Rubens

Rubens, Turbaned rider on a bucking horse trying to fend off enemies, double-sided pen and brush drawing. This image is found in paper from the mill in Fabriano, Italy, dated 1598 and was first identified by Uwe Westfehling in 2001. ANTWERP.- This large double-sided pen and brush drawing with variations of a turbaned rider on a bucking horse trying to fend off enemies was recently discovered in an Antwerp private collection. Drawn freely with a medium size brush it shows no underdrawing in chalk or charcoal. The... [Lire la suite]

Zhang Huan (B. 1965), Rubens - Sotheby's ncised in Pinyin, numbered AP 1/2 and dated 2001 bronze; 180 (H) by 50 by 40 cm.; 70⅞ (H) 19⅝ by 15¾ in. stand: 30.5 (H) by 40.5 by 50.5 cm.; 12 (H) by 16 by 20⅞ in. Estimation: 800,000 - 1,200,000 HKD PROVENANCE: Acquired directly form the artist by the present owner EXHIBITED: Spain, Barcelona, Cotthem Gallery, Talking Heads, 2001 Belgium, Kortrijk, Broelsmuseum, Spiegel van bet Verlangen, 2001Belgium, Sint-Lievens-Houtem, Cotthem Gallery,... [Lire la suite]

Zhang Huan (Chinese, B. 1965), Rubens. photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012 bronze sculpture with gold patina, on stone base, sculpture: 53 x 48 x 181 cm. (20 7/8 x 19 x 71 1/8 in.) with base: 103 x 88 x 212 cm. (40 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 83 1/3 in.), edition A/P 1/2 and edition of 9. Executed in 2001. Lot 2033. Estimate HK$800,000 - HK$1,200,000 ($103,565 - $155,348). Price Realized HK$2,660,000 ($344,354) Provenance: F2 Gallery, Beijing, China (acquired directly from the... [Lire la suite]

'Battle of the Amazons' by Rubens. © David Lewis family interests LIVERPOOL.- A Collector’s Eye: Cranach to Pissarro is a unique exhibition of paintings from a stunning private collection. Running from Friday 18 February to Sunday 15 May 2011 at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, A Collector’s Eye: Cranach to Pissarro exhibits five centuries of art and 64 works ranging from tender 15th-century devotional images to 19th-century French Impressionist landscapes. Old Master artists Rubens, El Greco, Delacroix and Cranach are... [Lire la suite]

Rembrandt (Harmensz Van Rij, dit), David et Jonathan, 1642. Huile sur bois (parquetage), 73 x 61,5 cm. INV. N° ГЭ 713. Provenance : 1882, Imperial Picture Gallery in the Monplaisir Palace, Peterhof. Musée de l'Ermitage, Saint-Pétersbourg. Photographe © Musée de l'Ermitage. Photo de Pavel Demidov. PARIS.- For the opening of its new rooms, the Pinacothèque de Paris has organised an exceptional exhibition around a major theme: the birth of a Museum. Through May 29 2011, the Pinacothèque de Paris displays the treasures of the... [Lire la suite]

Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) Deux lions, copie d'après Rubens, (détail de L'Entrevue du roi et de Marie de Médicis à Lyon, le 9 novembre 1600, Paris, Galerie Médicis) Huile sur toile (rentoilage) 45, 8 x 55, 2 cm. (1811-1812). Au dos, sur le châssis, cachet de cire rouge de la collection Pierre Dubaut. Estimation : 40 000 / 60 000 €Provenance : - Peut-être, selon Ph. Grunchec et Bazin : Catalogue des tableaux anciens & modernes par ou attribués à Bastien-Lepage, […], Géricault, […], aquarelles et gouaches, dessins […]... [Lire la suite]

The exhibition brings together around one hundred works of supreme historical significance from collections around the world LONDON.- Turner and the Masters will present a selection of magnificent paintings by JMW Turner (1775-1851) alongside related works by the old masters and contemporaries he hoped to imitate, rival and surpass. Bringing together around one hundred works of supreme historical significance from collections around the world this will be the first exhibition to look at Turner’s work in the company of the... [Lire la suite]

Tiziano Vecellio called Titian (and workshop), Mars, Venus and Amor, Around 1530. Canvas, 97 x 109 cm. Frame measures: 110.8 x 128.5 x 7.8 cm. © Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna, Paintings Gallery. BADEN-BADEN/VIENNA.- For the first time since its inauguration in 2004, old masters move into the Museum Frieder Burda. Today, the light and spacious museum building, that has been designed by New York architect Richard Meier, will exhibit masterpieces of the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna that have never been shown before in... [Lire la suite]

Reconstruction of the Elector Johann Wilhelm's painting cabinets, Detail, © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen | © INHA Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Collections Jacques Doucet, Paris MUNICH.- The collection of paintings amassed by Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1658–1716) at the beginning of the 18th century in his residence in Düsseldorf was one of the most important of its kind in Europe. In less than 40 years, one of the first major collections of Netherlandish Baroque painting outside Holland and Flanders... [Lire la suite]

Reconstruction of the Elector Johann Wilhelm's painting cabinets, Detail, © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen | © INHA Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Collections Jacques Doucet, Paris MUNICH.- The collection of paintings amassed by Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1658–1716) at the beginning of the 18th century in his residence in Düsseldorf was one of the most important of its kind in Europe. In less than 40 years, one of the first major collections of Netherlandish Baroque painting outside Holland and Flanders... [Lire la suite]