29 December 2016

Chloe Early. Encounter, 2013 (artist’s portfolio/ prints).


Oil on aluminium: 182 x 123 cm. For this series the artist had models jumping on a trampoline and photographed them in mid-air. Chloe Early: “...I’ve always been interested in opposites in my work and exploring themes which can have a dual interpretation”.

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26 December 2016

Philip Alexius de László. Portrait of Edith Hope Iselin, 1930 (private collection).


Oil on canvas: 163 x 91 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, July 2015. Edith Hope Iselin (1905-2001) was the daughter of Charles Oliver Iselin of New York, a well-known millionaire banker, and his second wife Edith Hope Goddard. She was painted in László’s London studio over the course of several sittings in 1930. In 1932 the painting was exhibited at Knoedler New York, and featured on the front cover of The Art News. A film fragment exists of Edith Hope Iselin wearing the same dress. In 1936 she married Archer Gracchus Jones jr., and lived much of the rest of her life on her ranch in Tucson, Arizona.

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23 December 2016

Giovanni Battista Moroni. Portrait of a young Lady, ca. 1565 (private collection).


Oil on canvas: 51 x 42 cm. Almost too good to be true. Its provenance dates back to a 1918(?) sale of antiques from the collection of Prince Gagarin of St. Petersburg (Kathleen M. Morris/ Williamstown).

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13 December 2016

Michael Sweerts. Head of a woman, ca. 1654 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).



Oil on wood: 50.6 x 37.5 cm. Such an intriguing portrait. Life has not been kind to her. Her teeth are gone. Working hard, but always in poverty. What went through her mind when she saw the finished portrait? Sweerts is said to have been an unpleasant character. He travelled Asia and the Middle-East and ended up with the Jesuits in Goa. 

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3 December 2016

Rogier van der Weyden. The Descent from the Cross (‘El Descendimiento’), ca. 1435 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).


Oil on oak: 204.5 x 261.5 cm. The figures are slightly less than life-size. Cleaned and restored in 1992-1993. The panel is exceptionally well preserved. Beautiful contortions and false perspectives to fit the golden box. Powerful gestures and facial expressions. Copy by Michiel Coxcie (ca. 1545) at the Bode Museum, Berlin.

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