Rembrandt and His Peers in Toronto
January 31 2024
Picture: ago.ca
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto will be hosting a Rembrandt exhibition next month, supplemented by paintings on loan the Bader Collection at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston. Painted Presence: Rembrandt and His Peers will see the gallery's own Rembrandtian works hung alongside masterpieces from the Bader collection, which includes Rembrandt's Portrait of a man with arms akimbo, a painting which made £20.2m at Christie's in 2009. I wonder how much it would make now?
To quote the museum's website:
From the Bader Collection at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the AGO welcomes a remarkable selection of seventeenth century Dutch paintings. Shown in dialogue with paintings from the AGO’s European Collection of Art, at the centre of this focused installation are seven artworks attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), shown together for the first time. Featuring intensely observed still life paintings, detailed interiors and mesmerizing portraits, these striking artworks offer a rare glimpse of Dutch artistry at work. This exhibition is co-curated by Adam Harris Levine, AGO Associate Curator European Art and Suzanne van de Meerendonk, Bader Curator of European Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
The show will open on 17th February 2024.
