Apollo back issues from September 2008:
La gloire francaise: the decorative arts of ancien regime France have for two centuries or more been the favourite style of the wealthy the world over. Can this last?
Sep 01, 2008; ... When Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, paid a state visit to the United Kingdom earlier this year, the British press seized the opportunity to lament once more Anglo-Saxon inferiority to the French in taste and style. A new star had burst on the international political stage in the ...
Ten to catch: Apollo's selection for September.(Calendar)
Sep 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective' opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on 21 September (until 5 January). It includes a full range of work by the artist, who died in 1997, from sculpture to works on paper, installations, ...
Aretha Franklin.(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Aretha Franklin by Andy Warhol (1928-87), c. 1986. 'Warhol Live' is at the Montreal Museum of Fine art ...
View modern art in a new light. (The one it was created in.).
Sep 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PAUL Signac was first seduced by the Cote d'Azur when he moored his yacht in St Tropez during May 1892. His enthusiastic reports attracted other painters, among them Matisse, Bonnard and Dufy, and before long the area was home to one of the ...
Art a la francaise: this month Paris hosts the world's most beautiful art and antiques fair, the Biennale des Antiquaires. Susan Moore selects some highlights of this great feast of French art and taste.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] No art and antiques fair can match the ambition of the Biennale des Antiquaires. While other events offer a marketplace, the Paris Biennale flourishes a manifesto. It is a celebration of not just the magnificent contribution to the fine and decorative arts ...
French art the American way: the American collector Rodica Seward, owner of Tajan, France's best-known private auction house, has a missionary passion for modern French art. She talks to Louise Nicholson.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] 'Clearly I'm not interested--absolutely not--in competing with Christie's and Sotheby's', declares Rodica Seward, owner and president of the French auction house Tajan S.A., which she bought in 2003. Mixing French style with forthright American business ...
Tribal in Paris at the Parcours Des Mondes: this month Paris hosts the world's premier tribal-art fair. Annie Blinkhorn explains its importance to this booming market and previews its highlights.
Sep 01, 2008; ... September draws collectors from all over the world to Paris, but not only for the Biennale des Antiquaires. The city also welcomes dealers and collectors of tribal art to the pre-eminent fair in this field, Parcours des Mondes, which this year takes place from 10 to 14 September. ...
Ornament of the academy: academician Marc Fumaroli, president of the Amis du Louvre, is a distinguished scholar and essayist, whose writings on 17th-century art reveal a profound knowledge of its cultural context.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] On 2 March 1995 Marc Fumaroli was elected to the sixth fauteuil of the Academie Francaise in succession to the playwright Eugene Ionesco. There could have been few more appropriate choices for the Academie's task of preserving the purity of the French language ...
New paintings at Waddesdon Manor: recent acquisitions for the Rothschild collection: the collections at Waddesdon have been enhanced by the recent acquisition of four major paintings, by Callet, Chardin and Panini.(Antoine-Francois Callet, Jean-Simeon Cardin and Giovanni Paolo Panini)
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Waddesdon is the only house complete and open to the public in which the distinctive and influential gout Rothschild of the late 19th century can still be seen intact. On a hilltop overlooking the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, it was built between 1877 ...
French fashion at Petworth: although the 3rd Earl of Egremont is now best remembered as a major patron of Turner and other British artists, in his youth he had fashionable Francophile tastes. Peter Hughes examines the furniture he acquired at Petworth House, Sussex.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Among the greatest treasures at Petworth House in Sussex are the British neo-classical sculpture and the paintings by J.M.W. Turner collected or commissioned by the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837). This article looks at a much less well known aspect of his ...
Drawing on Japan: ceramics designed by the artist Felix Bracquemond pioneered the use of motifs drawn from Japanese art in 19th-century French decorative arts. Larry Simms publishes here two extraordinary overlooked porcelain services by Bracquemond that add greatly to our understanding of his career.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Felix Bracquemond's contribution to the decorative arts as one of the first designers to use Japanese imagery is unchallenged. Indeed, three of his dinner services have become icons of Japonisme. His Service Rousseau, with its images of flowers, birds, and ...
A window with punch: the outstanding brilliance and dynamism of the stained glass designed by the Irish Arts and Crafts artist Wilhelmina Geddes after her move to England in 1925 is embodied in her window for All Saints church at Laleham in Surrey. Yet this masterpiece provoked bitter controversy.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] On 25 May 1925--her 38th birthday--the Ulster artist Wilhelmina Geddes moved to London, never to return to her native Ireland. Armed with a commission to design and make a three-light memorial window for Laleham in Surrey, she was determined to survive on her ...
Merchant pride revived in cork: William Laffan celebrates the return to Cork of two historic collections, a triumph for Ireland's tax credit scheme.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Bowen's Court, Elizabeth Bowen's haunting memoir of her family's 'Big House' in Co. Cork, ends with an evocation of the 'perpetuity of livingness'; Bowen's Court is destroyed, the contents moved to England, yet it is still 'in its silent way, very much ...
Irish glass, silver & ceramics: Ireland's decorative arts have always had a devoted following among collectors but increasingly you need 'the luck of the Irish' to find the best.
Sep 01, 2008; ... When Jane Beattie of Dublin's James Adam Salerooms told APOLLO that 'Irish history is valuable' she summed up the motivation that drives the often unpredictable market for Irish decorative arts--and the prices it can fetch. Silver, glass and ceramics attract a handful of avid collectors, ...
Art now: America: life on Mars: the Carnegie International challenges the interest of the idea that a thing can be a work of art in itself.
Sep 01, 2008; ... Marcel Duchamp tossed a grain of sand into the art world that, depending on your point of view, has grown into either a lacerating vision of truth or an enormous drag. He was the first artist to see that the thing itself could be a work of art if someone claimed it to be so. Since he gave ...
Spence's charm: Basil Spence's centenary is an opportunity to reassess the achievements of an architect who knew how to charm clients and please the public.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] [FIGURE 3 OMITTED] Coventry Cathedral was surely the last modern building in Britain that people queued to see inside. I recall going there as a schoolboy with my parents after it was consecrated in 1962 and standing ...
Market review: art Basel showed some signs of market fatigue--unlike the sales figures for Impressionist and Modern art at auction in London.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Art Basel--which took place on 4-8 June--is, quite simply, a phenomenon: a contemporary art fair in a class of its own and one that is not so much a marketplace as a meeting place. Thousands of industry players of every description descend on this art-rich and ...
Asian art market: New York's Asia Week promises some outstanding sales, and an industry veteran has ambitious plans for Shanghai's contemporary art fair.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] All eyes are on New York this month. Asia Week opens at Sotheby's on 16 September with the $6m-$8m sale of Chinese and Japanese art from the collection of Frieda and Milton F. Rosenthal. The cover lot is a rare and spectacular Guhyasadhana Avalokitesvara, a ...
Art and its echo: this year's Hamburg Fine Art Fair offers visitors an unrivalled opportunity to compare themes in art across the centuries.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] It must be extremely rare for an art fair to be welcomed within a museum, yet in Hamburg it is now taken almost for granted. The Hamburg Fine Art Fair takes place for the eighth year at the city's Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, from 25 to 28 September. The 28 ...
Art business: what is the future for corporate sponsorship of the arts in the current economic downturn?
Sep 01, 2008; ... Arts organisations are increasingly relying on corporate sponsorship to finance their activity as they find it harder to win government funding. Earlier this year the UK's Arts Council announced that more than 200 artistic organisations would lose some or all of their funding. Every major ...
Around the galleries: collectors are heading for Dublin and Paris, where a wealth of fairs and exhibitions awaits them.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The 43rd annual Irish Antique Dealers' Association Fair (IADA) opens its doors from 25 to 28 September, offering an excellent opportunity to snap up the best--and increasingly rare--Irish antiques (see pages 91-92). Around 40 members of the IADA will exhibit ...
A family enterprise: the De Brays are a largely forgotten family of painters, but this fine exhibition reveals their outstanding contribution to Dutch art of the golden age.(EXHIBITIONS)
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] There are more prominent families of painters than the De Brays of Haarlem. Every enthusiast for Dutch or Flemish art can easily recognise the style of the Brueghels or the Hals, but despite the quality of their art the De Brays--Salomon, Jan, Joseph and ...
Art in an age of ease: an exhibition organised by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and now at the Nasher Museum of Art, makes a bold and persuasive case for the artistic achievements of the neglected reign of Philip III of Spain.(EXHIBITIONS)
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Philip III of Spain, who reigned from 1598 to 1621, tends to fare poorly in the pages of history books. Although he presided over a mighty empire, whose territories included the Iberian peninsula, Sicily, Naples, Milan, Burgundy, Flanders, Austria, the Tyrol ...
Longing & constraint: a survey of women artists of the Impressionist movement reveals many similarities in their depictions of women who seem both at ease and subtly confined.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] This teeming, charming harvest of luxe and calme (but not volupte) brings together the pupils, disciples, friends and sometime lover of Manet and Degas: Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot and, in the second 11, Marie Bracquemond and Eva Gonzales. (The three ...
Flakes of light: John Russell Taylor welcomes an exhibition in London that proves the Italian Divisionists were more than a dead end.
Sep 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The trouble with Italy between, say, 1850 and 1914 for British students of art history, schooled as they inevitably will be, know it or not, by Roger Fry, is that most of the right things happen, but by French standards they happen in the wrong order or the ...
A pristine heritage: Gillian Darley visits the new incarnation of France's museum of architecture.(Palais de Chaillot)
Sep 01, 2008; ... The Metro marks the spot. The Palais du Trocadero was built for the Paris 1879 Exposition Universelle, a full decade before the Eiffel Tower rose directly across the Seine. In the 1930s the great pot-bellied palace, designed in pick 'n' mix franco-romano-saraceno style, and by then ...
Raising the bar: the first volume of the Getty Museum's sumptuous catalogue of its French furniture sets new standards of information and analysis.(French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes, Baroque and Regence: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes, Baroque and Regence: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection GILLIAN WILSON, ET AL. J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM, $125 ISBN 97880892368747 [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This ...
Picture perfect: this survey of Robert Adam's houses offers new insights into buildings that might have been designed for photography.(The Country Houses of Robert Adam fom the Archives of Country Life)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... The Country Houses of Robert Adam fom the Archives of Country Life EILEEN HARRIS AURUM PRESS, 40 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781905400560 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Robert Adam is an architect who lends himself particularly well to ...
View from the box: this analysis of a celebrated masterpiece by Renoir depicting a couple at the theatre opens up a major theme in Impressionist art.(Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at La Loge )(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at La Loge ERNST VEGELIN VAN CLAERBERGEN AND BARNABY WRIGHT (EDS) THE COURTAULD GALLERY IN ASSOCIATION WITH PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING, 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781903470732 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Old masters underground: a 40th anniversary history tells the story of Christ Church Picture Gallery with engaging lightness.(40 Years of Christ Church Picture Gallery)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... 40 Years of Christ Church Picture Gallery JACQUELINE THALMANN (ED.) CHRIST CHURCH PICTURE GALLERY, 19.95 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9780955943102 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As more than one of the contributors to this highly entertaining ...
Directory of international auctioneers of art & antiques.(Directory)
Sep 01, 2008 ... England BONHAMS 101 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON W1 S 1 SR Fine Art Auctioneers. KNIGHTSBRIDGE, MONTPELIER STREET, LONDON SW7 1HH www.bonhams.com Tel. 020 7629 6602 Fax 020 7393 3905 Tel. 020 7393 3900 ...
Directory of British art & antique dealers.(Directory)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Antiquities and Ethnographica Dealers in Greater London FINCH & CO SUITE 744, 2 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON SW7 3DQ. By appointment only Antiquities, Ethnographica, Works of Art and Historical Portraits. Tel. 020 7413 9937 Mobile 07768 ...
Directory of international art & antiques dealers.(Directory)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Catalonia-Spain DOLORS JUNYENT GALERIA D'ART ARAGO, 268 (PG. DE GRACIA--RBLA. CATALUNYA), 08007 BARCELONA Catalan and Spanish Masters of the 19th & 20th Century and Contemporary Art. Paintings, Drawings and Original Prints. Fax +34 ...
Directory of international shippers of art & antiques.(Directory)
Sep 01, 2008 ... CADOGAN TATE 6-12 PONTON ROAD, NINE ELMS, LONDON SW8 5BA Expert Fine Art Handling and Ultra-High Security Shipping with World-class Packing ...
Directory of conservators & restorers of art & antiques.(Directory)
Sep 01, 2008 ... CLARE FINN & CO. LTD. 38 CORNWALL GARDENS, LONDON SW7 4AA Experienced Oil Paintings' Conservator/Restorers, Accredited and on the Conservation Register maintained by ICON, the Institute for Conservation. Fax: 020 7937 4198 Tel. 020 ...
Directory of international picture framers.(Directory)
Sep 01, 2008 ... JOHN DAVIES FRAMING LTD. 8 BURY STREET, ST JAMES'S, LONDON SW1Y 6AB Custom built museum quality frames. Fax: 020 7976 1518 Tel. 020 7930 7977 www.johndaviesframing.com PAUL MITCHELL LTD. 17 AVERY ROW, BROOK ...
Directory of specialist consultants and valuers.(Directory)
Sep 01, 2008 ... GURR JOHNS LTD 16 PALL MALL, LONDON SW1Y 5NB Established over 80 years ago, the largest firm of specialist valuers covering UK and Europe. Fax: 020 7930 1068 Tel. 020 7839 4747 www.gurrjohns.com e-mail: ...
Don't drop the Sevres: in the January 1993 issue, Jeremy Howard interviewed Sir Francis Watson, a former director of the Wallace Collection and one of Britain's foremost scholars of the French decorative arts.(FROM THE APOLLO ARCHIVES)
Sep 01, 2008; ... As for the decorative arts being considered beneath the notice of most art historians, nothing exemplified this attitude better than a British Academy meeting where Anthony Blunt had suggested that they should appoint another decorative arts historian. Sir Ellis Waterhouse replied, 'I ...