Resources & Recommendations #5
to listen
An Oligarch vs Sotheby’s in a New York court, Singapore Art Week, Zanele Muholi
The Art Newspaper’s Ben Luke, contributing editor, and Tim Schneider, acting art market editor, dissect the civil trial between the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev and Sotheby’s. Rybolovlev accuses Sotheby’s of aiding the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier in an alleged fraud. It relates to the sale of major works of art, including the controversial Leonardo painting Salvator Mundi.
to watch
Two short ones this week. In the first video professor Catherine Whistler, Research Keeper of Western Art Department at the Ashmolean in Oxford talks passionately about a drawing on blue paper by Titian. At the bottom of the page, Noël Annesley, Senior Consultant at Christie’s, talks about a drawing by Giorgio Vasari.
to read
German Design Drawings Explored
A fascinating webpage that details some of the results and stories that have arisen from the Ashmolean’s recent research into a group of more than 300 German drawings in the collection. Designs for the production of artworks in metal, glass, and wood, as well as other artworks on paper, such as prints, and book illustrations are all examined and explained detail. Highlights include a number of drawings from Hans Holbein the Younger and a newly-discovered sketch by Albrecht Dürer. Interesting drawings by the likes of Hans Sebald Beham and Lucas Killian are also explored, in addition to the sheets of some lesser-known or anonymous artists.
