Master Drawings New York 2019 with Special Exhibitions from Dealers in Master Paintings and Sculpture january 26– february 2 Preview Friday January 25 Master eVeNT sponsors Drawings CHRISTIE’S with Special Exhibitions New from Dealers in Master Paintings partners and Sculpture York JANUARY 26–february 2 PReVIeW AT ALL GALLeRIeS Friday January 25, 4–8 pm GALLeRIeS OPeN Saturday January 26, 11 am–6 pm Sunday January 27, 2 pm–6 pm Monday January 28–Saturday February 2, 11 am–6 pm Cover Arshile Gorky, Untitled eNqUIRIeS (from a 1931 Sketchbook) [email protected] Courtesy of Pavel Zoubok Fine Art, New York Telephone +1 929 265 1441 © 2018 The Arshile Gorky Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY www.masterdrawingsnewyork.com @masterdrawingny @masterdrawingsny @masterdrawingsny 8 3 r d 29 8 2 n d 8 2 n d Metropolitan 9 4 t h Museum of Art 18 Michael Werner Gallery 8 1 s t 30 Master Drawings 4 East 77th Street, #2 27 28 9 3 r d b★ 19 W.M. Brady & Co. 8 0 t h New York 2019 24 25 26 9 2 n d at Richard L. Feigen & Co. PARK AVENUE 16 East 77th Street, 7 9 t h MADISON AVENUE LEXINGTON AVENUE 1 Findlay Galleries Ground Floor 20 21 23 22 7 8 t h 724 5th Avenue, 7th Floor 20 Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd at Arader Galleries 18 19 2 Thomas Deprez Fine Arts 7 7 t h at Findlay Galleries 1016 Madison Avenue, 1st Floor 16 17 724 5th Avenue, 7th Floor 21 James Mackinnon 76 t h 15 3 Galerie J. Kugel at Arader Galleries 1016 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor 7 5 t h at Brimo Di Castro Kugel 625 Madison Avenue 22 W & K, Wienerroither & Kohlbacher Upper East Side Suite 207a, 2nd Floor 74 t h at Shepherd | W & K Galleries 4 Christopher Bishop Fine Art 58 East 79th Street 7 3 r d at Daniel Crouch Rare Books 23 Ambrose Naumann Fine Art 14 24 East 64th Street, 2nd Floor 74 East 79th Street, # 1d 7 2 n d 5 Didier Aaron Inc 24 Robert Simon Fine Art S 12 32 East 67th Street 22 East 80th Street, 4th Floor 7 1 s t | 11 13 6 Taylor Graham 25 Martyn Gregory 10 7 0 t h 32 East 67th Street, 3rd Floor at Leigh Morse Fine Arts 9 7 Kapoor Galleries | 22 East 80th Street, 5th Floor 6 9 t h Graham Shay 1857 26 Stephen Ongpin Fine Art Central Park Central 2 N D AV E N U E 3 R D AV E N U E 34 East 67th Street, 3rd Floor MADISON AVENUE LEXINGTON AVENUE PARK AVENUE 5 T H AV E N U E at Adam Williams Fine Art Ltd 6 8 t h 8 8 Mireille Mosler, Ltd 24 East 80th Street 6 7 t h 35 East 67th Street, 4th Floor 27 Pavel Zoubok Fine Art 5 6 9 David Tunick, Inc. at Jill Newhouse Gallery 6 6 t h 4 East 81st Street, 1st Floor 7 13 East 69th Street 10 Colnaghi & Artur Ramon Art 28 Jill Newhouse Gallery 6 5 t h 38 East 70th Street 4 East 81st Street, 2nd Floor 6 4 t h 11 Leon Tovar Gallery 29 Pia Gallo, Jurjens Fine Art, 4 16 East 71st Street Richard A. Berman Fine Art 6 3 r d 12 Découvert Fine Art at Tambaran Gallery 5 East 82nd Street at Kraushaar Galleries 6 2 n d 15 East 71st Street, 2nd Floor 30 Tomasso Brothers Fine Art at Carlton Hobbs LLC 6 1 s t 13 Jack Kilgore & Co. Inc. 154 East 71st Street 60 East 93rd Street, 2nd Floor 6 0 t h 14 Mia N. Weiner ★ sPecial loan exhibition at L’Antiquaire & The Connoisseur Inc. FIGURE/STUDY 5 9 t h 36 East 73rd Street Drawings from the Herbert F. Johnson 3 Museum of Art, Cornell University 5 8 t h 15 Benjamin Proust Fine Art Ltd at Carlton Hobbs LLC at Ariadne Galleries 60 East 93rd Street, 2nd Floor 5 7 t h 11 East 76th Street, #1a S Sotheby’s 1 2 16 Hazlitt 1334 York Avenue 5 6 t h 17 East 76th Street, #2 C Christie’s 5 5 t h 17 Stuart Lochhead Sculpture 20 Rockefeller Plaza at Hazlitt, 17 East 76th Street, #2 C 5 4 t h Master Drawings Third annual symposium wiTh New York 2019 masTer drawings Journal Institutional Partnership Events Registration is required for Master Drawings: The Next Generation all partnership events. Tuesday, January 29, 4–5.30 pm Please visit our website for further information: Albertine – Cultural Services of the French Embassy masterdrawingsnewyork.com/ 972 5th Avenue (at 79th St) partnerships In a celebration of emerging scholars in the field, the inaugural Ricciardi Essay Prize will be presented for the best article by an author under 40 submitted to Master Drawings in 2018. The winner will share his or her prizewinning research. Afterwards, Edouard Kopp, the John R. Eckel Jr. Foundation Chief Curator, Menil Drawing Institute, will discuss the strategies he employs to mentor the next generation of drawings specialists and to ensure that connoisseurship remains a vibrant practice at the museum. This symposium is made possible through a generous contribution from The Tavolozza Foundation Special Loan Exhibition The figural drawing has long served as a tool for both students and seasoned artists for perfecting representation and FIGURE/STUDY experimenting with the physical form. In their academic context, Drawings from the these works from the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at masTer drawings new york and Cornell University serve as both art objects and as primary The meTropoliTan museum of arT Herbert F. Johnson research documents. This installation celebrating the ‘studious’ presenT Museum of Art, aspect of drawings will not only highlight the Johnson’s collection Cornell University British Drawings at The Met of drawings from the sixteenth through twenty-first centuries, and New Haven: Hidden Treasures, January 25 – February 2 but also elucidate some teaching contexts and conclusions stemming from their study. Recent Acquisitions and Carlton Hobbs LLC 60 East 93rd Street Paul Mellon’s Turners New York, NY 10128 Lecture Event held in conjunction with FIGURE/STUDY curator conversation Exhibition sponsored by First Draft: the Role of Education in This event is made possible by Friday, January 25, 10 am–12 pm the Drawings of Abraham Bloemaert CHRISTIE’S Dr. Elizabeth Nogrady Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall The Metropolitan Museum of Art Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programs Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hosted and with an introduction by Dr. Andrew C. Weislogel Joseph Mallord William Turner sPeakers Constance McPhee, Curator, Drawings and 1828–1882 1775–1851 Drawing for The Blue Bower, 1865 The Seymour R. Askin, Jr. ’47 Curator Earlier The Channel Sketchbook, ca. 1845 Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Ian Warrell, Pencil European and American Art Watercolor on medium, slightly Senior Visiting Scholar for Collections Research, Yale 19¼ × 13 inches (48.9 × 33 cm) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University textured, white wove paper, Center for British Art; Femke Speelberg, Associate Curator, Promised gift of Virginia M. Lindseth, Yale Center for British Art, Cornell Class of 1956, and Jon Lindseth, Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 4:00 reception to follow Paul Mellon Collection Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cornell Class of 1956, to the collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Carlton Hobbs LLC 60 East 93rd Street opens, my colleagues and I are proud to squared for transfer to its place in the dome Master Drawings present a selection of Cornell’s European frescoes of a grand baroque church spotlights New York 2019 and American figural drawings from the the intersection of art and architecture, and sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries engages engineers as well as students of art. for this discerning audience. Among the In a world that increasingly bombards us inTroducTion notable works in the exhibition is Cornell’s with images, drawings stand as irreplaceable double-sided sheet by Abraham Bloemaert, that records of personal expression, culture, and illustrates Vasari’s dichotomy of inspiration history. Their intimacy calls for a measured My first encounter with master drawings architecture. He characterized disegno as a and industry. On the recto, an unfinished, approach; every encounter offers the opportu- as a graduate student found me speechless perfect idea envisioned in the mind and soul, ethereal Virgin Mary hovers, head bowed, nity for ‘slow looking’ and careful observation before works by Rosso, Primaticcio, and but one that can only be expressed by a trained while on the verso, hand and leg studies await crucial for honing critical thinking, regardless Cellini in the Uffizi, the Louvre, and the and practiced hand. We still seek this essential activation by students – or by the master of the beholder’s discipline or stage of life. British Museum. Ever since that introduction, balance of invention and manual skill in the himself. Rossetti’s drawing for The Blue Bower, For all of these reasons, I look forward to this I have been continually astonished by the best drawings today. But Vasari also understood so different from the final painting, raises week when, in the company of knowledgeable outsized power and versatility of drawings – drawing’s importance, not only for developing questions about the nature of studies in an dealers, collectors, and colleagues, I can the emergence of a breathing figure from a work of art from idea to execution, but artist’s process. become a student again, looking long, mere marks on paper; the revelation of also as a tool for learning about the world Our museum’s mandate to reach academic marveling at the manifestation of skill, decision-making in a complex composition; through the study of nature and of art, both disciplines beyond fine art and art history and seeking insight.