As revealed in ATG (No 2304) in August , the foundation was set up by Colnaghi directors Jorge Coll and Nicolas Cortés and run by Nicola Jennings as director of research and programming.
It launches with three initial projects:
- a partnership with the Wallace Collection of six masterclass videos on collecting,
- the publication of new detail on a Tintoretto previously owned by David Bowie in association with the Rubenshuis Museum,
- and Colnaghi Studies Journal – a new biannual periodical publishing essays on significant discoveries.
Coll and Cortés said: “When we took on Colnaghi two years ago, we were honoured to be inheriting the gallery’s 250-year legacy of working with notable private collectors. The Colnaghi Foundation’s purpose is to be proactive in encouraging this tradition long into the future by championing historic art and supporting the next generations of collectors, scholars and curators.
“We hope in the long term that the foundation can help to replicate the spirit that drove the great collector-patrons of the past; people like Sir Richard Wallace, Count Antoine Seilern, Henry Clay Frick, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Andrew Mellon, whose collecting legacies continue today in the world’s great museums.”
Coll and Cortés took over Colnaghi in October 2015. They also run their own gallery business in Spain which they launched in 2005.
