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Exhibition presents treasures from the Thyssen-Bornemisza family collection Herman Saftleven, Rhine Landscape, 1663. Oil on cooper. 15 x 23.8 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections. MADRID .- As part of the celebrations in 2021 to mark the centenary of the birth of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, his heirs have all been contributing to several special exhibitions planned by the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in his honour. Following the highly successful exhibition of the German Expressio...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   Children play on ruins of al-Kfeir in Syria, March 24, 2021. So many people have fled to Syria’s crowded northwest during the country’s 10-year civil war that families have settled in important archaeological sites. Ivor Prickett/The New York Times. by Ben Hubbard (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- As the sun set, children in dirty clothes and battered shoes herded sheep past the towering stone walls of a Byzantine settlement abandoned more than 1,000 years ago, leadi...

Sam Hamper’s first-ever exhibition entitled The Denied Masculine plunges straight into the controversy over toxic masculinity, stereotypical gender roles and the range of emotions that men and boys can express. “I hear this a lot,” said Sam. “I don’t think it is controversial but talking about anything important is seen as controversial these days.” He goes on. “While I’m open to criticism I do think there is a positive form of masculinity that could help everyone in these...

The renowned art dealer Richard L. Feigen has died at the age of 90. Feigen set up his first gallery in Chicago in 1957, later opening in New York where he forged a reputation as one of the world’s leading dealers of Old Master paintings. During his lifetime, Feigen assembled an extraordinary private collection, with particular strengths in Italian paintings, British landscapes and 20th-century German art – holdings that he opened to Apollo in March 2014 when Susan Moore visited him at his ...

Museo Nacional Thyssen‐Bornemisza features German Expressionist paintings George Grosz, Metrópolis, 1916-1917 (detail). Oil on canvas, 100 x 102 cm. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid MADRID .- When in 1961 Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen‐Bornemisza acquired Young Couple by Emil Nolde he initiated a change of direction in the Thyssen family’s collecting activities. While his father Henrich Thyssen had assembled a remarkable collection of Old Masters during the interwar period, between...

Hodler sells for CHF 4 million Hodlers Lake Thun and the Niesen sells for CHF 4 million. ZURICH .- Bids rising above the estimates, busy telephone banks, non-stop internet bidding, the saleroom at covid-restriction capacity - except for the masks worn by the bidders and staff in the saleroom, it could have been a scene from one of the art markets best moments of the past 15 years. Such was the atmosphere at Kollers auctions in Zurich this week, and with an overall sales rate of 135% of the pre-...