The Society for the History of Collecting vous invite à la prochaine conférence en ligne :
Selling Pictures in Eighteenth-Century London – Visualizing a Tightly-Knit Profession
Intervenante : Dr. Bénédicte Miyamoto, Maître de conférence, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle
26 Janvier 2021, 19h30
In a century obsessed with the frenetic pace of novelty, and a world of art collecting regularly disrupted and fed by cycles of bankruptcy and dispersion, the London art market was surprisingly stable, its professionals well-connected, and its modus operandi well-honed already by the 1750s. English sales took their blueprints from the Netherlands and France, but quickly developed their own original process of ascending bidding coupled with ascending price expectations. This home-grown sales strategy and the conditions of sales remained unchanged as the art market internationalised over the next decades. The London market became also more local and less influenced by consumption patterns prevalent abroad, as the new generations of English art lovers gained maturity and asserted their national preferences. New perspectives reveal in particular the importance of dealers as sellers behind the scenes of the auction. Continuer la lecture de « SHC Online Conference : Selling Pictures in Eighteenth-Century London – Visualizing a Tightly-Knit Profession, 26 janvier 2021 »
