Hannah Barrett is a Brooklyn-based painter, whose work reassembles elements from Old Masters portraiture and other sources to, in her words, “create portraiture that deviates from the conventional male or female, and to explore the resulting pictorial and conceptual possibilities. reflects on  “The Golden Age of Seascapes,” now on view at the Peabody Essex [...]

In the final post from this weeks wrapup of everything OM in 2009 so far, OMNP takes a look at some of the interesting developments over the past several months.
Outside of market news, the UK National Gallery’s purchase of Titian’s “Diana and Acteon” has been most noteworthy. The allegorical masterpiece had been a part of [...]

The US has gotten its share of Renaissance preeminence, as Michelangelo and Leonardo, and the Venetian trinity have both made rare appearances stateside over the past twelve months.
Following the debut of  rare Leonardo drawings at the Birmingham Museum of Art last winter, the rare and controversial discovery of what many believe to be Michelangelo’s first [...]

As we enter the dog days of Summer, OMNP looks back at some of the highlights of the year, in a three-post series. In this entry, a look at the market’s movement.

Market News
Following the encouraging results of last December’s auctions in London Old Masters continued to assert themselves as a small isle of [...]