ANN: 10,000+ sales catalogues added to the Wildenstein Plattner Institute’s Catalogues Database
The WPI is pleased to announce the release of 10,000+ new digitized, pre-1945 sales catalogues bringing the total number of sales catalogues fully accessible in our database to 21,916. In line with its mission…
CONF: The Art of the Dealer – Selling Antique Ceramics, 1850 to 2000 (French Porcelain Society / online 12-13 Jun 2021)
The French Porcelain Society is delighted to announce a two-day webinar on selling antique ceramics in the pre-digital age from 1850 to 2000. Please register by 12 June 2021
ANN: The Market for Modernism (Metropolitan Museum of Art / online; 11 May 2021, 12–1:15 pm)
Between 1850 and 1950, when art collecting in France stalled due to the devastating effects of two world wars, revolution, currency devaluation, and economic uncertainty, it accelerated internationally, gaining interest from foreign collectors. Enterprising…
ANN: Webinar – Yamanaka & Co.: Early Pioneer of the Global Asian Art Trade (15 Apr 2021, 8:30 am–12 pm EDT)
The next webinar in the series Hidden Networks: Trade in Asian Art will take place on 15 April, with a focus on the Japanese art dealer, Yamanaka & Co. Yamanaka & Company was…
TIAMSA Member Announcement: CFP: The Fate of Antiquities in the Nazi Era (College Art Association, Annual (virtual) Conference, 10–13 Feb 2021)
Deadline: September 16, 2020 Despite the important role antiquity and archaeology played in the ideology of the Third Reich, until recently there has been little attempt to develop a holistic picture of the…
PUB – Article by Jan Dirk Baetens: ‘Artist-Dealer Agreements and the Nineteenth-Century Art Market: The Case of Gustave Coûteaux‘, in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Spring 2020, Vol. 19, Issue 1
The market for contemporary art in the second half of the nineteenth century was deeply affected by the introduction and widespread use of long-term contracts between artists and their dealers.
CFP: Visual and Material Culture Exchange across the Baltic Sea Region, 1772-1918
Call for contributions to new publication:Visual and Material Culture Exchange across the Baltic Sea Region, 1772-1918 The long nineteenth century occupies a precarious place in the history of the visual and material culture…
CFP: Collecting & Display International Forum (London, 2020/21)
The Collecting and Display Seminar Group at the Institute of Historical Research, London was founded in 2004 to provide a forum for new research into the many different aspects of the history of…
ANN: Lecture – Tricks of the Trade: Duveen Brothers and the Market for the Decorative Arts, 1880–1940 (Los Angeles, 15 Apr 2020)
Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 7:00 p.m. Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center, Los Angeles