Masterpiece Award Winners Announced

by | Jun 27, 2019 | News | 0 comments

Robilant + Voena Outstanding Exhibit Masterpiece London Award Winner
In partnership with Plowden & Smith, Masterpiece Awards are awarded to those exhibits and stands that are judged to be outstanding – perhaps undiscovered, rare, provenanced, and of beauty.
 
There are three types of award:
 
Outstanding Display Rewards excellence and innovation that demonstrates an imaginative approach to the combination of design and superb works of art. There are two joint winners: one reflecting the cross-collecting ethos of the Fair; and the other excelling in a single discipline.
 
Outstanding Exhibit Awarded to six works that are judged to be outstanding.
 
Masterpiece Highlights Our 27 specialist vetting committees will each nominate the object that best reflects scholarship, rarity, connoisseurship in their category.
 
 

 

The 2019 Masterpiece Award Winners

 

Outstanding Display: Single Discipline Stand

Oscar Graf

“An impeccably beautiful display. This is a very well curated and disciplined selection of work, in a field perhaps less familiar to many, that draws you in to look and learn.”

Outstanding Display: Multi Discipline Stand

Afridi

“An arresting display juxtaposing choice textile works of different periods – and from different parts of the world – including from the lesser-known Scandinavian school. The stand imaginatively combines textiles with superb Ottoman ceramics, Japanese Lacquer, 20th century design and more.”

 

 

Outstanding Exhibit Award Winners

 
Koopman Rare Art
The Lequesne Coffee Pot, 1738 by Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751)
 
“A spectacular silver coffee pot by a great silversmith, crafted with an extraordinarily inventive asymmetrical rococo form.”

 

Michele Beiny
Sèvres Enamel Ewer, 1849

“A superb exhibition piece of Sèvres porcelain imitating Limoges enamel, characteristically flamboyant, showing the 19th century at its underestimated best.”

 

Steinitz
Houdon Bust

“The refined and expressive modelling of this terracotta bust outshines similar works by the artist in carved marble”

 

Blain|Southern
Table Piece CCLXXVI, 1975/76, by Anthony Caro

“An exquisitely beautiful and poised table piece with great presence, it’s abstract character emblematic of modern British sculpture.”

 

Richard Saltoun
Acrilico n. 527, 1979 by Bice Lazarri

“An elegant compositional structure celebrating line and pace, informed by the artists musical upbringing”

 

Robilant + Voena
Portrait (Ritratto), 1949-50, by Lucio Fontana

 

“The combination of mediums; enamelled, glazed and coloured makes it both immensely attractive as a work of art but also a masterpiece of its kind by a highly revered painter, sculptor and theorist.”

all images Ben Fisher Photography, courtesy of Masterpiece London

 

 

Masterpiece Highlight Winners

Patrick & Ondine Mestdagh

Wartski

Annely Juda Fine Art

Carter Marsh & Co

Cindy Chao The Art Jewel

Steinitz

W. Agnew & Company Ltd

Thomas Coulborn & Sons

S Franses Limited, London

Axel Vervoordt

Robert Young Antiques

Edward Hurst

Dickinson

Agnews

Lullo-Pampoulides

Peter Harrington Rare Books

E & H Manners

Finch & Co

Oscar Graf

Afridi Gallery

Koopman Rare Art

Michele Beiny

Blain|Southern

Richard Saltoun

Robilant + Voena