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Book Review
Mapping Art Collecting in Europe, 1860–1940: Eastern and Western Sociocultural Perspectives
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 304
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Reviewer:
Legé, Alice S. (Legé, Alice S.)
Subjects
art literature:
Conferences / Essays
subjects:
Collecting / Collections / Collections, Private / Collections, Public / Collectors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mapping Art Collecting in Europe, 1860–1940: Eastern and Western Sociocultural Perspectives Edited by Milena Woźniak-Koch. 328 pp. incl. 22 col. + 54 b. & w. ills. (Brill, Leiden, 2023), €120.56. ISBN 978–3–506–79543–4. | :
Article
Unclogging the eye: Matisse, the ‘Joy of life’ and ‘Japonisme’
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1222–1229
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Author:
Holland, Nicole M. (Holland, Nicole M.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Stein, Gertrude / Stein, Leo / Barnes, Albert C.
dates:
1900-1909
styles:
Fauvism
subjects:
French painting / Japanese prints / Japonisme / Collecting
works:
Matisse, Henri / Utagawa Kunisada, 1786-1864
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. La Japonaise: woman beside the water, Collioure, by Henri Matisse. 1905. Oil and pencil on canvas, 35 by 28 cm. (© Succession H. Matisse; DACS, London; Photo Scala Florence; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
2. Joy of life, by Henri Matisse. 1905–06. Oil on canvas, 176.5 by 240.7 cm. (© Succession H. Matisse; DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
Attributed works:
3. French painter Henri Matisse at his home, villa ‘Le Rêve’, by Henri Cartier-Bresson. February 1944. Photograph. (© Henri Cartier-Bresson; Magnum Photos).
Attributed works:
4. Paris: les bouquinistes, le long des quais, by Yvon. c.1945. Photograph, 22.2 by 27.3 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Luxe, calme et volupté, by Henri Matisse. 1904. Oil on canvas, 98 by 112 cm. (© Succession H. Matisse; DACS, London; RMN-Grand Palais; Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France).
Attributed works:
6. Memorial portrait of Utagawa Kunisada, by Kunisada II (Toyokuni IV). 1865. Colour woodblock print, 37.2 by 25.4 cm. (Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. Goten’yama, from the series One hundred beautiful women at famous places in Edo, by Utagawa Kunisada. 1858. Ink and colour on paper, 37 by 25.1 cm. (Tokyo Metro Library).
Attributed works:
8. The dessert: harmony in red (the red room), by Henri Matisse. 1908. Oil on canvas, 180 by 220 cm. (© Succession H. Matisse; DACS London; State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Short Notice
Collecting modern Italian sculpture in Britain: Charles Meek and Medardo Rosso
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1154-1157
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Author:
Hecker, Sharon (Hecker, Sharon)
Subjects
artists:
Rosso, Medardo / Soffici, Ardengo
collectors and dealers:
Meek, Charles (1883–1961)
subjects:
Italian art / Italian sculpture / Collectors / Collecting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Bookplate for Charles Meek, by Jean Emile Laboureur. 1923. Etching and engraving, 8 by 6.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
3. The Emperor Vitellius, by Medardo Rosso. c.1895. Gilded bronze, height 34 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
4. Sick man in the hospital, by Medardo Rosso. Original 1889, this cast pre-1924. Bronze with white investment on surface, 19.4 by 21 by 29.5 cm. (Gilgore Collection, Naples FL).
Attributed works:
5. Jewish boy, by Medardo Rosso. Original 1892–94, this cast pre-1923. Wax cast with plaster support, height 23.1 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Peter Freeman, Inc., New York; photograph Jerry Thompson).
Western art unattributed:
1. Medardo Rosso in his Paris studio. 1890. Photograph. (Private collection).
Book Review
Kunstkammer: Early Modern Art and Curiosity Cabinets in the Holy Roman Empire
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 976-7
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Reviewer:
Sandbichler, Veronika (Sandbichler, Veronika)
Subjects
dates:
1550-1649
places:
Munich / Innsbruck / Dresden / Prague / Graz / Stuttgart / Kassel
subjects:
Kunstkammer / Cabinets of curiosities
subjects:
Collecting / Collectors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Kunstkammer: Early Modern Art and Curiosity Cabinets in the Holy Roman Empire By Jeffrey Chipps Smith. 319 pp. incl. 179 col. + 10 b. & w. ills. (Reaktion Books, London, 2022), £35. ISBN 978–1–78914–612–7. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
3. Cabinet of Archduke Ferdinand II. Nuremberg or Mantua, c.1582. Ebony, maple, walnut and silver, 75 by 62 by 45 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Book Review
The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York: Defining Taste from Antiquities to the Avant-Garde
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 658–659
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Reviewer:
Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Brummer, Joseph (1883–1947)
museums and institutions:
Brummer Gallery, New York, United States
museums and institutions:
The Cloisters, New York, United States
subjects:
Art dealers / Collecting / Collections
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York: Defining Taste from Antiquities to the Avant-Garde Edited by Yaëlle Biro, Christine E. Brennan and Christel H. Force. 511 pp. incl. 142 col. ills. (Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2023), €165. ISBN 978–90–04–53964–8. | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Couple. Madagascar, 17th–late 18th century. Wood and pigment, 39 by 11 cm. (Metropolitan Museum, New York).
Article
The provenance of ‘The death of Sardanapalus’: new insights from unpublished correspondence
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 470–478
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Author:
WATSON, Andrew M. (WATSON, Andrew M.)
Subjects
artists:
Delacroix, Eugène / Haro, Etienne-François / Dupré, Jules / Troyon, Constant
collectors and dealers:
Wilson, Daniel David
dates:
1840-1849
sources:
Correspondence
subjects:
French art / Acquisitions / Provenance / Restoration (process) / Collectors / Collections / Collecting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of Daniel David Wilson, by ?Adolphe-David Fink. 1820s. Oil on canvas, 72 by 58 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
2. The death of Sardanapalus, by Eugène Delacroix. 1827. Oil on canvas, 392 by 496 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Environs of Southampton, by Jules Dupré. 1835. Oil on canvas, 115 by 184 cm. (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Louis Senlecq, L’Isle-Adam).
Attributed works:
4. Virgin and Child (Madonna of the Rosary), by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. c.1675. Oil on canvas, 167 by 111 cm. (Château de Chenonceau).
Attributed works:
5. Portrait of Henriette Casenave Wilson, c.1830s. Pastel on board(?), 25 by 19 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
6. Woodcutters, by Constant Troyon. 1839. Oil on canvas, 213 by 154 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle).
Attributed works:
8. A basket of flowers, by Eugène Delacroix. 1848–49. Oil on canvas, 107.3 by 142.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
9. Façade of L’hôtel Brochart de Saron, 17, rue de l’Université, by Charles Lansiaux. Photograph. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris; PWB Images; Alamy Stock Photo).
Western art unattributed:
7. Château d’Écoublay. Postcard, 9 by 13.6 cm. (Private collection).
Obituary
Jacob Rothschild (1936–2024)
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 538–540
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Author:
Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Great Britain / Spencer House, London, Great Britain / National Gallery, London, Great Britain / National Heritage Memorial Fund / Heritage Lottery Fund
patrons:
Rothschild, Jacob
subjects:
Patronage / Commissions / Country houses / Collecting / Collectors / French art / French decorative art / Restoration (process)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (‘Man in a Chair’), by Lucian Freud. 1989. Oil on canvas, 114.3 by 79.7 cm. (Private collection, on loan to the National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. Louis XVI, by Antoine-François Callet, in a frame attributed to François-Charles Buteux. 1781–82. Oil on canvas in gilded oak frame, 280 by 180 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
Attributed works:
3. Boy building a house of cards, by Jean-Siméon Chardin. 1735. Oil on canvas, 81 by 101 cm. (Private collection, on loan to Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Eleonora di Toledo e l’invenzione della corte dei Medici a Firenze
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 510–512
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Reviewer:
Sterpetti, Lunarita (Sterpetti, Lunarita)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
dates:
1520-1549 / 1550-1559
museums and institutions:
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Eleanor of Toledo, Duchess of Florence, 1522-1562
places:
Florence
subjects:
Italian art / Patronage / Commissions / Taste (aesthetics)
subjects:
Collecting / Collections
subjects:
Medici family
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Eleonora di Toledo e l’invenzione della corte dei Medici a Firenze Edited by Bruce Edelstein and Valentina Conticelli. 432 pp. incl. 390 col. + b. & w. ills. (Sillabe, Livorno, 2023), €35. ISBN 978–88–3340–347–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Deposition, by Gérard David. 1515–20. Oil on panel, 20 by 14 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
5. Deity mask. Mexico, late 15th–early 16th century. Wood, resin, turquoise and motherof- pearl, 24 by 14.5 by 1.35 cm. (Museo delle Civiltà, Rome).
Book Review
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 432–433
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Reviewer:
Lewison, Jeremy (Lewison, Jeremy)
Subjects
art literature:
Biographies
collectors and dealers:
Ede, H. S.
museums and institutions:
Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge, Great Britain
subjects:
British art / Collecting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists By Laura Freeman. 377 pp. incl. 52 col. + 9 b. & w. ills. (Jonathan Cape, London, 2023), £30. ISBN 978–1–787331–90–7. | :
Book Review
Lord Cowper: Un conte inglese a Firenze nell’età dei Lumi
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 330–331
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Reviewer:
Benassai, Silvia (Benassai, Silvia)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Cowper, 3rd Earl, George Nassau Clavering
places:
Florence
subjects:
Italian art / Collecting / Collections / Grand tours / Renaissance art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Lord Cowper: Un conte inglese a Firenze nell’età dei Lumi By Charles S. Ellis and Paola Gibbin. 408 pp. incl. 32 col. + b. & w. ills. (Polistampa, Florence, 2022), €25. 978–88–596–2238–3 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Large Cowper Madonna, by Raphael. 1508. Oil on panel, 80.7 by 57.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
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