Rare Rothkos & Renzo Piano CHRISTIE’S ART JOURNEYS: 6 – 9
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Rare Rothkos & Renzo Piano CHRISTIE’S ART JOURNEYS: 6 – 9
CHRISTIE’S ART JOURNEYS: Rare Rothkos & Renzo Piano 6th – 9th November 2014 Join Christie’s in vibrant Boston for a schedule that includes the very first look inside the new Harvard Art Musuems designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano at an exclusive benefit gala to mark the opening. Christie’s expert Elizabeth M. Chapin will accompany us sharing her insights on this very special tour. From the comfort of the centrally located Taj Hotel, which occupies the city’s most prestigious address, Boston’s other famous art collections are also on our itinerary, including rare behind-the-scenes tours. YOUR EXPERT GUIDE ELIZABETH M. CHAPIN SIGNATURE MOMENTS An invitation to the exclusive opening and gala of the newly renovated Harvard Art Museums designed by Renzo Piano Behind-the-scenes curator-led tours of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts and Institute of Contemporary Art A private lunch at the Peabody Essex Museum hosted by the contemporary curator On hand to guide our group through the most important art that Boston has to offer, Elizabeth Chapin has unrivalled expertise making sure your experience will surprise and inform. As Senior Vice-President and the Managing Director of Christie’s New England Region, Elizabeth is an integral part of the international auction firm’s regional network of representatives who act as liaisons throughout North and South America for Christie’s New York headquarters and salesrooms worldwide. Elizabeth is based in Boston, but travels throughout New England assisting potential buyers, consignors, and institutions with appraisals, as well as the sale of works of art, collections, contents of houses and estates at auction. She provides advice to clients on bidding at Christie’s both domestically and internationally coordinating Christie’s specialists from 50 departments who travel regularly throughout the region. She has lectured extensively on the art market to museum groups, law firms, clubs and to banks and their clients. Tour / receptions at the homes of both Contemporary and Old Master private collectors email [email protected] or visit christiestravel.com 2 CHRISTIE’S TRAVEL | ABERCROMBIE & KENT email [email protected] or visit christiestravel.com CHRISTIE’S TRAVEL | ABERCROMBIE & KENT 3 THURSDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2014 International flights under own arrangement to arrive today, itinerary starts early afternoon. This afternoon enjoy welcome refreshments with the rest of your group and meet your hosts for the next few days. Enjoy a walking tour of the historic neighbourhood of Beacon Hill before a drinks reception at the home of a private collector. Dinner this evening will be in one of Boston’s finest restaurants. TAJ HOTEL | MEALS: WELCOME DRINKS AND DINNER FRIDAY 7 TH NOVEMBER 2014 After breakfast we head to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem for an exploratory tour of the museum. Founded in 1799, PEM is one of America’s oldest and fastest growing museums. Its collections – many ranking among the finest of their kind – exceed 1.8 million works of art and culture including Yin Yu Tang, the only complete Qing Dynasty house located outside China. Of special note, we will have the opportunity to experience a multi-disciplinary installation by Michael Lin, a newly commissioned video work by Candice Breitz and a photography exhibition featuring Jo Ractliffe. These installations are organized by Trevor Smith, PEM’s Curator of the Present Tense, who invites audiences to see the museum and its collections anew through the eyes of today’s most exciting contemporary artists. Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Calder Foundation, New York will be on view. A private lunch will be held today at the museum. Following lunch we journey to Edgewater House in Beverly Farms to see the Horvitz Collection. Set on a stunning private beach on Boston’s North shore, this 1920s private home is filled with fascinating collections of cinnabar lacquer, contemporary Japanese ceramics, important Baroque paintings and thousands of the most important French drawings in the world. The primarily 18th and early 19th century drawings are framed and installed in the house, the office block and the picture room in an overwhelmingly luscious evocation of 18th century France. We will be hosted for our visit by collectors Jeffrey Horvitz and his wife Carol, who together formed this world-class collection over the past 30 years. Dinner this evening will be in one of Boston’s finest restaurants. TAJ HOTEL | MEALS: BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, DURING RENOVATION AND EXPANSION, SHOWING THE CALDERWOOD COURTYARD, APRIL 3, 2014. PHOTO: ZAK JENSEN email [email protected] or visit christiestravel.com 4 CHRISTIE’S TRAVEL | ABERCROMBIE & KENT email [email protected] or visit christiestravel.com CHRISTIE’S TRAVEL | ABERCROMBIE & KENT 5 SATURDAY 8 TH NOVEMBER 2014 After breakfast today we head for a private tour of the Museum of Fine Arts with Edward Saywell, Chair of the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. Saywell will focus his tour on the contemporary wing of the Museum but we will also have an opportunity to see some of the other galleries of what is regarded as one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world, boasting one of the finest collections of American, Asian, and European art in the world. Following the tour we will lunch in the Museum’s award winning restaurant, Bravo, and then have an opportunity to see what promises to be one of the great exhibitions of the year: Goya: Order and Disorder. Organized by the MFA, it is the largest exhibition of Francisco Goya’s work in the United States for more than quarter of a century and will highlight the masterful ingenuity of this titan of eighteenth-century art. This afternoon we head to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with its newly constructed wing designed by Renzo Piano. The Gardner Museum displays an enviable art collection of world importance, including works that rank among the most significant of their type. Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 2,500 objects—paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, photographs and letters—from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America. Built to evoke a 15th-century Venetian palace, the Museum itself provides an atmospheric setting for Gardner’s inventive creation. This evening, we are invited to the exclusive opening gala of the newly renovated and expanded Harvard Art Museums, designed by Renzo Piano. Alongside the museums’ renowned collections will be an inaugural special exhibition, Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals, featuring five paintings commissioned by Harvard University and a majority of the artist’s related studies on paper and canvas, all produced between 1961 and 1962. This new presentation uses groundbreaking digital projection technology to recapture the original hues of the five faded paintings, which have rarely been seen by the public since they were removed from display in the 1970s. TAJ HOTEL | MEALS: BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND A GALA DINNER MICHAEL LIN INSTALLATION AT PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM ALEXANDER CALDER , LA GRANDE VITESSE (INTERMEDIATE MAQUETTE), 1969. ©2014 CALDER FOUNDATION, NEW YORK /ARTIST RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY. PHOTO: CALDER FOUNDATION, NEW YORK /ART RESOURCE, NY. email [email protected] or visit christiestravel.com 6 CHRISTIE’S TRAVEL | ABERCROMBIE & KENT email [email protected] or visit christiestravel.com CHRISTIE’S TRAVEL | ABERCROMBIE & KENT 7 SUNDAY 9 TH NOVEMBER 2014 After breakfast this morning, we explore the Institute of Contemporary Art with a private tour of the Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – Present exhibition by the museum curator before our farewell lunch at The Water Café by Wolfgang Puck. Private transfers have been included for you. International flights under your own arrangement, to take full advantage of today please choose an early evening flight. PHOTO: IWAN BAAN TRIP QUOTATION: FROM £4,700 PER PERSON *Itinerary subject to change email [email protected] or visit christiestravel.com 8 CHRISTIE’S TRAVEL | ABERCROMBIE & KENT