Highlights from Bonhams Old Masters Sale 5 July 2017.
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"This haniwa clay model of a horse from 6th-century Japan would have been buried in a tomb on ‘a very grand scale’, explains Japanese Art specialist Mark Hinton."
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"In the video above specialist Elizabeth Beaman describes how the leading American Impressionists found inspiration on a hideaway island in New England."
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Specialist Elizabeth Hammer examines superlative examples of ‘the most intimate form of Chinese traditional painting’, all with Imperial provenance — offered in New York on 15 March
"When he fled Paris for Tahiti in 1891, the artist described a ‘dazzling’ encounter with a landscape and way of life that changed his painting for ever — as an exceptional painting from our 28…
"Ryan Mosley once worked for the National Gallery in London — where he was disciplined for sketching the art.
‘A finished painting will probably be very different to how I’d imagined…
"An exclusive look inside the archives of a photographer whose sumptuous images of rock stars, supermodels and film legends encapsulated an era."
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"Specialist Alan Wintermute enthuses over an historic work by Nicolas Lancret — one of the greatest early 18th-century French paintings still in private hands."
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