| | Sotheby's to Offer the Evill/Frost Collection of 20th-Century British Art in Three-Part Sale
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A visitor looks at Patrick Heron's 'Table with Fishes' during a photo call at Sotheby's in London. The art work is expected to fetch 250,000-350,000 pounds when it goes on sale as part of the Great Collection of 20th-Century British Art Ever to Come to the Market: The Evill/Frost Collection, which launches on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. AP Photo/Akira Suemori.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London presents the sale of the greatest collection of 20th-Century British Art ever to come to the market: The Evill/Frost Collection, a stand-alone three-part sale which launches with an Evening Sale on Wednesday 15th June 2011. This incomparable collection comprises outstanding works of the highest calibre by Modern British masters including the most important – and largest – group of paintings by Stanley Spencer ever to come to the market, in addition to works by Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Graham Sutherland, Edward Burra and Patrick Heron, amongst many others. The collection – which is estimated to fetch in excess of £12 million and comprises not only 20th-century British art but also furniture and porcelain – will be sold by the executors of the Honor Frost estate in order to benefit charitable causes relating to marine archaeology. The paintings and scu ... More |
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The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Explores a Rarely Examined Side of Pissarro
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Washerwoman, Study, 1880, by Camille Pissarro. Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. (73 x 59.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, 1956, 56.184.1 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents a new exploration of Impressionist master Camille Pissarro this summer in Pissarro's People, the first exhibition to focus on the artist's personal ties and social ideas. Bringing together paintings from collections around the world, the exhibition challenges our understanding of the father of Impressionism by focusing on Camille Pissarro's engagement with the human figure in a highly personal and poignant exploration of his humanism. Pissarro's People is on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, from June 12 to October 2, 2011. “Pissarro’s People continues the Clark’s series of scholarly exhibitions that rely on rigorous new research to expand our current appreciation of well-known ... More | | Grand Retrospective of Over 300 Photographs by André Kertész at Martin-Gropius-Bau
André Kertész, Lost Cloud, New York, 1937. Gelatin silver print. Printed in the 1970. Courtesy Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York.
BERLIN.- As the creator of images like Underwater Swimmer (1917), Chez Mondrian (1926) or Gabel (1929) André Kertész has a firm place in 20th century photographic history. It is not only his formally outstanding compositions which won him great esteem, but the surreally inspired poetry with which he captures such apparently simple things and situations. His innovative photographic instinct inspired many of his colleagues: Brassaï learned from him and Henri Cartier-Bresson betrays his influence. Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau is showing a grand retrospective of over 300 photographs by André Kertész, who was born in Hungary and lived in Budapest, Paris and New York. The exhibition is organized by theme, following the main leitmotivs of his oeuvre, such as the recurrent observation of shadows, roofs and chimney tops, or the metaphorical portrayal of feelings like melancholy. In addition, it highlights groups of wo ... More | | Valuable Van Dyck Painting Recently Re-Discovered by Art Connoisseur Philip Mould
Painstaking research began before the sale to piece together the painting’s history.
LONDON.- Treasured by 19th century connoisseurs, prided by the Rothschild’s, snatched by the Nazis, and subsequently lost behind layers of dirt, a hugely valuable Van Dyck painting recently re-discovered in a Parisian auction house will go on display to the public in the UK for the first time this Wednesday. It will be the centrepiece of an exhibition called Finding Van Dyck. which will run from 15 June - 13 July at Philip Mould Fine Paintings, 29 Dover Street, London, W1. Admission is free. Van Dyck’s rediscovered work A Portrait of a Young Girl first caught the eye of fine art connoisseur, broadcaster and author Philip Mould OBE when he and his co-director, Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, were flicking through a Christie’s catalogue for a Parisian house sale of the Rothschild banking family last autumn. The picture was called simply ‘Flemish School’ and it had an estimate of 15,000-20,000 Euros. Painstakin ... More |
Selections from the Scarlatti Kirkpatrick Series by Frank Stella at the Phillips Collection
Frank Stella, K.43 (lattice variation) protogen RPT (full-size), 2008. Protogen RPT with stainless steel tubing, 144 x 176 x 116 in. Courtesy of FreedmanArt. © 2011 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Gregory R. Staley.
WASHINGTON, DC.- This exhibition marks the first museum presentation of selections from the Scarlatti Kirkpatrick Series by Frank Stella (b. 1936), one of the most influential American artists since the 1960s. The series was inspired by 18th century Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti’s harpsichord sonatas and the writings of 20th-century American musicologist Ralph Kirkpatrick, who helped bring the sonatas to a mainstream audience. Standing at the crossroads of painting, drawing, and sculpture, the multicolored, wall-mounted polychrome forms loop and spiral in space, evoking the sounds and rhythms of Scarlatti’s music. The exhibition explores Stella’s new ideas by featuring eight sculptures from the series in a range of formats and sizes, from monumental, multi- ... More | | The Pace Gallery, Beijing Presents an Exhibition of Yue Minjun's Recent Works
Yue Minjun, The Crowing with Thorns, 2009. 200 cms. Photo: Courtesy The Pace Gallery, Beijing.
BEIJING.- The Pace Gallery, Beijing presents an exhibition of Yue Minjun's recent works in cooperation with Robb Report. The exhibition, entitled The Road, is the leading Chinese contemporary artist's first solo exhibition in the Pace Gallery, Beijing. The exhibition is on from June 11th through July 16th. More than two decades into his artistic career, Yue is still smiling at the world as he sees it. His trademark “Smile” symbol, the playful, mocking hallmark of the artist's cynical realist style, conceals within it a spirit that's sometimes stubborn and fragile. By mocking his subject's nihility, he stands apart from - and in judgement of - it in a unique way. Despite the world changing around him, Yue's distinctive style hasn't changed much. So should our understanding of his work change? If the object of the “Smile” has changed, should there be some shift in the feel of the "Smile" itself? Or could ... More | | Philbrook Museum of Art Presents Exhibition of Works by Post-War Giant Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, Booster, 1967 (detail), 182.9 x 90.2 cm, 5-color lithograph and screenprint.
TULSA, OK.- Philbrook Museum of Art’s summer exhibition, Rauschenberg at Gemini, celebrates the colorful innovations in printmaking and image making by post-war giant, Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition is on view June 12 through September 11. For more than three decades Robert Rauschenberg created works at Gemini G.E.L., the influential workshop in West Hollywood, yielding over 250 editions of two- and three-dimensions from 1967-2001. Using materials as varied as cardboard, silk, window shades, and fluorescent lighting, as well as his own photographs of Los Angeles, Tibet, China, and Morocco. Rauschenberg joyfully pushed (and pulled) the boundaries of printmaking — in scale, scope, variation, and interactivity. Many of Rauschenberg’s most famous prints, print series, and multiples are included in the exhibition, such as Booster, the artist’s famous X-ray self-portrait and his first print at Gemini. Monu ... More |
Exhibition of Isamu Noguchi's Legacy in California Opens at the Laguna Art Museum
Isamu Noguchi’s sculpture garden California Scenario located in Costa Mesa , CA. Photo: Courtesy of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York.
LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- Isamu Noguchi (b. Los Angeles, 1904; d. New York, 1988) is an internationally celebrated Japanese-American artist and designer. Noguchi: California Legacy is comprised of three parts that examine the impact Noguchi had in California: 1) California Scenario: The Courage of the Imagination based on Noguchi’s South Coast Plaza sculpture garden commissioned by Henry T. Segerstrom thirty years ago; 2) What is Sculpture? Akari from the Venice Biennale, from the 1986 Venice Biennale exhibit in which Noguchi, that year’s United States Representative, exhibited his Akari light sculptures; and 3) Noguchi at Gemini G.E.L., consisting of the sculpture multiples that Noguchi created in 1982 at atelier Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles. Isamu Noguchi (b. Los Angeles, 1904, and d. New York, 1988) was one of the twentieth century’s most important and critically acclaimed ... More | | Saint Louis Art Museum Begins a Unique and Ambitious Conservation Project
Measuring 348 feet long by 7 feet 9 inches tall, Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley comprises 25 scenes. Photo: courtesy of the Saint Louis Art Museum.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- This summer the Saint Louis Art Museum will begin a unique and ambitious conservation project to restore a historic treasure of local significance. Restoring an American Treasure: The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley, which opened June 12, will offer visitors a chance to see the massive 19th-century work, the last surviving of its kind, as it is restored. Measuring 348 feet long by 7 feet 9 inches tall, Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley comprises 25 scenes. While the subjects in Panorama vary widely across time and cultures, the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers serve as the backdrop for many of the scenes. The scenes present sensationalized versions of historic moments — the burial of Spanish ... More | | Man Ray / Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism at the Peabody Essex Museum
Man Ray (1890–1976); Cactus Flower, 1946; Oil on canvas; 23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (60.3 x 50.3 cm); © 2011 Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/Courtesy of The Penrose Collection. All rights reserved.
SALEM, MA.- At the center of modern art history is a love story between two artists who could not live with or without each other. The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents Man Ray | Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism featuring 76 works by two giants of the Surrealism movement and other renowned artists in their circle including Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, and Le Corbusier. From 1929 to 1932, Man Ray and Lee Miller lived together in Paris, first as teacher and student, and later as lovers. Their mercurial relationship resulted in some of the most powerful work of each artist's career and helped shape the course of modern art. Combining rare vintage photographs, paintings, sculpture and drawings, this exhibition tells the story of the artists' brief but intense ... More |
Native American Art Brings More than $2 Million at Bonhams and Butterfields' Sale
A Crow beaded cradle, length 42 3/4in. Sold for $41,480; Est. $30,000-50,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields’ Fine Native American Art sale on June 6, 2011 in San Francisco garnered remarkable results, with sales bringing more than $2 million. Leading the auction were important pieces from the Northwest Coast areas of the United States and Canada, namely from the Muchnick-Milliren Collection of some 50 works of art, mostly antique, but contemporary as well. Top lots from the Collection included a Tlingit bird effigy bowl, sold for $158,000, carved in bold relief, depicting a raptor, with its beak and wings projecting strongly and its tail feathers jutting from a second totemic face; and a Tsimshian raven rattle, sold for $91,500, featuring a raven figure with a humanoid, frog and kingfisher in full relief at the top and a hawk face on the underside, that clutches a "box of daylight" in its beak. Additional Muchnick-Milliren Collection highlights included a Tlingit fish club, likely use ... More | | Major Exhibition of the Work of Painter, Filmmaker and Sculptor Robert Breer at Baltic
Robert Breer, Untitled 1952. Courtesy gb agency, Paris © the artist. Photo: Colin Davison.
GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead presents a major exhibition of the work of painter, filmmaker and sculptor Robert Breer. Born in Detroit in 1926, Breer is one of the most ground-breaking and celebrated animators in history. This is his most comprehensive exhibition to date, spanning two floors at BALTIC with work from 1950 to the present day. The son of an amateur 3D home-movie maker and chief engineer at the Chrysler Corporation, Breer initially studied engineering at Stanford, before switching to painting. Early enthusiasms were a 1935 BMW open cockpit racing car and stunt flying lessons in a bi-plane. His first real passion, however, was the reductive purity of Piet Mondrian’s grid-based abstract paintings. Moving to Paris in 1949, Breer developed his own take on hard edge abstraction, exhibiting at the Galerie Denise René. He soon rejected the stability and harmony of Mondrian’s compo ... More | | Afterlife: The Story of Henri Matisse's Ivy in Flower at the Dallas Museum of Art
Rarely on view because it is a light-sensitive work on paper, Matisse’s beloved Ivy in Flower is installed in the Concourse through December 11, 2011. Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, gift of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, 1963.68.FA, © Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
DALLAS, TX.- In 1952 Henri Matisse was asked to create a stained-glass window for the mausoleum of art collector Albert Lasker, and he took on the project with enthusiasm. His full-scale maquette was made with shapes cut out of painted paper and arranged with the help of assistants. This technique allowed the elderly Matisse to remain productive as an artist in his final years, when he was no longer able to paint. Ivy in Flower is one of the most joyous and exuberant of the large cutout works he made at the end of his life. “Ivy in Flower is one of the first true masterpieces of European modernism to enter the Museum’s collection,” said Heather MacDonald, The Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art. ... More |
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 Freud Museum Explores European History with References to Its Dark Past LONDON.- Freud Museum London presents Probeliegen, its first ever collaboration with Germany’s most renowned artist, Marcel Odenbach, from 8 June until 26 June 2011. Marcel Odenbach’s latest exhibition, featuring a selection of studies and a film installation, Turning in Circles, as well as new work including a large paper collage entitled Probeliegen, explores European history with references to its dark past and experiments with the myriad symbols and tales associated with Sigmund Freud's famous psychoanalytic couch. Odenbach’s collage will hang in Freud’s last home in North West London alongside its subject, Freud’s original couch, one of The Freud Museum’s most iconic pieces in the permanent collection. The Freud Museum London is honoured to exhibit Odenbach's Probeliegen which forms part of an exciting programme of exhibitions and events celebrating 25 years of the Museum. Since the mid-197 ... More Adrian Villar Rojas Represents Argentina at 54th Venice BiennaleVENICE.- After two months of working in-situ with a team of builders, engineers and sculptors, Adrian Villar Rojas presents The Murderer of Your Heritage, his last installation specially created for the 54th Venice Biennial. The piece is placed in a privileged space at the Artiglierie, in the very heart of the Arsenale, just in front of the premises that will be occupied by the permanent Argentinian Pavilion from next year on, after the agreement signed between the Argentine government and the authorities of the Biennale. This site-specific installation of monumental sculptures is based on the theories of multiverses, which state that many different universes could coexist; thus, the large clay figures displayed over the whole space of the Artiglierie could be seen as simultaneous apparitions of these alternative worlds in ours, calling the attention to the other paths that humankind could have taken during its e ... More The Knoxville Museum of Art Presents Exhibition by Korean Artist Kwang-Young ChunKNOXVILLE.- The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Kwang-Young Chun: Aggregations, new work June 10-September 4, 2011. Korean artist Kwang-Young Chun (b. 1944) began work on his series of Aggregations in the 1990s. Today, he is recognized internationally for these sculptural forms. The basis of his work is individual, triangular, Styrofoam shapes. Individually, these shapes are minuscule. Taken together, however, their visual impact is immense. This concept of the aggregate is what drives Chun’s work. The Styrofoam shapes are covered in Korean mulberry paper. In Korea, the paper is a mainstay and has many utilitarian uses from floor and window coverings to candy and medicinal wrappers. It also resonates with personal meaning for the artist, who recalls trips to an herbalist as a small child. Medicines wrapped in mulberry paper hung from the ceiling of the shop, the paper protecting the contents from dampness ... More Hauser & Wirth Zürich Presents Major New Works by the Canadian Artist Rodney GrahamZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth Zürich presents an exhibition of major new works, including three lightboxes and one film, by the Canadian artist Rodney Graham. Graham’s art examines the complexities of Western culture through strategies of disguise and quotation. Casting himself as a succession of motley characters, Graham inhabits different personae, genres and art forms, working with diverse media such as film, photography, installation, painting, music and text. ‘It may be a burden to reinvent oneself every time,’ Graham has said, ‘but it makes things more interesting’. The exhibition is on view from June 12th until July 30, 2011. The exhibition features new monumental lightboxes ‘The Leaping Hermit’, ‘The Avid Reader’ and ‘Basement Camera Shop circa 1937’. ‘The Leaping Hermit’ presents an intricately detailed scene, showing ... More New Museum Announces "Generational" TriennialNEW YORK, NY.- On view from February 15-April 22, 2012, the second New Museum "Generational" triennial will examine the practices of emerging artists born since the mid-1970s. Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs, who was appointed Curator of the 2012 "Generational" last year, will reflect her primary curatorial research in cities rich in cultural production, but often overlooked by US museums. To facilitate meaningful dialogue with participating artists and audiences during the development of the exhibition, "The Generational," for the first time, includes residencies and public programs that support the production of new works--enabling artistic investigation, experimentation, and exchange on both formal and informal levels. The New Museum will embark on a conce ... MoreTaschen Opens "Shop-in-Shop" at the Art Institute's Museum ShopCHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago and TASCHEN are pleased to announce a new landmark arrangement between the country's second-largest art museum and the publisher of best-selling art books. The Museum Shop of the Art Institute has recently opened a "shop within a shop" devoted exclusively to books from TASCHEN, the German art, architecture, and design publisher. The selection of TASCHEN titles carried in the Museum Shop will cover all areas of art, art history, photography, and design, and the arrangement will provide increased exposure for one of the Art Institute's best selling publishers while also allowing the museum to continue to carry the wide selection of art, architecture, and design books for which it is already known. The Art Institute is the first museum in the United States to enter into such a historic agreement with TASCHEN. "Books from TASCHEN have been some of the best selling books in ... More |
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