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36 16 BOB DYLAN - LIVING THE BLUES
34 THE NEW POPOCRACY
22 DO YOU OWN YOUR ART?
36 SCULPTURE ON THE KNIFE EDGE
Dean Nicyper and Georges Lederman of the Art Law Group of international law firm Withers explain the significance of a recent US Supreme Court ruling
26 A TALE OF TWO ISLANDS
The island known variously as Majorca or Mallorca offers luxury and relaxation to satisfy the most sophisticated traveller
30 DUE DILIGENCE
Sotheby’s Private Sales works with buyers and sellers of worldclass works of art, independent of the auction calendar. We look at some current offerings
A new exhibition of the work of Henry Moore from the 1960s gives an insight into a pivotal decade in the sculptor’s career
42 WHERE IT ALL TEED OFF
The game of golf began in Scotland, so it’s fitting that some of the most luxurious venues to play are now in the land of tartan
44 TO PALMA AND THE SEA
Buying artworks in the digital realm can prove problematical. Now a new platform, Artscapy, aims to secure the space
The Palma International Boat Show is one of the highlights of the international yachting calendar. What delights awaited the seafarer this year?
32 ART HISTORY REFRAMED
48 LIFE IN BRONZE
A canter through art history taking a slightly different perspective is promised in a new book by Charlotte Mullins
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Sculptor Hamish Mackie brings to life the animal kingdom through the medium of bronze sculpture. We pay a visit to his Oxfordshire workshop
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A legendary singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan is also an accomplished painter, sculptor, and distiller of fine whiskey. But what links all these talents together?
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53 THE LIQUID ASSET
Whisky has a fascinating history and an unending lure for the collector and investor. We share a drop with some experts in the field
62 IMAGES THROUGH ADVERSITY
The Sony World Photography Awards 2002 have brought out the usual astonishing selection of images. We highlight some of the most impressive
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68 AN EXCLUSIVE SELECTION
Building an art collection isn’t just a matter of buy, display, repeat. Birgit Gudat, Senior Manager, Head Art Management at Kendris explains
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70 PRECIOUS METAL
One commodity seems to resist the fluctuations of the investment market - why does gold always seem to be a sure bet?
72 LET THERE BE LIGHTING
Displaying works of art in a sympathetic way requires a unique understanding of lighting techniques. The exerts from TM Lighting illuminate us
79 THE LOVE STORY OF ART AND WINE
The love story of art and wine is embodied in a project by San Marzano Wines which combines the two
82 A MINI THAT GOES UP TO 11
If British culture is celebrated for two things, they must be cars and music. Now a special edition Mini celebrates both, with iconic Marshall Amplifiers branding www.artsandcollections.com
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8 IT FIGURES
This issue’s most amazing and exciting events and objects summed up in handy facts and figures
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The winner of the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion demonstrated a welcome note of post-lockdown adjustment
10 HAPPENINGS
All the events, exhibitions and shows worth seeing, from modernist sculpture in London to Matisse in New York and intimate portraits in Seoul
12 AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS
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Our eclectic roundup of the most amazing items to come up for auction recently, from
76 BOOK REVIEWS
The most attractive volumes to display on your coffee table or bookshelves, from the complications of watches, to the graphics of Bauhaus and London station architecture
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SHIFT IN ATTITUDES The winner of the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion demonstrated a welcome note of post-lockdown adjustment
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he triumphant return of the Venice Biennale after the lockdown-related postponement of the 2020 show sounded a note of positivity after what has been a challenging couple of years for the art world. Despite the event in 2021 attracting an impressive number of visitors, the travel and social restrictions in place at the time set an uncertain tone, with critic Barbara Casavecchia writing that one exhibition “dreams of a brighter future but fails adequately to respond to the present”. Though the theme was ‘How Will We Live Together?’, Casavecchia pointed out that “the majority of the bienniale’s roster feels homogenous, with more than two thirds of the 112 participants coming from Europe and North America. If many ideas and practices on sharing resources in www.artsandcollections.com
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harmony with nature come from Indigenous knowledges, for instance, why are these knowledges only marginally present?” The same reservations did not seem to apply to the 2022 event, despite its rather less altruistic theme, ‘The Milk of Dreams’. The Golden Lion Award went to Great Britain for Feeling Her Way, by Sonia Boyce, a multimedia installation depicting a chorus of black female voices divided by tessellating wallpaper and golden 3D geometric structures. The piece focuses on the vocal performances of five black female musicians: Errollyn Walle, Jacqui Dankworth, Poppy Ajudha, Sofia Jernberg, and Tanita Tikaram. The Biennale’s five-person jury said: “Sonia Boyce proposes, consequently, another reading of histories through the sonic. In working collaboratively with other
black women, she unpacks a plenitude of silenced stories.” And Sonia Boyce said of her performers; “They connect us in ways that are joyful, soulful and necessary. Venice is living up to its reputation as the city of dreams.” This is the first time since there has been a British winner of the Golden Lion since 1993, when Richard Hamilton took the crown. More significantly perhaps, Boyce is the first black woman to represent the U.K. in the biennale. The Observer’s Laura Cumming summed up the event, saying: “It’s the most momentous Biennale in living memory... the pandemic has no visible reflection whatsoever in the thousands of works of art... it is an epochal shift in attitudes.” Chris Jenkins ARTS & COLLECTIONS 9
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Happenings Arts & Collections has selected a mix of the most essential artistic, cultural and entertainment events around the world in the next few months
PURSUED BY A BEAR Ben Brown Fine Arts presents Les Lalanne: Makers of Dreams, an extensive survey of the work of the late legendary French artistic duo François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne – known collectively as ‘Les Lalanne.’ Choreographed by famed Italian designer Manfredi della Gherardesca, this unprecedented body of over 100 works includes some of the most known pieces to date and will create a Les Lalanne magical menagerie spread across the iconic Mayfair locations, Ben Brown Fine Arts and the newly opened Claridge’s ArtSpace. The exhibition runs from 28th April - 29th July 2022. www.benbrownfinearts.com Below: Ben Brown Fine Arts, Les Lalanne: Makers of Dreams
Above: Alexander Archipenko, Boxers, 1913, Bronze, Courtesy of The Archipenko Foundation
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This summer, the Estorick Collection presents an exploration of the relationship between Ukrainian-born American artist Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964) and the masters of Italian modern art. The show examines the role of Archipenko in the creation of a modernist Italian tradition, and the impact his work had on the development of Italian sculpture in the 20th century. Archipenko’s works will be shown alongside those of Carlo Carrà, Giorgio de Chirico, Amedeo Modigliani, Enrico Prampolini, Mino Rosso, Gino Severini, Mario Sironi, Thayaht (Ernesto Michahelles) and Ardengo Soffici. Archipenko and the Italian Avant Garde runs from 4th May until 4th September 2022 at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1. www.estorickcollection.com www.artsandcollections.com
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MEANING OF LIFE Gallery Various Small Fires presents a two-person exhibition Inanimatefy, by Jungyoon Hyen and Mark Yang, in its Seoul space. Both artists aim to take away the subjects’ lives and grant new meaning to their existence. The two young Koreanborn artists across different time zones show recent works sharing the same subject matter of the body, continuing their exploration in sculpture and painting. Their ‘inanimate-fying’ practices are accompanied by the writings of Nowk Choe and Minjoo Lee for the Seoul show, from April 16th-June 11th. www.vsf.la Left: Mark Yang, Three Asleep, oil on canvas, 40x60 ins, courtesy Mark Yang/VSF
ALL IN HIS HEAD To honour what would have been the centenary year of British painter Lucian Freud (1922-2011), the Freud Museum in London stages its first ever exhibition of the great portrait artist’s work this summer. Lucian Freud: Family Matters will feature paintings, drawings, family photographs, books and letters, all drawn from galleries and private collections, the Museum’s archives and members of Lucian Freud’s family. Some of the items have never, or very rarely, been seen in public before. The exhibition runs from 6th July 2022 to 29th January 2023 at the Freud Museum at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, the final home of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the founder of psychoanalysis. www.freud.org.uk Right: © Freud Museum London. Freud’s Study, Photo by K. Urbaniak
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For many years after its creation, Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio (1911), which depicts the artist’s workspace in the Parisian suburb of Issy-lesMoulineaux, was met with bafflement or indifference. Today it is known as a foundational work of modern art and a landmark in the centurieslong tradition of studio painting. MoMa New York reunites this work with the surviving six paintings, three sculptures, and one ceramic by Matisse depicted on its six-foot-tall-by-seven-foot-wide canvas. Runs until September 10th, then the exhibition will be shown at SMK in Copenhagen from October 13th, 2022, to February 26th, 2023. www.moma.org Left: Henri Matisse, The Red Studio (1911), Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
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Auction
HIGHLIGHTS We bring you the most unusual, historical, attractive and eyecatching items from the world’s leading auction houses
BLUE WONDER
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At Sotheby’s Hong Kong Spring Auctions, an eight-minute battle between four bidders took the price for The De Beers Blue diamond well beyond the HK$380 million (US$48 million) pre-sale estimate, with the stone going to the winner for the final price of HK$451 million (US$57.5 million), almost touching the current record for a blue diamond set in 2016 by The Oppenheimer Blue, which sold for US$57.5 million. This wonder of nature had been cut from an exceptional rough stone discovered at the Cullinan Mine in South Africa in 2021.
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TABLE STAKES At Stockholm’s Auktionsverk Helsinki’s Modern Art & Design auction, a table by Alvar Aalto was sold for a world record price of SEK 1,185,000 (EUR 115,000) + fees. This is the first time an Alvar Aalto table has been sold for over SEK 1 million. The table was originally ordered by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, but as both the manufacturer Viljo Hirvonen and Alvar Aalto passed away before the table had been delivered, it remained in Finland in private ownership until now. Dan von Koskull, CEO at Stockholms Auktionsverk Helsinki said “I have been waiting a long time for this fantastic table and I am happy and proud that the owner chose to sell through us. I am especially happy that the table stays in Finland.”
BAG OF DREAMS This colourful Hermès Limited Edition Rose Azalee Swift and Marble Silk Constance 24 Palladium Hardware handbag, 2021, sold for HKD 189,000 on an estimate of HKD 150,000 - 200,000 HKD at Sotheby’s Handbags & Accessories sale in Hong Kong. The interior of the bag which measures 24 x 19 x 4 cm is lined with Rose Azalee Swift leather, and it sold complete with felt, care booklet, dust bag and a box.
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Sotheby’s Hong Kong Spring Auctions week finished with an epic finale when a blue-green landscape by Zhang Daqian sold for a record HK$370.5 million (US$47.2 million) at the Fine Chinese Paintings sale, breaking the world auction record for the artist, previously set by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in 2016. The extraordinary Zhang Daqian work Landscape after Wang Ximeng is a masterful reinterpretation of the legendary panorama by the Song dynasty landscape master. Fresh to the market, this blue and green landscape was painted in 1948 during the pinnacle of the artist’s career. www.artsandcollections.com
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BLUE MEANIE A superb 1.38L 2018 Westfield Eleven sports car, a recreation of the Frank Costin designed Lotus XI from 1956, sold for £23,650 at Classic Car Auctions. Featuring curvaceous pre-coloured fibreglass bodywork on a fully triangulated space frame chassis, presented in Navy Blue with a superbly finished cockpit in classic red and a Peter May 1380cc A-Series engine to ‘Fast Road’ spec with a Ford Type-9 fivespeed gearbox, the car was built by a race engineer with stunning attention to detail. A bargain for the buyer, as over £35,000 had been spent on parts alone!
BECAUSE THEY WERE THERE Spink of London sold this historically important Zulu War Medal awarded to Private R. Adams, ‘D’ Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Foot, who was killed in action at the Defence of Rorke’s Drift, for £58,000. Robert Adams joined up in 1876 and was posted to the 2nd Battalion, 24th Foot on 22 January 1877. He served with ‘D’ Company and was a patient at Rorke’s Drift at the time of the epic battle, where he “gave vital effort to the Defence of this particularly vulnerable sector of their perimeter”. His remains were buried with his comrades in the cemetery at Rorke’s Drift and his name inscribed on the memorial which stands there to this day.
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Milestone Auctions of Ohio grossed $650,000 in its April 9th Antique Toy Spectacular. Powering its way to the top of prices realised was this Linemar Popeye and Olive Oyl Tank with its original pictorial box, which sold for an astonishing $105,000, a new world auction record for a Popeye toy. “Everyone, young or old, can relate to Popeye,” said Milestone Auctions co-owner Miles King. “Since first appearing in a 1929 comic strip, Popeye has amused and entertained audiences in a way that sets him apart from other comic or cartoon characters. Many of his exploits have translated to toys over the years, and collectors want them all.” Ironically, buyer Ozzie Bilotta had owned the toy once before, but last time he paid only $15,000 for it. www.artsandcollections.com
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OUR SERIES HIGHLIGHTS A SINGLE ITEM OF ARTISTRY OR CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT IS BOTH RARE AND EXQUISITE
FOR BIG DRINKERS The world’s largest bottle of Scotch whisky is being auctioned by Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh on May 25th - unfortunately after this issue goes to press. Interest is expected from bidders across the world, and it is hoped the bottle may break the world record for the most expensive bottle of whisky ever sold. The Intrepid stands at almost 6ft tall and contains 311 litres of 32-year-old The Macallan single malt whisky. After maturing in two sister casks in The Macallan’s Speyside warehouse for 32 years, the exclusive liquid was bottled last year by Duncan Taylor Scotch Whisky, one of the leading independent whisky bottling companies. A small number of exclusive bottle sets were also produced.
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he Batman product series from Kross Studio features a 10-piece Bat Signal-inspired luxury collector set and new watch rolls, part of Kross Studio, Warner Bros. and DC Comics’ celebration of the release of the film, starring Robert Pattinson and directed by Matt Reeves. The luxury collector set includes The Batman Tourbillon watch and an illuminated Bat-Signal functional art piece. A new collection of watch rolls, each sold separately at $250, will feature iconic DC characters from the film: Batman (two editions), Selina Kyle (Catwoman), and The Riddler. The watch was created with a new version of Kross Studio’s in-house developed and five-day power reserve. Placed atop the central tourbillon’s oversized cage, the miniature Bat-Signal makes on revolution per minute, and its louvered surface allows light to filter through and enables glimpses of the regulator below. The timepiece, hand-made and assembled by Kross Studio in Gland, Switzerland, presents a different reading of hours and minutes. The hour hand is affixed to a peripheral display mechanism orbiting 360° around the tourbillon. The minutes are displayed on a disk, making one revolution per hour. A domed sapphire crystal arcs over the dial in a low profile that complements the rounded edges of the black DLC coated 45mm grade-5 titanium case. The functional Bat Signal art piece is an integral element of each collector set. Each timepiece comes delivered alongside a functional Bat Signal that illuminates, further immersing the collector into the universe of Gotham City and The Batman. It also hides a dedicated space on its back to safely store The Batman tourbillon or any other watch. The Batman Collector sets ($100,000 US each), and The Batman collectible watch rolls ($250 US each), are available for individual sale at kross-studio.ch, or through official partners and select authorized retailers.
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BOB DYLAN: Living the Blues
A legendary singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan is also an accomplished painter, sculptor, and now a distiller of fine whiskey. But what links all these talents together?
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popularity and acclaim; a worldwide bestselling memoir, Chronicles Vol. 1, spent 19 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List in 2004, and several major exhibitions of his paintings and ironwork have been shown at some of the world’s most prestigious museums and galleries. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, on 24th May 1941, as Robert Allen Zimmerman, Dylan relocated to Hibbing and went to the University of Minnesota in 1959, leaving school after a year to pursue a career in
music. Moving to New York in 1961, he began to play at various clubs and signed with Columbia Records. The following year he released his first album, and songs such as Like a Rolling Stone, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall and Blowin’ in the Wind are now regarded as among the greatest ever recorded. Dylan’s contributions to our culture have been recognized with numerous honours and accolades - in December 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by
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the Swedish Academy “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” In 2012, he was awarded America’s highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Barack Obama. The public first became aware of Dylan’s interest in art when his paintings appeared on album covers for The Band’s Music from Big Pink (1968) and his own Self Portrait (1970). A book of 92 drawings titled Drawn Blank was published in 1994, and exhibitions of reworked versions of these images were mounted at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz in Germany in 2007 and the following year at Halcyon Gallery in London.
WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE In August 2013, Bob Dylan: Face Value was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, commented: “Bob Dylan is one of the most influential cultural figures of our time. He has always created a highly visual world either with his words or music, or in paints and pastels.’ Mood Swings, a major exhibition of ironwork by Dylan, opened at Halcyon Gallery in November 2013. Heralding the first public showing of the artist’s iron works – seven gates created from vintage iron and other metal parts – the sculptures reveal the artist’s lifelong fascination with welding and metalwork. The major exhibition The Beaten Path opened in 2016 and marked an extraordinary turning point in Dylan’s visual art career. A truly unprecedented body of work, Mondo Scripto, opened at Halcyon Gallery in October 2018, presenting a selection of Dylan’s most iconic songs, handwritten in pen on paper and accompanied with a corresponding drawing. The first comprehensive exhibition of Dylan’s visual art seen in the United States, Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum, recently closed after a six-month run at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum and Florida International University. Retrospectrum spanned six decades of Dylan’s drawing, painting and sculpture. The exhibition’s curation was designed to showcase the development and diversity in Dylan’s visual practice, while immersive and interactive displays simultaneously illuminated the context of that development www.artsandcollections.com
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Top: Bob Dylan, Sunset, Monument Valley at the Retrospectrum show Above: Bob Dylan at work, image courtesy of Heaven’s Door Spirits
in tandem with that of his musical and literary canon. And to top it all, an entire $10m facility devoted to Dylan’s life and work has just opened in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Bob Dylan Center (https://bobdylancenter.com) is a 29,000-square-foot, state-of-the art exhibition which will feature rotating exhibits, a 5,000+-square-foot archive, and a 55-seat screening room. The archive holds over 100,000 items, including everything from fan mail to early drafts of lyrics, multi-track recordings and more.
In retrospect all the iron is recontextualized to represent peace, serenity, and stillness. - Bob Dylan
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Above: Bob Dylan, Rail Car, 2022 Below: Bob Dylan, Rail Car, 2022, detail
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There was no place you could go in my hometown without at least some part of the day having to stop at intersections and wait for the long trains to pass. - Bob Dylan
without at least some part of the day having to stop at intersections and wait for the long trains to pass.’ Work began on Rail Car in the summer of 2019, involving engineering teams in both France and the United States. The artwork was created in Los Angeles, then disassembled, crated and shipped to France to be installed onsite at Château La Coste.
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Now Bob Dylan’s first monumental sculpture placement in France has been unveiled at Château La Coste in Le Puy-Sainte Reparade, south-eastern France. The unveiling coincides with a new exhibition of Dylan’s paintings from his critically acclaimed Drawn Blank series. Seminal works by Monet, Matisse and Chagall will also be on display. Rail Car, the new site-specific ironwork sculpture, has been created by Dylan to be installed in the Château’s outdoor art estate. An immersive, ironwork freight car installation set on train tracks engages prominent motifs in Dylan’s art, as well as relating to aspects of his past. As Dylan describes in his Chronicles: Volume One, ‘I’d seen and heard trains from my earliest childhood days and the sight and sound of them always made me feel secure. The big boxcars, the iron ore cars, freight cars, passenger trains, Pullman cars. There was no place you could go in my hometown
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Dylan says of Rail Car: “This rail car to me represents perception and reality at the same time... There are about 6 or 7 tons of iron that’s gone into this rail car. In retrospect all the iron is recontextualized to represent peace, serenity, and stillness.” He says that he hopes that viewers will take away “enormous energy - it represents the illusions of a journey rather than the contemplation of one.” As for the positioning of the piece, Dylan says “Depending on where you are standing in its presence, it can reflect anything that’s meaningful or attractive”, and as for the old Roman road on the site, he comments: “It’s an old road, so hopefully the rail car will last as long.” The unveiling of Rail Car will coincide with an exhibition featuring 24 of Dylan’s paintings, entitled Drawn Blank in Provence, running from 9th May to 15th August in Château La Coste’s Renzo Piano-designed art gallery. Alongside Dylan’s paintings will be works by artists including Claude Monet, Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall, and a focus display of a large-scale triptych, created by Dylan in 2021, installed in the Richard Rogers drawing gallery from 9th May to 5th June.
A CHANGE COMIN’ ON Yet music, art and sculpture aren’t the end of Dylan’s creativity; he works with Heaven’s Door Spirits on a range of signature whiskies decorated with his artwork. Industry veterans Marc Bushala (cofounder of Angels’ Share Brands and CEO of SIP) and Ryan Perry (former whiskey developer with Diageo, currently COO of SIP) noticed a trademark for “Bootleg Whiskey” filed in Dylan’s name, and with access to an extensive library of whiskeys offering a vast quantity of potential blends, set out to develop a range of expressions in conversation with Dylan, settling on the name “Heaven’s Door,” which recalls one of Dylan’s most recognizable songs. Heaven’s Door Spirits announced the first expression of its limited edition Bootleg Series, a rare 26-year old whisky finished in Japanese Mizunara Oak barrels, in 2019: this first release, dubbed Volume 1 of the Bootleg Series, was offered in hand-made ceramic bottles featuring one of Bob Dylan’s best-known paintings, Train Tracks, in a uniquely designed and individually numbered collectible leather journal, in www.artsandcollections.com
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I’ve been traveling for decades, and I’ve been able to try some of the best spirits that the world of whiskey has to offer. - Bob Dylan
an edition of 3,000 at $500 each. Dylan said at the launch: “We wanted to create a collection of American whiskeys that, in their own way, tell a story. I’ve been traveling for decades, and I’ve been able to try some of the best spirits that the world of whiskey has to offer.” Dylan’s tasting notes on the whiskey blends are said to be ‘inscrutable’ - Master Blender Ryan Perry describes Dylan’s creative contribution by saying “He gives me Bob-like feedback.” Perry elaborates: “He’s our number one sample consumer. He is involved in the creation process — not leading it, but he approves the final product and has feedback on every milestone part of our process. It’s because of him we launched with a double barrel release. He’d
say, ‘I want it to taste more like a wooden structure.’ I’ve never had that kind of feedback.” The 2020 Bootleg Series offering featured a cask strength 15 year-old Straight Bourbon finished in 30 year-old Jamaican Pot Still Rum Casks, in a handmade ceramic bottle featuring Bob Dylan’s painting, Sunset, Monument Valley, and housed in an ornate leather journal that is individually numbered. In 2021, Heaven’s Door Spirits announced a new whiskey release in partnership with MGM Resorts International, the “777 Blend”, in tribute to the company’s iconic casino resorts. The 2021 bottle is a 13-year-aged Kentucky Bourbon finished in casks of Andalusian vino de naranja, an aperitif made by macerating orange peels in white wine. In Bob Dylan’s future lies a plan to build his own distillery in Nashville - what masterpieces will come out of that? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind... www.heavensdoor.com www.chateau-la-coste.com
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DO YOU OWN YOUR ART?
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Dean Nicyper and Georges Lederman of the Art Law Group of international law firm Withers explain the significance of a recent US Supreme Court ruling
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n April, the U.S. Supreme Court upended a decades-long lawsuit over the ownership of a painting by the French Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The Court’s ruling is a perfect example how an otherwise mundane procedural legal ruling may have a profound, if not determinative, impact on the eventual outcome of a case even before addressing its merits. At stake is the ownership of Pissarro’s 1897 painting, Rue Saint-Honoré, AprèsMidi, Effet de Pluie, estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars. Paul Cassirer, a member of a prominent German-Jewish family who owned an art gallery in Germany, purchased the painting from Pissarro’s agent in 1900. Lilly Cassirer inherited the painting from Paul, but was forced to surrender it to the Nazis in 1939 in exchange for an exit visa to England to escape persecution. Lilly and her grandson, Claude Cassirer, eventually ended up in the United States, searching in vain for the whereabouts of the painting. Having been declared the painting’s rightful owner by the German Federal Republic, Lilly agreed in 1958 to accept $13,000 (approximately $250,000 today) in compensation from the German Government in satisfaction of her claim. Unbeknownst to the Cassirers, the painting also had made its way to the United States and was in a private collection between 1952 and 1976, when the Swiss art collector Baron Hans Heinrich ThyssenBornemisza purchased it and took it back to Europe. In the 1990s the Baron sold much of his collection, including Rue Saint-Honoré, to Spain, which created and controlled the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, the Madrid museum of which currently houses the painting.
that it was stolen, loses title without being compensated. The threshold legal issue in this case was whether Spain could even be sued in an American court for this type of dispute. Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) of 1976, a foreign nation is granted immunity from suit by a U.S. citizen except under certain very limited exceptions. Cassirer asserted that the expropriation exception, which removes immunity in cases involving “rights in property taken in violation of international law”, conferred jurisdiction over Spain in a U.S. court to decide the issue of ownership. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, California’s highest court, agreed and affirmed the lower court’s ruling.
OWNERSHIP But whose law applies in determining ownership - Spain’s, or California’s? Under Spanish law, a person who acquires an item in good faith and retains possession for 10 years has a right of ownership superior to that of the original lawful owner. But under United States law, a thief can never pass good title to stolen property. Applying federal common law, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s ruling that Spanish law, not California law, controlled in adjudicating ownership to the painting, and that Spain retained ownership. In the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the sole issue was whether the Ninth Circuit correctly applied the choice-of-law rule as to which jurisdiction’s law governs in
determining ownership. The Supreme Court disagreed with the Ninth Circuit’s application of the choice-oflaw rule in finding that Spanish law applied as to who held title to the painting. Rather, it concluded that where a foreign nation is sued in a U.S. court on a non-federal claim, such as property rights, it is to be treated no differently than a private party; it is not to be accorded any special rights simply because it is a foreign nation, and therefore federal common law does not apply. It is the law of the jurisdiction where the suit is brought - in this case California - that applies in determining ownership, and Spain cannot claim ownership of the painting under the Spanish law of “acquisitive prescription”. Ownership in this case turns on the application of a single, technical procedural rule: where one interpretation, which the Supreme Court struck down, awarded title to Spain, and the other favours the Cassirers, who are likely to prevail upon rehearing in Federal district court. The lesson learned is that where informal attempts at restitution of property have failed, a U.S. citizen would be advised to commence a lawsuit against a foreign nation in a U.S. court, which cannot apply that foreign nation’s laws in resolving the ultimate issue of ownership. www.withersworldwide.com Below: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation where the painting currently resides
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ISSUES Claude Cassirer’s 2005 California federal court lawsuit requesting that Spain return the painting to him is a classic art title dispute between two innocent parties, one the heir of the original owner from whom the painting was stolen, the other a purchaser decades after the theft, paying without knowing it was stolen. The bad actor in this story, the original thief, is not a party in the case. In “innocent purchaser” cases like this, there can be no harmonious outcome - either the owner from whom the painting was stolen, or the person who paid good value for the painting without knowledge www.artsandcollections.com
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DUE DILIGENCE Buying artworks in the digital realm can prove problematical. Now a new platform, Artscapy, aims to secure the space. BY CHRIS JENKINS
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ounded in 2020 by Alessandro De Stasio and Emilia De Stasio, Artscapy was "built by collectors for collectors". Its aim is to provide a complete set of services to build, protect, and evaluate art collections, either in the real world, or, as is increasingly popular, in the digital realm. One of the platform’s central offerings is that it also ensures each consigned artwork undergoes due diligence, to facilitate one of the most secure and trustworthy digital spaces to buy and sell art. It also maintains a "no flipping" policy, meaning that any artwork first made available to the market in the last 12 months can’t be resold within its marketplace. Artscapy’s marketplace for physical artworks launched with works by internationally renowned artists Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Banksy and David Shrigley, and at the same time it released the NFT artwork Selezioni by Italian performance artist Filippo Riniolo. The company officially launched in December 2021 after raising £1,000,000 following two rounds of investments and has now more than doubled its projected value. In a short time the platform accumulated over 2,000 members worldwide, including Europe, North and South America and Asia. As passionate art collectors themselves, with a shared vision to democratise fine art collecting, Alessandro De Stasio and Emilia De Stasio used their business and finance backgrounds to create the Artscapy platform, with the aim of removing the opacity of the art market and addressing the barriers to entry, so that more people can access quality fine art. www.artsandcollections.com
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The co-founders said, “We are excited to launch the world’s first collector-tocollector fine art marketplace. Our vision is to democratise fine art collecting and to create a platform entirely designed around the collector's needs. As passionate collectors ourselves, we saw the lack of digital tools and support for collectors, and experienced the intimidating difficulties of accessing fine art, and embarking on a collecting journey. We want to change that.”
SAFETY Artscapy aims to create a trusted, safe environment to explore and buy quality art. To do so, it has established a due diligence process for every artwork that will go on sale, and offers certificates of authenticity on blockchain to create an immutable record of provenance on primary sales. Artscapy’s marketplace will always show clear pricing, either as a fixed price or a range.
Artscapy is partnering with only carefully selected, handpicked galleries, and the platform's software uses end-toend encryption to safely store and track information. Each collector’s inventory is directly linked to the art marketplace, so that after a purchase from the marketplace is complete, the artwork record and associated documents and images are automatically transferred into the buyer’s collection. If the purchase is from a gallery and a certificate of authenticity on blockchain has been issued, then that certificate is also automatically transferred to the buyer. Collectors can also submit works for sale to the marketplace directly from their collection, after completing the due diligence process. The collection management system is fully encrypted, and underpinned by robust, comprehensive privacy settings, allowing collectors to control what information is visible and shared, even on an artwork basis. If an artwork is marked “me only” which is the most stringent privacy setting, then the information is not visible to anyone but that user, not even Artscapy staff. Collectors can be as open or as discrete with their collections as they want.
Above left: Butterfly NFT, Salvador Dalí Above right: Time to Rest NFT, Salvador Dalí Below: The Artscapy platform in action
BENEFITS One of the only companies offering a service whereby members of the platform can add up to 25 artworks free of charge, and gain valuable insights over how their collection's value is tracking over time, Artscapy has a four-tier membership subscription. Those with larger collections can choose a subscription plan starting from £14.99/month that allows them to log up to 50 artworks and reduced sales commissions within the marketplace, while the highest tier at £59.99/month unlocks an unlimited number of artworks and further benefits. In a recent venture, Artscapy became the exclusive blockchain partner of Dalí Universe, to launch a series of official, limited edition, digital art productions from the father of surrealism, Salvador Dalí. The first release features productions of eight of Dalí’s iconic sculptures, including Dance of Time, Lady Godiva, and Nobility of Time. The melted clock face - one of his most beloved motifs - representing the fluidity of time, can be found in key works of the release. Each of these NFTs has been released in an edition of 9,999 and will be sold at $30 (£23). This is one collaboration of many, in which Artscapy is supporting brands within and outside the art world to enter “web3” and explore the NFT possibilities that it offers, as well as to create official digital merchandising. www.artscapy.com
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ART HISTORY Reframed
A canter through art history taking a slightly different perspective is promised in a new book by Charlotte Mullins. Arts & Collections asks some newbie questions...
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Little History of Art is described as an affable canter through art history, from cave painting to climate change, an introduction to art that requires no prior knowledge. There’s no jargon, just fresh accessible writing and an enthusiasm for all things art. A Little History of Art updates the story of art by reframing who is included. Earlier narratives simplified art’s story by leaving out 32 ARTS & COLLECTIONS
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entire swathes of artists – often all women artists – or restricting the art studied to Western art. A Little History of Art restores artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola, Guan Daosheng and Jacob Lawrence to the narrative, and explores the art of the Niger valley, Peru, Java, Rapa Nui and Australia alongside Western examples. So how did author Charlotte Mullins condense 100,000 years of art history into one concise narrative?
“To deal with the scale of the subject I started out by creating what may be the world’s first washing line of art! I pegged 40 cards onto strings that crisscrossed my office and slowly covered them with the pieces of art I felt should be in the book to create the 40 chapters. When it came to writing I wanted to take the reader back in time to the moment particular works of art were made, so each chapter opens with a www.artsandcollections.com
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What about the issue of art restitution? “Restitution has been an ongoing battle for centuries. Napoleon famously raided Europe’s galleries and stole masterpieces from across the continent. Other examples of stolen art are only now being discussed in terms of restitution, most notably the Benin Bronzes. The Bronzes appear in a chapter on the sixteenth century that explores the interaction of inter-continental sea trade and African art traditions, and reappear in the book when they were stolen by British troops after the destruction of Benin City. I felt it was important to mark this later appropriation of African art by the West while firmly rooting my own analysis of them in the time and culture in which they were made.” Left: Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818 - “Free to paint what moved him” Above: Mary Cassatt, Woman in Black at the Opera, 1880 - “Actively involved in observing”
spot of time travel. We journey from ancient tombs to medieval cathedrals, visit artists’ studios and witness art being made.” Why did our ancestors make art? What did art mean to them? “The word ‘art’ itself is a slippery term. Its meanings and values have changed over time. When artists sculpt an animal or paint a figure they are not necessarily trying to create a likeness, but they are trying to express something important about that animal or figure. This is why art – no matter how diverse it appears on the outside – ultimately shares a common thread.” Why is art important today? Art feels more important today than ever. Contemporary artists such as Ai Weiwei, Shirin Neshat and Zanele Muholi give a voice to those who have been repressed or marginalised. Olafur Eliasson and Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey use their art to address climate change. Art is a way of expressing who we are and what we believe in. How we look at art is also changing. In 2018 Beyoncé and Jay-Z took over the Louvre in Paris and made a six-minute music video packed full of art for their single Apeshit. This not only showed how far art has entered the mainstream in the twenty-first century but it also offered a new perspective on what art history could be.” www.artsandcollections.com
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What are some of the common misconceptions this book tackles? “I have tried to bust a few myths. For example: There are no great women artists. There have been great women artists throughout history, not just in the last few decades. We see Artemisia Gentileschi respond to Caravaggio’s female heroine Judith, Hilma af Klint beat male abstract artists to the punch and witness Elizabeth Catlett’s response to racial inequality in America. Another myth is that there is a singular story of art. There are in fact many stories that interweave across continents and generations. This book laces together as many of these as possible. Another misconception is that certain countries produced better art than others. Art has always been produced in a network that stretches across countries and seas. Certain countries wrote more about art and favoured art created on their own doorstep, often wilfully ignoring the wider picture. Perhaps the biggest myth is that if it isn’t in the art history books already then it isn’t good art. Until recently art history books were predominantly written by a particular subset of society, the white middleclass male. Now, when they are written by different subsets of society, different perspectives uncover great artists who were celebrated in their day but who have subsequently been overlooked.”
Charlotte Mullins is an art critic, writer and broadcaster. She has worked as the arts editor of the Independent on Sunday, the editor of Art Review, the V&A Magazine, and Art Quarterly and is the art critic for Country Life
Above: Charlotte Mullins promises an informative canter through art history in A Little History of Art
Below: A Little History of Art, “A fresh take on art history as we know it.”—Katy Hessel, The Great Women Artists Podcast
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COLLECTIONS // SOTHEBY’S
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watches, books, wine and automobiles at your disposal through its Private Sales department. Away from the bustle of the auction room, Private Sales are discreet and select, with prices agreed between seller and buyer. See the items currently available at www.sothebys.com/en/buy/private-sales.
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Louis XV Style Carved Giltwood Tables Pietre Dure and giltwood This matched pair of Neapolitan pietre dure and marble tops from the late 17th century feature late 19th century Louis XVstyle carved giltwood console tables. The tops are in the style of Cosimo Fanzago, one with a central lapis lazuli and onyx shaped oval flanked by floral scrolling in specimen stones, the other a border delimited by large flowers outlined with thick white borders on a green marble. The plume-headed female carved scrolled legs end in dragon heads, joined by a stretcher centred by a pierced finial. Formerly in the possession of Arthur Ronald Nall-Cain, the 2nd Lord Brocket (1906-1967), comparable items have sold for £110,500.
The Tempest Oil on canvas Signed by the artist and dated 48 at the lower right, this 18x24 in. canvas has been widely catalogued and exhibited, most recently at Vito Schnabel Gallery in New York. Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890, died in 1976, is known for his photography, and roots in Dadaism, but few realize the extent of his painting and sculpture. Although he grew up in Brooklyn, and lived in New Jersey for a time, it’s often assumed he’s French since he spent much of his career in Paris. The Tempest is a Cubist-style image floating in a red sky from a series known as Shakespearean Equations that borrows from the artist’s own Surrealist-inspired photographs of 20 years earlier known as the Mathematical Equations. Price is on application. 34 ARTS & COLLECTIONS
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NORMAN ROCKWELL
For Double Reason You’ll Prefer Double Rich Conté crayon on paperboard Dating from 1940, this advertising illustration for Schenley Cream of Kentucky whisky by Norman Rockwell appeared in Collier’s, The National Weekly, on March 23, 1940 and also in Life magazine. Measuring 14.5x16 inches and signed by the artist on the lower right, the drawing also exists in a colour version in pastel and charcoal, which sold for $89,000 in 2014. Rockwell’s illustrations such as Rosie the Riveter, popular for decades, were later dismissed as kitsch - but now, of course, kitsch is right in fashion. A Norman Rockwell painting titled Saying Grace sold in New York in 2013 for $46m, at the time the highest price ever paid at auction for an American painting.
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DAVID BAILEY
The Farmer’s Wife Bronze American George Condo is known for his distinctive, deformed and sometimes demonic works combining figuration and abstraction, combining influences from Old Master paintings, cubism and pop art. The juxtapositions and strange figures in his ‘artificial realism’ artworks are often interpreted as a metaphor for the chaos of contemporary life. This piece, incised with the artist’s name, date 05 and number 3/4 and stamped with the foundry mark along the bottom edge, was executed in 2005, and is edition number 3 from an edition of 4 plus 2 artist’s proofs. Price is around $150,000.
Mick Jagger, 1964 Silver print Signed on the reverse, this silver print with a later frame is No.2 from an edition of 10, measuring 42x42 ins. The iconic image, from Bailey’s Box of Pin-ups series, has been much imitated and copied, and compares to a similar image by Terry O’Neill taken a year earlier. Bailey’s images played with the idea of minimalism, and with the frame of the image; they distilled the very essence of photography, and charted a new cultural establishment, the new ‘Popocracy’, as George Melly called it. This is an early photograph of one of the most photographed male faces in the western world over the last 50 years, yet there’s always freshness when one looks at a Bailey image of Jagger.
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Mona Lisa #11 Oil on canvas This work by the acclaimed Los Angelesbased artist and film-maker is part of a collection of large-scale canvases, executed in gold leaf, crayon and oil, that take as their subject Leonardo da Vinci’s Renaissance masterpiece Mona Lisa. Van Sant appropriates and subverts the image of the smiling La Gioconda, deconstructing it through formal experimentation, such as this pointillist rendering. Signed and dated 2022 on the reverse, measuring 80x60 in, price is on application. www.artsandcollections.com
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SCULPTURE on the Knife Edge
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enry Moore, who died in 1986, remains one of the most influential and controversial figures in British art. Now a new exhibition of his works from the 1960s gives unique insights into his art and life. Born in 1898 in Castleford, Yorkshire, Henry Moore was the son of a miner and the seventh of eight children. As a schoolboy, Moore showed a talent for art, but was encouraged to train as a teacher first. He did not take to teaching, and instead chose to sign up to serve in the British Army during the First World War. In 1917 he was injured by a gas attack during the Battle of Cambrai. In 1919, thanks to an ex-serviceman’s grant, he had become a student at the Leeds School of Art, going on to attend the Royal College of Art in London in 1921. Moore later taught at the College, and there met painting student Irina Radetsky, whom he married in 1929. Throughout the 1930s, numerous commissions and exhibitions added to Moore’s reputation. He was regarded as a leading figure of the avante-garde, and his circle of friends as being at the cutting edge of artistic activity in England. The abstract art practised by this group was regarded as ultimate in artistic extremism. In 1930 the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale exhibited Moore’s work alongside fellow British sculptors Jacob Epstein and John Skeaping and painters Augustus John, Wilson Steer and Walter Sickert.
Royal College of Art, and left to start a school of sculpture at the Chelsea School of Art. Moore’s work through the 1930s showed little inclination to please the public, and influenced by Pablo Picasso’s drawings and paintings of the late 1920s, he started to produce works in which the human form was more distorted and fragmented. His sketchbooks of this time are full of ideas for abstract sculptures using organic and natural forms rather than pure geometrical shapes, and he collected pebbles, rocks, shells, and bones, studying them to find what he called “nature’s principles of form and rhythm.” The way in which he opened up the carvings with concavities and even with holes pierced right through the forms was regarded as shocking, particularly in sculptures which retained aspects of the human figure. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Moore was recruited as an official war artist, and produced drawings of people sheltering in the London Underground during the Blitz, and when in September
1940 the Moores’ London flat was damaged by bombing, the couple moved to Hoglands, a farmhouse in Perry Green, Hertfordshire, where they remained for the rest of their lives. At Hoglands, Moore and Irena developed studios and gardens, and raised their daughter Mary, born in 1946.
SCALE Moore’s international reputation dates from a large retrospective exhibition held in 1946 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Moore visited the United States for the first time and American collectors began to buy his work. Freed of financial worries he was able to work on the scale he felt his sculpture demanded, and in Europe his reputation was confirmed when he won the sculpture prize at the 1948 Venice Biennale. Henry Moore’s international career bloomed from the 1950s onwards, to the extent that he was accused of dominating the British art scene. In 1977 he established the Henry Moore Foundation to encourage
ABSTRACT In his own work from 1931 onward, Moore moved gradually away from depictions of the human figure to experiment with abstract shapes, or to combine the two; in 1931 he had the first of many one-man exhibitions in the Leicester Galleries in London, where his work was enthusiastically introduced by fellow sculptor Jacob Epstein. The violent criticism in the Press of these works made Moore a figure of notoriety, and he was encouraged to resign his position at the Left: H enry Moore with Knife Edge Two Piece 1962-65 (LH 516), Perry Green 1967 Photo: John Hedgecoe Right: Henry Moore in his Maquette Studio, Perry Green c.1968 Photo: John Hedgecoe Reproduced by permission of the Henry Moore Foundation
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INNOVATION The exhibition features rarely-seen sculptures, drawings, graphics and a wealth of archive material drawn entirely from the Henry Moore Foundation’s collection to illuminate the innovation of an artist himself in his sixties but at the height of his powers. The exhibition will be the first held at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens to explore a single decade of Moore’s career. Of the thirty sculptures to be exhibited, highlights include the monumental plaster Large Spindle Piece, 1968, never before exhibited. Over twenty drawings and 38 ARTS & COLLECTIONS
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graphics will reveal Moore’s incredible use of colour, new lithographic printing methods and materials such as felt pens. Archive footage of the construction of Moore’s innovative plastic studio and the installation of some of his monumental bronzes will also feature. By 1960, Moore had fully embraced casting in bronze as his primary method for creating sculpture. Working with professional foundries such as Noack in Berlin, this process allowed Moore to increase the scale of his work, notably to almost 6m high and over 8m long, for his Reclining Figure for the Lincoln Centre in New York made in 1963-65. Later in the decade, Moore experimented with new materials such as polystyrene and fibreglass, which provided further opportunities to increase the scale and speed of production of sculpture and
expanded the scope to site works outdoors. The 1960s were a particularly creative and inventive phase of Moore’s career in which his generally figurative work of the post-war period gave way to more abstract ideas, many of which explore thinner, sharper, ‘knife-edge’ sculptures, compact and interlocking forms or works with powerful,
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wider enjoyment and opportunities in the arts. He died in Perry Green in 1986. Now an exhibition at Perry Green, Henry Moore: The Sixties will present a fascinating insight into Moore’s life and work during this pivotal decade. In the 1960s, Moore embraced new materials and techniques which enabled him to work on an increasingly monumental scale. He incorporated a greater degree of abstraction in his work and satisfied an enormous global demand for his art, which sometimes generated controversy.
Above: Henry Moore, Helmet Head No.3 (LH 467) Photo: Nigel Moore Right: Henry Moore, Moon Head (LH522) Photo: Jaron James Reproduced by permission of the Henry Moore Foundation
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projecting points. It was often organic forms inspired by nature that Moore felt suited the greatest enlargement. During this period, he produced over two hundred sculptures, seen as some of the most original and iconic of his career.
GRAPHICS As the 1960s progressed, Moore’s fame continued to grow thanks to an everexpanding list of exhibitions, commissions, publications, awards and honours. In a decade defined by social and cultural change, Moore’s powerful abstract forms, and arguably neutral subject matter, proved popular in Europe and America. As well as producing sculpture to meet this demand, Moore began working on several graphic portfolios, which were eagerly awaited by collectors. Moore’s celebrity and the proliferation of his sculptures in public settings around the world generated a degree of controversy, especially amongst other artists. Having been recognised as an avant-garde artist during the 1930s, some now saw his sculpture as old-fashioned and a younger generation
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were concerned his presence cast too great a shadow. The exhibition will feature press coverage from the 1960s revealing the range of reactions to Moore’s work. A programme of events will accompany the exhibition. Henry Moore: The Sixties Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire 1st April – 30th October 2022 www.henry-moore.org Right: H enry Moore with the polystyrene and plaster enlargement for Knife Edge Two Piece 1962-65 (LH 516), in the Plastic Studio, Perry Green c.1962 Photo: John Hedgecoe Bottom Left: The plasters for Henry Moore, Large Standing Figure Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482a) and Standing Figure Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482) in the Plastic Studio at Perry Green. Photo: Errol Jackson Bottom Right: H enry Moore checks the plaster version of Double Oval 1966 (LH 560) in the Plastic Studio at Perry Green, 1967. Photo: John Hedgecoe Reproduced by permission of the Henry Moore Foundation
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WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
The game of golf began in Scotland, so it’s fitting that some of the most luxurious venues to play are now in the land of tartan
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to folk history Mary, Queen of Scots played there in 1567. Scotland has produced more than its fair share of world-class players, including Paul Lawrie, Colin Montgomerie, Sandy Lyle and Ayrshire-born Sam Torrance OBE, who won 21 European Tour titles over three decades and went on to become one of Europe's most beloved Ryder Cup captains when he led the side to victory at The Belfry. Today, there are over 550 golf courses in Scotland, many of them clustered along a short stretch of coastline running from Largs to Ayr, which encompasses some of the
finest links courses in the world: Turnberry, Royal Troon, Kilmarnock Barassie, Old Prestwick, Bogside, Glasgow and Western Gailes among them. One of the newest and most luxurious golf venues is Trump International Scotland, at Menie Estate, Balmedie, Aberdeenshire. The Estate consists of over 1400 acres of beautiful meadows, woodland and coastline, abundant with wildlife including deer, swans, owls, rabbits, birds and Highland cattle. Previously a hunting estate, the grounds have a rich and interesting history for all guests and visitors to enjoy. www.artsandcollections.com
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SPECTACULAR For golfers, the great attraction is the course itself, designed by Dr Martin Hawtree, whose father and grandfather before him designed and laid out many courses worldwide. Trump International Golf Links embraces mile after mile of spectacular Aberdeenshire coastline and guarantees the experience of a lifetime. With its dramatic North Sea backdrop, the award-winning championship course offers breath-taking scenery and an unparalleled test of golf. Golfers and guests are guaranteed the experience of a lifetime with unrivalled beauty, hospitality and sensational golf. The breath-taking 7,400 yard course follows a classical pattern of two out-andback loops of nine, with six to eight tees on every hole, providing a phenomenal challenge for golfers of all levels of ability. For those looking to hone their skills, the property also features the largest practice facilities in the land including a twenty-twoacre driving range with north and south facing tees, an extensive short game area and 3,500 square metre putting green. And of course the 19th hole, the most important of all, is where players get to enjoy the real luxury of Scottish hospitallity. The Dunes Restaurant & Bar and Champions Lounge located in the glorious five-star granite clubhouse offer relaxation and informal dining for all. Mahogany, tweed and luxurious velvets are features of the beautifully designed clubhouse that lies at the heart of the golf facilities. Traditional Scottish fare and tempting clubhouse classics are served with imagination and flair throughout the day, and the vibrant Pro-shop offers exclusive seasonal lines designed to delight golfers and guests alike.
For lovers of fine food, good wine and Scotch malt, MacLeod House offers outstanding, authentic Scottish hospitality. The stunning Clavis Whisky Bar houses an extensive selection of Scottish and International malt whiskies, carefully selected from the world’s leading producers. Rare and highly sought-after releases sit alongside much-loved favourites and traditional Scottish brands giving guests a unique choice of liquors to sample and savour. The exceptional culinary team create bespoke menus featuring exclusive estate produce to suit every taste including
quintessential Scottish breakfasts and much-loved favourites. With its secret stairways, traditional log fires and spectacular grounds, the lavish baronial mansion provides a secluded and tranquil location for woodland walks and easy access to the sandy-white beachline. Whether for exclusive use for family and friends, business, or a short get away, this charming historic property is a rare gem and a destination in itself, not just a new must-visit destination for golfers. www.trumpgolfscotland.com
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COMFORT For those lucky enough to stay the night, luxurious accommodations can be found nestled in the grounds of the ancient woodland estate. The five-star exclusive MacLeod House & Lodge provides sumptuous guestroom guaranteeing luxury and comfort, and the exquisite nineteenbedroom country house and lodge are adorned with opulent furnishings, fine linens and Italian marble en-suites with deep soaking tubs, mini-bars and Sky TV, not to mention the deluxe robes, slippers and quality amenities that are synonymous with the brand. www.artsandcollections.com
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TO PALMA And the Sea
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The Superyacht Village, formerly called the Palma Superyacht Show, featured some of the finest 24m+ superyachts currently on the international brokerage and charter market. The Superyacht Village also included a dedicated Refit & Repair area aimed at the yachting industry’s experts and professionals. Another huge attraction was the Village’s wide array of shore-side exhibitors, showcasing anything from the latest advancements in sail design to next-level marine electronics. The Balearic vice-president and councillor for Energy Transition, Productive Sectors and Democratic Memory, Juan Pedro Yllanes,
explained that “sailing is a strategic sector for industry and the economy of the Balearic Islands. The marine industry is part of the economic diversification strategy and the commitment to quality tourism, linked to an industrial sector that has a turnover of around 840 million euros a year, generates more than 4,500 direct jobs and has almost 650 companies”. The PIBS is the setting for presentations of new products and boats on a global scale, as it is the first boat show of this year’s season and many shipyards choose Palma to present their new models. Noteworthy this year was the growth of the hybrid or electric boat
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The Palma International Boat Show is one of the highlights of the international yachting calendar. What delights awaited the seafarer this year?
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condition following a multi-million euro refit in 2020, as well as her five-year Lloyd’s survey. This included a new main engine, two new generators, PLC system, Inmarsat VSAT dome, 505 Williams tender, Doyle sails and Reckmann rigging. The interior and exterior furnishings have been recovered, all surfaces and marble has been professionally cleaned and coated. The teak decks have also been professionally sanded. No expense has been spared to bring this yacht to market in pristine order for a new owner. Asking price is EUR 6,950,000, charter rrate from EUR 60,000 per week.
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segment, as well as the many sustainable products that are compatible with protecting the sea. As an example of the commitment of the yachting industry to sustainability, Medvolt Marine presented the first electric ‘llaüts’ shipyard on the island, with its M7 model (seen below right). A typical Mallorcan boat which combines tradition and the latest technologies based on the typical Mallorcan ‘llaüt’, the most modern design and manufacturing techniques available today have been applied along with the development of a 100 percent electric motor.
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HIGHLIGHTS A highlight of the Superyacht Village was the Burgess stand at SY25 (www. burgessyachts.com). The Burgess team was on hand throughout the show to discuss any superyacht requirements, and had a number of yachts on display. Among the most eyecatching was La Luna, a 53.2m (174.5ft) ketch-rigged sailing yacht with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure constructed to ABS classification and MCA compliance. Delivered in 1997 by Perini Navi with inhouse interior and exterior design, she was most recently refitted in 2017 and presents in fine condition. Particularly special features include the unique circular ‘big-top’ circus lounge on the main deck with 270-degree views, lounge, dining for 10 guests and situp bar. La Luna has an asking price of EUR 15,995,000 and a charter rate from EUR 175,000 per week. www.artsandcollections.com
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Another stunner from Burgess was Imagine, (seen on the opposite page), a 44.2m (145ft) performance cruising yacht with an aluminium hull and superstructure constructed to Lloyd’s classification by New Zealand’s Alloy Yachts and delivered in 2010. Her exteriors and engineering are by Dubois Naval Architects, interiors by Misa Poggi and she was most recently refitted in 2020. The uncompromising approach to design and build also apply to fit-out: from her Southern Spars carbon mast and ECsix carbon rigging to her North Sails and Reckmann furlers, she has the best of everything. Imagine’s asking price is EUR 19,450,000. Also from Burgess, Norfolk Star is a 37m (121.4ft) Perini Navi sailing yacht in superb
Finally from Burgess, SPIIP is a 34.1m (112ft) performance sloop delivered in 2000 by Royal Huisman with hull and exterior design by Germán Frers and interiors by Winch Design in collaboration with Oliver Sterling. Her hull and systems are commercial craft ABS-classified. Delivered as Unfurled, SPIIP won the Best Sailing Yacht in the 23-36m category at the International Superyacht Society Awards 2001, and since then has enjoyed success on the superyacht sailing circuit, winning the Antigua Superyacht Challenge and the St Barth’s Bucket in 2017. She welcomes six guests in one master suite and two convertible cabins. Asking price is EUR 5,300,000. With the yachting world back in full swing, it seems there’s never been a better time to take to the waves. https://palmainternationalboatshow.com
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LIFE IN BRONZE Sculptor Hamish Mackie brings to life the animal kingdom through the medium of bronze sculpture. We pay a visit to his Oxfordshire workshop
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amish Mackie’s home and studio in Oxfordshire is full of life; but there are no flesh-and-blood animals to be seen. The leaping, twisting figures of deer, lions, hares and birds are all captured in bronze. Notable for their attention to details and extraordinary sense of movement, Mackie’s works are immediately recognisable; they adorn grand gardens and public spaces around the world, from Blenheim Palace to the White House. And indeed, Mackie’s work takes him and his portable studio, which packs away into travel cases, all around the world to study his subjects. Mackie usually works in clay, building up his sculptures around supporting armatures to create a maquette. The eventual bronze castings are made at the Lockbund Foundry near Banbury. Hamish Mackie’s professional career as a sculptor began in 1996 during his first visit to Africa, though he had spent years studying wildlife all over the world, from Australia, India, Antartica, and the Middle
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East to Europe and Africa. He says that observing animals in their natural habitat is essential to understanding their physical and instinctive traits. “I feel so honoured to have spent time with these extraordinary, sometimes critically endangered, species” he says. “For wildlife artists and sculptors like myself, the natural world is what inspires our work. Only through conservation will they survive for future generations.” The passion of Mackie’s connection to his subjects perhaps accounts for the intense dynamic quality to his work. Many of his compositions challenge the structural limits of what is possible with lost-wax casting, and his successful 25year partnership with Lockbund Foundry he describes as ‘symbiotic’.
LOVE OF NATURE Born in 1973, Hamish grew up on a livestock farm in Cornwall, and attended Radley College and Falmouth School of Art, before going on to study design at
Kingston University. His connection with nature is apparent in his everyday life. He works from his studio in Oxfordshire, when not en plein air. Since his last solo exhibition in 2016, Mackie has been awarded the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association’s Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture and Fountains for his Goodman’s Fields Horses. In 2020 his solo exhibition was cancelled due to the pandemic, but he produced a new catalogue of work, Life in Bronze, described as ‘a celebration of our relationship with the natural world’. Author and naturalist Stephen Moss said of the exhibition: “Connecting with nature is, paradoxically, one thing that makes us human. We do so through many different media – I am a writer, my toolbox a computer and my material words. So I have nothing but admiration for those who convey their love of nature through the visual arts: painting, drawing or, in Hamish Mackie’s case, sculpture. Leaf through his past and present catalogues and I defy
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you not to be entranced by his work. His animals seem to exist not simply in the three dimensions in which they are created, but also in a fourth – time. “A roe deer amongst the bluebells, alert to some hidden danger, glances over its shoulder for the predator that never comes. Two boxing hares caught in the instant when they connect – not rival males, as many people think, but a female testing out her suitor to see if he is made of the right
stuff. And that sublime woodcock, one foot almost lifted off the forest floor, all beak and pot-bellied body. “Yet like all great art, this is an illusion. There are no deer, hares or woodcock; simply bronze, fashioned into these memorable moments caught in time, yet lasting for eternity. “It is a kind of magic: yet magic in a tangible form, pleasing our sight and our sense of touch.”
CHALLENGE Living animals are not the only subjects of Mackie’s work: he says of his largescale sculptures of ammonites, “I have happy memories of fossil-hunting on the Jurassic coast as a child. Finding the preserved remains of ancient life filled me with wonder. Fossils have remained an inspiration. I believe they would have formed part of man’s earliest art collections.” The ammonites presented a new challenge for Lockbund Foundry - Mackie says “Lockbund Foundry have always said to me, ‘You sculpt it, we’ll figure out how to cast it.’ This was really put to the test with my stainless-steel ammonites. A bronze furnace would have melted at the temperature required to liquify stainless steel, but true to form, Lockbund Foundry rose to the challenge. They built an induction tilt furnace capable of withstanding the high temperatures needed to deal with stainless steel.” You can see Hamish Mackie’s work including the Monumental Hares and Stainless Steel Turtles on his stand, RHW/292 at the top of the main gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show from 24th28th May.
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Catalogue available, get in touch if you would like to be sent one. Sculptures shipped worldwide directly from my UK studio. www.hamishmackie.com • hamish@hamishmackie.com • + 44 (0) 7971 028 098
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METACASK 88: Year of the Dragon NFT A Macallan 1988 Scotch Whisky Cask with Digital Artwork Label: Secured on the Blockchain
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THE LIQUID ASSET Whisky has a fascinating history and an unending lure for the collector and investor. We share a drop with some experts in the field
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he whisky market is one of superlatives, with the skill and effort that goes into manufacturing the magical substance matched only by the breath-taking results when fine examples come up for auction. Indeed, whisky is often cited as a more certain investment than assets such as shares and precious metals. Its popularity as an investment is also a result of rare bottles becoming more accessible due to the nature of online auction houses such as Whisky Auctioneer, which has shown that the online auction model can not only compete with, but often outperform traditional auction houses. Whisky Auctioneer says that its business has gone from strength to strength as international interest in whisky continues to soar, and sales have broken several world records in recent years. In 2021, Whisky Auctioneer became the first online auction to sell a bottle of whisky for £1million (The Macallan 1926 Fine and Rare 60 Year Old), and the company opened a new base in Germany, as a result of increased interest and passion for whisky across the continent. “With more people looking to diversify their investment portfolio, whisky tends to be an attractive choice for collectors due to its ability to inspirit all five senses. Valued characteristics are also very similar to those associated with other collectible assets such as provenance, rarity, quality and limited editions” says Whisky Auctioneer. “One of our most important roles is to lift the veil on what can seem mysterious to those new to the spirit, and to uncover the stories behind bottles. Each bottle provides insight into a unique timestamp of liquid history and the people that produced it, and we bring that story to our ever-increasing numbers of customers.” “We have seen well over a third of a million bottles come through our auctions, and with that comes expert knowledge and experience across the team and within our authentication databases. This gives collectors peace of mind, trust and clarity when they use our platform no matter where they are across the globe” says Whisky Auctioneer. In 2021, Whisky Auctioneer ran the world’s first-ever Summit of Collectibility, which brought industry leaders and experts
together to pioneer a discussion around modern collectors and the future of whisky within the secondary market.
SECURITY And Macinnes agrees that whisky has often proven to be a sound investment during periods of economic decline. However, it is whisky casks, Macinnes says, that specifically offer the security and consistency of positive investments, providing an average return of between 10% - 25% per annum, with the benefit of no capital gains tax payable on any profit made so long as you leave the cask within bond). Macinnes illustrates the growth of the whisky cask industry with the recent sale
of a cask of 1988 Macallan for £1,007,050 including buyers premium, a cask originally purchased for just £5,000. The 374-litre cask distilled at The Macallan in Craigellachie, Moray on 5th May 1988 had been forgotten about for more than three decades after it was bought by an expat. Its sale price far exceeded the previous 2019 auction record for a cask of Macallan at £444,000. If bottled today, the cask would yield 534x70cl bottles of single malt whisky. A private buyer from the United States secured the cask for $1,295,000 (£1,017,000), smashing the previous record set in 2021 by Bonhams for the sale of a 30-year-old, re-racked, Sherry hogshead from Macallan, which sold for $574,000 (£439,000).
Right: Bottles like this 1926 Macallan regularly set records for Whisky Auctioneer
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Macinnes says that cask investment isn’t just for collectors and keen whisky enthusiasts, it offers a viable alternative for anyone looking to start investing or diversify their investment portfolio. Finding a team you can trust to provide you with the right information and to help you manage your investment is essential in a growing market. Macinnes Whisky is an HMRC accountant-run company selling brandname Scotch whisky casks rather than trade names, meaning you can purchase casks that you would see on your local supermarket shelves, making it easier for you to track their increasing value. Jonathan Hook, founder of Macinnes and registered under WOWGR (Warehousekeepers and Owners of Warehoused Goods Regulations), wants to provide the opportunity to invest in scotch whisky casks to those outside of the ‘inner circle’, sharing his and his team’s knowledge to provide a smooth investment experience from purchase to sale whether you invest in one cask or a hundred.
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Isabel Graham-Yooll, auction director for Whisky.Auction, says: “The whisky market is thriving more vigorously than ever with many well publicised record-breaking sales. In May we sold an exceptionally rare bottle of The Macallan 1957 Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky, one of just 15 bottles produced, for a hammer price of £180,000. We have also seen a wonderful renaissance in the appreciation of rare whisky miniatures. Bidders are willing to pay what seems like a lot of money for tiny bottles, but it is the opportunity to taste a piece of history – particularly when standard 70cl or 75cl formats have become inaccessible for many enthusiasts to buy. “Prices might seem eye-watering at first glance, but as whisky enthusiasts we place immense value on its history, and the opportunity it provides to experience the past in a unique and remarkable way. Tasting an old whisky is the closest thing there is to time travel. The whisky market has never been stronger. It’s difficult to know where trends will lead but right now interest in whisky is flying - there has been steady and incremental growth for years.” Also coming up for auction is the world’s largest bottle of Scotch whisky, The Intrepid, which stands at 5ft 11 inches tall and is
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filled with a record-breaking 311 litres of 32-year-old The Macallan, the equivalent of 444 standard bottles. It’s set for auction by Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh in May, and may break the world record for the most expensive bottle of whisky ever sold, currently standing at $1.9m. After maturing in two sister casks in The Macallan’s Speyside warehouse for 32 years, the exclusive liquid was bottled last year by Duncan Taylor Scotch Whisky, one of the leading independent whisky bottling companies. A small number of exclusive bottle sets were also produced, comprising a collection of 12 bottles filled with the remaining 32-year old The Macallan whisky. In May 2022, one of the world’s most vaunted private label bourbons, Van Winkle 1975 Special Reserve 19 Year Old for Corti Brothers, was offered at auction by Whisky Auctioneer. It featured as part of their latest landmark American whiskey sale, which included expressions practically impossible for modern collectors to get their hands on today. The dedicated auction presented over 600 rare and collectible American whiskeys and over 60 exclusively selected barrel picks, celebrating the emergence of private barrel selections, a formative stamp on the growth in collectible American whiskey.
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EXCLUSIVITY Other highlights included a private barrel select never offered at an online auction before: the Pappy Van Winkle 1984 Family Reserve 23-Year-Old Single Barrel selected by the Kentucky Barrel Society and was distilled at the Stitzel-Weller distillery in 1984. Joe Wilson, head curator and spirits specialist at Whisky Auctioneer, says: “Curated from two private collections, this auction celebrated the pioneering barrel selections of connoisseurs in the 1980s that set the tone for the modern demand for private barrel picks. These historic bottlings have garnered coveted status among whiskey collectors. Not only have their older bourbon selections gained a legendary reputation for their flavour, but each expression also benefits from the cachet of its rarity.” Last year, A Century of American Whiskey smashed auction estimates to achieve an overall hammer price that broke $1million. And this interest in American whiskey shows no sign of slowing down - Whisky Auctioneer has recorded a 600% increase www.artsandcollections.com
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in the volume of whiskeys from the USA featuring in its auctions between 2016 and 2020, with value increasing by over 900% in the same time-period. American whiskey is now holding status alongside its Scotch counterpart in the collecting world and secondary market. Whisky Auctioneer says that it is one of the hottest segments on the secondary market right now with the value of these bottles rising explosively year on year. Of particular note are private barrel selects (where third parties, such as retailers, bars, whiskey clubs, or individuals, sample various casks and select their favourite interpretation of the brand to sell as an exclusive offering). The secondary market value for some private barrel picks is drastically outstripping their equivalent core product offerings. Whisky companies are also at the forefront of new technology. Last year, Metacask, a premier marketplace for the sale of whisky cask NFTs, announced a partnership with renowned artist Trevor Jones to develop its first NFT for auction, The Angel’s Share. Metacask co-founder Nim Siriwardana said: “Metacask is leading the way in digital
Above: The Intrepid, the world’s largest bottle of whisky, is coming up for auction
ownership of physical assets. Metacask is uniquely positioned to enable ownership and provenance of spirits-based assets, such as maturing casks of whisky and bottled spirits. Metacask improves upon the existing, outdated ownership mechanisms, by use of blockchain technology, specifically NFTs. “Built on the environmentally friendly Casper blockchain, the Metacask platform allows efficient NFTs to be created to prove ownership. This is combined with a revolutionary ‘know-your-client’ system to ensure all participants are verified, providing a safe space for brands to deploy their products. “Metacask is building with a longterm view for the space, a model for how blockchain technologies can be deployed to improve existing processes and systems with complete transparency and immutability.” Whether for tasting or investment, whisky will continue to be a collectors’ dream - an asset combining fascinating history with a desirability that only increases with age. ARTS & COLLECTIONS 59
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Through Adversity The Sony World Photography Awards 2002 have brought out the usual astonishing selection of images. We highlight some of the most impressive BY MANNY BERHANU adversity to get their work. How different it would’ve been if we’d not had COVID - there would’ve been different, more interesting, varied work from other parts of the world - but it still is true that if you can photograph well whilst outside your front door, you’re halfway there.” There’s no doubt that the conditions during lockdown have affected the theme of the works if not the quality. Mike Trow says of the piece that affected him most: “I think the really powerful one of the prisoners in the Columbian prison is a super powerful image. If you
really look into it, it’s almost like looking back at a navy ship 300 years ago with prisoners in there, so for me that is an outstanding image.” Adam Ferguson (Australia) won the Photographer of the Year title and accompanying $25,000 (USD) cash prize and a range of Sony digital imaging kit. There were also second and third prizes in the Professional competition, as well as ten category winners, and winners in the Open, Student and Youth competitions. You can see the winners at worldphoto.org/virtualexhibition2022.
KUARUP Ricardo Teles Kuikuro fighters from Huka-Huka, Brazil present themselves for the final competition. © Ricardo Teles, Brazil, Winner, Professional, Sport, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
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or the first time since 2019, the public has been able to view the winning works in the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards in person. Arts & Collections asked curator and chair of the jury, Mike Trow, how much of an impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on this year’s photographic submissions. “I think it’s interesting how good the quality of work has been considering how tough COVID has been on the mental well-being of people and their families” he told us. “I think they’ve fought through
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ANGER MANAGEMENT Scott Wilson A wild mustang stallion kicks up a dust storm in northwestern Colorado © Scott Wilson, United Kingdom, Open Photographer of the Year, Open, Natural World & Wildlife (Open competition), 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
DORF 4 Domagoj Burilovi A photo montage of a historic village house and local forests and plants taken in the Croatian agricultural region of Slavonia. © Domagoj Burilovi , Croatia, Winner, Professional, Architecture & Design, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
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Tri Nguyen Taken in April 2021 in Hanoi, Vietnam. © Tri Nguyen, Vietnam, Youth Photographer of the Year, Youth, 2022 Youth competition - Portraiture, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
© Adam Ferguson, Australia, Photographer of the Year, Professional, Portraiture, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
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Adam Ferguson Edwardo Benavides, age 40 and his son Jonathon Benavides Reyes, age 9, are migrants from La Union, El Salvador.
A WORK FROM MELLOW APOCALYPSE SERIES 2 Alnis Stakle “The collages are grounded in my search for syntactic visual language connections pertaining to various periods, media and domains of visual culture.” © Alnis Stakle, Latvia, Winner, Professional, Creative, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards 64 ARTS & COLLECTIONS
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OBSERVING FOX Milan Radisics “Over eight months, I spent almost every night sitting at the window of my cottage in the middle of the forest – where wild animals live almost as neighbours of the villagers. The young vixen appears in the village after dusk... I named her Roxy.” © Milan Radisics, Hungary, Winner, Professional, Wildlife & Nature, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
VENEZUELAN MIGRANT, COLOMBIA 6 Jan Grarup A young girl being transported home by her dad along the garbage site, on the abandoned airstrip outside Maicao in Colombia.
KLEDERDRACHT VOLENDAM Ezra Bohm This traditional costume of Volendam, Holland is a masterpiece of Dutch culture © Ezra Bohm, Netherlands, Student Photographer of the Year, Student, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
© Jan Grarup, Denmark, Winner, Professional, Documentary Projects, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
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ART MANAGEMENT t r A g in g a n a M f o t The Ar
ollection or art management is one of the most indemand services for art collectors whose collection has reached a certain size or level of complexity. Specialists are needed to prevent short- or long-term damage to works of art, as well as to prevent the loss of time and money. An art advisor or gallery owner will often be unable to fill this role. Art management is inevitably a topic that the younger generation of collectors, who increasingly buy art online, also need to address. The global art market is now open to anyone who owns a smartphone or a computer. However, those who become involved find themselves facing ever more regulations. Particular attention therefore needs to be paid to the due diligence and creating seamless documentation of transactions. Here too, an art manager can assist the collector in putting in place the right processes to ward off unpleasant surprises when an artwork is resold or passed on to an heir at a later date.
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Ideally, an art manager is an art historian, registrar, curator and administrator with access to a large network of other specialists. Practical experience in handling art is just as essential as detailed expertise. Often, art managers act as confidants of the collector because they deal with highly personal and sensitive data. Trust and discretion are key values. The benefit on both sides is often a long-standing, sometimes decades-long collaboration. By creating an inventory of the collection, the art manager lays the foundation for all the other tasks. In doing so, he or she records all the important details of a work of art, its location and its condition, and also creates complete photo documentation. Digital art databases can provide lists and reports at the touch of a button, ideal for insurance and tax purposes. Running on a smartphone or tablet, these applications allow collectors to track their collection anytime and anywhere, from their holiday villa, an art show or a gallery.
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The database is an important tool, but it knows nothing about how a work of art is properly packed, how it is best transported, when it should be restored, what the proper lighting and temperature conditions are for its installation, or how it should be framed and presented. “We act like personal physicians who are responsible for the well-being, safety and survival of a work of art,” explains Birgit Gudat, Head of Art Management at KENDRIS. Continuous monitoring and documentation are required to avoid physical and also monetary losses. In particular, works of art of historical or cultural significance have a value that goes beyond the collection which currently houses them. A professional art manager will always strive to protect and preserve cultural heritage. The role of the art manager is to anticipate and address risks relating to its condition. As a rule, he or she is helped in this by restorers, specialists and art handlers. Some works of art require regular cleaning or pest protection, for example, when they contain wood, textiles or plant elements. Others can acquire rust that needs to be removed, or the ageing process may require the replacement of complete components. This demands expertise in preservation and also in the history of art. The latter is essential when it comes to the valuation of art or its provenance research. Financial services also find much favour with wealthy collectors. With art-backed loans, they can acquire liquidity by depositing
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their works of art as collateral. Such loans are offered not only by banks, but also by specialized companies and auction houses. An art manager who has experience in this highly specialized business will not only know the most important players but will also assist throughout the process with the preservation, administrative and logistical aspects. Full art management includes many other services that each require a different type of expertise. The purchase and sale of artworks, the preparation of loan applications, the setup of trusts and foundations, or estate planning, for example, all require legal expertise, tax expertise and VAT specialists. KENDRIS has an entire team that can assist with tailored processes for any art transaction. This reduces the risk for the collector of being exposed to fraud, forgery or loss, or of suffering reputational damage. Different skills and knowledge are needed at each stage of the collecting process. The focus at all times is on the art, for which a safe, stable and sustainable environment must be created.
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AN EXCLUSIVE SELECTION
Building an art collection isn’t just a matter of buy, display, repeat. Birgit Gudat, Senior Manager, Head Art Management at Kendris explains
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So how do you curate an art collection, as opposed to merely accumulating individual pieces? First and foremost, you should define your goal. Why are you collecting art? Is it to support young emerging artists, acting as a patron for up-and-coming talent? Are you investing your wealth for the benefit of future generations of your family? Are you looking for significant works to hang in your office in order to create a positive working environment? Or are you trying to improve your brand’s public image through art? Though widely varying, all these answers are equally valid - the important factor is that your aim must be clear, as this will hugely influence your collecting style. For example, a small corporate company wishing to modernize its public image may
be better off purchasing contemporary artworks rather than classical Renaissance paintings. But the increasing value of the works of contemporary artists cannot be guaranteed, while on the other hand, a private collector wishing to invest his wealth in art for the future generations of his family may be more inclined to buy works by established artists, whose market value is most likely to remain stable and predictable in the coming years.
BUY WHAT YOU LOVE Any art collection manager would tell you that buying artworks you love is always recommended – and it makes absolute sense if you will walk by them every day, in your house or in your office, rather than having them locked away in a vault.
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re you buying art, or building an art collection? Is it just a matter of entering a gallery, choosing a work of art, paying for it, and repeating the process numerous times until you have an art collection? It’s that easy, isn’t it? Well, of course not. Let’s look at why. This approach is indeed buying art - and, if your intent is purely buying a few pieces for your private apartment, there’s nothing wrong with it. However, if you’re aiming at building a meaningful art collection, you’ll need to dig much deeper than that. Creating an art collection is a very selective, curated way of buying art. You’re not randomly purchasing eye-pleasing artworks any more, but carefully choosing exclusive works which fit into a unique art concept.
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However, a serious art collection requires a concept. This will be your guideline, your niche, your red thread between all your purchases, and it will help you purchase coherently towards your goal. For instance, the corporate company mentioned above could focus on contemporary works by emerging international artists. But it could also restrict this concept to sculptural or architectural works, while excluding paintings altogether. Of course it’s also vital to set a budget and keep your expectations realistic. You will not be able to buy an original, unique screen print by Andy Warhol with a budget of $5,000, no matter how much that masterpiece suits your collecting goal. However, an edition of the same work could be affordable. With a clear concept and budget in mind, it is time to do some research. Which artists fit your concept, budget and goal? Where are their works available for sale?
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Get in touch with artists, galleries or auction houses and ask for information. Read art magazines, visit exhibitions and art fairs to get an impression of current trends and market prices. It has been difficult to do this during the pandemic, but events are now opening up, and the growth of online auctions has only served to make a wider range of works available to a global audience. If you don’t know where to start or have no time for this, hire an art consultant. Researching works and proposing the most suitable ones to you is part of their job, and their contacts and market insights will be invaluable. Last but not least, arrange the logistics. Preserving the value of your artworks in the long term is as much part of the collecting process as it is buying them. As a matter of fact, the value of your art collection depends upon the care this receives after the purchase price is settled.
SUITABLE SPACE Think of the exhibition space for your collection: is it a suitable environment to preserve a work in good condition? Does it have constant temperature and humidity level? Are the works protected from direct sunlight? If not exhibited, is your collection stored in a proper warehouse? Do you have an inventory system? What about a nail-to-nail insurance? Do you have updated condition reports about the works? Do your works travel crated? Are your art handlers experienced? Is your collection regularly appraised? These so-called art logistics can be overwhelming, but nonetheless they are necessary. If you do not know where to start, ask for professional advice. In twenty years’ time, when your art collection is mature and your investment realised, you will be glad you did. www.kendris.com
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PRECIOUS METAL
One commodity seems to resist the fluctuations of the investment market - why does gold always seem to be a sure bet?
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sophisticated, with the investor often not needing to ever have contact with the precious stuff itself. Instead it is locked away in a vault and managed for them. You could choose to buy bullion, or coins, or to put your money into an ETF, or Exchange Traded Fund. At the extreme, you could choose to buy stocks or shares in mining companies; either way, the appeal of gold itself seems to be eternal.
RARITY Is this down to the historical significance of gold? Prized for its rarity and decorative qualities, gold was since ancient times recognised as a sign of wealth and power, and used as the basis of early forms of currency. Indeed, even in this era of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, some so-called ‘gold bugs’ argue that a currency should
still be based on the reliable gold standard. But these days, the use of gold in sophisticated electronics is more indicative of its market value - though a chunky gold watch is still prized as an outward show of affluence. Taken as an average over the last century, gold has proven to be a reliable investment asset, whether you put all your money into it, or use it to diversify your portfolio. It’s often regarded as a safe hedge against currency fluctuations and inflation, and in the current economic climate, there must be may investors who look with envy at the relative stability of the gold market. Ownership of gold also normally attracts no tax - another reason why you should talk to an investment advisor about putting your trust and your funds into this most precious metal.
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rends in investment may come and go - the currently fashionable one is NFTs, but these intangible assets may turn out to be a flash in the pan. Two investments turn out to be reliable standbys, one being, of course property, despite the ups and downs of the housing market. Rather more reliable perhaps is gold, which is constantly tipped by investment advisors. There are very good reasons for this. While gold values on the international markets may go up and down in the short term, over the years, or even decades, gold always seems to be a sure bet. Part of the reason why gold continues to be a top tip is that you can invest in it in many forms. Gone are the days when misers kept gold bullion under their beds; the gold market is now extremely
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Let There be
LIGHTING
Displaying works of art in a sympathetic way requires a unique understanding of lighting techniques. The experts from TM Lighting illuminate us...
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TM Lighting was appointed to work with lighting designer BDP to light all of the works ahead of the opening of Disney’s Frozen at the theatre in late August 2021. More than 100 pieces have been lit with individually focused lighting in order to accurately draw out vibrancy of colour with even light distribution. The diverse collection, from PreRaphaelite works by Edward Burne-Jones to contemporary paintings by Maria Kreyn,
has been ‘brought to light’ through TM Lighting’s project, the largest ever carried out in a theatre. All of the works were lit with a customised TM Classic Picture Light, demonstrating the product’s dexterity to light across subjects and spaces. Within the Wyatt Staircases, however, Andrew Lloyd Webber preferred for there to be no interruption to the architectural features surrounding two 18th century works depicting Shakespearean scenes.
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he refurbishment of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane has created a dramatic jewel in London’s famed West End. The theatre is now unique not only for its pedigree, but also for its art collection. Andrew Lloyd Webber, the famed composer and impresario, has installed highlights from his own collection throughout the building, combining a leading private collection within a public theatre space in a way that has never been done before.
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Here, TM Lighting used GalleryOneFifty lights suspended from the staircase above to work as picture lights for these paintings, highly focussing the lighting to ensure there was no light spill onto the frame or surrounding walls.
NATURAL The Edward Burne-Jones paintings are considered to be the most significant works in the collection, and they were installed in a South Coffee Room, off the theatre’s Grand Saloon. As a west-facing room, the space is flooded with natural light each evening, and it was important to retain control over the hierarchies of light within the room. Elsewhere in the theatre, where natural light was not in abundance, such as the King’s Box, TM Lighting’s products provided an ambient light that was allowed to flow beyond the canvas and into the rest of the room. American artist Maria Kreyn was commissioned by Andrew Lloyd Webber to create eight works especially for the theatre reopening, each visualising a Shakespearean scene. Grouped into two sets of four, they were placed on opposite wings of the foyer so that they would be the first works on canvas that visitors would see when entering the theatre. Each was lit with a TM Classic Picture Light so that the vibrancy and action inherent in the works shone through and the pieces could truly ‘perform’ as they were intended in their spaces. Five 19th century sculptures, each depicting a famous playwright, were moved to the central foyer bar from elsewhere in the theatre with William Shakespeare taking centre stage. To create the effect of these playwrights as actors, each was brightly illuminated with TM ZeroThirty spotlights, discreetly installed on nearby lamps and focussed to cast light from distances of up to five metres. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s specifications regarding the lighting of these sculptures were precise. He requested they be lit as though they were on stage – using light to create drama in their facial features and cast shadows dramatically behind.
Left: Wyatt Staircase, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, photography by Andrew Beasley
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Top: South Coffee Room, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, photography by Andrew Beasley Below: The Londoner, photography by Andrew Beasley
VOLUMES Meanwhile The Londoner, the capital’s first ‘super boutique’ hotel, opened its doors in September 2021. The £300m project has created a truly spectacular hotel experience, offering 16 floors of luxury hospitality in the form of 350 bedrooms and six restaurants and bars, along with two cinemas and a subterranean spa. TM Lighting was appointed to supply specialist art lighting for the hotel. The art collection throughout the expansive layout of the hotel plays a central role in The Londoner’s interiors, all situated within a structure designed to be an artwork in itself.
The Yabu Pushelberg-designed building houses a collection put together by James Robertson Art Consultants, and Inverse Lighting Design was employed to create different moods throughout the large-scale project. TM Lighting was appointed to bring these designs into fruition, employing not only its UK-leading art lighting expertise but its ability to fulfil large-volume orders too, and supplied over 2000 lights for the project. Every space in The Londoner is differentiated by distinct styles of lighting, whether it be the Japanese izakaya rooftop terrace, the intimate Whisky Bar or the appropriately named Gallery suite of meeting rooms (each named after a famous London ARTS & COLLECTIONS 73
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institution such as the National Gallery and Royal Academy). The Londoner’s designers intended to make the visual experience of this hotel unlike any other, and TM Lighting’s involvement was pivotal to bringing to life the detail in the interiors, the vibrancy of colour of the artworks and the special materials used in the building. TM Lighting’s high quality of light was essential for this. It only manufactures high colour rendition LED lighting greater than 97 CRI, which, when installed, enabled the building and its art collection to be shown at its best. The wall artworks in Whitcomb’s, the hotel’s all-day dining restaurant, are illuminated with ZeroSixty surface mounted spotlights, illuminating Tina Lechner black and white photography and Frida Wannerberger black ink portraits. The monochromatic nature of the artworks required focused spotlighting to ensure each piece was highlighted with a soft pool of light, drawing the eye around the room to appreciate all the works of art.
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and here it applied specialist antique bronze and antique brass finishes to its lights in order to make them to blend seamlessly with the interior. Twenty antique bronze-plated ZeroSixty track lights illuminate the Y-shaped marble bar in the centre of The Residence’s Y Bar, creating a central focal point in the space that is complimented by the Andrew Rae comic illustrations that are lit each evening. In the adjacent Drawing Room, ZeroSixty accent lights are used to great effect to entirely change the mood of the space between day and night. Brass metal rods in the daytime give way to vibrant murals of Hampstead Heath in the evening. A TM SlimLight PRO was installed in every room to illuminate the contemporary prints. Each picture light was discretely placed in a panel attached to the ceiling
to hide the picture light from view while achieving its illumination effect. It also supplied stalk-mounted, ZeroThirtyOne spotlights, which operate as direct reading lights suspended from the ceiling. The TM SlimLight PRO was installed and focused for each artwork displayed in the guest corridors and stairwells, illuminating prints by leading contemporary artists such as Antony Gormley and Marc Quinn. The character inherent in the hotel has been augmented by a rich art collection and exceptional design features, expertly lit by TM Lighting with its versatile, high CRI lighting products. In The Londoner, TM Lighting has carried out one of its biggest projects to date, supporting the creation a new cultural icon in London’s hospitality sector. https://tmlighting.com
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COLLECTIONS // BOOKS
BOOK REVIEWS From the art of furniture to the complications of watches, and avante-garde design to railway history, we present a portfolio of unmissable volumes for your library and reading room.
WATCHES
Subtitled “A Complete History of the Technical and Decorative Development of the Watch”, this is a long-awaited reprint of an important illustrated reference work on the general history of the watch from 1500 to 1980, first published in 1965 and expanded in 1979. Now unchallenged in its coverage of both decorative and mechanical aspects of midsixteenth to late twentieth century watches, including those by George Daniels himself, and featuring over 600 illustrations, the 320pp volume from Philip Wilson Publishers is an essential work of reference and history for collectors.
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Ingrid Pollard | MK Gallery/PWP, £30 www.bloomsbury.com The accompanying catalogue to Ingrid Pollard’s major exhibition of the same name at MK Gallery, this is the first major survey of the work of the contemporary British artist and photographer. “Ingrid Pollard’s work slows down our looking to create space to consider alternative formations of history and landscape. This is a profound and timely exploration of this vital British artist” says Maria Balshaw, Director at the Tate. From stark landscapes to revelatory portraits of performers and sportsmen, a timely survey of the Guyana-born artist’s work. 76 ARTS & COLLECTIONS
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BAUHAUS - A GRAPHIC NOVEL Valentine Grande, Sergio Varbella | Prestel, £18.99 www.penguinrandomhouse.com
This unusual graphic novel (don’t call it a comic!) recounts the history of the avantegarde Bauhaus art and design movement which arose in the wake of World War I. Visually arresting illustrations and engaging texts place the novel’s protagonist squarely in the middle of the twentieth-century debate on the relationship between technology and culture. Sergio Varbella’s inventive drawings bring to life the theories of founder Walter Gropius, as well as the basic design ideals of unity and equity, while Valentina Grande’s thoughtful texts highlight crucial moments within the movement’s history and in the lives of principal figures such as Klee, Kandinsky and Albers. A good primer, or refresher.
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Cecil Clutton, George Daniels | Bloomsbury, £95 www.bloomsbury.com
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SAN FRANCISCO
Reuel Golden, Richie Unterberger | Taschen, £50 www.taschen.com This latest in Taschen’s ‘portraits of a city’ is an epic pictorial history of the City by the Bay. Since the mid-19th century this unique and lyrical Northern Californian City has attracted artists, free spirits, dreamers, and entrepreneurs. Close to 500 pages of stunning images sourced from dozens of archives and collections, together with multilingual text, depict the city from its early history to the present day. Also available in two limited art editions with signed prints by Fred Lyon at £1,250.
THE GRAND TOUR Mike Rendell | Shire, £8.99 www.shirebooks.co.uk
Bloomsbury’s Shire imprint publishes a charming and eclectic range of titles exploring British history and heritage, including this slim, readable, richly illustrated account of the ‘gap year’ for the nobility of the 18th century. While these extended visits to the cultural centres of Venice, Rome and Paris were intended to apply ‘polish’ and an appreciation for fashion, opera and classical antiquity, they often gave way to gambling and debauchery. Yet the art and souvenirs from these travels often ended up forming the basis of the collections of grand country houses back home, themselves often modelled on European architecture. An educational and entertaining volume which might spark further reading.
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Kevin Nixon, Peter Lloyd | Capital Transport Publishing, £19.95. www.capitaltransport.com
This lavish self-published volume by Clive Edwards, Emeritus Professor of Design History at Loughborough University, is a deeply researched, thoroughly annotated and generously illustrated look at the work of the major 19th century furniture makers, interior decorators and designers from 1870-1900, covering the London ‘art furniture’ trade, the firm’s business growth, international exhibitions, and designs from unique exhibition pieces to interior decoration commissions in the AngloJapanese, Queen Anne, Old English, and Renaissance styles. A solid reference tool for those with an interest in furniture making and the decorative arts.
The colour and black-and-white images in this beautifully printed, surprisingly affordable 132-page volume, subtitled Photographs At The End of the Line, Line are by Kevin Nixon, well known as a photographer of live events and architecture. Capturing the often overlooked architectural details of London train stations in fascinating depth, usually shot while the quietness of lockdown gave unusual opportunities for shooting while nearly empty, the images are accompanied by brief histories of the stations by architectural writer Peter Lloyd introducing each chapter, and giving a helpful insight into how the commercial and political considerations of the time influenced the style and function of these still impressive feats of architecture.
Clive Edwards | Troubador, £45 www.troubador.co.uk
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The Love Story of
ART AND WINE The love story of art and wine is embodied in a project by San Marzano Wines which combines the two
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ramArt is a San Marzano Wines project that promotes the spontaneous union that exists between art and wine. It aims to be “a container for art and beauty”, with the intention of pursuing the idea that art is a free association of forms and meanings, creativity and aesthetic taste. The medium can be canvas or paper, ceramic or wood, concrete or glass. The result is an image, a sound or a melody capable of expressing dimensions and perceptions without boundaries or spaces. And if art, in this case, is painting, wine is the painter’s canvas.
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MINIMALISM The first chapter of TramArt was unveiled in spring 2021, in the form of a Limited Edition bottle of Tramari Rosé di Primitivo whose label was designed by painter Paul Kremer. Paul Kremer (b. Chicago, 1971) is a minimalist painter recognised worldwide; www.artsandcollections.com
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his geometric, minimal and conceptual style ties in with San Marzano’s idea of beauty, and elegance. The collaboration with gallery owner Angelo Milano (Studio Cromie Gallery, Grottaglie – TA, Italy) started the dialogue between San Marzano and Kremer, which began in 2019: the wine Tramari Rosé di Primitivo was the focus of the meeting and triggered the artist’s creative process. The result was the creation of a canvas inspired by Tramari and its transposition onto the label of San Marzano’s Rosé. From canvas to label is a short step - as if there were no end in sight, the strip of earth runs around the circumference of the bottle and gives movement, recalling the sinuosity of the liquid, while the fields of colour, though sharp, in their soft tones are almost a caress for the eye, reflecting Tramari’s light and delicate pink. The reference, as always with Tramari, is to the seas that surround the Italian region of Puglia, the narrow peninsula
that makes the heel of the Italian ‘boot’, between the seas (in Italian “tra i mari”) where the winery is located.
CHAPTER 2 The second chapter of TramArt is now being revealed. American painter Matt Kleberg’s work, selected for the new Limited Edition, balances between colourful abstraction and architectural elements. In San Marzano’s vision, his use of strong, earthy tones recalls the soil, the wild fields, the clear sky, the tuff-stone walls of the country houses typical of south Puglia. Also, the illusory depth of the space evoked by the arch-depicting canvas chosen for this project, jumping off the label, is a symbol of the landscape, of nature, difficult to capture with a photo but that can only be directly experienced, just like when looking at a painting. More on www.sanmarzano.wine ARTS & COLLECTIONS 79
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COLLECTIONS // WHERE TO SPEND IT
Where to
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From delicate jewellery to a stunning yacht, we present some desirable luxury collectables and fashionable fripperies for you to buy and enjoy
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AS I WALKED ALONG THE PROMENADE... Made in Italy, Valentino’s Garavani crochet sneakers certainly make a loud statement and would catch the eye on the promenade. Crafted in woven fabric, they feature a handmade upper section made from tubular fabric bands, and the tongue of the shoe includes a suede label with a Valentino Garavani rubber logo. Finished off with VLogo Signature detail on the heel, these trainers would be a very valuable addition to any shoe collection. The trainers are priced at £720. www.valentino.com
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BARE BONES BEAUTY This large-sized Santos de Cartier Skeleton watch makes the perfect gift for him. Measuring 28mm x 28mm, its robust black ADLC steel case holds the impeccable manualwinding Calibre 9612 MC at its centre, consisting of 138 individual parts including 20 jewels. The model, fitted with the “QuickSwitch” interchangeability system, also boasts 100-meter water resistance and features hours and minutes with skeletonised bridges forming Roman numerals, with luminescent material. In addition, it comes with a sevensided crown, set with a blue synthetic spinel, polished grey steel swordshaped hands, and sapphire crystal. Cost is £24,500 including VAT. www.cartier.com
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Inspired by the Bengal leopard, Boucheron’s Fuzzy pendant draws from the independence of the feline as much as the daring of the Boucheron workshops. Ears perked, pink gold coat studded with white and champagne diamonds, the muzzle with emerald-green eyes outlined in black lacquer speaks of strength and softness. A pendant on a thin rose gold chain, it transforms into jewellery sculpture to be worn like an endearing totem. Price is £19,850. www.boucheron.com
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BAG FOR LIFE The elegant and stylish designs of St Laurent are coveted across the world, and the Loulou shoulder bag shows just why that is. Made from 100% butter-soft leather in a range of colours, the bag features the signature interlaced metal YSL initials, front flap and Y-quilted overstitching, and an adjustable metal chain strap that can be worn doubled on the shoulder. Polished off to perfection, the bag also conveys its practical side with its two interior compartments separated by a zip pocket. Cost is £1,840. www.ysl.com
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With the Bartesian cocktail maker, you can experience the quality ingredients and premium pours you’d expect from a cocktail lounge in your own home – all at the touch of a button. Combine your favourite alcohol whether that be vodka, tequila, gin, rum, or whiskey with your desired Bartesian cocktail capsule and watch your cocktail poured to perfection. With this machine in your locker, you do not need to be an expert at making drinks. Cost is $369.99 www.bartesian.com
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ELECTRIC EXPERIENCE The all-new 2022 EQS is Mercedes’ first ‘all-in’ electric vehicle. Looks do not disappoint with its striking exterior lines and breathtakingly elegant interior, featuring leather upholstery, heated front and rear seats, a flat-bottomed sports steering wheel and two screens mounted on the dashboard, oozing comfort and class. But don’t be fooled by the comfort, as the EQS possesses plenty of power under the bonnet. It features a 107.8kWh battery and a 328bhp electric motor that achieves 0-62mph time of 6.2 seconds and a maximum range of 453 miles, yet provides a smooth and comforting ride. All in all, the EQS is another magnificent model to add to the many other stunning Mercs. The Mercedes EQS is priced at £99,995. www.mercedes-benz.co.uk
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LOOKING YOUR BEST Looking for some stylish yet comfortable sunglasses for the upcoming summer holidays? Well look no further than the Moscot Miltzen. The unisex shades, designed by NYC eyewear label Moscot, are handcrafted using Italian acetate and feature real glass lenses in calibar green, rounded off with Moscot temple engravings. As well as its classy design, it is also sturdy, fitted with two adjoined dot rivets and a three-barrel hinge. Sentimentally entitled after the family-owned businesses ‘Uncle Miltzen’, these shades will have you looking as highclass as can be. Cost is £305. www.moscot.com
WIDER AND DEEPER The HiFi Rose RA180 is a state-ofthe-art integrated stereo amplifier that goes far and beyond your average amplifier with its striking, distinct, retro-industrial aesthetics. Its technology includes nextgeneration Class AD (Advanced D) amplifier design that produces higher efficiency and output compared to previous models, and Gallium Nitride FETs in the amplification stage to deliver perfect linear output. Frequency range spans up to 100kHz to deliver a wide and deep sound stage that will enhance tracks you’ve already heard a thousand times over. It can be controlled through the IR remote control or through the RoseAmpConnect app, so if you are a music lover, look no further than this extraordinary piece of Korean engineering. Price is £5,499.00. www.hifirose.com
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avid Brown Automotive has launched a limited edition Mini Remastered Marshall Edition in collaboration with iconic audio equipment company, Marshall Amplification. Conceived to commemorate Marshall’s 60th anniversary, just 60 examples of these Mini Remastered models will be built. Each Mini Remastered Marshall Edition is distinguished from core examples by unique colour, materials and finishes, inspired by the styling of Milton Keynes-based Marshall’s iconic products, and will also be fitted with a number of unique touches that reflect the rich heritage of the brand. Design elements evoke the visual identity of the Marshall brand, while a comprehensive list of audio equipment is also installed – including a bespoke Marshall amplifier in the leather-lined boot (we’re not told whether, like Spı al Tap’s Marshall amps, it goes up to 11). 82 ARTS & COLLECTIONS
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CEO and Founder at David Brown Automotive, David Brown, said: “We’re proud to partner with Marshall Amplification. We are hugely influenced by music and to partner with such an iconic brand to create this very special Mini Remastered, and to help them celebrate 60 years in business, a momentous milestone, was an opportunity we didn’t want to pass on. It seems fitting to unite the classic Mini and Marshall – two British icons – and in doing so to inject the Mini, a favourite among music stars through the ages, with serious rock and roll appeal.”
ICONIC The cars will be finished in an exclusive ‘Marshall Black’ paint, complemented by dark-chrome exterior brightwork, offset by contrasting ‘Marshall Gold’ painted accents including a coachline to the roof, as well as a hand-painted coachline, pinstripes and
Marshall logos applied to the side doors. Jon Ellery, Managing Director at Marshall Amplification, said: “This project has caused great excitement at Marshall. Mini Remastered Marshall Edition is a truly stylish and fitting way of celebrating our diamond anniversary, uniting our iconic, proudly British brand with a stunningly reimagined version of an iconic design, likely Britain’s most loved car; it’s a perfect match. “We’re also thrilled to be supporting the Music Venue Trust with this partnership. It’s an organisation extremely close to our hearts at Marshall, and we’re looking forward to helping them continue their vital work, getting the independent venues, and the UK’s independent music scene back on their feet after the shock of the recent years.” www.davidbrownautomotive.com
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If British culture is celebrated for two things, they must be cars and music. Now a special edition Mini celebrates both, with iconic Marshall Amplifiers branding
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Time to Invest in The Holy Trinity of Watchmaking The three cornerstones of the industry, Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, and Vacheron Constantin make up what we call “The Holy Trinity of Watchmaking”.
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The Big 3 continue to set the standard in horology. At the forefront in terms of innovation and design, they showcase the art of watchmaking and take steps to keep competitors such as Rolex out of the running. Audemars Piguet, the youngest of the trio, creates some of the world’s most complicated and sophisticated watches. Since 1875, the brand has delivered inventive horological masterpieces. With multiple iterations of the Royal Oak keeping the brand in the spotlight, every Audemars Piguet watch is a combination of luxury, individuality, fine craftsmanship, superior quality materials and rich history. Patek Philippe, a favourite amongst collectors and investors, value understated elegance over flashiness. A true mark of confidence in the design, craftsmanship and heritage of the brand, a Philippe demands attention without having to ask. And, since it’s estimated that fewer than one million Patek Philippes have been created since 1839, the scarcity pedestal drives up the value even more. Vacheron Constantin makes for a smart investment. VC Is the longest continually running watch house in the world; it dates back to 1755. With some of the world’s most complicated timepieces in its portfolio, the brand has broken records and set standards throughout its long-standing history.
Praised for expertly blending the taste of the French with the technology of the Swiss, Vacheron Constantin is the master of understated design. The one to watch is the Overseas model, a high-end sports line introduced in 1996. Rivalling the AP Royal Oak and Patek Nautilus, we at Trilogy Jewellers anticipate the Overseas to blow up in terms of both price and popularity.
But which models should you add to your portfolio in 2022 to get not only a piece of history but a collector’s asset that’s expected to increase in value over time? Trilogy Jewellers is your secret weapon in the luxury timepiece space. With the means to source the ultra-rare timepieces that other jewellers can’t find, we unlock high-value watches from The Big 3 and other luxury brands.
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OSMIOR RETROGRADE PERPETUAL CALENDAR Automatic manufacture movement L411.2 Pink gold case 4N18K - 41,0mm Silver gold dial guilloche by hand
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