From Bouguereau’s Studio to Manhattan: How to Ship a Monumental Masterpiece
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- When William Bouguereau unveiled La Jeunesse de Bacchus (The Youth of Bacchus) at the 1884 Paris Salon, he had something to prove. Impressionism and the 19th century avant-garde was taking the art world by storm, and Bouguereau wanted to reaffirm the grandeur and dominance of French academic art. Over the course of three years he meticulously painted The Youth of Bacchus, an immense testament to his skill and conviction as an artist. The work has hung in Bouguereau’s Paris studio since it was completed in 1884, and has previously only left only three times for exhibition. Now, the painting comes to New York, to be offered by the direct descendants of Bouguereau in Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale. But exactly how does one ship a 20 foot, 135 year old painting mounted within a 1,300 pound frame? In this episode of Expert Voices, Pascale Pavageau, Sotheby’s Parisian Head of 19th Century Paintings, supervises the transport of this monumental masterpiece using an expert team of art restorers, handlers, and historians. (14 May|New York)
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Finally Bouguereau is getting his due!!!
behind the scenes videos are very appreciated 👍
And underrated
I saw this painting yesterday!
where & what did you think?
Where is it located now? How impressive is it in person?
Une oeuvre magistrale. Il est un peintre de la beauté de la femme . Il a vécu dans une époque qui n'était pas prèt à sa technique moderniste.
A masterful work.
He is a painter of the beauty of the woman.
He lived in a time that was not ready
to his modernist technique.
Rolling up any painting, let alone one this old and brittle will cause cracking. They did this to the Sorolla murals in the Hispanic Society when they shipped them to Europe for a show. On their return I noticed cracks on the canvases that weren't there before.
Other than loving art, I have no experience in such matters. What alternatives are there should one need or desire to transport such a large canvas?
@@brylorbs69 leave it in it's frame. package it safely. Knock walls down in order to get it outside. Airlift it to the new destination via helicopter or other aircraft. knock down some walls to get it inside. fini
What!, for transporting monumental paintings they just r o l l them up! I'm super amazed. I thought century-old paintings would crack and be ruined if they did this.
I paint pictures and I assure you that rolling them up does not help them.
They don't paint like these anymore. It's like modernity is in war with our creation. Bouguereau first inspired me with Dante and Virgil.
@kamenpower there is David Kassan, Graydon Parrish, Michael Hussar, Mark Ryden, Marion peck and similar who practice the same techniques of Bougerou.
@kamenpower so true
Plus it’s all about money. a painting like this took years modern art just throw some paint and voilà you can make 30 in a day. Some of the modern crap they call art doesn’t even have paint just a blank canvas and sold for millions. The elites days are numbered we the idiots from the provinces are figuring out they are all frauds.
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Sad to say the painting didn’t sell.
too expensive for so many people even the French Government
D.B I thought the asking price way to high for many museums and it’s way to big for a Private collection. Maybe the family will donate the painting to the Louvre or Musée d'Orsay.
Tytyx2 I believe $25 million
it didn't sell.
His family will be very very RICH not bad for a 25 to 35 million dollars painting.
this painting should be well over 100 million plus more I'm pretty sure at auction it will sell for that probably more
@@geroeaton7986 well yes , but its depends how famous is the artist name and this painter who painted this painting was guite forgotten in the 1950's until the 1980's where THE MET exhibited 3 of his painting unlike picasso when you hear it even your not an art expert you know it's Pablo Picasso. One of the key factor in estimating this painting was the provenance and it's artistic techniques used by the artist in making this painting and ofcourse if people will buy it because of its size most likely a museum will buy it ( if they have the funds to buy it ) , a middle eastern royal or a billionaire , a collector or just a rich person looking for a wall decoration for his/her home.
Bouguereau’s masterpiece was passed at auction last night when the bidding would not go past $18 million. A Monet haystack painting conversely shattered a record, selling for $110 million.
@@kbld1 wow thats tragic because of its size so no one will buy it but hopefully somebody will buy it privately.
Should be at the Met, Louvre, d’Orsay.
Should have cut the window out of the studio, then built a crate casing around entire frame and removed with a medium sized crane. Boy they made this difficult and could have damaged the painting(maybe they did a little, my bet is they did).
Thought the same thing!