CONTEXTCALENDAR

SPRING & SUMMER 2007 APRIL – AUGUST

AUCTIONS EUROPE

An international diary of auctions, museum and gallery exhibitions, fairs and conferences in the world of carpet, textile, tribal, Islamic, Asian and related arts. Listings are based on the best available information at the time of going to press. Verification of dates and venues is recommended.

For fuller listings please see HALI.com

Please send editorial listings to Katie.suckling@centaur.co.uk

LONDON| 16 April Oriental Rugs and Carpets, Christie’s, 8 King Street, St James’s LONDON| 17 April Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, Christie’s King Street LONDON| 17 April Incl. carpets, Christie’s, 85 Brompton Road, South Kensington LONDON| 17 April Oriental & European Carpets, Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street LONDON| 17 April Carpets, Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street LONDON| 17 April Carpets & Rugs, Bonhams, Montpelier Street, Knightsbridge LONDON| 18 April Islamic Textiles, Christie’s S. Ken LONDON| 18 April Arts of the Islamic World, Sotheby’s New Bond Street PARIS| 18 April Islamic Art, Artcurial at Hôtel Marcel-Dassault, 7 rond-point des Champs-Élysées LONDON| 19 April Islamic & Indian Art, Bonhams New Bond Street LONDON| 20 April Islamic Art, Christie’s S. Ken PARIS| 23 April Tribal art, Espace Tajan, 37 rue des Mathurins STOCKHOLM| 24-27 April Modern Sale, incl. Carpets, Bukowskis, Arsenalsgatan 4 COPENHAGEN| 26 April Incl. carpets, Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, Bredgade 33 BRUSSELS| 28 April Tribal Art, Lempertz, Wolstraat 1, rue auz Laines KNOWLE | 1 May Embroideries, Costume & Textiles, Bonhams, The Old House, Station Road, Solihull, West Midlands LONDON| 1 May Incl. carpets, Bonhams Knightsbridge SOLIHULL | 1 May Embroideries, Costume,Textiles, Bonhams Knowle, The Old House, Station Road AMSTERDAM| 2 May Asian Art, Christie’s, Cornelis Schuytstraat 57 EDINBURGH| 3 May Asian Art, Bonhams, 65 George Street LONDON| 3 May Asian Art, Christie’s S. Kensington STUTTGART | 8 May Rugs & Carpets, Tribal Art, Nagel Auktionen, Neckerstrasse 189-191 STUTTGART | 11-12 May Fine Asian Art, Nagel LONDON| 14 May Fine Asian Art, Bonhams New Bond Street

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Christie’s London, 16 April 2007

COLOGNE | 12 May Tribal & Indonesian Art from the von Koenigswald Collection, Kunsthandel Klefisch, Ubierring 35 LONDON| 15 May Incl. carpets, Christie’s South Kensington LONDON| 15 May Carpets & Rugs, Bonhams Knightsbridge PARIS| 16 May 20th Century Decorative Art, Christie’s, 9 avenue Matignon LONDON| 17 May Chinese Textiles, Christie’s S. Ken SALISBURY| 17 May Rugs & Textiles, Netherhampton Salerooms, Salisbury Road, Wiltshire WEISBADEN| 19 May Collector’s Carpets, Rippon Boswell, Friedrichstrasse 45 LONDON| 22 May Carpets , Bonhams Knightsbridge LONDON| 22 May Incl. Carpets, Bonhams Knightsbridge LONDON| 23 May Vintage Costume, Accessories and Textiles, Kerry Taylor Auctions, Martell Road, West Dulwich STOCKHOLM| 29 May-1 June International Sale, incl. Carpets, Bukowskis LONDON| 30 May Textiles from the Alastair McAlpine Collection , Sotheby’s Olympia, Hammersmith Road STOCKHOLM| 30 May-1 June Incl. carpets, Stochholms Auktionsverket, Nybrogatan 32 BRUSSELS| 5 June Tribal Art, Pierre Bergé et Associés, Salle des ventes Beaux-Arts, 40, place du Grand Sablon LONDON| 5 June Carpets, Bonhams Knightsbridge LONDON| 5 June Incl. carpets, Sotheby’s New Bond Street PARIS| 5 June Islamic Art, Artcurial PARIS| 6 June Islamic Art & Orientalist Paintings, Christie’s BRUSSELS| 7 June Tribal Art, Pierre Bergé et Associés, Salle des ventes Beaux-Arts, 40 place du Grand Sablon EDINBURGH| 7 June Incl. carpets, Bonhams PARIS| 8 June African & Oceanic Art, Sotheby’s, Galerie Charpentier, 76 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré COLOGNE | 8-9 June Asian Art, Lempertz, Neumarkt 3 COLOGNE | 8-9 June Islamic Art, Lempertz PARIS| 11 June African & Oceanic Art, Christie’s PARIS| 12 June Islamic Art, Tajan PARIS| 13 June Asian Art, Christie’s PARIS| 14 June Asian Art, Sotheby’s ZURICH| 20 June Carpets, Schuler Auktionen, 341 Seestrasse ZURICH| 21 June Asian Art, Schuler Auktionen ZURICH| 21 June Carpets, Galerie Koller, Hardturmstrasse 102 ZURICH| 21 June Incl. Tapestries, Galerie Koller ZURICH| 23 June Tribal Art, Galerie Koller LONDON| 26 June Incl. carpets, Bonhams Knightsbridge SALISBURY| 26 June Rugs & Textiles, Netherhampton LONDON| 27 June Carpets, Sotheby’s Olympia LONDON| 28 June Asian Art, Christie’s S. Ken LONDON| 3 July Incl. carpets, Christie’s S. Ken LONDON| 3 July Incl. carpets, Sotheby’s, New Bond Street LONDON| 10 July Vintage Costume, Accessories & Textiles, Kerry Taylor at Sotheby’s New Bond Street LONDON| 19 July Asian Art, Christie’s South Kensington LONDON| 24 July Incl. carpets, Bonhams Knightsbridge

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EXHIBITIONS EUROPE

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PHILADELPHIA| 22 April Carpets, Freeman’s, 1808 Chestnut Street, PA NEW YORK| 27 April Incl. European Tapestries, Sotheby’s, 1334 York Avenue, NY LOS ANGELES| 30 April Incl. carpets, Bonhams & Butterfields, 7601 Sunset Boulevard, CA SAN FRANCISCO| 30 April Asian Decorative Art, Bonhams & Butterfields, 220 San Bruno Avenue NEW HOPE | 1-2 May Textiles, Charles A Whitaker Auction Co., Route 202 & Sugan Road, New Hope, PA BOSTON| 12 May Carpets, Skinner, 63 Park Plaza, Boston, MA NEW YORK| 17 May African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art, Sotheby’s, 1334 York Avenue at 72nd Street NEW YORK| 18 May American Indian Art, Sotheby’s NEW YORK| 23 May Pre-Columbian Art, Christie’s, Rockefeller Center, 20 Rockefeller Plaza NEW YORK| 23 May American Decorative Arts, Christie’s Rockefeller Center NEW YORK| 24 May American Indian Art, Christie’s Rockefeller Center NEW YORK| 25 May Incl. carpets, Sotheby’s SAN FRANCISCO| 4 June Native American and PreColumbian Art, Bonhams & Butterfields NEW YORK| 6 June Carpets, Sotheby’s NEW YORK| 6 June 20th Century Decorative Arts, Christie’s Rockefeller Center NEW YORK| 18 June 20th Century Decorative Art, Bonhams, 595 Madison Avenue, NY NEW YORK| 19 June 20th Century Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s NEW YORK| 26 June Carpets, Christie’s PHILADELPHIA| 13 July Asian Arts, Freeman’s SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES| 17 July Fine Oriental Carpets and Rugs, Bonhams & Butterfields

Sotheby’s London, 17 April 2007

ISTANBUL | 15-30 April ICOC, Turkmen Main Carpets, Cocoon, 17 Küçük Ayasofya Caddesi, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | From 15 April ICOC, Ottoman Çatma Textiles, Sadberk Hanım Museum, Büyükdere LONDON| 16 April-4 May Persian Paintings & Illustrated Manuscripts 1300-1650, Sam Fogg, 15d Clifford St ISTANBUL | 17-24 April ICOC, Early Anatolian Kilims, Clive Rogers, Kadırga ISTANBUL | 18-22 April ICOC, Gönül Paksoy. Timeless Simplicity, Kadir Has University, Cibali ISTANBUL | From 18 April ICOC, Anatolian Kilims: the Josephine Powell Collection, Yıldız Sarayı, Be Î ikta Î ISTANBUL | 19-22 April ICOC, Anatolian Carpets & Kilims, Vakıflar Carpet & Kilim Museums, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | 19-22 April ICOC, Selected Textiles from the Collection, Topkapı Saray Museum, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | 19-22 April ICOC, Rugs & Textiles from Turkish Private Collections, Tophane-i Amire, Beyoglu ISTANBUL | 19-22 April ICOC, Josephine Powell’s Ethnographic Photographs, Swissôtel The Bosphorus, Bayıldım Caddesi 2, Maçka-Be Î ikta Î ISTANBUL | 19-22 April ICOC,Central Asian Ikat Coats: The Çetinkaya Collection, Türk ve Islam Eserleri Museum, Ibrahim Pa Î a Sarayı, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | 19-30 April ICOC, 4th Annual Exhibition, Mehmet Çetinkaya Gallery, Küçük Ayasofya Caddesi, Tavukhane Sokak No. 7, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | 19 April-19 August Anatolian Rugs in Transylvanian Churches, 1500-1750, Sakip Sabancı Museum, Sakip Sabancı Caddesi 22, Emirgan ISTANBUL | 19 April-19 August Kaitag, Textile Art from Daghestan, Sakip Sabancı Museum ISTANBUL | From 19 April ICOC, Carpets & Islamic Art, Türk ve Islam Eserleri Museum, Sultanahmet ISTANBUL | Until 21 April ICOC, The Last Knot: Ottoman Palace Carpets, Dolmabahçe Palace, Be Î ikta Î BATH| 24 April-12 August Batik Transitions: From Classic to Contemporary, Museum of East Asian Art, 12 Bennet Street LONDON| 27 April-23 September Sacred, The British Library, 96 Euston Road LYONS| 27 April-30 December La Soierie Lyonnaise 1800-1914, Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs de Lyon, 34 Rue de la Charité RIGGISBERG| 29 April-11 November Dragons of Silk, Flowers of Gold: Textile Treasures of the Chinese Liao Dynasty (907-1125), Abegg-Stiftung, Werner AbeggStrasse 67 See HALI 150, pp.76-85 ISTANBUL | Until 30 April ICOC, Early Anatolian Weaving, Su.De, 1001 Direk Meydanı, Iletisim Han 7/2, Sultanahmet AMSTERDAM| Until 13 May Beauty and the Bead, Tropenmuseum, Linnaeusstraat 2 See review this issue ZURICH| 13 May-15 July Gilded Splendour: Treasures of China’s Liao Empire (907-1125), Museum Rietberg, Gablerstrasse 15 See HALI 150, pp.76-85 LEIDEN| Until 14 May The Celts, National Museum of Antiquities, Rapenburg 28WÜRZBURG| Until 19 May From Pirot to Smyrna, Galerie Kelim, Büttnerstasse 25 GESEKE | 20-31 May Molas, Schloss Eringerfeld, Steinhauser Strasse 8 PARIS| Until 21 May Armenian Christian Art, Musée du Louvre, Rue de Rivoli ZURICH| Until 26 May Kilims from Anatolia, Iran and the Caucasus, Nomadenschätze, Werdmühlestrasse 5 BERLIN| Until 28 May Tibet: Monasteries open their Treasuries, Museum fur Asiatische Kunst, Lansstrasse 8 PRATO| Until 30 May La Fabbrica delle Meraviglie, Prato Textile Museum, via S Chiara 24

Francesca Galloway, London

LONDON| 6-16 June Primal Art: Abstract Tribal Artefacts from Africa to Oceania, Clive Loveless at Gallery No.5, Blenheim Crescent LONDON| 6 June-14 July Neo-Classicism to Pop: European Textile Design 1790-1970, Francesca Galloway, 31 Dover Street LONDON| 7 June-20 July A Taste of the Exotic – Chinoiserie: European Tapestry and Needlework 16801780, S. Franses, 80 Jermyn Street, St James’s MUNICH| Until 17 June Diamonds and Bars. The Art of Amish Quilts, the Schlumberger Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Die Neue Sammlung, Barer Strasse 40 KARSLRUHE | Until 17 June Ancient Anatolia, Badisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Karlsruhe HALLE | Until 24 June Late Antique and Islamic Textiles from Egypt, Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Friedemann-Bach-Platz 5 ZURICH| Until 24 June Life Threads – Textiles from Ancient Peru, Museum Rietberg, Gablerstrasse 15 PARIS| Until 25 June The Gupta Empire: The Golden Age of Indian Civilisation, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 3 Avenue du General-Eisenhower LYONS| Until 15 July Gold and Treasures from Armenia,Musée des Tissus , 34 Rue de la Charité LISBON| 19 July-18 November The Oriental Carpet in Portugal, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Rua das Janelas Verdes BREMEN| Until 30 July 1001 Nights, Überseemuseum, Bahnhofplatz 13 ST GALLEN| Until 15 August 2007 Masks from Sri Lanka, Völkerkundemuseum, Museumstrasse 50 MULHOUSE | Until 15 August Black and White Printed Textiles, Musée sur L’impression sur Etoffes, 14 rue Jean Jacques Henner BERLIN| Until 2 September The Jazira: A Cultural Landscape, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Bodestr.1-3 AMSTERDAM| Until 15 September Persia: Thirty Centuries of Art, Hermitage Amsterdam, Nieuwe Heerengracht 14 COLOGNE| Until 23 September Saami – Nomads of the North, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Ubierring 45 BRUSSELS| Until 30 September Central African Headdresses from the RMCA Collection, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13 LEEDS| Until 31 December Costume & Textiles from the Leeds Collections, Leeds Art Galleries, Lotherton Hall, Lotherton Lane, Aberford, Yorkshire BATH| Until 31 December Silk Fabrics from Lyon, 1800-1914, Museum of East Asian Art BUDAPEST | Until 31 December Treasures of the Esterhàzy Princes, Applied Arts Museum, Ullöi ut 33-37

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