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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 [...]

Mystery portrait is Lucrezia Borgia, claims gallery [Ellen Connolly, Guardian UK]
A rather scandalous story lies behind this portrait, claimed to be of the illegitimate child of Cardinal Borgia, by the Northern Renaissance master Dosso Dossi
Missing Van Dyck Portrait to go on show at Tate Britain [Art Daily] [Tate Museum]
Lost painting by Italian master fails to [...]

In making the transition to the new design, OMNP is undergoing technical difficulties, which may affect your viewing experience…we appreciate your readership and ask for your patience, things should be smoothly running after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Digital mockups of paintings from “Ideal (Dis)placements..,” at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis
Pairing Old Masters with contemporary works of art is a concept that has been a focus of OMNP’s. Can Old Masters and their influence be reevaluated against derivatives of them from today? Is this just an intellectual parlor show, [...]

While the Hirst auction ended up being a defiant cash cow for Sotheby’s, channeling the artist’s aesthetics  through works like the Warhol print above couldn’t save the auction house from disappointing results from last week’s Contemporary sales.
Is a bleak one (at least for the short term).
As the maelstrom of turmoil affecting the international economy continues [...]

As we round out this first month of the site, OMNP would like to ask you, the reader, what you would like to see published. Are there particular artists, OM or contemporary that interest you? Any particular subjects on the market that you would like to see covered, or OM-related questions that you would like [...]

The review for the Turner retrospective at the Met will be posted shortly. And you can now find information and contact pages for OMNP above the NEWS section.
A few news links and topics of interest for the weekend:
Artists Represent Most Powerful Emotion: Love at the National Gallery in London [Art Daily]

The National Gallery [...]

A penury of Old Masters is good (and bad) for sales [Souren Melikian, International Herald Tribune]
Mr. Melikian wraps up last week’s Old Masters sales in London. A slideshow of sales highlights reveals some information that OMNP overlooked. Of note: A big reason that the Van Dyck portrait of a stallion [...]

Welcome to OMNP.com. This weblog will cover the Old Masters market in a dynamic fashion. It will offer practical information- listing upcoming auctions, private sales, and quality works of art available on the market today.
It will also present Old Masters in a more modern spirit. Through exhibition coverage, interviews, and contextual analysis, it [...]