To celebrate our anniversary, we will be mounting an exhibition of highlights from our archives. These include letters from Constable, Samuel Prout, Delacroix and Mme Vigee Lebrun; photographs and snippets from the Colnaghi press books; and correspondence with collectors and art historians such as Bernard Berenson, J. Pierpoint Morgan and Henry Clay Frick. Also featured will be William Simpson’s lithographs of the Crimean War, Gems of the Art Treasures Exhibition (the first photographically illustrated art catalogue), and Wheatley’s Cries of London, the bestselling prints that established Colnaghi’s early fortunes. A ‘picture in focus’ exhibition will tell the story of the sale of Titian’s Europa to Isabella Stewart Gardner, which is also the subject of a lunch-time lecture at 1pm on Monday 5 July given by Jeremy Howard, Head of Research at Colnaghi  

This year Colnaghi celebrates its 250th anniversary. Founded in Paris in 1760, the firm moved to London at the time of the French Revolution, establishing relationships with artists such as Constable, becoming printsellers to the Prince Regent and, later, important pioneers of photography.
In the 1890s Colnaghi moved increasingly into Old Master paintings, selling masterpieces to great American collectors such as Isabella Stewart Gardner and Henry Clay Frick. After the Second World War Colnaghi’s played a pre-eminent role as dealers in Old Master Prints and Drawings, helping to create the great collection formed by Count Seilern, later bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute.
This study day examines some of the highlights of the story of the world’s oldest commercial art gallery and accompanies a commemorative exhibition of prints, photographs, letters and treasures from the Colnaghi archive.

PROGRAMME

10.00-10.30 am Welcome, Coffee & Registration

10.30-11.20 am From Fireworks to Old Masters: Colnaghi and Printselling 1760-1880
Timothy Clayton

11.30 am-12.20 pm Otto Gutekunst: A Masterly Old Master Dealer of the Gilded Age
Jeremy Howard

12.30-1.00pm Mrs Gutekunst and the gift of Vincenzo Catena’s Portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti to the National Gallery
Dr. Nicholas Penny

1.00-2.00 pm Buffet Lunch

2.00-2.50pm The Finest Things: Colnaghi, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Henry Clay Frick
Cynthia Saltzman

3.00-3.50pm Colnaghi & James Byam Shaw
Professor David Ekserdjian

4.00- 4.30pm Jackie O and I: Recollections of Colnaghi 1968-1975
Stephen Somerville

4.30-5.00pm Tea

Total cost £65 (price includes lunch with wine, and refreshments throughout the course of the day).

For further information or to book your place please contact Harriet Banks Tel. +44 (0)207 491 7408 or hbanks@colnaghi.co.uk. Places are strictly limited.

 

'We are all Flesh. Berlinde De Bruyckere Luca Giordano' is a collaboration between Hauser & Wirth and P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd.  

Carolyn Sergeant returns with new and delicate flower paintings. A commercial exhibition of her paintings presented by Katrin Bellinger at Colnaghi in association with Sir Jack Baer & Co.

Click here to view the catalogue
 

www.ottojakob.de  

A major retrospective selling and loan exhibition of works by Edward Seago (1910-1974) organised by The Taylor Gallery Ltd in collaboration with Colnaghi. Includes loans from the private collection of H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and the Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery. At Colnaghi, 15 Old Bond Street, London W1. Monday 8th September to Friday 19th September, 2008 (excluding Sunday 14th)

» Click here for the catalogue  

The Guido Mocafico: Nature Morte exhibition–a collaboration between Bernheimer Fine Art Photography and Hamiltons Gallery, London–focuses on photographs inspired by the aesthetics of Old Masters.
Born in Italy in 1962, the photographer concentrates in this exhibition primarily on three genres of still life: banquet, floral and vanitas still lifes, or as
Mocafico calls his groups of works, natures mortes de table, bouquets and vanités. The bouquet and vanité works are new and are being shown to the public here for the first time. At first glance, the photographs seem hardly distinguishable from the compositions of the Old Masters that supplement the exhibition, because in his remarkable works, which are planned down to the last detail, Mocafico replicates typical still lifes of the 17th and 18th centuries.


» MOCAFICO BROCHURE  

The depiction of the Artist in Art from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries – Colnaghi in association with Emanuel von Baeyer
(www.evbaeyer.com)

Also, on view will be a selection of nineteenth century artists materials, on loan from Green and Stone of Chelsea
(www.greenandstone.com)

Click here for the exhibition catalogue


 

The Colnaghi summer exhibition explores artistic reactions to Italy between the seventeenth century and the early twentieth century. The principal focus of the exhibition will be on Italian landscape and how it has inspired both visiting artists and Italian view painters. The exhibition will include Grand Tour portraiture, vedute, capriccio and northern landscapes influenced the experience of Italy and Italian light. One of the features of the exhibition will be to chart the varying responses of various North European artists to Italy over a period of three centuries. Artists featured will include French Neo-classical landscape painters such as Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, German and Scandinavian artists such as Martin Drölling and Joseph-Theodor Hansen, British artists such as Richard Wilson and Dutch seventeenth century landscape painters. In Italian Light will also include works by Italian view painters such as Giuseppe Zocchi whose magnificent view of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence is one of the highlights of the exhibition.

To accomany the exhibition there will be a series of free public lectures:

TUESDAY 19th JUNE 6.30pm - Professor Richard Verdi, Director of the Barber Institute, Birmingham: Artistic Travellers in Seventeenth-Century Italy

THURSDAY 21st JUNE 6.30pm - Jeremy Howard, Colnaghi: From the Grand Tour to Cook's Tours: The Lure of Italy and Its Artistic Impact in Britain

TUESDAY 26th JUNE 6.30pm - Dr Jon Whiteley, Assitant-Keeper, Department of Western Art, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: In the footsteps of Claude: Landscape Painters in Italy in the late Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries.

For more information and to reserve a seat please contact the gallery on +44 (0) 20 7491 7408. Seating is strictly limited to 60.
 

This exhibition by contemporary dealers Hauser and Wirth will be on show in the Colnaghi red room before touring to Zwirner & Wirth's prestigious gallery just off Madison Avenue, New York. It will be a cross generational presentation of works spanning old master paintings through to the work of later day contemporary artists.
 

Katrin Bellinger is pleased to annouce their forthcoming exhibition of drawings for jewellery and metalwork to coincide the exhibition of Jewellery by Otto Jakob, 26th April to 5th May.  

An exhibition of works by Edward Seago (1910 - 1974) organised by The Taylor Gallery Ltd, to celebrate their 20th anniversary, and Colnaghi will run from Wednesday 27th September to Saturday 7th October. An exhibition catalogue is available on request.

Please click on an image for further details.  

A selling exhibition of 51 magnificent botanical watercolours by an Indian artist working in Calcutta around 1800.  

A selling exhibition of Victorian photography focusing on the works of Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron, both of whom were promoted by Colnaghi in their lifetimes. The exhibition is accompanied by a brochure which includes an essay and biographies written by Pam Roberts.  

A commercial exhibition of drawings presented by Colnaghi in association with Sir Jack Baer & Co. and Katrin Bellinger at Colnaghi.  

The nineteenth century saw the emergence of a variety of artistic movements in Germany, such as the Nazarenes, Romanticism and Realism. Italy, especially Rome, was also an important catalyst for the development of German art at this time, particularly in the area of landscape and view painting.  

Katrin Bellinger at Colnaghi is pleased to present a Christmas exhibition of works by Carolyn Sergeant, Yuri Ivanchencko and other 17th, 18th and 19th Century artists. The exhibition will run from Monday 28th November to Friday 16th December 2005. These affordable works of art would make wonderful Christmas presents, prices will start from under £1,000.  

An Exhibition of Watercolours presented by John Spink

Catalogued by Timothy Wilcox
 

Julian Schnabel, Tina Barney and Eve Sussman

P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., Ltd., London and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York are delighted to announce details of an exciting new joint project exploring the relationships between contemporary art and Old Master paintings and drawings.