Prado Extends the Opening Hours of its Turner Exhibition

MADRID.- Thanks to the support of Turismo Madrid, from 1 July, until 31 August visitors to the Museum can take advantage of two additional hours (Tuesdays to Saturdays) to visit this season’s major exhibition “Turner and the Masters”. In addition, and coinciding with the launch of this initiative, the Museum is opening its Terrace-Café Prado, located in a courtyard of the North Pavilion of the Villanueva Building. It offers free access and late opening hours (until 10pm) throughout the summer [...]

Turner’s Masterpiece Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino to Be Offered For Sale

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that in its Evening Sale of Old Master and Early British Paintings in London on Wednesday, 7 July 2010, it will present for sale Joseph Mallord William Turner RA’s great masterpiece Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino, with an estimate of £12-18 million. Painted in 1839, this breathtaking painting shows the artist at the height of his technical powers and is undoubtedly among the most important of Turner’s works ever to come to auction. The painting is further [...]

Sotheby’s to Sell Single-Owner Collection of British Watercolours and Drawings

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, it will present for sale, in its New Bond Street galleries in London, An Exceptional Eye: A Private British Collection. The single-owner sale of some 250 lots will have at its heart an exquisite group of 18th and 19th century British Watercolours and Drawings and Portrait Miniatures, which ranks as one of the finest collections of its kind to have come to the market in recent memory. Magnificent Regency furniture will [...]

National Gallery of Ireland’s Traditional Exhibition of Turner Works Opens

DUBLIN.- The National Gallery of Ireland‘s famous Vaughan collection of watercolours by JMW Turner (1775-1851) will be on display for the month of January. It includes Turner’s most striking works in watercolor painted during his later European tours: the Doge’s Palace in Venice, Lake Lucerne, and the fortresses at Bellinzona in Switzerland. This year the exhibition will be complemented by a display of seventeenth-, eight­eenth- and nineteenth-century silhouettes and miniatures from the Mary A. McNeill Bequest, comprising works by John [...]

National Gallery of Ireland’s Traditional Exhibition of Turner Works Announced

DUBLIN.- The National Gallery of Ireland‘s famous Vaughan collection of watercolours by JMW Turner (1775-1851) will be on display for the month of January. It includes Turner’s most striking works in watercolor painted during his later European tours: the Doge’s Palace in Venice, Lake Lucerne, and the fortresses at Bellinzona in Switzerland. Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), “Montjovet from Below St. Vincent, Looking Down the Val d’Aosta towards Berriaz”, 1836 This year the exhibition will be complemented by a display [...]