them proposed solutions that made some of these problems worse.
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There are no close ups: the people — a fisherman, a monk, or a hunched villager — are tiny figures dwarfed by the vastness of a landscape, signifying a worldview far from the passions and agonies of Europe's Old Masters.
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Since last February, 20 juniors and seniors have gone to the museum on Mondays, when the Frick is closed, for lively discussions with its chief curator, Xavier Salomon, on art by Fragonard, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Bellini and other old masters.
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Some of the fill I really liked includes PIRATE SHIP, SHORE LEAVE, HOME MOVIES, TREELINE, CHEEZIT (we are a CHEEZIT-intensive household), ARGONNE, MACARTHUR, OUTER BANKS, GREEN ALGAE, OLD MASTERS, Bon IVER, DO YOU MIND, NOSEGAYS, ZANZIBAR and CHILLAXED.
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"Salvator Mundi" might have achieved a one-off, landmark price (in an auction of contemporary art), but generally old masters are now far less fashionable with the superrich than they were in the days of the Czar of Russia.
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But two years later Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" soared to $39.9 million, beginning a three-decade period during which Impressionist and modern works dominated the top end of the auction market and old masters fell out of fashion for collectors.
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London's credibility as a center to sell higher-value old masters was maintained on Thursday evening when Christie's offered El Greco's painting, "Saint Francis and Brother Leo in Meditation," estimated at up to £7 million, or about $9.4 million.
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Scholars are still divided on the painting's provenance — The Louvre declined to purchase it — but in the Kamel Mennour exhibition's catalogue, Old Masters scholar Éric Turquin makes a pretty convincing case that Caravaggio himself painted it sometime around 22019.
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Perhaps the clearest indication that AI-generated art is gaining popularity came in late 2018, when a blurry, Old Masters-esque piece called "Edmond de Belamy" became the first work produced by a machine to be sold at auction.
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It's at the heart of a growing number of museum exhibitions this year, including the works of old masters and exhibits built with high-tech innovations, designed to inspire artistic appreciation and a desire to respond to environmental challenges.
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The cases of the purported Gentileschi, Hals, and Cranach paintings raise a number of issues for the Old Masters market, to say nothing of the impending revelation of dozens more suspected forgeries, as predicted by the Mail on Sunday.
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On January 280.3th it auctioned off a batch of the Taubman collection's Old Masters, reducing its overall loss to $22015m, though 343 of the 234 lots on offer, including Ligozzi's "The Abduction of the Sabine Women" (pictured), did not sell.
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"They want to be associated with the new and the now," said Edward Dolman, chairman and chief executive of Phillips auction house, who spent much of his career at Christie's chasing works by old masters but now focuses on contemporary art.
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With its 270 exhibitors, Tefaf Maastricht is a much bigger fair that gathers together critical masses of specialist dealers, making it a destination event for museum curators and international collectors of historic material such as antiquities, old masters and medieval art.
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This was one of the last major works to be offered from the collection of Sotheby's former chairman, A. Alfred Taubman, who owned Impressionist, modern, American and postwar art, as well as old masters, antiquities and a few Asian pieces.
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Once upon a time, Sage was an assistant to Ernst Fuchs, one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, an artist group and genre surrounding wondrous paintings that put particular emphasis on the techniques of the Old Masters.
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It should also be pointed out that the total at the Sotheby's auction was down 19 percent from the £52.5 million achieved at the equivalent old masters sale in July last year, which included a £18.5 million J. M. W. Turner.
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Ellis's practice makes him a natural choice for the commission: He is known for reimagining Old Masters in enlarged, wobbily rendered scale with cheeky, drawn-on spectacles or splashes through the eyes, as well as craftsmanship of furniture and functional sculptures.
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She added that the gallery would provide the space and conditions "to present the old masters in a necessary degree of intensity," noting the potential for special exhibits around main attractions such as the untouched paintings of Bellotto and Cranach.
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While there, he built up the university's art collection substantially, focusing on contemporary and old masters works; helped start its Pacific Film Archive; and organized a major exhibition of idiosyncratic, cartoonish, vulgar Funk art from Bay Area artists in 1967.
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As fires raged out of control across Southern California, a new blaze erupted in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, near iconic landmarks like the U.C.L.A. campus and the Getty Museum, home to old masters paintings and ancient Roman statues.
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Last year, European old masters generated $594 million of auction sales, just 6.93 percent of the global total, according to a report published by Art Basel and U.B.S. This modest percentage is surely set to rise after that Leonardo price.
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Opened in 1964 as a showcase for a collection of old masters and Modern paintings donated by the retired sugar baron John Bass, many of the artworks — including a supposedly second "Mona Lisa" — turned out to be fakes or misattributed.
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The expert from Sotheby's would later say that, after the appraisal, there had been a spike in prices created by a "large influx of Russian buyers" eager to obtain old masters and that the painting had been cleaned before being sold.
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Wrightsman transformed the already grand space into a showplace for old masters artwork, as well as fine French furnishings and décor, with the help of Maison Jansen, a prominent Paris decorator that also did work in the Kennedy White House.
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The burnt-umber brocade walls of their 34-room apartment, with its George II gilt-wood chairs and antique ormolu tables, were hung with Old Masters; on the marble mantel sat a harp that neither inhabitant knew how to play.
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Last week Christie's sold a Francesco Guardi painting of Venice with help from a video of it sailing on a barge down the Grand Canal; last month Sotheby's used New York street artists to promote a sale of old masters.
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The eighth annual Masterpiece fair ran through Wednesday; Sotheby's and Christie's had auctions of old masters; and a wealth of older material was on offer in salesrooms and in the 42 dealerships featured in this year's "London Art Week" promotion.
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In these paintings, I don't feel like I'm part of the exchange, I feel more like a witness to the dialogue you've set up between the past and the present through the old masters' paintings and your additions to them.
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It is thought that the painting may be by the same forger responsible for the painting attributed to Orazio Gentileschi that was loaned to the National Gallery in London in 19473 as well as a number of other Old Masters currently under investigation.
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By the following day, there was a full suite of photographs on Beyoncé's website, mostly shot by Awol Erizku, an emerging artist best known for photographs of black models that reimagine paintings by European Old Masters like Johannes Vermeer and Leonardo da Vinci.
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Preston Bailey: Flowers and the Old Masters (Tuesday) The botanical designer Preston Bailey, in this installment of the MetSpeaks series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shares the inspiration for his floral creations — often made for the weddings of celebrities and royal families.
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Arts | Westchester One of the best exhibitions in the Hudson Valley this summer explores a trend that art museums have embraced with mixed success in recent years: trying to achieve an aesthetic interplay by exhibiting contemporary art alongside the work of old masters.
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This was a much-needed shot in the arm for the market for old masters, and for London, whose status as the European capital of the art trade could potentially be undermined by Britain's June 23 vote to leave the European Union.
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It was August III who in 1754 purchased perhaps the old masters collection's most famous painting, Raphael's "Sistine Madonna," continuing the legacy of his father, who laid the cornerstones of Dresden's state museums with the Green Vault, Print Gallery, porcelain collection and more.
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A stellar collection isn't worth a damn if its its records are shady or its sources are murky, and even one ill-gotten artwork can tarnish the reputations of the Old Masters resting up against it in the freeport of your choosing.
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Aware that the gallery will never become a great depository of works by European old masters, Dr. Brand, the museum's director, plans instead to give prominence to Australian art, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, and to contemporary art from across the world.
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Mr. Orsi said the market for old masters had received a shot in the arm from the sale in November 2017 of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" for $450.3 million at Christie's in New York — despite the ensuing debate around its authenticity.
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The pairing of cutting-edge contemporary fashion with a collecting category that is likely losing steam among a younger market may seem surprising, but Sotheby's promises the pieces will "highlight the enduring graphic quality of [Old Masters] paintings," according to a press release.
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But it is a measure of the "luxurification" of the 21st-century market that the £253.6 million total was still four times the combined total of £2270 million achieved for old masters, 221th-century pictures and Russian art during the same period.
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The "Christ Mocked" painting by early Renaissance artist Cimabue was valued at 4 to 6 million euros ($6.6 million) by Paris old masters specialist Eric Turquin and will be sold by auction house Acteon in Senlis, north of Paris, on Oct. 27.
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The portrait was forcibly sold and passed through the hands of the Luftwaffe commander in chief Hermann Goering, the Dutch government and a London old masters dealer before being acquired in 1956 by Rudolf-August Oetker, then chief executive of Dr. Oetker.
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The most innovative and admired painter of the Baroque era, Caravaggio, like Leonardo da Vinci, is one of the few timeless old masters whose works are capable of selling for more than $100 million in a market dominated by modern and contemporary art.
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Sotheby's beat Christie's for the collection — which ranges from old masters to 22006th-century masterworks — by offering its record-setting guarantee to the family of Mr. Taubman, who went to prison for his role in a price-fixing scandal with Christie's and died last April.
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No longer was kitsch simply a synonym for tacky, tawdry, vulgar, and cheap: it's come to define an artistic style imbued with vigor, tenderness, and poignancy, delivered with a technical expertise reminiscent of Old Masters and directly rejecting the shiny aesthetic conventions of modernism.
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Held in an empty storefront just off Broadway, rented by the artists themselves, the show was a boisterous call for attention by a new generation, artists for whom Pollock and de Kooning (both of whom took part) had the status almost of Old Masters.
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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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Expect plenty of old masters, but don't miss the crime scene dioramas, mummified monkeys or Eliot Noyes's unrealized Westinghouse pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair — all of it providing a welcome counterbalance to the hothouse of contemporary gallery art that also begins in September.
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"The biggest difference between the Asian and European fairs is that there are fewer Old Masters here," added Mr. Du, who on the second day of the fair was still negotiating with galleries for works by artists including Olafur Eliasson, Antony Gormley, and Elizabeth Peyton.
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This was the elephant-in-the-salesroom question being asked here as Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams held their traditional pre-Christmas auctions of old masters paintings, just three weeks after Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" sold in New York for a gigantic $450.3 million.
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He has spent long hours looking at Old Masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as analyzing the work of contemporary artists, such as Thomas Nozkowski, Louise Bourgeois, Jim Nutt, Brenda Goodman, Forrest Bess, Steve DiBenedetto, and Chris Martin, just to name some.
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But there was much more at work: When you thought about it, Mr. Morell's process echoed the way the old masters themselves used to build up the fictive bouquets of their stunningly bounteous still lifes, one single flower at a time, over many many months.
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In 2001, Mr. Hockney published an important book, "Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters," which argues that advances in realism in Western art could not have been possible without the sly use of mirrors, camera obscuras and other optical devices.
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Sotheby's in London is preparing to sell the work, by the artist Michele Marieschi, at an old masters auction in July, following a restitution settlement between the heirs and a trust on behalf of the now-deceased owner, whose identity has not been released.
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The painting's exact whereabouts during the war years is unknown, but in 1952 a minor art dealer, Henry James Alfred Spiller, sold it at auction to a leading London old masters dealer, Edward Speelman, who was probably unaware of the painting's history, Mr. Fletcher said.
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Inspired by a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in the mid-1990s, Ms. de Borchgrave's crumpled, pleated and painted marvels sit perfectly within the Frick's collection of old masters, imitating the silk, satin, velvet and brocade the artists captured in paint.
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But in a digital, now-oriented time, in which there is a steady shift in the global balance of power (last year China became the second-largest art market in the world, behind the United States), European old masters have come to seem ... old.
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Sander Bijl did not deny that he learned about Six's interest in the painting through his father, who in fact heard about it from van de Wetering, but he said that such interactions are normal and inevitable within the small world of Dutch old masters.
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Concurrent with Frieze are several other fairs around town, including the tony TEFAF New York (favored by the Old Masters set), the Collective Design fair (ideal for those who like to touch prohibitively expensive things), and the always excellent 1:54 contemporary African art fair.
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Consisting of two screens wired to a computer housed in a retro-looking wooden case, the artwork generates a male-looking face on one side and a female-looking one on the other — images in the style of the Old Masters, but constantly and seamlessly changing.
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A shrewd businessman and art scholar, in 1940, Daniel moved the bulk of his family's saleable artworks to galleries in New York, London, Buenos Aires, continuing to expand the family's proprietary rights as the preeminent dealer in Old Masters and Impressionist art for the next half-century.
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Even 2018 Masters runner-up Rickie Fowler fell foul of the hat rule when, as a 22-year-old Masters rookie, he showed up to a 2011 news conference at Augusta National wearing his cap backwards until a club member asked him to turn it around.
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In choosing over 50 new films, organizers of the 69th edition of the festival, which runs this year from Wednesday until May 22, sought to strike a balance between plucking directors at intriguing points in their careers, nurturing new filmmakers with bright spotlights, and revisiting old masters.
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When prime masterworks do come up for auction, they perform well, as evidenced by the $16443 million paid in July for Peter Paul Rubens's "Lot and His Daughters" at Christie's London's old masters sale, the second-most expensive work ever sold at auction by the artist.
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Martin Bijl, a Dutch old masters restorer who has worked on about 30 Hals paintings in the past seven years, said that he had seen some of the data culled by Orion Analytical for Sotheby's, and that he was not certain that the work was a forgery.
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It evokes the Old Masters whom Kerry James Marshall remixes throughout his many large, narrative paintings of black figures both contemporary and historic, as well as his mastering of that history — his ability to not simply refer to those antecedents, but to claim his place among them.
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Less than a week later in London, the fashion designer Victoria Beckham, inspired by a visit last year to the Frick Collection in New York, hosted in her flagship Mayfair store a six-day exhibition of 16 portraits from the July old masters auction at Sotheby's.
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For many, the standout work of the old masters week was "An Academy by Lamplight," a 1769 canvas by the British painter Joseph Wright of Derby, estimated at 2.5 million pounds to £3.5 million, or about $3.4 million to $4.7 million, in Sotheby's Wednesday evening sale.
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As has been noted, old masters that have been through the auction mill can be a difficult sell, but since 1997 this version has been reassessed by the El Greco scholar, Dr. William B. Jordan, to the status of the "only autograph replica," according to Christie's catalog.
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Just as the Abstract Expressionists and their successors demonstrated how to create a process-based art, with neither the grand subjects of the old masters nor the theorizing of their modernist precursors, so O'Hara and Bill discovered how to write and practice the art of living.
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Spotting telltale signs that the portrait of a man in the catalog was, in fact, by Rembrandt, the art dealer bought the painting at auction for $173,000 — pennies on the dollar if it were proven to be by Rembrandt, the most celebrated of Dutch old masters.
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He brings a wealth of experience to his artwork, having studied at the respected Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where he established a strong hold on the technical painting skills of the Old Masters, and eventually went on to pursue a teaching degree at the same institute.
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Though his reputation as a curator had been built on shows of Old Masters at the Louvre and Britain's National Gallery, he set about lending the Palazzo's substantial reputation and resources to a fledgling movement that is turning the supreme Renaissance city into Italy's liveliest arena for contemporary art.
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That is what happened last year to Jaap Sinke and Ferry van Tongeren, two Dutch artists who call themselves Darwin, Sinke & Van Tongeren, whose compositions of exotic animals bring to mind still-life paintings by Dutch and Flemish old masters like Jan Weenix, Frans Snyders and Melchior d'Hondecoeter.
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There wasn't much of a Beckham or Jay-Z effect to be felt the following evening at Christie's, where the usual crowd of besuited dealers watched another tranche of moderate-quality old masters sell for low estimate prices in the £21560,2200 to £2000,240 range, or not sell at all.
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Highlights include Huang Xiangjian's epic 17th-century scroll "Searching for My Parents," inspired by the disorders of the Manchu conquest, and Gao Cen's contemporaneous album "Landscapes in the Style of old masters," in which delicate twigs and leaves seem poised to disappear into misty expanses of faded golden silk.
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No one, after any campaign trip during the 2020 campaign season, asked me over dinner, "Could you explain in detail Pete Buttigieg's view of nuclear power?" or stopped me on the street to inquire how Elizabeth Warren planned to handle the valuation of Old Masters under her wealth tax.
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For the first time in 60 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has reached beyond its own doors for a new leader, choosing a Vienna-born museum director who is conversant in the old masters, modern art and Minecraft to steer the venerable institution through the digital age.
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Of particular interest is Dutch Old Masters specialist Salomon Lilian's (Amsterdam and Geneva) superb display of still lifes by Willem Kalf, complemented by further excellent Dutch still life examples: you often see these propping up other genre works as filler, but I enjoyed seeing them take center stage.
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"There was the downtown, music-driven club world," Mr. Netto said, "and the uptown, neo-Gilded Age, neo-Rothschild fantasy" that was erupting along Park Avenue, where Mr. Buatta and Mr. Hampton were creating blood red habitats with acres of damask and armies of old masters for their robber baron clients.
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"We should be happy to see that crowds can also show up for an Old Masters exhibition, and not just for contemporary shows," a Louvre spokesperson told the Art Newspaper, adding that the museum hopes to reduce wait times for entering the Vermeer exhibition to no more than 45 minutes.
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It preserves its appearance from its period use: a gallery stuffed with exceptional Old Masters through to French Romantic paintings, an impressive armory display, and various public and private rooms dripping in Rococo opulence — all of which make it hardly the hottest spot for art lovers of the cutting-edge variety.
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In addition to upgrading the postcards and coffee mugs that are standard fare at museum shops everywhere, she ordered origami puzzles styled from old masters imagery, silk scarves with the colors of those in Rembrandt's "The Jewish Bride," and pencil sets coordinated to the palette of "The Milkmaid" by Vermeer.
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Since age 31, Mr. Hollein has served as a museum director, including 15 years at several institutions in Frankfurt: the Städel Museum, which houses one of Europe's important collections of old masters; the Schirn Kunsthalle, which exhibits modern and contemporary art; and the Liebieghaus, with a world-renowned sculpture collection.
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The frat boys and young jocks, with stacks of empty beer cups (the cups are collector's items); the slightly dotty elderly golf fanatics, with their binoculars and old Masters badges and long-standing viewing spots at the sixteenth hole; the sunburned Brits on boys' trips, smoking 100s in the shade.
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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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"But the fact remains that his do-it-yourself art education enabled him to amass a collection of old masters — he never bought modern pictures — which at the time of his death was appraised at close to $15,000,000, about five times what he paid for it," wrote Henry Ringling North.
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Whether stiffly posed or more intimate, such as here, these self-portrait paintings demonstrate his sure hand and acute observational skills that he developed at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he devoted much time to copying the works of the Old Masters in the Musée du Louvre.
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"The hideous word 'blockbuster' has never been spoken at the Frick," John Russell, the chief art critic for The New York Times, once wrote of the museum, a low-key institution on the Upper East Side housing old masters and European sculpture and decorative arts assembled by Henry Clay Frick, the Pittsburgh industrialist.
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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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If those sensibilities are making the market for old masters more selective than ever, where does that leave the academic painting and sculpture of the 2115th century, the art produced when industrial Europe was exploiting its colonies and its visual culture was dominated by what college art history departments call the "male gaze"?
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In recent years, old masters, the traditional mainstay of the fair, have fallen out of fashion; sister Tefaf events have been established in New York, at the risk of diluting the appeal of the European mother ship; and Tefaf Maastricht has struggled to attract and retain exhibitors that draw in contemporary collectors.
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They, too, mined their subconscious for distinct styles, creating, as the curator, Gwen Chanzit, writes in her introduction, "painterly expressions brought on through direct or remembered experience": Frankenthaler with her dreamy color washes, DeFeo with her obsessive layering of paint, Hartigan with her vivid sense of scale, and experiments with the traditions of old masters.
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By placing them on iconic handbags like the Speedy, the Keepall, and Neverfull, the artist and Vuitton invite customers to take another look at the legendary artworks and consider them anew, "opening the museum to the world" and encouraging onlookers to "experience the Old Masters in novel ways," according to its official press release.
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The new brand identity de-emphasizes the original focus of Tefaf's founding group of dealers, who tended to specialize in Dutch and Flemish old masters, and instead highlights the current encyclopedic nature of the Maastricht fair's 7,000 years of offerings, from ancient porcelain and African and Oceanic arts through midcentury modern furniture and haute jewelry.
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By "Leaflets" (1969), Rich has shed formal stricture in favor of organic, free forms and a grave, speech-inflected tone; these poems of her second period profoundly repudiate the imposition of poetic, political and social traditions: The old masters, the old sources, haven't a clue what we're about, shivering here in the half-dark 'sixties.
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CHICAGO'S high society turned out in force recently at the Old Masters Society's gala at the Art Institute to celebrate the opening of "Van Gogh's Bedrooms", an exhibition built around the making and meaning of versions of "The Bedroom", Van Gogh's paintings of his beloved room on the second floor of the "Yellow House" in Arles.
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Mr. Parish was part of a consortium of owners — the others were Robert Simon, a specialist in old masters, and Warren Adelson, a high-end dealer in American art, both based in New York — who researched the painting and arranged its restoration by Dianne Dwyer Modestini, a conservator based at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
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Still, whether it's Hockney's early interest in Whitman and Cavafy, his dabbling in Chinese painting theory or his recent crusade, much debated by art historians, to prove that some old masters furtively used optical devices in their paintings, Cusset never lets her intellectual digressions slow the tempo of her staccato prose, the music of which Fagan's translation faithfully preserves.
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But many art experts argue that Christie's used marketing window dressing to mask the baggage that comes with the Leonardo, from its compromised condition to its complicated buying history and said that the auction house put the artwork in a contemporary sale to circumvent the scrutiny of old masters experts, many of whom have questioned the painting's authenticity and condition.
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" Overtly about the poet's gazing upon Bruegel's painting "The Fall of Icarus," the poem evokes the relativity of tragedy and the isolation of despair: "About suffering," it begins, "they were never wrong,/ The old Masters: how well they understood/ Its human position: how it takes place/ While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
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The only bombshells were on the walls: Leonardos, Titians, Rembrandts and Turners that at first glance looked so strange amid the Breuer's trapezoidal windows and glowering-grid ceiling coffers that they seemed to be parts of a conceptual work devised by a wry contemporary artist — maybe Jeff Koons, who collects old masters and was the subject of the Whitney's send-off to the space in October 2014.
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Born in 2121 in Paris, son of Robert Lebel—a poet, art collector, Old Masters art critic, and aficionado of Marcel Duchamp—bilingual Jean-Jacques grew up in New York City, during World War II, surrounded by the likes of Duchamp, Billie Holiday, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Meret Oppenheim, Benjamin Péret, and André Breton, who later expelled him from the Surrealist group for nonconformity.
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Contrasted with the Chelsea-based Masterpiece Art Fair in the summer, in which the brightest and most bling purchasables — Rolls Royces, jewelry by Van Cleef & Arpels — sat next to Old Masters, with its thick piled carpets, elaborate floral displays and what felt like as many up-market dining establishments as actual exhibitors, Frieze is a more sober — dare I say, serious — affair, the focus squarely on the intellectual.
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When: May 4–8 / Friday, Saturday: 12–8pm; Sunday: 12–6pm; Monday: 12–8pm; Tuesday: 12–6pm ($55) Where: Park Avenue Armory (643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan) The Maastricht-based fair's US franchise, TEFAF New York, is bringing 90 galleries to the Park Avenue Armory, and whereas its fall edition embraces Old Masters, antiquities, and antiques, the spring edition is all about contemporary and modern art and design.
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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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