17 mai 2021
Later Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Sydney L. Moss Ltd sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong
In 1991 Sydney L. Moss Ltd. published “The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork”, an exhibition catalogue whose time we felt had come. We had managed to gather together a coherent group for a focused show, including its fair share of star works. It was quite a successful foray.
At that time we had recently experienced London dealer Michael Goedhuis’ 1989 show of Chinese and Japanese bronzes, and Rose Kerr’s 1990 book for the Victoria & Albert Museum, “Later Chinese Bronzes”. Discussions about metalwork hung... [Lire la suite]17 mai 2021
'Rembrandt’s Orient: West Meets East in Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century' at the Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
POTSDAM - Ideas of escapism, cultural appropriation and historical issues may weave through viewers' minds with the current exhibition Rembrandt’s Orient: West Meets East in Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century which has been extended to July 18, 2021, at the Museum Barberini, in Potsdam, Germany. It was organized in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Basel.
Rembrandt and his contemporaries were fascinated by the distant lands from which a great number of novel goods were imported to the Netherlands beginning in the... [Lire la suite]