The Colnaghi gallery, revitalised by its recent merger with the much younger London and Madrid-based dealers Coll & Cortés, held its first Old Masters show at Carlton Hobbs gallery, New York, at the end of January. “The idea is for the gallery to reach to a bigger scope and get a bigger number of clients,” Jorge Coll says. The show featured works ranging from six figures to $4.5m for a still-life by Luis Egidio Meléndez. At the time of press, three works were on reserve to US museums, and a late-16th century sculpture by Hermanos García, The Penitent Saint Jerome, sold with an asking price of $200,000. This spring, the Colnaghi gallery will return to St James’s, London, one century after moving from Pall Mall to Mayfair.
