Eugène Boudin at the Musée Marmottan Monet
April 11 2025
Video: Musée Marmottan Monet
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musée Marmottan Monet have just this week opened a new exhibition dedicated to Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) drawn in-part from a single private collection.
According to their website:
Collector Yann Guyonwarc’h has assembled a collection of works by Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898) that is unrivalled in any museum in the world. Every facet of the artist’s career is represented, from his first paintings in Le Havre to his final trip to Venice; from private sketches to paintings for the Salon (including one of the two largest beach scenes ever painted by Boudin). The works in this prestigious collection are matched with the holdings of the Musée Marmottan Monet, to highlight the dialogue between Boudin and his main pupil, Claude Monet. Thanks to the participation of the Durand-Ruel archives, the relationship between the two artists and their main dealer is also explored.
Bavarian State Painting Collections Shake Up
April 11 2025
Picture: monopol-magazin.de
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from Germany that the director of the Bavarian State Paintings Collection Bernhard Maaz has recently quit. Maaz, who was in the post for a decade, faces allegations of failures including those regarding priorities given to aspects such as transparency in WWII provenance research. Click on the link above to read more.
Lecture on Art History in San Diego
April 11 2025
Picture: timeshighereducation.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
San Diego State University are hiring an Art History Lecturer.
According to the advert online:
The School welcomes applications from prospective temporary faculty with expertise or experience in the following areas of Art History:
Ancient Greece and Rome, Architecture, Graphic Design, and Medieval Art.
The job comes with a starting monthly salary of somewhere between $5,507 - $13,224 and applications must be in by 10th May 2025.
Good luck if you're applying!
Recent Release: Genesis and becoming of the Baroque between Rome and Naples
April 11 2025
Picture: delucaeditori.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A new volume on the relationship between Rome and Naples, in regards to the emergence of the Baroque in painting, has been published in Italy. The publication, edited by Francesco Petrucci, draws on paintings specifically from the collections of the Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia and from the Koelliker collection.
Imminent Release: Le Comte d'Angiviller
April 10 2025
Picture: editions-monelle-hayot.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from France (spotted via. @MWeilc) that a publication on Charles Claude Flahaut, Count of Angiviller (1730–1809), a significant figure relating to the arts during the reign of Louis XVI, is due to be published on 15th April 2025. This 384 page volume was penned by Monelle Hayot and Antoine Maës.
According to the publisher's website:
Angiviller took part in the education of the future Louis XVI and his brothers. The King is fond of him and in full confidence shares with him a privacy which allows truthful advices. At his accession on the throne, in 1774, he appoints Angiviller Directeur des Bâtiments du Roi, a minister of arts and architecture with extended powers. He will remain in charge until the Revolution. His role is major. He is responsible for all the royal and state residences (Palais du Louvre, Tuileries, Versailles, Fontainebleau, Saint-Cloud…). He buys the hunting domain of Rambouillet on behalf of the king and develops there the Etruscan style, in fashion since the discovery of Herculanum. Thanks to the king of Spain, he develops there the breeding of Merino sheep in a model farm, which still exists nowadays. He reorganizes the manufactures of Sèvres and of the Gobelins, presides over the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, the Académie de France in Rome with the Premier Peintre Pierre’s assistance. He is the founder of the Museum, today Musée du Louvre, which because of the Revolution will only open under Napoleon. He orders its construction within the Louvre palace, following Hubert Robert’s ideas, constitutes its collections, by major acquisitions in sales or private collections. [...]
Order before the 15th April 2025 to receive 20 EUR off the asking price (follow the link for more details).
Royal Collection Conserves Leighton
April 10 2025
Picture: © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2025 | Royal Collection Trust.
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Royal Collection Trust have shared news of the conservation of Lord Frederic Leighton's Nanna (Pavonia) in preparation for their upcoming exhibition The Edwardians: Age of Elegance which opens at The King's Gallery tomorrow (Friday 11th April 2025).
According to the RCT's press release:
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The conservation resulted in:
-Details were made clearer, including Leighton’s ‘L’ monogram with the date ‘59 – cleaning brought out its calligraphic quality and brick red colour.
-The variety of textures in the paint – cleaning revealed that Leighton had carefully used his brush to create fine, wispy trails to the feathers in the fan, to give just one example.
-The 'sensuous' green, violet, and russet tones of the peacock feathers of the fan came out, helping the conservator Nicola Christie realise that these colours echo the colours of the fruit.
-The intricacy of the sitter’s braided hairstyle and the subtleties in the tones of her dark hair were revealed – the conservator could now pick out shades of aubergine and deep blue in her dark hair.
-It brought out the clarity of the pearls in her hair, and how they are reflecting light – Nicola’s convinced they reflect the windows of Leighton’s studio – and their very smooth texture.
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Art and Power during the Age of the Doges of Genoa
April 10 2025
Picture: Reggia di Venaria
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A new exhibition has opened in Reggia di Venaria in Turin today which celebrates the artistic produce during the golden age of the Republic of Genoa. Featuring one hundred works, including paintings, sculptures, silverware, furnishings and bronzes, artists featured include Rubens, Van Dyck, Guido Reni, Orazio Gentileschi, Carlo Maratti, Luca Giordano, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Angelica Kauffman, and Anton von Maron.
The show will run until 7th September 2025.
Dorotheum Sale
April 10 2025
Picture: Dorotheum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Dorotheum in Vienna have uploaded their upcoming Old Masters sale online. The auction will take place on 29th April 2025. Do click on the link above to scroll through the lots.
Matisse and his daughter Marguerite
April 9 2025
Video: Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris have just opened a new show dedicated to Matisse's relationship with his eldest daughter Marguerite.
According to the museum's website:
Bringing together more than 110 works – paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures and ceramics – the exhibition shows Matisse's view of his eldest daughter, Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse (1894–1982), an essential but discreet figure in his family circle.
The exhibition features numerous drawings rarely, if ever, shown to the public, as well as major works from American, Swiss and Japanese collections, now on view in France for the first time. Photographs, archival material and paintings by Marguerite herself fill out the portrait of this little-known personality.
The show will run until 24th August 2025.
New Digital Catalogue of the Kremer Collection
April 9 2025
Picture: kremercollection.org
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
CODART (the international network of curators of Dutch and Flemish art) have drawn attention to a new digital catalogue of The Kremer Collection (now in part on loan to the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar). Viewers can either surf through the websites themselves or access a PDF of the physical catalogue through the link above.
Many happy hours of browsing ahead, I think.
Barberini Holbein of Henry VIII on loan to Wadsworth Atheneum
April 9 2025
Video: Wadsworth Atheneum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Tudor fans in Connecticut will have a wonderful opportunity to come face to face with Hans Holbein's Portrait of Henry VIII this spring. The celebrated Barberini portrait (usually on display in Rome) is on temporary loan to the Wadsworth Atheneum, whilst the American institution's Caravaggio is currently off on exhibition in Italy.
Cleaning Ramsay's Wills Hill
April 9 2025
Picture: Historical Royal Palaces via. Instagram
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
I'm a little late to this video published by the Historic Royal Palaces on Instagram last month showing the cleaning of Alan Ramsay's Portrait of Wills Hill, 1st Earl Hillsborough. The painting was acquired by Hillsborough Castle last year as part of the Acceptance in Lieu Scheme for £158,100.
City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s
April 8 2025
Picture: National Gallery Singapore
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The National Gallery Singapore have just recently opened this rather intriguing exhibition entitled City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s.
According to their website:
This first ever major comparative exhibition aims to re-read the art history of Paris from an Asian perspective, inviting the public to delve deeper into how Asian artists lived, worked, and exhibited there in a dynamic period of modern art history.
The exhibition transports audiences to an era when Paris was at the height of modernity. The new elegant Art Deco style influenced everything from fashion and furniture to advertising, drawing from Asian inspirations. Migrants from around the world imbued fresh influences into art, music, and dance. Asian artists brought their distinctive heritage to Paris and engaged with the city’s modern art world. At the same time, Paris was the seat of a colonial empire, which had complex and troubling implications for artists from the colonies.
The show will run until 17th August 2025.
Burgundian Portrait coming up at Sotheby's London
April 8 2025
Picture: Sotheby's via. Arts Council
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Following on from last weeks announcements on the Arts Council Website, the following painting catalogued as 'Burgundian School, circa 1500 Portrait of a Gentleman bust length in dark costume and hat' has been announced as part of Sotheby's London's Evening Auction in July. The artwork carries a guide price of £500,000.
Recently Opened: Barocco Globale at the Scuderie del Quirinale
April 8 2025
Video: Agenzia di Stampa ITALPRESS
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome opened their latest exhibition last week entitled Barocco Globale. Il mondo a Roma nel secolo di Bernini. Organised in collaboration with the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the show focuses on global influences in the works of major seventeenth century artists working in Rome during the Baroque and will run until 13th July 2025.
Denver borrows Rembrandts from NGA
April 8 2025
Picture: NGA via. CODART
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from CODART (the international network of curators of Dutch and Flemish art) that the Denver Art Museum has borrowed two Rembrandts from the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (NGA). The loan is part of the NGA's “Across the Nation” programme, to celebrate the upcoming 250th Anniversary of the founding of the USA in 2026.
Rubens Last Supper to be Restored
April 8 2025
Picture: Pinacoteca di Brera
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from Italy that the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan will be conserving their Last Supper by Rubens. The project will be undertaken under the supervision of Andrea Carini, head of the museum's scientific laboratories, and has been funded by PWC Italia.
Assist with Curating the King's Pictures
April 8 2025
Picture: Royal Collection Trust
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Royal Collection Trust are hiring an Assistant Curator (maternity cover).
According to the job description:
It's learning something new while surrounded by masterpiece paintings.
It’s working as one to deliver impressive projects. And it’s the satisfaction of presenting and sharing one of the world’s largest art collections. This is what makes working for Royal Collection Trust so different.
One of the largest and most important art collections in the world, The Royal Collection runs to more than a million objects, including 8000 paintings and 3000 miniatures. Spread among fifteen Royal residences and former residences across the UK, displayed at exhibitions at The King’s Galleries in London and Edinburgh and via loans, it is unique in both scale and variety.
As an Assistant Curator, you'll work with a worldclass collection of European paintings and support the team with a wide range of curatorial activities to ensure our collection is presented to the highest of standards and enjoyed by thousands of visitors.
The job comes with a salary of £30,000 and applications must be in by 20th April 2025.
Good luck if you're applying!
Middle Eastern Works by David Roberts coming up at Sotheby's
April 4 2025
Picture: Sotheby's
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A large and rare collection of Middle Eastern views by David Roberts, R.A. will be coming up for sale at Sotheby's London on 29th April 2025. The 35 works on paper on offer include views of Petra, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Sidon and Baalbec, amongst other studies.
AI to Reimagine Lost Delacroix Frescoes?
April 4 2025
Video: via Instagram
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Scientists and Art Historians in France may have finally come across a genuinely interesting way to employ AI in the field of art historical research. A new research project entitled Digital Delacroix has joined figures from the Sorbonne and AI geeks from Schmidt Sciences in order to recreate lost Delacroix frescoes that were destroyed by fire at the Hôtel de Ville in 1871. AI will apparently be bringing together and process surviving studies and archival material to digitally recreate these lost works. Click on the link above to read more.
Let's hope Delacroix's figures won't end up having 6 fingers and three arms (which often happens with lots of AI generated images these days)...
