The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center is a proud sponsor of The Spring Show NYC 2013 at the Park Avenue Armory. Presented by one of the oldest antiques and fine arts organizations in America, The Art & Antiques Dealers of America League, the Spring Show features the best in decorative arts from the most prestigious […]
Reported in Antiques & Fine Arts, staff members of The Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain, removed the cardboard backing of Portrait of the Artist’s Mother (1896) by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) during a recent restoration to find a never-before-seen charcoal portrait by the artist. Reyes Jimenez, the museum’s head of restoration, believes the recently discovered drawing […]
Antiques expert, Lark Mason, appraiser on the wildly popular PBS series, The Antiques Roadshow, and founder of iGavel Auctions, gives his predictions for the top 10 antiques collecting trends of 2013. One category that he believes will remain timeless? Watches. “In times of economic uncertainty, when stocks, bonds, and everything else has taken a lickin, […]
Holiday trees grace the corners of The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center. This month, the Manhattan Art & Antiques Center is dressed in its holiday best and there are no ornaments we enjoy more than our beautifully bedecked holiday trees. This year’s gracefully festooned trees have been designed by Linda Pastorino and John Serdula. The […]
Experts believe they have discovered an original Rubens in a small, provincial museum in the Urals, Russia. The painting “Mary Magdalene in mourning with her sister Martha” was thought to be a good-quality copy but recent restoration has revealed it to be an original by the 17th century Flemish master. It is believed the face […]
“Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art takes a comprehensive look at Andy Warhol’s influence on contemporary art. Approximately forty-five Warhol works are juxtaposed with one hundred works by sixty odd other artists spanning painting, film, sculpture and more. The exhibition runs Sept. 18-Dec. 31, 2012.
In honor of Pablo Picasso’s birthday today, Oct. 25, we examine the open secret of one of his most celebrated paintings, which also happens to be one of our personal favorites. Picasso was only 22 in 1904 when he is believed to have painted this revealing portrait of a woman ironing, her skeletal frame bent […]
This crisp, cool early fall seems a perfect season to take the short trip down the coast to visit the newly opened studio of one of America’s defining landscape artists, Winslow Homer (1836-1910). In 1893, Homer moved into the transformed Carriage House on a plot of family land in Prout’s Neck, a few miles outside […]