Thursday, 13 October 2016
6.30 pm Keynote Lecture
Timothy BROOK (University of British Columbia, Vancouver): The Economy of Taste in Ming China. Buyer and Dealer in the Art and Artefact Trade (1609-1616)
Friday, 14 October 2016
9.30 am Welcome
Bénédicte SAVOY (Technische Universität Berlin)
Charlotte GUICHARD (IHMC, Paris)
Christine HOWALD (Technische Universität Berlin)
9.45 am Introduction
Bénédicte SAVOY - Charlotte GUICHARD
To Trade is to Transform. Shaping Value in a Global World
Section 1 Embedded markets
Chair: Johannes NATHAN (Forum Kunst und Markt, Berlin/
Nathan Fine Art, Potsdam und Zürich)
10.30 am Noémie ETIENNE (University of Bern): Informal Market: Transactions and Translations in Versailles (1750-1800)
11.40 am Natasha EATON (University College London): Creating Competing Spaces for Indian Art: Mimetic Rivalry and Collecting Networks in Britain and India
12.20 am Talip TÖRÜN (Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven): Delivered Ex Ship - The German Maritime Markets for non-European Artefacts (19th century)
Section 2 Marketing Objects
Chair: Esther TISA FRANCINI (Museum Rietberg, Zürich)
2.30 pm Manuel CHARPY (CNRS/IRHIS Université Lille 3, Lille): Trading Places. The Exoticization of Goods in 19th century Paris, London and New York
3.10 pm Yaëlle BIRO (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York): Avant-Garde, Ethnography, and the 1920s Sale of John Quinn's African Art Collection
3.50 pm Elodie VAUDRY & Léa SAINT-RAYMOND (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Paris): A new Eldorado: The French Market for pre-Columbian Artefacts in the Interwar Period
Section 3 Selling Authenticity
Chair: Dorothee WIMMER (Technische Universität Berlin)
5 pm Philip JONES (South Australian Museum, Adelaide/Australia): Australian Aboriginal Artefacts in the International Market (1880s 1930s)
5.40 pm Jonathan FINE (Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin): Obscured Objects of Desire: Negotiating the Paradoxes of the Art Market in Bamum (1924-1930)
6.20 pm John MONROE (Iowa State University, Ames/USA): Presumed Antique: Paul Guillaume and the Connoisseurship of African Sculpture
Saturday, 15 October 2016
10 am Bärbel KÜSTER (Technical University Berlin): Reflections on the First Day
Section 4 Global Players
Chair: Alexander HOFMANN (Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin)
10.30 am Nélia DIAS (IUL - University of Lisbon/ CRIA): Christophe Augustin Lamare-Picquot and the Fate of his Collection: Networks, Commercial Transactions and Museums
11.10 am Ting CHANG (University of Nottingham): Emile Guimet's Network for Research and Collecting Asian Objects (ca. 1876-1918)
11.50 am Masako YAMAMOTO (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto/Japan): Innovative Strategies in Dealing Japanese Art: Ikeda Seisuke, Yamanaka &Co. and their Overseas Branches (1870s- 1930s)
Section 5 Dealing with War
Chair: Anne-Solène ROLLAND (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
2 pm Christine HOWALD (Technische Universität Berlin): The Power of Pricing. The Legitimization of Chinese Looted Art on the European Market (1860-1862)
2.40 pm Felicity BODENSTEIN (Musée du quai Branly, Paris): Comparing the English, German and French Art Market for Objects from the Edo Kingdom's Treasure (1897-1932)
3.20 pm Ana MANTUA (Dr. A. Gonçalves House Museum, Lisbon): Diasporic Objects. The Portuguese Chinese Ceramics Market between 1942 and 1965
4.30 pm Final panel discussion: The Impact of Art Market Studies on Museum Provenance Research