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CHRISTIE’S ART JOURNEYS: Rare Rothkos & Renzo Piano
6th – 9th November 2014
Join Christie’s in vibrant Boston for a schedule that includes the very first look inside the
new Harvard Art Musuems designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano
at an exclusive benefit gala to mark the opening. Christie’s expert Elizabeth M. Chapin will
accompany us sharing her insights on this very special tour. From the comfort of the centrally
located Taj Hotel, which occupies the city’s most prestigious address, Boston’s other famous
art collections are also on our itinerary, including rare behind-the-scenes tours.
YOUR EXPERT GUIDE ELIZABETH M. CHAPIN
SIGNATURE MOMENTS
An invitation to the exclusive opening and
gala of the newly renovated Harvard Art Museums
designed by Renzo Piano
Behind-the-scenes curator-led tours of the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Museum
of Fine Arts and Institute of Contemporary Art
A private lunch at the Peabody Essex Museum
hosted by the contemporary curator
On hand to guide our group through the most important art that Boston
has to offer, Elizabeth Chapin has unrivalled expertise making sure your
experience will surprise and inform. As Senior Vice-President and the
Managing Director of Christie’s New England Region, Elizabeth is an integral
part of the international auction firm’s regional network of representatives
who act as liaisons throughout North and South America for Christie’s
New York headquarters and salesrooms worldwide.
Elizabeth is based in Boston, but travels throughout New England assisting
potential buyers, consignors, and institutions with appraisals, as well as the
sale of works of art, collections, contents of houses and estates at auction.
She provides advice to clients on bidding at Christie’s both domestically and
internationally coordinating Christie’s specialists from 50 departments who
travel regularly throughout the region. She has lectured extensively on the
art market to museum groups, law firms, clubs and to banks and their clients.
Tour / receptions at the homes of both Contemporary
and Old Master private collectors
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THURSDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2014
International flights under own arrangement to arrive today, itinerary starts
early afternoon.
This afternoon enjoy welcome refreshments with the rest of your group and
meet your hosts for the next few days. Enjoy a walking tour of the historic
neighbourhood of Beacon Hill before a drinks reception at the home of a
private collector.
Dinner this evening will be in one of Boston’s finest restaurants.
TAJ HOTEL | MEALS: WELCOME DRINKS AND DINNER
FRIDAY 7 TH NOVEMBER 2014
After breakfast we head to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem for an
exploratory tour of the museum. Founded in 1799, PEM is one of America’s
oldest and fastest growing museums. Its collections – many ranking among the
finest of their kind – exceed 1.8 million works of art and culture including Yin Yu
Tang, the only complete Qing Dynasty house located outside China.
Of special note, we will have the opportunity to experience a multi-disciplinary
installation by Michael Lin, a newly commissioned video work by Candice
Breitz and a photography exhibition featuring Jo Ractliffe. These installations
are organized by Trevor Smith, PEM’s Curator of the Present Tense, who invites
audiences to see the museum and its collections anew through the eyes of today’s
most exciting contemporary artists. Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde
to Iconic organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Calder
Foundation, New York will be on view.
A private lunch will be held today at the museum.
Following lunch we journey to Edgewater House in Beverly Farms to see the
Horvitz Collection. Set on a stunning private beach on Boston’s North shore,
this 1920s private home is filled with fascinating collections of cinnabar
lacquer, contemporary Japanese ceramics, important Baroque paintings and
thousands of the most important French drawings in the world. The primarily
18th and early 19th century drawings are framed and installed in the house,
the office block and the picture room in an overwhelmingly luscious evocation
of 18th century France. We will be hosted for our visit by collectors Jeffrey
Horvitz and his wife Carol, who together formed this world-class collection
over the past 30 years.
Dinner this evening will be in one of Boston’s finest restaurants.
TAJ HOTEL | MEALS: BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER
THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, DURING RENOVATION AND EXPANSION,
SHOWING THE CALDERWOOD COURTYARD, APRIL 3, 2014. PHOTO: ZAK JENSEN
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SATURDAY 8 TH NOVEMBER 2014
After breakfast today we head for a private tour of the Museum of Fine Arts
with Edward Saywell, Chair of the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art.
Saywell will focus his tour on the contemporary wing of the Museum but
we will also have an opportunity to see some of the other galleries of what
is regarded as one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world,
boasting one of the finest collections of American, Asian, and European art in
the world. Following the tour we will lunch in the Museum’s award winning
restaurant, Bravo, and then have an opportunity to see what promises to be
one of the great exhibitions of the year: Goya: Order and Disorder. Organized
by the MFA, it is the largest exhibition of Francisco Goya’s work in the United
States for more than quarter of a century and will highlight the masterful
ingenuity of this titan of eighteenth-century art.
This afternoon we head to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with its newly
constructed wing designed by Renzo Piano. The Gardner Museum displays an
enviable art collection of world importance, including works that rank among
the most significant of their type. Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully
displayed a collection comprised of more than 2,500 objects—paintings,
sculpture, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts,
rare books, photographs and letters—from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe,
Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America.
Built to evoke a 15th-century Venetian palace, the Museum itself provides an
atmospheric setting for Gardner’s inventive creation.
This evening, we are invited to the exclusive opening gala of the newly renovated
and expanded Harvard Art Museums, designed by Renzo Piano. Alongside
the museums’ renowned collections will be an inaugural special exhibition,
Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals, featuring five paintings commissioned by
Harvard University and a majority of the artist’s related studies on paper
and canvas, all produced between 1961 and 1962. This new presentation uses
groundbreaking digital projection technology to recapture the original hues
of the five faded paintings, which have rarely been seen by the public since they
were removed from display in the 1970s.
TAJ HOTEL | MEALS: BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND A GALA DINNER
MICHAEL LIN INSTALLATION AT PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM
ALEXANDER CALDER , LA GRANDE VITESSE (INTERMEDIATE MAQUETTE), 1969.
©2014 CALDER FOUNDATION, NEW YORK /ARTIST RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY.
PHOTO: CALDER FOUNDATION, NEW YORK /ART RESOURCE, NY.
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SUNDAY 9 TH NOVEMBER 2014
After breakfast this morning, we explore the Institute of Contemporary Art with
a private tour of the Fiber: Sculpture 1960 – Present exhibition by the museum
curator before our farewell lunch at The Water Café by Wolfgang Puck.
Private transfers have been included for you.
International flights under your own arrangement, to take full advantage of today
please choose an early evening flight.
PHOTO: IWAN BAAN
TRIP QUOTATION: FROM £4,700 PER PERSON
*Itinerary subject to change
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