21 juillet 2009
Claude Monet @ Helly Nahmad Gallery

21 juillet 2009
Thomas Hickey (1741-1824) : « Portrait de Sir George Staunton »
Thomas Hickey (1741-1824) : « Portrait de Sir George Staunton »
Toile. Dim. 167,5 x 114 cm. Etiquette au revers Hickey n°59 et 612 D. Adjugé 43 000 €
Note: Le modèle est le jeune George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859), baron, explorateur et orientaliste britannique. Il est le fils du Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1806), diplomate et orientaliste. Il accompagne son père en 1792, alors secrétaire de Lord George Macartney (1737-1806), dans une mission en Chine. Durant ce voyage de trois ans, il acquiert une bonne... [Lire la suite]
21 juillet 2009
'Eros and Thanatos' @ Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Giambattista Tiepolo, The Death of Hyacinth, 1752-1753. Oil on canvas, 287 x 235 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
MADRID.- The close relationship between sexual desire and the death instinct – Eros and Thanatos – in the visual arts is the subject of this exhibition, whose title is taken from that of Georges Bataille’s book: Les larmes d’Eros. The exhibition also incorporates some of Bataille’s ideas on eroticism: the need for beauty, temptation as prohibition and transgression, and the parallels between the erotic and... [Lire la suite]
21 juillet 2009
Jean Pillement (1728-1808) : « L’Automne »

21 juillet 2009
Francisco de Goya, 'Fantasies, Follies and Disasters' @ Manchester Art Gallery
Francisco de Goya, Disparate Allegre (merry folly) © Manchester City Galleries
MANCHESTER.- A new exhibition featuring a compelling selection of rarely displayed etchings by Francisco de Goya opens at Manchester Art Gallery this August. Fantasies, Follies and Disasters features 30 prints selected from the artist’s three best-known and most significant groups of etchings: Los Caprichos (The Fantasies), Los Desastres della Guerra (The Disasters of War), and Los Disparates (The Follies). The works are all drawn from Manchester Art... [Lire la suite]
21 juillet 2009
Shopping de saphirs et diamants aux enchères de juillet
Un "shopping" (comme le dit Francine) de saphirs et diamants...
Exceptionnelle bague sertie d’un saphir birman
naturel certifié de 5,94 carats rehaussé par 2 diamants triangulaire (1 carat environ). Monture or 6,2g. Adjugée 11 000 €
Dimanche 21 juin – Faure, Rambouillet
Sapphire and diamond bracelet, Van Cleef & Arpels
The articulated band to a central line of calibré-cut sapphires, between scalloped lines of brilliant-cut diamonds, length approximately 172mm, signed Van Cleef & Arpels N.Y and... [Lire la suite]
21 juillet 2009
Groupe en corail à trois branches sculptées

21 juillet 2009
Art & Illusions: Masterpieces of trompe-l’œil from antiquity to the present @ the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Pere Borrell Del Caso (1835-1910), Escaping Criticism, 1874. Oil on canvas, 76 x 63 cm. Collection of the Bank of Spain.
FLORENCE.- Trompe-l’œil is distinguished not just by its realism – after all, still life, perspective painting and photography can all claim to be realistic – but by its wit. In the best trompe-l’œil the artist deliberately sets out to trick you, and then lets you know you have been tricked. The exhibition Art & Illusions celebrates the charm, irony and sometimes irreverence of trompe-l’œil, from... [Lire la suite]
21 juillet 2009
Fernand Duvinage pour Giroux : Cache-pot en bronze marqueté d'ivoire et bois précieux et autres pièces

21 juillet 2009
'Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea' in September @ The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Simhamukha” Architectural Ornament. Oc Eo site, An Giang Province. 6th century. Terra cotta. Museum of Vietnamese History, Ho Chi Minh City, BTLS 1751
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Asia Society, New York will present an unprecedented exhibition of ancient art from Viet Nam—the first in the U.S. to address the historical, geographic and cultural contexts of pre-colonial Vietnamese art in depth. Throughout its long history, Viet Nam served as a central hub for trade routes connecting the regions of Asia and... [Lire la suite]