A series of four online lectures –
Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship (4 online lectures: 7/14/21/28 October – The Frick Center for the History of Collecting, NYC)
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Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship Part II
DATE
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
TIME
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
WHERE
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DESCRIPTION
Karen Bowen, Independent Scholar, Antwerp
Booksellers and the International Distribution of Prints from Antwerp in the Early Seventeenth Century
While individual prints reveal much about what was produced and collected in the past, it is far more difficult to trace the means by which prints from diverse, distant places reached local printsellers and their clients in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In particular, it is unknown how orders for prints were placed, in what quantities and via which routes images they were distributed, and the price paid for them. Using the remarkably extensive business accounts of the internationally successful Plantin-Moretus Press of Antwerp, Karen will reveal how the press helped local print publishers complete their independent transactions, not least by selling thousands of prints to their own international network of clients who also wished to profit from the immense demand for renowned prints from Antwerp.
Co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints, this series is made possible through the support of the IFPDA Foundation.
Image: Nicolaes Lauwers after Peter Paul Rubens, Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1630-35, engraving, 60.6 x 45.0 cm. Museum Plantin-Moretus (V/L 11)
Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship Part III
DATE
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
TIME
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
WHERE
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Blair Asbury Brooks, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Heinz Berggruen and the Postwar Print Market
The Dealer and collector Heinz Berggruen (1914-2007) was an unlikely gallery-owner in postwar Paris. As a German Jew without connections or capital, Berggruen started his art dealing as an outsider. He nonetheless built a successful business promoting European modernists—often his fellow exiles and émigrés—and became one of Picasso’s print dealers. In addition to his representation of Picasso, Berggruen’s efforts on behalf of artists such as Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, and Joan Míro illuminate the role of the “Maîtres graveurs” within the Paris art market, as well as of European modernism within an increasingly American-centric postwar art world.
Co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints, this series is made possible through the support of the IFPDA Foundation.
Image: Heinz Berggruen in his apartment. Date and photographer unknown.
Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship Part IV
DATE
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
TIME
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
WHERE
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Jennifer Farrell, Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, concludes this four-part series on the history of collecting prints by interviewing collectors Leslie Garfield and Jordan Schnitzer.
Co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints, this series is made possible through the support of the IFPDA Foundation.
Image: Edgar Degas, The Collector of Prints, 1866. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.44).
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Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship Part I
DATE
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
TIME
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
WHERE
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Antony Griffiths, Former Keeper, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, presents the keynote in a series of four lectures on the history of collecting prints co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints. The series is sponsored by the IFPDA foundation and takes place on four consecutive Wednesdays during Print Month: October 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th at 12 pm.
The Print Collector and the Printseller
In recent years much has been written about print collectors but very little about printsellers. Yet the two depend on each other. No dealer can operate without customers, and no-one can collect without someone to buy from. This talk will explore the relationship of the two over the past five centuries, and trace the development of the print trade during this period. It concludes with some personal reminiscences about the changes seen over the past half-century.
Image: Edgar Degas, The Collector of Prints, 1866. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.44).
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