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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Still Lifes

The Wildenstein Plattner Institute is pleased to announce its forthcoming publication, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Still Lifes, which will serve as the first installment of the WPI’s forthcoming Renoir catalogue raisonné. This major endeavor will feature over 900 works on canvas, many of which have been examined by the Renoir Committee since its founding in 2003.

If you would like to submit works to the Renoir Committee for possible inclusion in this forthcoming publication, please do so via our webportal.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Oranges, bananes et tasse de thé, 1908, oil on canvas. Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, *Nature morte au melon, amandes et figues,* 1882, oil on canvas. Private Collection.

Claude Monet: The Revised and Updated Catalogue Raisonné; The Pastels

The Wildenstein Plattner Institute is pleased to announce its forthcoming publication, Claude Monet: The Revised and Updated Catalogue Raisonné; The Pastels. This digital catalogue raisonné, which we anticipate releasing on our website later this year, will include newly-discovered works and critical texts by Dr. Géraldine Lefebvre, as well as updates and amendments to the original catalogue raisonné by Daniel Wildenstein.

The Pastels marks the first installment of the WPI’s project to revise and update the entirety of Wildenstein’s landmark Monet Catalogue raisonné. Since that resource was last published in 1996, new information on Monet’s artworks has come to light that significantly informs the scholarship on the artist.

Accordingly, WPI’s Monet Committee will review the oeuvre, and will update the provenance, exhibition histories, and bibliographic references of those artworks submitted for committee review.

If you would like to submit works to the Monet Committee for possible inclusion in this forthcoming publication, please do so via our webportal.

Claude Monet, *L’Estuaire de la Seine*, 1864–70. Pastel on paper laid on canvas. The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection. Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum, CO.

Announcing the new Maurice de Vlaminck Committee

DECEMBER 14, 2022 — NEW YORK, NY — The WPI is pleased to announce the creation of a new Maurice de Vlaminck committee to examine requests for inclusion in the artist’s catalogue raisonné.

Please be advised that works given Attestations of Inclusion by the Wildenstein Institute and WPI between 1992 and 2018 will be included in the WPI’s forthcoming publication. However, the WPI reserves the right to reconsider a previous decision.

The Vlaminck committee will take place in Paris in February 2023. If you would liketo submit a work to the committee for review, please visit our webpage at wpi.art

NOUVEAU COMITÉ MAURICE DE VLAMINCK

Veuillez noter que les œuvres ayant reçu une attestation d’inclusion du Wildenstein Institute et du WPI entre 1992 et 2018 seront incluses dans la prochaine publication du WPI. Cependant, le WPI se réserve le droit de reconsidérer une décision antérieure.

Le WPI a le plaisir de vous annoncer la création d’un nouveau comité Maurice de Vlaminck afin d’examiner les demandes d’inclusion au catalogue raisonné de l’artiste.

Le comité Vlaminck aura lieu à Paris en février 2023. Si vous souhaitez soumettre une œuvre au comité pour examen, veuillez visiter notre page Web à l’adresse wpi.art

Eva Gonzalès

Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883) was a French painter best known for her portraits and intimate depictions of daily life scenes. Published in 1990, Eva Gonzalès: Étude critique et catalogue raisonné was co-authored by Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu and Jacques de Mons with the support of Daniel Wildenstein.

The catalogue includes 124 works: 88 paintings, 23 pastels, 6 watercolors, 2 charcoals, and 1 drypoint etching. Through extensive archival research, the authors were able to document and identify new works, hence making a significant contribution to the scholarship on this under-studied artist and great painter of modern life.

Eva Gonzalès: Étude critique et catalogue raisonné

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Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu and Jacques de Mons
1990
La Bibliothèques des Arts, Paris
360 pages
ISBN: 2-85047-155-0

Fakes and Forgeries

a webinar with Special Agent Christopher McKeogh from the FBI’s Art Crime division

Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 1:00 PM ET

The rise of fakes and forgeries in the artworld is of particular concern to art historians and custodians of art historical archives. Especially with the increasing availability of archival information online, many are concerned that criminals have more access than ever to “recipes” for how to create a convincing fake. But does the availability of such information correlate to an increase of these art crimes? What artists are particularly vulnerable to these attempts, and to what extent should art historians and archives “safeguard” art historical information from potential misuse by the public?

The WPI was pleased to host Special Agent Christopher McKeogh from the Art Crime division of the FBI. SA McKeogh gave a presentation on some of the notable cases he’s seen in recent times, what to look out for, and what art world experts can do to fight back against these fraudulent activities.

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Christopher McKeogh is a former university science professor and possesses two Master’s Degrees in Physics. As a Special Agent with the FBI, he has more than 19 years’ experience working National Security, Financial Crime, and Art Crime investigations. Currently, SA McKeogh exclusively investigates art crime matters in the Transnational Organized Crime branch of the FBI’s New York Office. His efforts have led to the arrest and conviction of numerous art crime perpetrators resulting in the disruption/dismantlement of several international criminal syndicates, as well as the recovery of thousands of works of art, from antiquity to modern, valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

This event was moderated by Elizabeth Gorayeb, Executive Director of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Photographers on Bearden

a conversation with Frank Stewart & Chester Higgins, Jr.

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 6:30 PM ET

In celebration of the launch of the Romare Bearden Papers on the WPI Digital Archives, the WPI hosted a webinar featuring renowned photographers Frank Stewart and Chester Higgins, Jr., in a conversation moderated by Dalila Scruggs, Curator of Photography and Prints at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Photographers like Stewart and Higgins have created iconic portraits of Bearden which have become synonymous with the artist’s image. Forming part of the rich assortment of photographs available in the artist’s archives, they offer an exclusive look at Bearden at various moments in his career and provide a vital record of African American arts and letters in the 20th century.

Frank Stewart shot his first photographs at the 1963 March on Washington and has gone on to make compelling images ever since. Stewart earned a BFA in photography from Cooper Union in 1975 and counts Roy DeCarara, Garry Winogrand, Jack Whitten, and Romare Bearden amongst his mentors. Stewart was the first photographer-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, where he also taught photography. He has been a member of Kamoinge, Inc. since 1982, and was the lead photographer for Jazz at Lincoln Center almost three decades. Stewart is widely published, has had more than thirty solo exhibitions and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. His work is held in the collections of major museums including Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, Maine, the Detroit Institute of Arts; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Museum of African American Art and Culture, Washington, DC, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Stewart is the subject of an upcoming retrospective titled, Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960’s to the Present, that opens at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, in June 2023.

Chester Higgins, Jr. is a photographer known for his eloquent images of the life and culture of African Americans and the people of the African Diaspora. He counts P. H. Polk, Arthur Rothstein, Cornell Capa, Gordon Parks and Romare Bearden amongst his mentors. He was a staff photographer for the New York Times from 1975 to 2014. Widely published, his photographs have appeared in magazines including Ebony, Essence, Fortune, LIFE, Look, Newsweek, and TIME, and in several books including Sacred Nile, Echo of the Spirit and Elder Grace. His work has appeared in numerous solo exhibitions, most recently The Indelible Spirit at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery. He has received fellowships and grants from the International Center of Photography, The Ford Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. His photographs are included in the following permanent collections: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, the Library of Congress, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.

Dalila Scruggs is Curator for Photography and Prints at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She earned a Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University, where she focused on African American art. She has held curatorial positions at the Williams College Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, and served as the Brooklyn Museum’s Museum Education Fellowship Coordinator.