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The core of Bowie's collection was 20th-century British painting but he also took an interest in contemporary African works and so-called outsider art, created by the mentally ill and other people outside traditionally defined art circles. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- David Bowie's art collection went under the hammer on Thursday with one item reaching more than £7 million at auction, as buyers' enthusiasm for the late musician's collection exceed expectations in London. The highest-selling item in Bowie's collection, the graffiti-inspired "Air Power" canvas by Basquiat, sold for £7.09 million ($8.9 million, 8.2 million euros) at Sotheby's auction house. The piece had been expected to fetch between £2.5 and £3.5 million. Bowie bought "Air Power" and another painting by the artist, who died from an overdose in 1988 aged 27, shortly before the 1996 biopic "Basquiat," in which the rocker played his early idol Andy Warhol. The canvas was one of 47 art works in Bowie's collection auctioned off on Thursday, the majority of which are modern British artworks, selling for a total £24.3 million. The proceeds will go to Bowie's estate, which together with Sothebys spent several months putting the auction together, a spokeswoman for the auction house ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on November 9, 2016 shows a recreation of the living quarters of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's bodyguards, littered with bunks, Kalashnikov rifles, and military uniforms at the new Arafat Museum in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The new Arafat Museum opened to the public in Ramallah on November 10, 2016, coinciding with the 12th anniversary of his passing. ABBAS MOMANI / AFP
| New Harry Potter film & auction boosts Potter memorabilia say Barnebys | | Gagosian Gallery opens exhibition of works by Picasso | | Hirshhorn adds six leading international artists to collection | 
JK Rowlings Harry Potter chair sells for $394,000 at Heritage auctions in the US.
LONDON.- A rare presentation copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, created, hand-written and illustrated by JK Rowling, containing a personal inscription by the author to the editor who launched her career, will be offered for sale at Sotheby's London in December. The sale coincides with the release of a new Harry Potter film Fantastic Beasts. Both will be seen as true Christmas treats, The Tales of Beedle the Bard is estimated to reach £300,000 to £500,000 when it hits the saleroom on 13th December, rather more expensive than the price of a ticket to see the film Fantastic Beasts. In 2007, a copy produced specifically for sale at auction to raise money for J.K Rowling's charity Lumos, was sold at Sotheby's for a record-breaking £1.95 million. Pontus Silfverstolpe founder of ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Maya à la poupée et au cheval, 1938. Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 à 23 5/8 inches (73 à 60 cm) © 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Béatrice Hatala. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Maya Ruiz-Picasso, born on September 5, 1935, is the daughter of Pablo Picasso and his iconic muse Marie-Thérèse Walter. Her personal collection is the result of an extraordinary legacy: Picasso died in 1973, leaving behind a vast body of work including paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, engravings and lithographs, but also personal archives and photographs which were divided between his surviving heirs (the four children and his last wife). In 1979, the artworks donated to the French State by Picasso's heirs enriched the national collection and allowed for the creation of the Musée Picasso in Paris, a monographic museum entirely ... More | | 
Joseph Kosuth, 'The Paradox of Content #1' [Green], 2009. Neon, transformers, certificate of authenticity, 72 x 56 3/4 inches (182.9 x 144.1 cm). Gift of Joseph Kosuth and Sean and Mary Kelly, Sean Kelly Gallery, in honor of Barbara and Aaron Levine. Photography by Jason Wyche, New York. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonians museum of modern and contemporary art, announces plans to expand its collection with its first works by six leading international artistsShirin Neshat, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ed Atkins, Jesper Just, Jacqueline Humphries and Enrico Davidand a significant addition to its conceptual works by Joseph Kosuth. The five acquisitions and two gifts demonstrate the Hirshhorns commitment to new media and conceptual art and represent some of the most influential global ... More |
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| MFA, Boston announces $24 million conservation center | | Painting gifted by original Monuments Man to be offered by Heritage Auctions | | Sotheby's Paris to offer treasures of the prestigious Qizilbash collection | 
Conservator Abigail Hykin treats St. John the Baptist by Giovanni Francesco Rustici. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced a $24 million renovation project that will create a state-of-the-art Conservation Center comprising 22,000 square feet and six laboratories. The transformational renovation is supported by gifts, grants and MFA funds, completing the largest fundraising effort for conservation in the Museums 146-year history. The new space will provide advanced technology and foster a more interdisciplinary and collaborative approach among conservators. Additionally, the renovation project, which is scheduled to begin in 2017 and be completed in 2019, allows the Museum to convert 12,000 square feet of space into future galleries for Asian, European and Ancient World displays. With this new Conservation Center, the MFA will be among a small family of leading international Museums with exceptional conservation labs, strengthening the MFAs commitment to preserve our collections for ... More | | 
George Grosz (1893-1959), Im Café (Seminude Woman with Champagne Glass on verso) detail. Estimate: $120,000-180,000.
DALLAS, TX.- In the years during and following World War II, the now famous Monuments Men were responsible for the restitution of approximately five million cultural objects, four million of which were stolen, as part of the mission of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program. One of these men was Sargent Kenneth Lindsay, an art historian and professor from Wisconsin who, in 1944, found himself marching through France. When the fighting was over he quickly transferred to MFAA, working under the leadership of Walter Farmer at the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point. There the Monuments men sorted and catalogued of stolen works of art stored in Nazi repositories, ultimately returning them to their rightful owners. Heritage Auctions will be offering the George Grosz watercolor Im Café (Seminude Woman with Champagne Glass on verso), a gift to Mr. Lindsay from Mr. Farmer as a token of his appreciation, in Heritage's upcoming a Modern & Contemporary Ar ... More | | 
Very few pieces of comparable quality produced at the court of Naples in the first half of the 18th century the period when the piqué technique was at its peak have remained. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- On 28 November, Sothebys will offer at auction treasures from the prestigious Qizilbash collection. The collection, rightly described as prestigious, is a truly exceptional group of European works of art from the 17th and 18th centuries. Consisting of masterpieces made in the most exquisite materials, including gold, silver, gilt bronze, porcelain, hardstone and tortoiseshell piqué, this collection is a dazzling treasure trove, assembled by Hossein and Mariam Qizilbash, whose passion for art is equalled by their refined taste. Jeweller, silversmith, marchand-mercier and bronze-maker, are all represented by the most accomplished, rare and precious works. Each object in this collection reflects the talent and expertise of the most gifted artists in France, Britain, Italy, Germany and Holland. Selected by passionate and demanding connoisseurs, each of the nine lots in this collection represents, without ... More |
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| Tug of war over China's founding father Sun Yat-sen | | Doyle opens Russian Works of Art Department | | Dixon Gallery and Gardens explores hunting and fishing in American art | 
Chinese tourists looking at an oil painting inside the former residence of republican revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, now turned into a museum. STR / AFP.
ZHONGSHAN (AFP).- China's ruling party is marking the 150th birthday this week of the man who ended millennia of imperial rule by trumpeting republican revolutionary Sun Yat-sen as a proto-Communist and a symbol of unification with Taiwan. Commemorative stamps have been issued in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China to honour the Western-educated doctor who railed against the Qing dynasty and whose 1911 revolution toppled the empire. The Republic of China he founded still controls Taiwan, where its leaders fled after Mao Zedong's forces won the country's civil war in 1949 and set up the People's Republic. Chinese President Xi Jinping highlighted their shared heritage earlier this month when the leader of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) nationalist party -- founded by Sun -- visited. "Mr Sun was a great patriot, and his loudest slogan of all was to call to rejuvenate China," the official Xinhua news agency quoted Xi as saying. But the Kuomintang was ... More | | 
Mark Moehrke, VP/Director, Russian Works of Art, Doyle.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle has announced the opening of a Russian Works of Art Department, further expanding the expertise of the New York-based auctioneers and appraisers. Russian Specialist Mark Moehrke, a 15-year auction veteran, has been named Vice President and Director of the Russian Works of Art Department. Mark spent the last ten years as Vice President, Director and Head of Russian Works of Art at Christies, where he was responsible for a number of highly successful sales. These include the Imperial Diamond Trellis Egg (New York, private sale); an important and previously undiscovered Fabergé imperial presentation snuff box with portrait miniature (London, £937,250), which established a new World Auction Record in the category; a rare and highly important Fabergé carved carnelian figure of a gnome (New York, $1,384,000); and the collections of the descendants of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and Grand Duke George Mikhailovich. Mark was t ... More | | 
Wild Spaces, Open Seasons presents a wide variety of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes, including iconic works by Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, and Winslow Homer.
MEMPHIS, TENN.- Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art is the first major exhibition to explore the multifaceted meanings of these outdoor subjects in painting and sculpture. This groundbreaking project addresses a theme popular throughout American history that carries great resonance in the present day. Wild Spaces, Open Seasons presents a wide variety of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes, including iconic works by Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, and Winslow Homer. Representations of hunting and fishing as recreational pastimes contrast with images of hunting for sustenance, necessity, and commercial enterprise. Dangers and threats were inevitably part of hunting and fishing, and differ distinctly from depictions of hunting as a demonstration of fellowship and camaraderie. This exhibition also investigates the persistence of mythological ... More |
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| UVA Selects Matthew McLendon as Director of The Fralin Museum of Art | | Landmark offering of Harry Bertoia works opens at Sotheby's New York | | A stylish start to the Christmas jewellery season at Dix Noonan Webb | 
Matthew McLendon has been appointed as the director and chief curator of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Photo: Daniel Perales.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The University of Virginia announced today that Matthew McLendon has been appointed director and chief curator of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Currently the curator of modern and contemporary art at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, McLendon assumes his new role Jan. 9. We are thrilled to have Matthew join The Fralin, said Jody Kielbasa, UVAs vice provost for the arts. The University is approaching its third century and with that, the museum is looking forward to an exciting new chapter in its own long history. We believe that Matthew provides the leadership The Fralin needs to embark on this new journey. Over the last six years, McLendon has revolutionized the modern and contemporary holdings and exhibitions at The Ringling, incorporating works by living visual artists while taking advantage of cultural moments to create a new ... More | | 
Harry Bertoia, Untitled (Monumental Bush), 44 ¼ inches wide. Circa 1970. Estimate $250/350,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that the public exhibition for their 16 November auction BERTOIA Featuring Masterworks from the Kaare Berntsen Collection is now open in their New York galleries, alongside their upcoming auctions of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art. This landmark sale includes some of the most important works by Harry Bertoia ever to appear at auction. The gallerist Kaare Berntsen is credited with introducing Bertoias work to Norway through a series of groundbreaking exhibitions that began in Oslo in 1972, until Bertoias death in 1978. The close friendship and patronage that developed inspired Bertoia to explore the boundaries of his art, and the works that resulted represent the very pinnacle of his oeuvre. We are delighted to offer 22 works from the Berntsen Collection, including several exceptional undulating bush forms, a number of abstract spill casts and welded forms, ... More | | 
An elegant Boucheron leaf clip brooch estimated at £2200-2600.
LONDON.- The Christmas jewellery auctions in central London will get off to a stylish start at Dix Noonan Webb in Mayfair on 1 December 2016. The sale of Jewellery, Watches and Ob-jects of Vertu will have an attractive mix of signed pieces, beautiful antique jewellery, natu-ral pearls, 1970s designer works, Indian jewellery, and much more. We are very pleased to present our Christmas sale which, we hope, has something for eve-ryone from the dedicated collector with an eye for a rarity to the buyer looking for a good investment and the Christmas shopper seeking a stylish gift for a loved one, says Frances Noble, Head of the Jewellery Department at Dix Noonan Webb, which has established itself as a significant presence in the market since the department was founded a year ago. With quality pieces by top jewellers such as Boucheron, Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, and La-cloche, a private collection of iconic pieces by ... More |
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 New large scale drawings by Olaf Breuning on view at Nils StærkCOPENHAGEN.- Nils Stærk announces Olaf Breunings solo exhibition Cold Animals with new large scale drawings along with absurd and humorous hand-painted ceramic sculptures. Since the beginning of his career in the 90ies Breuning has worked with drawings as a starting point for his photography and film production. Drawing as an independent media in Breunings production has now for more than 10 years been an integrated part of his exhibitions, while his ceramic sculptures, like a tree-dimensional portrayal of his drawings, are new to the artistic practice. Brett Littman, director of The Drawing Center New York, has traced the process behind Breunings seemingly simple and immediate drawings and his general practice and inspirations in an interview from August 2016. Your drawing practice is very regimented. I know that you used to draw at Balthazar, a restaurant ... More Bruno David Gallery presents a series of prints by Michael JantzenST. LOUIS, MO.- Bruno David Gallery presents a series of prints titled Deconstructing My Chairs by Michael Jantzen. This is the artists third exhibition with the gallery. Deconstructing My Chairs, is a series of photomontages that are part of a larger series of photomontages that visually deconstruct parts of the real world that we normally think of as stable and familiar. The images were randomly cut into pieces, and pasted back together in ways that reconstruct the original images into completely new forms. The new forms attempt to suggest ways in which the original chairs might take on new fanciful functions, as well as new hybrid images. The challenge is to retain just enough of the original chair image, so that the viewer can maintain some kind of a reference point of departure from it, to something new. His work has been featured in a multitude of books, magazines and newspapers including, Wallpaper, Architecture Magazine, ... More Powerful Richard Lin work leads Bonhams' Modern and Contemporary Art Sale in Hong KongHONG KONG.- Painting Relief, an elegant and powerful work by Richard Lin, leads Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Art Sale in Hong Kong on 21 November. It is estimated at HK$1,800,000-2,000,000. The Taiwanese-born Lin (1933-2011), who also exhibited under the name Lin Show-Yu, is considered a pioneer of Chinese abstract art and developed an individual style often described as minimalistic many years before the Minimalism movement acquired its name. He lived and worked for many years in London where he was once visited by the Spanish master Joan Miro who said of Lins work, In the world of white, Lin is without equal. Painting Relief is an archetypal Lin piece characterized by various shades of white punctuated by an occasional lines of thicker paint, aluminium pieces, and occasional finishing touched in red, yellow, grey or black. Bonhams ... More Shortlist announced for world's top photography prizePARIS.- The shortlist of twelve photographers selected for the seventh Prix Pictet, Space, is announced at the Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris today, Thursday 10 November 2016. The photographers are: Mandy Barker [b. 1964, UK] based in Leeds Saskia Groneberg [b. 1985, Germany] based in Munich Beate Guetschow [b. 1970, Germany] based in Berlin and Cologne Rinko Kawauchi [b. 1972, Japan] based in Tokyo Benny Lam [b. 1967, Hong Kong] lives and works in Hong Kong Richard Mosse [b. 1980, Ireland] based in New York City and Ireland Wasif Munem [b. 1983, Bangladesh] based in Dhaka Sohei Nishino [b. 1982, Japan] based in Tokyo Sergey Ponomarev [b. 1980, Russia] based in Moscow Thomas Ruff [b. 1958, Germany] based in Düsseldorf Pavel Wolberg [b. 1966, Russia] based in Tel Aviv Michael Wolf [b. 1954, Germany] ... More Bonhams presents week of American art with two sales in Los Angeles & New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- American Art at Bonhams presents its fall offerings on both coasts this Novemberopening with California and Western Paintings and Sculpture on Nov. 21 in Los Angeles; and concluding with American Art on Nov. 22 in New York. The sales showcase important works by iconic American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, including E. Charlton Fortune, Paul Howard Manship, and Andrew Wyeth, among other renowned names. Bonhams is the only international auction house to feature American Art on both coasts with five dedicated auctions per year. E. Charlton Fortune is best known for colorful landscapes featuring architecture, figures, and elements of modern life. Strong in color, these works are rugged and gestural in execution. After training in New York, she spent many years actively painting in and around Monterey, Calif. Beginning in the summer ... More Chess: an ancient game which goes back to IndiaPARIS (AFP).- The ancestor of the game of chess is believed to date back to India in the sixth century. However, in the ancient Orient, from China to Egypt, several similar games representing a combat between pawns on a kind of draughtboard also existed. Legend has it India exported the ancient form of chess to Persia, giving King Chosroes Anushirvan a game that was invented just for him: the game of "four kings", or "chaturanga". As Arabs conquered Persia, they discovered then fell in love with the game. The first technical books on chess were written in Arabic, and the caliphs of Baghdad hosted the best players. Chess then spread as Arabs established their influence in newly conquered territory. In the West, the game reached North Africa and the Mediterranean. It took hold in the new province of al-Andalus, now current-day And ... More Sworders of Essex to offer exceptionally rare piece of Irish antique silver at auctionSTANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- One of the rarest pieces of Irish silver ever to come to market will be offered at auction later this month in Essex, where it is expected to fetch thousands of pounds. On November 30, Sworders of Stansted Mountfitchet will offer the IS porringer, an inscribed shallow bowl made in Dublin c.1659-63 and thought to be the second oldest known piece of Irish secular plate. Only a handful of pieces of Irish secular silver are known to survive from before the Restoration. Among the tiny corpus of pre-1660 domestic wares published in Tony Sweeneys catalogue raisonné of Irish Stuart Silver (1995) is this austere porringer from the end of the Commonwealth period. It was shown by dealers How of Edinburgh at The Antique Dealers Fair & Exhibition at Londons Grosvenor House hotel in 1967 priced then at £3000. Dubbed the IS porringer ... More Rare works by Russian master Fedor Zakharov offered at Bonhams Russian SaleLONDON.- A collection of 24 paintings by the Russian artist Fedor Zakharov will be offered along with an array of Russian treasures at the Bonhams Russian sale in London on 30 November. The works are collectively estimated at £224,000-315,000. They are drawn from the prominent private collection of the late Winifred and Charles Henry Babcock, both devoted patrons of Zakharov and owners of the largest body of his work in the US. Fedor Zakharov was a Russian painter who moved to New York just as the Roaring Twenties were getting under way. He quickly turned his traditional European training to portraiture, which was much in demand among the American elite at the time. His work was then rapturously received at the Russian art exhibition at the Grand Central Palace in 1924. Collected by American elite, foreign diplomats and other notable personalities, ... More Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art opens exhibition of works by Benedikt HippBASEL.- The works of Benedikt Hipp (* 1977, DE) are permeated by an array of socio-cultural themes. He investigates modern concepts and images of individuality, identity, and autonomy of the individual. The poetic play of his environments, paintings and sculptures interweaves images and concepts with which he traces basic patterns of the cultic and its present-day relevance in society. Has the time of humans expired or is it necessary to remind us of humankinds time? A thought alluding to the title of his solo show at Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Vacation From Human. Natural sciences and the humanities, archaeology, subculture, mysticism, fashion, and comics are just a few of the influences to which Benedikt Hipp makes reference with his diverse vocabulary. In a new group of works, the artist falls back on his family collection of century-old, mostly waxen votive ... More Joslyn Art Museum eeframes RembrandtOMAHA, NE.- Earlier this week, at a special reception honoring past presidents of the Joslyn Art Museum Association, the Museum presented its Rembrandt Portrait of Dirck van Os (ca. 1658) in a seventeenth-century Dutch style frame. The portrait was previously displayed in a carved and gilded French Louis XIV frame, which accompanied the picture when it was acquired by the Museum in 1942 from Schneider-Gabriel Galleries in New York City. The recent conservation of the picture, which placed the portrait firmly among Rembrandts late autograph works, and preparation for the reinstallation of Joslyns European galleries, set to begin early next year, prompted the decision to replace the frame with a more historically appropriate and aesthetically suitable selection. Extensive research into the history of Dutch frames ... More Uncensored John F. Kennedy campaign notes offered Dec. 3 at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A lot consisting of 98 pages of notes in former President John F. Kennedy's hand from the 1960 presidential campaign highlights a group of important Kennedy memorabilia offered in Heritage Auctions' Dec. 3 Americana & Political auction. The papers' opening bid is $25,000, but that could prove conservative, according to Tom Slater, Director of Americana Auctions at Heritage. "We've never seen anything like these amazing notes," said Tom Slater, Director of Americana Auctions. "I've never encountered uncensored papers from a president, let alone something in this wonderful historic impact." Kennedy's notes were drafted at a notable time in his Presidential campaign, because he was suffering from laryngitis. The candidate had spoken so often on the trail that he had all but lost his voice. He was under doctor's strict orders to avoid speaking whenever ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Paul Signac was born November 11, 1863. Paul Signac (11 November 1863 - 15 August 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. In this image: Esther Lausek from Hungary takes a look at the painting "The Jetty at Cassis" by Paul Signac that is on display at the exhibition "The nicest Frenchmen come from New York City" in Berlin, Wednesday, May 30, 2007.
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