Below are events organized by Trois Crayons to coincide with their exhibition 500 Years of Drawing:
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MONDAY 1st JULY, 9:00AM BST
SOTHEBY’S ‘MASTER WORKS ON PAPER FROM FIVE CENTURIES’ AUCTION VISIT
A guided visit to the upcoming Sotheby’s auction, ‘Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries’ with Gregory Rubinstein, Worldwide Head of the Old Master & Early British Drawings Department. Discover a selection of exceptional drawings, watercolours, gouaches and pastels that together chart in fascinating ways the development of the art of drawing in Europe over the centuries, and the great variety of functions that this many-faceted art form served.
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MONDAY 1st JULY, 16:00 BST
MICHELANGELO’S LAST DRAWINGS
Grant Lewis, Milein Cosman project curator at the British Museum and co-curator of the ongoing exhibition ‘Michelangelo: the last decades’, explores the Renaissance master’s late drawings.
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TUESDAY 2nd JULY, 16:00 BST
ArtTactic, industry leaders in art market research, will be hosting a panel featuring a range of voices from the world of drawing to discuss the market of drawings within the broader collecting landscape, including changing collecting habits, influence of the digital landscape and other trends we are seeing. Using ArtTactic’s latest report on the Old Masters Market, with a special focus on Old Master Drawings as the jumping off point, Megan Locke (ArtTactic) will moderate a lively panel discussion between esteemed members of the community
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WEDNESDAY 3rd JULY, 16:00 BST
TOWARDS A NEW CATALOGUE OF RAPHAEL’S DRAWINGS AT THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM: CHALLENGES AND DISCOVERIES
Angelamaria Aceto, researcher in Italian drawings at the Ashmolean Museum, delves into the exciting new discoveries made in the production of the Ashmolean’s first comprehensive catalogue of the Raphael drawings in its collection.
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FRIDAY 5th JULY, 15:00 BST
COURTAULD GALLERY’S PRINTS & DRAWINGS STUDY ROOM VISIT
Guided visit to the Courtauld Gallery’s Prints & Drawings Study Room with Ketty Gottardo, Martin Halusa Senior Curator of Drawings. A rare opportunity to go behind the scenes at the Courtauld Gallery and examine up-close a range of known and lesser-known drawings from the Italian, French and Northern drawings from the 16th to 18th centuries from the Courtauld’s extensive graphic collection.
FULLY BOOKED
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Image: WA1846.201 Raphael, ‘Recumbent Figure of a Soldier’. © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
