Tronies: Dialogue Between Marlene Dumas and the Old Masters at Haus der Kunst in Munich

MUNICH.- The dialogue-exhibition contrasts works by Marlene Dumas with historical examples of the Tronie art form. Tronies are portrait paintings that are characterized by a particularly virtuosic handling of the artistic means, intense expressiveness and individual physiognomy. It was only recently that Tronies were discovered to be an independent form of painting through art historical research.  Marlene Dumas, Naomi, 1995. Öl auf Leinwand, 150 x 110 cm. Private Sammlung © Marlene Dumas Tronies  The word Tronies comes from 16th and 17th [...]

Two for the Price of One! Collaborative Work Exhibited by Colnaghi at TEFAF

LONDON.- One of the highlights of the works being exhibited by Bernheimer-Colnaghi on their Stand No. 306 at TEFAF, 12 to 21 March 2010, will be the collaborative painting by Joos de Momper the Younger (1564-1635) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625), entitled Spring: a landscape with elegant company on a tree-lined road, with an asking price of around €3 million. These two major artists worked together on more than eighty paintings over a period of almost thirty years, a [...]

Leading Baroque Masters Together at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM.- On Thursday 25 February, the Rubens & van Dyck exhibition opens at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. From then until May 23rd, visitors will be able to see works by two of the 17th century’s leading painters and some of their disciples. The exhibition brings together works by Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis van Dyck, two of the leading painters of the 17th-century Baroque, highlighting the relationship between them and their unparalleled influence on Flemish painting in their day. In all, [...]