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A seventy-two-page facsimile of Richard Nickel’s salvage workbook is tipped into the binding.
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Reconstructing the Garrick documents the enormous salvaging job undertaken to preserve elements of the building’s design, but also presents the full life story of the Garrick, featuring historic and architectural photographs, essays by prominent architectural and art historians, interviews, drawings, ephemera from throughout its lively history and details of its remarkable ornamentation-a significant resource and compelling tribute to one of Chicago’s finest lost buildings. The Garrick (originally the Schiller Building) was built in 1892 and featured elaborate embellishments, especially in its theater and exterior, including the ornamentation and colorful decorative stenciling that would become hallmarks of Louis Sullivan’s career. The building was replaced by a parking garage, and its demolition ignited the historic preservation movement in Chicago. Than that in the career of an auctioneer? Nothing… nothing at all.For six months in 1961, Richard Nickel, John Vinci, and David Norris salvaged the interior and exterior ornamentation of the Garrick Theater, Adler & Sullivan’s magnificent architectural masterpiece in Chicago’s theater district. “It is for this reason you do your work studyingĪrtists, studying Caravaggio, and you find a Caravaggio: what could be greater The story of Caravaggio, because when I was a student was an artist I felt “When my son was small I used to tell him “For an auctioneer to find a painting such as this one One has ever appeared at public auction, making the upcoming sale a potentially Just two remain in private hands, and only Of the 65 previously known works by Caravaggio, 63 are ownedīy either major museums or churches. The painting was unveiled to the public this week during anĮxhibition at the Colnaghi Gallery in London, and will head to New York in Mayīefore returning to Toulouse ahead of the sale on June 27.Īlthough the attribution of the painting is not universallyĪgreed upon, and has caused controversy in the art world, the real test of itsĪuthenticity will come when it hits the auction block. “It’s Caravaggio because it can’t be anyone else.” Like a musician, as all artists, and we recognize his signature,” said Turquin. “A 17 th century painter has a signature just The remarkable detailing and powerful expressions in the painting led experts to believe they had discovered something special (Image: Cabinet Turquin)
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“Then and there I knew that I was going to see a very important painting.” “They called me and told me a bombshell had arrived in the office,” recalled Turquin. Portion with a cloth and took several photographs, which he then sent through Immediately noticed the quality of the painting. However, Labarbe’s years of expertise meant that he
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When thieves had broken into the house years earlier, they had taken severalĪntiques from the attic but left the painting untouched. To the untrained eye it looked worthless – so much so that, Most of the attic one item remained: a large canvas leaning against a wall,Ĭovered with a thick layer of dust and stained from an old water leak. He helped the owner sell numerous pieces, but after clearing In to evaluate the contents of an old farmhouse in Toulouse. The remarkable story began in 2014, when Labarbe was called The painting spent more than a century hidden in the attic of a French farmhouse, before being rediscovered in 2014 (Image: Cabinet Turquin)