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Exhibition Review
Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 717–29
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Reviewer:
Golahny, Amy (Golahny, Amy)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, United States / Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
subjects:
Dutch art / Shells (animal material) / Books / Prints / Paintings / Metalwork / Medals
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 18th November 2023 –3rd November 2024 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Floral still life, by Dirck van Rijswijck. 17th century. Oak panel, ebony, rosewood, mother-of-pearl and African blackwood, 43.7 by 33.5 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Attributed works:
5. Tromp l’oeil, by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts. 1663. Oil on canvas, 73.7 by 86.4 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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François Gérard’s portraits of Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 482-487
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Author:
Galitz, Kathryn Calley (Galitz, Kathryn Calley)
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artists:
Gerard, Francois Baron (1770-1837) / David, Jacques-Louis / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
dates:
1790-1799
media:
Oil painting (technique)
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
subjects:
French art / Portraiture / Brongniart, Alexandrine Emilie / Salons (art exhibitions) / Technical analysis / Infrared photography / Versions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by François Gérard. 1795. Panel, 86.8 by 55.5 cm. (Private collection; photograph Julien Pepy).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing Gérard’s adjustment to a lock of hair on the sitter’s forehead. (Photograph Alice Panhard).
Attributed works:
3. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by François Gérard. 1795. Canvas, 49.53 by 38.1 cm. (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT).
Attributed works:
4. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by Adolphe-Gustave Huot, after François Gérard. 1882. Engraving, 30 by 19.2 cm (image). (Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Attributed works:
5. Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. 1806. Canvas, 100 by 70 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
6. Cupid and Psyche, by François Gérard. 1798. Canvas, 186 by 132 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
7. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, after François Gérard. c. 1795. Pencil on paper, 8.2 by 5.9 cm. (Musée Ingres, Montauban).
Article
The Modigliani Technical Research Study. Modigliani’s late portraits
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 400-407
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Bezur, Anikó (Bezur, Anikó)
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Campos, Pedro H.O.V. (Campos, Pedro H.O.V.)
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Centeno, Silvia A. (Centeno, Silvia A.)
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Duvernois, Isabelle (Duvernois, Isabelle)
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Gonçalves Magalhães, Ana (Gonçalves Magalhães, Ana)
Author:
Josenhans, Frauke V. (Josenhans, Frauke V.)
Author:
Londero, Pablo (Londero, Pablo)
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Rizzutto, Márcia (Rizzutto, Márcia)
Author:
Schwarz, Cynthia (Schwarz, Cynthia)
Subjects
art literature:
Venturi, Lionello
artists:
Modigliani, Amedeo / Botticelli, Sandro / Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Pollaiolo, Antonio del / Pontormo
dates:
1910-1919
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
places:
France / Nice / Italy / Florence
subjects:
Italian painting / Portraits / Neo-classicism / Renaissance / Mannerism / Style / Influence / Visual sources / Supports / Pigments / Colour / Alterations / Techniques / Underdrawings / Charcoal / Sitters / Dating / Technical analysis / Scientific analysis / Radiographs / Infrared reflectography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of a young woman, by Amedeo Modigliani. Here dated 1918–19. Canvas, 45.7 by 28 cm. (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven).
Attributed works:
10. Infra-red reflectography detail of the background of Fig.9, showing underdrawing and pentimenti (photograph Pedro Campos and Márcia Rizzutto).
Attributed works:
11. Portrait of the artist’s wife, Jeanne Hébuterne, by Amedeo Modigliani. 1918 (1919?). Canvas, 101 by 65.7 cm. (Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena).
Attributed works:
2. Head of Jeanne Hébuterne, by Amedeo Modigliani. 1918. Canvas, 46 by 29 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
3. X-radiograph of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
4. Infra-red photograph of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
5. Infra-red reflectogram of Fig.8.
Attributed works:
6. Transmitted light photograph of Fig.8.
Attributed works:
7. Raking light detail photograph of Fig.8.
Attributed works:
8. Jeanne Hébuterne, by Amedeo Modigliani. 1919. Canvas, 91.4 by 73 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
9. Self-portrait, by Amedeo Modigliani. 1919. Canvas, 100 by 64.5 cm. (Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo; photograph Pedro Campos and Márcia Rizzutto).
Attributed works:
[Appendix. Summary of the results of pigment, media, ground preparation and varnish analyses, and of the canvas thread counts.]
Article
The Art of Conservation: IX, The history of painting conservation at the Yale University Gallery
02/2017 | 1367 | 159
Pages: 122-131
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Author:
Aronson, Mark (Aronson, Mark)
Author:
McClure, Ian (McClure, Ian)
Author:
Passeri, Irma (Passeri, Irma)
Subjects
artists:
Gaddi, Taddeo / Pollaiolo, Antonio del / Master of the Magdalen / Ugolino di Nerio / Piero di Cosimo / Velázquez, Diego
collectors and dealers:
Jarves, James Jackson
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
subjects:
Conservation / Restoration (process) / Techniques / Technical analysis / Scientific analysis / Collections, Public / Italian painting
subjects:
Jarves Collection
Illustrations
Attributed works:
45. The lamentation over the dead Christ, by Taddeo Gaddi. c.1335-40 (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Attributed works:
46. Fig.45 after cleaning in 1954
Attributed works:
47. Hypothetical reconstruction of Fig.45 after the 1954 cleaning
Attributed works:
48. Detail of Fig.45 showing the cross-hatched visible inpainting technique used by Andrew Petryn in 1954
Attributed works:
49. The Virgin and Child enthroned with four saints, by Ugolino di Nerio. c.1305-10. Photographed in 1912 after Icilio Federico Ioni's restoration (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Attributed works:
50. Fig.49, c.1953
Attributed works:
51. Fig.49 after Andrew Petryn's restoration in 1954-55 where he used a neutral colour for the large losses and a cross-hatched technique in areas of loss that were reconstructed
Attributed works:
52. Fig.49 after restoration in 1968
Attributed works:
53. Fig.49 after restoration in 2006-07
Attributed works:
54. The Virgin and Child with Sts Vincent Ferrer and Jerome, by Piero di Cosimo. c.1510-15. Conservation state of the altarpiece in 1928 (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Attributed works:
55. Fig.54 after restoration in 1957-59
Attributed works:
56. Detail of Fig.54, showing the original paint layer in remarkably good condition on the stone base of the throne after removal of multiple layers of oil-based overpaint. The foreground was cleaned by Petryn in 1957-59
Attributed works:
57. Fig.54 during current restoration with the nineteenth-century top additions removed
Attributed works:
58. Fig.59 after filling, before restoration. Photographed in 2014
Attributed works:
59. Education of the Virgin, attributed to Diego Velázquez. c.1617. After cleaning, varnishing, filling and inpainting of losses in 2014 (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Exhibition Review
Romantic art, 1760–1860. New Haven
08/2015 | 1349 | 157
Pages: 574-576
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Reviewer:
Baumgartner, Frédérique (Baumgartner, Frédérique)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 1760-1769 / 1770-1779 / 1780-1789 / 1790-1799 / 1800-1839 / 1840-1859
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
New Haven / United States
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Romanticism / Enlightenment / British painting
subjects:
Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
70. Tampoco, plate 36 from Los Desastres de la Guerra, by Francisco de Goya. c.1810-20, published 1863 (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Attributed works:
71. A lion attacking a horse, by George Stubbs. 1770 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
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72. Femmes d'Alger, by Eugène Delacroix. 1833 (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
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73. Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames - Morning after a Stormy Night, by John Constable. 1829 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; exh. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Exhibition Review
Photorealism
03/2014 | 1332 | 156
Pages: 183-185
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Reviewer:
Anfam, David (Anfam, David)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain / Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
places:
United States / New York / England / Birmingham
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Photorealism
subjects:
Paintings / Still lifes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
32. Schaefer beer, by Robert Cunningham (Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York; exh. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery)
Attributed works:
33. Queen, by Audrey Flack (Collection of Susan P. and Louis K. Meisel, New York; exh. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery)
Attributed works:
34. Plum delicious, by Peter Maier (Private collection; exh. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery)
Exhibition Review
Francesco Vanni
12/2013 | 1329 | 155
Pages: 859-861
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Reviewer:
Simon, Robert B. (Simon, Robert B.)
Subjects
artists:
Vanni, Francesco
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
places:
United States / New York
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
69. Rest on the flight into Egypt, known as the Madonna della Pappa, by Francesco Vanni (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Attributed works:
70. Study of a standing woman, by Francesco Vanni (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Yale University Art Gallery, New York)
Attributed works:
71. Study for the Virgin and Child with Sts Cecilia and Agnes, by Francesco Vanni (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Attributed works:
72. The Virgin adoring the sleeping Child, by Francesco Vanni (Santuario di S. Caterina in Fiontebranda, Siena; exh. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
Article
Duality in Stuart Davis's 'Package deal', 1956
09/2010 | 1290 | 152
Pages: 609-612
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Author:
Caudill Dennison, Mariea (Caudill Dennison, Mariea; Caudill, Mariea)
Subjects
artists:
Davis, Stuart, 1894-1964
collectors and dealers:
Benenson, Lawrence B.
dates:
1950-1959
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
places:
United States / New Haven
places:
New York
print:
Davis, Stuart, 1894-1964
subjects:
American painting (United States of America)
subjects:
Commissions / Modernism / Advertising / Advertisements
Illustrations
Attributed works:
46. Package deal, by Stuart Davis. 1956. Gouache on paper, 54.6 by 47.3 cm. (Lawrence B. Benenson collection; copyright estate of Stuart Davis; licensed by VAGA, New York); photography copyright Yale University Art Gallery)
Western art unattributed:
47. Detail of Stuart Davis's studio with Earl Davis, the artist's son, and groceries arranged for Package deal. Photograph, 1956. (Estate of the artist; licensed by VAGA, New York)
Western art unattributed:
48. Detail of Chase & Sanborn advertisement. From Good Housekeeping 142 (June 1956), p.27
Western art unattributed:
49. Detail of ScotTowels advertisement. From Good Housekeeping 140 (January 1955), p.113.
Western art unattributed:
50. Brillo advertisement. From Good Housekeeping 142 (March 1956), p.134.
Western art unattributed:
51. Detail of Brillo advertisement. From Good Housekeeping 142 (January 1956), p.21.
Western art unattributed:
52. Hunt’s advertisement. From Good Housekeeping 141 (August 1955), p.21.
Western art unattributed:
53. Detail of Scotkins advertisement. From Life (27th February 1956) p.59.
Western art unattributed:
54. Detail of Tuffy advertisement. From Good Housekeeping 142 (April 1956), p.32.
Publication Received
Picasso and the Allure of Language
07/2010 | 1288 | 152
Pages: 484
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Reviewer:
Fletcher, Max (Fletcher, Max)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
print:
Picasso, Pablo
subjects:
Exhibitions / Early works / Art theory / Literature / Philosophy
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Picasso and the Allure of Language | contributor: Caws, Mary Ann , editor: Fisher, Susan Greenberg , contributor: Gross, Jennifer R. , contributor: Leighten, Patricia , contributor: Small, Mary Ann
Book Review
Sol LeWitt: 100 Views
03/2010 | 1284 | 152
Pages: 191
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Reviewer:
Lovatt, Anna (Lovatt, Anna)
Subjects
artists:
LeWitt, Sol
dates:
1960-1979 / 1980-1989 / 1990-2009
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
print:
LeWitt, Sol
subjects:
Exhibitions / Abstract art / Politics / Artists' writings / Drawings / Wall paintings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Sol LeWitt: 100 Views | author: Cross, Susan , author: Markonish, Denise
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