Michael Schwartz: Exhibiting four centuries of top-quality European art from Rembrandt to Picasso

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- As the founder of Galerie Michael Inc., Michael Schwartz provides expertise from a lifelong career and love of art. His illustrious career as a fine art dealer spans a period of over thirty-five years. In 1978, he founded Galerie Michael in Los Angeles, a gallery dedicated to exhibiting four centuries of top-quality European art from Rembrandt to Picasso. The gallery reflects his founding philosophy of taking a long term view of working from posterity rather than prosperity bringing fine [...]

Sotheby’s to offer fine & decorative arts from the collection of Edward P. Evans

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s announces that it will offer Property from the Collection of Edward P. Evans across a series of sales this autumn in both New York and London. Furniture and decorative arts from the Collection will comprise the single-owner sale of Property from the Collection of Edward P. Evans in New York on 29 September, while Mr. Evans’s Sporting Art will appear in both the 19th Century European Art auction on 4 November in New York and the Old Master [...]

19th Century European Art Including an Important Collection of Sculpture at Sotheby’s New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s New York auction of 19th Century European Art on 5 May 2011–timed to coincide with the May sales of Impressionist & Modern Art–is distinguished by important and rare works, as well as a number of major discoveries. The select and highly-curated sale offers the best works of each artist represented, and concludes with a suite of exquisite marble sculptures. Taken altogether, the auction celebrates the diverse artistic traditions that preceded and coincided with French Impressionism. The [...]

Sotheby’s Presents Highlights from 19th Century European Art Auction in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- On 4 November, Sotheby’s 19th Century European Art auction will feature select works by important and popular artists, schools and styles of the genre. The curated sale, consisting of 82 lots with a pre-sale estimate of $20/30 million, contains eight works with high estimates at or above $1 million*, and will be exhibited in Sotheby’s New York galleries 29 October – 3 November, timed to coincide with Sotheby’s auctions of Impressionist & Modern Art. This exciting week at Sotheby’s promises [...]

Sotheby’s Auction of 19th Century European Art to Include Important Works by Giovanni Boldini

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s 4 November auction of 19th Century European Art in New York will feature three works by the prominent Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. This offering comes just after the close of the important exhibition Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, which opened at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 2009 and traveled to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts in early 2010. This exhibition represented the first major show of the artist’s work outside of [...]

Sotheby’s Announces a Special Exhibition in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, Sotheby’s will present Divine Comedy, an exhibition that will spotlight humor in the visual arts through the lens of Dante’s epic poem. Drawing on Sotheby’s expertise across many different collecting categories and time periods, the exhibition of approximately 80 works will place Contemporary art in dialogue with Antiquities, African Art, Old Master paintings, 19th Century European art, Modern and Surrealist works, Latin American paintings and 20th Century Design. Following the journey Dante takes in the [...]

Spring Sale of 19th Century European Art Announced at Sotheby’s

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s spring sale of 19th Century European Art will be held on 23 April and will offer a selection of high-quality works representing the best artists, schools and styles of the 19th century. Works from the sale will be exhibited at Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning 17 April. Sotheby’s 19th Century European Art sale will feature William Bouguereau’s monumental L’Amour et Psyché (est. $1.8/2.2 million). L’Amour et Psyché celebrates the story of mythological lovers whose devotion to [...]

Exhibition of Loans by Oberlin College to Open at the Cleveland Museum of Art

OBERLIN, OH.- Beginning March 23, 2010, through early 2011, 20 works of art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s (AMAM) collections of 17th-19th century European art will be integrated into the galleries of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). The works on view include paintings by Batoni, Lawrence, Hogarth, Van de Venne, Hobbema, Chardin, Boucher, Oudry, Lagrenée, and Boilly. Two bronze statues— one by 18th-century artist Francesco Bertos and another from the 17th century after a model by Giambologna—have been [...]

Sale of 19th Century European Art Features Recently Discovered Work

NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, Sotheby’s will bring to the market a superb work by iconic French Academic painter William Bouguereau. L’Amour et Psyché, dated 1899, is estimated at $1.8/2.2 million and will be featured in the 23 April sale of 19th Century European Art. Sold from a Distinguished Private Collection, the painting has been off the market for almost half a century. Its last known public exhibition was at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900. Throughout his career, Bouguereau [...]