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An 18th century pale celadon jade ewer (Estimate: $400,000-600,000).
NEW YORK, NY.- Lark Mason Associates has announced that one of the most important collections of Chinese jade from the estate of Dr. Isidore Cohn, Jr.¬ considered one of the countrys leading collectors of decorative arts will open for bidding on www.igavelauctions.com from June 18 to July 8. Among the important jade objects offered are: an 18th century pale celadon jade ewer (Estimate: $400,000-600,000); a late 17th or early 18th century celadon jade scholars rock carved as an upright mountain with a C.T. Loo provenance dating to 1942 (estimate: $200,000-300,000); an 18th century pale celadon jade marriage bowl (Estimate: $250,000-350,000); an 18th century pale celadon jade wine pot and cover (Estimate:$150,000-200,000); and a pale celadon jade recumbent deer (Estimate:$70,000-100,000). Rarely does a sale of this magnitude enter the market, and were honored to represent it for the family. says Lark Mason. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Art handlers prepare Kehinde Wiley's "La Roi A La Chasse II" to be exhibited as Sotheby's NY previews highlights of the Evening Sale at Sotheby's during the coronavirus pandemic on June 19, 2020 in New York City. Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP
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 | | Roosevelt statue to be removed from American Museum of Natural History | | Paolo Giorgio Ferri, hunter of looted antiquities, dies at 72 | | Rijksmuseum publishes works by Hercules Segers online | 
The statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the Museum of Natural History in New York, Aug. 30, 2019. Benjamin Norman/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1940, is coming down. The decision, proposed by the museum and agreed to by New York City, which owns the building and property, came after years of objections from activists and at a time when the killing of George Floyd has initiated an urgent nationwide conversation about racism. For many, the Equestrian statue at the museums Central Park West entrance had come to symbolize a painful legacy of colonial expansion and racial discrimination. Over the last few weeks, our museum community has been profoundly moved by the ever-widening movement for racial justice that ... More | | 
Paolo Giorgio Ferri at his home in Rome 2018. Cristina Berardi/The New York Times.
by Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Italian prosecutor Paolo Giorgio Ferri visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 2004, he posed for a picture beside an ancient terra cotta mixing bowl so rare and celebrated that it had held pride of place in the Mets Greek and Roman galleries for 32 years. Four years later, as a result of Ferris dogged work as an investigator and antiquities hunter with Romes Ministry of Cultural Heritage, that object, known as the Euphronios krater, was back on Italian soil, as were scores of other looted treasures that had been acquired by American museums and collectors since the 1960s. Ferri, who had recently retired after 45 years as a judicial magistrate, public prosecutor and legal consultant, died on June 14 at a hospital in Rome. He was 72. His family said the cause was a heart attack. Colleagues ... More | | 
Hercules Segers, Tobias and the Angel, c. 1630 - c. 1633 (detail).
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum is today publishing the most in-depth and comprehensive online overview of the work of painter and printmaker Hercules Segers (ca. 1589-1640). The release of the online catalogue The works by Hercules Segers in the Rijksmuseum means everyone can now access all the works by this remarkable 17th-century artist held in the Rijksmuseum collection in very high resolution, as well as all the related information and insights gained through research into them. Jane Turner, Head of the Print Room: We are delighted to be able to offer permanent access to all of Segers works in our collection. Viewers can now lose themselves in super high-res images of the fantastical landscapes by this visionary artist. Hercules Segers is one of the most mysterious and experimental artists of the 17th century. His astounding mountain landscapes and breath-taking vistas are testimony to a boundless imagination. As a printmaker he was a ... More |
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| | Cobain 'Unplugged' guitar sells for record $6 million at auction | | Centre Pompidou and Philadelphia Museum of Art receive an exceptional gift from Giuseppe Penone | | One of Millet's first milkmaids leads Bonhams 19th Century European Art sale | 
In this file photo taken on May 15, 2020 the guitar used by musician Kurt Cobain during Nirvana's famous MTV Unplugged in New York concert in 1993, is displayed in the window of the Hard Rock Cafe Piccadilly Circus. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- The guitar that grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain played during his legendary 1993 MTV Unplugged performance sold Saturday for a record $6 million, the auction house said. The retro acoustic-electric 1959 Martin D-18E that Cobain strummed for Nirvana's career-defining performance in New York -- just five months before his suicide at age 27 -- sold after a bidding war to Peter Freedman, founder of RODE Microphones, Julien's Auctions said. At $6.01 million after fees and commission, the instrument was the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction, among other records. The starting estimate was $1 million. Freedman said he plans to display the guitar in a worldwide tour, with proceeds going to benefit performing arts. "When I heard that this iconic guitar was up for auction I immediately knew it was ... More | | 
Maldoror (Maldoror), 1987, by Giuseppe Penone. Black ink, hand-applied, on solvent-soaked translucent paper, 24. 11/16 x 17 11/16 inches (62.7 x 44.9 cm). Gift of the artist in honor of Dina Carrara, 2019. Image courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2020.
PARIS.- Italian artist Giuseppe Penone (born in 1947) is making two simultaneous gifts of nearly 350 drawings to the Centre Pompidou and as many works on paper to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This double donation, of over 660 works in total, bears testimony to the artists strong attachment to the two institutions. In the 1970s, Penone witnessed the birth of the Centre Pompidou, marking the beginning of a long-lasting relationship. In 2004, the Centre Pompidou dedicated a retrospective exhibition to the artist. Today, the Musée national d'art moderne boasts almost 30 of his works in its collection and two rooms are now devoted to him in its permanent exhibition. Similarly, the artist has special ties with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, fascinated as he is by Marcel Duchamps last work, Etant donnés, among ... More | | 
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875), Laitière normande (Norman milkmaid) (33 x 25.7cm) US$ 250,000 - 350,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Laitière normande (Norman milkmaid), by renowned French Artist, Jean-François Millet, is one of the highlights of Bonhams 19th Century European Paintings sale in New York on Wednesday 8 July. This painting, one of the first in the artists series of works depicting milkmaids, has an estimate of $250,000-350,000. Passed down for generations within a New York family, Laitière normande has not been seen by the public at large for nearly 90 years. A version is in the collection of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham, England. Bonhams specialist in 19th century painting Rocco Rich said: Its a great pleasure to bring this wonderful and important work one of the very earliest of Millets celebrated milkmaids to auction. The subject fascinated the artist throughout his life and, of course, offered him many opportunities to pay homage to his beloved native Normandy. Additional highlights o ... More |
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| | Masterpieces by Chu Teh-Chun, Sanyu and Zao Wou-Ki to lead Sotheby's Hong Kong Modern Art auctions | | Xavier Hufkens exhibits a new series of assemblages by Sterling Ruby | | PalaisPopulaire reopens with the exhibition "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Projects 1963-2020" | 
Bernard Buffet, Le cri 1970, oil on canvas, 130 x 89 cm. Est. HK$3,000,000 6,000,000 / US$387,000 775,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kong Modern Art Evening Sale, scheduled on 8 July, will be led by two extremely rare and magnificent works: Sanyus Quatre nus, the only masterwork that was part of a set of three completed oil paintings of similar composition, and the largest of the three; and Chu Teh-Chuns Les éléments confédérés, the artists only pentaptych in his lifetime and his largest oil painting still in private hands. Hailing from Zao Wou-Kis Hurricane Period, 20.03.60 and 19.11.59 will be offered as a group of seven oil paintings by Zao. Following the success of the curated sale last year, this seasons Modern Art Evening Sale brings together a remarkable group of works by legendary artists in the history of modern art from across Asia and Europe, including Georges Mathieus La liberation dOrléans par Jeanne ... More | | 
Sterling Ruby, REIF. 7205. 2020, wood, nails and acrylic, 98.7 x 47.9 x 18.4 cm (38 7⁄8 x 18 7⁄8 x 7 1⁄4 in.) Courtesy the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens is presenting a new series of assemblages by Sterling Ruby. The origins of these works can be traced back to the WIDW paintings that were first exhibited at the gallery in 2018. Digging ever deeper into his on-going fascination with the formal equation of the window, the artist presents a powerful ensemble of three-dimensional constructions in which painterly and sculptural techniques converge. Nothing is discarded in Rubys studio, meaning the artist has a vast, ever-expanding material archive at his disposal. This repository lies at the heart of his practice, both as source (of inspiration) and resource (the supplies with which he works). For this new series of assemblages, the artist turns his attention to wood, namely the heaps of offcuts, broken packing crates, damaged pallets and splintered stretcher ... More | | 
Ingrid and Thomas Jochheim, art collectors.
BERLIN.- The PalaisPopulaire resumed its program with an exhibition devoted to what is probably the most popular artist couple in the world: Christo and Jeanne-Claude. A visit to Christo and Jeanne- Claude: Projects 19632020, which runs until August 17, 2020, is free of charge throughout the duration of the show. So that as many people as possible can experience art in the original again during the challenging Corona period, admission will be free for everyone, says Svenja von Reichenbach, director of PalaisPopulaire. This special exhibition at the PalaisPopulaire documents all the spectacular projects of the two artists from the early 1960s to the present day. The works featured in Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Projects 19632020 come from the collection of Ingrid and Thomas Jochheim, who have known Christo and Jeanne- Claude since 1994. The couple from Recklinghausen is one of the few collectors and ... More |
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| | Almine Rech London opens Ewa Juszkiewicz's first exhibition at the gallery. | | Meanwhile, some people are stress-shopping diamond bracelets | | Christie's I.M.A.gination charity sale to benefit the Claude and France Lemand I.M.A. Fund | 
Portrait of Ewa Juszkiewicz. Photo: Courtesy Almine Rech.
LONDON.- The Grass divides as with a Comb at Almine Rech London is Ewa Juszkiewicz's first exhibition at the gallery. Through the deconstruction of traditional, historical portraits, Juszkiewicz enters into discussion with the visual conventions that they represent, and undermines their constant, indisputable character. The artist confronts the schematic representation of women in art history. She critically refers to the position and role of women in society and culture in the past, and to their insufficient presence in the official version of history. As is well known, in previous centuries the absence of women was prevalent in many areas. Denying the role of women in the artistic landscape meant diminishing their existence by depriving them of the status of full artists and citizens, like Emily Dickinson, who had to publish her writing anonymously in 1850. The title of the exhibition is taken from one of her poems. Juszkiewicz's portrai ... More | | 
In an undated image provided via Sothebys, a 'Tutti Frutti' bracelet by Cartier sold by Sothebys recently for $1,340,000, almost double its estimate. Via Sothebys via The New York Times.
by Geraldine Fabrikant
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The coronavirus quarantine has prompted boredom, impatience and aggravation. But it has clearly not dampened rich buyers love for jewelry at least not judging from the success of recent online jewelry auctions. Some of these buyers may well be moneyed housewives who have become online addicts during the pandemic. Some may be skittish about the stock market and want to put their money in jewels. And others are active professional women used to doing their own research and buying. In my experience, many of our private buyers are women who are successful in their own right and are passionate about jewelry, said Nan Summerfield, the senior vice president and director of California ... More | | 
Dia Al-Azzawi, Search for a symbol, 2006. Estimate: 20,000-30,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
PARIS.- Claude and France Lemand, Parisian collectors and gallery owners, who presented Middle Eastern Art in the capital as early as 1988, have decided to donate 44 works by Middle Eastern, Japanese and French artists from their personal collection to be sold by Christies Paris to help young artists who are in great need due to the Covid 19 crisis and to benefit the Claude & France Lemand-IMA Fund at the Institut du Monde Arabe. The fund aims to secure future acquisitions, organise exhibitions, undertake research work, publish exhibition catalogues. The format of the sale will be an online auction, starting on 24 June and closing on 16 July. Some selected highlights will be on view at Christies Paris from 26 and to 30 June, during the Post-War and Contemporary Art Paris sales, then from 4 to 10 July again, during the exhibition of Christies new concept Evening sale ONE taking place in 4 cities. Estimates rang ... More |
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 The world is a sphere: Christie's to offer art from the Faurschou FoundationLONDON.- To support its continued production of exhibitions, across its venues in Copenhagen, Beijing, Venice, and New York, Faurschou Foundation will auction a selection of works from its collection, through a dedicated single-owner online auction in partnership with Christies. The World Is A Sphere: Art from the Faurschou Foundation will be open for bidding from 3 to 16 July 2020. The artworks have been carefully selected to reflect Faurschou Foundations global vision, its geographic presence uniting the East and the West, and its exhibition history for which it has become renowned. A group of artworks in the auction is being donated directly by artists who support Faurschou Foundations uncompromised global exhibition strategy. These include Elmgreen & Dragset, Christian Lemmerz, Shirin Neshat, Nikita Shalenny, Sun Xun, and Yu Ji. The ... More Chinese Imperial Cloisonné Censer from 1700s could bring $150,000 at Heritage Asian Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- A Large and Extremely Rare Chinese Imperial Cloisonné and Gilt Bronze Censer and Cover, Qing Dynasty, 18th Century could bring $150,000 or more in Heritage Auctions Asian Art Auction June 25. The lot (estimate: $100,000-150,000) comes from the collection of Henry C. Gibson, a 19th-century banker, financier and land owner who served as Director and Vice President of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the institution that housed his international collection after his death. Censers like the offered lot are closely associated with enameling techniques mastered at the Imperial Workshop in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Large cloisonné and bronze censers of various forms are associated with the vast temples and chambers of Beijing's Forbidden City, Heritage Auctions Asian Fine & Decorative Art Consignment Director ... More Opera has vanished. So have their dream jobs at the Met.NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hugo Valverde didnt think hed make it when he auditioned for the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, the nations largest performing arts organization and its most prestigious opera company. He was ambitious: a French horn player from a town of 2,000 in Costa Rica who had earned a scholarship that brought him to the United States. But he was only 22. The audition was a major opportunity, though, so he gave it a try. And, to his surprise, he was hired. I wasnt expecting it to happen so soon, Valverde, now 25, recalled in an interview. Straight out of grad school, he found himself in the pit for Mozarts Magic Flute. Being a full-time member of the Met Orchestra is grueling: Operas stretch late into the evening, and players are often due back in the morning for rehearsals. During their time off, they practice; some also ... More Germany strives to kickstart culture in a world blighted by virusBERLIN (AFP).- Musician Cristina Gomez Godoy casts an excited glance towards the leafy stage where she is about to perform in front of an audience for the first time in three months. "I'm actually nervous," said the oboist, 30, a member of Berlin's Staatskapelle orchestra, which has been unable to perform live since concert halls were shut in March to control the spread of the coronavirus. Gomez and four colleagues are tuning up for a short concert in the courtyard of an apartment building in Berlin, accompanied by the buzzing of bees and against a backdrop of ivy tumbling down the walls. The show illustrates how arts organisations across Germany are having to think creatively as they strive to get up and running again in a world where they must coexist with the coronavirus. "It is a pleasure for us as musicians to play together again, despite the smaller ... More New Museum presents "Ensayos: Passages," online artist residency this summerNEW YORK, NY.- New Museums Department of Education and Public Engagement presents Ensayos: Passages, its first online artist residency, foregrounding the departments year-round commitment to contemporary art and pedagogy centered on personal and social growth. The international collective Ensayos (translated as inquiries, essays, or rehearsals in English) will develop and present new work through this digital residency. Ensayos is a collective research practice enacted by artists, scientists, activists, policymakers, and local community members. Sustaining their focus on the ecopolitics of archipelagos for the past decade, they have developed distinct inquiries into extinction, human geography, and coastal health. Their New Museum residency will be multifaceted, including a web series, podcasts, public programs, and an experimental ... More Hollywood poised for big-screen gamble as theaters reopenLOS ANGELES (AFP).- After more than three months of coronavirus-mandated limbo, Hollywood is headed back to the big screen -- and hoping that Russell Crowe's road rage thriller "Unhinged" will jump-start the recovery. The action film, due out July 10, is set to be the first wide release since US theaters shut their doors in mid-March. Christopher Nolan's much-hyped "Tenet" will follow soon after. But will the gamble pay off for those quick-moving studios? While top theater chains across the country plan to fire up their projectors in the first half of July, screens in badly-hit New York and Los Angeles don't yet have permission to reopen. And even with social distancing and sanitation measures boosted, moviegoers' enthusiasm for piling into dark, enclosed auditoriums amid a possible "second wave" of virus cases may fluctuate. AMC, the world's largest ... More Supreme exclusives power Urban Art Auction at HeritageDALLAS, TX.- A Supreme X Honda CRF 250R Dirt Bike, 2020 could bring $50,000 or more to headline a group of more than a dozen Supreme lots in Urban Art Signature Auction featuring the Gone Far Beyond Collection June 24 in Dallas, Texas. The bike is one of 14 lots in the auction by Supreme, the brand that started in 1994 as an American skateboarding shop and clothing brand when James Jebbia opened up the first Supreme store in Manhattan. What was at first a skate label morphed into a powerhouse of streetwear with its simple and striking logo. Supreme has a history of producing highly coveted limited-edition releases, like the dirt bike offered here, that sell out almost instantly. With its 249 cc liquid-cool single-cylinder engine, the bike is emblazoned with Supremes signature red with white text on the sides, fork and front. Other top Supreme ... More "Italian Art Nouveau and Conceptual Art: A Distance Dialogue" on view at Ottocento Art GalleryROME.- Ottocento Art Gallery is offering important masterpieces coming from several private collections gathered in the usual monthly exhibition aimed to the sale. The selection starts from an oil on canvas, made by Giulio Aristide Sartorio. His period of greatest renown came at the beginning of the century, when he produced decorative friezes for the 5th Esposizione Internazionale dArte of Venice (1903), the Mostra Nazionale of Fine Arts (Milan, Parco Sempione, 1906) and Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome (190812). Wounded during World War I, he travelled extensively in the Middle East, Japan and Latin America during the 1920s and became a member of the Italian Royal Academy. Ottocento Art Gallery presents his Games by the sea (1921) which definitely stands out for the brightness of his Symbolist palette. The further important artwork ... More Display, Berlin opens the exhibition "heute denken, morgen fertig" BERLIN.- Frozen in distortion, their gazes evoke the vacuity of their online existence and speak for the necessity to repeat and produce alternative motives in the large stream of images. Open mouths, half-closed eyelids and silent screams, they are captured in motion. But as we just seem to identify them, the origin of their expression loses all trace. Faces accumulate on the walls, stare at each other and surround us. If the works of Gregory Sugnaux and Christophe de Rohan Chabot appear at first glance distinct, they nevertheless draw on similar repertoires, like the ones of the internet memes and neurchi communities. Hunting fragments to extract specific details and forms, and create their own corpus. They repeat the capture with this same obsession for the greatest hit - nightmarish, disturbing, sometimes seductive - consciously participating in turn to increase ... More What has lockdown meant for LGBTQ artists and writers?NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Its a painful paradox for a group of people who have long fought for visibility: Suddenly a pandemic forces them into isolation. Each one is coping in a different way, harnessing their time while looking ahead. We asked creative people from across the LBGTQ spectrum: What have they worked on during this time, how has their thinking been shaped by the experience and how will they go forward as lockdowns soften? (The following conversations have been edited and condensed.) Lauren Halsey: The artist, 33, often makes site-specific installations and has had a solo show at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. She was at home in South Central Los Angeles. Ive been spending the time figuring out how I can activate the community ethos outside of the physical space. One thing weve done is an organic ... More Silver Robbins Medallions launch Heritage Space Exploration Auction past $1.1 millionDALLAS, TX.- A silver Robbins Medallion that once belonged to the last man ever to walk on the moon sold for $60,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Auction to $1,108,271 June 5 in Dallas, Texas. "There are few clubs that are exclusive as those who have walked on the surface of the moon, Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Director Michael Riley said. "Medals like this are prized mementos, and to have a Robbins Medallion from the last man to walk on the moon is a historically important artifact that can not be replicated. An Apollo 17-Flown MS68 NGC Silver Robbins Medallion, Serial Number 159, Originally from the Personal Collection of Mission Commander Gene Cernan brought $60,000 to lead the event. The 35mm sterling silver medal was one of approximately 80 flown aboard Apollo 17 Dec. 7-19, 1972, on the mission ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Polish-American painter Ed Paschke was born June 22, 1939. Edward Francis Paschke (June 22, 1939 - November 25, 2004) was an American painter of Polish descent. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a career in art. In this image: Ed Paschke (1939 - 2004), Bag Boots, 1972. Oil on canvas, 132 x 132 cm. Hall Collection, courtesy of Hall Art Foundation © Ed Paschke.
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