OMNP is finding galleries to be clearly outgunning the auction houses for this year’s crop of works for sale at Old Master Drawings Week in New York. Among the highlights below, we see the flair that Delacroix had for equine subjects, in “A Bugler on Horseback, Accompanied by a Hound,” being exhibited by Stephen Ongpin. [...]

OMNP previews selected lots from today’s sale of Old Master prints at Christie’s London. If one is a fan of either Durer or Rembrandt-a parade of prints, including many iconic images from each artist’s oeuvre (particularly lot 13- Durer’s etching of Adam and Eve) are being offered at this sale. A strong imagefrom the Agostino [...]

Market issues, attractive purchases, and the opening of what looks to be an exquisite exhibition of Durer prints highlight OMNP’s weekend reading:
Buyer Beware, [Noah Charney, ART INFO]
This article was of particular interest to OMNP for its breakdown of the different types of forgery that inflict the art market. The concept of alteration forgery, for example [...]

Aside from the Turner and Goya shows mentioned in previous posts, here are some notable OM shows in the US and Europe to check out this Summer. OMNP commentary to be incrementally added later. Click MORE below for the listings.
SIDENOTE: The OMNP travel budget is a tad low at the moment, [...]

Sotheby’s Official Results, Sale L08040/Old Master Drawings
OMNP finds it a bit amusing that while the sale of the Goya drawings being sold over at Christie’s received a fair amount of press coverage, there was no mention of Sotheby’s sale of the Parmigianino drawing, shown above. The estimate on this lot can be chalked up [...]

OMNP offers up a preview of Wednesday’s Old Master Drawings sale at Sotheby’s, New Bond Street. Click MORE below for a full breakdown and analysis of selected lots in three different price ranges (High End, Middle End, Low End.) Click on each image to be redirected to Sotheby’s website for a full description of each [...]