| | | | | | Tentoonstelling Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen - Vlaamse primitieven, de mooiste tweeluiken. Datum begin:2007-03-03 Datum einde:2007-05-27
Deze unieke tentoonstelling werd vorig jaar gepresenteerd in de National Gallery of Art in Washington onder de titel ‘Prayers and Portraits, Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych’. De nauwe samenwerking tussen de National Gallery, Harvard University Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts en het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen bracht dertig pareltjes van tweeluiken bij elkaar. De vijftiende- en zestiende-eeuwse werken belichten een rijke periode van de Vlaamse kunstgeschiedenis. Een aantal van deze tweeluiken zijn bovendien voor het eerst sinds lang herenigd. Na Washington is de tentoonstelling enkel nog in Antwerpen te zien. | (Washington, DC - For the first time an exhibition will focus on Netherlandish diptychs, featuring some of the most beautiful and intriguing paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries. Premiering at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from November 12, 2006, through February 4, 2007, Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych includes 89 paintings, presenting 37 complete diptychs or pairs of paintings, reuniting some panels that have been separated for centuries, with 22 pairs on loan in the United States for the first time. Often small and depicting religious images as well as portraits of donors, the diptychs were painted by such Renaissance masters such as Jan van Eyck, Hugo van der Goes, Hans Memling, and Rogier van der Weyden. After closing in Washington, the exhibition will travel to the only other venue worldwide: the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, from March 3 through May 27, 2007.) | | | | LONDON.-Christie’s announces the sale of Property from the Anton Philips Collection, which will be offered through a series of international auctions during 2007 and which is expected to realise in the region of £10 million / $20 million / €14 million. Dr. Anton Philips, one of the most prominent entrepreneurs of the 20th century and the co-founder of Royal Philips Electronics, assembled a collection of Old Master pictures, 19th and 20th century art, furniture and decorative arts, a selection of which will be offered at sales in London, New York and Amsterdam. The collection is highlighted by Two studies of a young man, an oil study by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (estimate: £4,000,000-6,000,000).
Important Old Master Pictures from the Collection of Anton Philips - Anton Philip’s foremost passion was Old Master paintings and he owned a considerable private collection, an impressive selection of which will be offered at Christie’s evening auction of Important Old Master and British Pictures on 6 December 2007 in London. A comprehensive representation of predominantly 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings, 17 pictures will be offered with a collective estimate in excess of £8 million. The highlight is Sir Peter Paul Rubens’ (1577-1640) Two studies of a young man which was painted between 1615 and 1617 and is expected to realise £4 to 6 million illustrated above. The panel (46.5 x 65.5 cm.) is a study for Melchior in The Adoration of the Magi at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and shows a Levantine head, pictured en face and en profil respectively. The sitter is unkown but judging by his tanned skin, plain shirt and leather hat, it is thought that he could have been a contract labourer building the extension of the artist’s house in the Wappen, Antwerp.
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