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  Freeman’s biannual European Art & Old Masters auction brings the best of the Continent, England, and Scotland to market, and this February 14 is led by  La Fleur Préférée (Lot 58), a striking life-size outdoor portrait of a farm girl by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Offered with an estimate of $400,000-600,000 , the painting was executed in 1895, at the height of Bouguereau’s career, and boasts an extensive provenance, having originally been bought directly from the artist. The work comes to Freeman’s directly from a private collection in North Carolina and has been in US collections for over a century, underscoring the artist’s longstanding popularity among Americans. This quintessential canvas is an unmissable opportunity for Bouguereau collectors. Also on offer in the February 14 sale is Deux Mères de Famille (Lot 59), a mother and child scene by Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau, an important 19 th -century French painter. This fresh-to-market work was exhibited at

An international team of scientists from the Rijksmuseum, the CNRS, the ESRF the European Synchrotron, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Antwerp, have discovered a rare lead compound (named lead formate) in    CAPTION The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642 CREDIT Rijskmuseum Amsterdam Rembrandt’s masterpiece  The Night Watch . This discovery, which is a first in the history of the scientific study of paintings,  provides new insight into 17th-century painting technique and the conservation history of the painting. The study is published in  Angewandte Chemie – International edition . The Night Watch , painted in 1642 and today displayed in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (The Netherlands), is one of Rembrandt’s most important masterpieces and largest work of art. In the framework of the 2019  Operation Night Watch , the largest research and conservation project ever undertaken for Rembrandt's masterpiece, an international research team joined forces t

Hamburger Kunsthalle 09 Dec 2022 to 10 April 2023 With the epoch-spanning exhibition  FEMME FATALE: Gaze – Power – Gender , the Hamburger Kunsthalle is dedicating itself for the first time to diverse artistic treat-ments of the dazzling and clichéd image of the  femme fatale . The stereotype of the erotic and seductive woman who holds men in her thrall, ultimately leading them to their downfall, has long been shaped by the male gaze and by a binary understanding of gender. The show will focus on various artistic manifestations of this theme dating from the early nineteenth century to the present while critically examining its origins and transformations: What historical changes and subsequent appropriation processes has the image of the  femme fatale  undergone? What role does it still play today? How do contemporary artists negotiate the gaze, power and gender constellations this image evokes in an effort to shift our perspective?  The exhibition explores these questions based on

Hong Kong Palace Museum 9.11.2022 – 20.2.2023  This exhibition is curated from the perspective of Liechtenstein’s princes, with eight distinct sections showcasing their wonderful history of collecting by princes. The focus of the exhibition will be the idea of a lasting legacy, on the one hand, and the personal stamp that the individual princely personalities have put on their collecting, on the other.  The exhibition will feature the history of the Princely Collection, from Prince Karl I von Liechtenstein, who founded the collection, to Prince Johann Adam Andreas I, who amassed a Rubens collection of about 50 works, to the current reigning Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein, who took over the regency in an almost hopeless position after the losses of World War II and, with the economic rehabilitation of the family fortune, led the collections to a new high.  Head study of a bearded man     Sir Peter Paul Rubens  (1577–1640) Visitors will discover the collecting pra

  My attention span seems to have a slow puncture. The more it shrivels the narrower my interests become, so my observations on Prince Harry’s psychological melt-down are no doubt superficial and ‘knee-jerk’. The upshot is that the author of “Spare” whose name I can’t quite recall has had to squeeze a few drops of juice out of a somewhat barren lemon. The conclusion has to be that Prince Harry is just an ordinary man; a bit dim, but so are most of us. The problem is that he has very likely burst the Royalty Delusion; the myth in which we must all collude in order to preserve the monarchy. Many of us believe the monarchy needs to be preserved, so to find the country in a King’s New Clothes situation is a bummer. The Royal Family is in the altogether , but let’s just keep the little boy who noticed quiet for the time being. Apologies to Danny Kaye and Co.  

Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625)  An Extensive Wooded Landscape , 1610. Oil on copper. 20¾ x 28½ in (52.7 x 72.4 cm). Estimate: £3,00,000-5,000,000. Offered in The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection Old Masters Evening Sale on 6 December 2018 at Christie’s in London Mr Albada Jelgersma’s collection also includes one of the largest landscapes  Jan Brueghel the Elder  ever painted on copper (above),   Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick van Balen Diana and her nymphs after the hunt oil on oak panel £600,000-800,000 Pieter Brueghel The Younger, The Tower of Babel, oil on panel. Estimate: $1,500,000 – 2,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.   Pieter Brueghel the Younger Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery oil on oak panel £300,000-400,000 FOUR MAJOR WORKS BY PIETER BREUGHEL THE YOUNGER The sale presents an exceptional selection of four major works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The Kermesse of Saint George  (esti

Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau  October 22, 2022–February 12, 2023 Curators: Anita Haldemann and Judith Rauser  Titel:  Bildnis Curt Glaser Künstler & Beteiligte:  Max Beckmann Entstehungszeit:  1929 Material / Technik:  Öl auf Leinwand Masse:  94 x 74.3 cm; Rahmen: 98.4 x 120.7 x 6.4 cm The Kunstmuseum Basel devotes an extensive exhibition at its Neubau venue to the Jewish art historian and collector Curt Glaser (1879–1943). Glaser was a central figure on the Berlin arts scene of the 1910s and 1920s and director of the Berlin Art Library. With his wife Elsa, he built an outstanding art collection. After his wife’s death in 1932 and the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933, his life took a dramatic turn: having been removed from his position in late April, he auctioned off most of his assets in Berlin and went into exile via Switzerland to New York, where he died in 1943. His fate and his collection sank into obscurity.  Titel:  Damenbildnis (Elsa Glaser) Künstler & Beteil