Learn about current IMA events with Melvin and Bren Simon Director and CEO Maxwell Anderson. This episode features a conversation with senior curator Ronda Kasl and conservator Christina O’Connell about the painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe, for the IMA’s exhibition Sacred Spain, running through January 2010. Listen in as they discuss the painting, its [...]
A television crew shoots video of Caravaggio’s “Adoration of the Shepherds”, a 1609 masterpiece, the object of a very public restoration in Italy’s lower chamber of parliament, in Rome, Wednesday Oct 7, 2009. Starting next week, small groups of tourists, students and art aficionados will be allowed to watch restorers touch up the painting in [...]
“The Capture of H.B.M. ‘Macedonian’ by the U.S. Frigate ‘United States,’ October 25, 1812,” circa 1840-50. The exuberant paintings of Thomas Chambers are admired by scholars and collectors of 19th-century American painting. But have there been any major Chambers exhibitions? Not one, at least not until now, with the extraordinary survey of nearly 50 paintings [...]
Hans van Meegeren (1889-1947), Procuress (after Dirck van Baburen) Circa 1940. Oil on canvas, height: 98.7 cm; width: 103.9 cm A painting that supposedly was made by Hans van Meegeren, one of the most notable forgers of all time, dates, from the XVII Century and might have even hung in Johannes Vermeer’s house, according to [...]
An employee from Bonham’s holds the remarkable sketchbook containing over 80 stunning watercolours by Count Amadeo Preziosi. A remarkable sketchbook containing over 80 stunning watercolours by Count Amadeo Preziosi, who left Malta to spend his life in Constantinople (Istanbul), is one of the highlights of Bonhams next Travel and Exploration Sale on 16 September in [...]
Frank Auerbach, Head of Jake, 2008-9, oil on canvas, 56.2 x 56.2 cm./22 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. Frank Auerbach’s paintings are the full results of tremendous application. They may appear sudden -instantaneous even- but they are feats of concentration. Studied yet impulsive, ranging from darkness to radiance and from the declamatory to the subdued, [...]