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Editorial
A one billion pound gift
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 3
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Subjects
collectors and dealers:
David, Percival
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Chinese art / Ceramics / Donations
Article
Nineteenth-century French paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1258-1263
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Author:
Clarke, Michael (Clarke, Michael)
Subjects
art literature:
Whiteley, Jon
art literature:
Catalogues
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
subjects:
Collections, Public / Nineteenth-century art / French painting / Acquisitions / Bequests / Gifts / Donations / Pissarro, Esther Bensusan
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Nineteenth-Century French Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum. By Jon Whiteley. 368 pp. with 200 colour ills. (Modern Art Press, London, 2022), £125. ISBN 978–1–9163474–2–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Fanny Claus, by Édouard Manet. 1868. Oil on canvas, 115.7 by 72.8 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
2. View of the Nile at Luxor, by Jean-Léon Gérôme. 1857. Oil on canvas laid on board, 16.5 by 28.7 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Head and shoulders of a girl holding a rose, by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux (called Dedreux-Dorcy). 1846. Oil on canvas, cut to an oval, 46 by 38 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
4. M. Bison, by Camille Corot. 1852. Oil on canvas, 32 by 25 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
5. Jean-Édouard Berthon, by Charles-Émile-Auguste Durand (called Carolus-Duran). 1870. Oil on canvas, 45 by 37 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
6. A windmill at Zaandam, by Claude Monet. 1871. Oil on canvas, 42 by 73.5 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
7. A view of buildings in a valley in the Île-de-France, by Paul Cezanne. c.1879–81. Oil on canvas, 45 by 54 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Letter
Letters: The Warburg Renaissance Project
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 620
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Subjects
subjects:
Warburg Institute, London, Great Britain / Warburg Renaissance Project / Donations
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Cross-section of a model of the Warburg Institute, London, by the architects Haworth Tompkins, showing the proposed extension into the courtyard. A new lecture theatre sits above accommodation for the Archives and Special Collections. 3. Right Concept sketch of the proposed new common room area in the Warburg Institute, looking through to the display area.
Publication Received
Stefano Bardini ‘Principe degli Antiquari’: Prolegomenon to a Biography. By Anita Fiderer Moskowitz
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 438
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Reviewer:
Levi, Donata (Levi, Donata)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Bardini, Stefano
dates:
1870-1879 / 1880-1889 / 1890-1899 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919 / 1920-1929
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Furniture
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Collecting / Donations / Bequests / Archives / Italian painting / Italian sculpture
Article
Bringing Mondrian’s ‘Lozenge composition with yellow lines’ to the Netherlands
02/2018 | 1379 | 160
Pages: 118-125
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Author:
Wijnia, Lieke (Wijnia, Lieke)
Subjects
artists:
Mondrian, Piet / Toorop, Charley / Bendien, Jacob
dates:
1920-1929 / 1930-1939
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands / Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
places:
Netherlands
subjects:
Dutch painting / Abstract art / Donations / Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Lozenge composition with yellow lines, by Piet Mondrian. 1933. Canvas, 80.2 by 79.9 cm. (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague).
Attributed works:
3. Tableau III: composition in oval, by Piet Mondrian. 1914. Canvas, 140 by 101 cm. (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
4. Arthur Müller-Lehning and Charley Toorop in the doorway of Leidsegracht 48, Amsterdam, by John Fernhout. 1928. Photograph, dimensions unknown. (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague).
Attributed works:
5. Jacob Bendien sitting in a Rietveld chair in front of the painting ‘Mask’ in the home of Dr. R.J. Harrenstein, by P. Zeilmaker. 1926. Photograph, 14.6 by 20.2 cm. (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague).
Attributed works:
6. Composition, by Jacob Bendien. c.1912. Canvas, 150 by 345 cm. (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague).
Western art unattributed:
2. Portrait of Jo Steijling. Photograph, dimensions unknown. (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague).
Western art unattributed:
7. Jacob Bendien (right) with two people, here identified as Reinder Harrenstein and An Harrenstein-Schräder. c.1932. Photograph, 17.2 by 22.7 cm. (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague).
Western art unattributed:
8. Piet Mondrian in his Paris studio with ‘Lozenge composition with yellow lines’. 1933. Photograph, 8.9 by 13.9 cm. (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague).
Supplement
The donation of old masters in The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’s new Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace
10/2017 | 1375 | 159
Pages: 865-876
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Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Hornstein, Renata and Michal
museums and institutions:
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
styles:
Dutch art
subjects:
Donations
Illustrations
Attributed works:
I. Pendant marriage portraits of a man, aged twenty-five, and a woman, aged eighteen, by Pieter Jansz. Pourbus. 1574. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2015.30-31).
Attributed works:
II. The adoration of the Magi, by Adriaen Isenbrandt. 1520s? (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2012.49).
Attributed works:
III. A paradise landscape with animals and birds in a wooded glade by a pond, by Jan Brueghel the Elder. 1617. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2014.71).
Attributed works:
IV. The Hesperides filling the cornucopia, by Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem. 1622. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2013.11).
Attributed works:
IX. A vanitas still life with skull, books, roemer, oil lamp and pen, by Pieter Claesz. 1645. VIII. Peasants merrymaking before an inn, by David Teniers the Younger. 1642. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2012.51).
Attributed works:
V. Elderly scholar in his study, by Jan Lievens. c. 1630. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2012.50).
Attributed works:
VI. Figures in the ruins of the roman Forum, by Jan Asselijn. c. 1637. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2014.75).
Attributed works:
VII. Wide mountain landscape with travellers and beggars, by Joos de Momper the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder. c. 1620. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2015.21).
Attributed works:
VIII. Peasants merrymaking before an inn, by David Teniers the Younger. 1642. (MMFA, promised gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 30.2016).
Attributed works:
X. Still life with fruit, dead songbirds, partridges and hare, with a cat and parrot, by Jan Fyt. c. 1650. IX. A vanitas still life with skull, books, roemer, oil lamp and pen, by Pieter Claesz. 1645. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2014.70).
Attributed works:
XI. Banquet still life with silver and gilt vessels, a nautilus shell, porcelain, food and other items on a draped table, by Christian Luycks. c. 1650. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2013.416).
Attributed works:
XII. Ships near a rocky coast awaiting landing party, by Simon de Vlieger. 1651. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2015.20).
Attributed works:
XIII. River landscape with bathers, by Philips Wouwerman. c. 1653. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2013.422).
Attributed works:
XIV. Drovers and peasants with cattle and goats at a ford in an Italianate landscape, by Nicolaes Berchem. c. 1655. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2015.27).
Attributed works:
XIX The daughters of Helios searching for their brother, Phaeton, by Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain. 1658. XVIII. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein in honour of Hilliard T. Goldfarb. 2014.82).
Attributed works:
XV. Interior of a tailor's workshop, by Quiringh van Brekelenka. c. 1655-60. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2013.6).
Attributed works:
XVI. Boy receiving alms from an old man, or The almsgiver, by Nicolaes Maes. 1656. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2013.7).
Attributed works:
XVII. The return of the prodigal son, by Jan Steen. c. 1668-70. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2012.48).
Attributed works:
XVIII. Still life with musical instruments, by Evaristo Baschenis. c. 1665-70. XVII. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein. 2013.419.
Attributed works:
XX. The skirts of a forest near a pond, by Jacob van Ruisdael. Late 1650s. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein 2012.52).
Attributed works:
XXI. A kaag and a weyschuit running before a strong breeze, by Willem van der Velde the Younger. c. 1685. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein 2013.421).
Attributed works:
XXII. A Bacchanal, by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini. 1719. (MMFA, promised gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein 231.2016).
Attributed works:
XXIII. The penitent Magdalene, by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. c. 1720. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein 2013.417).
Attributed works:
XXIV. Portrait of Madam Lethieullier, by Rosalba Carriera. 1739. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein 2013.420).
Attributed works:
XXV. Fishermen in a Mediterranean port sunrise, by Joseph Vernet. 1763. (MMFA, promised gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein 220.2016).
Attributed works:
XXVI. Still life with peaches and silver goblet, by Anne Vallayer-Coster. 1778. (MMFA, promised gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein 228.2016).
Attributed works:
XXVII. Lake by moonlight with castle on hill, by Jospeh Wright of Derby. c. 1787. (MMFA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein 2015.32).
Book Review
Les Rothschild: une dynastie de mécènes en France, 1873–2016. Edited by Pauline Prévost-Marcilhacy
08/2017 | 1373 | 159
Pages: 644-646
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Reviewer:
Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
Subjects
dates:
1870-1909 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
patrons:
Rothschild family
places:
France
subjects:
Collectors / Donations / Collections, Public / Collections, Private
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
50. Detail of mirror depicting Leda and the Swan, from the Boscoreale Treasure. Roman, 1st century AD (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Article
An unusual gift of Russian prints to the British Museum in 1926
06/2017 | 1371 | 159
Pages: 453-459
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Author:
Mardilovich, Galina (Mardilovich, Galina)
Subjects
artists:
Brangwyn, Frank
dates:
1920-1929
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain / Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
subjects:
Collections, Public / Gifts / Donations / Prints / Russian / Politics / Diplomacy
subjects:
British / Soviet / Correspondence
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. The jetty, Sennan Cove, by John Edgar Platt. 1922 (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)
Attributed works:
11. Florence, by Konstantin Kostenko. 1913 (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
12. St Sebastian, by Ignati Nivinskii. 1915 (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
13. St Petersburg: ruins and renaissance, the Palace Embankment in 1921, by Pavel Shillingovskii. 1923 (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
14. Boul'Mich, by Elizaveta Kruglikova. 1914 (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
15. The overflowing of the Volga, by Vadim Falileev. 1916 (State Russian Museum, St Petersburg)
Attributed works:
7. Illustration to Nikolai Gogol's The Portrait, by Aleksei Kravchenko, 1924 (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
8. Landscape with pyramids, by Konstantin Bogaevskii. 1922 (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
9. Hanging garden, by Paul Nash. 1924 (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)
Article
The Musée du Luxembourg and Toulouse-Lautrec’s ‘Portrait of Monsieur Delaporte in the Jardin de Paris'
03/2017 | 1368 | 159
Pages: 212-217
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Author:
Clark, Alexis (Clark, Alexis)
Subjects
artists:
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
dates:
1890-1899
museums and institutions:
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France / Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
subjects:
Acquisitions / Donations / Museum history / Portraits / French painting / Museum policy
subjects:
Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
36. Photograph of Room one in the Musée national du Luxembourg. c.1895. On the far wall can be seen Jules Bastien-Lepage's Le Foins (1877), Ferdinand Cormon's Cain (1880) and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes' Pauvre Pêcheur (1881), all now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Printed in the catalogue Le Musée du Luxembourg, Paris 1895.
Attributed works:
37. Portrait of Monsieur Delaporte in the Jardin de Paris, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. c.1893 (Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen)
Attributed works:
38. Jane Avril, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. c.1893 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Attributed works:
39. Woman drying her left foot, by Edgar Degas. c.1886 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Attributed works:
40. Women on a café terrace in the evening, by Edgar Degas (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Attributed works:
41. La danse au Moulin Rouge, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. 1897 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Publication Received
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty. By Merry A. Foresta, with an introduction by Elizabeth Broun.
01/2017 | 1366 | 159
Pages: 53
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Reviewer:
Appleby, Haydn (Appleby, Haydn)
Subjects
artists:
Penn, Irving
museums and institutions:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States
subjects:
Exhibitions / Photographs / Donations
subjects:
Collections, Public
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