I wonder whether Andrew visits public galleries in his free time just for fun. The nemesis of tour guides everywhere.

I loved this. Do these more often. The conversations made me appreciate the works I already loved even more and made the works I was ambivalent about intriguing and pleasurable. Thanks.

This video style is great. You get to see the interaction between the painting expert and the guide, get a brief history of the art piece, and it is all done with clarity and no annoying distractions. Feels like an actual museum tour.

Dear Andrew Graham - Dixon . As caravaggio fan im very happy to see you in this video.

Thanks Sotheby’s for this wonderful KZfaq clip. Please do more of these. Andrew Graham-Dixon is an excellent art critic.

Interesting to see such a wide array of works together in one space. The Bacon at 8:00 is brilliant; nice anecdote from Andrew Graham-Dixon about his meeting with Edwards too. In fact, I could've done without all the waffle from Sotheby's specialists and just listened to Andrew analyse the artworks. He's infinitely more engaging and perceptive.

What a lovely walk through human creativity and our colective history, viewing these pieces with you ,Mr Graham-Dixon, has been a treat!

Thanks to you Mr. Andrew Graham for give us this valious material with your simpathy and kindness.

Thank you so much for posting this! I enjoyed it immensely. Of course Mr. Andrew Graham-Dixon makes the difference! Kind regards

I love andrew’s voice.

Thanks Andrew, not much in life brings me joy but listening to you always perks me up🙂👍

excellent, very much enjoyed Andrew,s description and thank you to Sotheby,s

Thank-you all. A really enjoyable and informative tour. Looking forward to watching the auction

How wonderful to see that Verrocchio drawing!

All this talk but I sense the underlying enthusiasm is really about the value of these more than the content they have gracious words about.

I wanted to buy the 'Nightwatch' but the walls of my house were too small for a hanging 😂😂 Thank you Andrew and looking forward to more TV Programmes post Virus 👍

This was a wonderful discussion of Western art! I hope that more such discussions can be shared with us in the future!

Love the Hals’ self portrait. The elbow hanging over the frame is an affectation similar to the DaVinci Salvator Munda arm/hand reaching out. This self portrait really is a masterwork. Kudos to the person who cleaned this piece. It looks like it was just painted.

Thank you so much Andrew Graham Dixon, for me to introduce with the 🧱 Rembrandt's painting 🖌️🎨. I am from Ahmedabad Gujarat state India and I have studied fine arts College Faculty of fine arts College Baroda Gujarat state India, and passed with commercial arts from M.S. University of Baroda Gujarat state India. So I am working from last two 🕝🕑 years ago in drawings and painting 🖌️🎨 with my 🛂 passion, So many portrait ✅ done by me, including myself. in soft 🔈🍦 soft pastel colours, now I am doing my 💝🎁 project with water 🌊💦 colour painting 🖌️🎨 experience and practice and experiment 🥼🧪 in this 🔉 medium, So thankful for your opinion for me to introduce with these Sotheby's international art 🎨🎭 activities related to art and artist, which is well known in the world 🌎🌍 which I little bit know about from history of arts and I have already studied history of arts in my college. So thanks 🫂😊 again for your help 🆘 and inspiring story for me to introduce with these Sotheby's international realty online demonstration of sale and purchase system of old artist work as well as contemporary art up to now.

Thank you Andrew that was so interesting we need more of you to talk about paintings

From the "Sublime to the Ridiculous" would be an apropos subtitle to the exhibition.

What a treat to watch this - thanks! I have often enjoyed going to various auction houses to get a look at great art for free (unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to bid on anything soon) and then to get a tour with Andrew and experts only enhances the experience.

I’ve seen pictures of the Rembrandt self portrait. It’s beautiful. However I thought it was much bigger. Threw me a bit. Can’t imagine being in the same room with a Rembrandt.

Well informed folk make you very pleased.

Andrew makes fantastic programmes about art, engaging stimulating and informative. However Christians Romelli just constantly interrupts him so that section is very irritating and difficult to listen to.

Youd think they could afford a camera stand for an object that will sell for tens of millions.

I love that he did the "viture handshake"

I was astounded that neither of the two "experts" discussing David Hockney's Paper Pool work (which is a paper pulp painting) had a clue about how it was made. In this case understanding the technique is vitally important because he was using a watery medium, pouring wet paper pulp, in order to depict a watery subject (swimming pool). Kind of vital piece of of information if you are selling a piece for 4 to 6 Million!

Sotheby's seems to keep a lot of people employed; I'm impressed. The careers "teacher" at my school never mentioned any of this to me.

His stamina here is very impressive

Absolutely fantastic ......thankyou so much....maybe you could more!

43:01 Totally, dude, totally

I found one of his paintings at a yard sale for years ago it's a beautiful masterpiece

wish the camera was fixed on the paintings rather than shooting afar also capturing the humans

Please do more of these videos

Probably gonna buy the Rembrandt not sure tho

HELLO ANDREW,,,,THE LAST THING I NEED IS A WALKING TOUR OF SOTHEBY'S "SALONS", TOO STUFFY FOR ME !

Listening to these 2 guys geeking out over the artwork is hilarious. I love it!

Very interesting showcase of these important works, would definitely like to see more of these in the event of this kind of occurrence again, especially with Andrew. A few more close ups of the paintings as demonstrated during the conversation over Berllotto's View of the Moat over the Zwinger @30:43 etc would be much appreciated in the event of another similar showcase.

You have forgotten to mention that Giacometti and Fernand Leger's artworks are an appropriation of African art and culture. Both of them never hide it. You can not talk about innovation when somoene imitates the technique and artwork from another culture. Precisely, Giacometti famous satute is a replication of the Dogon statue from Mali, Africa. Giacometti never hides the fact that he was inspired by African culture. He always paid tribute to them. There is nothing Italian here but everything from Mali. Finally, the so called "cubism " is also an African art technique originally from Congo. That particular technique has always existed in Africa but named differently. Later on, in the 19th century the Westerners discovered it thanks to the colonization of Africa. We appropriated that technique to our paintings and decided to call it "Cubism". We as Europeans think that the so called Cubism is only related to aesthetic features but the truth is that there is an African and deep meaning for each forms and shapes that we as Westerners do not know because this is not our culture. We should be proud of it instead of omit it when talking about our great modern. By this video it appears that you are selling some pieces of art you don't even have any knowledge of.

Enjoyed this. Thank you ✌🏽

Thank you.

Dear mrs. Lawes, thank you for your comment straight and to the point. I want to feel enthralled by a painting not having it analizes for ten minutes. Did you really feel those paintings merited such academia analysis, I didn’t.... well actually I didn’t watch it till the end, coulnd’t stand it anymore. But to each it’s own, take care!

Andrew Graham-Dixon is slowly turning into Alan Partridge.

As much as i love to watch this presentation of art, i am furiously angry about the fact that these paintings might dissapear from view for a unknown future.

love Sotheby's

More great paintings we could see here, going on sale and never being seen again in this country or seen again ??

Lovely pictures - some nice wallpaper, too.

Thanks!

Absolutely wonderful!

it would be great to add a kind of "story book" in the comments below, which painter will be introduced in this video and at which time. e.g. Artist1= Rembrandt at Min.1 , Artist2 at Min. xy .... Artist n = G.Richter at 51.Min, 57.Min. closing words. As well, it would be perfect, to zoom into details in the beginning of the picture analyse, just a minute should be ok, depend on the size of the painting. I say this, as I would do this in a live museum ;) Thank you for this presentation-mix of great master/ artists and their motif .

Thank you So much !!!!. Enlighten.

Thank you for this. Perfect.

Put an artist behind the camera. Close ups on brush strokes and long still moments so we could “observe”. We don’t really need to see them talking rather a larger view on our screens of the artworks.

I find it a bit hard to get past the frames. They are glorious.

A testament of the Elitist branding of the high end art market and how they keep the Status quo.

Great informative video, thank you very much👌

Interesting to see again how modern art lacks most of the artistry from earlier times. Amazing how one could pay millions for this.

Just a amazing amazing video l would love to have anything from this sale of beautiful artwork's

To place Rembrandt in the same bag as the modernists is like comparing the Parthenon to a cave.

Thank you so much for posting a really interesting vid

This is outstanding 😀

How many times did Mr. Graham-Dixon have to walk up the steps?

"500 years of history " ...." The entire history of art " he said but he never mentioned the great influence of African culture on modern art while talking about cubism movment or famous Giacometti statue. Are they allergic to the truth? Do they believe that collectors are so easy to fool?

Rembrant, Roubens, Richter, in general, using same techniqes base, even colours, pay focus on theirs oil portraits, but still masterpiecies

interesting,thank you .

At first I’m like thinking, what art did Andy Richter make? Is television considered an art form in museums now?

Volterra is not Volterrà and Alberto Giacometti was Swiss, so he didn't fight in WWII

They are all sooooo AMAZING but your SELLING them??

Great vid!

I do feel sorry for people who see works of art as commodities, and whose chief concern is to maximise their “value”

An insult to Rembrandt, Hals etc. for some of this garbage (34:45 and the others) to be in the same video or even same space.

Honestly i thought the Hockney swimming pool and the one after that looked like gift wrap were both horrendously overrated and pretentiously critiqued, with all this meaning shoved into them that most likely never existed in the mind of the 'artist.' However God bless Andrew for being a wonderful host and for his usual charming eloquence

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The way these two men trying their hardest to find something nice about the paintings to say is fascinating. why not just say what they truely are, beautifully rendered rich dead people by a celebrity, nothing more, nothing less, kind of like a new shoe designed by keyne west.

I read the title Rembrandt to Richter and I couldn’t help but think about how did we get here. It’s akin to the degeneration of politics. Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump. So is the desperation of acquiring, getting that entirely unique piece that can generate hype which generates interest that IS value which is how profit is obtained and exclusivity is enhanced. Art today has little to do with human cultural history, natural or developed talent or communication. It’s about exclusivity, uniqueness and profit.

I love listening to Art salesmen coming up with superlatives about some pretty ordinary works. They bloody well work very hard selling artworks without much substance. Incredible how gullible some people are. It is embarrassing to have Masters like Rembrandt and a few others being in the same company with Artists who would never be accepted as apprentice's in a masters studio

Frans starting on impressionism

I don’t understand why a Picasso of one period and style. Is in what I know as a gosso Italian frame that you would see a da Vinci or Caravaggio in? I obviously know nothing about art.

How tedious. Where is the title?

I'll take the Verrocchio, thanks, Just wrap it in some nice old linen, and throw it in a brown paper bag. Do you have two?

Art historians and curators drive me crazy. They just cannot accept that a painting may not have a "reason" or a "message". So they literally stand around and invent them from thin air.

The problem is that there is a 75% chance that this "Rembrandt" 1:35 is a fake. Way too light and muddled. The only reason I give it a 25% chance of being authentic is because it is so small and Rembrandt did not care or he made a mistake..... Maybe it should be 90% chance...

Richter is not painting, not art, not interesting, it's a sheet

...great art, great introduction and fine labeled! it's not a secret the 'bellotto' was owned a few years by 'a. hitler' then goes to the german goverment and after a long time finally returned to the grandchildren of 'm. emden' - no doubt fairly, but sad this great picture doesn't hang in a museum, such art suits not a privat home - it's 2020 ;-)

15:14 Helena Newman looks like the model of Femme Endormie, actually

Long format content baby! And mOdERn HaS nO aRtIstRY.

Andrew Graham-Dixon is a misunderstood comedian.

Why would Rembrandt be shown among works of childlike nonsense ? seriously the Emperor has no clothes...

How much do Sothebys pay their cleaners?

ahhh the art market bubble, unaffected by this recession and virus lol

So so so wish there were better images of the art itself

Methinks Mr. Graham-Dixon doth waffle too much.

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Picasso as expected... Madly overrated!!! Pablo Overrated Picasso.

I just cannot believe that they (or anyone) takes Richter's work seriously. For me, Richter represents a supreme dearth of talent, and I will never buy into the Emperor's Clothes. It is a crime against Art that his name can be mentioned in the same context as the real art masters.

this kind of money and art is beyond gross in particular because the work will end up in the secure black box until its value increases enough to sell

What is going on with Edwaordo Roberti's hair? Is he going for the unkempt homeless man look?

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Richter is overrated.