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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 Francisco de Zurbarán, Still life with lemons, oranges and a rose, 1633, Norton Simon Foundation
Posted: 29 Aug 2025 by PML
Zurbarán's painting is at once a masterly depiction of mundane items - a cup of water, a flower, piles of citrus fruit, a slightly worn table - and a piercing, hallucinatory vision of objects which have somehow become laden with a significance beyond the everyday.
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.
Reframing Van Gogh, The bedroom, 1889, Art Institute of Chicago
Posted: 29 Jan 2025 by PML
Van Gogh painted this dynamic view of his bedroom in the Yellow House at Arles three times, this one being the second version.
Reframing GABRIËL METSU, Lucia Wijbrants, 1667, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Posted: 04 Dec 2024 by PML
This portrait - although the sitter’s identity was only recently discovered - turns out to have descended in her family for two hundred years, almost certainly retaining its original frame, until it was sold to a member of the Rothschild family in 1865.
Reframing JACOB HUYSMANS, 1st Earl of Lichfield & his wife as children, 1674, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Posted: 09 Oct 2024 by PML
In 2012 this striking double portrait of a future husband and wife by the Flemish-born artist, Jacob Huysmans, was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne ...
Reframing ZURBARÁN, The Battle between Christians & Moors at El Sotillo, Metropolitan Museum, New York
Posted: 10 Jun 2024 by PML
The large arched painting of the Battle between Christians and Moors at El Sotillo in the Met Museum was only one part of an immense altarpiece, about 15 metres high, painted by Zurbarán in 1637-39 for a Carthusian monastery near Cádiz ...
Reframing JUAN DE VALDÉS LEAL The Conversion and Baptism of St. Augustine by St. Ambrose, Saint Louis Art Museum
Posted: 22 Feb 2024 by PML
The project to reframe this painting by one of the great 17th century Spanish masters was very exciting, since it required the design to incorporate a sense of the piety, symbolism and Catholic splendour of the original setting. This is one panel from a set of seven canvases which surrounded an altarpiece of the Madonna and Child by Murillo in the private oratory of the Archbishop of Seville, in southern Spain ...
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