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A visitor stands in front of the painting of Alexander Yakovlev 'Opera in Peking. 1918' during an exhibition focused on the Sotheby's Masterpieces of Russian Painting, at the State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia. Sotheby's Masterpieces of Russian Painting Art Evening Sale will take place in London on 06 June 2011. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV.
LONDON.- Sotheby's is exhibiting highlights from its forthcoming June Sales in London of Russian Art, and Important Czech Art from the Hascoe Family Collection, at the State Historical Museum on Red Square in Moscow through Friday, May 20th, 2011. The exhibition features 24 important and rare paintings by some of Russia’s preeminent artists from the 19th century to the present, including Vasily Vasilievich Vereschagin, Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev, Ilya Efimovich Repin and Erik Bulatov, as well as two artworks by František Kupka from the Hascoe Collection of Czech Modern Art, a collection that offers a remarkably complete survey of Czech painting and sculpture of the first half of the 20th century. ... More |
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American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture Bring $27.1 Million at Sotheby's New York
George Bellows, Dock Builders (detail). Sold for $3,890,500. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today’s auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture at Sotheby’s New York achieved $27,124,125 in total, above a pre-sale low estimate of $25.3 million. Six of the paintings on offer brought prices over $1 million, and new artist records were set for Ernest Leonard Blumenschein, William J. McCloskey and William Aiken Walker. The sale featured works from two remarkable private collections–Property from the Collection of Edward P. Evans and Property from a Distinguished East Coast Collection–and was led by George Bellows’s Dock Builders from the Evans Collection, which sold for $3,890,500 (est. $2/3 million). The first of a series of works by the artist that focus on Maine ’s rugged seamen, the canvas exhibits the same compositional dynamism that Bellows made famous in his iconic boxing scenes. Sotheby’s now holds the top f ... More | | Large Scale Plan of The Titanic Up for Bids at Henry Aldridge and Son in Wiltshire
The original 32ft 6 in. x 4ft 8 in., plan used in the British Enquiry into the sinking of the Titanic. AP Photo/Henry Aldridge and Son.
LONDON (AP).- A large-scale plan of the Titanic, prepared for the official inquiry into the ship's sinking, is being offered at an auction in Britain. Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers estimates that the 32.5-foot-long (9.9-meter) cross-section of the ship could fetch between 100,000 and 150,00 pounds ($160,000 and $240,000) at the sale in Devizes in southern England on May 28. The plan is being sold by an anonymous collector, the auctioneer said Thursday. The ship sank on April 15, 1912, after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The official inquiry opened on May 2, 1912, and nearly 100 witnesses testified during 36 days of hearings. The inquiry concluded: "The loss of the said ship was due to collision with an iceberg brought about by the excessive speed at which the vessel was being navigated." Also offered for sale is a set of keys from ... More | | Los Angeles Times Reporters Delve into the Opaque World of Antiquities' Origin
Felch spoke with Reuters about the book and a shadowy market in which a highly educated curator could find herself negotiating with obscure criminals in a Swiss bank vault.
By Bernard Vaugh
NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS).- One bit of information museums don't often include on placards explaining the origins of ancient artifacts is how they were obtained. But in a new book, "Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum," Los Angeles Times reporters Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino delved into this opaque world. It is the culmination of a five-year investigation of the J. Paul Getty Museum. For more than 40 years, the Getty chased numerous beautiful, but looted antiquities, ultimately causing an international legal battle with Italy. Felch spoke with Reuters about the book and a shadowy market in which a highly educated curator could find ... More |
Co-Founders of Frieze Announce Two New Fairs for 2012 to Complement Existing Fair
Gagosian Gallery. Frieze Art Fair 2010 in Regent's Park, London. Photo by Christa Holka for Frieze.
LONDON.- Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the co-founders of Frieze, announced today the launch of two new art fairs; Frieze New York, a contemporary art fair in New York City and Frieze Masters, a fair in London that will give a contemporary perspective on historical art. Both fairs will be launched in 2012 and will complement the existing October fair. Sharp and Slotover said, ‘At Frieze Art Fair, our aim has been to create a unique destination with an atmosphere that is of cultural as well as commercial value. In the tenth year of the fair, we are delighted to take this vision to New York. We are also excited by the challenge of Frieze Masters, where we will apply a contemporary approach to pre-21st-century art. We look forward to building on the fair’s existing relationships with galleries, collectors and curators, and forming some new ones along the way ... More | | Magnificent Masterpiece by Ilya Repin to Be Offered at Auction for the First Time by Christie's
Newly discovered Fabergé imperial presentation snuff-box. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON.- Ilya Repin’s magnificent A Parisian Café will lead Christie’s forthcoming Russian sale, which will take place on Monday 6 June in London. Painted in 1875, the work depicts a lively French café scene and represents a daring deviation from Repin’s celebrated Russian subjects. The picture was exhibited at the 1875 Parisian salon and is extensively recorded in the literature on the artist. It was acquired by the present owner’s grandfather, who was personally acquainted with Repin, in 1916 and appears now on the market for the first time in almost a century. It will be offered with an estimate of £3-5 million. The sale will also include Repin’s Parisian sketch-book (estimate: £150,000-250,000), which contains over 120 exquisite drawings, including more than 70 preparatory sketches for A Parisian Café. Four more lots of Repin’s preparatory works for A Parisian Café will be offered aft ... More | | New Museum Presents Gustav Metzger's First United States Solo Exhibition
Historic Photographs: No. 1: Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 19 –28 days, 1943, 1995/2011. Black-and-white photograph mounted on Foamex board and rubble, 59 x 83 in (150 x 211 cm). Courtesy the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- “Gustav Metzger: Historic Photographs” is the first US solo museum exhibition of the work of Gustav Metzger and highlights the influential eighty-six-year-old artist and activist’s long engagement with historical trauma and representation. Metzger was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1926 to Polish-Jewish parents. He and his brother escaped to England, but his parents remained behind and perished in the Holocaust. This firsthand experience of displacement and destruction shaped Metzger’s subsequent outlook on the relationship between art and society. Best known for his theory of Auto-destructive art, pioneered in the 1960s, Metzger has consistently viewed the artist’s role to be one that embraces political activism and seeks radical social change. During the past forty years, his work has touched on ... More |
Wellcome Library Gains Rare Portrait of French Surgeon Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes
Pierre Chasselat, Portrait of the surgeon Ange-Bernard Imbert Delonnes, The Wellcome Library, © The Wellcome Trust. All rights reserved.
LONDON.- The Art Fund has helped acquire a rare portrait of French surgeon Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes (1747-1818) by Pierre Chasselat for the Wellcome Library... The magnificent portrait drawing of the French surgeon Imbert-Delonnes speaks of his gory surgical conquests and family intrigue. The minutely detailed interior includes a gruesome souvenir of Imbert Delonnes's proudest achievement: a gigantic testicular tumour (sarcocele) which, in a controversial operation, Imbert-Delonnes removed from Charles-François Delacroix, the French foreign minister. The portrait itself, and the identity of the man portrayed, were discovered by the firm of Didier Aaron, from whom the drawing has been purchased by the Wellcome Library with the aid of grants from the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Art Fund. In accordance with Imbert-Delonnes’s self-image, it shows him sitting in a lordly pose in a fashionable interior at the dawn o ... More | | E. Gilliéron & Son's Reproductions of Art from Greek Bronze Age on View at Metropolitan Museum
Emile Gilliéron, père, Reproduction of the gold "Mask of Agamemnon". Gilt copper electrotype, ca. 1906. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dodge Fund, 1906 (06.224) Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Astonishing archaeological discoveries made during the extraordinarily successful excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at the ancient Greek site of Mycenae in 1876 and of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos on Crete, beginning in 1900, stirred popular interest in archaeology in the early 20th century and helped create a demand among museums and private collectors for high-quality replicas of antiquities from the newly identified Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. Opened May 17 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son focuses on the work of Swiss-born Émile Gilliéron (1850–1924) and his son—also named Émile (1885–1939)—who were among the foremost art restorers of their time. Their work influenced the study of ... More | | Precocious and Melancholic Young Men and Women by Nir Hod at Paul Kasmin Gallery
Nir Hod, Genius (Dorian), 2011, oil on canvas, 66 x 48 inches, 167.6 x 121.9 cm. Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents their first solo exhibition with the artist Nir Hod. Entitled Genius, it will include new paintings and sculpture from Hod’s series of precocious and melancholic young men and women. Continuing the artist’s longtime fascination with beauty and loneliness, glamour and death, Hod’s aristocratic young Geniuses inhabit a world of paradox, where their cherubic cheeks contrast with their scornful expressions and lit cigarettes. Philosopher Roy Brand describes them as “…little demons without disguises. But they are also yearning, beautiful, and charming, and their narcissism is more a sign of internal happiness than of vanity.” Like sculptures in a wax museum that aim to dramatically freeze time, these paintings explore art’s power to capture life while simultaneously elevating it to depict an unattainable ideal. Hod’s bronze “Genius ... More |
First Chief Photographer of Rolling Stone Magazine Exhibits at Pobeda Gallery
Jimi Hendrix by Baron Wolman. © Baron Wolman.
MOSCOW.- POBEDA Gallery and Marketing Communication Agency TBD Group present the solo show of Baron Wolman. This is the first time the well-known photojournalist, famous for being the first chief photographer of the Rolling Stone magazine, brings his works to Russia. Highlighting the exhibit are Wolman’s limited edition prints of his best known photographs as well as original contact sheets and all the vintage magazines he made covers for. Baron’s professional photographic career began in West Berlin in the 1960s where he was stationed with the military. From Berlin he sold his first photo essay for publication, images of life behind the then-new Berlin Wall. Determined to work as a photo-journalist, after his discharge he moved from Germany to Los Angeles and then to San Francisco. In 1967, Wolman met Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone. Wenner asked Baron to be the magazine’s chief photographer and ... More | | Sale of Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art in London this Summer at Bonhams
George Keyt, Girl with Mirror. Estimate: £12,000-18,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Work by Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern and South Asian artists from eight countries – Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, India, Pakistan and Sri-Lanka - will be on sale at Bonhams on June 1st. Among the notable names are works by Sual al-Attar, Fadi Barrage, Ismael Fattah, M.F. Hussain, Sadanand K. Bakre, Raza, and George Keyt. Many of the works are new to the market having been in private collections for 40 to 50 years. A selection of Modern Iraqi art from the 60’s to the 80’s is at the core of the Middle Eastern section and offers collectors the chance to acquire early and attractively priced paintings by Suad al-Attar and Ismael Fattah among others. A key lot is by M.F. Hussain, the Indian artist, resident in Doha and London. The picture depicts the artist’s characteristic subject matter and has been in private hands since the early 1970’s. It is estimated to sell for £70,000 to £90 ... More | | A New Exhibition Conceived by London-Based Artist Mark Leckey at the Serpentine Gallery
Mark Leckey, BigBoxStatueAction 2003. Courtesy of the artist and Tate Britain © 2011 Mark Leckey. Photo: Alessandro Raho.
LONDON.- The Serpentine Gallery presents a new exhibition conceived by London-based artist Mark Leckey, his first solo show in a UK public institution. The exhibition includes major works from Leckey’s multi-disciplinary practice, which encompasses sculpture, sound, film and performance and addresses themes of human desire and transformation. As part of the exhibition Leckey will present four live evening performances of BigBoxStatueAction, designed specifically to suit the unique acoustic qualities of the Serpentine Gallery. Leckey’s best-known works feature meticulously sourced and reconfigured archive footage and the exhibition will include the artist’s seminal film work on the history of underground UK dance culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999. A large-scale recent performance and film work titled ... More |
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 Early Masterwork by Edgar Degas Comes to the Princeton University Art MuseumPRINCETON, N.J.- The Princeton University Art Museum presents an early masterpiece in portraiture by Impressionist artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) on loan for a limited time from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Thérèse de Gas, painted about 1863, represents the artist’s beloved sister at an important transitional moment in the artist’s career. Thérèse de Gas is on view now through Sunday, July 3, 2011, when it will return to Paris. Museum director James Steward notes: “Degas’ portrait of his older sister Thérèse is an early, psychologically poignant work that reveals the artist as a superb painter while still in his 20s.” Known as one of the founders of Impressionism, the academically trained Edgar Degas preferred to be known as a revolutionary realist whose portraits are remarkable for their psychological penetration. The portrait date ... More Coveted Art Directors Club Award Goes to Designs for Tell Halaf ExhibitionBERLIN.- The designs for the 'Tell Halaf Adventure', executed by the architects neo.studio, have been selected for an award by the Art Directors Club (ADC) in Germany, in the section 'Communication in Space'. Some 7000 projects were submitted to the 2011 ADC competition overall. During an expedition in the Middle East in 1899, Max Freiherr von Oppenheim (1860-1946), heir to a banking family and diplomat from Cologne, unearthed the remains of a palace dating from the early 1st millennium BCE, on the Tell Halaf mound in what is today north-east Syria. Once the excavations were completed, most of the spectacular finds were brought to Berlin and were not - as originally intended - exhibited on the Museum Island, but were instead placed on display in a renovated machine plant in 1930. During the Second World War an aerial bomb destroyed the private museum and with it the uniq ... More Lost for Two Centuries: Clock Designed for Napoleon's 1801 Exposition to Sell at BonhamsLONDON.- An historic and rare clock believed to have been designed for Napoleon’s ‘Exposition publique des produits de l’industrie Francaise’ in 1801 and which has lain undiscovered in Europe for two centuries, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Fine Clocks and Watches on 28 June 2011. Estimated at £200,000 – 300,000, the clock was designed by French clock maker, Hartmann, and uses the Republican calendar, the decimal time system put into effect by Napoleon in 1793. Napoleon established the ‘exposition’ in 1798 to showcase France’s burgeoning industry. In 1801, the exposition was held in the courtyard of the Louvre and it is recorded that, in this exhibition, a clock maker named Hartmann of 9 rue de Vannes gained an honourable mention for a clock with eight dials which showed the rising and setting of the sun and the moon phase. It is almost certain that th ... More Four Museums Short Listed for £100,000 Art Fund Prize LONDON.- This evening, on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and BBC TWO The Culture Show, news of the four museums and galleries that have been short listed for the Art Fund Prize 2011 will be announced. The single, £100,000 prize for the ‘Museum of the Year’ will be presented on 15 June. The following four museums and galleries have been short listed for the prestigious accolade: The British Museum, London, for A History of the World. This was a groundbreaking and enormously successful project exploring world history through the British Museum’s unparalleled collection, initiated by the British Museum in partnership with the BBC. At the heart of the initiative was a 100 part series on BBC Radio 4, A History of the World in a 100 Objects, telling a narrative global history through British Museum objects from two million years ago to the present day. To realis ... More Bank of America Donates $1 Million to Miami Art MuseumMIAMI, FL.- Miami Art Museum’s ongoing capital campaign received a big boost today as Miami’s business, civic and cultural leaders gathered to honor the private sector’s collective impact on South Florida’s cultural landscape during the Museum’s Fourth Annual Corporate Luncheon. In accepting MAM’s Corporate Honors Award, Bank of America, one of the world’s largest financial institutions and a mainstay of support in South Florida’s cultural community, announced a $1 million donation to the Museum’s $120 million capital campaign. The gift, to be made through the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, will fund a five-year programming endowment for new artwork, as well as the naming of a focus gallery in MAM’s new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building in Miami’s Museum Park, which is currently under constructi ... More 1951 Flood Painting Sells for Nearly $1.9M in NYC NEW YORK, NY (AP).- A poignant 1951 painting by American artist Thomas Hart Benton depicting a devastating flood in Kansas and Missouri sold for nearly $1.9 million on Thursday. The price for "Flood Disaster" exceeded its pre-sale estimate of $1.2 million. Sotheby's did not disclose the buyer's name. The painting was created to highlight the extent of the damage caused when the Kansas and Missouri rivers swelled to 70 times their normal size on July 13, 1951, killing 17 people and displacing more than 518,000 residents. In a further effort to shed light on the flood victims' suffering, the Missouri artist made a lithograph of the painting and sent a copy to each member of Congress urging them to expand a flood relief appropriations bill. It did not pass, and many of Benton's lithographs wound up in th ... More Irving Penn's Harlequin Dress Brings $131,450 as Top Lot in Heritage Auctions New York Photography SaleNEW YORK, NY.- The work of Irving Penn proved irresistible to a passionate collector on May 2 at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion as the famed photographer's Harlequin Dress, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, 1950, brought $131,450 to lead Heritage Auctions' $697,000+ Signature(r) Vintage & Contemporary Photography Auction. All prices quoted include 19.5% Buyer's Premium. "This image dates directly from the very peak period of Penn's powers as a fashion photographer," said Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President at Heritage Auctions. "It features his wife, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, herself one of the top models of the day, in a photograph that is particularly revered among Penn's 150 cover photos for Vogue." Another Penn fashion photo of his wife, Woman in Dior Hat with Martini (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), 1952, also took the second spot in the auction's top lots with a $56,763 finish on the day, while a vintage gelatin silver print of Edward Weston's Pepp ... MoreNorth Carolina Team To Pull Up Pirate Ship's AnchorBy: Jim Brumm
WILMINGTON, NC (REUTERS).- North Carolina archeologists will attempt to retrieve an anchor this week from the wreckage of the notorious pirate ship Queen Anne's Revenge -- just as its resurrected on the big screen in the new movie release of "Pirates of the Caribbean." Research teams from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and Cape Fear Community College set sail on Thursday to try and pull the anchor to the surface at a site where archeologists say the ship wrecked nearly 300 years ago. Queen Anne's Revenge was the legendary ship used by Blackbeard, the infamous English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the east coast of the American colonies. Named after his flowing black beard, he was reported to have worn lit fuses under his hat to frighten his adversaries. "Blackbeard and piracy are important threads in eastern North Carolina's maritime h ... More Butler Museum Awards Life Achievement Medals: Museum Director Bolge and Artist Strachov HonoredYOUNGTOWN, OH.- The Butler Institute of American Art has announced that George Bolge, Director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art (Florida), and a former Ohio resident, painter Gregory Strachov, are the 2011 recipients of the Butler Medal for Life Achievement in the Arts. The honors were bestowed upon the two men by Butler Board of Trustees President Vincent Bacon at the May 15 Trustees Circle Members annual dinner, held at the museum in Youngstown. Butler Director Dr. Louis Zona stated, “George Bolge’s contributions to the museum field are most remarkable. Our admiration for him and his good work could not be greater. This honor recognizes his achievements and pays tribute to him as a visionary and as a leader in the field of museology. Likewise, Gregory Strachov is one of this country’s great talents. His paintings, while technically pristine, offer a spi ... More Short List for Inaugural £10,000 Clore Award for Museum Learning announcedLONDON.- Yesterday, 19 May, the short list for the inaugural Clore Award for Museum Learning was announced. Supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation the new £10,000 Award recognises and celebrates quality, impact and innovation in using museums and galleries for learning activities and initiatives. The Clore Award for Museum Learning sits under the umbrella of the Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries, which awards £100,000 annually to the ‘Museum of the Year’. The Art Fund Prize short list is being announced tonight by Chair of the Judges, Michael Portillo, on Radio 4’s Front Row. Five museums and galleries have been short listed for the Clore Award for Museum Learning: Museums Sheffield: Weston Park, Sheffield for With Sheba and Arwa (Belonging) – engaging communities and young people in a programme of learning and co-curati ... More |
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