{"id":6617,"date":"2014-05-30T10:49:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T08:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2014-09-22T15:42:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:42:53","slug":"the-rare-botticelli-drawing-soon-on-auction-introduced-by-contemporary-master-richard-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/05\/30\/the-rare-botticelli-drawing-soon-on-auction-introduced-by-contemporary-master-richard-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare Botticelli&#8217;s drawing soon on auction introduced by contemporary master Richard Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6617 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/05\/30\/the-rare-botticelli-drawing-soon-on-auction-introduced-by-contemporary-master-richard-prince\/sothebys-image-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"145\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sothebys-image-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6618\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6618'>\n\t\t\t\tSandro Botticelli (Florence 1444\/5 \u2013 1510), Study for a seated St Joseph, his head resting on his right hand\nPen and brown ink heightened with white over black chalk, on beige-pink washed paper. Squared in black chalk for transfer\n129 by 124 mm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As many online media are reporting, this rare Botticelli&#8217;s drawing is the only one by the artist which is still in private hands and it will go under the hammer at Sotheby&#8217;s on 9 July. Aside from an album of illustrations for Dante&#8217;s Divine Comedy, there are only 12 surviving drawings by Botticelli &#8211; all but this \u201cStudy for a Seated St Joseph\u201d are in museums. It comes from the collection of art connoisseur and philanthropist Barbara Piasecka Johnson, wife of John Seward Johnson, the co-founder of the Johnson and Johnson medical and pharmaceutical firm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The estimate for this pen and brown ink heightened with white over black chalk sheet of beige-pink washed paper is between 1 and 1.5m GBP. That is <i>nothing<\/i> if compared to the ridiculous prices recently achieved at auctions by certain contemporary living artists. One of them, Richard Prince, has written on this subject a sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardprince.com\/birdtalk\/\" target=\"_blank\">pamphlet<\/a>, whose main idea is that art auctions have nothing to do with art \u2013 the very same concept Wade Guyton told us a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here below two meaningful passages that perfectly summarize the core of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I promised (and I\u2019m not sure to who) I would never talk about the auctions. I have nothing to do with them. Why should I? It\u2019s none of my business. Their deal is between the consignor and the new collector. The auction house is the middleman. It\u2019s another \u201cmarket\u201d. Gold, bonds, futures, derivatives, energy, apps, start-ups, IPO\u2019s, stocks, wine, watches, coins and stamps. Art has always had a market. But now there\u2019s a ton of publicity around it and high in the sky skyboxes. Like all the other markets it\u2019s a crapshoot. The house always wins.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The auctions might think they have something to do with what I make, but they don\u2019t. What they have is what they\u2019ve always had\u2026 themselves.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It has to be said that if on the one hand all these advertising and extremely high prices help young artists and give a boost also to the lower levels of the art market, on the other hand both Prince and Guyton have made their point. The auctions&#8217; market is indeed a parallel world, most of the time opaque, even for the insiders. How could we be safe from this opacity? Always keeping in mind that a drawing is just a drawing, no matter how old or rare it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As many online media are reporting, this rare Botticelli&#8217;s drawing is the only one by the artist which is still in private hands and it will go under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[1731,1645],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape","tag-richard-prince","tag-sandro-botticelli"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}