Colnaghi is pleased to return to BRAFA for a second consecutive year, participating in the fair’s 71st edition.
For this occasion, the gallery will present a selection of works spanning antiquity to the early twentieth century, reflecting Colnaghi’s longstanding engagement with sculpture, painting, and works on paper across periods and traditions.
The presentation includes a Roman marble Head of a Young Man from the Imperial period shown alongside an Anatolian schematic idol of the Kusura type dating to the Early Bronze Age. Together, these works foreground early approaches to the human form, from naturalistic portraiture to abstraction.
Painting is represented by works such as Gillis Neyts’s Winter Cityscape of Antwerp, an accomplished example of seventeenth-century Flemish landscape painting, and Peter van Boucle’s Still Life with a Boar’s Head, a forceful composition characteristic of his mature work in Paris. Later works include Wilhelm Leibl’s Study of a Skull, an uncompromising exercise in realism, and a Nordic landscape by Per Tellander, whose reduced forms and muted palette reflect early twentieth-century symbolic approaches to nature.
This presentation brings together works of different periods and media without imposing a thematic framework, allowing questions of material, form, and artistic intention to emerge through close viewing.
We look forward to welcoming visitors to Stand 040 for BRAFA’s 71st edition.