Articles
Bid Farewell – The rise in private art sales, Spears WMS, Issue No.16, Summer 2010.
The art market has emerged from the recession faster than anyone expected with a dizzying series of record prices. The market barely had time to digest the US$104m paid for Giacometti’s L’homme qui marche in February before a buyer paid US$106.5m for Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust in early May. These prices have pulled
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- Bid Farewell – The rise in private art sales, Spears WMS, Issue No.16, Summer 2010.
- Overview of Old Master Paintings week and Christies and Sothebys Old Master sales in London July 2010 by James Wilentz and Jennifer Johnson of oldmastersnewperspectives.
- Analysis of the Russian art market after the June 2010 London sales by Ivan Lindsay.
- Reconceiving Connoisseurship by Carol Strone, Fine Art Connoisseurship magazine, Spring 2010.
- Looks Good on Paper, Spears WMS Magazine, Issue No. 15, Spring 2010.
- Picture cataloguing by Christopher Wright.
- They are aiming for the Tsars….Spears WMS Magazine
Essays
In order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be moved by it. It is not even enough to feel, to be moved in a vague way: It is essential to discern the different shades of feeling. Nothing
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Picture Cataloguing Until about 40 years ago cataloguing consisted of the compilation of information about a work of art (as opposed to the catalogue raisonne which involved bringing together all the known information about an individual artist). The process of cataloguing was never deemed to require a specific skill other than the (now rare) ability
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Articles
Bid Farewell – The rise in private art sales, Spears WMS, Issue No.16, Summer 2010. The art market has emerged from the recession faster than anyone expected with a dizzying series of record prices. The market barely had time to digest the US$104m paid for Giacometti’s L’homme qui marche in February before a buyer paid US$106.5m for Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust in early May. These prices have pulled
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Drawing Conclusions………By Ivan Lindsay The recent record price of £29.2m for a Raphael drawing confirms demand for important Old Master drawings. On Tuesday 8th December at Christie’s London a Raphael drawing entitled Head of a Muse was sold for £29.2m, doubling its estimate of £12m–16m and setting a world record price for a work on
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Essays
Reconceiving Connoisseurship by Carol Strone, Fine Art Connoisseurship magazine, Spring 2010. In order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be moved by it. It is not even enough to feel, to be moved in a vague way: It is essential to discern the different shades of feeling. Nothing
[continue reading...]
Picture Cataloguing Until about 40 years ago cataloguing consisted of the compilation of information about a work of art (as opposed to the catalogue raisonne which involved bringing together all the known information about an individual artist). The process of cataloguing was never deemed to require a specific skill other than the (now rare) ability
[continue reading...]