Rendezvous at the BRAFA to discover our latest acquisitions, including Rubens’s sword and the map of Utopia created by Abraham Ortelius, in dialogue with works by modern artists such as Piet Stockmans, Antoine Mortier and Gustave Serrurier-Bovy. From 26/01 to 3/02 at Tour et Taxis, Brussels (stand 46a).
On January 12, Sven Gatz, Flemish Minister for Culture, Nabilla Ait Daoud, Deputy Mayor for Culture in Antwerp, and Thomas Leysen, chairman of the King Baudouin Foundation, unveiled the map of Utopia at the Plantin-Moretus Museum. End of January, you will be able to admire Ortelius’16th century map, acquired by the Foundation, at our BRAFA stand.
A tribute to Maurice Wyckaert with 9 masterpieces bequeathed by the Belgian collector Thomas Neirynck to the King Baudouin Foundation. On view until March, 24 at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
Don’t miss the exhibition ‘Didier Comès, Ardennes Inking’, which has just opened at the Abbey of Stavelot. The King Baudouin Foundation is marking the occasion with the publication of ‘Didier Comès. Leuchtendes tiefes Schwarz’.
The ‘Portrait de Marguerite’, one of the key works by Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff, has a place of honour at the major retrospective of his work at the Petit Palais, Paris, until 17 March 2019.
