16th-19th Century Drawings Catalogue and Exhibition
UKColnaghi
A Catalogue of Old Master and 19th Century Drawings
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
$800 to $16,000. 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 $20.
Further information is available from Stephen Ongpin at Colnaghi's in London;
Tel. (0171) 491-7408 or Fax (0171) 491-8851, or via e-mail at
UKCol...@aol.com.
sbkc
a group that is interested in discussing good galleries, exhibits, call for
entries and info that concerns the selling and making of fine art.
Thank you.
krc
sb...@mich.com
Benny Shaboy
especially if you can filter out some of the noise. A list serv,
Paint-L is a lively mailing list for painters and seems to match
many of your requirements, too.
Art Calendar, one of the largest magazines devoted to the
commercial aspects of art business also has extensive listings of
competitions and outdoor art fairs, and I believe they have a
bulletin board on their web site for posting questions and
answers.
Also, we publish an artist-to-artist journal, studioNOTES. It is
primarily a print publication, but we have parts of back issue on
a website (http://webgalleries.com/studionotes)so you can see
what it's like.
There are several lists of opportunities on the web, including
those by the Hawaii, Massachusetts, Iowa, South Florida and other
state and regional arts councils, as well as the Arts Deadline
List, and some other commercial ones. We also publish a list of
calls for entries, titled "Selected Opportunities Supplement"
(SOS). It is not on our web site, but you can get a free
three-month subscription just by asking us for it at
studi...@ix.netcom.com. The current issue contains over 100
separate opportunities for shows, grants, residencies, public
art, etc. The total value of the money offered is over $800,000,
although some, such as mail art and university shows do not offer
prizes or the likelihood of sales. (But then, art isn't only
about money, is it?)
Hope this helps,
Benny Shaboy
studioNOTES, the journal for working artists
http://webgalleries.com/studionotes