We are excited to announce that for the 2nd consecutive year, Questroyal will be the exclusive source of artwork for the Architectural Digest greenroom, backstage at the 84th annual Academy Awards®! …continue reading or post a comment
As temperatures in New York drop from cold to unbearably cold, Questroyal is anticipating our annual migration to Florida in early February to exhibit at the American International Fine Art Fair in West Palm Beach, opening on February 3, 2012. …continue reading or post a comment
Comments on the American Paintings Sales: December 2011
There is only one way to arrive at the “heart of the market”, to gain a genuine understanding of its nature and likely course. Many will doubt the credibility of the approach I advocate but the success of this gallery depends on it. I place my trust and faith in instinct, which I define as the summation of all the varied intellectual, psychological, and emotional indicators which inform a reliable understanding of that mystical entity we call, “the market”. The use of traditional tools and methods such as buy-in rates, gross sales, averages, and medians, provide insight into a specific sale but are of little value in interpreting the greater and ever evolving overall market. …continue reading or post a comment
Next week, Questroyal Fine Art will exhibit at the Fifteenth Annual Boston International Fine Art Show, from November 17– 20, 2011. Questroyal will be one of forty galleries represented. For complimentary tickets, please email gallery@questroyalfineart.com, or call (212)744-3586.
If you are planning to attend the show on Friday, November 18, do not miss the chance to hear Questroyal’s owner, Louis M. Salerno, participate in the panel discussion …continue reading or post a comment
An excerpt from our most recent catalogue, Timeless: Important American Paintings Volume XII:
Consider the collector who came to the gallery not long ago and desperately wanted to buy three expensive paintings. He became increasingly agitated, unable to summon the conviction to complete the sale. I asked him what was his greatest concern. He replied, “Lou, I love the paintings, but everything is so unpredictable. Sometimes it feels like the world is coming to an end.” …continue reading or post a comment
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893–1967) has been commemorated with several major museum and gallery exhibitions in the past decade, including the 2010 retrospective, Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the 2009 exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art, The Architecture of Painting: Charles Burchfield, 1920.
While recent exhibitions have focused on the full span of Burchfield’s life and career, his early period merits special attention. …continue reading or post a comment
It’s unlike any catalogue you have ever seen: forty-four major American paintings, a commingling of insight, imagination, and humor, with a dose of controversy and a peculiar wisdom that straddles the divide between intellect and insanity.
-Louis M. Salerno, Owner of Questroyal Fine Art
Dorfman sought the opinions of four major dealers of the Hudson River School on how best to collect this genre, without shelling out seven-figure prices that these paintings have been known to command. Mr. Salerno recommends investing in artists who may be less renowned than Thomas Cole or Asher B. Durand, for example, but who equally captured the beauty of the untamed American landscape.
The Mint Museum, located in Charlotte, NC, Bearden’s birth place, has organized a traveling exhibition of the artist’s work – Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections. Set to open on September 2, 2011, the centennial of Bearden’s birth, this retrospective will explore the artist’s narrative and thematic expressions of his personal experiences in relation to the American South. Romare Bearden’s Untitled (Melon Season), part of Questroyal’s collection, will be on loan to the Mint Museum for the duration of the exhibition, and will then travel with the exhibition to the Tampa Museum of Art and the Newark Museum. …continue reading or post a comment
Questroyal Fine Art is a proud sponsor of the Frederic Edwin Church exhibition, Rally ‘round the Flag: Frederic Edwin Church and the American Civil War, on view through October 30, 2011 at the Olana estate of this master of the Hudson River School. This exhibition, launched in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War, includes drawings and paintings by Church, each of which reflects his unique position on the War. …continue reading or post a comment
