Chris is showing at Master Drawings New York. After securing the boot-shining my Luchesses so sorely needed (alongside a few chaps in suits and trenches in the basement of Grand Central), I attended the preview for Bishop Fine Art at the Trezza Gallery Friday evening.
The Trezza Gallery is a wood-panelled room on the sixth floor of a walkup on 78th and Madison. The wood panelling makes the room feel warm and sets off the gold-leaf frames in which most of Chris’ collection is framed. He’s showing about 20 pieces, all of them lovely (as evidenced by the many people with better training than me (nearly none) who assured Chris that it was well worth the six flights of stairs – the elevator had broken moments before I arrived – to see such great works).
Even with formal study of art history under my belt, I’m not sure I would be able to do what he does, tracking down and discovering sketches by some of the great artists of centuries past, valuing them, risking a bid on them. He has an eye; I have only eye enough to know that what he has chosen is objectively beautiful, not to choose it myself.
(Head of a Madonna in red chalk on antique laid paper by Guercino (1594-1666) via Bishop Fine Art)
