For more information, visit the Getty’s website here.

“Art and Love in Renaissance Italy,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through February 16th  [Metropolitan Museum of Art] [Art Daily]

Check out Rlfeigen.com for more information

Three near-invisible drawings discovered on back of Da Vinci masterpiece [Times UK] [Art Daily]
In what the Times UK described as a scene out of the Da Vinci code, a curator at the Louvre accidentally uncovered a group of never-before seen drawings on the back of “The Virgin and Child [...]

A sales export license for a landscape view by J.M.W Turner (left)”The Pope’s Villa at Twickenham,” has been temporarily denied a sales export license until June 9th by the UK Culture Ministry.

As one makes it way through the stately  headquarters of the Richard Feigen gallery, the distinguished atmosphere of this converted Upper East side townhouse might lead to an anticipation of its current display of love and lust throughout art history as being a conservative one.
Feigen’s world class inventory can surely make for an attractive billing [...]

James Wilentz of Old Masters, New Perspectives makes a writing appearance on The Daily Beast. Click HERE for this feature article on current art market turmoil, the stability of Old Masters, and a look back on Art Basel Miami Beach.

A light week of note follows in the wake of defiant success at the Old Master sales in London last week.  Art Observed provided an entire wrap up of the media’s coverage, which can be accessed in the link below.
In other news, a sigh of relief can be taken after a tenebrist masterpiece by Caravaggio, [...]

OMNP has updated the blog into a magazine-style format, for your reading convenience. Featured stories, will now be displayed on a revolving basis in the main preview window, below that major categories of interest have their own columns. All other requisite blog information is posted below..thank you for your patience!

After the encouraging results of Christie’s sale on Tuesday night, Sotheby’s follow up on Wednesday was an uneven one (20 of the 54 lots did not sell,) yet overall, produced some spectacular surprises. The market’s connoisseurship once again demonstrated that value is not necessarily found in a big name-two of top selling lots were [...]

So where exactly are you parking your millions of dollars during the recession? Apparently, buying an Old Master painting is a good bet- Christie’s first major Old Masters sale since the September financial collapse, sold 80% of its lots last night.
The small rediscovered portrait of “Flora” by Venetian master Giambattista Tiepolo more than tripled [...]

OMNP previews select lots from Christie’s London sale of Old Master paintings on Tuesday, December 2rd.
An excellent Breughel work, comparable to Sotheby’s showcase lot on Wednesday, is being estimated by Christie’s at under $1m USD
Rediscovered Masterpiece by Tiepolo Goes on Public View at Christie’s [Art Knowledge]

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A few articles leading up to this weeks Old Master sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Will the market’s softening extend itself to the market, or will history repeat itself? From Margaret Studer’s article below:
“In the last major art-market slowdown, in the early 1990s, old masters were “affected, but less,” says Alex Bell, world-wide head [...]