Today in Geneva, the Mona Lisa Foundation unveils a younger Mona Lisa whose smile is distinctly happier and less enigmatic than the one the world knows so well. The Swiss consortium that owns the work theorizes the Isleworth Mona Lisa, above, is Leonardo da Vinci’s first attempt at the most famous portrait painted while the […]
Reported in Antiques & Fine Art Magazine, the $10 million robbery of the home of “The King of Bonds” Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive officer of DoubleLine Capital LP, on September 12 included pieces by Jasper Johns (b. 1930), Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) and Guy Rose (1867-1925). Gundlach, a well-known fine art connoisseur, is offering a $200,000 […]
“I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. […]
The sort of find that powers indefatigable flea market enthusiasts, the painting above, believed to be Renoir’s “Paysage Bords de Seine,” was bought in a Virginia flea market for less than $50 as part of a box lot. The Potomack Company, based in Alexandria, VA is scheduled to auction off the small river scene on […]
Tomorrow, September 7, Flying Cranes Antiques Ltd is hosting an Opening Preview Exhibition & Sale entitled “19th Century Japanese Art in the 21st Century” from 10:30AM to 6PM at the Manhattan Art & Antiques Center, located at 1050 Second Avenue, Gallery 58. Here, you can see a small sample of the exquisite works of the […]
This Friday, Flying Cranes Antiques Gallery presents an Opening Preview of upcoming Exhibition and Sale: “19th Century Japanese Art in the 21st Century.” For over 30 years, Flying Cranes Antiques has specialized in exceptional Asian art, including the works of master artists of the influential Meiji Period (1868-1912). Located at the Manhattan Art & Antiques […]
August 30, 2012–In a moving editorial in the New York Times, Eve. M. Kahn discusses the emergence of newly discovered pottery and fragments of vessels by David Drake, an enslaved 19th-century potter in Edgefield, South Carolina. Drake signed his works “Dave” and sometimes inscribed them with poems that were odes to the “noble jar” or […]
Today, August 30, 2012, marks the 264th birthday of Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), the embodiment of Neoclassicism. Jacques Louis David’s history paintings, such as the famed The Death of Socrates above, marked a shift in European artistic style from the levity of Rococo to a heightened drama and severity of line and mood that paralleled […]
“…the miniature, the little picture that could be covered by a kiss or hidden in the palm of the hand had an intimate and personal quality, it was a pledge of affection, often a gauge of stolen joys; it could be carried by the exiled in never so hurried a flight, could be concealed in […]