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A man walks across the basement of the Pinter Gallery storing portraits of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin before their auction in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. More than 200 pieces of communist era relics were found by the Hungarian government in various ministries and state warehouses and will be sold in early December to benefit the victims of last month's red sludge disaster. AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky.
By: Pablo Gorondi, Associated Press
BUDAPEST (AP).- Hungary will auction off 230 communist-era relics, including a life-size bust of former Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin, to benefit the victims of last month's red sludge flood. The objects, which also include paintings in the Socialist realism style and photographs of Hungary's communist-era leaders, were found in state warehouses and ministries "where they have been gathering dust for the past 20 years," Bence Retvari, Hungary's state secretary, said Monday. "The state does not want to look after these communist relics anymore," he added. The auction will be held Dec. 6 at the Pinter Gallery in the capital, Budapest. The revenue will go to Caritas, a Catholic charity, to help residents in several western towns left devastated by an Oct. 4 flood of toxic red sludge from a plant reservoir. Ten people died in the deluge and dozens were injured. Gallery owner Peter Pinter said he hoped the most valuable objects would go to a single bidder so "they could then be dona ... More |
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Sotheby's Sale Establishes a World Auction Record for Painter Giuseppe Vermiglio
Giuseppe Vermiglio, Cristo davanti a Pilato (detail). Oil on canvas, 120 x 174 cm. Estimate: 120,000–180,000 euro. Sold: 240,750 euro. Photo: Sotheby's.
MILAN.- A very good overall market response to this Milanese appointment with Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Works of Art and Books: the selected catalogue has brought an increment in collectors and dealers interest. A world record has been fetched by the beautiful Caravaggesque painting Cristo davanti a Pilato by the Milanese painter Giuseppe Vermiglio. More than ten minutes lasted the bidding competition for the rare view of Santa Sofia, Istanbul which has been purchased by an European collector for nearly 400.000 euro. Pointillist paintings were highly appreciated in the sale room and on the phones: remarkable prices were achieved by Plinio Nomellini and Angelo Morbelli. Francesco Morroni – Furniture and Works of Art Specialist – discussing the auction : “The high interest for very rare and refined furniture has been confirmed, such as lot 144, a Venetian Arte Povera bureau attribuited to Giacomo Locatelli – Venice, 1750 – which ... More | | A 1,800 Year Old Bathing Pool was Discovered Beneath a Miqve by Israeli Archaeologists
A worker of the Israel Antiquities Authority works at an excavation site in Jerusalem's Old City. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue.
JERUSALEM.- A 1,800 year old bathing pool that was probably part of a bathhouse used by the Tenth Legion – the Roman soldiers who destroyed the Temple – was exposed in excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority. The discovery sheds light on the scope of Aelia Capitolina, the city that was founded on the Second Temple period ruins of Jerusalem and that defined the character of ancient Jerusalem as we know it today. A Roman bathing pool – part of a bathhouse from the second-third centuries CE – was uncovered in archaeological excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting at the initiative of the Jerusalem Municipality and the Moriah Company for the Development of Jerusalem, prior to the construction of a men’s miqve in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. According to Dr. Ofer Sion, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “We were ... More | | Tradition and Innovation at the Netherlands' Art and Antiques Fair: PAN Amsterdam
Visitors look at an artwork entitled 'John' by Dutch artist Mitsy Groenendijk at the PAN Amsterdam art fair. EPA/ROBIN UTRECHT.
AMSTERDAM.-Over the course of nine days in November, PAN Amsterdam, the Netherlands’ art and antiques fair, presents more than 10,000 objets d’art. The common denominator is that all the objects are vetted for authenticity, artistic quality and condition and are on sale at prices from € 500 to € 500,000. The 130 or so exhibitors represent the elite of the Dutch and Flemish art trade. The works of art at PAN Amsterdam span more than 5,000 years of history. They include an antique faience New Year’s flask and an 18th-century secretaire attributed to Abraham Roentgen, one of the most famous furniture makers of his age. From more recent times there is a rare tubular steel chair, Gerrit Rietveld’s Beugelstoel from around 1927, in its original natural wood finish, a 1930 necklace by the renowned Parisian workshop Fossin & Fils and a large display of works by Zero artists. Never before has so much ... More |
 | The Home of Leading Scientist Who Helped Develop the 'Bouncing Bomb' to Be Sold
Commanding superb views over the city of Bath, Crowe Hall is set in thirty acres of landscaped garden, woods and parkland. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
LONDON.- Christie’s will offer the contents of one of the finest Regency villas in Bath, Crowe Hall, at the King Street salerooms on Thursday, 16 December 2010. Crowe Hall was the home of Sir Sydney Barratt (1898-1975), a chemist whose advice to Sir Winston Churchill and the War Cabinet from 1942 to 1944 helped to secure the development of the ‘bouncing bomb’. The sale is expected to raise in excess of £1.8 million and includes Old Master and British pictures, English furniture, silver, porcelain and Italian ‘Grand Tour’ bronzes bought by Sir Sydney and his son to furnish this remarkable villa, which nestles beneath the Palladian grandeur of Prior Park. Individual estimates range from £500 to £80,000. Commanding superb views over the city of Bath, Crowe Hall is set in thirty acres of landscaped garden, woods and parkland. Originally built in 1760, the house was remodelled in the fashionable neo-clas ... More | | Science Museum in London to Debut New Permanent Climate Science Gallery
The Science Museum, London, will open a new permanent climate science gallery - ‘atmosphere: exploring climate science’ on 4 December 2010.
LONDON.- The Science Museum, London, will open a new permanent climate science gallery - ‘atmosphere: exploring climate science’ on 4 December 2010. ‘atmosphere’ will provide a dedicated space for Science Museum visitors to deepen their understanding of climate science in an enjoyable, engaging and memorable way. It will include interactive exhibits and a variety of objects to explain how the climate system works, to show how scientists study the system and to summarise the current state of knowledge about the climate. The Science Museum will use its long-established expertise in science communication to provide information on climate science for everyone, no matter their level of prior knowledge. Visitors to ‘atmosphere: exploring climate science’ will be able to investigate: • An immersive “gallery world” with its own atmosphere and landscapes. These beautiful, dynamic el ... More | | Legendary Rock Legends Pink Floyd Quadraphonic Consoles to Be Sold at Bonhams
Mike Rowe, Director of Britannia Row, with the two Pink Floyd consoles. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Fans of rock legends Pink Floyd will have a chance to own a slice of the band’s legendary live performance history when the unique, hand built quadraphonic mixing consoles used on the Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell world tours are auctioned at Bonhams Entertainment Memorabilia sale in Knightsbridge on December 15th, with a percentage of the proceeds going to concert industry charity Stage Hand. The consoles, a customized Midas XL3 quad console and a Britannia Row Productions custom-built quad panning device, are being sold by their owner, Britannia Row Productions (BRP), the sound company originally formed and owned by Pink Floyd, which has been independent for the last 26 years. The hand built device used on the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour has a pre-sale estimate of £5,000-£7,000, while the more technically complex, and also specially commissioned, Midas XL3 Quad mixer used on the Divisio ... More |
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Lisson Gallery Presents an Exhibition of New Works by Berlin-Based Artist Ceal Floyer
Ceal Floyer, Ladder, 2010. Aluminium ladder. Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Ceal Floyer. Floyer's clarity of thought and the elegantly concise presentation of her ideas resonate through all areas of her practice. The deceptive simplicity of the work is informed by Floyer's particular sense of humour and an awareness of the absurd. Through subtle interventions with everyday objects such as rubbish bags filled with air, cash register receipts or a Tammy Wynette song, Floyer uses double-takes and shifting points of view to force the viewer to renegotiate their perception of the world. Alongside new works the show at Lisson provides a chance to see a reconfiguration of ‘Things’, first shown at KW Institute for Contemporary Arts, Berlin, in 2009. A cluster of plinths stand in an empty room each emitting at different intervals in real time the word "things”, the only audible section from otherwise silenced pop songs. Howeve ... More | | Connecting Cubism to an American Narrative Exhibition on View at D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc.
Charles Green Shaw (1892-1974), Shape Shadows, 1934, 30 x 21 3/4 inches. Oil on board. Photo: D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY.- D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. announces the opening of Connecting Cubism to an American Narrative, an exhibition featuring William and Lucy L’Engle, American Modernists and disciples of Cubism. The couple’s history as artists in Paris, New York, and Provincetown provides a unique chance to present the transfer of the Cubist style from Europe to America through their paintings. Additional examples by American artists who participated in Cubism’s transformation in America including John Marin, Alfred Maurer, Max Weber, and Marguerite Zorach expand the story. William and Lucy (née Brown) L’Engle were pioneer Modernists, part of a generation of artists working abroad in the years immediately following the public debut of Cubism in Paris in 1908. William L’Engle (1884-1957) arrived in Paris in 1909 at the age of 25 with a degree in Naval Architecture ... More | | Luciana Brito Presents "Back to Simplicity", Including Historic Artworks, by Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic, Art Must Be Beautiful. (detail).
SAO PAULO.-Luciana Brito Galeria presents the exhibition Back to Simplicity by Marina Abramovic. Born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, in 1946, Abramovic has contributed in a fundamental manner for the consolidation of performance as a form or artistic expression, in the course of the three decades of her career. Since the 1970's, Marina Abramovic's work has explored and tested, by means of countless performances, the human limits, both physical and mental. In Brazil, the artist has participated in the São Paulo Biennales of 1981, 1985 and 2008; the Mercosul Binennale, in 2005; the exhibition Balkan Erotic Epic, carried out at SESC-SP in 2006, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg; and the solo show Transitory Object for Human Use, carried out at Luciana Brito Galeria, in 2008.. Besides a set of historical artworks, including videos and photographs that document performances the artist has presented since the ... More |
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Collectors Respond with Highest-Ever Total for a Photography Sale at Sotheby's Paris
Edward Weston (1886-1958), Nu ( Anita Brenner ), 1925. Tirage argentique d’époque (21,7 x 18,8 cm). Estimate: 150 000-200 000 €. Photo: Sotheby's.
PARIS.- Over the last three years, sales of Photography at Sotheby’s Paris have become not-to-be-missed events for connoisseurs from around the world. This year some 1500 visitors, private collectors and international dealers came to view the exceptional array of works offered by Sotheby’s at the Galerie Charpentier. Then, in a packed saleroom accompanied by frenzied phone bidding, the auction totalled €2.7 million, with 101 lots sold. In the words of Simone Klein, Head of Photography at Sotheby’s: «The renewed success of our exhibition and the outstanding results obtained today reward the strategy of our house/company, which offered for the third time a sale at the same time as Paris Photos. We are in particular pleased in particular by the records achieved by Josef Sudek and Manuel Alvarez Bravo and we are proud that the emblematic work by the ... More | | Ten Visionary Artists Express Themselves Around the Iconic Hennessy V.S Bottle
“Hennessy is steeped in tradition, but always keeping up with the times and staying relevant, without trying too hard.
NEW YORK, NY.- Music and art have always gone hand in hand, pushing creativity and collaboration. What's one without the other? Hennessy V.S Blending of Art celebrates the two as one, in a collaborative project that aligns the visually arresting with the sonically bold; the musically adventurous with the artistically free. An exclusive series of future thinking artworks that connect some of musicʼs most vibrant revolutionaries with visual artists and graphic designers that dance to the same beat. Inspired by the Hennessy Artistry curation process, Hennessy has invited a posse of artists to express themselves around the iconic Hennessy V.S bottle with true creative freedom creating five new iconic bottle designs. 2010 Hennessy Artistry Curators Questlove and Q-Tip, alongside the musical talents of A-Trak, Kid Sister and Steve Aoki and stunning visual artists Dust La Rock, Spaceknuckle, Aerosyn-Lex Mestrov ... More | | Master Chinese Painter Wu Guanzhong's Works Exhibited at Zhejiang Art Museum
Wu Guanzhong, A Prayer, 1996. Ink and colour on paper, 138 x 178cm. Collection of National Heritage Board.
SINGAPORE.- In a show of solidarity with the regional community of Asian art museums, The National Art Gallery, Singapore sent key works to China under its banner for the first time. Through 25 December 2010, the artworks of recently bereaved master Chinese painter Wu Guanzhong belonging to Singapore are exhibited at the Zhejiang Art Museum in Hangzhou. Titled East Meets West – The Exhibition of Wu Guangzhong’s Paintings, it comprises a total of 307 works of art by Wu, of which hail from Singapore’s national collection. Singapore’s contribution of works is the second largest amongst the eight participating art institutions. A retrospective on the legendary artist, the exhibition at Zhejiang Art Museum boasts a range of oil and ink paintings, sketches, calligraphy and watercolours. It is co-organised with China’s Ministry of Culture ... More |
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R. Crumb, Daughter Look at Life in "Crazy Artist"
By: Christine Kearney
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Robert Crumb and his daughter Sophie may lovingly squabble about the life they have shared, but they can agree on one thing: the underground scene that allowed the elder Crumb to become a comic book cult hero hardly exists anymore. Crumb, better known as R. Crumb, emerged in the late 1960s as founder of the alternative movement known as comix -- self-published comic books with explicit adult content -- and his 29-year-old daughter is now entering the market with her first title, "Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist." "Now there is a spectrum, from the most weird, crazy, psycho pornographic stuff to pop mainstream superheroes and all that crap," R. Crumb told Reuters in a rare interview with Sophie. "There isn't really an underground in the old sense." His daughter, sitting opposite him in a small New York art gallery where some of her drawings are being shown, was more emphatic: "I don't think the underground exists any more. It' ... More
Federico Luger Presents Franklin Evans' Second Solo Exhibition at the Gallery
MILAN.- Federico Luger presents "times2," Franklin Evans' second solo exhibition at the Gallery. In this project, Evans moves forward with his research on time and repetition with an installation that, as in previous shows, will include painting, installation and drawing, and a diversity of materials. The show features pairs of works in which each part of the pair will force a consideration about the other. An example of this is the installation on the floor with press releases in the same fashion of the one included in "Greater New York" at MoMA P.S.1, (originofmcurrentmind). In "Times 2", Evans plans to install a photographed version of originofmcurrentmind that will be divided in two. The first path will be the tattered press releases in their suspended state of decay, the second path will be the images from each press release isolated and increased in scale to match the size of the original press release. Both paths ... More
Reina Sofía Museum Signs Partnership Agreement with the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO)
SPAIN.- The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) have signed a collaboration agreement aimed at jointly organizing and presenting cultural projects that contribute to raising general awareness about contemporary art, especially by artists from Latin America. The first project or collaboration under this agreement is the temporary loan of 9 photographs, painting and sculptures by Latin American artists with links to abstraction and the abstract-geometric tradition. This two year loan includes works by Lygia Clark, Gerardo de Barros, Alberto Greco, German Lorca, José Oiticica Filho, Rubens Teixeira, Victor Vasarely and Franz Weissmann and will soon be exhibited at the museum. The exhibition ¿La Guerra ha terminado? Arte en un mundo dividido 1945-1968 (Is the War Over? – Art in a Divided World 1945-1968) includes works from the ... More
Rolls-Royce Phantom III, Featured in Pan's Labyrinth Film, to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- The first Rolls-Royce Phantom III to be sold to America, which featured in the award-winning 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth, is to be sold at Bonhams traditional end of year sale of Important Motor Cars and Fine Automobilia on 6 December, which this year takes place at Mercedes-Benz World at Brooklands in Surrey. A total number of 24 Phantom III Rolls-Royces are thought to have been sold to America new, with this car listed to have been delivered first on 2 December 1936. Estimated at £60,000 – 70,000 and in fantastic condition, the car was used alongside a Bentley in a car chase in the film Pan’s Labyrinth, which was directed by Guillermo del Toro. It has been owned by a prominent connoisseur of pre-war luxury cars since this time and kept in Southern Europe. A 1934 Lagonda M45 Tourer, which has had five owners since new, including the Pink Floyd drummer and prominent collector, Nick ... More
Exhibition of New Work by Rachel Kneebone Presented at White Cube Hoxton Square
LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents an exhibition of new work by Rachel Kneebone. Over the last few years, Kneebone has created a unique space in contemporary art with her expressive and delicately worked porcelain sculptures. The exhibition is in two parts: 'Lamentations 2010' in the ground floor gallery and in the first floor gallery, 'Shields' (2010). 'Lamentations 2010' is the title for two sets of three sculptures that were created in the pursuit of forms that could express the trauma of death, loss and grief. Kneebone started with the theme of death in the work, 'As grave as the imagined as frivolous as the eternal', addressing each of these universal experiences sequentially, in three separate works. Kneebone confronts grief by casting a female figure at the centre of the sculpture 'Eyes that look close at wounds themselves are wounded'. In this work, ... More
Bonhams to Hold its Biggest Sale of Remarkable Wine to Date
LONDON.- Bonhams Fine & Rare Wine sale on December 2nd at New Bond Street is set to make the highest sale total in the department’s history and features an exceptional range of quality wines including a magnificent Continental Collection. This collection (lots 591-962) which has been hand picked by a knowledgeable and enthusiastic connoisseur is remarkable for its depth and range, notably 140 lots of claret, vintages 1982 to 2007, including a jeroboam of Lafite Rothschild 1986 (£5000-6000) and a particularly attractive array of Chateaux from the 2000 and 2005 vintages. Also featured are fine wines from renowned estates in Germany & Austria such as JJ Prum, Egon Muller, Hermann Donnhoff, Franz Hirtzberger & Emmerich Knoll; as well as red and white Burgundy (de Vogue, Perrot Minot, de Courcel, Armand Rousseau, Lafon & Sauzet) and the Rhone (JL Chave, Beaucastel, Clos des Papes & Guigal) . In addition there are highly soug ... More
Extraordinary Opportunities for Collectors of the World's Finest Wines Presented by Christie's Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- Christie’s Autumn auction of Finest and Rarest Wines will take place in two sessions on Friday, 26 November and Saturday, 27 November at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Featuring over 600 lots valued over HK$60million (US$7.7 million), the sale contain a number of extensive collections, ranging from ten years of Lafite- Rothschild (1992-2002) to a sensitively chosen group of first growth Bordeaux and Dom Pérignon champagnes as well as a marvellous collection of wines from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Leading the sale is a stand-out collection of Château Palmer coming directly from Bordeaux, which Christie’s will presents in three auctions in Hong Kong, London and New York this season. The sale will also offer an extraordinary presentation of prestigious cuvées offered by the legendary house of Krug, featuring Krug Clos du Mesnil, Krug Clos d’Ambonnay, Krug Vintages, Krug Collections a ... More
Donation of Two Works by Leading Irish Sculptor James McKenna to the Irish Museum of Modern Art
DUBLIN.-The donation of two works by leading Irish sculptor James McKenna to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, made by Desmond, Vivienne, Kate and Bebhinn Egan, was celebrated at an event at the Museum. The more recent donation Aisling, Scariff, 1964, is one of McKenna’s early works, showing his focus on the human body expressed using classical means. It is currently on show as part of the Museum’s hugely popular exhibition, The Moderns: the Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s. This generous gift follows a donation by the Egan family in 2007 of McKenna’s granite sculpture Ferdia for nÁth/Ferdia at the Ford, 1989, which is on permanent display beside the west avenue at IMMA. The lunch at IMMA, which was attended by many of McKenna’s associates, also marked the tenth anniversary of his death in 2000. Born in Dublin in 1933, James McKenna was a leading figure in both visual arts and literary circles in Irel ... More
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