Previous Posts: May 2024

Almond-shaped, sightless eyes are an unmistakable feature of Modigliani’s style. With their stoic noblesse, his portraits and nudes have become icons of modern art. Like Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani provoked both hostility and admiration, and his early death encouraged the creation of legends. Only a few of his pieces are found in German collections. The show Modigliani: Modern Gazes, the first exhibition of his work in Germany in fifteen years, offers a revised image of Modigliani, presenting him as an artist who turned his gaze to emancipated women.

Kedleston Hall is a neo-classical show-palace that also houses a significant Asian collection of over 1,000 objects in a dedicated museum. Welcoming over 200,000 visitors a year we aim to create wonder by celebrating art and design, from exploring the art and culture of our unique collection of objects from across the Asian Continent to unpacking how 18th-century design has impacted our world today.

Managed by the Collections and House Manager, you'll lead on the preventive conservation plans, from cleaning routines to environmental management, and on delivering engaging 'Conservation in Action' to enrich the visitor experience. You'll be supported to deliver this by two Collections and House Officers and three Collections Assistants, the latter you will manage.

Interesting to see how poorly paid so many of these UK arts-related jobs remain. The £25,000-£30,000 Senior Collections Officer at Kedleston is considerably below the average UK annual salary of about £35,000.

The Georgians placed these figures, whether beautifully dressed, sociable or industrious, into their drawings to animate, add intrigue and enhance the aspirational appeal of their designs. They also played, and continue to play, an important role in indicating the scale and function of architectural elements and drawing attention to the special features of designs.

Just as architects today use staffage to help prospective buyers imagine a life in and around new developments, these historic scenes were created to market new possibilities to audiences. They have, therefore, taken on a new significance as a means of signalling shifts in style, demographics, work, and culture. Between the city traders and happy families, street-side boxing matches and children riding in dog-carts, the figures celebrated in this exhibition help piece together a vibrant picture.

The FT is looking for an arts editor. Reporting to the FT Weekend editor, the arts editor is responsible for overall coverage of all art forms in the Life & Arts section of FT Weekend, plus a page of the daily FT each weekday, and a variety of special supplements (usually 12 a year) covering the art market. This highly skilled individual will be able to balance our coverage of everything from opera to gaming, fine art to TV streaming. They will be an imaginative commissioner, efficient editor and prominent ambassador for the FT’s well respected and market leading arts coverage. Moreover they will be able to steer it confidently through the continuous innovation necessary to keep up with these endlessly evolving disciplines and industries. 

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Dated to circa 1769, this monumental canvas is the artist’s grandest statement on the theme of Mares and Foals, the series of paintings executed in the 1760s which arguably stand as Stubbs’ crowning achievement. The picture is believed to have been painted for the Prime Minister of Britain from 1768-1770, Augustus Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), who was part of the closely-connected nexus of ‘Whig’ statesmen that provided Stubbs with his most important patronage during this career-defining period. Having only appeared at auction once before, almost 50 years ago, it will be on public view in New York from 18 to 22 May, and in the pre-sale London exhibition which runs from 28 June to the morning of 2 July.

Begun over three stays in the capital between 1899 and 1901, the series—depicting Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament—was unveiled at a landmark exhibition in Paris in 1904. Monet fervently wanted to show them in London itself the following year, 1905, but plans fell through. To this day, they have never been the subject of an exhibition in the UK.

The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Monet and London. Views of the Thames will realise Monet’s unfulfilled ambition of showing this extraordinary group of paintings in London, on the banks of the Thames and a mere 300 metres from the Savoy Hotel where most were painted. By presenting the paintings Monet himself selected for his public in Paris and London, it will provide visitors with the unique experience of seeing the show Monet curated and the works he felt best represented his ambitious artistic enterprise – brought together for the first time 120 years after their inaugural exhibition.

Introduction
Apprenticeship in Italy
Maria Hadfield becomes Maria Cosway
Room 1 • Maria Cosway in English
society The Queen of Pall Mall
About women artists
Pasquale Paoli and Maria Cosway
Room 2 • Maria Cosway painter
The influence of the Roman circle
Friendship with David
Exhibiting at the Royal Academy
Room 3 • Rupture
Room 4 • Emancipation: Maria Cosway as a teacher

Lincoln College invites applications for a three-year, non-renewable, Junior Research Fellowship in Material Culture: Art History, available from 1 September 2024. This post is intended to provide a career development opportunity for a scholar in the early stages of an academic career. Applicants should have recently obtained, or be about to obtain, a doctorate in an appropriate field, and will be in the early stages of developing a research profile within their field of scholarship.

Jean Daret painted for the most prestigious patrons of his time, including King Louis XIV and the Governor of Provence. Still, his name only became more widely known in 1978 when his work was included in an exhibition of Provençal paintings in Marseille.

That said, Jean Daret is still far from a household name. Although his paintings hang in museums in France, the United States, and Russia, in churches and cathedrals across Provence, and in private townhouses in Aix-en-Provence —the Hôtel de Châteaurenard and the Hôtel Maurel de Pontevès—his extensive body of work deserves better recognition.

The exhibition at Musée Granet is an opportunity to display an outstanding ensemble of about one hundred pieces, including the artist's most accomplished works, oils on canvas, drawings and engravings, alongside paintings by great 17th-century masters, including Paris-based artist Jacques Blanchard and Provençal painters Nicolas Mignard, Reynaud Levieux and Gilles Garcin.

Jopling is known to have painted more than 750 works of art before she died in 1933, aged 90, but the locations of the majority of these paintings are now sadly unknown.

Only a handful have been acquired by public art galleries. “But I wouldn’t say those are her major works,” said Barber. “We don’t know where they are.”

The returned painting, which was originally painted as preparation for an engraving and not intended to be hung on a wall, was assumed lost until, in 2021, an art historian spotted it going on sale at a small regional auction house in Toulon, France and alerted Chatsworth.

- Assist with cataloguing and researching items for the Old Master sales, encompassing European paintings from the late 13th to 19th centuries:
- Independently researching and cataloguing objects to the highest standard while also meeting strict scheduled deadlines
- Corresponding with and establishing relationships with external experts, while also following up on all outstanding research inquiries
- Writing condition reports for the lots on offer
- Working with senior business getters to lead the mid-season and online sale program, including cataloguing, digital catalogue production, lot order finalization, proofreading, color-checking, producing marketing material and editorial content, assisting with exhibition layout and set-up, staffing exhibitions, and helping to target potential bidders
- General department support, including answering phones, and helping with day-to-day client enquiries at the front desk, through the online inquiry portal, by email and on the telephone
- Maintaining excellence in client service when responding to estimate enquiries, general correspondence and photo requests
- Developing and managing client relationships
- Assisting the senior experts with the research of paintings for auction, fair market and insurance valuations, proposals, and others