LIVE from London | Old Masters Evening Sale

Join us LIVE from London for the Old Masters Evening Sale, with a special pre-show hosted by Andrew Graham-Dixon. Coming under the hammer will be over 35 works which date from the late 14th century to the early 20th century, spanning a range of artists, styles, and genres. We are pleased to offer a rediscovered study for 'The Glebe Farm' by one of Britain’s greatest landscapists, John Constable R.A., and a pair of beautifully-preserved portraits by Sir Anthony van Dyck, dating from 1628. Alongside these we present a lively oil sketch by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, and a fine selection of Dutch Golden Age paintings including two exquisite still lifes by Rachel Ruysch.

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[NoGoodHandlesComingToMind]

10:28, nice dog
11:11, nice cat (and dog)
1:37:22, we all knew this feeling

[Ахриманстоппер]

27:30 can i buy this painting at 370 million £ too? but no auctions...

[interviewervonartista]

It's as if 1 million dollars is just 1 dollar for some people.

[decnijfkris]

this is not criticism but more a constatation. Can an european understand the revolutionary war in the USA? I don't know we are on the same page.

[decnijfkris]

The thing is that you should know where it comes to hang. That is one. That is the main question at this moment. The price an sich is not so important cuz totally emotional and artificial. . Then, in my mind speaking of 'old masters' goes for about half of these paintings. the soul of that time era should drip off at first sight. Observe how stretched the faces are on paintings in the late middleages. They become fatter in the renaissance. Did people get more food like on the Rembrandt bachannales? The closer you come to baroc paintings the further you are away of old masters. I have many many doubts about Rubens as a whole.He was a priviliged painter to the court, a snob thus. Maybe his drawings are worth high prices. Also there is an important difference in Italian renaissance and in Flemish renaissance differences in style and finesse. the brute flemish against the refined florentinian, both old masters that interacted heavily by trade. For non europeans it is very hard to project the faces on those paintings into the buildings of that era that are still there. We are fed and bred with it. Visits to European castles, churches and monastries can help you to understand what all was going on. What must a Japanese person have in mind to buy such a painting. In this auction I think I would only have bid on the Boticelli. Observe also the Jesus child on that madonna with child. You will see them more like that in baroc paintings and in churches. How come?

[Ахриманстоппер]

was this painter woman same good at transgenders artist of 18th century too, not only mens and womans?