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From the 15th to the 18th of November 2001, Artissima opens to the public again with international contemporary art in Turin. This annual fair, now in its eighth year, hosts 153 galleries from 16 different countries: from Europe to Japan, from Canada to South America to the United States. Galleries ...
(Elena Balzani)
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A painting by the 16th century Italian painter Andrea del Sarto has been rediscovered 350 years after it disappeared. Entitled The Botti Madonna and dating from circa 1530, the painting is named after one of its owners, the Marchese Botti a member of the Medici court. The painting turned up in an unknown ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| The Courtauld Institute, London |
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An exhibition entitled “Invenzioni” showing over a dozen late 17th and early 18th century bozzetti and modelli, or small preparatory oil sketches and studies, will open at the Marco Riccomini gallery, Milan from the 8th of November to the 1st of December. In this specialist exhibition with ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Giuseppe Bottani's Soldier wearing a helmet |
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The premiere of Art Basel Miami Beach will be postponed for one year. The current situation in the United States has forced the show management to refrain from carrying out the International Art Show, which was scheduled to take place from December the 13th–16th, 2001, in Miami Beach. The reason for this is the unpredictable ...
(James Goulder)
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| Logo of Art Basel Miami Beach |
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On November the 1st the UK auction house Bonhams & Brooks finally announced its merger with Phillips (UK) to create a new bigger company, simply called “Bonhams”, with the first sales pencilled in for January 2002. Bonhams have already a combined annual turnover of $ 109 million (€ 121 million), but ...
(Andrew Moore)
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At the end of October the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, arranged a licensing deal for the printing of some of his most well-known images on domestic products such as tableware, bed linen and sportswear. The success obtained over the years by licensing the reproduction of works for ...
(Luisa Vassallo)
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The Italian Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Vittorio Sgarbi, said on the 26th of October that there will now be free access to state museums for 4 hours per day. This statement comes in the light of the Berlusconi government wishing to hand the management of Italian art centres to private companies ...
(Andrew Moore)
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Regional museums in England face closure and losing historic objects unless, according to the Daily Telegraph, they get an urgent government cash injection. Some $ 380,900,000 (€ 427,500,150) is needed over five years to reverse their condition, says a report by Resource, the British government’s ...
(James Goulder)
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Finarte held their sale of Old Masters and furniture on the 23rd of October at their Rome premises. The sale was not very strong on the paintings front, scattered as they were among the general household chintz. The main work of the day, Bernardo Strozzi’s Madonna and Child with Infant Saint John only ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Tessa Jowell, Secretary for culture, (UK Government) |
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Denis Mahon, a leading Italian Baroque scholar, is reported to have discovered Annibale Caracci’s Saint John the Baptist. Mahon states that Annibale Carracci painted the work during the last three years of his life, (between 1607 and 1609), when he was already seriously ill. The painting almost certainly ...
(Dorian Cara)
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| Annibale Carracci, San Giovanni Battista (detail) |
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