Jean-François Millet Pastel Allocated to Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

GLASGOW.- A pastel of “The Angelus” by Jean-François Millet is on display at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. The pastel will hang in the Fragile Art space in the museum for the next four months. Glasgow Museums has been allocated the work in lieu of inheritance tax by the Government. The subject of the work is the angelus prayer which was said three times a day on hearing the toll of nearby church bells. It shows two workers saying their prayer [...]

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Sets a New Attendance Record

GLASGOW.- Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum opened on 9 April 2010 and ran until 27 September 2010, attracting over 120,000 visitors as well as wide critical acclaim. The exhibition has set a new record for the number of visitors to an art exhibition at Kelvingrove, smashing the previous record of 103,000 visits to a display of work by Van Gogh in 1948. E.A. (Edward Arthur) Walton, Seaside Cottages with Dovecote, c. 1883. Watercolour, [...]

Strong Group of Works by The Glasgow Boys to Open Sotheby’s London Sale of Scottish Pictures

LONDON.- Sotheby’s London sale of Scottish Pictures on Wednesday, 29 September, 2010, will bring to the market a superb selection of works spanning over a century, from the Glasgow Boys through the Scottish Colourists, to modern works by living artists. The 152 lots are expected to bring in the region of £2.4 million. Speaking about the sale, Michael Grist, Sotheby’s Scottish Pictures Specialist, comments: “Sotheby’s continuing dominance in the Scottish paintings market in recent years was confirmed in April this [...]

National Galleries of Scotland Announces Diana and Acteon Scottish Tour

EDINBURGH.- On the first anniversary of the nation’s acquisition of Titian’s Diana and Actaeon, the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and the National Gallery in London announced a tour of the painting to three venues in Scotland in 2010. The painting will be on public display in Aberdeen Art Gallery from 28 May to 27 June, at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow from 1 July to 1 August and at the McManus Galleries, Dundee from 6 August to 5 [...]