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Visitors look at a portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh, painted by Rembrandt in 1632, during an exhibition, entitled Made in Holland. Old Masters from an American Private Collection, at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, The Netherlands. Some 44 masterpieces produced by Dutch masters during the Golden Age from the private collection of US art collector couple Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo are presented at the Mauritshuis. The exhibition features paintings by artists such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Hendrick Avercamp. EPA/ROBERT VOS.
THE HAGUE.- A selection of highlights from the remarkable art collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo will be on display at the Mauritshuis in The Hague this autumn. The exhibition Made in Holland: Old Masters from a private collection in America features 44 masterpieces produced by Dutch masters during the Golden Age. Not only are these works of outstanding quality, their subject matter is often intriguing. The selection includes works by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Paulus Potter, Jan Steen and Hendrick Avercamp. One floor of the Mauritshuis will be transformed into the home of Van Otterloos for a period of three months. This will offer a unique opportunity to view these works, which are rarely exhibited in public. Made in Holland opens to the public on 4 November 2010 and will be on view until 30 January 2011 in The Hague. The Dutch showing of this exhibition has been made possible thanks to financial support fr ... More |
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Henri Matisse Nude Bronze Sells for $48.8 Million at Christie's New York Auction
Henri Matisse bronze from the artist's Back series of life-size relief sculptures. AP Photo/Christie's.
NEW YORK (AP).- A 6-foot Henri Matisse bronze of a nude woman seen from behind has been sold for over $48 million in New York City, a record auction price for the artist's work. Christie's says "Back IV" was purchased Wednesday by Gagosian Gallery Inc. The price included the buyer's premium. It had been estimated to bring $25 million to $35 million. Matisse created a series of four of the bronze reliefs, what some consider his most ambitious sculptural work. He worked on them between 1908 and 1931. The singular motif of the works is a woman leaning against a wall. She's seen from behind. Major museums have complete sets, including New York's Museum of Modern Art. Christie's said it was the first time that one of the colossal bronzes was brought to auction. ... More | | Egon Schiele Painting 'Procession' for Sale at Im Kinsky Kunst Auktionen in Vienna
Visitors look at the painting titled "Procession" by Egon Schiele. AP Photo/Ronald Zak
By: Veronika Oleksyn, Associated Press
VIENNA (AP).- Austrian auctioneers presented a precious Egon Schiele painting Wednesday that could fetch millions when it goes under the hammer next week. "Procession" is a dark work that dates to 1911 and depicts three women in different stages of their lives. It is currently owned by an unidentified American art collector and valued from euro3.5 million ($4.9 million) to euro7 million ($9.9 million). Potential buyers from Japan, Ukraine, southern Europe and the United States have expressed interest in casting bids Tuesday evening, said Otto Hans Ressler, the director of Vienna's im Kinsky Kunst Auktionen GmbH auction house. "This is only the third significant oil painting by Egon Schiele in an Austrian auction in the past 30 years ... More | | Important Exhibition of the Work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir at Hammer Galleries in New York
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Les Laveuses, circa 1912. Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches. Photo: Courtesy Hammer Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hammer Galleries presents an important exhibition of the world renowned French Impressionist Master Pierre-Auguste Renoir for its inaugural exhibition at its new location - 475 Park Avenue, New York. RENOIR, curated by gallery President and Director Howard Shaw, focuses on the second half of Renoir's dynamic sixty year long career, a productive, yet often overlooked period, recently the subject of a major exhibition, Renoir in the 20th Century (Grand Palais, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; 2009-2010). RENOIR features twenty five oils and pastels, ranging in date from the mid 1880's -1912. Focusing on key works from the last thirty years of the artist's ... More |
 | Contemporary Artists Examine the Use and Role of Destruction in Contemporary Art
A visitor looks at the installation 'Bubble machine' by Israeli artist Ariel Schlesinger. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann.
BASEL.- Under Destruction is a group exhibition, featuring twenty internationally known contemporary artists, that examines the use and role of “destruction” in contemporary art. Fifty years after Jean Tinguely's historic Homage to New York (1960) the present exhibition proposes a series of alternative approaches to a theme traditionally associated with the more spectacular and inherently protest-oriented work of Jean Tinguely, Gustav Metzger and others in the 50s and 60s. "If nothing can be created, something must be destroyed", is how Rosalind Krauss succinctly summarized Georges Bataille's La part maudite (The Accursed Share, 1949). While this phrase can basically describe the ethos of Under Destruction, the exhibition raises the stakes normally linked with such a deleterious theme. Not only does it explore the various modes of destruction in art, but, more importantly, it also addresses to what ends it is implemented. Indeed, the exhibition reflects on the subject ... More | | The Most Important Depiction of Henry VIII's "Lost" Palace to Be Offered at Christie's
"That which has no equal in art or fame, Britons do rightly Nonsuch name." (detail). Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
LONDON.- Christie’s announce that they will offer an exceptionally rare and beautiful depiction of the ‘lost’ palace of Nonsuch at the auction of Old Masters and 19th Century Art on 7 December 2010. Commissioned by King Henry VIII in order to outshine the great palaces built by his rival King François I of France, the building of Nonsuch Palace began in 1538 and took 8 years to complete. It stood for less than 150 years having fallen into disrepair in the 1680s. The earliest and most important contemporary depiction of Britain’s most ambitious Renaissance commission, the present drawing is an extremely valuable record of the ‘lost’ palace and has been seen in public only twice before; at Sutton Place in 1983 and at The National Gallery, Washington, in 1986. Described by Martin Biddle as ‘the only surviving impression of what Nonsuch really looked like’, it is expected to realise £800,0 ... More | | Sotheby's London November Sale of Scandinavian Art to Include Major Works by Leading Artists
Anders Zorn, Mrs. Weguelin and her Son. Estimate: £150,000-250,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Continuing Sotheby’s long tradition of specialist sales in Scandinavian art, the company will once again this year devote a section of its forthcoming sale of 19th Century European Paintings to Scandinavian works. Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Danish artists will be represented in the bi-annual sale to be held in London on Tuesday, 23 November 2010. Headlining the sale is a masterpiece by Norwegian artist Gerhard Munthe (1849-1929), never before offered at auction. Estimated at £300,000-500,000, Idyll is a seminal work by the artist, won by the grandfather of the present owner in a lottery organized by the Kunstforeningen in Bergen in December 1886, the year in which it was painted (lot 121). The painting depicts Munthe’s then 17-year-old fiancée, Sigrun Sandberg, sitting in profile next to Bacchus, her dog, in a Nordic summer landscape. Her pure white dress, echoing the daisies in the foreground, provide ... More |
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Large Solo Exhibition Dedicated to the Work of Yves Netzhammer at Kunstmuseum Bern
Yves Netzhammer, Die Subjektivierung der Wiederholung. Projekt B, 2007. Photo: Stefan Daub.
BERN.- After having participated in numerous exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad, Yves Netzhammer is now being presented by the Kunstmuseum Bern in a large solo exhibition dedicated to the unique work of this Swiss media and installation artist. Two spectacular installations filling entire rooms will be shown with videos and objects conceived by the artist especially for the exhibition. Yves Netzhammer’s works revolve around questions concerning identity and the relationship of people to their environment in our present information age. Born in 1970 in Schaffhausen and now living in Zürich, Yves Netzhammer has won all important Swiss art awards. In 2009, the GegenwART foundation purchased the installation Subjectivization of Repetition: Project B / Subjektivierung der Wiederholung. Projekt B (2007). This artwork can be viewed since May 2010 and for the ... More | | 1960s Mini Coopers Temporarily Trade Places with the Lord Mayor's State Coach
Three Mini Coopers, which were used by Paramount studios to promote the original 1969 film The Italian Job, drive through the City of London. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett.
LONDON.- Three Minis used by Paramount Pictures to promote the 1969 film The Italian Job have taken up temporary residence in the Museum of London’s City Gallery, downstairs in the new Galleries of Modern London. The Minis will remain here until 14 November. They temporarily replace the Lord Mayor’s state coach, the Museum of London’s most priceless of treasures, which will take centre stage in the 13 November Lord Mayor’s show. The show is organised annually by the Corporation of the City of London and the coach will return on 16 November. Although no Minis survived the making of the actual film (no surprise to anyone who has seen it) all three of these wonderful cars are original Mini Coopers, built between1965-1969. The temporary display, which ... More | | One of the Most Important Works of American Furniture to Come to Auction will Be Offered by Sotheby's
The Pratt Chair by Greene & Greene. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s 16 December auction of Important 20th Century Design in New York is led by the Pratt Desk and Chair by Greene & Greene, the most important work created by the architects and an icon of American furniture. The Desk and Chair is from the Pratt House, the fifth and final of Charles and Henry Greene’s ‘Ultimate Bungalows’ that made them among the most important architects of the 20th century. The masterwork embodies the architects’ style at their pinnacle, and set what became a 15-year auction record for Greene & Greene in 1985 when it was purchased by the present owner. The Pratt Desk will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning 11 December, and is estimated in the region of $4 million*. “We are honored to offer a work of this magnitude,” said Jodi Pollack, Director of Sotheby’s 20th Century Design Department. “Nothing like the Pratt De ... More |
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Painting by David Wilkie, A Favorite of King George IV, Acquired by the Huntington Library
Wilkie painted Sancho Panza in the Days of his Youth in 1835, after a pivotal trip to Spain.
SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today the acquisition of Sancho Panza in the Days of his Youth (1835), by British painter David Wilkie (1785–1841). The painting, which previously was held in the collection of Christopher Forbes, was purchased in September and has just gone on display in the Huntington Art Gallery among works by other British artists of the 19th century. One of the greatest practitioners of genre painting in Britain, and, along with J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, one of the most influential British artists of the 19th century, the Scottish-born Wilkie made his career in London, where his list of patrons included the top members of British society, such as the Duke of Wellington, and John Julius Angerstein, whose collection founded the National Gallery, London. A favorite of King George IV, Wilkie painted a large number of works that remain i ... More | | Britain Halts Export of $48 Million Turner Painting "Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino"
J.M.W. Turner, Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino. (detail)
LONDON (REUTERS).- Britain has temporarily halted the export of a record-breaking painting by English master J.M.W. Turner which was sold at auction in July for 29.7 million pounds ($48 million). "Modern Rome -- Campo Vaccino" went under the hammer at Sotheby's in London and set an auction record for the artist. The 1839 landscape was Turner's last painting of Rome. Culture Minister Ed Vaizey announced the decision on Wednesday, and gave individuals and organizations until February 2, 2011 to demonstrate serious intent to keep the masterpiece in the country by meeting its market value. If it appears to be a real possibility that the funds can be raised, the deadline will be extended to August 2 next year, he said in a statement. His decision follows a recommendation from the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, administered by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). "If one needed evidence of Turner's greatness as an arti ... More | | Eloquent Presentation of New Work by the Renowned Belgian Painter Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans has been creating iconic works of contemporary painting for nearly three decades.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luc Tuymans (b.1958, Belgium) has changed the course of contemporary art, influencing an entire generation of figurative painters with his cryptic imagery and muted palette. Produced in close collaboration with the artist, LUC TUYMANS: IS IT SAFE? (Phaidon Press, November 2010, $69.95/ $79.95 CAN) presents more than 100 new paintings, all made since 2004 and many never before published. The publication offers intriguing new insights into the work of one of the world’s most gifted and visionary painters. Beginning with Les Cinq Anneaux and concluding with Against the Day, Tuymans produced a landmark suite of seven thematically linked bodies of work. With a visual narrative that traces the philosophical and psychic roots of contemporary civilization, they interweave a range of photographic sources — from St Peter’s Basilica to Disneyland to the Bi ... More |
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Daniel Hesidence's Work Occupies the Entire Gallery Space at D'Amelio Terras
NEW YORK, NY.- D’Amelio Terras presents Autumn Buffalo, its first solo exhibition of work by Daniel Hesidence. This exhibition marks the first time work by a single artist has occupied the entire gallery space, including both the main gallery and the Front Room. The Autumn Buffalo series, conceived as a symphonic suite with a succession of calm and fast movements, has a scale and pictorial bravura that immediately sets it apart. Hesidence’s work does not rely on nostalgia, visual culture, nor pay ironic tribute to artists of admiration. Rather, Hesidence locates information through a concentrated process of creation, forming an elusive space that takes the viewer beyond a definable language. Like the highly improvisational and gestural European “Art Informel,” his paintings are uncompromising, wild, and aggressive. Often evocative of moods both dark and elated in the same canvas, they are past descri ... More
Poster Auctions International Announces Sale of Important and Rare Posters
NEW YORK, NY.- On Sunday, November 14, Poster Auctions International will offer over 550 lots of rare, vintage posters in its 51st semi-annual auction of Art Nouveau and Art Deco masterpieces. This will be the largest auction the company has ever presented, with estimates pointing toward a two million dollar sale. In addition to the exceptionally rare posters included in this auction are several noteworthy collections never before seen on the market. This unmatched gathering of rare posters will be on view from October 29 – November 13, open and free to the public for two weeks. Starting the auction is an exceptionally important group of European avant-garde posters from the early 20th century. Boasting such greats as Van Doesburg, Schwitters, Breton, Tzara, Tschichold, the Stenberg Brothers, Dubuffet and more, this is a star-studded beginning to the sale. Immediately following this section are four specialty categ ... More
Cantor Arts Center Exhibition Features Chiaroscuro Technique: A First for Reproducing Color Images
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces an exhibition on the 16th-century Italian invention of chiaroscuro, the first technology for reproducing images in color. “Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from 16th-Century Italy: Promised Gifts from the Kirk Edward Long Collection” features more than 20 works drawn entirely from Long's collection and is on view from November 3, 2010 to February 27, 2011. “The exhibition includes many of the most famous examples from the first century of the chiaroscuro technique, tracing the evolution of thematic and compositional styles in 16th-century Italy,” said Bernard Barryte, the Center's curator of European art. “Chiaroscuro Woodcuts” showcases Bartolomeo Coriolano’s monumental “Fall of the Giants,” as well as important works by prominent masters such as Ugo da Carpi, who claimed to have invented the ... More
The Strange Life of Objects: The Art of Annette Lemieux at the Krannert Art Museum
CHAMPAIGN, IL.- Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion presents “The Strange Life of Objects: The Art of Annette Lemieux,” a mid-career retrospective of work by the conceptual mixed media artist. In recent years, Krannert Art Museum organized monographic exhibitions of the work of Louise Bourgeois, Bill Traylor and William Edmondson, Hedda Sterne, and Howard Finster. The Strange Life of Objects: The Art of Annette Lemieux extends this commitment to present the work of visionaries whose artistic practices challenge formulaic readings of art history, said Kathleen Harleman, director of KAM. The exhibition provides the first critical overview of the artist’s dynamic and varied career. Lemieux first garnered attention on the emerging global art scene in the 1980s. Since that time ... More
Karl Chiao Named as Trusts & Estates Representative at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has announced the appointment of Karl Chiao to the company’s Trusts & Estates department. His office will be at the Slocum Street Design District annex, where Heritage regularly previews its auctions of Furniture & Decorative Arts, Modern & Contemporary Art and Fine Jewelry, among 27 other represented categories. “Karl has deep ties to the Dallas community through his extensive involvement in various arts, philanthropic and civic organizations; his sterling reputation precedes him,” said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. “We are pleased to welcome the considerable history, knowledge and influence that he brings to the position, and we look forward to his continuing the good work of our Trusts & Estates department.” Karl will be working closely with Mark Prendergast, Heritage’s Director of Trusts & Estates, who is based in Houston, and with Meredith Meuwly, Herit ... More
V&A at Dundee: Design Competition Winner Announced
LONDON.- The Japanese architectural practice Kengo Kuma & Associates has been named the winner of the design competition for the V&A at Dundee. Kengo Kuma led one of six proposals shortlisted in an international competition to find a design team to develop a landmark building that will house the V&A at Dundee and form an inspiring anchor for Dundee’s waterfront. 'We were delighted by the quality of all the designs which were submitted to the competition and I think this is reflected in the huge public interest which our exhibition of models has generated,' said Lesley Knox, Chair of the V&A at Dundee project and of the jury panel. 'Kengo Kuma’s proposal was the unanimous choice of the jury panel and is a worthy winner ; a building that will delight visitors and encourage them to revisit it again and again. It demonstrates a clear understanding of the city, offers a new experience of the river, and will be as exciting internally as it will be externally. 'This has the p ... More
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