Alastair Smart

1 week ago | christies.com | Alastair Smart

During a period when their homeland ‘teetered on the edge of extinction’, Denmark’s artists produced work of striking variety and originality. Now they are emerging from the shadows of their more famous European peers — and coming to auction at Christie’sAuction HighlightsArtist & MakersClassicsWords by Alastair Smart19 June 2025Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), Portrait of Miss Else Aagesen, 1913. Oil on canvas. 36 x 27 in (91.5 x 68.7 cm). Estimate: £120,000-180,000.

1 week ago | christies.com | Alastair Smart

The new museum from renowned Argentine collector and Malba founder Eduardo F. Costantini brings new cultural offerings outside the city of Buenos Aires and invites visitors to become active participantsArt World TrendsCollectors & CollectionsEvents & ExhibitionsStorylines20th & 21st Century ArtGalleries & MuseumsWords By Alastair Smart18 June 2025Clockwise from left: Founder Eduardo F. Costantini stands in front of Malba—Puertos, Escobar, Argentina.

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Alastair Smart

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4 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Alastair Smart

In FocusAs Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s juggernaut musical ‘Evita’ prepares for its West End return, Alastair Smart revisits the life and legend of Argentina’s former first ladySome 12 miles southwest of the city of Buenos Aires is a remarkable settlement called Ciudad Evita. It was founded in 1947 by the then-president of Argentina, Juan Perón, in tribute to his wife, Eva.

1 month ago | christies.com | Alastair Smart

Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day was formerly in the collection of Britain’s first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, who hung the painting in 10 Downing Street. Since its creation in the 1730s — ‘the great decade of Canaletto’s production of Venetian views’ — it has had just three additional ownersAuction HighlightsClassicsWords by Alastair Smart16 May 2025Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto (1697-1768), Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day.