| | Celia, the Most Beautiful Boy in the World (and Percy) Star in Bonhams Hockney Sale
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Bonhams' employee Ana Paiva from Portugal poses for photographs beside David Hockney's "Moving Focus - An Image of Celia" at the auction house's premises in London, Monday, April 18, 2011. The piece is estimated to fetch between 60,000 and 80,000 pounds ($98,000 to $130,000 and euro 68,000 to 91,000) when it comes up in a sale dedicated to Hockney's work spanning five decades on April 20. AP Photo/Matt Dunham.
LONDON.- A rare signed proof copy of David Hockney’s lithograph ‘An Image of Celia’ in the original frame hand painted by the artist is the star item in sale dedicated to Hockney’s work at Bonhams on 20 April. Dating from the mid-1980s, the Picasso-like image of Hockney’s close friend, the textile designer Celia Birtwell, is estimated at between £60,000- 80,000. It leads a sale which covers the whole spectrum of Hockney’s output and techniques from the early ‘Fires of Furious Desire - The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’ of 1963 (£4,000-6,000) to his ‘Lithograph of Water’ from the late 1970s (315,000-20,000); three huge and stunning variations of ‘Hotel Acatlan’ executed in the mid 1980 (estimates range from £15,000- 30,000) and ‘Winter Road near Kilham’an Inkjet printed computer drawing from 2008 (£10,000-15,000). ... More |
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Major Work by Constantinos Volanakis to Highlight Sotheby's Greek Sale in May
Constantinos Volanakis, Elegant Figures at the shore (detail). Oil on canvas Estimate: £300,000-500,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s Greek Sale, on Monday, 9 May, 2011, will draw together an exceptional array of Greek art, with important examples of 19th and 20th-century masters such as Constantinos Volanakis, Konstantinos Maleas, and Nicos Hadjikiriakos-Ghika. The sale of 132 lots is estimated to fetch in excess of £4 million. Speaking about the sale, Constantine Frangos, Senior Director, Greek and 19th Century European Paintings, Sotheby’s, London, commented, “We are very pleased to be offering once again a selection of high quality Greek paintings to an international audience. We expect the Volanakis to attract much attention and we look forward to welcoming collectors from Greece, Europe as well as the rest of the world.” The sale will be highlighted by Elegant Figures At The Shore by Constantinos Volanakis (1837-1907), estimated at £300,000-500,000. In this monumental panorama, Volanakis ... More | | Colombian Master Fernando Botero to Offer Solo Sale at Sotheby's in New York
Fernando Botero, El Presidente. Est. $300/400,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 25 May 2011 Sotheby’s will present a remarkable group of works by the Colombian master Fernando Botero in a single-artist evening sale. The auction, entitled Fernando Botero: A Celebration, takes place alongside A Discerning Eye: Latin American Masterpieces from a Private Collection and the various owner Latin American Art evening sale. It is the first single-artist sale held by Sotheby’s Latin American Art department since the auction of Joaquín Torres-Garcia’s works from the estate of Royal S. Marks in 1992. The Botero works are predominantly drawn from two extremely distinguished collections and were assembled over several decades. They include the quintessential themes and iconic images that have made Botero arguably the most recognized living artist in the world. The sale will be led by A Family from 1972, one of the most important of a series of family scenes painted throughout Botero ... More | | A Hulking Sculpture Meant to Promote Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Faces Demolition
Turkish sculptor Mehmet Aksoy speaks during a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey. AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta.
By: Christopher Torchia, Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP).- A hulking sculpture meant to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia became an accidental emblem of their historic enmity after workers erected scaffolding towers and began to demolish it this week. Then, the mood soured further: a Turkish artist who championed the monument was stabbed. Bedri Baykam, a prominent critic of Turkey's government, was hospitalized after the assault Monday, which followed a speech in which he condemned plans to tear down the sculpture near the Armenian border. It was an ominous conclusion to an artistic project linking two nations without diplomatic ties and whose relationship seems irrevocably defined by the mass killings of Armenians under Ottoman rule. On Sunday, Armenians mark the 96th anniversary of the start of what many international experts deem a ... More |
 | Rare Books, Maps, Americana and Autographs to Be Auctioned at Doyle New York
Ezra Pound, A Lume Spento. In the City of Aldus. [Venice: A. Antonini, 1908, from imprint on title verso]. First edition. Estimate $20,000 - $25,000. Photo: Courtesy of Doyle New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle New York will hold an auction of Rare Books, Maps and Autographs on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 10am. The sale will offer property in a variety of categories, including Americana, manuscripts, inscribed first editions, color plate books, livres d'artiste and original artwork. A special section of the sale features books from the Library of Omar Shakespear Pound (1926-2010), son of the great American poet Ezra Pound and his wife, Dorothy Shakespear, one of Wyndham Lewis's group of Vorticist artists. Omar Pound was himself a poet and translator of Arabic and Persian verse. He co-edited three volumes of Ezra's letters and a bibliography of Wyndham Lewis, and was a founding trustee of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust. Books from the Estate of Omar Shakespear Pound include a rare signed copy of Ezra Pound’s A Lume Spento, a copy of W.B. Yeats’s 1893 book on Blake’s poetry inscribed ... More | | University of Arizona School of Music Recently Acquired Linda Ronstadt Collection
Linda Ronstadt was one of the defining and most musically diverse icons of her generation.
By: Ingvi Kallen, UA School of Music
TUCSON, AZ.- The collection spans the wide variety of music that Linda Ronstadt, a Tucson native, produced during her career. The University of Arizona School of Music has announced the recent acquisition of the Linda Ronstadt Collection. The collection contains orchestrations, memorabilia and photographs. Many of the manuscripts were written by bandleader Nelson Riddle and add to the UA's already extensive collection of mid-20th Century American music. Ronstadt was one of the defining and most musically diverse icons of her generation. After attending the UA briefly in the 1960s, she left Tucson and moved to California to pursue her interests in music. She joined a folk-rock trio, the Stone Poneys, and within a few years had a hit album. Ronstadt then embarked on a solo career, which over the course of the 1970s produced a number of chart-topping records in country ... More | | Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Collectors Committee Brings in Eight New Acquisitions
Craig Kauffman, Untitled, 1969. Acrylic lacquer on plastic, 73 x 47 1/4 x 9 in. Gift of 2011 Collectors Committee.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announce the acquisition of eight artworks through the museum’s 26th Annual Collectors Committee fundraiser. The event featured a weekend of curator-led art presentations, private dinners at trustee homes, and a gala dinner-including a live auction-where members vote on artworks to add to the museum’s permanent collection. This year, the eighty-three voting members raised more than $3 million-breaking records for the third year in a row. Prior to voting, Trustee Steve Tisch stepped forward and purchased Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) for the museum. Over the course of the night, other individual donors purchased artworks for the museum as well: Donald Judd’s Prototype Desk (1978) was purchased for LACMA by Kelvin Davis in honor of his architect/artist brother, Paul Davis; an ancient Peruvian textile (1500-1600) was purchased by LACMA Trustee ... More |
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Victoria & Albert Museum Acquires Spectacular Ottoman Tankard with Help from the Art Fund
The tankard is a spectacular example of how the Ottoman court borrowed forms from everyday life and turned them into luxury items.
LONDON.- A rare jade tankard inlaid with gold and studded with rubies and emeralds has been acquired by the V&A. The tankard was originally made for an Ottoman sultan in the late 16th century, in the imperial capital of Istanbul. A limited number of these objects were produced and this is the first example to enter a British national collection. The tankard was offered to the V&A partly through the Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme. The Art Fund gave £220,000 towards the purchase, which included a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation. It cost a total of £477,500. The tankard is a spectacular example of how the Ottoman court borrowed forms from everyday life and turned them into luxury items. Its shape is based on the indigenous drinking vessels used for a variety of beverages including boza, the fermented millet drink still popular in Anatolia and the Balkans. However, instead of wood or leather, it is made from jade, which ... More | | Sotheby's London to Unveil Ron Arad's New Design as Part of a Selling Exhibition of Israeli Design
Ron Arad will exhibit his cutlery together with a selection of works by some of the most talented Israeli designers working today. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London announce the debut exhibition on Thursday, 5 May to Wednesday, 11 May, 2011 of the latest design project by celebrated designer Ron Arad in association with WMF: "Pirouette" cutlery. The exquisitely designed and crafted cutlery opens up a new approach to dining and 50 sets will be available to buy for the first time at a selling exhibition curated by Janice Blackburn and hosted by Sotheby’s - Bezalel: Legacy, Innovation, Inspiration. Ron Arad, a former student of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, will exhibit his cutlery together with a selection of works by some of the most talented Israeli designers working today, all recent graduates and students from Bezalel. Works to be exhibited include ceramics and glass, photography, industrial design and fashion. The exhibition offers a real insight into the multi-layered types of design that have ... More | | The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents Exhibition of the Work by Teresita Fernández
Teresita Fernández, Epic 2, 2009 (detail). Graphite, drawing, 149.5 x 354.5 x 1 inches.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Moder Art Museum of Fort Worth presents FOCUS: Teresita Fernández. The FOCUS exhibition series is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Curator Andrea Karnes for the Museum’s Director’s Council, a group that supports acquisitions at the Museum. Each FOCUS exhibition presents work by an emerging contemporary artist. The exhibition is on view April 17 through June 19, 2011. Sculptor Teresita Fernández creates work in response to nature. Reminiscent of clouds, rainstorms, waterfalls, and stars in the night sky, Fernández’s mercurial forms shimmer, float, and undulate before our eyes. The artist is interested in generating an intimate experience with each of her installations. As she has put it, “What I’m after is a lingering, ephemeral engagement. Slow, quiet, and with enough depth kinesthetically to be recalled by the viewer after the work is no longer in front of t ... More |
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Royal Collection Presents Exhibition of 42 Paintings of Dutch 17th-Century Landscapes
Aelbert Cuyp, The Passage Boat, 1650s. (detail).
LONDON.- This exhibition of 42 paintings draws on the Royal Collection’s rich holdings of Dutch 17th-century landscapes, including works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van der Heyden and Meyndert Hobbema. By the 17th century, landscape painting was well established as a distinct art form and one in which Netherlandish artists excelled. The fine detail and meticulous finish of Dutch pictures appealed to British taste, and 34 of the works in the exhibition were acquired by the future George IV between 1809 and 1820. The ability of Dutch artists to depict mood and emotion through landscape and the subject-matter drawn from everyday life influenced the great British painters John Constable and JMW Turner. Constable admired the ‘acres of sky expressed’ in Ruisdael’s Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream, and on seeing a seascape by Willem van de Velde the Younger, Turner remarked, ‘ ... More | | The Museum Ludwig Presents Exhibition by Vija Celmins: Desert, Sea, and Stars
Vija Celmins, Constellation - Uccello, 1983. Aquatint and etching on paper, 69,2 x 58,7 cm. Courtesy of the artist and McKee Gallery © 1983 Vija Celmins and Gemini G.E.L.
COLOGNE.- Among the central motifs in the work of New York-based artist Vija Celmins, one encounters moving ocean surfaces, sparse desert landscapes, or vast starry skies. In her paintings, drawings, and, especially in her prints, she manipulates her prototypes, always going far beyond reproducing photographic images in her work. The Museum Ludwig now dedicates a comprehensive solo exhibition to her that includes over 60 works, thus paying tribute to an artist who is still rarely shown in Europe. The exhibition is on view from April 15 through July 17, 2011. The exhibition Vija Celmins. Desert, Sea, and Stars concentrates on subjects the artist has returned to time and again since 1968. Celmins’ models are black-and-white illustrations she photographs herself or finds ... More | | The Hackney Hoard: Coroner to Rule on Unique and Historic Treasure Case Found in Garden
Front and Reverse of examples from the Hackney Hoard. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- On 18 April 2011 the Coroner for Inner North London resumed an inquest in relation to a hoard of American gold dollars found in Hackney in 2007. The hoard consists of 80 coins which were minted in the United States between 1854 and 1913. They are all $20 denominations of the type known as ‘Double-Eagle’ and the find is totally unprecedented in the United Kingdom. The hoard was discovered in the back garden of a property in Hackney and reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme but in a unique twist to the story a likely descendent of the original owner of the coins has been found. The coins are thought to have been buried in 1940 when Mr Martin Sulzbacher and his family were resident in the Hackney property. A German Jew who had fled persecution in Nazi Germany, Mr Sulzbacher was interned as an ‘enemy alien ... More |
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 Christie's Hong Kong Spring Sale of Important Watches on 30 May 2011HONG KONG.- Watch enthusiasts, beginners and seasoned collectors can look forward to an extremely wide array of magnificent timepieces at Christie’s Hong Kong Important Watches Spring Sale on 30 May 2011 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. With 540 lots on offer and a total estimate exceeding HK$80 million/US$10 million, the Spring Sale dazzles with rare enamel and pocket watches, opulent ladies’ jewellery watches, exceptional vintage wristwatches and inspirational modern complication wristwatches. This impressive selection, covering a broad and rich range in terms of styles and prices, will offer watch lovers and collectors a unique opportunity to acquire timepieces of the highest qualities and values on the market. Undoubtedly the most prominent highlight of the sale is a magnificent pair of matching gold and enamel Singing Bird Pistols (Lot 2174, estimate: HK$20,000,000-40,000,000/US ... More The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Appoints Diplomat Ted Lipman as its Chief Executive OfficerHONG KONG.- Mr. Robert Y. C. Ho, Chairman of the Board of the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, announced that former Canadian diplomat Ted Lipman has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of this young and fast-growing institution. Ted Lipman will assume his duties on May 1, 2011, providing professional leadership to the Foundation as it carries out its dual missions: promoting Chinese culture, and encouraging a deeper understanding of Buddhist philosophy in contemporary society. Established in Hong Kong in 2005, the Foundation is a private philanthropic organization engaged in strategic, long-term projects in Hong Kong and around the world. Its programs range from educating Hong Kong’s youth through the arts to nurturing young Chinese musicians and writers to creating centers for Buddhist studies at leading universities. Its partners to date have included the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The ... More Winterthur Museum Acquires One of the Earliest Known American Depictions of the Easter BunnyWINTERTHUR.- Winterthur Museum recently acquired one of the earliest known American depictions of the Easter Bunny, which was sold at Pook & Pook auction house in Downingtown , Pennsylvania . Together with the Christmas tree, the custom of the Easter rabbit and colored eggs was brought to America by immigrants from southwestern Germany in the 1700s, and has become a favorite American tradition. This delightful image is attributed to schoolmaster Johann Conrad Gilbert (1734–1812), who emigrated from Germany in 1757 and ultimately settled in Berks County , Pennsylvania . He likely made the drawing as a gift for one of his students. A similar drawing, also attributed to Gilbert, is in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg. These drawings are examples of a Pennsylvania German tradition of decorated manuscripts known as fraktur, which include birth and baptismal certificates, family records, writing samples ... More Art 42 Basel Features 20 Gallery-Curated ProjectsBASEL.- The Art Feature sector at Art 42 Basel focuses on precise curatorial projects from artists of many generations. It is located alongside the Art Galleries sector on both floors of Hall 2 and presents 20 projects. With over 200 applications to choose from, the Art Basel Committee and the sector’s experts selected galleries from 12 countries on three continents. The projects chosen promise unexpected and provocative solo presentations and juxtapositions, as well as solo presentations featuring works by artists representing different cultural backgrounds, generations, and artistic approaches. The following galleries and artists have been selected by the Art Basel Committee: Galerie Guido W. Baudach | Berlin: Thomas Zipp, Jürgen Klauke • Bo Bjerggaard | Copenhagen: Poul Gernes, Per Kirkeby • Gallery Chemould Prescott Road | Mumbai: Nalini Malani, Nilima Sheikh • Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts | Zurich: ... More Boston Breaks Ground on New Tea Party MuseumBOSTOn (AP).- Boston is breaking ground on a new museum marking one of the most famous events in American history. Mayor Thomas Menino and Gov. Deval Patrick are scheduled at attend a groundbreaking Tuesday for a Boston Tea Party museum. An earlier museum at the site in Fort Point Channel burned in 2001 after being struck by lightning. Griffin's Wharf, the original site of the December 1773 tea party when colonists dumped tea into the harbor to protest British taxes, was nearby. The mayor's office says the city and state have approved a $3 million grants for the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum and the state convention center authority has pledged $18 million. The museum will feature replicas of the three British ships involved in the tea party. ... MoreCivil Rights Museum Opens in Great Barrington GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS (AP).- A museum focusing on early civil rights history in Western Massachusetts has opened. The W.E.B. Du Bois Center in Great Barrington recently unveiled the Museum of Civil Rights Pioneers and will feature items related to the African-American experience in Berkshire County and the rest of the state. The museum will display rare books and documents connected with civil rights icons like Frederick Douglass, performer Paul Robeson, writer Langston Hughes, and Great Barrington-born civil rights pioneer Du Bois. Highlights include Robeson's contract to play Othello on Broadway and a Bible owned by Hughes. Randy Weinstein, who runs the center and opened the museum, says he wanted to launch the museum on the 150th anniversary of the start of the U.S. Civil War. Details on visiting the museum are at http://www.duboiscentergb.org/. Admission is $5 and the facility is scheduled to be open weekends 11 a. ... More |
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