| | Pop! Christie's Sets New World Auction Record for Lichtenstein Achieving $42.6 Million
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Conor Jordan (L), Senior Vice President, Head of Impressionist and Modern Art of Christie's Americas introduces a painting by American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein entitled 'Ohhh...Alright...' EPA/YM YIK.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s made history on November 10 selling a Pop Art masterpiece from Roy Lichtenstein at its major Evening Sale of Post-War & Contemporary. The highly-anticipated masterpiece Ohhh...Alright... 1964 by Roy Lichtenstein realized $42,642,500 (£26,438,350/ €31,129,025), establishing a new world auction record for the artist. The work sold to an anonymous bidder on the phone. The previous record for a work by Lichtenstein was $16,256,000, achieved for In the Car, 1963, at Christie’s New York in November 2005. Ohhh...Alright... characterizes the Lichtenstein’s captivation and inspiration with techniques of commercial printing and reproduction articulated in his signature Ben-Day dots. As with all of Lichtenstein’s iconic images, Ohhh...Alright... is at once striking and subtly and humorous. The stunning blue-eyed, flame-haired beauty forms part of the iconic cast of dream-girls pain ... More |
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Exhibition Places New Acquisitions in the Context of MoMA's History of Collecting
Viktor Weixler and Fritz Judtmann, Wiener Internationale Messe. Poster for a Vienna trade fair, 1923. Lithograph, 49 5/8 x 37 3/8" (126 x 95 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Architecture & Design Purchase Fund.
NEW YORK, NY.- Building Collections: Recent Acquisitions of Architecture, on view November 10, 2010 through May 30, 2011, highlights the great variety of important acquisitions made by the Department of Architecture and Design since 2005, juxtaposing, in several cases, newly acquired material with works long held in the collection in order to underscore the rationale and motives behind collecting architecture at MoMA. The exhibition, which is organized around several thematic areas, covers the full range of MoMA’s collection from the 1890s to the present, and features such figures as Louis Sullivan, Le Corbusier, Bodo and Heinz Rasch, Jean Tschumi, Ant Farm, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Jean Tschumi, UN Studio, Sauerbruch Hutton, and Seung H-Sang. The vast majority of models and drawings are being exhibited for the first time. Building Collections is organized by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief ... More | | $35 Million Andy Warhol Coke Bottle Lifts Sotheby's Contemporary Art Auction
"Coca-Cola [4] Large Coca-Cola" by Andy Warhol. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson.
By: Christopher Michaud
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A black-and-white Coke bottle on canvas by Andy Warhol sold for $35.36 million on Tuesday at Sotheby's robust contemporary and post-war art auction. The sale of 54 works, an impressive 91 percent of which found buyers, totaled $222.4 million including commissions, beating the high pre-sale estimate of $214 million. Five artists set auction records as collectors continued vying for works in the post-war art sector, an increasingly sought after sector of the art world. "In this new market, it was a huge success," said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's worldwide head of contemporary art, who also served as auctioneer. It was the fourth successful sale in two weeks for Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips de Pury & Co. After a precipitous decline following the 2008 financial crisis, the art market has made a solid recovery in 2010, driven in part by a huge infusion of new collectors abroad with fortunes newly forged in ... More | | Metropolitan and Egypt Announce Initiative to Recognize Egypt's Title to Objects from Tut's Tomb
A Figurine of a dog made of bronze with a gold collar attributed to Tutankhamun's tomb. REUTERS/Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, announced jointly today that, effective immediately, the Museum will acknowledge Egypt’s title to 19 ancient Egyptian objects in its collection since early in the 20th century. All of these small-scale objects, which range from study samples to a three-quarter-inch-high bronze dog and a sphinx bracelet-element, can be attributed with certainty to Tutankhamun’s tomb, which was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. The Museum initiated this formal acknowledgment after renewed, in-depth research by two of its curators substantiated the history of the objects. Mr. Campbell stated: “Research conducted by the Museum’s Department of Egyptian Art has produced detailed evidence leading us to conclude without doubt th ... More |
 | Alexander McQueen's Iconic Designs to be Celebrated in Spring 2011 at the Metropolitan
Alexander McQueen (British, 1969 – 2010), The Horn of Plenty, Autumn/Winter 2009-2010. Chris Moore/Catwalking.com
NEW YORK, NY.- The spring 2011 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, it was announced by the Museum today. The exhibition, on view from May 4 through July 31, 2011 (preceded on May 2 by The Costume Institute Gala Benefit), will celebrate the late Mr. McQueen’s extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his Central Saint Martins postgraduate collection in 1992 to his final runway presentation, which took place after his death in February 2010, Mr. McQueen challenged and expanded our understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity. “Alexander McQueen’s iconic designs constitute the work of an artist whose medium of expression was fashion,” said Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “This landmark exhibition continues the Museum’s tra ... More | | Legendary Souvenir Chess Piece from 1897 to be Offered at Christie's South Kensington
A leading highlight from the collection is a very rare souvenir chess piece. Estimate: £4,000-6,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
LONDON.- Christie’s announced the sale of The Property of a Private Collector of Chess Sets and Game Boards, to be included in the Interiors sale at Christie’s South Kensington saleroom on 7 December 2010. The chess collection is to be sold by one of the founding members of Chess Collectors International, established in 1984, in Florida, USA. A leading highlight from the collection is a very rare souvenir chess piece. Thought to be one of only a few surviving examples, this gilt-bronze piece by Carlo and Arthur Giuliano was made to commemorate the historical chess match played between The House of Commons in London and The House of Representatives in Washington D.C, by cable in 1897 (estimate: £4,000-6,000). Lasting two days, the match resulted in a draw, with each winning 2 ½ games each, and a souvenir chess piece is believed to have been presented to each player as a memento for having taken part ... More | | Winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize Announced at the National Portrait Gallery
Huntress with Buck from the series Hunters by David Chancellor (1st Prize). © David Chancellor. (detail)
LONDON.- The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 has been won by David Chancellor, 49, for his portrait, Huntress with Buck, of 14 year old Josie Slaughter from Alabama on her first hunting trip to South Africa. He says: ‘Josie had hunted her buck earlier in the day and was returning to camp. As we arrived, the sun set below the cloud cover and I had almost unreal light for around a minute. The contrast between the peace and tranquillity of the location, plus Josie’s ethereal beauty and the dead buck, was what I wanted to explore. Here was a vulnerability and yet also a strength.’ The £12,000 award was presented to Chancellor at the National Portrait Gallery, London, last night (Tuesday 9 November). The portrait is from his project documenting hunters, the hunted and spaces associated with hunting. He says: ‘As a child I was fascinated by the tales of Colonel Jim Corbett hunting man-eating tigers ... More |
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Exceptional Group of Modern and Contemporary Artworks on Offer at artnet Auctions
Mario Carreño, Paisaje (Landscape) Bahia de Cabanas, Cuba, 1942. Oil on canvas, 31 x 23.5 inches. Estimate: $600,000-900,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- artnet Auctions offers continuous online auctions of fine art, prints and photographs. There is currently an outstanding collection by leading contemporary artists like Christo, Robert Graham, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol and others on offer. Untitled (Inverted Crucifix), 1984, by Keith Haring is the top lot in the sale. This 60 x 60 inch painting in day-glo orange acrylic is offered in pristine condition for the serious collector (estimate: $850,000-$1,200,000). Other contemporary highlights include a blackboard painting by Neo-Expressionist David Salle (estimate: $9,500-$14,500), an oil painting by Russian contemporary artist Alexander Kosolapov (estimate: $40,000-$50,000), and a fabulous and rarely-seen suite of 30 screenprints in grey, on J ... More | | One of Only 19 Fabergé Snuff-Boxes with Portrait of Emperor Nicholas II Offered by Christie's
The snuff-box was presented to the Turkish diplomat, Turkhan Pasha (1846-1927), in December 1913. Estimate: £400,000-600,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
LONDON.- Christie’s upcoming Russian Works of Art sale on 29 November 2010 will be led by an important jewelled vari-coloured gold and guilloché enamelled Imperial presentation snuff-box, marked Fabergé, with the workmaster’s mark of Henrik Wigström. It was presented to the Turkish diplomat, Turkhan Pasha (1846-1927), in December 1913 on behalf of Emperor Nicholas II probably to commemorate the end of his five year ambassadorship in St. Petersburg. In 1919 the snuff-box changed hands for the last time, when it was acquired by the family of the present owner. It will be offered with an estimate of £400,000-600,000. The firm of Fabergé was awarded the title of Court Jeweller in 1884 and became one of the main suppliers to the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty. Only fifty-four ... More | | Amon Carter Museum of American Art Announces Andrew J. Walker as Director Designate
Andrew J. Walker currently serves as the assistant director for curatorial affairs and curator of American art at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Board of Trustees of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art announces the appointment of Andrew J. Walker, Ph.D., as Director Designate. Walker begins January 31, 2011, and will officially become director on April 1, 2011, the retirement date of current museum Director Ron Tyler, Ph.D. “As we anticipate our turning the corner into our 50th Anniversary, it is indeed a blessing that Andrew Walker will assume the directorship of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art,” said Ruth Carter Stevenson, president of the Board. “The Board and I are so very pleased that a man of such experience will come aboard to work with the staff and Board to set proper goals and put them into effect.” Walker, 46, currently serves as the assistant director for curatorial affairs and curator of American ... More |
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Sotheby's Auction of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Brings £14 Million
Headlining the sale was a rare and magnificent Yuan Dynasty Blue and White 'Peony' Jar, Guan, which sold for the exceptional sum of £2.6 million/$4.1 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s biannual sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art today brought the outstanding total of £14,064,175, well in excess of pre-sale expectations of £5.7-8.2 million. The auction established sell-through rates of 62.8% by lot and 89.3% by value. Headlining the sale was a rare and magnificent Yuan Dynasty Blue and White 'Peony' Jar, Guan (illustrated), which sold for the exceptional sum of £2.6 million/$4.1 million, more than six times pre-sale expectations (estimate: £400,000-600,000). The ‘Peony’ Jar, which came to auction from a Private Portuguese Collection, saw competition from four bidders and finally sold to an anonymous buyer on the telephone. Commenting on the extremely strong results of today’s sale, Robert Bradlow, Head of Sotheby’s Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works ... More | | Japanese Medicine Container Makes World Record in an International Sale at Bonhams
A roiro lacquer four-case inro By Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891), Meiji Period £162,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams announced that a 19th century roiro lacquer four-case inro by Shibata Zeshin has made the world record price for on inro in an international sale, selling for £162,000 in Part 1 of the Edward Wrangham collection, one of Europe’s most important and comprehensive private collections of Japanese Gentleman’s accessories. The sale took place yesterday (9th November) at New Bond Street and made over £2million with 94% of lots sold by value. Although estimated at current market levels, many of the coveted inro and netsuke offered by Bonhams sold for over ten times their pre-sale estimates to major international collectors, including some from the USA and Japan, who were all vying for the collection. This private collection was formed by the late environmentalist, mountaineer, scholar and collector Edward Wrangham OBE. Considered the last of the great British collectors of Japanese art, Wrangham continued ... More | | Sale of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art at Antik A.S. in Istanbul Totals $ 10.2 Million
An Antik A.S employee shows the painting “Blossom” by Burhan Dogancay (sold for 277.000 USD).
ISTANBUL.- At Antik A.S. in Istanbul, the sale of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art totals of $10,230,000 within the presale estimate of $7.2 million. Competition was fierce for many of the top lots, with multiple bidders participating. This resulted in more than 94% of the lots achieving prices at or above their starting prices. Mubin Orhon’s monumental masterpiece dated 1962 was the top-selling lot in the sale, brought a remarkable 965,000 USD. It exceeded pre-sale estimation of 500,000 – 700,000 USD. Further highlights of 263rd sale included Fahr El Nisa Zeid’s oil on canvas, dated 1946-53 which was sold for 761,000 USD. Most expensive living Turkish artist Burhan Dogancay’s “Dancing Ribbons” brought 626,000 USD. Olgac Artam directed the 263rd sale of Antik A.Ş. The sale room was crowded with collectors. New auction records were set for many Turkish artists, including Mehmet Güleryüz& ... More |
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Ancient Temples Highlight Egyptian Lake Cruise
By: Paul Schemm, Associated Press
ABU SIMBEL (AP).- In the 1960s, rising waters from a new dam threatened to submerge the temples and monuments of Nubia, the ancient home of black pharaohs in Egypt's far south. To preserve them, the antiquities were dismantled, moved and reconstructed. Today, most of the surviving monuments can only be seen from the lake created by the waters that nearly destroyed them. Cruises on the 300-mile-long Lake Nasser, one of the largest manmade lakes in the world, include stops to visit nearly a dozen of the temples. Four-day trips are offered on a pair of elegant cruise ships, the Eugenie and the Kasr Ibrim, that hark back to a golden age of 1920s travel in Egypt and carry more than just a whiff of an Agatha Christie novel. For tourists, the lake's vast waters are also a welcome respite from the din of Egypt's teeming cities and offer a contrast to the intensely farmed verdant fields of the Nile Valley. Birds wheel overhead and Egypt's last crocodil ... More
Curtain Closes on a Successful Abu Dhabi Art 2010
ABU DHABI.- The second edition of Abu Dhabi Art closed on Sunday, November 7, 2010. This year, the platform for regional and international Modern and Contemporary art brought together the art world’s most recognised names right on the crossroads of the ancient silk route. Artists, collectors, curators, and art lovers locally, regionally and internationally are unanimous in pronouncing this a superb success; educational workshops were filled to capacity with young and old and the boutique fair featured 50 galleries from around the world that registered strong sales throughout the week. •Talking Art (3,5) –The series of forums, conversations and panels each day were attended by the internationally acclaimed practitioners including Paul Schimmelchief curator at MoCALos Angeles, Jeff Koons, representatives from Artcurial, Bonhams, Sotheby’s and Christie’s and Emilia Kabakov. The ‘Abu Dhabi Art ... More
Two Artists Explore the Ruins of the 20th Century at the Hirshhorn
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn presents a new two-person “Directions” exhibition featuring the work of Cyprien Gaillard (French, b. Paris, 1980) and Mario Garcia Torres (Mexican, b. Monclova, 1975), on view Nov. 10–March 27, 2011. These artists represent a new generation of conceptualists who examine the architectural and artistic “ruins” of the recent past. They use similar materials and forms to create works that investigate the successes and failures of modern history’s idealistic movements. Kristen Hileman, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art, is the guest curator for the project. Gaillard engages with the built environment, revealing the failure of modernist architecture yet preserving a sense of nostalgia for the utopian thinking often associated with it. “Geographical Analogies” (2006–09) is a selection from Gaillard’s archive of approximately 900 ... More
Disabled Veterans Memorial has DC Groundbreaking
MIAMI (AP).- For South Florida philanthropist Lois Pope, the journey to create a memorial for disabled veterans began more than 40 years ago when she sang for Vietnam War vets at a rehabilitation center. Pope made herself a promise that night, that if she could ever do something for disabled veterans, she would. On Wednesday, Pope hosted the groundbreaking of The American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial. It will be within view of the Capitol on a 2.4-acre plot, across from the U.S. Botanic Garden. Pope, a onetime Broadway actress and singer whose late husband owned the National Enquirer, said at the groundbreaking ceremony that she got the idea for the tribute when she learned — after performing for disabled veterans — that there was no permanent memorial in their honor. "Long after the fighting on the battlefield ends, our disabled veterans continue to fight to reclaim their lives and readjust to society," Pope said. "Far too often, they are marginalized and forgo ... More
Mark Polizzotti Named Publisher & Editor in Chief at Met Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Mark Polizzotti has been appointed Publisher and Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he will oversee all aspects of the Museum's scholarly publishing program, it was announced today by Director Thomas P. Campbell. Mr. Polizzotti is currently Director of Intellectual Property and Publisher at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He will begin work at the Metropolitan Museum on November 15. "I am delighted that Mark Polizzotti has agreed to join the Met, to lead and develop our publishing program and to sustain the Museum's role as the leading art book publisher in the world," stated Thomas Campbell. "The Met has a tradition of producing publications of extremely high quality, written by its superb curatorial staff and by scholars from around the world. I am certain that Mark has the vision and experience to maintain this standard of excellence while setting the future course of the Met's pub ... More
National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art Forge a New Partnership
OTTAWA- Thanks to an innovative new partnership between the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto residents and visitors can now view some of the most significant works from the NGC’s contemporary art collection, without having to leave the metropolitan area. The National Gallery of Canada at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is a three-year program that will see the two institutions co-organize and co-present a series of exclusive exhibitions in MOCCA’s newly-renovated project space, drawn from the NGC's extensive contemporary art collection. These will include the presentation of single works, new acquisitions or full scale exhibitions designed to complement MOCCA’s existing programming. The inaugural exhibition Adams|Demand|Farmer, is being launched at MOCCA on November 10 continuing until December 31, 2010. This exhibition brings together several w ... More
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