Stephen Ongpin Fine Art (SOFA)

01/04/2025

14/03/2025

These guys…!

14/02/2025

This dynamic duo together again!

11/02/2025

Coming soon to 82 Park Street.

08/02/2025

Today is the final day of our exhibition in New York. Alongside this stunningly beautiful large gouache by Jacques Majorelle are drawings and watercolours by Giovanni Boldini, Annibale Carracci, John Robert Cozens, Lynne Drexler, Sam Francis, Giovanna Garzoni, Theodore Gericault, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Gwen John, Paul Klee, Parmigianino, Giambattista Piazzetta, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Giulio Romano, Salvator Rosa, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, Taddeo Zuccaro and many others. Oh, and nearly twenty drawings by Guercino. Open on Saturday from 11 to 5.

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05/02/2025

Where would I be without these two?

19/01/2025

06/01/2025

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754), The Apostle Saint Simon Zelotes. Black and white chalk, with stumping, on faded blue-grey paper. 385 x 307 mm. (15 1/8 x 12 1/8 in.) Another drawing from our summer catalogue of Italian Drawings from Private Collections that we will be showing in New York for Master Drawings week is this superb example of one of Piazzetta’s most celebrated works as a draughtsman; independent, large-scale and highly finished studies of heads drawn in black and white chalks on sizeable sheets of blue or buff Venetian paper. This drawing was reproduced in an engraving, in the same direction, by the printmaker Marco Pitteri, which was published in Venice in 1742. The print was one of a series of fifteen half-length bust-length images - based on drawings or paintings produced by Piazzetta between c.1736 and 1742 - of God the Father, Christ, the Virgin and the twelve Apostles. Pitteri’s engravings proved very popular and were later reissued by Pitteri himself, while also being reproduced by other printmakers in the form of mezzotints.