Drawings Exhibition: 16th-20th century works
UKColnaghi
A Catalogue of Old Master, 19th and early 20th Century Drawings
priced from £500 to £10,000 ($800 to $16,000).
Colnaghi is pleased to present its new stock catalogue of drawings, mostly by
Italian and French artists, dating from the 16th century to the early years of
the 20th century. Numbering 76 works in total, the drawings range in price from
£500 to £10,000 (. A selection of these will be exhibited in our London gallery
from November 24th to December 17th, 1999.
Among the early works in the catalogue are several 16th and 17th century
Italian drawings, including a study of the 'Labours of Hercules' by Marco da
Faenza, a genre study in pen and ink by Guercino and a sheet of studies by
Domenico Piola. A double-sided landscape drawing by Gherardo Cibo, dated 1564,
is a fine example of the work of this Marchigian artist (one of the very first
landscape draughtsmen), and will be shown alongside a charming study of a
sleeping cat by the Bolognese artist Flaminio Torre and a costume design by the
Florentine artist Baccio del Bianco, intended for a theatrical performance. A
small but choice group of Dutch drawings includes fine and characteristic
examples by Abraham Bloemaert, Jacob van der Ulft, Johannes Lingelbach and
Pieter Monincx, the latter respresented by a signed study of a boy and his dog
that is one of only a handful of drawings by this rare artist.
Among the French drawings of the 18th century are two charming small landscapes
by Aignan-Thomas Desfriches, a design for an urn by the sculptor Michel-Ange
Slodtz, and a fine pastoral landscape by Jean-Baptiste Pillement. These may be
compared with a vibrant gouache view of the 'Rialto' by the Venetian
draughtsman Giacomo Guardi and a study of a religious procession on the frozen
river Neva in St. Petersburg by the Italian architect and draughtsman Giacomo
Quarenghi, who worked at the court of Catherine the Great. English drawings in
the catalogue include examples by Burne-Jones and James Ward.
The catalogue is particularly notable in displaying the range, quality and
variety of European draughtsmanship during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Notable among these is a small but delicately-drawn study of a female nude by
Ingres, preparatory for his great 'Turkish Bath' in the Louvre, and a genre
scene of itinerant musicians by the Swiss artist Léopold Robert, as well as a
gouache portrait of a young woman by Robert Lefevre, the leading portrait
painter in France during the reign of Napoleon as Emperor and later during the
Bourbon Restoration. A landscape drawing by Henri Le Sidaner and an interior
scene by Edouard Vuillard will also be included in the catalogue and
exhibition, as will a spirited pencil landscape by André Giroux, a contemporary
of Corot whose work is surprisingly rare outside France. Of particular note is
a fascinating and varied group of figure, genre and landscape drawings by the
little-known printmaker Georges Gobo, a superb and gifted draughtsman who,
although born in San Francisco, was active in France throughout his career in
the first half of the 20th century.
The catalogue and accompanying exhibition aims to show that drawings of fine
quality, and of all periods, need not be prohibitively expensive. The
fully-illustrated scholarly catalogue of 76 drawings and watercolours is
available on request from the gallery, priced at £15, or $25.
Further information is available from Stephen Ongpin at Colnaghi
Tel. (0171) 491-7408 or Fax (0171) 491-8851
or via e-mail at UKCol...@aol.com.