Galerie Canesso

Tableaux anciens

Leonello Spada Bologna, 1576 - Parma, 1622

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Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Oil on canvas, 120.5 × 158 cm (47 ⁷⁄₁₆ × 62 ³⁄₁₆ in)

Provenance

Rome, Palazzo Chigi alla Farnesina (at least as late as 1917: see G. F. N. photo 6332);

then by descent, Rome, Francesco Chigi collection, sold in 1958;

subsequently Rome, private collection, to the present.

26, rue Laffitte • 75009 Paris • Tel. + 33 1 40 22 61 71 • Fax + 33 1 40 22 61 81 • e-mail : contact @ canesso.com www.canesso.com Cover Anthony Caro, photographed in his studio earlier this year. Behind him is High Altar, 2009–10. See Martin Gayford’s interview on pp. 38–44. Photo: David Montgomery

May 2011 £5.95

The InTernaTIernaTIernaonal MagazIne for ColleCTors anthony Caro’s sculpture | The lansdowne Diomedes

Picasso and Marie-Thérèse | The art of Voodoo

The sCUlPTUre

IssUe

John KalDor’s ColleCTIon by susan Moore | gavin stamp on sIrgIlberTlberTlber sCoTT

CONTENTS MAY 2011 VOLUME CLXXIII NO. 587

15 Editor’s Letter Ambitious form: sculpture today 16 Agenda What’s on around the world in May

Features 22 Art by the Water Robert Bound previews highlights of the 54th Venice Biennale 26 The Quiet Pioneer Collector John Kaldor talks to Susan Moore about his decision to gift his collection of contemporary art to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia 32 The Art of Voodoo Suzanne Preston Blier on Voodoo sculpture from the collection of the late Jacques Kerchache, on show at the Fondation Cartier, Paris 38 From Mind to Matter The sculptor Anthony Caro talks to Martin Gayford about his careerlong quest to define what sculpture is – and is not 46 Diskobolus and Diomedes Elizabeth Angelicoussis reveals the fascinating story behind the statue of Diomedes that was formerly in the sculpture collection of the 1st Marquess of Lansdowne 52 The Golden Muse Diana Widmaier-Picasso, the granddaughter of Picasso’s muse Marie-Thérèse Walter, talks to Clare Finn about the way in which Picasso’s art was influenced by their secret relationship

Voodoo art: pp. 32–37

MAY 2011 APOLLO 11