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2025

Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation
26 March 2025

Since its conversion into a museum in 1935, the Frick has undergone several renovations. Most recently, it subleased the Breuer Building from the Met from 2021 to 2024 and rebranded it Frick Madison. (The building was sold by its owner, the Whitney Museum of American Art, in 2023 to Sotheby’s, which plans to move in later this year.)

“One of the things I really liked about Frick Madison was the sense of accessibility to the works of art, which was enhanced by the way that they installed them,” says the Old Masters dealer Nicholas Hall, a regular visitor to the Frick for 45 years who also facilitated the museum’s 1991 purchase of Antoine Watteau’s The Portal of Valenciennes (around 1710-11). “Much as I loved seeing the Frick in the Breuer Building, I would hope that the renovation is not too drastic a change from how it was,” he adds, referring to the original lighting and other decorative elements of the Frick villa.

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February acquisitions round-up: a mother’s journey, Nordic Modernism and Salvatore Rosa’s shadowy witch. Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
20 February 2025

Salvator Rosa’s La Strega (around 1647-50)
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Naked and howling with rage, an aged witch performs black magic at the centre of Salvator Rosa’s shadowy composition, La Strega (the witch). The 17th-century Neapolitan artist, best known for his wild landscapes, explored the theme of witchcraft in a series of paintings during the 1640s, when he worked as a court painter to the Medici in Florence. La Strega is by far the largest, towering more than two metres high. Rosa depicted a swaddled infant in the background, a macabre allusion to the legend that witches used children’s blood in their satanic rituals. La Strega has returned to Florence after many years abroad following the Uffizi’s acquisition of the painting from Old Master dealer Nicholas Hall.

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