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French-Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely became entranced by patterns, including that of a chessboard in the late 1930s, which became the quintessential framework for his art.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The World Chess Hall of Fame presents a new art exhibit, Victor Vasarely: Calculated Compositions, opening Friday, October 6 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Widely regarded as the Father of the Op Art movement," French-Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely became entranced by patterns, including that of a chessboard in the late 1930s, which became the quintessential framework for his art. Works in the exhibit are on loan from the collection of the Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece, and are supplemented by selections from the collections of the World Chess Hall of Fame and Dr. Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield. Utilizing geometric shapes and colorful graphics, many of Vasarelys works are compelling illusions of spatial depth. He credits his work to a wide range of influences, including Bauhaus design principles, Wassily Kandinsky, and Constructivism. After settling in Paris in 1930, Vasarely worked as a graphic artist while creating many ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A necklace, known as Creation I, featuring a 163.41 carat D-Colour Flawless diamond, and created by Swiss jewellers de GRISOGONO, is pictured during a photocall at Christie's auction house in London on October 3, 2017, ahead of its auction in Geneva on November 14. The neckalce is expected to fetch in the region of 30 million USD (26 million euros, 23 million GBP). Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP
| Hockney's American landscape leads Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale | | Earliest known photograph of an American President sells for $360,500 in New York | | Sotheby's to offer Chagall's masterpiece of love this November in New York | 
Oliver Barker fields bids at the Contemporary & Italian Art Evening sales. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- One of the greatest David Hockney landscapes in private hands, 15 Canvas Study of the Grand Canyon (1998), sold for £6,008,750 / $7,949,576 / 6,740,013 the second highest price for the artist at auction, following the record set in Sothebys New York saleroom earlier this year. The work was painted in preparation for A Bigger Grand Canyon, the seven and a half metre wide masterpiece housed in the National Gallery of Australia. The paintings importance is underlined by its inclusion in two of the most important exhibitions of the artists career, including his major 1999 exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and his blockbuster retrospective in London at Tate Britain earlier this year (lot 6, est. £3,800,000-5,000,000). The enthusiasm for Hockney tonight was echoed elsewhere in the sale, with a succession of strong prices for other British artists, including Cecily Brown, Hurvin Anderson and Anthony ... More | | 
Philip Haas, John Quincy Adams, half-plate daguerreotype, 1843. Estimate $150/250,000. Sold for $360,500. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Moments ago in Sothebys auction of Photographs in New York, Philip Haass remarkable portrait of John Quincy Adams sold for $360,500, after 4 bidders competed for the work. Taken in the spring of 1843 and held privately for nearly 175 years, this recently-rediscovered daguerreotype portrait is the earliest known photograph of an American president to appear at auction and the earliest extant photograph of Adams himself. This commanding daguerreotype of President, Secretary of State, Senator, Congressman and diplomat John Quincy Adams (17671848) was taken when Adams was 76 years old and had completed his term as the sixth President of the United States (182529) but was still serving his country as a congressman from Massachusetts. Adams documented the sitting in entries for 8 and 16 March 1843, when he twice visited the Washington, D.C. studio of ... More | | 
Marc Chagall, Les Amoureux. Painted in 1928. Oil on canvas, 46 1/8 by 35 5/8 in. Estimate $12/18 million © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that Marc Chagalls lyrical masterpiece, Les Amoureux, will highlight their New York Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on 14 November 2017. A stunning image of the artists two great loves his childhood sweetheart and muse, Bella Rosenfeld, and his adoptive home of France Les Amoureux encapsulates the best characteristics of Chagalls oeuvre. The work has remained in the same family collection for nearly 90 years, having been purchased from legendary Parisian gallery Bernheim-Jeune in October of 1928 the year it was painted. Following its debut in Hong Kong, Les Amoureux is now on view at Sothebys London through 8 October. The painting returns to New York for public exhibition beginning on 3 November in Sotheby's York Avenue headquarters. The enchanting oil on canvas is ... More |
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| Guggenheim opens largest exhibition of contemporary art from China spanning 1989 to 2008 ever mounted in North America | | Frans Hals Museum buys an exceptional work by Jan Porcellis | | Kazuo Ishiguro: Social worker turned Nobel Prize Winner | 
Zhang Peili, 30 x 30, 1988 (detail). Color video, with sound, 32 min., 9 sec. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announces Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, a major exhibition of contemporary art from China spanning 1989 to 2008, arguably the most transformative period of modern Chinese and recent world history. A fresh interpretative survey of Chinese experimental art framed by the geopolitical dynamics resulting from the end of the Cold War, the spread of globalization, and the rise of China, Art and China after 1989 is on view from October 6, 2017 to January 7, 2018. The exhibition, the largest of its kind ever in North America, looks at a bold contemporary art movement that anticipated, chronicled, and agitated for the sweeping social transformation that has brought China to the center of the global conversation. With a concentration on the conceptualist art practices of two generations of artists, this exhibition examines how Chinese artists have been ... More | | 
Jan Porcellis, Ships in a Storm, c. 1618/22, oil on panel, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.
HAARLEM.- On Wednesday 4 October, Haarlems mayor Jos Wienen unveiled the museums latest purchase in the Frans Hals Museum. It is the painting Ships in a Storm, an exceptional, early and well-preserved seascape by Jan Porcellis dating from around 1618/1622. Porcellis brought about a revolution in painting seascapes precisely in his Haarlem period. This unique acquisition bolsters the story of Haarlem as the centre of artistic innovation at the beginning of the Golden Age, where huge changes took place in painting, said Ann Demeester, director of the Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem. Top-quality works by Jan Porcellis are very rare and hardly ever come on to the market. The painting was purchased for 800,000 with the support of the Mr. Cornelis Roozen Fund Foundation, the Mondrian Fund and the Rembrandt Society thanks in part to its Daan Cevat Fund and its Coleminks Fund. Jan Porcellis (Gh ... More | | 
British author Kazuo Ishiguro holds a press conference in London on October 5, 2017. Ben STANSALL / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Kazuo Ishiguro, the 62-year-old British novelist of Japanese origin who won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, once wanted to be a rock star, then became a social worker and only later in life turned to writing. Born in Japan and raised in England speaking Japanese at home, his writing has consistently explored this duality, something he credits with aiding his appeal. "I've always looked at the world partly through my parents' eyes... (and) had a part of me that was Japanese," he said on Thursday in the garden of the north London home he shares with his wife. "That was quite good for me as a writer at the time when I was writing, because literature started to become very international." A prodigious writer since the early 1980s, he has penned eight books -- as well as scripts for film and television -- which have been translated into dozens of foreign ... More |
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| Rijksmuseum stages first show of Johan Maelwael | | Master printer John Hutchenson's collection of rare proofs offered at Heritage Auctions on Oct. 23 | | Germany to probe origins of colonial-era Rwandan skulls | 
Installation view. Photo Olivier Middendorp.
AMSTERDAM.- From 6 October 2017 until 7 January 2018 the Rijksmuseum honors the first Northern Netherlandish painter: Johan Maelwael (Jean Malouel, Nijmegen, c. 1370 - Dijon, 1415). This uncle of the legendary Limbourg Brothers was active as a versatile, pioneering and productive artist at the courts of the Dukes of Guelders and Burgundy around 1400. Johan Maelwael became one of the most successful and best paid artist of the Western Europe in the Middle Ages. The show is organized with the exceptional support of the Musée du Louvre that lends Maelwaels most famous painting 'La Grande Pietà ronde' that has never left Paris since 1962. Fifty breathtaking medieval treasures paintings, illuminated manuscripts, precious metalwork and sculpture - will be united in Amsterdam to tell the story of Johan Maelwael. Paintings attributed to the master and his workshop will be juxtaposed with his contemporaries Jean de Beaumetz, Colart de Lao ... More | | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Roommates, from Nude Series, 1994. Est. $100,000-150,000.
DALLAS, TX.- An important single-owner collection of proofs from the estate of John Hutcheson highlights Heritage Auctions' Modern & Contemporary Prints & Multiples Auction Oct. 23 in Dallas. Considered a Master Printer, Hutcheson collaborated with notable artists such as Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell and others. "The top 20th century contemporary artists all turned to John Hutcheson to create their prints," said Kathleen Guzman, Managing Director of Heritage Auctions, New York. "The proofs in his collection show his exceptional gift for experimentation. They are often more highly sought after than the prints from the numbered editions." Hutcheson was a Master Printer in all of the traditional printing techniques including etching, woodcut, lithography, silkscreen, and papermaking. His long industrious career began in Boston in 1965 and ... More | | 
The skulls were shipped to Germany by expedition forces around 1907-08 for the anthropologist Felix von Luschan, who was studying the development of mankind.
BERLIN (AFP).- Germany launched a two-year study Thursday to determine the origins of more than 1,000 human skulls, mostly from Rwanda, brought to Europe during the colonial era for racial "scientific" research. Billed as an important first step to understand the provenance of the remains, the study could one day lead to their return to east Africa -- more than 100 years after they were removed. "We're now looking at the circumstances surrounding the origins of these skulls," said Hermann Parzinger, head of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which is leading the project. "And then, we will decide together with the origin countries what would be the appropriate way" to resolve the issue, he added. The skulls were shipped to Germany by expedition forces around 1907-08 for the anthropologist Felix von Luschan, ... More |
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| Scarce Hopper leads star-studded Print Auction at Swann | | Upper East Side's preeminent fine and decorative arts galleries celebrate October Art Week | | The Marcel Sternberger Collection on view at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College | 
Edward Hopper, The Lonely House, etching, 1923. Estimate $150,000 to $200,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- An outstanding auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints at Swann Galleries on Thursday, November 2 offers seven lots with an estimate at or above $100,000, more than any from the houses Prints & Drawings department in nearly ten years. Rare and museum-quality prints from the fifteenth- to twentieth centuries act as an overview of the evolution of Western printmaking, and chronicle the dramatic changes of the latter half of the millennium. A powerful section of works by American artists in the first half of the twentieth century is led by Edward Hoppers scarce and haunting etching, The Lonely House, 1923, with an estimate of $150,000 to $200,000. Gritty, iconic views of working-class Manhattan by Hoppers mentor Martin Lewis, including Snow on the El, 1931, and Relics (Speakeasy Corner), 1928 (each with a value of $40,000 to $60,000), are complemented by works executed ... More | | 
Pier (Pietro) Dandini (Florence, 16461712), David with the Head of Goliath. Oil on canvas, 50 x 37 inches (128.3 x 96 cm). Photo: Robert Simon Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thanks to last years enthusiastic response from both dealers and the public alike, the second edition of October Art Week will once again take place alongside TEFAF New York and Christies Classic Art Week of auctions and selling exhibitions. Nineteen of the worlds preeminent fine and decorative art dealers will open their doors to the public on October 26 through November 2 for this celebratory occasion. The gallery receptionsopen to the public and within walking distance from each otheradd to the excitement generated by TEFAF New York. Holding forth at the Park Avenue Armory, this premier art fair (occurring every March in Maastricht, Netherlands) assembles the treasures of nearly 100 dealers from around the globe, showcasing outstanding examples of fine art, design, furniture, jewelry and more. The 19 participating galleries, ... More | | 
Marcel Sternberger & Albert Einstein, Princeton, NJ, 1950- Photograph by Marcel Sternberger, © 2016 Stephan Loewentheil.
NEW YORK, NY.- When 30-year-old Jacob Loewentheil rediscovered the photographic archive of Marcel Sternberger, which included thousands of images, he was so intrigued by the portraits that he embarked on a five-year journey that culminated in the publication of a book and a series of exhibitions, the second one -- The Photographs of Marcel Sternberger: Portraits of the 20th Century -- opening at The Sidney Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, 135 East 22nd Street, on October 6 and running through November 3, 2017. Notes Loewentheil, Sternbergers revolutionary concept Psychological Portraiture marked a turning point in the history of photography, and I am proud to unveil even more of his iconic images of men and women, which expands upon our enormously successful exhibition of Sternbergers work in April. The Photographs of Marcel Sternberger: Portraits ... More |
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More Sotheby's NY to offer Alberto Burri's monumental 'Nero Plastica L.A.NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys New York Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 16 November will feature Alberto Burris revolutionary Nero Plastica L.A. Hailing from the artists sought-after Nero Plastica series and highlighted at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museums acclaimed 2016 retrospective, Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, this monumental work is one of the most important plastic reliefs to appear at auction. Grégoire Billault, Head of Contemporary Art at Sothebys New York, noted: None of us who saw the Burri retrospective at the Guggenheim last year could fail to be moved by the explosive energy of Nero Plastica L.A. The perfect undulating rhythm of its monumental surface stands as one of the boldest expressions of 1960s abstraction that is as striking today as it was when it was unveiled to the world nearly 55 years ago. A surgeon ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss architect Le Corbusier was born  October 06, 1887. Charles-Ãdouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India and America. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the 1920s, allegedly deriving it in part from the name of a distant ancestor, "Lecorbésier." He was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal and AIA Gold Medal in 1961. In this image: French architect Georges Le Corbusier, left, and French writer Jules Romains are shown during a session of the conference of artists from around the world in the Palace of the Doges in Venice, Italy, in Sept. 1952.
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