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Sotheby’s is delighted to announce a new partnership with Rocco Forte Hotels, British hoteliers with a commitment to preserving and promoting heritage. This summer the Forte family will help bring some of Britain’s finest treasures across the Atlantic for the first t.mes
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The upcoming Scottish Art sale in London on the 18 September showcases artworks spanning more than two hundred years and includes paintings by the Scottish Colourists alongside many contemporary Scottish Artists. The sale is on view in Edinburgh from the 13-15 August during the Festival. Click through to see highlights from the sale.
Leading Italian vedute painter Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, completed Architectural Capriccio with Classical Ruins in 1723 for one of the country's great noble families. Featured in Replica Shoes
's Inspired by Chatsworth: A Selling Exhibition, running in New York through 13 September, the painting is one of the artist's earliest masterpieces.
Ambroise Vollard was of critical importance for the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists so widely admired today. His courage and determination brought the works of a host of younger painters including Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Félix Vallotton, Édouard Vuillard and Edvard Munch, to the attention of the international public, along with older masters such as Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. This achievement alone is outstanding; however, it was his passion for creative publishing that encouraged the new generation of young artists to express themselves through printmaking, leaving a legacy that continues today.
Sotheby's Made in Britain sale on 10 September will bring to auction a selection of the most celebrated British contemporary artists, including potter Jennifer Lee.
Sotheby’s is delighted to host an exhibition paying tribute to the émigrés who revolutionised Britain’s art and publishing worlds. Brave New Visions tells the story of the pioneering émigré art dealers who transformed the London gallery scene,
English artist Sir Stanley Spencer spent the summer of 1940 hard at work, intent on painting artworks which would attract critics and collects
ors alike. He needed to be: at 49, Spencer was a seasoned artist, having exhibited twice at the Venice Biennale – but even so, he was burdened with financial debt. Spencer’s first marriage had ended in divorce, and his second, to Patricia Preece, was all but over. He needed to support both women, as well as his two daughters. And on top of everything, it was wart.mes
; the demand for art was slowing.
In this episode of Anatomy of an Artwork, discover Antonio Tempesta’s The Egyptians Drowning in the Red Sea, a visceral rendering of the biblical passage in which Moses and the Israelites pass through the Red Sea while the Egyptian army is destroyed. Masterfully executed in oil on Italian red marble, the work’s magnificence lies in the way the artist incorporates vivid patterns of the stone into the image. The Egyptians Drowning in the Red Sea is offered as a highlight of Replica Shoes
’s Inspired by Chatsworth: A Selling Exhibition. On view alongside Treasures From Chatsworth: The Exhibition, Inspired by Chatsworth presents a carefully curated group of exceptional artworks and objects that draw inspiration from the legendary Devonshire collects
ion.
For too long the field of contemporary and studio ceramics has been overlooked or underrepresented within the British art scene, but all of this is set to change this summer, with a series of major public exhibitions in Britain and further afield.
As a young man Vincent Van Gogh spent three life-defining years in London. From 1873-76, he commuted between lodgings in Stockwell and Oval and a Covent Garden office where he worked as a clerks
training to become an art dealer.
Our specialists have assembled more than 80 works that pay homage to Chatsworth's collects
ion, many featuring the same artists and subjects as those in the UK estate itself.