Galerie Jaeger Bucher in Paris opens exhibition by the Portuguese artist Miguel Branco

PARIS.- From 28 January to 31 March, 2012, the gallery presents an exhibition of the artist Miguel Branco entitled Deserto. Born in Castelo Branco, Portugal in 1963, Miguel Branco studied at Lisbon’s Faculty of Fine Arts and has been the director since 1998 of the Painting Department of AR.CO. (Centre of Art and Visual Communication of Lisbon). His works have been shown at international institutions such as the MUDAM in Luxemburg, the CAM—Centre of Modern Art of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation [...]

Christie’s Previews Lots from Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sales in Hong Kong

HONG KONG.- Christie’s presented in Hong Kong one of George Stubbs’ most important works at the Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale on 5 July 2011 in London. Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey by George Stubbs (1724-1806) is a true masterpiece of both British art and sporting painting, portraying Gimcrack, one of the most popular and admired of all 18th century racehorses. It is offered from the Woolavington Collection, one of the [...]

Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Old Master & British Paintings Realises up to $37 milions

LONDON.- The undoubted highlight of tonight’s Evening Sale of Old Master & British Paintings at Sotheby’s in London was George Stubbs’s Brood Mares and Foals, one of the British master’s most ambitious and successful works and arguably his finest painting ever to come to the market. The painting, which made its first ever appearance on the open market tonight, sold for £10,121,250 / $15,906,556 / €12,096,885, a price which represents a new auction record for a work by the British master, [...]

Exceptional Painting by George Stubbs to Be Offered for Sale at Sotheby’s London in December

LONDON.- On Wednesday, December 8, 2010, Sotheby’s London will present for sale arguably the finest painting by the British master George Stubbs (1724-1806) ever to come to the market: Brood Mares and Foals, estimated at £10-15 million. Painted in 1767, at the height of the artist’s career, the mares and foals scene is a superlative example of Stubbs’ talents as both a horse and landscape painter. Never before offered for sale, the painting has remained in a distinguished family collection [...]

Paintings by Liverpool-born artist George Stubbs go on display at Walker Art Gallery

Liverpool, England.- They are a reminder of a long-vanished age when English aristocrats liked nothing better than breeding racehorses and hunting on their vast estates. These were the kind of scenes depicted by Liverpool-born artist George Stubbs, two of whose paintings are now on loan to the Walker Art Gallery from the Duke of Westminster’s Collection. They were commissioned by the Duke’s 18th-century ancestor, the Baron Grosvenor, later 1st Earl Grosvenor. Mares and Foals is a portrait of some of [...]