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Colnaghi Founded in 1760, Colnaghi is the oldest and most important art dealership in the world.

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Among the leading figures of the Utrecht Caravaggisti, Jan van Bijlert (1597/98–1671) played a central role in introduci...
25/06/2026

Among the leading figures of the Utrecht Caravaggisti, Jan van Bijlert (1597/98–1671) played a central role in introducing the dramatic naturalism of Caravaggio to the Dutch Republic. Having spent several years in Rome, where he absorbed the innovations of Italian painting firsthand, Bijlert developed a distinctive style that combined Caravaggesque intensity with a classical elegance.

Painted in the early 1630s, The Five Senses ranks among the artist's most ambitious and celebrated compositions. Bringing together personifications of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste, the work transforms a familiar allegorical subject into a vivid theatrical spectacle.

Long regarded as one of Bijlert's masterpieces, the painting was recently reinstated to the artist's oeuvre following technical study and scholarly reassessment. It was subsequently exhibited at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.

Few artists are as closely associated with the Finnish landscape as Pekka Halonen (1865–1933). Among the leading figures...
22/06/2026

Few artists are as closely associated with the Finnish landscape as Pekka Halonen (1865–1933). Among the leading figures of Finnish National Romanticism, Halonen devoted his career to depicting the forests, lakes, and snow-covered terrain of his native country, developing a visual language that remains central to the story of Finnish art.

Painted in 1930, Winter belongs to the final years of the artist's life and exemplifies the atmospheric sensitivity for which he became celebrated. Soft violet and blue tones animate the snow-covered landscape, while a solitary pine rises from the frozen terrain with quiet resilience. Stripped of anecdote and human presence, the painting invites a contemplative encounter with nature itself.

Halonen's international reputation was recently reaffirmed by Pekka Halonen: An Ode to Finland at the Petit Palais in Paris, the first exhibition in France dedicated to the artist. Bringing together more than one hundred works from major Finnish collections, the exhibition highlighted Halonen's enduring significance as one of the foremost interpreters of the Nordic landscape.

Part of Moving Stillness: Nordic Painting & Drawing from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Early Modern Period, on view at Colnaghi London.

Transformation lies at the heart of Leonor Fini's practice. Throughout her work, identities remain fluid, shifting betwe...
18/06/2026

Transformation lies at the heart of Leonor Fini's practice. Throughout her work, identities remain fluid, shifting between reality and fantasy, self and masquerade, human and myth.

Juxtaposed with a Yaka ndeemba mask and images of the sphinx, Fini's works reveal a shared fascination with transformation as a process of becoming. Across these objects, the act of assuming another form emerges as a source of power, mystery, and imagination.

Leonor Fini: A Practice of Transformation at Colnaghi New York. On view at Colnaghi New York.

Colnaghi London is delighted to announce the opening of Moving Stillness: Nordic Painting & Drawing from the Late Ninete...
15/06/2026

Colnaghi London is delighted to announce the opening of Moving Stillness: Nordic Painting & Drawing from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Early Modern Period.

Bringing together works by artists including Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Hugo Simberg, and Olof Johan Grafström, the exhibition explores a period of profound artistic transformation across Northern Europe. As Nordic artists engaged with Symbolism, Impressionism, and emerging modernist tendencies, landscape and daily life became increasingly filtered through atmosphere, memory, and personal perception. Situated between Naturalism and early Modernism, the works on view reveal a compelling dialogue between observation and interpretation, tradition and experimentation.

On view at Colnaghi London from 15 June to 31 July 2026.

Colnaghi London is delighted to announce the opening of In Vino Veritas: The Visual Rhetoric of Wine.

Bringing together archaeological material, sculpture, and Old Master paintings, the exhibition explores wine as one of the most enduring motifs in the Western visual tradition. Tracing its evolution from the ritual culture of the ancient symposium to the allegorical and philosophical reflections of the Renaissance, Baroque, and still-life traditions, the exhibition examines how wine became a powerful vehicle through which artists explored celebration, excess, beauty, mortality, and the transience of the senses.

On view at Colnaghi London from 15 June to 31 July 2026.

12/06/2026

Images from our exhibition with .es at Colnaghi Madrid.

Bringing contemporary painting into dialogue with works by Velázquez, Sorolla, Cornelis Schut III and other masters, the exhibition explored the capacity of portraiture to address questions of identity, memory and human experience across centuries.

Presented within the context of Colnaghi’s long tradition of exhibiting exceptional painting, the exhibition highlighted the continued relevance of the medium and the possibilities that emerge when contemporary artists engage directly with art historical precedent.

08/06/2026

Notes from our recent event with in honour of our collaboration on Colnaghi’s exhibition dedicated to The Art of Adornment which brings together works spanning from Antiquity to the 20th Century, presented alongside jewellery and belts by luxury costume jewellery brand Sonia Petroff, including a first presentation of its Spring/Summer 2026 collection.

The Art of Adornment is on at Colnaghi London until this Wednesday.

Leonor Fini’s engagement with theatre occupied a central position within her wider artistic practice, offering a framewo...
03/06/2026

Leonor Fini’s engagement with theatre occupied a central position within her wider artistic practice, offering a framework through which questions of ritual, performance, metamorphosis, and constructed identity could be explored beyond the limits of painting alone. Her costume and set designs reveal a fascination with theatrical space as a site of psychological and symbolic transformation, where the boundaries between the human, the mythological, and the grotesque become deliberately unstable.

Juxtaposed with ritual and performative objects spanning antiquity to the early twentieth century, including a Yaka ndeemba mask and an Alexandrian bronze grotesque figure, Fini’s theatrical works are situated within a longer visual history of masquerade, embodiment, and ceremonial display.

Leonor Fini: A Practice of Transformation at Colnaghi New York. On view at Colnaghi New York.

Part of The Art of Adornment at Colnaghi London, these works reflect the historical importance of dress, jewellery, and ...
31/05/2026

Part of The Art of Adornment at Colnaghi London, these works reflect the historical importance of dress, jewellery, and coiffure within portraiture and representations of the body across antiquity and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. The finely carved Hadrianic marble head preserves the elaborate braided hairstyle associated with the Roman imperial court, while Jean-Baptiste Isabey’s portrait of an Arlésienne records the distinctive regional costume and elegance for which women of Arles became celebrated during the nineteenth century. Carle van Loo’s intimate Rococo portrait of his daughter Marie-Rosalie similarly captures the ornamental sophistication and delicacy associated with French court culture.

Juxtaposed with the jewellery of Sonia Petroff, the works place contemporary design within a longer history of adornment and self-fashioning.

The Art of Adornment is on view at Colnaghi London.

28/05/2026

discusses the market for Leonor Fini, in conversation with Will Elliott.

At Colnaghi New York, the exhibition places emphasis on the material and historical context of the works. Fini’s practice is presented alongside ritual objects from Greco Roman, Egyptian, and African contexts, situating her production within a broader framework of image-making and use.

13 May 2026 to 26 June 2026
Visit us at Colnaghi New York
Monday to Friday, 10am–6pm

23/05/2026

discusses the question of framing Leonor Fini, in conversation with Will Elliott.

At Colnaghi New York, the exhibition approaches this through a comparative framework. Fini’s works are placed alongside objects from Greco Roman, Egyptian, and African contexts, emphasising formal and symbolic correspondences rather than fixed classification.

13 May 2026 to 26 June 2026
Visit us at Colnaghi New York
Monday to Friday, 10am–6pm

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