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Most recently, Howard presented van Gogh in Paris (2020) at Tefaf Maastricht.

For over 40 years, Howard Shaw has assisted private collectors and institutions in acquiring exceptional artworks by some of the most important artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. While President and Director of the Hammer Galleries, Howard has curated countless gallery exhibitions and art fair presentations including: Renoir (2010), Modern Masters: Paris and Beyond (2011), Objects in Space:

Léger, Miró, Calder (2012), Impressionist Masters – Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley (2013), The Modern Muse (2014), Matisse & Picasso (2015), Modern Masters: Between the Wars (2016), The Artist and the Model (2017), The Faces of Modernism (2018), and Sun, Sea and Sky – Painting the Mediterranean (2019), all of which have been accompanied by full-color catalogs with essays by leading scholars. For over several decades while at Hammer, Howard exhibited in some of the most prestigious international art fairs including Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Hong Kong, Tefaf Maastricht, Tefaf New York, Masterpiece London, Art Chicago, the Palm Beach Art Fair, and the American Art Fair (NY). Exhibiting at these fairs has enabled Howard to build a huge global network of relationships with collectors, museum curators, galleries, private dealers, and auction houses, giving him access to all areas of the international art market. While focusing primarily on building private collections, Howard has also placed important works of art in museums such as Norman Rockwell’s masterpiece Rosie the Riveter, 1943 in the collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Gilbert Stuart’s Portrait of George Washington, 1822 in the collection of the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

03/01/2023

Happy birthday Oskar Kokoschka, born on March 1, 1886. Here are four self portraits which I saw in Paris during his recent retrospective at the Musée d’art Moderne (and in view at the Guggenheim Bilbao from March 17 - September 3, 2023. My late father-in-law, the painter Don Resnick, studied with Kokoschka in Vienna in the 1950s. I remember Don telling me that in their first class Kokoschka told the students “I’m not going to teach you how to paint. I’m going to teach you how to live.”

02/17/2023

More photos from my recent European trip. Here are some from the stunningly beautiful Peter Doig exhibition now on view at the Courtauld. Many of the works were created in the artist’s new studio in London. Wonderful to see them adjacent to the Impressionist and Post Impressionist masterpieces in the Courtauld’s permanent collection.

02/13/2023

Back in NYC after a whirlwind trip to Geneva, Paris and London. Here are some images from “Making Modernism” at the Royal Academy, the first major UK exhibition devoted to pioneering women working in Germany in the early 1900s: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kӓthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin alongside key pictures by Erma Bossi, Ottilie Reylaender and Jacoba van Heemskerck. I must agree with Jackie Wullschlager in her review in the FT: “ a quartet of women, are moving like giving their due in the story of 20th century hard, but this show feels like a missed opportunity…For although these artists were not trailblazers, and their output is uneven, each adds movingly to the story of 20th-century art. Failing to acknowledge how they evolved and responded to devastating sociopolitical events, the exhibition defeats its aim of enlarging our understanding of their scope and significance.”

Unfortunately, the exhibition is now closed, but can be seen in the royal academy’s YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4jDDRzBjr8

02/10/2023

Second stop: the EY Exhibition Cézanne at the Tate Modern. “With an apple, I will astonish Paris,” Cézanne once claimed… well, true for London now, too. This career-spanning survey is another must-see show. It is no surprise that Picasso called him “the father of us all”.

Interestingly, the exhibition’s wall cards featured perspectives on Cézanne from contemporary artists. Posted above is one from Phyllida Barlow (b.1944), an artist living and working in the UK.

02/03/2023

Happy birthday to Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), one of America's most beloved artists! Featured above is "Rosie the Riveter", Rockwell's "Mona Lisa". In 2002, I purchased this painting at Sotheby’s on behalf of a private collector. It set a new world record for the artist. Several years later, I was honored to be able to place the work in the collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, a must-see stop for any admirer of American Art. As we celebrate and remember Norman Rockwell, let's do the same for all of the “Rosies” who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II.

Image details:
"Rosie the Riveter", 1943
Oil on canvas
52 x 40 inches
Collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

01/05/2023

Happy New Year from Howard Shaw Fine Art! 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. The art world is commemorating the anniversary of his death with over 40 blockbuster exhibitions across the globe.

In total, the events, under the "Celebration Picasso 1973-2023" umbrella, will span 16 exhibitions in Spain, 12 in France, seven in the U.S., and seven more between Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Romania, and Belgium.

Here is a link to the full timeline: https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/en/celebration-picasso-1973-2023

Below is a list of some exhibitions that I am especially looking forward to:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Cubism and the Trompe L’oeil Tradition” Museu Picasso, Barcelona, “Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: Dealer and Publisher” Fondation Beyeler, "Picasso: Artist and Model - Last Paintings" Musée National Picasso, Paris, in collaboration with British designer Sir Paul Smith, "Celebration Picasso: The Collection in a New Light" Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, “Picasso: Masterpieces from the Nahmad Collection” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, “Young Picasso in Paris” La Casa Encendida, Madrid “Late Picasso 1963-1972” Brooklyn Museum, “Picasso and Feminism”, a show co-curated by the Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, “Picasso – El Greco” Cincinnati Art Museum, “Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds” Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, “Picasso vs. Velázquez” Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, “Gertrude Stein and Picasso: The Invention of Language” Museu Picasso, Málaga (celebrating its own 20th anniversary), "Picasso: Matter and Body", traveling to the Guggenheim Bilbao Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, “Picasso. The Sacred and the Profane” Centre Pompidou, “Picasso: 2023 Dessins” Museu Picasso, Barcelona/ Fundació Joan Miró, “Miró – Picasso”

12/14/2022

Wonderful trip to Philadelphia on Sunday with dear old friends to see “Matisse in the 1930s” at the and “Modigliani Up Close” at (both on view through January 29, 2023). Thank you to Jennifer Thompson, Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Cindy Kang, Associate Curator, The Barnes Foundation for the superb tours. If you have the time this winter, it was well worth the trip to Philadelphia to see these two wonderful exhibitions.

12/05/2022

Rest in peace Claude Monet (died Dec. 5, 1926). During the pandemic, I tried to read some of the books I purchased over the years, but never got around to. Very embarrassing that I hadn’t read Paul Hayes, Tucker’s definitive Monet biography, “Claude Monet: Life and Art until the pandemic, as it was published in 1995! Tucker, one of the nicest (and tallest) art historians I have had the pleasure of meeting, is perhaps the world’s leading Monet scholar. His biography does an excellent job of placing Monet‘s landscapes in the context of shifting social, economic, and political circumstances. Ross King’s work, “Mad Enchantment: Claude, Monet, and the Painting of the Water Lilies,” tells the story of the creation of Monet’s water lilies murals now located in the Musée de l’Orangerie. His book is a moving portrait of “the artist as an old man.”

12/04/2022

A couple of favorites from Art Basel Miami Beach in no particular order.

11/09/2022

Tonight’s sale of the Paul Allen collection is certain to break several records. I was honored to handle the sale of the extraordinary Andrew Wyeth tempera “Daydream” in 2007. It was wonderful to see this exquisite painting again. The collection consists of one masterpiece after another. How wonderful to leave with these works and then donated all of the proceeds of their sale to charity.

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