REVISITING MARÍA BLANCHARD'S CUBIST LEGACY
17.00 (BST) / 12.00 (EDT)
MONDAY 14 OCTOBER
Although once well known in Spain and France, the painter María Blanchard (Santander 1881 - Paris 1932) had slipped into obscurity; a monographic exhibition in Málaga this year and recent acquisitions of her Cubist work by major museums have propelled her name back into the public's attention. This discussion aims to re-examine Blanchard's Cubist period and the crucial years of her collaboration with Léonce Rosenberg in Paris alongside Juan Gris, Jean Metzinger, and Henri Laurens, among others. Focusing on the practice of her painting and the provenance of her works, this conversation hopes to contribute to the existing scholarly knowledge on this artist and ignite further interest in the work.
Join our panellists Dr Elizabeth Rice Mattison (Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth) and Angelina Giovani-Agha (Flynn and Giovani Art Provenance research), for this engaging conversation.
The discussion will be led by Dr Meta Maria Valiusaityte (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Université Paris Nanterre).
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Elizabeth Rice Mattison is the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH). A specialist in the art of northern Europe, her recent exhibitions have explored printmaking in wartime, 1500-1900, Renaissance small-scale sculpture, and artistic exchange along early modern trade routes. Her co-authored book, Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400-1750 was released in spring 2024. Her writing has also been published in Gesta, The Metropolitan Museum Journal, The Burlington Magazine, and Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, among other venues. She holds a PhD in art history at the University of Toronto and an MA and BA in the history of art from Yale University. She has previously held positions at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto; the Musée du Louvre; the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; and the Yale University Art Gallery. Elizabeth is currently researching one of María Blanchard's Cubist still life paintings in the collection of the Hood Museum. Acquired in 1968, this painting is likely the first by the artist acquired by an American institution, and its history offers insight into shifting institutional tastes over the decades.
Angelina Giovani-Agha is an art historian and provenance researcher based in London. She is the co-founder of Flynn & Giovani, Art Provenance Research agency. Over the years, she has produced in-depth research reports for artworks offered to major American museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, among others.
Previously she worked for the ERR database, acted as Head of Provenance Research for a bespoke Family Office Art Advisory and advised private and public institutions on ethical collecting guidelines.
In 2020, Angelina was appointed as a Provenance Research Specialist at CAfA - Court of Arbitration for Art, Hague and in 2022 she launched the Collections Provenance Rating, an innovative , proprietary tool that assesses the state of documentation of art collections and offers recommendations based on the risk level identified. In 2023 she launched the Art Market Academy, a dedicated online environment offering online courses in provenance research and due diligence, now subtitled in over 15 languages. She guest lectures at the University of Zurich and has recently organised training workshops for the Heritage Council in Dublin, the Foundation for International Education, Kingston University, Finito education, etc.
She is the Chair of the Art Provenance Symposium and the author of the 2023 Art Provenance Report.
Meta Valiusaityte is an art historian and curator based in Berlin and Paris. This fall, she is a joint Daniel-Arasse Fellow at the Académie de France-Villa Médicis and the École Française de Rome. She received her PhD in Art History (summa cum laude) from the Université Paris Nanterre, in cotutelle with the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Meta's research and publications focus on 20th-century European art, particularly on the histories of Cubism and its connections to the human body, the art market during WWI, as well as issues of size and scale. Her broader research interests encompass site-specific art, architecture as body, cross-disciplinary experiments, and the forms that art and artistic expression take in times of despair. Meta has held fellowships at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and the German Center for Art History (DFK) in Paris, among other institutions. She has curated exhibitions for various institutions and served as scientific executive assistant to Peter Weibel, CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and as a researcher at the Musée national Picasso-Paris. One of her most recently curated exhibitions, Picasso on Wood, is currently on view at the Museo Picasso Málaga.
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