The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) 2015
13 – 22 March 2015 | Maastricht
This is the greatest art fair in the world. TEFAF combines Old, Modern and Contemporary art, fine arts as well as applied arts, from all parts of the world, divided over various sections. Since a few years there is a special section on art on paper. Although it is unfortunately a bit out of the route on the first floor, the OMD people know exactly where to go (there are also toilets and a restaurant so some visitors enter the drawings Walhalla by chance, and much to their delight). Each year a selection of drawings from one of Europe’s main print rooms is presented in this section, amid the booths of the art dealers. Several of the dealers (called exhibitors) of OM paintings, like Bob Haboldt (Paris/New York), also have OM drawings in their booths in the main hall on the ground floor.
There is a wealth of further info on the TEFAF website
Masterpieces from a private collection in Amsterdam
From Goltzius to Van Gogh. Drawings & Paintings from the P. and N. de Boer Foundation
13 December 2014 – 8 March 2015 | Paris
Fondation Custodia in Paris presents an exhibition of 95 drawings and 20 paintings from the P. & N. de Boer Foundation in Amsterdam. The collection was formed by the Amsterdam art dealer Piet de Boer (1894-1974) mainly during the 1920’s and 1930’s, the years in which other famous Dutch collectors like Frits Lugt, Franz Koenigs and Jon van Regteren Altena were also active. Read More
OMD from the Belgian Royal Library exhibited
Tussen de lijnen. Tekeningen van oude meesters uit het Prentenkabinet van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België
Between the lines. Drawings by Old Masters from the Belgian Royal Library Print Room
26 November 2014 – 14 February 2015 | Brussels
As a spin-off of the AGORA digital inventory project of the drawings in the Royal Library’s collections, five drawings (by Joris van Hoefnagel, a Bosch follower, Karel van Mander, Jacques Jordaens and Laurent-Benoît Dewez) have been selected and studied in depth, resulting in the publication of a set of five individual booklets, written by the experts Wouter Bracke, Joris van Grieken, Ger Luijten and Sarah van Ooteghem. The five drawings are the centre pieces in an exhibition where they are combined with other drawings, dating from the 16th to the 18th century.
Early Netherlandish drawings on show in Rotterdam
Hendrick Goltzius, The Sense of Sight, drawing, c. 1595-96, exhib.cat. no. 67.1. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, inv. no. MB 1747
Vroege Nederlandse tekeningen – Van Bosch tot Bloemaert
Early Netherlandish Drawings – From Bosch to Bloemaert
1 November 2014 – 26 July 2015 | Rotterdam
After the successful first venue of Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam in the Fondation Custodia in Paris (22 March – 22 June 2014) the drawings are now on display ‘back home’ in Rotterdam, in three successive parts. In 2017 the exhibition will travel to the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents its drawings in the Print Room gallery on the ground floor behind the main entry. Because this gallery can hold a maximum of 45 exhibits at a time, the exhibition will be shown in three successive stages:
Part 1 : 1 November 2014 – 25 January 2015
Part 2 : 31 January – 26 April 2015
Part 3 : 2 May – 26 July 2015
Part 3 will also include the drawing by Bloemaert, Study for the Dead Christ in the Lamentation, which was recently acquired at the first Van Regteren Altena Sale (see our Recent News page) on 10 July 2014, as well as the painting.
Exhibition of drawings from a private collection
Voor de liefhebber. Twee eeuwen tekeningen uit particulier bezit
For the Art Lover. Two Centuries of Drawings from a Private Collection
24 October 2014 – 15 February 2015 | Dordrecht (Dordrechts Museum)
Surprise exhibition of 80 drawings from a private collection to mark the presentation of the Liber Amicorum Charles Dumas on 24 October. See more about the Liber Dumas below on our News page and on the Publications page. Unfortunately, the exhibition, which is especially strong in drawings from the second half of the nineteenth century (The Hague School), is not accompanied by a catalogue.