LONDON—In an attempt to stir up excitement like that greeting contemporary art these days, dealers Partridge Fine Art and Whitfield Fine Art, both from London, are teaming up to stage “The Grand Gallery,” a selling exhibition running from June 4 to 18 at Partridge’s New Bond Street space. Focusing on the Baroque tradition, the show gathers powerful works by such blue-chip artists as Simon Vouet, Correggio, Mattia Preti, Nicolas Poussin, Titian and Guido Reni, whose only recorded self-portrait is on offer. Among the other pieces for sale are Vouet’s Saint Peter Visiting Saint Agatha in Prison, a depiction of Peter healing the tortured female martyr, priced at €4 million ($6.3 million), and Correggio’s sorrowful masterpiece Head of Christ, for €5 million ($7.9 million). “In scale, sophistication, symbolism and detail, they are epic pictures,” says Partridge’s Oscar Humphries, who adds that “for a work of such academic importance, at €650,000 ($1 million), Reni’s self-portrait is a steal.”

"Grand Slam" originally appeared in the June 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's June 2008 Table of Contents.