New Exhibitions
Sam Fogg
Treasures of the Medieval World
31 January – 8 March 2025
Luhring Augustine Tribeca, NYC, 17 White Street, New York, NY 10013
East Meets West: Indian and Persian Drawings
1 – 28 February 2025
Les Enluminures, 23 E 73rd St, Penthouse, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10021
Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460-1531), The Virgin and Child Enthroned, Germany, Lower Franconia, Würzburg, c. 1500-1505
Basawan (fl. 1580-1600), A beautiful woman in the guise of a European allegorical figure, India, Mughal dynasty, c. 1585-90
Treasures of the Medieval World
Special Monday Opening: 3 Februrary 2025
Public Reception: Friday 31 January; 6pm – 8pm
Treasures of the Medieval World is the fourth in a series of exhibitions showcasing medieval works of art in a contemporary context to be mounted in collaboration with Luhring Augustine, New York. Following the success of the first three iterations, Of Earth and Heaven (2018), Gothic Spirit (2020), and The Medieval Body (2022), this new iteration will open at Luhring Augustine Tribeca on 31st January and runs through 8th March.Treasures of the Medieval World brings together over forty rare objects spanning the fields of sculpture, painting, ceramics, textiles, and goldsmith’s work. Collectively they evince medieval Europe’s astonishing and enduring artistic legacy.
Highlights include one of only five autograph works carved by the master sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider still in private hands, an early ‘inhabited’ carpet made by Anatolian weavers in the years around 1500, a stupendous silver-gilt Portuguese display ewer made for a member of the royal court in the first two decades of the sixteenth century, a complete English alabaster altarpiece from the first half of the fifteenth century, and a Renaissance altarpiece by the famed Sevillian panel painter Alejo Fernandez.
For more information, visit https://www.samfogg.com/exhibitions/59/.
East Meets West: Indian and Persian Drawings
Special Monday Opening: 3 February 2025 (Part of Master Drawings New York)
Private view: Friday 31 January; 6pm – 8pm
Sam Fogg is pleased to present Indian and Persian Drawings as part of the collaborative exhibition East Meets West mounted with Les Enluminures during Master Drawings New York. It is accompanied by a catalogue in two volumes, exploring the intricate worlds of European, Persian, and Indian art. The exhibition looks at the shared aspects of Eastern and Western traditions, with an emphasis on the use of materials, methods, and iconography. In Europe, an interest in exotic Eastern imagery, fashions, and peoples was making its way into prints, drawings, and paintings as early as the fifteenth century. By the early modern period, the court of India and Persia were assimilating European print materials and pictorial modes into their workshops. Even where the two traditions diverge, as they often do, an emphasis on the luxury arts of the book characterizes both centers of production and connects them through material inquiry.
Our catalogue includes twenty examples of some of the finest master drawings from India and Persia, most of which are entirely unpublished and will be exhibited for the very first time. Examples include those by three of the greatest Mughal artists from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Basawan, Govardhan, and Payag. It proceeds with a selection of Persian drawings which includes two works on paper attributed to the highly esteemed Persian draughtsman, Reza 'Abbasi alongside a magnificent sheet by the Safavid master of Farangi-sazi, or the new “European style” of the late seventeenth century, Muhammad Zaman. In addition to stand-alone drawings and court portraiture, this group includes sheets and preparatory drawings from dispersed epic and poetic manuscripts which were produced at the Indian and Persian court ateliers.
For more information, visit https://www.samfogg.com/exhibitions/60/.