04 janvier 2015
Blue-and-white dish with a kylin, or horned creature, Yuan dynasty, 2nd half of the 14th century
Blue-and-white dish with a kylin, or horned creature, Yuan dynasty, 2nd half of the 14th century. Jingdezhen kilns, porcelain, with underglaze painting in cobalt-blue, 7.7 cm (height), 45.7 cm (diameter), at foot 31 cm estimated (diameter). Bequeathed by Professor A. H. Sayce, 1933. Accession no. EAX.1707. Ashmolean Museum © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
02 janvier 2015
First major museum exhibition in over 20 years of Egon Schiele’s work on view at the Courtauld Gallery
Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Standing Nude with Stockings, 1914. Black chalk and gouache, 48.5 x 32.1 cm. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremburg.
LONDON.- The Courtauld Gallery is presenting the first major museum exhibition in over 20 years of one of the 20th Century’s most exceptional artists, Egon Schiele (18901918). A central figure of Viennese art in the turbulent years around the First World War, Schiele rose to prominence alongside his avant-garde contemporaries, such as Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. He... [Lire la suite]