Master Drawings NY 2022

Our end-of-the-year market report digs deeper into the numbers behind some top selling Old Master paintings in 2021, as well as discoveries and museum acquisitions.

Wanwan Lei, co-founder of M_WOODS museum in Beijing reconnects with us to chat about their ongoing exhibition of Old Master drawings presented by the British Museum.

Randy Reynolds chats with Tova Ossad about preparing for Brexit.

Nicholas Hall reviews exhibition Raphael: The Drawings at the Ashmolean Museum.

An original study on the market for anonymous 15th and 16th century Flemish paintings, sold between 1946-2015.

How is the Old Masters market doing more than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic? Our gallery associate Oliver Rordorf presents some trends observed in the marketplace between March 2020 and July 2021.

Nicholas Hall presents a fine Portrait of a Young Lady Holding a Cat, a seductive image painted by Antonio d’Ubertino Verdi, known as Bacchiacca, for this year’s TEFAF – Meet the Expert series.

Observations from ‘The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570’, an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York between 26 June–11 Oct 2021.

Paul Rem selects Interior View of Niewe Kerk, a painting by Pieter Saenredam as one of the top highlights at TEFAF Maastricht 2020.

Scholar of black fashion and visual culture Jonathan M. Square responds to an unusual fragment of a painting by Annibale Carracci.

An exclusive interview with Jasper Sharp, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and designer Dani Mileo from Tom Postma Design on the making of the Beethoven Moves exhibition.

Ann Demeester, director of the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, selects a painting exhibited by Nicholas Hall as one of the best 17th century paintings at TEFAF Maastricht 2019.

Curator Mitchell Merling examines prudery through American private collecting of four major erotic paintings that ended up as centerpieces of American museums.

Uli Sigg presents a witty analysis of what motivates a collector.

Wandering through the streets of Venice, Ben Street takes us to see a sublime Bellini altarpiece in situ.

West Meets East in Dutch Art of the 17th Century – an exhibition organized by the Museum Barberini Potsdam and Kunstmuseum Basel. Featuring 120 works by Rembrandt and his contemporaries, it examines the influence of globalization on the Netherlands in the 17th century.

Poet Richie Hofmann dedicates his new poem, Jupiter, to a painting by Abraham Janssens.

Sparked by memories of her visits to Le Marche in central Italy, V&A curator Emily Knight explores the Victorian fascination with Italian Renaissance paintings manifested in the museum’s collection.

An intimate lecture on Carlo Maratti, ‘one of the most understudied of Italian Baroque artists.’

Art historian Peter Humfrey reviews the much anticipated exhibition reuniting Titian’s six great mythological paintings for Philip II of Spain, which was forced to close three days after opening in March.

Snapshots from the exhibition of Dutch Caravaggists at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht from 15 Dec 2018 – 24 Mar 2019.

A symposium accompanying the exhibition Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art that took place at The Kitchen, New York.