The best of 2016... (Part II)

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01/02/17 - We keep highlighting the best of the year that was...

The revival of the old masters: Some time ago, the French specialist in Art Market Raymonde Moulin said that there's an interrelation between the information known by the art specialists, the institutions and the auction houses. When that information becomes public, it generates the interest of collectors and people in general. In 2016 several exhibitions, publications and auctions brought the artists of the 17th Century back into the spotlight. And we can expect to see more of them in 2017. This is the case of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), who will have exhibitions in London, Paris, Beijing and Abu Dhabi.

The milk maid, by Johannes Vermeer (1657–1658)

Measures: 46 cm x 41 cm

Rijksmuseum

The Argentine artist of the year: With exhibitions in galleries in New York, at the PAAM Museum in Miami, a stellar presence at Art Basel Miami and two donations to the city of Buenos Aires, Julio Le Parc (Mendoza, 1928) shone in 2016. The exhibitions in the US gave him such well-deserved recognition that the retrospective at the Perez Museum in Miami was included in the Top 15 exhibitions of the year in that country. In Argentina, he donated "Esfera Azul" to the CCK and the painted aluminium sculpture "Hacia la Luz", placed near the Bellas Artes. This 4 mts-high sculpture (on a 2 mts-high base) is the first of his artworks displayed in a public space in the city.