Some may be interested in a recent talk I delivered for the Paul Mellon Centre in Exeter, where I tried to make the point that the art historical cycle is incomplete without an art market that periodically furnishes it with new materials.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Is the art market moving away from "Sleepers?"
Some may be interested in a talk I attended back in March, concerning “forgotten masters” and the direction of the art market. Sounds grandiose and brings to mind John Kenneth Galbraith’s “market forecasts exist to make astrologers look professional”, but it was an interesting way to spend an hour.
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Forgotten Masters | Enduring Images - Unfinished Essay
The idea for this exhibition come slowly and fortuitously. In some senses it is a reaction to the dwindling supply of ‘good’ paintings. Those that surface are snapped up by the established dealers, who will then sell them on to the great museums and galleries, where they will be seen and appreciated, safely away from the art market.
Read MoreVáclav Radimský & Claude Monet
in 1895, the Czech artist Václav Radimský (1867-1946) set about painting the waterlilies near to his house in Giverny. Like his close friend Claude Monet (1840-1926), who lived nearby, he did so from an old rowing boat, to which he fitted an easel.
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Francisco Sancha y Lengo (1874-1936 )
Francisco Sancha returned to Madrid in 1922, with a cheerful and optimistic tolerance likely misplaced in a city where political opponents were beginning to murder one another. He resumed his contact with old friends and journals and even included himself in a large group portrait of 1925, which captured the cultural life of the capital.
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