Sofonisba Anguissola, The Chess Game, 1555. National Museum, Poznan.
Our exhibition, Beyond Boundaries: Historical Art By and Of People of Color, is featured in ELLE DÉCOR’s "What’s on Our Cultural Calendar This December" and described by Senior Design Writer, Camille Okhio, as a “short and sweet survey of some of the earliest Black icons of the Western world.”
After Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi, Detroit Institute of Arts.
Our exceptional pair of paintings on black marble by Filippo Napoletano are currently featured in “Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530–1800” at the Saint Louis Art Museum (February 20 – May 15, 2022). Curated by Judith Mann, this exhibition presents the first systematic examination of the artistic tradition of painting on stone supports.
We are pleased to have contributed two paintings and facilitated the loan of a third to the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the Florentine painter Pier Francesco di Jacopo Foschi. Curated by Nelda Damiano, “Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence” was held at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia, from January to April of this year. A version of the exhibition will be presented at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence from 27 November 2023 to 10 March 2024.
The exhibition featured our Madonna and Child with Two Angels and Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist, as well as an alumnus of Robert Simon Fine Art, Foschi’s Judith and Holofernes.
Pier Francesco di Jacopo Foschi (Florence, 1502 – 1567)
Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Oil on panel
37 ¼ x 29 ⅜ inches (94.5 x 74.5 cm)
Pier Francesco di Jacopo Foschi (Florence, 1502 – 1567)
Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist
Oil on panel
47 ¼ x 37 ⅜ inches (120 x 95 cm)
Pier Francesco di Jacopo Foschi (Florence 1502 – 1567)
Judith and Holofernes
Oil on panel
35 ⅞ x 27 ¾ inches (91 x 70.5 cm)
Claire Farago’s review of "Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts” by Margaret Dalivalle, Martin Kemp, & Robert B. Simon has been published in the December issue of The Burlington Magazine (vol. 163, no. 1425) under the title, Leonardo’s speaking picture: the ‘Salvator Mundi’ redivivus.
The New York Times has recently reviewed the exhibition “By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800,” on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum until January 9, 2022. The exhibition celebrates and explores the contributions of Italian women artists the Renaissance and the Baroque period, including several alumnae of Robert Simon Fine Art. Paintings handled by our gallery feature prominently in the exhibition and in the Times review, including Ginevra Cantofoli’s Cleopatra and Elisabetta Sirani’s Berenice (illustrated above at left), as well as the pastels by Rosalba Carriera and her pupil Marianna Carlevarijs.
Robert Simon recently appeared on Forbes’ new video series Priceless, which investigates the values of some of the most unique assets owned by members of the Forbes 400 list. This episode focuses on the only manuscript by Leonardo remaining in private hands, the Codex Leicester, purchased by Bill Gates in 1994 for $30.8 million. In 1993 Robert had appraised the Codex for its previous owner, the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, for $50 million (making its purchase price, in his opinion, a bargain). He and others were consulted in the video about its current value, which Forbes estimates at $130 million.
Robert Simon Fine Art’s recent sales of Justus Suttermans’ Domenica delle Cascine, la Cecca di Pratolino, and Pietro Moro to the Saint Louis Art Museum and Barbara Longhi’s Madonna and Child to the Art Gallery of Ontario have been featured in Artnet News and AGO Insider.
The AGO’s article is titled Broadening our European Collection, and the Artnet News article, Museums Working to Correct the Record Are Shaking Up the Pale, Male Canon of Old Master Art—and Changing the Market in the Process, features comments from Robert Simon.
Hugues Merle
(Paris, 1823 – 1881)
A Young Mother (Un Jeune Mère)
Signed and dated, lower left: Hugues Merle / 1865
Oil on canvas
39 ½ x 32 inches (103 x 81.3 cm)
The Art Law Podcast is a monthly podcast hosted by Steve Schindler & Katie Wilson-Milne that explores the places where art intersects with and interferes with the law. In this episode, they speak with Robert Simon about his discovery of the Salvator Mundi.
Listen to “Revisiting the Salvator Mundi.”
Robert Simon played an integral role in the rediscovery and restitution of Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s Girl from the Sabine Hills to the Max Stern Foundation. The Foundation is now selling the painting through Robert Simon Fine Art to fund its mission to recover works taken from Max Stern and to support related research and educational programs surrounding restitution of Nazi-looted art.
A quote from Robert: “The painting tells several stories. One about a crucial early work that brought fame and attention to the artist who would become the most celebrated painter of royalty and aristocracy in his time. Another about the lure of Italy to painters for their education and artistic growth. (And that appeal continues to today.) Also, the painting is an emblem of the horrors of the fascist regime in Germany and, as a survivor, a testament to overcoming that. But, finally, it is simply a beautiful and evocative image of universal appeal.”
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The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. This book looks at evidence of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi in the collections of Charles I and Charles II. It explores the appraisal of works by Leonardo at the Stuart courts, and proposes that works attributed to Leonardo were first encountered and understood in seventeenth-century Britain and would shape the wider evolution of Leonardo as a cultural icon.
Features
Offers the definitive study on the re-discovered Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, Salvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting
Recounts the story of the painting’s modern-day discovery and restoration
Delves into the painting’s dramatic history in the British royal collections of Charles I and Charles II
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Robert Simon Fine Art is pleased to announce “Capturing the Artist” an exhibition of contemporary portraiture, together with historical precedents, at its gallery at 22 East 80th Street, Fourth Floor, New York, NY.
The three-month exhibit will consist of painting and sculpture inspired by portraits from the Renaissance through the twentieth century that capture their subjects through direct observation. While many of today’s portrait artists increasingly use technology and photography to record their subjects, the artwork in this show will be entirely artist generated, created from life, without the use of such modern tools.
“The bond that exists between an artist and his or her subject is a palpable one that is never so powerfully felt as when a portrait is made from life,” said Robert Simon, the gallery’s owner who has assembled a group of historical portraits to show alongside the contemporary ones. “This show celebrates the traditional techniques and modes of portraiture dating back to the Renaissance that are preserved and elaborated by artists working today.” The subjects of all the portraits, both old and new, are artists, broadly defined —creative figures who are often close friends of those who portray them.
“Many artists in the portrait community feel that painting from photos, which obviously didn’t exist in the Renaissance period, require their own category, and vocabulary, and cannot not be viewed with the same understanding as paintings created from life,” said Dale Zinkowski, a co-curator for the exhibit and a showing painter.
He adds, “Painting (or sculpting) a portrait (from life) over the course of several hours, often over several days, is incredibly hard to explain unless one has experienced it. It captures a moment between artist and subject — compressing hours of enjoyment from life, of life, onto the canvas. There is something special that happens when the artist and the sitter are sharing a space together, which cannot be replicated with technology.”
The contemporary artists exhibiting include: Anthony Baus; Brendan Johnston; Charlie Mostow; Dale Zinkowski; Daniel Graves; Diana Buitrago; Greg Mortenson; Jacob Collins; Jessica Artman; Jon Brogie; Jon deMartin; Jordan Sokol; Kate Lehman; Katie Engberg; Kevin Muller Cisneros; Patrick Byrnes; Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund; Rodrigo Mateo; Rubin Gabeau; Savannah Tate Cuff; Ted Minoff; Travis Schlaht; Tsultrim Tenzin and Zoe Dufour.
The historical artists shown include: John Singer Sargent; Simon Vouet; John Opie; Peder Severin Krøyer; Elisabeth Jericho-Baumann; Anton Einsle; Charles Carolus-Duran; George Healy; Fritz Behn; Il Piccio and others.
Artists in Conversation
Robert Simon, Milene Fernandez, and Dale Zinkowski will discuss aspects of contemporary portraiture with comments from artists represented in the exhibition on Monday, December 16, 2019 from 6:00 PM 8:30 PM
RSVP is required and space is limited. Please email Dominic Ferrante at dfj@robertsimon.com to attend.
Robert Simon Fine Art is pleased to announce its recent sale of
An Allegory of Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian (Cuzco School), to the Walter
Art Museum, Baltimore.
Peruvian (Cuzco Schoo), c. 1730/60
An Allegory of Saint Rose of Lima
Oil on canvas, 64 x 50 ½ inches (162.5 x 128.5 cm)
