PUBL: Elisabeth Furtwängler & Mattes Lammert, (eds.): Kunst und Profit. Museen und der französische Kunstmarkt im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Elisabeth Furtwängler and Mattes Lammert (eds.): Kunst und Profit. Museen und der französische Kunstmarkt im Zweiten Weltkrieg, with a preface of Gilbert Lupfer and Bénédicte Savoy, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter,2022 (German/French). Art and Profit. Museums and…
PUBL: Book Announcement, The New York Market for French Art in the Gilded Age, 1867-1893
The New York Market for French Art in the Gilded Age, 1867-1893, Contextualizing Art Markets series, will be published by New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, in December 2022/January 2023. Discounted price for pre-orders…
ANN: New materials from Galerie Raphaël Gérard now available online through the Wildenstein Plattner Institute
The Wildenstein Plattner Institute (WPI) announces the release of facsimiles of three important 1940s stock books from the Galerie Raphaël Gérard. The registers are the newest addition to the Galerie Félix Gérard and Galerie Raphaël Gérard…
CONF: Lancement de la base de données “Deutsch-französische Kunstvermittlung 1870-1940 et 1945-1960“ (DFK, Paris, 26 May 2022)
Depuis le printemps 2021, une équipe interdisciplinaire travaille sous la direction scientifique d’Anne Klammt à la réorganisation de la base de données du projet Deutsch-Französische Kunstvermittlung 1870-1940 und 1945-1960, mené à bien entre 1999 et 2005…
ANN: A transatlantic hybrid and a ‘Fauve de la Curiosité’: Edouard Jonas (1883-1961), Dealer and Curator – Lecture by Barbara Lasic (SHC / French Chapter, 26 April 2022, 18:30 CEST / 17:30 BST)
Better known as Ernest Cognacq’s artistic adviser and as the first curator of the Cognacq-Jay Museum in Paris, Édouard Jonas was also a successful art dealer who owned a gallery 3 Place Vendôme In Paris,…
ANN: Memoirs of avant-garde gallery owner, Berthe Weill, now online
After more than ten years of research, Dr Marianne Le Morvan has published in open source in French the memoirs of the avant-garde gallery owner Berthe Weill, with a critical text and a…
ANN: Book launch and discussion – Foreign Currency Volatility and the Market for French Modernist Art (8 Dec 2022; 13:00 AEDT)
Please join us for a brief presentation on the new book by author Dr David Challis followed by a discussion moderated by Associate Professor Christopher Marshall. Wednesday 8th December at 1.00pm AEDT (9pm…
ANN: Collecting Antiquities in France in the 19th Century – Lecture by Cécile Colonna (Soc. for the History of Collecting / online, 14 Dec 2021, 19:30 CET)
The collector of works of art, original in his path, peculiar in his tastes, unique for his collection, is most often studied as a singular individual through a biography, precisely retraced. The act of collecting is nevertheless a social…
ANN: Launch of the “Répertoire des acteurs du marché de l’art en France sous l’Occupation (RAMA)” (INHA Paris, 3 Dec 2021)
À partir du 3 décembre 2021, l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) publie en ligne plus de 150 articles biographiques du Répertoire des acteurs du marché de l’art sous l’Occupation, 1940-1945 (RAMA) sous…