Some time back, we had mentioned an exhibition of Jean-Claude Naigeon drawings at the Nathalie Motte Masselinck gallery. For many visitors, it was the first time they had ever heard of this Neo-Classic artist from Dijon. The sheets on view came (...)
There was much scraping together to come up with the needed funds for the purchase of the second Titian belonging to the Duke of Sutherland, Diana and Callisto. The owner had already ceded its pair in 2009, Diana and Actaeon for the modest sum (...)
The Scottish National Gallery recently proceeded to fill a gap in their collections by acquiring, last October, a work by Waller Hugh Paton (1828-1895), famous in his native Scotland for his landscape paintings. Until now, the museum held only a (...)
The National Gallery of Scotland has just acquired a Head of Christ by Paul Delaroche which would seem to be a preliminary study for the décor of the church of La Madeleine in Paris. The painting is inscribed on the (...)
Acceptance in Lieu is the English system which allows payment of inheritance taxes with works of art, an equivalent of the French system of “dation”.