TIAMSA Member News: Lecture – Ferdinand de Rothschild and the Art Market (Online, 17 Apr 2023; 17.30–19.00 BST)
As part of the is part of The Wallace Collection Seminar in the History of Collecting series, Dr Diana Davis will deliver an online lecture about Ferdinand de Rothschild and the art market….
PUBL: Craig Hugh Smyth – The Central Art Collecting Point in Munich (2022; free download available)
Between June 1945 and March 1946 the art historian Craig Hugh Smyth was the first director of the Central Collecting Point, the institution in Munich where the US Military Government in Germany collected…
ANN: Infrastructures and Interfaces of linked data for Research in the Dutch Golden Age, Lecture by Charles van den Heuvel (Belvedere 21 Vienna / DArtHist Austria, 28 June 2022, 18:00 CEST; in English)
Die Entwicklung digitaler Forschungsinfrastrukturen wie die Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes selbst erfordern enorme Investitionen, die nur durch die gezielte (Nach-)Nutzung der Daten sowie den Nachweis ihrer gesellschaftlichen Relevanz legitimiert werden können. Wie können diese Kulturerbedaten…
ANN: Yaëlle Biro – African Arts’ Secondary Market. Market Definition and Networks in the Early 20th century (Forum Kunst & Markt, TU Berlin; recorded online lecture now available)
The first two decades of the 20th century constitute a pivotal art historical moment for the reception of African arts in the West. It continues today to largely define the discourses constructed around African objects…
ANN: Nationalist Internationalism: International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935 (Online/UMAG; 18 May 2022)
Nationalist Internationalism: International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935, University of Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) Wednesday, 18 May 20221:00-2:00pm HKT (7:00-8:00am CET)
ANN: Still Life with Flowers – A Case Study in the Need for an Improved Canadian Museum Restitution Procedure, Lecture by Sara Angel (Collecting and Display, 9 May 2022, 6pm BST)
This talk will address the restitution of the painting “Still Life with Flowers” (1660) attributed to Jan van Kessel II. In late 2020, the painting, which had been in the collection of the…
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: Tricks of the Trade: Duveen Brothers and the Market for the Decorative Arts, 1880–1940 – Lecture by Charlotte Vignon (Getty Center / online, 5 May 2022, 12-1pm PST)
Drawing from her publication, Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880–1940 (2019), curator and professor Charlotte Vignon discusses the commercial strategies and the relationships with preeminent collectors, including J. P. Morgan, that led this…
ANN: Lynn Catterson – Stefano Bardini and the Manufacture of Authenticity (live online / Forum Kunst & Markt, TU Berlin, 31 Jan 2022, 18:15-19:45 CET; in English)
In November 1888, writing to the German museum official, Wilhelm Bode (1845-1929), the dealer Stefano Bardini (1836-1922) stated that he was certain that “eight marbles and 12 terracottas” in South Kensington (V&A) were fake,…