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| For Collectors of the Fine and Decorative Arts |
| September 2009 |
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 Dream Weavers
Picasso, Calder, Chagall and other modern artists breathed new life into the medieval craft of tapestry.
By Sheila Gibson Stoodley
Until April 2010 you can see Guernica in London, at the newly expanded Whitechapel Gallery. But if you’ve visited the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid and seen Picasso’s anguished portrayal of the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, you might notice something a bit odd. At 10 by 22 feet, the Guernica in London is slightly smaller than the one in Spain and considerably heavier (the gallery needed six men to hang it). The palette is beige and brown instead of black and white. Stand less than 3 feet away from it, and the surface pattern becomes visible; this Guernica is a tapestry, a woven rendition of Picasso’s original mural-size canvas. READ MORE  | |
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| Also Featured in September 2009 |
| Market / A recap of Old Masters sales and Master Paintings Week in London, and a look at the current “State of the Fairs.” |
| Exhibitions / Arts of Ancient Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, cosponsored by the Asia Society. This is the first U.S. exhibition to deal with precolonial Vietnamese art in depth, and will feature many works that have never been exhibited in the United States. |
| Talking Pictures / Columnist Jonathan Lopez talks to National Gallery of Art curator Alison Luchs about the Renaissance debate between painting and sculpture, on the occasion of the museum’s exhibition of the Venetian sculptor Tullio Lombardo. |
| Collecting / Antique weathervanes; daguerreotypes. |
| Trends in Collecting / Art & Antiques explores collecting fields that have remained strong despite the economy, from Old Masters to Outsider art. |
| Financial Report: Art Lending / Borrowing against the value of an artwork was once restricted to those who owned pieces worth at least $1 million. But a new art lending company hopes to change that. |
| Books / A review of Vernon Silver’s The Lost Chalice, which tells the story of a looted Greek vase. |
| Film / A documentary about the late photographer Julius Shulman, who always found the best angle on modernist architecture. |
| In a Nutshell / Miniature books. |
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