This is only its second year but already Paris-Tableau has apparently become a permanent fixture on the international art market. If we add the exhibitions found outside the show which we will cover in an upcoming news item, this makes Paris, (...)
Two important paintings have joined the collections at the Seattle Art Museum, donated by the collector Barney A. Ebsworth. This is a fractional gift, an original form of donation : the collector cedes part ownership of the work to the museum (...)
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On 8 December 2010, the Museum Catharijneconvent of Utrecht acquired a painting by Abraham Bloemaert representing The Four Doctors of the Church at Sotheby’s London for 49,250 £ (including (...)
In February 1756, Richard Trevor, the bishop of Durham, bought a series of paintings by Francisco Zurbaran representing Jacob and his Sons, the founders of the twelve tribes of Israel (of the thirteen canvases, one is an 18th century copy by (...)