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Curator Susanne Friedli (L) gestures in front of the work 'Rectangle and Square' by Guatemalan-born artist Alfred Julio Jensen (1903-1981) as part of the exhibition 'Rectangle and Square - from Picasso to Judd - Rupf Foundation Acquisitions' at the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, 12 September 2011. The exhbition runs from 14 September 2011 to 08 January 2012. EPA/LUKAS LEHMANN.
BERN.- At the beginning of the 20th century, Hermann and Margrit Rupf laid the foundations for a collection that is now regarded as one of the leading of its kind for European modern art. Due to the fact that a foundation was established in the 1950s in the Kunstmuseum Bern, the collection is open to the public and is being, up to the present and beyond, constantly enlarged. The exhibition presents modernist artworks in dialogue with contemporary art. Thus Pablo Picasso is confronted by Meret Oppenheim, Fernand Léger meets Donald Judd, and Paul Klee finds himself face-to-face with Ilya Kabakov. The exhibition is showing a representative selection of the Rupf Foundation accessions. The modernist artworks chosen for the exhibition are being shown in the immediate vicinity of contemporary art, encouraging a dialogue between the different epochs. As the joint proprietor of the haberdashery store Hossmann ... More |
| Sotheby's Contemporary Art evening sale to be headlined by Lucian Freud's Boy's Head of 1952 | | Personal handwritten letters by James Dean to be auctioned at Christie's for the first time | | First painted portrait of American Vogue's Anna Wintour acquired by the National Portrait Gallery | 
Lucian Freud, Boy's Head, 1952. Oil on canvas. Estimate: £3-4 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announced that its Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Thursday, October 13, 2011, will be headlined by Boy's Head of 1952 by Lucian Freud (1922-2011) depicting Charlie Lumley, one of Freud's most immediatelyrecognisable subjects from this seminal early period in his oeuvre. This oil on canvas transmits a remarkable psychological intensity that is exemplary of the artist's sensational powers of observation and is estimated at £3-4 million. The work measures 21.6cm by 15.9cm and comes to market from a private collection. Discussing this work and its auction sale, Oliver Barker, Deputy Chairman Sotheby’s Europe and Senior International Specialist in the Contemporary Art Department, said: “This portrait was executed at the beginning of the 1950s when Freud was recognised as one of the leading artistic talents of his generation and even amid the artist's epic oeuvre, ... More | | 
An exceptional hand-written letter from James Dean to girlfriend Barbara Glenn, dated 1-10-54. Estimate: £5,000-6,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON.- A selection of personal handwritten letters by James Dean, which have never been offered for sale before, are to be sold at Christie's auction of Popular Culture: Film and Entertainment Memorabilia in South Kensington on 23 November 2011. The letters are each addressed to Dean's on-off girlfriend of two years, Barbara Glenn. They provide candid accounts of his private life before becoming a star, sent from out-of-town tryouts for The Immoralist in Philadelphia and from behind the scenes of his first foray into Hollywood, the celebrated East of Eden. The emotional letters, which reveal the strains of Dean's work and their long distance relationship, are to be offered along with copies of unpublished private family photographs of the couple directly from the son of Barbara Glenn – filmmaker Keith Gordon. Keith Gordon comments, “As I re- ... More | | 
Anna (Anna Wintour), 2009 by Alex Katz. ©Alex Katz, DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2011 purchased with help from the Art Fund.
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery, has acquired American artist Alex Katz’s bold portrait of Anna Wintour, Editor in Chief of American VOGUE. The painting, which was unveiled at the Gallery in 2010, is the first painted portrait of British-born Wintour. It is also the first work by influential American artist Katz to enter the Gallery’s Collection. The portrait will be on show from 13 September to coincide with London Fashion Week. Anna has been acquired for a special net price of £125,000, purchased with help in the form of a £45,000 grant from the Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for works of art. The remainder came from the Gallery's own acquisition funds. In this portrait Anna Wintour is depicted without her signature sunglasses against a yellow background. Completed in late 2009, Wintour visited Katz in his New York studio where he worked ... More |
| Case of Los Angeles' stolen Rembrandt drawing intrigues art world with ownership issue | | Miquel Barceló: Elefandret sculpture installed at Union Square in New York City | | Ketterer Kunst in Munich announces sale of German Avant-Garde paintings in October | 
A news photographer outside St. Nicholas Episcopal church in which a stolen Rembrandt was recovered in Los Angeles. AP Photo/Nick Ut.
By: John Rogers, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, CA (AP).- On the surface it looked like an open-and-shut case: A pair of thieves drop by an art exhibition at the Ritz-Carlton and, while one distracts a curator, the other snatches a valuable, centuries-old Rembrandt drawing and bolts with it. Apparently finding the small pen-and-ink work by the Dutch master too hot to fence, the thieves have second thoughts. They abandon it, undamaged, at a church on the other side of town. Then the real mystery begins. Three weeks after recovering the framed, 11-by-6 inch drawing called "The Judgment," authorities aren't sure whether it really is a Rembrandt or if it even belongs to the art dealer that displayed it with other works at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey. "They have to show us something to prove that they own it, and they haven't been able to do that," ... More | | 
Elefandret is the first public art commission to be on view in the Triangle since 2008.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Marlborough Gallery announces that the monumental sculpture Gran Elefandret, 2008, by renowned artist Miquel Barceló will be on view at the Union Square Triangle beginning September 13, 2011 through the end of May 2012. It is an honor for the Gallery to bring this monumental bronze sculpture to Union Square, a place that epitomizes New York’s unrivaled energy and serves as both a transportation and cultural bridge between uptown and downtown Manhattan. Barcelo’s immense Gran Elefandret, balances upright on its trunk, its four massive legs outspread searching for equilibrium. At twenty-six feet tall the sculpture brilliantly portrays an extraordinary, if not impossible physical and cultural feat; this contemporary monument believably captures with humor, scale and Spanish courage the essence of what a public monument can be today. To further communicate the gravity-defying feat beyond the s ... More | | 
Alwin Stützer (1889 Berlin-1974 Passau), Selbstporträt. 1920. Watercolor. Signed lower left. On structured laid paper. 56,5 x 39 cm.
MUNICH.- The greatest treasures can often be found off the beaten paths. That also accounts for the Special Auction Side lines of the German Avant-garde, which will be held in context of the auction of Modern Art on 28 October. "A lot of works by artists presented in this auction fell victim to World War II and later sank into oblivion. This makes it even more important to put these works, which don't need to hide their light behind renowned names such as Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner or August Macke, into the limelight to a greater extent", thus Robert Ketterer. The intention of the owner of Ketterer Kunst is to draw public attention to artists that have been wrongly forgotten and to thus give them the merits they deserve. With this unusual concept Ketterer Kunst offers artists of both Expressionism and New Objectivity, whose oeuvres were strongly depleted during the Third Reich, their own forum. On the other hand, th ... More |
| Milwaukee Art Museum acquires masterpiece of American art by John Singleton Copley | | Swann Galleries to offer strong selection of American and European Works | | Dagger owned by Ottoman Princess and poet married to Grand Vizier for sale at Bonhams | 
John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815), Alice Hooper, ca. 1763. Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm).
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum has acquired the portrait Alice Hooper, a major colonial American painting by John Singleton Copley (1738–1815). Copley is recognized as one of the great American artists of the day—and one of the first native-born painters to achieve success both at home and abroad. Alice Hooper, painted by Copley around 1763, depicts the seventeen-year-old daughter of the wealthiest man in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Robert “King” Hooper. Alice’s father commissioned this portrait to mark his daughter’s engagement to Jacob Fowle, Jr. “Alice Hooper displays the traits that made Copley desirable in colonial Boston. Copley’s rendering of her fashionable sacque gown dazzles the eye, with its profusion of glinting blue satin and frothy lace spilling from its underdress,” said William Rudolph, ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Portrait de Jacqueline au bandeau accoudée, color linoleum cut, 1962. Estimate $50,000 to $75,000. Photo: Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, September 22, Swann Galleries will conduct an auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings. As always, the sale features an excellent selection of American and European works that span the two centuries. The 19th century portion of the sale features more than 20 prints by James A.M. Whistler, with highlights including the etchings The Traghetto, No. 2, The Riva No. 2, and Upright Venice, all circa 1879-80, and all signed with the artist’s famous butterfly signature (estimates: $15,000 to $20,000 each for The Traghetto, No. 2 and The Riva No. 2, $30,000 to $50,000 for Upright Venice). Also among important prints is a complete set of the deluxe edition of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s L’Album des Douze Lithographies Originales, one of 50 on Japan paper, 1904-1919 ($40,000 to $60,000). Other Impressionist prints of note ... More | | 
The dagger is estimated to sell for £3,000-4,000 at Bonhams in New Bond Street. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A miniature dagger set with gems and carrying the Imperial monogram of HIH Princess Adile Sultana (1825-1898) will be sold at the next Bonhams Indian and Islamic sale on October 4th in London. The dagger is estimated to sell for £3,000-4,000 at Bonhams in New Bond Street. This is one of the more affordable items in the sale which also features a selection of Mughal jewelled pendants at £30,000 to £100,000, a 16th Century Iznik flask at £60,000 to £80,000 and a Zand celestial globe (star map) at £40,000 to £60,000. Princess Adile Sultana is best known for her poetry, philanthropy and her tragic life. Her poems are important as they shed light on palace life and the administration of the Ottoman Empire. Her little dagger, most probably used as a letter-opener, has a green glass hilt set with rubies and emeralds and a gold damascened blade. The gilt scabbard is set with further rubies and emeralds and chased to depict a tra ... More |
| Two new installations by Chinese artist and film maker Yang Fudong premiere at Parasol Unit | | Heritage Auctions' Long Beach September numismatic auctions total $34 million combined | | Amelia Earhart goggles, photos pull in more than $31,000 at Clars Auction Gallery | 
Yang Fudong, Yejiang (The night man cometh), 2011.
LONDON.- After the resounding success of his first solo exhibition ats Paraol unit foundation for contemporary art in 2006, the foundation will dedicate a second major solo show to the renowned Chinese artist and film maker Yang Fudong in September 2011. Yang Fudong is regarded as one of the most important artists to emerge in contemporary China. In this exhibition he presents three works: Fifth Night, 2010; One half of August, 2011; and Yejiang (The night man cometh), 2011. Fifth Night is a video-installation composed of seven synchronized projections. The shots are supposed to feature the streets of Shanghai’s old town at night. In the middle of the scene with carriages, rickshaws and vintage cars, a stage has been built and a tramway is being frantically repaired. Unrelated characters appear, hesitating men and women attend to their own activities without interaction. The artist uses seven 35 mm cameras which fil ... More | | 
The legendary Yung Hi gold 20 Won Year 3 (1909), KM1144, J&V AD3, MS64 NGC realized $632,500.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- With total prices realized across three auctions - Signature World & Ancient Coins, U.S. Coins and Currency - totaling more than $34 million, Heritage Auctions is celebrating its most successful combined Long Beach, CA numismatic auction events ever. All prices quoted below include 15% Buyer's Premium. "We're blown away by these fantastic results across the board as collectors were out in force over the course of the week," said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. "Rare gold in pristine condition was the main draw and the top collectors didn't let anything stop them from obtaining their preferred treasures." The main draw of the Long Beach Coin, Stamps & Collectibles Expo events was far and away Heritage's spectacular Signature World and Ancient Coins Auction, the total of which - over $20 million - constitutes the categories ... More | | 
An original, unpublished personal photo of Amelia Earhart dated 1937, along with goggles she was wearing during her first plane crash. AP Photo/Ben Margot.
OAKLAND, CA (AP).- Goggles worn by Amelia Earhart and photographs of the famed aviator pulled in more than $31,000 at an auction in Oakland, Calif. A spokesman for Clars Auction Gallery says the winning bid for the set of 1920s Luxor aviator goggles with a cracked left lens was $17,775. The goggles previously were owned by Barbara Englehardt, a Contra Costa County resident who got them from a friend about 20 years ago. In addition to the goggles, 24 photographs were auctioned off Sunday morning for a total of $13,509. The photographs included shots of Earhart making preparations for her round-the-world flight, as well as her plane taking off on March 17, 1937. The March flight was one of two attempts Earhart made that year to circumnavigate the globe. Her plane disappeared in the Pacific during the ... More |
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 Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Baltimore could close BALTIMORE (REUTERS).- Of all the cities that claim a connection to the troubled author Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore likes to think its case is strongest. Poe's family is from Baltimore, his literary career began in the city, he died a mysterious death at a Baltimore hospital and his body was buried here in 1849. But the city that named its NFL team after his poem "The Raven" may soon lose a key physical connection to Poe. The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, where the writer lived for four years in the early 1800s, is in danger of closing next year, due to budget cutbacks by the city. "Everyone is tightening their belt," said Jeff Jerome, the museum's curator and only employee, who also works for the city's planning department. Cash-strapped Baltimore stopped funding the museum's $85,000 budget two years ago. It now operates on funds raised privately over recent years. A feasibility study, to be completed by D ... More 1875 Gorham carved match safe 'Masterpiece,' one of only two known, expected to bring $20,000+ DALLAS, TX.- A circa 1875 Gorham carved horn and silver match safe, featuring a highly stylized and intricate Japanese warrior figure on the base, with a stylized carp on the top - considered one of the great "match safe masterpieces" in existence by leading match safe scholar Neil Shapiro - is expected to bring $20,000+ in Heritage Auctions' Sept. 26 Signature® Silver & Vertu Auction. The piece is one of 200 match safes featured in the auction, all of which come from a prominent private East Coast collection. Heritage will be offering more than 1,500 rare American match safes from the collection in auctions over the course of the next 2 years. "When it comes to match safes, there is no name more important than the Gorham Corporation of Rhode Island," said Tim Rigdon, Director of Silver & Vertu at Heritage Auctions, "and there are few match safes that are as important as the carved horn and silver masterwork that tops th ... More Ceramic vase bought for Perth Museum and Art Gallery PERTH.- National fundraising charity the Art Fund has helped Perth Museum and Art Gallery to buy a vase by prominent British ceramicist Kate Malone. A Very Large Fennel Vase by Kate Malone (2010) was bought for £5,400, of which the Art Fund contributed £1,700. The vase, 58cm in height, is reminiscent of a fennel bulb, and has been finished with a crystalline glaze. The vase is a statement piece within Perth Museum and Art Gallery’s existing collection of contemporary ceramics, and has great affinity with the work of the Martin Brothers which is well represented by the museum’s collection. Stephen Deuchar, Director of the Art Fund said: “This is a striking example of Kate Malone’s most recent work and sits very well amongst the impressive ceramics collection at Perth.” Sandra Martin, Art Officer at Perth, said: “Kate Malone has made an enormous contribution to the world of cer ... More Bonhams sells case of Romanee Conti for 126,500 in Fine Wine sale LONDON.- Bonhams announced that a case of Romanee-Conti from the 1990 vintage sold for £126,500 in the Fine & Rare Wine sale that took place at Bonhams, New Bond Street on the 8th September. At over £10,000 per bottle and £1,750 a glass, the case will undoubtedly be well looked after. The sale realised over £760,000, with particular interest in the older vintages on offer. Burgundy took the top spot; apart from the case of 1990, a case of Romanee-Conti 1988 sold for £74,750; both cases were bought by a European buyer. The Domaine de la Romanee-Conti is very clearly the leading producer in the region and the only one to have established itself as a major brand. The price of Romanee-Conti has shown, on average, a rise of 50% over the last year, according to Liv-ex. With great international interest in the Domaine’ wines, Bonhams will be offering further cases of both Romanee-Conti 1988 and 1990 in the Fine & Rare ... MoreHistorypin app lets people create a "time machine" By: Natasha Baker
BANGKOK (REUTERS).- For people who have stood at a monument or scanned a landscape -- the Great Wall of China, for instance, or the U.S. Grand Canyon -- and wondered how it looked 100 or more years ago, there is now an app for you. Historypin, on iOS and Android platforms, strives to create a collection of memories about locations by counting on people to dig up and digitize old photographs and other media of the places, along with personal recollections of the past. Combined with modern pictures and memories, the app creates a story of a place for people to enjoy -- a sort of "time machine in your pocket," its backers say. "It's about people coming together to create a web of human history", said Nick Stanhope, chief executive of
We Are What We Do, a United Kingdom-based non-profit organization responsible for the Historypin project. The app uses GPS to find content that has been added within a certain ... More |
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