动人肖像：私人珍藏古代绘画

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Christie’s is pleased to offer a small but exceptional collection of drawings, mainly assembled in the 1990s by a young European couple of connoisseur living in New York at the time.

Collectors of contemporary art and close to many of its leading artists, such as Andy Warhol or Jean-Michel Basquiat, the couple also had a strong interest in Old Master Drawings, ‘buying with their hearts’. By instinct, and following the advice of Charles Ryskamp (1963-1987), at the time director of the Morgan Library in New York, they attended auctions and the important galleries of Old Masters in search of strong images, without letting themselves be guided by fashion or convention.

The ensemble, mostly composed of Italian sheets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most representing figures, still today reflects their taste of great modernity.

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