: Masterworks from the Alana Collection #IndiaNEWS #IANS Life New Delhi, May 3 (IANSlife) Christies presents Old Masters, New Perspectives: Masterworks from the Alana Collection, a selection from one

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New Delhi, May 3 (IANSlife) Christies presents Old Masters, New Perspectives: Masterworks from the Alana Collection, a selection from one of the most important collections of Italian Old Master paintings, sculptures, and antiquities ever offered at auction in New York. The selection will make its London debut alongside Christies 20/21 exhibition, which will present a new perspective on Old Masters by putting them in conversation with 20th and 21st century artworks, demonstrating an exceptional breadth of masterpieces throughout history.
The Alana Collections Gothic, Italian Renaissance, and Baroque paintings, assembled with great expertise and passion over decades, comprehensively tell the story of Italian art history, and have gained international renown following the acclaimed 2019-2020 exhibition at the Musee Jacquemart-Andre, Paris. The selection of works offered in this sale, led by masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Orazio Gentileschi, El Greco, and many other illustrious artists, is distinguished not only by their exceptional artistic quality, but also by the way they tell an important story, both about the culture that produced them and our own.
The auction includes over 50 outstanding works that will be sold in a single-owner live auction on June 9, 2022, at Rockefeller Plaza, following a global tour that includes Impressionist, Modern, and Post-War highlights to London, Hong Kong, New York, and Los Angeles. The sale proceeds will go to a charitable organisation that promotes the arts and education. The sale of these works is expected to bring in between and million.
The zeal, connoisseurship, and sophistication that drove the formation of the Alana Collections Old Master Paintings, Sculptures, and Antiquities recall the spirit of such notable collectors as Norton Simon, John G. Johnson, Robert Lehman, Barbara Piasecka Johnson, and Jayne Wrightsman in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A powerful yet touching depiction of The Madonna and Child by Orazio Gentileschi (estimate: ,000,000-6,000,000) stands out from the collection. This work on panel is an exquisite example of Gentileschis refined style, painted with lapus lazuili and other expensive materials, indicating that it was created for one of the artists most important patrons.
Although the mother and child were clearly painted from posed models, following Caravaggios innovative practises, Gentileschi imbued the painting with his own poetic idiom, grounded in the more formal, Baroque pictorial conventions of his day. Fra Angelicos Saint Dominic and the Stigmatization of Saint Francis (estimate: ,000,000-6,000,000) is another highlight in the collection. This small panel by the early Florentine Renaissance artist was recently featured in an exhibition dedicated to the artist held at the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

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