| | Galería Javier López - Mário Sequeira Opens New Space with Alex Katz Retrospective
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Alex Katz, Sylvia, 1962 - 63. Óleo sobre lino, 203 x 259 cm.
MADRID.- The Galería Javier López - Mário Sequeira is opening its new gallery with a retrospective of Alex Katz (b. New York, 1927), one of the great names in painting in the second half of the twentieth century. The spacious proportions of the gallery, designed by the architectural partnership Vicens + Ramos, make it possible to appreciate a selection of historic large-scale works by this American creative genius for the first time in Spain in a private gallery. In Once in a Lifetime the artist lays out a journey through the different genres of his work, from monumental group portraits to the distinctive landscapes, by way of figurative representations in a variety of formats. There are also small studies, created with a lighter and more fluid technique than that used in the final canvases, and these sketches from life take us into his laborious creative process. The formal motifs that recur in his compositions ... More |
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| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | DOHA.- A night scene of the Museum of Islamic Art where was held the ceremony for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture winners in Doha, Qatar, 24 November 2010. His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani the Emir of Qatar and Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser joined His Highness the Aga Khan in presiding over the ceremony. The five projects selected by the 2010 Master Jury are Wadi Hanifa Wetlands, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Revitalisation of the Hypercentre of Tunis, Tunisia Madinat Al-Zahra Museum, Cordoba, Spain Ipekyol Textile Factory, Edirne, Turkey Bridge School, Xiashi, Fujian, China. EPA/STR. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Morandi and Fontana Lead the Milan Evening Sale of Modern and Contemporary Art at Sotheby's
Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attese, 61 x 50 cm. Sold for: 492,750 EUR. Photo: Sotheby's.
MILAN.- Many International private collectors have participated to the Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Sale in Milan. I’m pleased to highlight – comments Stefano Moreni, Head of the department – the 1954 Natura Morta by Giorgio Morandi sold to an Asian private collector at more than 670.000 euro. Moreover, I would like to mention the brilliant results fetched by Afro, Tancredi and the 1959 Vedova (lot 34 sold at 168.750 euro) to important European private collectors. All the works by Burri of this Milanese selection were sold, from the 1960 Cretto bianco to the small 1957 Combustione on paper (114.750 euro). The Evening session of the sale showed a fine selection of works by European artists which, in fact, achieved very good prices, such as, the 1958 Hartung and Dans les murs by Riopelle both sold at the same price of 156.750; also the 1956 works on paper by Fautrier fetched more than 100.000 euro. Two were ... More | | Mexico Launches "Mexican Digital Library" Including Twenty Important Codices
The Codice Matricula de Tributos, made between 1522 and 1530 is included in the new digital library. Photo: DMC INAH/H. Montano.
MEXICO CITY.- With a selection of documentary treasures, from the Prehispanic, Colonial, Independent and Revolutionary periods, the Mexican Digital Library (BDMx) has been launched at www.bdmx.mx. Promoted by the National Council for Culture and Arts (Conaculta), the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the National General Archives (AGN) and the Centro de Estudios de Historia de Mexico (CEHM-Carso), the web page of the library was presented on November 24th 2010, with a digital collection of nearly 20 historical documents safeguarded by these institutions, dated from 500 to 1949 of the Common Era. The mentioned institutions collaborated with the Mexican Digital Library with the aim of integrating a database that reunites the Mexican documentary richness, ... More | | Auction Houses in London Eye Russian Recovery Ahead of Next Week's Sales
A Faberge bejewelled Imperial presentation snuffbox with a miniature portrait of Tsar Nicholas II. AP Photo/Sang Tan.
LONDON (REUTERS).-Rich Russians return to London next week for a series of art sales which auctioneers hope will prove the once-booming market is on a path to growth. Estimates suggest expectations are for solid gains on last year, although they are likely to prove far less spectacular than the astronomic prices being paid by Chinese buyers for Chinese art in recent sales ranging from London to Hong Kong. "You've got to look at consignment," said Jo Vickery, head of the Russian art department at Sotheby's in London, when asked why the upcoming sales look set to fall short of results from two to four years ago. "There is less art work on offer at the moment than there was two years ago, but I think that is changing," she told Reuters. "A lot more people (sellers) are coming in now for next year and there is a ... More |
 | MacDougall's Have the Top Lot of London's "Russian Week", Early Masterpiece by Ivan Shishkin
Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898), View of Valaam Island. Kukko (detail), signed and dated 1860. Oil on canvas, 104.5 by 141 cm. Esyimate: £900,000–£1,200,000.
LONDON.- MacDougall’s have the star lot of London’s “Russian Week”. Ivan Shishkin’s early masterpiece, View of Valaam Island, Kukko (est. £900,000–1,200,000) will be on sale at MacDougall’s Russian Art Auction on 2 December. This painting is the most expensive Russian work offered by the four auction houses holding specialist Russian art sales during the first week of December. Shishkin exhibited two versions of the composition at the Imperial Academy of Arts exhibition in 1860, for which he was awarded the large gold medal. The smaller version of the work is now at the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg. MacDougall's Russian Art Auctions in London on 1-2 December 2010 will present a superb selection of significant works by important Russian artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, including Natalia ... More | | Unprecedented Discovery of Imperial Correspondence to Go on Sale at the Hotel des Ventes in Geneva
The collection of 45 lots has a total value of US $ 70’000-100’000.
GENEVA.- Geneva based auctioneers Hôtel des Ventes will be selling a highly important and unique collection of extensive correspondence, photographs and drawings exchanged between H.I.H Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, H.I.H Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, H.I.H Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich and H.I.H Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and their private tutor Mr Ferdinand Thormeyer of Switzerland. The collection of 45 lots has a total value of US $ 70’000-100’000 - This exceptional collection, passed down through the same family and recently discovered in a dust-covered storage trunk, divulges many personal and intimate aspects of Imperial family life and their way of thinking. The letters provide an exclusive perspective from the last Tsars of the Imperial Russian Empire on the existing historical accounts of their childhood, journeys ... More | | National Gallery in London Acquires First Work by Norwegian Artist Peder Balke
Peder Balke, 'The Tempest', about 1862. (detail).
LONDON.- Peder Balke’s Tempest (about 1862) goes on display at the National Gallery, London, in Room 44. This is the first painting by a Norwegian artist to enter the Gallery’s collection. The work has been generously presented to the National Gallery by Danny and Gry Katz. This is the first time that The Tempest has been publicly exhibited. Peder Balke (1804–1887) is one of the most original painters of 19th-century Scandinavia. Born on the Norwegian island of Helgøya, he attended art school in Christiania (now Oslo), before studying at the academies of Stockholm and Dresden. In 1832 he visited rugged, isolated northern Norway, an experience of primal nature that would affect his entire artistic career – and later travelled to London and Paris. Despite an important commission of 30 paintings for King Louis-Philippe, by the time of his death in 1887 Balke was entirely forgotten as an artist. It t ... More |
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Bonhams to Hold First Modern Turkish Art Sale in London in April 2011
Devrim Erbil, Untitled, acrylic on canvas, 2009, 120.4 x 79.7cm (47 3/8 x 31 3/8in). £8,000-12,000. Private UK collection.
LONDON.- Bonhams the international fine art auction house announced this week that it would be holding its first sale of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art in London on 5th April 2011. With this in mind the company has appointed an agent, Erdem Sontur, in Turkey this week. The company which operates in 27 countries on four continents sees its expansion into the modern Turkish art market as part of its expanding global reach. Bonhams Turkey will offer valuations and advice as well as sourcing works of art for sale in London. The main thrust of the company’s business in Turkey will be focussed on Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art. Both these sectors have seen rapid growth of interest in the last ten years with sales in London, Paris, Dubai, New York and Los Angeles all attracting buyers of Turkish art, mainly expatriate and home based Turks but increasingly non Turkish buyers as well. Representing Bonhams in Turkey is E ... More | | Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal Exhibit Shows Bastille Prison had 5-Star Comforts
Clothing that belonged to prisoner Damiens while being jailed in La Bastille prison. AP Photo/Archives Nationales.
PARIS (AP) .- A roaring fireplace, a warm bed, some wine and little pastries welcomed people to La Bastille. This was no charming inn, but the notorious French prison, stormed by an angry Parisian mob on July 14, 1789, in an outburst that helped set off the French Revolution. For the first time, an exhibit in Paris has pulled together archives on the prison to offer a glimpse into the hidden world of the Bastille. It shows the inmates' relative comfort — and why it became such a target of revolutionary ire. "I maintain it was a 5-star prison," said historian and Bastille expert Claude Quetel. He said the prison's privileged position came from being directly under the king's eye, both geographically and because it was where monarch after monarch sent his personal enemies. It housed on average 40 inmates a year, each of whom had his or her own cell. The king's own physician would tend to the prisoners, who also benefited from the services of an apothecary and a midwife, accor ... More | | Artist as Activist: United Kingdom's Tate Modern to Show Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape
Joan Miró, May 1968 1968–1973 (detail). © Joan Miró and Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona.
LONDON (REUTERS).- Civil war was raging in Spain, bombs were exploding in Guernica, and Spanish artist Joan Miro, stranded in Paris, was painting "Still Life with Old Shoe," where psychedelic colors spilled into everyday objects to create a scene of nightmare. Miro's engagement with, and sometimes savage reaction to, the world around him underpins Tate Modern's "Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape," the first major exhibition of his work in London in almost 50 years. The title of the exhibition, which opens in April 2011, is borrowed from Miro himself: the Ladder of Escape reappears in paintings and sculptures throughout his life as a ladder standing straight up and leading into the sky. "We've chosen the Ladder of Escape in our title because ... it shows this ambiguity, the sense of being rooted in the world but trying to escape into something more ethereal," said Matthew Gale, a curator at the museum. "At certain moments, Miro is really engaged with political ideas. And at other t ... More |
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Consumer Power: 50 Years of Choice Explores the Role of Choice Displays at the Powerhouse Museum
Graham Byrne testing washing machines in the Choice laundry laboratories. Courtesy Choice.
SYDNEY.- A new display opens at the Powerhouse Museum and explores the consumer power harnessed over 50 years through the Australian Consumers’ Association and its public face, Choice. Consumer power: 50 years of Choice explores the role of Choice in empowering consumers to get the most out of their purchasing decisions and to demand better products and standards of service. From humble beginnings in 1960 when Ruby Hutchison and Roland Thorp set up the Australian Consumers’ Association and began publishing Choice magazine, the membership-funded consumer organisation now has over 200 000 members and is the leading consumer advocacy group in Australia. Consumer power: 50 years of Choice looks at the impact the organisation has made in exposing shonky products, its role in consumer advocacy and campaigning, and peeks inside the Choice testing labs. Choice is a major contributor ... More | | Major Exhibition of Work by Queensland Artist Scott Redford at the Queensland Art Gallery
Scott Redford, Boy with surfboard cross 1999. Inkjet print on paper, 71 x 50cm. Collection: The artist, Brisbane.
QUEENSLAND.- In a new exhibition, leading Queensland artist Scott Redford explores surf and pop culture through new and recent works, including many attributed to the fictional persona of Reinhardt Dammn. The major exhibition of paintings, sculptures and videos ‘Scott Redford: Introducing Reinhardt Dammn’ shows at the Queensland Art Gallery from November 19, 2010 to March 13, 2011. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said the exhibition celebrated Redford’s intelligent and passionate investigation of surf and pop culture, especially relevant to the Gold Coast where he was born. ‘Audiences will encounter an extensive display of Redford’s colourful surfboard sculptures, videos, model motel signage and vibrant acrylic paintings on canvas.’ ‘The exhibition introduces Redford’s fictional archetype, Reinhardt Dammn, a rebellious young surfer, rock ... More | | Major Gifts Establish Centre for the Study of Drawings at the Courtauld Institute of Art
Courtauld Prints & Drawings Study Room.
LONDON.- The Courtauld Institute of Art announce a major philanthropic gift of £600,000 from the International Music and Art Foundation to create the IMAF Centre for the Study and Conservation of Drawings at The Courtauld Gallery. Ranging from the early Renaissance to the 20th century, The Courtauld Gallery’s collection of 7,000 drawings and watercolours is one of the very finest of its kind in the United Kingdom. It includes masterpieces by artists ranging from Dürer and Michelangelo to Cézanne and Picasso. Numerous other artists are represented in depth, including such major figures as Rembrandt, Rubens and Turner. The IMAF Centre for Drawings is funded for a period of five years and aims to transform the long-term future of the collection. The International Music and Art Foundation will support the conservation of the collection, including the remounting of approximately 1,400 works in acid-free mounts. ... More |
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Sotheby's Auction The Great Britain Philatelic Collections of Lady Mairi Bury Brings £3 Million
LONDON.- Sotheby's three-day auction of The Great Britain Philatelic Collections of Lady Mairi Bury concluded today, bringing the exceptionally strong total of £3,045,924, significantly exceeding pre-sale expectations of £2.6million. The auction established sell-through rates of 83% by lot and 84% by value. The top lot of the sale was 'The Balance of Lady Mairi's collection of King Edward VII' stamps, mounted on 91 pages to the highest exhibition standard and housed in two exhibition boxes. Comprising an exceptional comprehensive collection arranged by order of value from ½d. to £1, this lot more than tripled the pre-sale low estimate to sell for £66,000 (est. £20,000-25,000, lot 2069). An exceptional unused 1840 Two Pence Blue, Plate 1, sold for £43,200, soaring above estimate (est. £8,000-10,000, lot 472). A complete sheet of 120 2d. blue stamps, unique in this configuration, also performed extremely well, doubling the pre- ... More
Climate Activists in Egypt Use Art to Send Message
By: Maggie Hyde, Associated Press
CAIRO (AP).- More than 200 students and environmental activists gathered Friday in the desert outside Egypt's capital to form an image of a giant scarab visible from space to raise climate change awareness. The image of the beetle holding a sun in its pinchers — a symbol of resurrection for the ancient Egyptians — was documented by a satellite and a photographer working atop an onsite crane. Similar photos have been taken or are planned in 12 places around the world in what organizers says is the first international climate art project. The initiative is named Project 350 for what scientists say is the safest maximum level of carbon units in the atmosphere. The current level is estimated at more than 380 units. Organizers say they aim to reach those world leaders who don't believe climate change is a problem and to push for more aggressive emission cuts. ... More
Phillips de Pury & Company Announces Forthcoming London Theme Auction MUSIC
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company announce the highlights of the forthcoming London Theme auction MUSIC on the 10th December 2010. Following on from the success of MUSIC 2009 Phillips de Pury & Company continue to offer works that emphasize the link between art and music. The Day sale comprises 115 lots with a low estimate of £344,150/$ 548,919 and a high estimate of £497,750/$793,911. The evening sale will comprise 19 lots with a low estimate of £815,000/$1,299,925 and a high estimate of £1,162,000/$1,853,390. During the Day Sale there will be a special performance by Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) who will DJ to accompany the auction. Joe Goddard, one half, along with Alexis Taylor, of a core duo that have had the name Hot Chip since they played Pavement and Spacemen 3 covers at Elliott School, Putney where they first met in their early teens. Through Hot Chip, the English Electropop band, they have releas ... More
Masterpieces From Tate's Collection Travel to Oman for 40th National Day Celebration
LONDON.- An exhibition of masterpieces from Tate’s historic British collection, The Art of Seeing Nature: Masterpieces from Tate Britain will be presented at Sayyid Faisal bin Ali Museum, Muscat from 30 November 2010 to 25 January 2011. The exhibition has been organised as a pioneering collaboration between the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Oman and Tate. It is a British contribution to the 40th National Day of the Sultanate of Oman. The exhibition shows six masterpieces by six great artists born or working in Britain. This is the first time that these works have been shown in the Middle East. The pictures are: Thomas Gainsborough Sunset: Carthorses Drinking at a Stream circa 1760 George Stubbs Mares and Foals in a River Landscape 1763-8 John Constable The Grove, Hampstead 1821-2 Joseph Mallord William Turner The Golden Bough 1834 Sir John Everett Millais Dew-Dren ... More
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