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 heart, a meditation on time as lived experience. These prints balance plots and contemplation, action and stillness – narratives of silence. They tell stories without exhausting meaning, invite silence without dissolving into abstraction. This collection is less a survey than a proposition, chosen for 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 keep alive their experience of time.