E.G. Blee-Goldman
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E.G. Blee-Goldman
@eliblee
I am very interested in startups and Old Masters.
Co-founder @charactervc (pre-seed/seed VC)
Director @bigbackups (directed panspermia)
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Joined January 2010
- Stopping at @metmuseum on the way to the airport (and before a meeting)...high risk of missing my flight 😅 Too much good stuff to see. Now in the cab and back to work!
- A closer look: The Countess of Exeter, ca. 1620 Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen
- Throwback Thursday: Jan de Beer, The Annunciation, sold for $1,215,000 in 2019 @ChristiesInc In the von Sierstorpff family for many years. 67.9 x 52.4 cm
- I think I've read The Embarrassment of Riches by @simon_schama two or three times now. Amazingly perfect balance of academic exactness and readability. If you haven't read it...go experience the best of the 90s this weekend!
- I bought this portrait of Henriette Vroesen by Ludolf de Jongh (dated 1656) for €4.8K a few weeks ago. Here's the strategy I used to buy it that art market INSIDERS don't want you to know ⤵️ On the Art of Portrait Acquisition: A Guide in Four Parts 1. The Long Awakening: One
- Let’s just be honest with ourselves… Lluís Dalmau studied directly with Van Eyck in 1431. He didn’t just “see” the paintings. Around ten years later he painted this masterpiece in Valencia.
- £340 a few minutes ago. Not perfect, but very charming and small. Follower of Cornelius Johnson, Anglo-Dutch 1593-1661- Portrait of a gentleman wearing a ruff; oil on paper laid to card, feigned oval, 7.6 x 6.6 cm.
- WEEKEND EDITION – A Philadelphian Fantasy: let’s compare the Master and the Workshop in two versions of St. Francis by Jan van Eyck. In my opinion the painting by St. Francis by van Eyck in Turin @MuseiRealiTo is the original by van Eyck himself. The copy on vellum in the
- Someone just arrived... And he wants to kick the weekend off right. Let's unbox this bad boy.
- My good friend @Alexand94088187 has written the first catalogue raisonné on Nicolaes Gillis (1593-1630). Many of us in the Old Masters community have been lucky to know Alexander as one of the sharpest, most dedicated, and overall knowledgeable researchers. And his book is
