by Judith Benhamou | Nov 4, 2021 | Art History, Old masters, Video interviews
The fascinating Duchess of Alba There exists not one but two Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). He has gone down in collective memory as a portraitist to the Spanish royal family, where he prolifically depicted the monarch and his clique, his soldiers...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 31, 2021 | Art History, Exhibition
 Autorship Not a year goes by without some controversy over the authorship of such and such an old master, as in the case of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Salvator Mundi (See here and here the last reports about the Salvator Mundi and here about two Botticelli proposed...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 14, 2021 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Video interviews
Catastrophic Brexit Seen from Paris, in terms of the art market, the end to Britain’s membership of the European Union seems catastrophic. When Brexit was announced, many multinational galleries like Zwirner and Levy-Gorvy almost instantly opened branches in Paris....
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 10, 2021 | Art History, Contemporary art, Video interviews
Moise de Camondo First it was a house. From 1911 Moïse de Camondo used his mansion located in the Plaine-Monceau district of Paris as a place to house his collection of French art. Then it became a museum. La belle époque In 1935 he donated the whole site,...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 6, 2021 | Artists, Contemporary art, Paintings, Uncategorized, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/ewBKSBa7aoc Same since the 1950s Imagine an artist who – since the 1950s – has always painted in the same style, with more or less the same subjects, using very similar colours. This is the American artist Alex Katz (born in 1927). Regenerating...
