CONF: The Art Market, Collectors and Agents: Then and Now
(Paris, 20-21 Oct 16)
Paris, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, October 20 - 21, 2016
The Art Market, Collectors and Agents: Then and Now
20 & 21 OCTOBER, 2016
Salle Vasari, INHA, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris
The focus of the conference is to explore the changing and complex
nature of the role of agent in the art market during the Early Modern
Period. Papers will explore shifts in the dynamics of the market, the
changing taste of collectors and the importance of writers, critics,
museum curators and dealers in influencing these changes. The papers
demonstrate how examining the role of agents through their
correspondence with clients, day books or private records, bring new
insights into the workings of the art world through the detailed
evidence of how transactions were negotiated.
PROGRAMME
9.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome
10.10 Introduction
10.45 Session one: The artist and writer as agents
10.45 Tamsin Foulkes, PhD. Candidate, University of Nottingham
James Thornhill as an agent-collector in early
eighteenth-century Paris
11:15 Dr. Corina Meyer, Institute of Art History, University of
Stuttgart
‘To see once again the glorious picture by Moretto before it is
forever lost for Rome’: Johann David Passavant's (1787-1861)
recommendations and selection of paintings
11.45 Dr. Gemma Avinyó Fontanet, Universitat de Lleida. Spain (in
French)
Marià Manent ou le poète qui est devenu marchand: de
Barcelone à New York
12.15 Alice Ensabella, PhD Candidate, Université Grenoble Alpes,
Grenoble
Promoting Themselves. Strategies and dynamics of early Surrealism’s
art market.
12.45 lunch (provided for speakers & those who have signed up, please
see below)
14.00 Session two: The Agent and the Collector
14.00 Dr. Madeleine Fidell Beaufort, independent scholar, Paris
Samuel P. Avery and the emerging American art market of the
late nineteenth century
14.30 Dr. Louise Arizzoli, University of Mississippi
Dealing with Allegories of the Four Parts of the World:
James Hazen Hyde 1876-1959) and his Network
15.00 Mackenzie Mallon, The Nelson Atkins Museum.
Laying the Foundation: Harold Woodbury Parsons and the
Making of an American Museum
15.30 Break
16.00 Emanuele Sbardella, Ph.D Candidate, Technische, Universität Berlin
The Numismatic Market under National Socialism, illustrated
by the case study of the coin collection of Alexander Hauser"
16.30 Jamin An, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
New Art and ‘New Dealing’: Changing Conditions of Artistic
Support, 1960s-70s
17.00 Closing remarks
DAY TWO
10.00 Session three: Agents and Markets
10.00 Dr. Tina Kosak, France Stele Institute of Art History, ZRC SAZU
Ljubljana
Conquering New Art Markets: International Art Dealers and
Local 'Agents' in Inner Austria in the Second Half of the 17th Century
10.30 Laura Popoviciu, PhD candidate, Warburg Institute, London
Shaping the Taste of British Diplomats in 18th-Century Venice
11.00-Coffee
11.30 Dr. Susanna Avery-Quash, Senior Research Curator (History of
Collecting),
National Gallery London
Art Agents and the National Gallery during the Nineteenth
Century
12.00 Dr. Christine Howald, Technische, Universität Berlin
Asian agents & the Chinese Market in the 19th century
12.30 Lunch (provided for speakers & those who have signed up, please
see below)
14.00 Session four: The dealer as agent
14.00 . Dr. Renata Schellenberg, Mount Allison University, Sackville,
Canada
Commerce, Culture and Connoisseurship: The Emergence of
the Art Dealer in Eighteenth-Century Germany
14.30 Dr. Frances Suzman Jowell, PhD, Harvard University, independent
scholar
Çe n’est pas ma faute si, dans toutes les collections, les
hollandais priment tout’: Thoré- Bürger’s promotion of 17th century
Dutch paintings in the Parisian art market of the 1860s
15.00 Pamella Guerdat, PhD candidate, Institute for Art History &
Museology Université
de Neuchâtel (in French)
René Gimpel (1881-1945) et le modèle du musée américain :
De la théorie au don
15.30 Camille Mesdagh, PhD candidate, Sorbonne, Paris IV: (in French)
Alfred Beurdeley (1808-1882), a dealer in curiosities and
his network / Le réseau commercial d’un marchand de curiosités :
l’example d’Alfred Beurdeley (1808 1882)
16.00 Tea
16.45 Keynote speech: Dr. Julie Verlaine, Paris IV (in French)
Du marchand d'art au galeriste : l'itinéraire de Daniel
Templon et 50 ans évolution du marché de l'art occidental
17.30 Closing remarks
Organised by the Collecting and Display Seminar Group London with the
Centre André Chastel, INHA, Paris.
