This week: The Art Newspaper's Editor-at-large Georgina Adam joins Ben Luke to discuss the intriguing story of the bankrupt entrepreneur and art collector, the museum scholar and a host of Old Master paintings given new attributions.
Left: Claude Monet's The Artist’s House Seen from the Rose Garden (1922-1924); Right: Joan Mitchell's Two Pianos (1980)
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris; Private collection © The Estate of Joan Mitchell, Photo : © Patrice Schmidt
We talk to Suzanne Pagé, the curator of Monet-Mitchell, an exhibition bringing together the Impressionist Claude Monet and the post-war American abstract painter Joan Mitchell, at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Quentin Metsys the Younger's Elizabeth I of England (The Sieve Portrait) (1583)
By permission of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Museum Complex of Tuscany (Polo Museale della Toscana) Photo Archive of the National Gallery of Siena (Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena)
And this episode’s Work of the Week is a 1583 painting of Elizabeth I of England, known as the Sieve Portrait, which is one of the highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York’s exhibition The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. The show’s curators, Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker, tell us about this richly layered picture.
• Monet-Mitchell, Joan Mitchell retrospective, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, until 27 February 2023.
• Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979-85, David Zwirner, New York, 3 November-17 December.
• The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10 October-8 January 2023