17 mars 2023

NEW YORK, NY.- When twenty-six international galleries and six auction houses–Bonhams, Christie's, Doyle, Heritage, iGavel, and Sotheby’s– open their doors for the 2023 edition of Asia Week New York, from March 16th through 24th , an abundance of eye-alluring treasures are certain to entice the wide swath of collectors, curators, and connoisseurs who, over the past fourteen years, mark this exciting occasion as a must-attend event on their collective calendars.Says Dessa Goddard, chairman of Asia Week New York, “We are... [Lire la suite]

Irmengard and Her Husband Werner, shortly after 1053. Tempera colors, gold, and ink. Image courtesy of Dr. Guenther Rare Books AG, Basel. Getty Museum, 2023.6.253v LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Museum announced today two major acquisitions: the Irmengard Codex, a manuscript made for the eleventh-century noblewoman Irmengard of Nellenburg, a member of the House of Egisheim-Dagsburg in Germany; and Madonna and Child with Saint Lucy, Saint Dominic, and Saint Louis of France by the renowned and influential Italian painter... [Lire la suite]

A façon de Venise 'Vetro a retortoli' glass, Second half 17th century. H. 16.3 cm (6.4 in.). Courtesy KUNSTHANDEL JACQUES FIJNAUT B.V. at TEFAF Maastricht 2023. Provenance: Collection Paride Berardi,Collection John Malcolm of Poltalloch (1805 - 1893), by descent in the family until 1977,Christie's, Manson & Woods London, 8 February, 1977, lot 230,Private collection

Bartolomeo Passerotti, Portrait of a Gentleman in a Silver Chainmail (a Champion Fencer?), Bologna, c. 1575. Oil on canvas, 107 x 78.5 cm (42 x 31 in.). Courtesy MAURIZIO NOBILE FINE ART at TEFAF Maastricht 2023. Provenance: Parma (Italy), private collection

Lucien Gaillard, Cigarette Box in Burned Pine Decorated with a Beetle in Patinated Bronze, Paris, c. 1907. Burned pine and patinated bronze, 6.7 x 11.6 x 9.5 cm (2.6 x 4.6 x 3.7 in.). Signed L. Gaillard. Courtesy MAXIME FLATRY at TEFAF Maastricht 2023. The box was created by Kichizô Inagaki (1876-1951) in burned pine with apparent wood veins and decorated with beetle in patinated bronze by Lucien Gaillard (1861-1942), circa 1907. Provenance: Ira Simon Collection, Chicago, Illinois, USA ... [Lire la suite]

Peng Wei (Chinese, born 1974). Landscape of Mount Putuo, 2007. Ink and colors on silk, 57 7/8 x 82 11/16 in. (147 x 210 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Roscoe C.E. Brown, Dr. Martin E. Frankel, Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, and Chi Tiew-lui, by exchange, 2014.55. © Peng Wei. Peng Wei has painted a ghostly image of a Buddhist pilgrimage site within the unconventional frame of an ancient robe of an elite Han Chinese woman. The painting, swept with images both religious and secular, visually transports us on a... [Lire la suite]