Lundi 24 septembre 2018
Last update on 2/11/2016
Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Recently, the Metropolitan Museum offered its out of print publications free of charge for downloading. Now, the Getty is doing the same with its publications, also at no cost, whether out of print or still available on paper. For the moment, (...)
The auction of the Jan Krugier drawing collection at Sotheby's London on 6 February set new records, bad news for French museums with their increasingly lower budgets. True, the provenance was undoubtedly a strong factor and there is no way of (...)
We had recounted the story of this amazing discovery here : a presumed portrait by Rembrandt, on copper, which appeared on the auction block in England in October 2007 with the attribution, "follower of Rembrandt", had sold for 2.2 million (...)
The 15th century is known as the golden age for illuminations, particularly at the court of the Dukes of Burgundy as proven by the manuscript of the Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies, copied by David Aubert and illuminated by Lieven van Lathem (...)
The Getty Museum has recently purchased as fully acknowledged by Antoine Watteau, a painting previously found in the Paul-Louis Weiller collection which had been auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot on 5 April 2011 at Gros-Delettrez under a cautious (...)
The Getty has just announced the acquisition of two very different works. One is a 16th century German panel, the other an 18th century French drawing. However, both are of the finest quality. The painting, representing the Trinity surrounded by (...)
The Getty Museum has just announced the acquisition of a drawing attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo which is a portrait of a young man dating from around 1470. Purchased at auction at Sotheby's New York on 25 January, it was estimated at (...)
A few days after announcing it had purchased a portrait by Manet, the Getty Museum has acquired a remarkable German sculpture from the early 16th century, in limewood, representing Saint John the Baptist at a Sotheby’s auction in London, for (...)
t is still possible to acquire a Manet as recently proven by the Getty Museum which announced its purchase of the Portrait of Madame Brunet or Young Woman of 1860 from a private collector. The painting was in the famous Joan Whitney Payson (...)
The Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which manages the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Foundation and the Getty Conservation Institute, announced it had appointed James Cuno as President and Chief (...)
Last 7 July, at an auction at Sotheby’s London, the Getty Museum purchased a Turner painting, Modern Rome – Campo Vacino, for almost 30 million pounds. This is the last representation of the city painted by the artist, in (...)
Last 10 December the Getty Museum announced the purchase of Landscape with the Temptation of Saint Anthony by Roelandt Savery
Two bronze statues cast by Pietro Cipriani in Florence in 1724 were temporarily banned for export from the United Kingdom last July. As there was no British purchaser
We recently pointed out (see news item of 28/8/08) the Orsay’s acquisition of the marvellous
The museum in California enriched its collections a few months ago with a painting by Claude Lorrain representing
The Getty Museum has just announced the purchase of The Royal End (Arii Matamoe) by Paul Gauguin
Early 2005 the Getty Museum had tried to purchase The Ill-Humored Man by Franz-Xaver Messerschmidt in lead
