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NewsLite (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
A painting which had been missing for almost 200 years - presumed to have been destroyed - has been found and sold for £12 million. La Surprise, by Jean-Antoine Watteau was found in the corner of a drawing room in a British country house last year. The owners put it up far sale and last week the painting fetched £12 million - a world record price for any French Old Master painting sold at auction....
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Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
La Surprise, depicting a musician tuning his guitar as he sits next to an amorous couple, was considered by its owners to be a copy ...
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Business Times Asiaone (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
(LONDON) A painting by French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau, presumed lost and unseen by the public for almost 200 years, fetched US$24.4 million at auction on Tuesday as the art market continued to shrug off growing economic gloom.
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Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Here's a larger graphic of Jean-Antoine Watteau's La Surprise , so you can see what I mean about the BBC's description (next post down). Can you imagine a couple becoming so passionate over somebody tuning his guitar? Even the pooch is looking askance at them.
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Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Those three recently discovered sketches by Francisco de Goya fetched a total of £4m at Christie's London auction yesterday. Bajar Rinendo (Down They Come) broke the record for a Goya work on paper: £2.2m. To see the other two CLICK , CLICK . Jean-Antoine Watteau's La Surprise - estimated value £5m - sold for £12.3m, a record price for any French old master painting sold at auction. Click the title...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
In a sale of Old Master paintings conducted at Christie's on Tuesday evening with varying success, the art market received its first warning that the days of reckless buying are over. Yet cash flows in larger amounts than ever when the occasion warrants it, as was demonstrated by the extraordinary performance of "La Surprise," a genre scene by Watteau.
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News & Information (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Jean-Antoine Watteau’s “La Surprise” (1718-19) bested expectations at Christie’s Old Master and British Pictures London sale Tuesday night, selling for $24.39 million. The painting, thought to have been……Read more
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Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Artworks by Goya and Watteau which had been missing for centuries fetched £16million last night.
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
A lost Watteau rediscovered after 200 years IT IS easy to dismiss Jean-Antoine Watteau as the Barbara Cartland of early 18th-century French painting. That would be a mistake. True, his bucolic idylls of courting couples and little lapdogs have a domestic theatricality that has fallen from fashion, but they are unique for their wistful mood about melancholy and the transient nature of love. And there...
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Waggish (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
Proust, who was half ghost, immersed himself with extraordinary tenacity in the infinitely watery futility of the rites and procedures that entwine the members of high society, those denizens of the void, those phantoms of desire, those irresolute daisy-chainers still waiting for their Watteau, those listless seekers after implausible Cythereas. Journey to the End of the Night
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Revolution by Night (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
I think my biggest inspiration in terms of drawing from life these days, and in fact for the past little while now, is Rubens. I also absolutely love Watteau's sketches; Leonardo and Kathe Kollwitz are other big favourites.
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ContractsProf Blog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
It is worth teaching Business Associations just for this case. It is the perfect illustration of the doctrine of inherent authority. It has all of the necessary ingredients: a general agent for an undisclosed principal who exceeds his authority by...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 27/03/2008
LONDON - Christie’s announce the rediscovery of La Surprise by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). The painting has been missing for almost 200 years, presumed to have been destroyed, and was previously known only by a copy in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace and through a contemporary engraving. It was found in the corner of a drawing room in a British country house during a valuation last...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
A masterpiece by 18th-century French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau will be auctioned next July after a valuer found it by chance on the sitting-room wall of an English house.
