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ineteenth-century paintings are on view all over Manhattan this fall. The Metropolitan Museum has two shows, "Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism," through Jan. 4, and "A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings From the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University," which opened yesterday and runs through Jan. 25. Nineteenth-century paintings have gained cachet since the enlarged Dahesh Museum opened last month in its new home at 580 Madison Avenue, at 56th Street.
Sotheby's also got on the bandwagon with a viewing of 19th-century art at its York Avenue headquarters through Monday. Works by Ingres, Bougereau and Delacroix are part of Tuesday's sale of 19th-century European art. This year for the first time Sotheby's has included a special theme section. It is called "The 19th-Century Atelier: Ingres to Bouguereau" and highlights the rich artistic traditions of the century. "We've repackaged the 19th century," said Polly Satori, director of 19th-century European paintings for Sotheby's in New York. "This area of the market is still untapped and underappreciated." The theme auction, she added, is an attempt to draw more attention to the 19th century, especially in light of this season's many musuem shows.
Among the likely highlights of the sale are two paintings by Ingres from the estate of Sylvia Senter, a New York collector. The Virgin with the Host (1860) is the eighth version from a series of nine by the artist.
Here a pair of angels hold up deep-green curtains behind the Virgin, clad in deep blue and depicted with a downward glance. It is estimated at $800,000 to $1.4 million. The other Ingres is Head of Jupiter in Profile, a brooding portrait expected to fetch $300,000 to $500,000.
The auction also includes an Edward Burne-Jones, Sidonia von Bork, one of two panels of the same subject executed in 1860. (The other is in Tate Britain in London.) The subject, also known as Sidonia the Sorceress, was a legendary noble-woman from Pomerania who was accused of being a witch and burned at the stake in 1620. The painting, estimated at $80,000 to $120,000, once belonged to the art critic and connoisseur Bernard Berenson, who sold it to John Walker, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington from 1956 to 1969. It is being sold by Gillian Walker, his daughter.
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Note from the ARC Staff:
What an amazing turn around for the most prominent newspaper in America to totally reverse an 80 year old attitude towards 19th century Academic art. Probably hoping that nobody will notice and mention how they derided and degraded anyone who felt this way in the past. E.g. Hilton Kramer's criticism of the Met when they hung their academic paintings 23 years ago
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