Reports from the inaugural “Master Paintings Week” collaboration between London’s Old Master dealers and auction houses have been smashing. For many of the private dealers, business was bountiful. The Antiques Trade Gazette described bustling commerce amidst the distraction of an epic men’s final at Wimbledon, and fortified interest from many of the top [...]

While Sotheby’s major sale of Old Masters is comparably diminutive to Christie’s this  year, in both size and quality, there are a few treasures still to be found.
OMNP’s star of the show has to be Sir Anthony van Dyck’s “Portrait of Endymion Porter” (lot 11, left)
This portrait easily trumps the three that Christie’s is offering [...]

OMNP previews selected lots from Sotheby’s New York sale of Old Master Paintings, European Sculpture & Antiquities on , 04 June 2009

Works discussed included those by titian, chardin, watteau, lorenzo monaco, turner, de la tour, procaccini, pieter brueghel the younger, and bergognone.

Selected lots from Christie’s New York Sale 2135, Old Master Paintings and Sculpture, 28 January 2009

OMNP previews Sotheby’s New York sale of Old Master Paintings, from January 29-30