写真を見る限りは あのセザンヌの作風とは似ても似つかぬ写実的な印象だが・・・
画像http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/2011/03/25/picture-bought-because-it-had-nice-frame-could-be-worth-40m-86908-23015011/
でもベートーベンの初期のピアノ協奏曲はモーツアルトのものにそっくりだし
ピカソに至っては 写実画の習作から始まり、のちに青の時代から次々に作風を変え、抽象画を生み出してゆく
ひょっとすると、ひょっとするかも
（以下引用）
A MAN who bought a painting because he "liked the frame" was stunned to find it could be a £40million masterpiece.
The owner, who wants to remain anonymous, stuck the piece of art, dated 1854, in his attic.
But he later recognised some of the painting's brush strokes and signature markings in an art book.
The man, from Northampton, took it to auctioneers who believe it could be by French post-impressionist master Paul Cezanne.
If it's authentic, it will be the earliest known work by the painter and could be worth a fortune.
The owner said: "I bought it because I liked the frame. It easily had 50 years of dirt on it.
"I was reading an art book and I realised I could be looking at the first-ever Paul Cezanne painting.
"I'll be keeping it very safe until an expert can confirm what I believe."
額縁が気に入って購入した絵画が4000万ポンド＝54億円にもなる可能性があることが判明
1854年と記された絵を屋根裏に放置していた、匿名希望の男性
のちに彼はこの絵に似た筆使いとキャンバスのサインを美術書で見つけることになる
ノーサンプトン在住のこの男性がオークショニストに持参したところ、フランスの後印象派の作の可能性が高いという
もしそのとおりなら1854年の作はセザンヌのもっとも早期の作品と認知され巨億の価値を持つことになる
所有者によれば「この絵は50年以上放置されチリが積もっていたよ」
「これからはきちんとこの作品を管理する」と語る
ジョニー訳
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/2011/03/25/picture-bought-because-it-had-nice-frame-could-be-worth-40m-86908-23015011/
2011年04月06日
2010年12月16日
ゴッホ展に行きたい
燃えるような、あの「ひまわり」 で有名なゴッホ
その ひまわり こそ展示されていないが、オランダの2大美術館から120点あまりの作品が東京・六本木の新国立美術館で観ることができる
ゴッホに造詣の深い友人曰く、「行ったけどあんまり大したことない、つまらない展示だった」と酷評するが
でも、わざわざ飛行機でスキポール空港へ行き、クレラー・ミュラー美術館などを訪問することを考えれば、こうして都内で1時間で鑑賞できるのは、本当にありがたいことだ
このゴッホ、生前は無名で1枚しか絵が売れなかった
弟テオに物心両面から支えてもらい、ゴーギャンとは共同生活までしたのに、破局
精神を病み37歳のとき、麦畑でピストル自殺・・・
挫折と貧困、劣等感にさいなまされ続けた生涯だった
なんて考えながら、明るい色合い、蝋燭の炎のような筆使いの彼の作品をぼーっと眺めるのも一興だ
（以下引用）
フィンセント・ファン・ゴッホ（1853−1890）
27歳で画家になることを決意したゴッホは、同時代の画家たちやその作品から、さまざまなものを吸収し、自らの作品に反映させていきました。
本ゴッホ展は、ゴッホの代表作に加え、ゴッホに影響を与えた画家たちの作品、ゴッホ自身が収集した浮世絵などを展示し、「ゴッホがいかにして『ゴッホ』になったか」を明らかにするものです。
今回は、ゴッホの世界的コレクションを有するオランダのファン･ゴッホ美術館とクレラー＝ミュラー美術館の全面的協力のもと、日本初公開作品を含め、選び抜かれたゴッホの油彩35点、版画･素描約30点その他関連資料約20点を一堂に展示します。（HPより）
その ひまわり こそ展示されていないが、オランダの2大美術館から120点あまりの作品が東京・六本木の新国立美術館で観ることができる
ゴッホに造詣の深い友人曰く、「行ったけどあんまり大したことない、つまらない展示だった」と酷評するが
でも、わざわざ飛行機でスキポール空港へ行き、クレラー・ミュラー美術館などを訪問することを考えれば、こうして都内で1時間で鑑賞できるのは、本当にありがたいことだ
このゴッホ、生前は無名で1枚しか絵が売れなかった
弟テオに物心両面から支えてもらい、ゴーギャンとは共同生活までしたのに、破局
精神を病み37歳のとき、麦畑でピストル自殺・・・
挫折と貧困、劣等感にさいなまされ続けた生涯だった
なんて考えながら、明るい色合い、蝋燭の炎のような筆使いの彼の作品をぼーっと眺めるのも一興だ
（以下引用）
フィンセント・ファン・ゴッホ（1853−1890）
27歳で画家になることを決意したゴッホは、同時代の画家たちやその作品から、さまざまなものを吸収し、自らの作品に反映させていきました。
本ゴッホ展は、ゴッホの代表作に加え、ゴッホに影響を与えた画家たちの作品、ゴッホ自身が収集した浮世絵などを展示し、「ゴッホがいかにして『ゴッホ』になったか」を明らかにするものです。
今回は、ゴッホの世界的コレクションを有するオランダのファン･ゴッホ美術館とクレラー＝ミュラー美術館の全面的協力のもと、日本初公開作品を含め、選び抜かれたゴッホの油彩35点、版画･素描約30点その他関連資料約20点を一堂に展示します。（HPより）
2010年10月12日
A 'Mike' found in Buffalo?
アメリカ・NY州バッファローで今世紀最大の発見かもしれないミケランジェロの絵画 Pieta像が確認された可能性がある と10日のニューヨーク・ポスト紙の報道だ
ミケランジェロは ラファエロ、ダヴィンチとともにイタリアの３大芸術家
イタリアの古文書に 1545 for his friend Vittoria Colonna−友人にミケランジェロが絵を描いた−との記述があり 今回の作品は Colonna家の末裔がドイツからアメリカに１９世紀に該当作品を送った とあり 史実はまさにピタリと適合する
美術史家Antonio Forcellinoは その力強さや筆致、科学的分析（炭素同位体の測定、赤外線やＸ線検査などだろう）から 今回の絵がミケランジェロの作品と断定している
同氏はミケランジェロの伝記作者Herman Grimmも生前 このPita像を確認していたようだと語る
もっともミケランジェロ研究が専門のワシントン大学教授 William Wallaceは この判断に懐疑的
と報じている
いずれにせよ この歴史的美術的価値の高い作品が 1970年代、２７年にもわたって民家の壁を飾り 日常生活や紫外線への暴露、あるいは たびたびのテニスボールの打撃により作品の一部が損傷していた という事実は ブタに真珠 というか なんでも鑑定団にお宝を鑑定依頼した持ち主のエピソード風で笑ってしまった
これがもし本物なら２４３億円！
まだまだ ２１世紀も謎に満ちた世界が残っていて楽しくなるね
（以下引用）
新たに発見されMichelangelo作の可能性がある絵
マドンナの左ひざのあたりが未完成
This unfinished painting of Jesus and Mary could be a lost Michelangelo, potentially the art find of the century.
But to the upstate family on whose living-room wall it hung for years, it was just "The Mike."
When the kids knocked the painting off its perch with an errant tennis ball sometime in the mid-1970s, the Kober clan wrapped it up and tucked it away behind the sofa.
He found Antonio Forcellino, an Italian art restorer and historian and told him of the tennis ball, and something more horrifying.
"It wasn't the story that had scared me, but that it had been exposed to heating commonly found inside a middle-class home," Forcellino writes in his new book, "La Pieta Perduta," or "The Lost Pieta," published in Italy and due out in the United States next year.
And he did not believe in the existence of another version of Michelangelo paintings that are hanging in Italian museums.
"I had assumed it was going to be a copy," Forcellino said.
Still, Forcellino skeptically visited Kober's home outside Buffalo to view the painting, and the trip left him a bit breathless.
"In reality, this painting was even more beautiful than the versions hanging in Rome and Florence. The truth was this painting was much better than the ones they had. I had visions of telling them that there was this crazy guy in America telling everyone he had a Michelangelo at home," Forcellino said.
A scientific analysis of the painting proved that the Michelangelo claim was not so crazy.
Forcellino told The Post that infrared and X-ray examinations of the painting -- on a 25-by- 19-inch wood panel -- show many alterations made by the artist as he changed his mind, and an unfinished portion near the Madonna's right knee.
Additionally, the provenance, or ownership history, points to the work being done by Michelangelo around 1545 for his friend Vittoria Colonna. That was about 45 years after Michelangelo did his famed "Pieta," or pity, sculpture of Mary holding Jesus, housed in St. Peter's Basilica.
The Pieta painting was passed to two Catholic cardinals, eventually ending up in the hands of a German baroness named Villani.
The work ended up in the Kober family after Villani willed it to her lady-in-waiting Gertrude Young. Young was the sister-in-law of Kober’s great-grandfather and she sent the work to America in 1883, according to an account by Kober.
Forcellino said Herman Grimm, a noted Michelangelo biographer, saw the "Pieta" in 1868 and attributed it to the master. Additional evidence includes a letter in the Vatican library discussing a Pieta painting for Colonna, he said.
Michelangelo expert William Wallace, a professor of architecture and art history at Washington University in St. Louis, said he saw the painting before Kober had it privately restored to remove 500 years of wear and tear.
Since there is no definitive scientific way to attribute such a painting, Wallace said it would be the weight of experts over time that would hold sway on whether it is a Michelangelo.
One thing is certain, however -- the painting's potential worth. It is now in a bank vault.
The rare Michelangelo drawings that have come up for sale in recent years have sold for as much as $20 million. And a possible Michelangelo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art could be worth as much as $300 million.
ミケランジェロは ラファエロ、ダヴィンチとともにイタリアの３大芸術家
イタリアの古文書に 1545 for his friend Vittoria Colonna−友人にミケランジェロが絵を描いた−との記述があり 今回の作品は Colonna家の末裔がドイツからアメリカに１９世紀に該当作品を送った とあり 史実はまさにピタリと適合する
美術史家Antonio Forcellinoは その力強さや筆致、科学的分析（炭素同位体の測定、赤外線やＸ線検査などだろう）から 今回の絵がミケランジェロの作品と断定している
同氏はミケランジェロの伝記作者Herman Grimmも生前 このPita像を確認していたようだと語る
もっともミケランジェロ研究が専門のワシントン大学教授 William Wallaceは この判断に懐疑的
と報じている
いずれにせよ この歴史的美術的価値の高い作品が 1970年代、２７年にもわたって民家の壁を飾り 日常生活や紫外線への暴露、あるいは たびたびのテニスボールの打撃により作品の一部が損傷していた という事実は ブタに真珠 というか なんでも鑑定団にお宝を鑑定依頼した持ち主のエピソード風で笑ってしまった
これがもし本物なら２４３億円！
まだまだ ２１世紀も謎に満ちた世界が残っていて楽しくなるね
（以下引用）
新たに発見されMichelangelo作の可能性がある絵
マドンナの左ひざのあたりが未完成
This unfinished painting of Jesus and Mary could be a lost Michelangelo, potentially the art find of the century.
But to the upstate family on whose living-room wall it hung for years, it was just "The Mike."
When the kids knocked the painting off its perch with an errant tennis ball sometime in the mid-1970s, the Kober clan wrapped it up and tucked it away behind the sofa.
He found Antonio Forcellino, an Italian art restorer and historian and told him of the tennis ball, and something more horrifying.
"It wasn't the story that had scared me, but that it had been exposed to heating commonly found inside a middle-class home," Forcellino writes in his new book, "La Pieta Perduta," or "The Lost Pieta," published in Italy and due out in the United States next year.
And he did not believe in the existence of another version of Michelangelo paintings that are hanging in Italian museums.
"I had assumed it was going to be a copy," Forcellino said.
Still, Forcellino skeptically visited Kober's home outside Buffalo to view the painting, and the trip left him a bit breathless.
"In reality, this painting was even more beautiful than the versions hanging in Rome and Florence. The truth was this painting was much better than the ones they had. I had visions of telling them that there was this crazy guy in America telling everyone he had a Michelangelo at home," Forcellino said.
A scientific analysis of the painting proved that the Michelangelo claim was not so crazy.
Forcellino told The Post that infrared and X-ray examinations of the painting -- on a 25-by- 19-inch wood panel -- show many alterations made by the artist as he changed his mind, and an unfinished portion near the Madonna's right knee.
Additionally, the provenance, or ownership history, points to the work being done by Michelangelo around 1545 for his friend Vittoria Colonna. That was about 45 years after Michelangelo did his famed "Pieta," or pity, sculpture of Mary holding Jesus, housed in St. Peter's Basilica.
The Pieta painting was passed to two Catholic cardinals, eventually ending up in the hands of a German baroness named Villani.
The work ended up in the Kober family after Villani willed it to her lady-in-waiting Gertrude Young. Young was the sister-in-law of Kober’s great-grandfather and she sent the work to America in 1883, according to an account by Kober.
Forcellino said Herman Grimm, a noted Michelangelo biographer, saw the "Pieta" in 1868 and attributed it to the master. Additional evidence includes a letter in the Vatican library discussing a Pieta painting for Colonna, he said.
Michelangelo expert William Wallace, a professor of architecture and art history at Washington University in St. Louis, said he saw the painting before Kober had it privately restored to remove 500 years of wear and tear.
Since there is no definitive scientific way to attribute such a painting, Wallace said it would be the weight of experts over time that would hold sway on whether it is a Michelangelo.
One thing is certain, however -- the painting's potential worth. It is now in a bank vault.
The rare Michelangelo drawings that have come up for sale in recent years have sold for as much as $20 million. And a possible Michelangelo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art could be worth as much as $300 million.
