CONFERENCE PROGRAMME - registration now open

 

Friday 1 April

 

10am Registration

10.30am ALAN CROOKHAM (National Gallery), HELEN REES-LEAHY (University of Manchester) and JEREMY HOWARD (Colnaghi and University of Buckingham), Researching the Art Market: Archives and Contexts

 

PANEL ONE: SHAPING THE COLLECTION 1

Chair: SUSANNA AVERY-QUASH, The National Gallery

 

11.15am ELIZABETH HEATH (National Portrait Gallery/University of Sussex) A professional and personal touch: George Scharf and his interaction with dealers in developing the National Portrait Gallery’s collection

 

11.35am BARBARA PEZZINI (National Gallery/University of Manchester) Agents, mediators and direct suppliers: London art dealers and the National Gallery 1855-1904

 

11.55am ALEXIS CLARK (University of Southern California) A Conflicted Collaboration: Ambroise Vollard, Léonce Bénédite, and the Caillebotte Bequest

 

12.15pm Discussion

 

12.45pm Lunch (not provided)

Opportunity to visit the National Gallery Research Centre to see items from the Agnew’s Archive. Places are limited and subject to advance booking.

 

PANEL TWO: SHAPING THE COLLECTION 2

Chair: FLAMINIA GENNARI SANTORI, Gallerie d'Arte Antica di Roma

 

2pm LUKAS CLADDERS (Basel Museum/University of Heidelberg) The Kunsthistorisches Museum's failed attempt to acquire Duccio's Gualino Madonna, 1920-1923

 

2.20pm INGE REIST (The Frick Collection) The Frick After Frick: Trustee Acquisitions and the Art Market

 

2.40pm ALEX TAYLOR (Tate)

British dealers and American art at the Tate Gallery

 

3pm Discussion

 

3.30pm Tea/coffee break

 

PANEL THREE: DEALER-MUSEUM INTERACTION

Chair: MARK WESTGARTH, University of Leeds

 

4pm discussion panel with: MICHAEL TOLLEMACHE (Society of London Art Dealers), JULIAN AGNEW (Julian Agnew Fine Art Ltd.), CLIFF SCHORER (Thos. Agnew’s Ltd.) Speaker tbc

 

5pm Discussion

 

5.30pm Close of Day One

 

5.30-6.30pm Reception

 

Saturday 2 April

10am Registration

 

PANEL FOUR: DEALERS AS EXPERTS

Chair: LYNN CATTERSON, Columbia University

 

10.15am IMOGEN TEDBURY (National Gallery/Courtauld Institute) Difficult Dealings: Robert Langton Douglas and the National Gallery

 

10.35am CATHERINE SCALLEN (Case Western Reserve University) Bode and Duveen: Authority, Expertise, and the Art Market

 

10.55am FRANCES FOWLE (Scottish National Gallery/University of

Edinburgh)

Dubious Dealings and issues of connoisseurship: David Croal Thomson and the curious case of M. Mégret and the ‘The Haybinders’

 

11.15am Tea/coffee break

 

11.45am ALISON CLARKE (National Gallery/University of Liverpool) 'The air of connoisseurship': The National Gallery versus Agnew's

 

12.05pm PAUL TUCKER (Università degli Studi di Firenze) Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919): his Relations with Public Museums and with the Dealer Thomas Agnew and Sons

 

12.25pm ANDREA MEYER (Technische Universität Berlin) On the Overlapping of Curating and Dealing. The Foundation of the German Museums Association in 1917

 

12.45pm Discussion

 

1.15pm Lunch (not provided)

Opportunity to visit the National Gallery Research Centre to see items from the Agnew’s Archive. Places are limited and subject to advance booking.

 

PANEL FIVE: CREATING A MARKET

Chair: CHRISTIAN HUEMER, Getty Research Institute

 

2.30pm MORNA O’NEILL (Wake Forest University) Good Business: Hugh Lane and his Museums

 

2.50pm EUNMIN LIM (University of York)

Murray Marks and Wilhelm von Bode’s Collaboration for the Kaiser Friedrich Museum: Cataloguing, Collecting and Displaying Italian Renaissance Bronzes, c. 1888-1913

 

3.10pm MEGAN REDDICKS (Detroit Institute of Art) Das sehr interessante Bild von Kandinsky: Ferdinand Möller and the Detroit Institute of Arts

 

3.30pm Discussion

 

4pm Concluding remarks: speakers tbc

 

4.15pm Close of Day Two

 

Negotiating Art conference page with e-ticketing link:

 

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/negotiating-art-dealers-and-museums-1855-2015

 

Tickets: £80 full/£70 senior/£65 NG members/£25 students