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Reframing MAGRITTE'S La Statue volante, Pauline Karpidas: The London Collection Evening Auction, Sotheby's
Posted: 15 Sep 2025 by PML
Magritte's La Statue volante, painted in 1958, is being sold by Sotheby's, London, as part of the extraordinary collection of surrealist works assembled by Pauline Karpidas. It was installed in the salon of her house in London in a narrow parcel-gilt and black frame, as part of the various hangs in which this frame was repeated or partly echoed by other fairly plain mouldings in black, natural wood or overall gilding, centred or lifted here and there by a larger antique frame.
Reframing Warhol's The Scream, after Munch, Pauline Karpidas: The London Collection Evening Auction, Sotheby's
Posted: 15 Sep 2025 by PML
Munch had painted his apocalyptic vision of 'The Great Scream in Nature' in 1893, and two years later produced black-&-white lithographs of the composition, one of which - in the collection of the Munch Museum in Oslo - was picked out in watercolour.
Reframing GEORG PENCZ, Portrait of a Young Woman, probably Christina Schweitzer, 1547, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Posted: 04 Jun 2025 by PML
The true identity of this young woman has only recently been established; she is almost certainly Christina Schweitzer of Nuremberg, and her assured and self-contained likeness is one half of a pair of marriage portraits, both painted in 1547
Reframing CÉZANNE, Portrait of Antony Valabrègue, 1869–1871, The Getty Museum
Posted: 09 Apr 2025 by PML
The poet and art critic Antony Valabrègue was, like Cézanne, born in Aix-en-Provence and grew up alongside the painter (although he was five years younger). He sat for him in his twenties, the most notable early portrait pre-dating this one by three or four years, and bursting into the presence of the Paris Salon admissions jury with what must have been an extreme case of the shock of the new.
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