The Gulbenkian Museum is preparing an interesting exhibition with the Spanish Patrimonio Nacional focusing on the works of art of…
Kenneth Clark
“I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven’t changed much in the last two thousand…
Boulle Marquetry
How Was it Made? Boulle Marquetry from the V&A <p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/54017801″>How Was it Made? Boulle Marquetry</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/vamuseum”>Victoria and Albert…
Lazcano Cabinet @ Art Institute of Chicago
Of Royal Descent
At Sotheby’s, tomorrow, for those interested in royal provenances there will be a sale named Of Royal and Noble Descent,…
Very good news
Not everything is bad news in the cultural policy in Portugal. The Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga saw an opportunity…
Collecting and Displaying in Portugal
arthist.net announced a call for papers on a theme that this blog particlarlury likes: Collecting in Portugal. “Collecting and Displaying…
Ivories in the Portuguese Empire
From Sierra Leone to Japan, from Benin to Sri Lanka, from Kongo to Goa, ivory sculpture has had a…
Gilt-Gesso Bureau by James Moore
After having studied and written about the commissions by Dom Joao V from London, it was a privilege to see…
William Kent – Designing Georgian Britain
For those who are passionate about the Georgian period – and furniture – this exhibition on William Kent is quite…
Chinese market fraud
Papers love headlines and in the last few years the ‘miracle of China’, taking over the Western art market produced…
Back back
Sorry for the poor service – change of continent, country, house and job. Back in Europe, hopefully there will be…
Back
Frederick Litchfield – Illustrated History Of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time, 1893.
New Book – Mobiliario Indo-Portugues by Pedro Dias
Olana
Breathtakingly beautiful, the Hudson Valley is home of many stunning houses, many belonging to the New York old (and new)…
Casa Andresen
I do hope to visit this exhibition in September, which cleverly explores the several purposes of Casa Andresen, or Jardim…
Caquesseitão Alegrete
An Indo-Portuguese silver model of a “Caquesseitao” circa 1700 (Estimate: 200,000 – 300,000 EUR) The wonderful silver aquamanile in the…
Foz
Very few things make me miss home, Porto. But this postcard did, and then I realized that I miss a…
Mazarin Chest
In 1980’s, the Victoria & Albert Museum published an ad on Country Life magazine trying to find a missing Japanese…
Carpets from the Clark Collection
Again, on the Clark sale at Sotheby’s yesterday, the results were astonishing. Every single carpet was sold and all above…
Amadeo
AMADEO DE SOUZA-CARDOSO (1887-1918) Paysage Cubiste Estimate: 50,000 – 70,000 GBP signed A. De Souza Cardoso (lower left) oil on board; 16.6…
Houghton Revisited
In The Economist
The Lafões Carpet
Almost three years ago, we mentioned in this blog a sale of three carpets by the Corcoran Gallery with Portuguese…
CURIOSITY: ART & THE PLEASURES OF KNOWING
Opening on May 25th, at Turner Contemporary, Morgate. The animal vomited by Mr. Lund, the baker, 1681/82. “Curiosity is…
Salvator Mundi sold
One of my favourite blogs, Art History News by Bendor Grosvenor, announced yesterday that Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi has been sold.…
Leonora Hamill
Leonora Hamill – Sculpture I Bombay, 2011 C-type analogue print. (From Art in Progress series)
tips for artists
tips for artists who want to sell. by John Baldessari, 1966-68
New Book
“This book traces the wonderful story of Parisian decorative arts from the reign of Louis XIV to the triumph…
Nahmad Gallery Raided
The speculative nature of Nahmad Gallery’s investments, Madison Avenue neighbours, is not a new or surprising idea. But gambling and…
Artinfo tips
“Keeping track of the art market is about the details, not the hype. If you really want to know how…
Dom Fernando’s Indo-Portuguese Contador
If you go to Sotheby’s London, the first thing you see after the doorman is this spectacular indo-portuguese cabinet. Having…
TEFAF III
TEFAF II
Me and my camera did not have time for much during the grand TEFAF-fest but below are part of the…
Good Nose
Ringo Starr, Peter Sellers & John Cleese, scene from “The Magic Christian”, 1969
TEFAF 2013
The Winter Song
Willy Rizzo
If you reach 84, you cannot say you did not live long. Willy Rizzo, who sadly passed away two weeks…
Clementina Hawarden and a Mughal Cabinet
Lady Hawarden – Clementina Maude, wearing the full dark skirt and a paisley shawl, facing away from the camera as…
Nanban @ Boston
Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan: Spiritual Beliefs and Earthly Goods “The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College presents a groundbreaking…
Regulation? What’s that?
“And year round, galleries ignore with impunity a 42-year-old law that says they must post their prices. Art sales in…
Is out
The launch has happened but the book is out.
Irish Folk Furniture
Winner of Best Animation Film at Sundance 2013.
Merry Christmas!
My student days in London were an enormous joy. Being a neighbour of the Wallace Collection, my cycle rides back…
Ruhlmann Desk
I had to go to Christie’s see this Ruhlmann desk, from the Steven A. Greenberg Collection selling today, is the…
Ophelia Has a Dream
Ophelia has a Dream from GlassmatesTV on Vimeo. Ophelia, floating in a stream as painted by John Everett Millais is…
The stolen picture of Madeira
The Guardian – and Brendon Grosvenor – tell the story of a museum (the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum) that sold a few…
Art Institute of Chicago II
Always loved Daumier’s “Print Collector” paintings, probably because one of them is the cover of Balzac’s Cousin Pons (Penguin Classics…
A Dealer’s Hand
And a great book by the great Chinese art dealer, Giuseppe Eskenazi: As the West awakes, with some apprehension, to…
Still the new V&A Furniture Gallery
The Apollo Magazine review, by Edwin Heathcote. “The Dr Susan Weber Gallery at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is, perhaps…
New Furniture Gallery @ V&A
This new gallery, located alongside the Ceramics Study Galleries, presents the Museum’s outstanding collection of British and international furniture from the…
Book of the week
Long due, it is finally out a bi-lingual monograph on Renaissance Portuguese silver by the historian and subdirector of the…
Art Institute of Chicago
Did not bump into an aged Cameron Frye but Seurat’s Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte is…
Book of the Week
“Petworth: the People and the Place is the second in a new series of books based on the more substantial…
Cyrillo Volkmar
“Diderot” by Fragonard
It seems that the famous portrait of Denis Diderot by Fragonard does not represent the philosopher after all, Le Figaro…
Extravagant Inventions
“Anyone who has seen one of Rontgen’s ingenious writing desks, where at a single touch many springs and hinges come…
Countess Edla’s vermeil clock by Santa Barbara
Un expert, une oeuvre : une pendule en vermeil “basse-cour” du Portugal – video from Connaissance des Arts.
Welsh Exhibition + Catalogue
From Jorge Welsh Oriental Porcelain and Works of Art: “An important group of famille verte biscuit wares will be exhibited…
Hoje, na Culturgest
“Hoje, na CULTURGEST, o dia está reservado a Mister UTZ, o misterioso, cómico e ligeiramente assustador amante de porcelana,…
Povoa/Palmela
João Julio Teixeira has already written about the English silver put up for sale by the heirs of the Conde…
Wise words
why is france such a poor market for contemporary art, compared to london, new york and LA? “because the french…
Chatsworth Manuscripts
Book of the Week
The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Volume XV: Decorative Arts by Wolfram Koeppe, Clare Le Corbeiller,…
TEFAF Sao Paulo
We had to be there presenting our kit – a wonderful Grendey japanned bookcase made for the Spanish market and…
José de Almeida
In the wake of the recent interest for the Spanish baroque sculpture in the international market, it is worth to…
Tefaf in Sao Paulo
“TEFAF organised its first “Taste of TEFAF”, a unique exhibition in Casa Petra in Sao Paulo from 25-28 October 2012.…
Great Houses of London
From Economist – “James Stourton, author of a new book about the great houses of London, discusses why they have…
Armory
The Epitome of Elegance
A propos of the recent Galerie de Girardon exhibition, Apollo Magazine has a nice article on Hubert de Givenchy and…
Book of the week
From Amazon – “Bowett charts the species, sources, and history of the woods used in British furniture making from…
Drawings @ the Frick
Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery – October 2, 2012 to January 27, 2013 “In keeping with…
Batoni Foz
The Marquis of Foz was one of the most interesting collectors that ever lived in Portugal not only for the…
Ceylonese ivory casket
“Ce coffret, profondément et finement sculpté, présente un décor hollando-sri lankais élaboré au XVIIe siècle. En effet, les enroulements complexes…
Daniel Blaufuks – Utz
Really looking forward to see Blaufuks latest work at Vera Cortes Agency. The big question is: does the exhibition’s title…
For the Portuguese Expansion enthusiasts
Global Commodities: The Material Culture of Early Modern Connections, 1400-1800. Organized by the Global History and Culture Centre of the…
Melikian on the Art Market
Today, on the New York Times – The Impoverished Connoisseurs “From the mid-1950s, when I began to attend auctions, through…
Vasconcelos au bout de l’ennui
It is great when someone else can write your own thoughts much better than yourself. I tried to say what…
Cadaval silver box
About a year ago, I wrote here about my visit to Detroit and to its Institute of Art, mentioning briefly…
Catherine the Great
If you happen to be in Scotland, make a stop at the National Museum in Edinburgh, as Catherine the Great:…
NYC’s Like a Graveyard
cy sigh
On Flea Markets
As an antiques dealer, I am extremely fortunate that my wife was so quick to approve the idea of spending…
Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes on why we need the Academy in the 21st century – The Art Newspaper “In the 45 years…
Durer of the day
Print (Woodcut on Paper), 1506-1507. Albrecht Dürer, Germany 1471 – 1528
Givenchy Collection at Christie’s Paris
“Givenchy’s vision for the display of the exhibition was inspired by a set of engravings representing another celebrated collection, that…
That is why Chippendale is famous
“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.” Mies Van…
The Lines of Wellington
As my brother says, historically, Portugal in the 19th century is too complicated to be understood. Too many extreme things…
From Books to Bezoars
Michael Hunter, Alison Walker, and Arthur MacGregor, eds., From Books to Bezoars: Sir Hans Sloane and His Collections (Chicago: University…
Bill Pallot on genuine, copies or fake chairs
Roentgens
Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013 “The meteoric rise of the workshop of…
Versailles vs Vasconcelos
Of the many quotes by Robert Hughes in the newspaper in the last couple of weeks, one that I particularly…
Corporate Art Collections
“This new volume in the series of Handbooks in International Art Business published in association with Sotheby’s Institute of Art…
Chatwin on Utz
with thanks to Ana Fonseca.
A propos of Sculpture
O Virtuoso Criador: Joaquim Machado de Castro (1731-1822)
Considered the most important Portuguese sculptor of all time, Machado de Castro finally gets the deserved attention through a major…
Tarouca by Kneller
I wonder if the Kneller oil portrait of this still exists?
Drawings Cabinet at Chatsworth
Imagine you would show your twelve best drawings from your musée imaginaire. Would they look something like this? Jonathan Jones…
How long can the art market walk on water?
By Charlotte Burns @ The Art Newspaper “The investment value of art is difficult to track: the art market comprises…
Dom Fernando’s Silver
On Wednesday, Sotheby’s London sold five pieces which belonged to the collection of King Dom Fernando of Portugal, totalling the…
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