SB: The interesting thing about your work is how it combines this old-master sense of light and use of materials with these gritty urban scenes, so that there's a sense of the city's resilience, art history, the vitality and creativity in the community, as well as the history of New York. ❋ Sharon L. Butler (2011)
The earliest paintings in the Gagosian show are in the Madison Avenue location because that location has "more of an old-master feel." via ❋ Artlog (2012)
The old-master portraits, which used to look contemplative, now just look worried. ❋ Unknown (2009)
That magnificent Gilded Age palazzo is now the Flagler Museum, its lavish parade of reception rooms housing old-master paintings, as well as artifacts relating to Flagler's life and the FEC. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting specialist Johnny Van Haeften says that old-master paintings have an image problem in that many people think of them as "dark and dreary, but in fact I think they would be surprised at just how vibrant and fascinating they can be." ❋ Unknown (2009)
She also liked Georgian silver and old-master paintings. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Specifically, a megadose of old-master art in a city best known for tinsel, Disney and fads. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Greenacres, the former estate of Harold Lloyd, was so grand that Field felt compelled to acquire $20 million in old-master paintings to do justice to its wall space. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You knew there was a sea change when Saul Steinberg, the financier, threw a 1987 birthday party at which hired actors, one in the nude, made up tableaux vivants of famous old-master paintings. ❋ Unknown (2008)
London old-master dealer Johnny Van Haeften will offer "Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld" (1598) a vivid vision of hell by Jan Brueghel the Older, priced in the range of $5.8 million. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Chris Ofili, the black Roman Catholic artist who created "The Holy Virgin Mary," says the picture is simply a hip-hop version of highly sexualized old-master paintings of the same subject. ❋ Unknown (2008)
His is a cautionary tale concerning the fragile integrity of Stuart Finley, a sensitive junior curator of old-master drawings who accidentally spills a glass of ice water on the famous, domineering painter Miles Levy one night in a trendy SoHo restaurant. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some 53 U.K. and international dealers will have stands at the fair, offering works by everyone from great old-master print makers such as Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) and Rembrandt (1606-1669) to contemporary stars such as Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois and Damien Hirst. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He was flabbergasted when 19 young old-master dealers applied. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You're saying it's just amateur illustration with some trappings of old-master painting. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The combinations of old-master paintings (e.g., a Guercino) and modern art, and Slovak and foreign artists are fascinating. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Stupefying statistics about mid-six-figure attendance at old-master and modern-master blockbuster exhibitions notwithstanding, "high art" (the term we'll invoke here to replace "fine art") runs an evermore distant second to the products of pop culture. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Wednesday, Sotheby's will offer 15 old-master paintings from the London residence of Dimitri Mavrommatis, led by a pair of mid-18th-century views of Venice by Canaletto (estimate for the pair: £1.5 million to £2 million). ❋ Unknown (2007)
