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Jean Honoré FRAGONARD Child in a Plumed Hat
(Presumed Portrait of the Artist’s Young Son, Alexandre Évariste Fragonard) Oil on panel: 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches
Jazz Piano Pot II, by Elizabeth Fritsch (b.1940).
1975. Hand-built stoneware with coloured slips, 28.5 by 18.5 by 6 cm.
ADRIAN SASSOON, LONDON
THIS MONTH the city of New York welcomes back TEFAF for its ninth iteration. Around 90 exhibitors will present exceptional works of art at the historic Park Avenue Armory. The annual event showcases art from the Antique through the contemporary, spanning all disciplines and media. Modern and contemporary design is particularly well represented, as is twentieth-century painting. High numbers of visitors to the sister Maastricht event in March earlier this year proves that there is no substitute for a reallife luxury fair, where visitors can view, touch and discuss objects with world-renowned experts. A rich programme of talks will take place both in person and online; subjects covered will include the art market, conservation and collecting.
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Aschegarten (Ash Garden), by Günther Uecker (b.1930).
1991. Ashes and stones on canvas laid on board, 105 by 75 by 11 cm.
AXEL
VERVOORDT, ANTWERP
Untitled, by Alexander Calder (1898–1976). 1947. Oil on canvas, 61 by 46 cm. ROBILANT +VOENA, LONDON AND ROME
Complex dance mask. Yup’ik peoples, c.1890–1910. Wood, paint, vegetal fibre, height 87.6 cm.
DONALD ELLIS GALLERY, NEW YORK
Spouted bowl. Greek, Cycladic c.2700–2500 BC. Marble, length 11.1 cm. ARIADNE GALLERY, LONDON
10th–14th MAY | PARK AVENUE ARMORY
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THE “PENSIONANTE DEL SARACENI”
Active in Rome between 1610 and c. 1620
Saint Jerome
Oil on canvas, 25 3 16 × 19 11 16 in (64 × 50 cm)
Selected Literature:
Anna Ottani Cavina, Carlo Saraceni, Milan, 1968, pp. 49–50, p. 68, note 48, figs. 30–31; Jean-Pierre Cuzin and A. Brejon de Lavergnée, eds., I caravaggeschi francesi, Rome, Académie de France, Villa Medici, 15 November 1973–20 January 1974, pp. 78–79, no. 20; Paris, Grand Palais, 13 February–15 April 1974, pp. 80–81, no. 21.
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Conjunction 77-12, by Ha Chong-Hyun (b.1935). 1977.
Oil on hemp canvas, 160 by 120 cm.
TINA KIM
GALLERY, NEW YORK
131-piece ‘Flat Model’ cutlery set for 12 persons, by Joseph Hoffmann (1870–1956). 1903–05. Silver and steel, dimensions variable.
YVES MACAUX, BRUSSELS
Untitled (Questions), by Barbara Kruger (b.1945). 1989. Photographic silkscreen on vinyl, 315 by 203.2 cm.
SPRUETH
MAGERS, BERLIN AND LONDON
cup, by
Sketch for ‘Goat in a bouquet’, by Marc Chagall (1887–1985). 1952. Oil and ink on panel, 27 by 22.2 cm. RICHARD GREEN, LONDON
Oblong
Alberto Giacometti (1901–66). c.1948. Bronze, 23 by 68.8 by 24.5 cm. GALERIE JACQUES LACOSTE, PARIS
Still life, by Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964). 1942. Oil on canvas, 25.5 by 31 cm. DAVID ZWIRNER, LONDON AND NEW YORK
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THE ART OF CONSERVATION
Edited by Jane Martineau and David Bomford
For centuries paintings have been treasured as religious icons, great works of art, objects of value. But paintings age, and with age comes change: varnish yellows, candles scorch, dust accumulates. From the sixteenth century to the present day the question of how to restore such works has taxed their owners. The articles in The Art of Conservation, commissioned from the foremost scholars in their eld, originally appeared in The Burlington Magazine. Now collected in book form they tell the story of the evolution of the art of conservation throughout Europe and the United States.
Mark Aronson • Ángel Aterido • Susanna Avery Quash
Morwenna Blewett • David Bomford • Giorgio Bonsanti
Marco Ciatti • Elizabeth Darrow • Hélène Dubois
Esther van Duijn • Bradford A. Epley • Jan Piet Filedt Kok
Ella Hendriks
• Joyce Hill Stoner • Ulrike Kern • Jo Kirby
Mireille te Marveld • Ann Massing • Ian McClure
Irma Passeri • Zahira Véliz Bomford
Fig. 6 after Andrew Petryn’s second restoration in 1968. Fig. 6 after restoration 2006–07. THE ART OF CONSERVATION Edited by Jane Martineau and David Bomford THE ART OF CONSERVATION Edited by Jane Martineau and David Bomford MARK ARONSON is Deputy Director and Chief Conservator at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven ÁNGEL ATERIDO is Professor of the History of Art at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid SUSANNA AVERY-QUASH is Senior Research Curator (History of Collecting), The National Gallery, London MORWENNA BLEWETT has worked as a paintings conservator at the National Gallery, London, Harvard University Art Museums, National Galleries of Scotland and Cambridge University DAVID BOMFORD is a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and was formerly Senior Conservator, National Gallery London; Associate Director, J. Paul Getty Museum; and Head of European Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston GIORGIO BONSANTI was formerly President of the Commission for teaching conservation in Italy and Professor of Restoration at the Universities of Turin and Florence and presently Segretario Generale dell’Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence MARCO CIATTI was formerly Director of the Opi cio delle Pietre Dure, Florence ELIZABETH DARROW is Professor Emerita, History of Art, History of Conservation of Art, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle HÉLÈNE DUBOIS is a conservator-restorer and art historian at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels ESTHER VAN DUIJN is a paintings conservator and is currently part of Operation Night Watch as a specialist in the history of conservation at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam BRADFORD A. EPLEY is Head of Conservation, Museum Resources Division, New Mexico Department of Cultural A airs 30/10/2023 10:39
1 The conservation history of the Ghent Altarpiece by is probably unique in terms of conservation history, as archival information covering over five centuries can be connected to the physical alterations observed on the painted panels and their frames. It has been subjected not only to the natural ageing associated with the materials employed but also to many structural alterations, the consequences of war, iconoclasm, fire, theft and changes in taste, and also to many restorations. It was extensively overpainted in the mid-sixteenth century, split up and displaced at least nine times, stolen in 1794 following the French Revolution and again in the Second World War, and stored in wretched conditions on several occasions. Some of its shutters were sold in 1816 and sawn in half in Berlin in 1894. The paintings and the frames were treated and examined by restorers in France, Germany and Belgium. New methods of imaging and analytical techniques were used to decipher the altarpiece’s intricate genesis and condition, stimulating the advancement of technical art history and the conservation of old-master paintings. The current conservation treatment, begun in 2012 by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels (KIK-IRPA), has revealed crucial information on the conservation history of the altarpiece. The present article sheds light on the context of the most important campaigns and asks how they reflect on the appreciation of the masterpiece both as work of art and an object of devotion. ‘In size, complexity and almost encyclopaedic variety, it stands head and shoulders above all other fifteenth-century altarpieces in the Netherlands.
PHOTO LONDON
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16th–19th May 2024 (preview 15th May)
Somerset House, Strand photolondon.org
PHOTO LONDON RETURNS to Somerset House this May for its ninth edition. Over 100 exhibitors from 44 cities will take part, with many participating for the first time, including eight galleries from Turkey.
Two prizes will be awarded during the four-day event: the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for outstanding contribution to the medium, in a ceremony at The Photographer’s Gallery, London; and the Emerging Photographer Award, presented in partnership in Nikon. A programme of talks curated by Thames & Hudson will take place at Somerset House (further details to be announced).
The 2024 Master of Photography is Valérie Belin (b.1964), an acclaimed French artist whose portraiture incorporates many photographic processes and techniques. At Somerset House the exhibition Silent Stories will present three decades of her photographic output, while a major retrospective of her work runs at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux until 28th October.
An insightful exhibition in the public programme curated by Robert Hershkowitz, The Magic Art of French Calotype: Paper Negative Photography 1846–1860, brings together the largest number ever seen in Britain of paper negatives by French practitioners – with many of them shown alongside their corresponding positive prints. The title of the exhibition references the French writer Francis Wey’s pronouncement in 1851 that ‘Photography has attained a magic feeling that neither painting nor drawing could have reached’. There will be plenty to keep the photography enthusiast satiated beyond the four-day event at Somerset House, with several satellite events taking place, such as Peckham 24 – South London Festival of Contemporary Photography, which runs from 17th until 26th May. Simultaneously, a number of photography exhibitions will be staged in the capital’s world-class museums, including Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In at the National Portrait Gallery; Photography Feminism and the Art of Protest at South London Gallery; and Polly Braden: Leaving Ukraine at the Foundling Museum.
Chroma #180, by Grey Crawford (b.1951). 1981. Archival pigment print, 139 by 170 cm. PERSONS PROJECTS, BERLIN
Lee Miller dehusking corn, Farley’s Garden, by Roland Penrose (1900–84). c.1960.
silver fine print, 29.5 by 23.4 cm.
Farmyard scene, by V. Dijon. c.1854. Albumen print from a waxed paper negative, 25 by 30 cm.
ROBERT HERSHKOWITZ, WEST SUSSEX
Wind Blown Trees and Clouds, France, by Jeffrey Conley (b.1969). 2023, printed 2024. Archival pigments on Japanese Kozo paper, 35.6 by 43.2 cm.
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Photo London’s Public Programme has long been recognised as the jewel in the Fair’s crown. As well its acclaimed programme of talks, our ninth edition features three major exhibitions that highlight the ever inventive ways in which artists, from the earliest day to our own times, have harnessed the power of photography.
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‘Olympia 1863’ She, by
WMF vase, by Gregor Törzs (b.1970). 2021. Platinum palladium print on waxed Japanese Kozo paper, 30 by 24 cm.
PERSIEHL & HEINE
GALERIE FÜR FOTOGRAPHIE, HAMBURG
2023.
The Garden, by Siân Davey (b.1964). 2020–23. C Type print, 64 by 80 cm.
TROLLEY BOOKS / MICHAEL HOPPEN GALLERY, LONDON
16th–19th May 2024 (preview 15th May)
Somerset House, Strand photolondon.org
Blue and White Tarp, by Wen-Hsuan (Mia), Liu (b.1980). 2022. Ilford smooth gloss photographic paper on aluminium dibond, 83 by 66 by 13 cm. UP GALLERY, HSINCHU
Ceres and the Garden, by Giuseppe Lo Schiavo (b.1986). 2024. Fine art print on archival cotton paper, 148.5 by 110 cm.
SPAZIO NUOVO, ROME
Untitled, printed c.1920 by Braun & Cie from c.1861–73 glass negatives by Mayer & Pierson. Silver gelatin print, 36.5 by 28 cm.
ROLAND BELGRAVE, BRIGHTON
After
Yan Wang Preston (b.1976).
Archival inkjet print, 150 by 190 cm. MESSUMS, LONDON
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Monica,
PAUL DELAROCHE (1797–1856)
Strafford on his Way to Execution, 1835 Oil on canvas
249 x 310 cm (98 x 122 in.)
PROVENANCE:
Bought by the Duke of Sutherland and his brother Lord Francis Egerton from the artist; Bought by John Francis Queeny of St Louis, Missouri from the Duke of Sutherland’s sale in 1913; Thence by descent to the present owner
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National Gallery, London Painting History, Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey, 24th February – 23rd May 2010, no.54
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