Even new collectors know what they're talking about. Baroni has one of the more moving pictures. The painting is perfection, with its delicately rendered veins through the skin, the thorns piercing the forehead, the shadow of a knot in the rope tying Christ's wrists. The picture is not priced yet. Although Dutch and Flemish examples abound, there's more diversity this year.
Viewers can see more Spanish and Italian paintings than ever.
The meditative sitter is portrayed against an emerald background. The colors, sapphire blues and apricot, owe a debt to Titian. When it comes to 19th-century paintings, yes, there are the predictable Degas dancers. In fact, there are enough to stock an entire corps de ballet. Yet Richard Green has a remarkable Georges Seurat oil sketch, Femme Assises.