Nadine Orenstein new P&D chief curator at the Met.
10 December 2014 | New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that George R. Goldner, who has been the chairman of the Museum’s Department of Drawings and Prints since 1993, will step down at the end of January 2015. It was further announced that Dr. Nadine Orenstein, currently a curator in the department who specializes in European prints and books through the 19th century, will become the curator in charge of the department on 1 February.
Read the full press release
View the 2014 interview The World According to George on the Met’s website, also featuring most of the curators, including Nadine
All about Drawings in CODART eZine #5
12 December 2014 | The Hague
Our fellow foundation CODART (Curators of Dutch Art, also hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Art History/RKD), of which all the editors of Delineavit are long-time members, has devoted the latest issue (#5) of her wonderful eZine to drawings with interesting articles on collections in Northern France, Poland (Warsaw) and Mettingen (Liberna Collection), a curator in the spotlight (Eva Michel, Albertina Museum), more about Greenwich’s Willem van de Velde research project, as well as very informative and entertaining interviews with Jane Turner (Rijksmuseum) and Bob Haboldt (well-known Dutch art dealer based in New York, Paris and Amsterdam).
Read more (and return to Delineavit)!
Altena drawings dispersed but not disappeared
18 November 2014 | Haarlem
The first Van Regteren Altena sale at Christie’s London on 10 July 2014 is considered to have been one of the most important events in this field of the last decades. Most of the 71 drawings by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish artists will from now on be cherished by several museums and private collectors, primarily in the United States, The Netherlands, France and Belgium. The most successful buyer at the sale was a well-known collector from New York, who allegedly acquired eight of the most important sheets, and alone is responsible for about half the €6,5m total revenue of the sale.
Three Dutch museums (Rijksmuseum, Teylers Museum and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) acquired six drawings (2-3-1 resp.) thanks to a national initiative by Dutch cultural funds lead by the renowned Vereniging Rembrandt who bought the sheets at auction. The acquisitions were presented yesterday evening during a meeting at the Teylers Museum where they will stay on show during a week, together with a small number of related drawings, prints and a painting. Read more and more. See also Ger Luijten’s article in the Autumn issue of the bulletin of the Vereniging Rembrandt.
Below (click the ‘read more’ link) is a provisional list of the known or alleged fortunate new owners of 51 of the 71 drawings; names of private collectors and art dealers have been left out. Please inform us of addenda et corrigenda.