The Art Thief by Noah Charney
On Art and Connoisseurship by Max J. Friedlander
Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts by Nina Fletcher Little
Creating Picturesque America by Sue Rainey
Chinese Export Porcelain: East to West by Shirley Ganse
Andrew Carnegie by David NasawGeo | April 30, 2009
“Whom did I meet? Nobody,” Edward Hopper said speaking of his time in Paris. “I’d heard of Gertrude Stein, but I don’t remember having heard of Picasso at all. I used to go to the cafés at night and sit and watch. I went to the theatre a little. Paris had no great or immediate [...]
Hui | April 29, 2009
The rite of spring in New York City is going to be marked by a series of event. The International Fine Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory (67th street) will feature many of the world’s leading art dealers. The pictures range from Renaissance gold ground panel paintings to 20th century modern art.
The Brooklyn Museum [...]
Hui | April 29, 2009
The current exhibition at the Jewish Museum of the paintings which once belonged to the art dealer Jacques Goudstikker remind me another art dealer René Gimpel, who has a more profound impact on the American public and private art collection. What in common between the two is that both died of World War II.
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Geo | April 27, 2009
Adolph Hitler’s Museum in Austria was the destination for many of the paintings now on display at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. For many more years they were on display in the Netherlands. Reclaimed by the family of Jaques Goudstikker, they have aquired a story that’s told through personal accounts and personal items, including a [...]
Geo | April 27, 2009
A major international exhibition opening this fall at the Cleveland Museum of Art explores a watershed moment of transformation in Gauguin’s career that introduces the themes, motifs and the style that would emerge as hallmarks of his career. Featuring more than 75 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Paul Gauguin and his contemporaries, Paul [...]
Hui | April 26, 2009
The outcome of Pook & Pook Auction on April 25 is a mixed bag, although the overall result certainly beat my expectations. The session of period furniture and decorative accessories included items from two Pennsylvania educational institutions, the Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn, MI, the estate of Meredith Schuibbeo, Dr. John William Boor, Myrtle B. Quier. [...]
Hui | April 23, 2009
I have always been fond of Cézanne’s portraiture. My favorite ” Portrait of the Artist’s Father” was not exhibited in the show, but there were quite a few portraits. “Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair” is a less sculptural work compared to the monumental yet resigned sitter in “The Smoker”. The background wall and fabric [...]
Geo | April 21, 2009
A lecture scheduled on James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent ran into a slight difficulty when workers removed the works by the two masters from the Nineteenth Century Galleries for reinstallation in the American Galleries (opening May 19). While there were none, save one forgotten portrait for discussion, the talk went on substituting Manet. [...]
Hui | April 20, 2009
In the Philadelphia Antiques Show, I happened to spot a painting by A. F. King with an unusual subject: Pittsburgh street scene. The meticulous painter of still life and landscape depicted a social strife event in downtown Pittsburgh that would make me wonder what was the story behind it. The dealer ascribed it possibly related to coal strike of 1910-1911, but I doubted it since the brawl happened in an liquor store. On the other side of the street there was a hotel providing accommodation for man and beast, but it closed for no license. Could it be related to the Panic of 1907? It seems to me that the crowd swamped into the store because it had a sign “wanted five more bartenders”at the front. [read more...]
Hui | April 20, 2009
When Geo asked me what I thought about the Philadelphia Antiques Show on the free shuttle bus back to the 30th Street Station, I couldn’t give a definite answer. It was a nice show with stunning artworks and furniture. As Geo put it, only the best of the best dealers are there. But it is [...]
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