Aso O. Tavitian grew up poor — but at age 64 he began an ‘‘explosion of buying.” Under the radar, he amassed old masters, ...
The deaccessioned works, to be offered at Christie's in New York, include 17 pieces by Dutch and Flemish artists from the ...
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Perhaps most tantalisingly of all, could it be an almost 400-year-old masterpiece ... an art specialist at Bonhams. “It is just hard to find one that is the hand of the master and not the ...
When this forceful image of equine power — long regarded as a preparatory work for a painting of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor — last came to auction in 2000 ...
But my sister, Kitty, and I have never been known to follow the crowd—unless that crowd is heading toward Old Master paintings. We like 500-year-old artworks that speak to us from out of the ...
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has consigned 17 works by Dutch and Flemish masters to be sold at two live auctions at Christie’s in New York in February. They are collectively estimated to ...
Born on January 14, 1836 in Grenoble, France, he went on to study at the École des Beaux-Arts and would copy Old Masters paintings at the Louvre. Fantin-Latour’s works are in the collections of the ...