An Old Master Print Collection XV-XX centuries

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If we are to reach the lived experience of time, let us try to find that fragile meeting point where action, necessarily narrated, and contemplation, necessarily silent, finally overcome their futile quarrels.

Any collection of Old Master prints spanning five centuries is, at its core, a meditation on time as lived experience. These works balance narrative and contemplation, action and stillness. They are narratives of silence, air, and light, without dissolving into abstraction.

This collection is less a survey than a proposition, assembled around works that slow time and resist closure. They endure beyond the gaze that meets them, awaiting the attention of the next generation of collectors to sustain the experience of time they have already offered across twenty generations.

In a sense, they are practical keys to Arcadia, possible figments of an imagined melancholy. Mine as yours.

the collector