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NEWS All the latest WHAT’S GOING ON IN MARCH ANTIQUE news Fashion looms large in this month’s events, including an exhibition of Andy Warhol’s textiles and a focus on Georgian outfits Sew long The results of one of the National Trust’s longest conservation projects in its history are set to go on show later this year. After a 24-year revamp, the last of the 13 ‘Hardwick Tapestries’ is set to return to the Long Gallery at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire in the early summer. The conservation of each tapestry has cost £278,000, taking more than two years to complete. Hardwick Hall’s Denise Edwards said: “The tapestries are huge and one of the most ambitious tapestry sets of the period, rivalling other great works of the 1530s and 1540s.” Top Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Dance on the Beach carries a pre-sale estimate of £12m-£20m Above The painting on board the MS Black Watch in 1969 Right Panagyurishte treasure, Thracian, 400-300BC, © National Museum of History, Bulgaria Below left Th e Hardwick Tapestry (Gideon Attacking the Midianites, 1578) being worked on in the Long Gallery at Hardwick Hall, © National Trust Images/Trevor Ray Hart Hidden masterpiece A 4m-wide painting by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) hidden in a barn, to keep it out of the hands of German soldiers, is to be sold with the proceeds split with the family of the Jewish man who was forced to sell it when fleeing the Nazis. The monumental Dance on the Beach will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in London on March 1 and is estimated to fetch around £12m-£20m. It is being sold by the family of Thomas Olsen, a Norwegian shipowner and Munch’s neighbour, who died in 1969. Olsen bought the painting in Oslo in 1934, just months after Curt Glaser, an eminent German academic, had been forced to sell it in Berlin. He hung it in the first-class lounge of his passenger liner, the MS Black Watch but, after Britain declared war on Germany, he hid the painting in a remote barn in the Norwegian forest. TREASURE TROVE Described as a “once-in-a-generation” loan, there’s an opportunity to see the Panagyurishte treasure in May when it goes on display at the British Museum. Made up of nine richly decorated gold vessels: eight rhyta used to pour wine and one bowl to drink it, the treasure was accidentally discovered by three brothers in Bulgaria in 1949. The pieces will take centre stage at the exhibition Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece, from May 4 to August 13, whch considers how objects were used as symbols of authority between high-ranking members of the two sparring cultures. While Athenians considered Persian culture decadent, they also tried to emulate it. 6 ANTIQUE COLLECTING
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1Handy Andy Pop artist Andy Warhol’s (1928-1987) scarcely seen textiles are the spotlight of a new exhibition in London. The Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey is set to include more than 45 of his textile patterns dating from the 1950s and early 1960s, featuring a range of motifs from ice cream sundaes to pretzels. The exhibition from March 31 to September 10 reveals the importance textiles had on Warhol’s broader development as an artist. Leading US textile manufacturers, including Stehli Silks, Fuller Fabrics and M Lowenstein and Sons, also feature in the exhibition. 3Growing interest An exhibition celebrating 20th-century artists and their gardens is unveiled this month in London. The Garden Museum, housed in the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, is hosting Private & Public: Finding the Modern British Garden from March 22 to June 25. The interwar period in Britain saw a growth of artists who retreated to planting and painting in their gardens viewing them as private havens. The exhibition brings together artists who revelled in the natural Left Textile of Candy Apples, silk by Stehli Silks, © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Licensed by DACS, London Right Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses), c. 1894-1905, © National Gallery, London Left Shoes textile, blouse, by Jayson Classics, c. 1957, © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Licensed by DACS, London Below left Textile of luggage tags and suitcases, blouse, by Cohama, © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Licensed by DACS, London to see in March3 2 Galler y view The National Gallery’s spring blockbuster exhibition opens this month looking at the revolutionary work made in and around Paris by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne between 1880 and 1906, during the Belle Époque. Featuring more than 100 paintings, it also traces how the methods employed by these artists Above right Georges Seurat (1859-1891) The Channel of Gravelines, Grand Fort-Philippe, 1890, © The National Gallery, London to break free from conventional representation spread across Europe inspiring artists to invent Cubism, Expressionism and Abstraction. Inspiring Picasso, After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art runs from March 25 to August 1. Above far right Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel), 1888. Photo © National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh Far right Ithell Colquhoun (19061988) Crane Flowers, image courtesy of Liss Llewellyn Right Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960) Invitation to the Garden, c. 1938, image courtesy of Liss Llewellyn Left Gilbert Spencer (1892-1979) The Balcony, c.1928, image courtesy of Liss Llewellyn world, including Charles Mahoney (1903-1968), Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960), Eric Ravilious (19031943) and Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988). At the same time public spaces expanded, reflecting a growing provision for recreation boosted by more paid holidays (cemented by the Holidays with Pay Act of 1938). ANTIQUE COLLECTING 7

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NEWS All the latest

WHAT’S GOING ON IN MARCH

ANTIQUE

news Fashion looms large in this month’s events, including an exhibition of Andy Warhol’s textiles and a focus on Georgian outfits

Sew long The results of one of the National Trust’s longest conservation projects in its history are set to go on show later this year. After a 24-year revamp, the last of the 13 ‘Hardwick Tapestries’ is set to return to the Long Gallery at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire in the early summer. The conservation of each tapestry has cost £278,000, taking more than two years to complete.

Hardwick Hall’s Denise Edwards said: “The tapestries are huge and one of the most ambitious tapestry sets of the period, rivalling other great works of the 1530s and 1540s.”

Top Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Dance on the Beach carries a pre-sale estimate of £12m-£20m

Above The painting on board the MS Black Watch in 1969

Right Panagyurishte treasure, Thracian, 400-300BC, © National Museum of History, Bulgaria

Below left Th e Hardwick Tapestry (Gideon Attacking the Midianites, 1578) being worked on in the Long Gallery at Hardwick Hall, © National Trust Images/Trevor Ray Hart

Hidden masterpiece A 4m-wide painting by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) hidden in a barn, to keep it out of the hands of German soldiers, is to be sold with the proceeds split with the family of the Jewish man who was forced to sell it when fleeing the Nazis.

The monumental Dance on the Beach will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in London on March 1 and is estimated to fetch around £12m-£20m. It is being sold by the family of Thomas Olsen, a Norwegian shipowner and Munch’s neighbour, who died in 1969. Olsen bought the painting in Oslo in 1934, just months after Curt Glaser, an eminent German academic, had been forced to sell it in Berlin.

He hung it in the first-class lounge of his passenger liner, the MS Black Watch but, after Britain declared war on Germany, he hid the painting in a remote barn in the Norwegian forest.

TREASURE TROVE Described as a “once-in-a-generation” loan, there’s an opportunity to see the Panagyurishte treasure in May when it goes on display at the British Museum.

Made up of nine richly decorated gold vessels: eight rhyta used to pour wine and one bowl to drink it, the treasure was accidentally discovered by three brothers in Bulgaria in 1949.

The pieces will take centre stage at the exhibition Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece, from May 4 to August 13, whch considers how objects were used as symbols of authority between high-ranking members of the two sparring cultures. While Athenians considered Persian culture decadent, they also tried to emulate it.

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