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Painted at the height of his artistic powers in 1932, Le Repos is estimated to sell for $25/35 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that Pablo Picassos stunning Le Repos from 1932 will highlight of their Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 14 May 2018. A stunning and intimate depiction of Picassos golden muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, the work was painted at the apex of Picassos artistic production, and captures the rapturous desire of his greatest compositions. Le Repos is estimated to sell for $25/35 million when it is auctioned this May at Sothebys New York. The work will travel to Sothebys Hong Kong, London and Los Angeles galleries this spring, before returning to Sotheby's York Avenue headquarters for public exhibition beginning 4 May. The sumptuous canvas will appear at auction during a sensational time for related works from Picassos oeuvre: the Tate Moderns first solo exhibition of Picassos work, The Ey Exhibition: Picasso 1932 --- Love, Fame, Tragedy ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture shows a general view of the 'Pazo de Meiras' (Meiras manor house), in Meiras, northwestern Spain. The building, owned and used by Spanish General Francisco Franco as summer's residence, has been put up for sale by the dictator's heirs for 8 million euros ($9,7 million) MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP
| At 81, Philip Glass is eager to challenge himself | | Artist Eric Fischl gives away posters of President Trump as clown, as new exhibition opens at Skarstedt | | Centre Pompidou exhibits recently donated works by Jim Dine | 
Philip Glass speaks onstage at the 31st Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert & Gala at Carnegie Hall on March 3, 2018 in New York City. Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Tibet House /AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- After a prolific half-century in music that has earned him the unofficial title of America's foremost living composer, Philip Glass could be forgiven if he were to decide to slow down. But the 81-year-old not only remains active, he is determined to challenge himself. Far better known as a composer, Glass believes it is crucial also to be a performer. Glass this month is making his long-awaited performance debut at the Kennedy Center, the national monument to the performing arts in Washington, which has long showcased his work but where he has yet to play. He will take to the piano and keyboard for two of his works, including the soundtrack to the experimental film "Koyaanisqatsi" as part of Direct Current, an inaugural festival at the Kennedy Center exploring contemporary music. "I actually like playing," Glass told ... More | | 
Trump poster, 8x10. © Eric Fischl. Image courtesy of Skarstedt.
LONDON.- Skarstedt is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Eric Fischl at the London gallery in March 2018. Presence of an Absence follows his acclaimed exhibition Late America at Skarstedt New York in 2017. In this new body of work, set in domestic interiors and exteriors, there is a palpable sense of disconnect between an outward appearance of wealth and security and an inner sense of fear and longing for which there is no apparent cause. Following on from the exploration in Late America, at a time of political turmoil, of a society whose misplaced values gives rise to a lack of fulfilment, the paintings in Presence of an Absence continue to engage with this sense of detachment and with universal existential questions. In some of the works, the figures are dressed in sombre clothing, perhaps coming or going to a funeral. In others, we witness scenes of intimacy that lack desire. Since the 1970s ... More | | 
Jim Dine, Nancy and I at Ithaca (Green Hand) 1966-69. Tissu sur contreplaqué, 213,4 x 100 x 20,5 cm. Collection Centre Pompidou, Musée national dart moderne. Photo © Ellen Page Wilson © Adagp, Paris 2017.
PARIS.- From 14 February to 23 April 2018, the Centre Pompidou is exhibiting the remarkable donation Jim Dine recently made to the Musée National dArt Moderne: 26 paintings and sculptures produced between 1961 and 2016. A gift through which, as the artist puts it, he wanted to «pay back a cultural and personal debt to France» namely the many years spent in Paris, which introduced him to «an aesthetic» that has enlightened his artistic decisions. In acclaiming this gesture, the exhibition strikingly retraces a unique career that is still as productive as ever. Jim Dine has occupied a singular place in art for over half a century. Born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio, he moved to New York in 1958, where he began working as an artist and became well-known for the Environments and Happenings ... More |
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| Wu Qingxia paintings poised to rise in value thanks to the renewal of Feminism | | Sotheby's Hong Kong announces highlights from the Chinese Works of Art 2018 Spring Sales | | Marciano Art Foundation presents a site-specific installation by Olafur Eliasson | 
Wu Qingxia.
NEW YORK, NY.- Born on the cusp of a change in attitudes about education for women in China, Wu Qingxia (1910-2008) became one of the 20th centurys leading Modernists working in the traditional style. She is renown for studies of smoothly painted, brightly colored carp-symbols of challenge and challenge overcome. Like the works of female artists in the West, prices for Wu Qingxias paintings have not kept pace with those of her male counterparts. The new wave of feminism is likely to change that when Lotus Pond Fish comes to the podium on Saturday, March 10 at Gianguan Auctions in New York. As talented and as well known in China as male Modernists Zhang Daqian and Xu Beihong, members of the contingent that took Paris by storm after the Revolution of 1949, Wu Qingxia remained in China. Her works traveled and were exhibited in the West. They now reside in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She h ... More | | 
A Yellow-Ground And Underglaze-Blue Dragon Vase, Tianqiuping. 61 cm, 24 in. Estimate: HK$30,000,000 - 40,000,000 / US$3,850,000 5,130,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kong Chinese Works of Art Spring Sale Series 2018 will take place on 3 April at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The series will be led by the superbly enamelled, fine and exceedingly rare H.M. Knight Pink-Ground Falangcai Bowl, a rediscovered imperial heirloom handscroll by Qian Weicheng, bequeathed by the last Emperor Pu Yi to his younger brother Pu Jie (dedicated release available upon request) and sutras. Anchored by a strong line-up of Qing pieces, the series of six sales will offer about 300 lots with a total estimate of nearly HK$730 million / US$93.5 million. Nicolas Chow, Deputy Chairman, Sothebys Asia, International Head and Chairman, Chinese Works of Art, comments, There is extraordinary quality ... More | | 
Olafur Eliasson, Reality Projector, 2018. Photo: Joshua White. Courtesy Marciano Art Foundation.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marciano Art Foundation is presenting its second artist project, a site-specific installation created for the foundation's expansive first floor Theater Gallery. Maurice and Paul Marciano have invited renowned interdisciplinary artist Olafur Eliasson for his first major exhibition in Los Angeles, in over a decade. Eliasson's artcomprising sculpture, painting, photography, film, and installationsis driven by his interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self. For his exhibition at the foundation, titled Reality projector (2018), Eliasson has conceived of a seemingly simple, yet complex installation that uses projected light and the existing architecture of the space to create a dynamic shadow play. The artwork references the space's former function as a theater as well as the history of filmmaking in the ... More |
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| Galleria Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art to exhibit a rediscovered painting by Antonio Canova at TEFAF | | Perrotin New York exhibits new and original works by Jean-Michel Othoniel | | Exhibition at the Fundació Joan Miró explores the works of painter Itō Shinsui | 
Antonio Canova, Self-Portrait of Giorgione, 1792, an oil painting on wood, cm. 72,5 x 64.
ROME.- The Galleria Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art will be showing once again this year at TEFAF Maastricht 2018 (8 18 March), the greatest art, antiques and design fair in the world, in the painting section, unquestionably the fair's most important section, bringing an exceptionally interesting selection of works of art to its stand. Tireless research, matchless skill and competence, scrupulous documentation, the aspiration to total quality, an international vision and unflagging enthusiasm are the qualities for which Francesca Antonacci and Damiano Lapiccirella are known at the highest level in the art world. The selection of works they present this year is inspired by their gallery's profound interest in painting from the Neoclassical era to the early 20th century. Among the works on show stands out an unpublished painting by Antonio Canova on public display for the very first time at the TEFAF Maastricht 2018 fair, ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Othoniel, View of the exhibition Dark Matters at Perrotin New York (March 3 April 15, 2018) Jean-Michel Othoniel / ADAGP, Paris 2018. Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli.
NEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin New York is presenting Dark Matters, Jean-Michel Othoniels 7th solo show at the gallery. With an ensemble of new and original works, some specially created for the occasion, the show spans several levels of the building to mark the inauguration of the whole building at 130 Orchard Street. Dark Matters is the title of the text written by the French-American curator, writer and critic Natasha Boas, within the eponymous book published on the occasion of the exhibition. A prominent artist on the French and international art scene, Jean-Michel Othoniel prefers materials with poetic and sensitive properties. From an exploration of drawing and sculpture, to installation and photography, writing and performance, he began working with glass, now his signature material, in the 1990s. Exhibited ... More | | 
Itō Shinsui, Clock and beauty VI, 1964. Woodblock prints, with ink and pigments on paper © Taiyo no Hikari Foundation, Japan, 2018.
BARCELONA.- Itō Shinsui. Tration and Modernity focuses on the print work of Itō Shinsui (1898-1972), who is generally known as one of the most prominent nihonga (literally, Japanese painting) artists and one of the most significant proponents of shin hanga (new prints), a movement that developed in Japan in the twentieth century. Shinsui achieved fame and commercial success, primarily with his depictions of women embodying the traditional Japanese ideal of beauty. With the restoration of the imperial rule in 1868, Japan underwent a transformation from a feudal society in the Edo period to a modern nation state under the enlightened rule of Emperor Meiji. In an effort to achieve parity with industrialised nations in the West, numerous reforms were enacted that brought about drastic changes in social, economic and political spheres. The arts were not immune to these changes. ... More |
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| Sotheby's appoints Lisa Chow as Deputy Chairman, Jewellery and Jessica Wyndham as Head of Department, Jewellery | | Norwegian photographer Anja Niemi's first US solo exhibition on view at Steven Kasher Gallery | | 1939 comic book introducing Batman could hit $1M at Hake's Mar. 13-15 auction | 
Jessica Wyndham, Head of Department, Jewellery, Asia. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys announced the appointments of Lisa Chow as Deputy Chairman, Jewellery, Asia and of Jessica Wyndham as Head of Department, Jewellery, Asia. Together, Ms. Chow and Ms. Wyndham possess nearly four decades of jewellery and auction experience as well as extensive relationships with clients and dealers worldwide. Building on her most recent position as SOTHEBYS DIAMONDS General Manager and Sales Director, Asia, Ms. Chow will focus on providing strategic guidance and building client relationships for Sothebys jewellery auctions in Asia, while continuing to lead SOTHEBYS DIAMONDS in Asia. Ms. Wyndham will assume responsibility for managing Sothebys Jewellery department in Asia, including business getting, selling strategies and operations. Both will be based in Hong Kong. Patti Wong, Chairman, Sothebys Asia and Sothebys Diamonds, comments, We welcome two ... More | | 
Anja Niemi, The Fictional Road Trip, 2016 (detail). Chromogenic print, 44h x 59w in. Edition of 7 + 2APs, Signed by photographer. © Anja Niemi / courtesy The Little Black Gallery / Steven Kasher Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery is presenting the first US solo exhibition of Norwegian photographer Anja Niemi. In her latest series, She Could Have Been A Cowboy, Niemi continues her investigations of the self. This time she turns the lens to a life lived under the constraints of conformity. Every day her fictional character finds herself trapped in the same pink dress, but what she really wants is to be a cowboy, dressed in fringe and leather, riding horses in the Wild West. Through this series of photographs with multiple layers and possible interpretations, Niemi delivers her most political work to date. Niemi says, "The story is not really about being a cowboy. Its about wanting to be another." The exhibition is accompanied by a new monograph of the same name, published by Jane & Jeremy. In order to visualize the imaginary world of her ... More | | 
Detective Comics #27 CGC 5.0 (May 1939) featuring the first appearance of Batman, then known as The Bat-Man. Est. $500,000-$1 million. Image courtesy of Hakes Americana.
YORK, PA.- After a 50th-anniversary year whose record-setting sales far surpassed all expectations, Hakes Americana is on track for a blockbuster 2018. A full two weeks ahead of its March 13-15 auction, Hakes had already recorded more than $1 million in absentee bids, with the numbers flipping rapidly upward with each passing hour. This is unprecedented, said Hakes president Alex Winter. Its a clear Hakes indication that rare comic books and blue-chip pop-culture and entertainment memorabilia has a rapidly expanding fan base worldwide. It also tells us that collectors have listened to the experts. Theyre going for rarity and the best quality they can afford. A premier example of rarity and quality in one package would be the auctions headliner: a fresh-to-the-market issue of Detective Comics #27 CGC ... More |
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 Cottone Auctions will hold a 2-day Spring Fine Art & Antiques auction March 23-24GENESEO, NY.- Cottone Auctions will hold a two-day Spring Fine Art & Antiques Auction on Friday and Saturday, March 23rd and 24th, starting both days at 12 oclock noon. Fridays auction will include Asian items, 20th century design, sterling silver and two superb Steuben art glass collections. Saturday will feature jewelry, Tiffany, Americana, decorative items, Oriental rugs and clocks from the collections of Dr. John Davis of Florida and George Goolsby of Texas. The Cottone Auctions gallery is located at 120 Court Street in Geneseo, southwest of Rochester. The 20th century design portion of the sales catalog will feature a Joan Miro (Sp., 1893-1983) watercolor, India ink and pastel on paper, signed lower right, dated and inscribed on back with a label from Galerie Maeght, Paris. The work is included in the J. Dupin & A Lelong-Mainaud Joan Miro catalogue ... More Personal archive of creative genius Louis Osman to be auctioned by Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- The personal archive of Louis Osman, a creator of genius who one of the most important British designers and goldsmiths of the 20th century, is to be auctioned by Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals and jewellery experts, in London on 27 March 2018. The archive, which includes a gold model commemorating the Apollo Moon landing in 1969 and designs for the crown presented to the Prince of Wales for his investiture at Caernarvon Castle, is being sold by Osmans daughter Marie-Louise Parker. The archive is a wonderful insight into the mind of one of the most talented and creative craftsmen of the 20th century and the sale will be a rare chance to own a small piece of this designers creative history, says Laura Smith, jewellery expert at Dix Noonan Webb. The collection will be on view at the auction house in Mayfair the week ... More Modern Art opens an exhibition of new sculpture by Ricky SwallowLONDON.- Modern Artannounces 4, an exhibition of new sculpture by Ricky Swallow. This is the artists fourth solo show with the gallery. For the exhibition, Swallow has made a new group of wall and plinth-based sculptures in patinated bronze. The pieces are cast from assemblages created with materials such as rattan, milled wood and cardboard, exploring the grand possibilities of the most ordinary of materials. Swallows elemental sculptures contain combinations of references and form within one body of work, from the fluid more organic compositions cast from twisted rattan, which allow gravity to influence their own designs, to the nuanced industrial and geometric forms that punctuate the gallery. In Swallows sculpture, space is a frame for the work. Several pieces in the exhibition have been conceived in direct response to the architecture of Modern Arts gallery at Helmet ... More Juan Antonio Olivares' first solo museum show opens at the WhitneyNEW YORK, NY.- For his first solo museum show, Juan Antonio Olivares (b. 1988) presents his 2017 video Moléculas, along with a suite of related drawings. The video work has entered the Whitneys permanent collection. Moléculas relates a highly personal narrative that is part autobiographical, part fantastical reality. The work explores fundamental questions about family, loss, separation, and our very existence as well as the ways in which memories acutely and even painfully live on long after events have passed. Created using 3D animation, Olivaress touching video is equally sensitive in its technical detail. Rendered in a muted palette, the work is set in an interior that suggests both a psychoanalysts office and modernist living room. Moléculas visually evokes the delicate landscape of the mind, which Olivares ultimately sees as universal to our collective ... More Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens exhibition of new work by Guy Diehl SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery is presenting Art about Art: A Luminous Pursuit, an exhibition of new work by Guy Diehl on view March 131. As art about art, Diehls paintings explore different artistic movements across recent history, often by referencing other artists within the composition itself. The still-life format, a rich tradition in its own right, allows Diehl to set up relationships between art historical references and carefully chosen everyday objects, encouraging viewers to draw their own connections and conclusions. Although Diehls style can be described as realist, he creates paintings that reflect a highly personal interpretation of reality. Having studied with first-generation Photorealists Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean while a masters student at San Francisco State University, as a young painter in the mid-1970s, Diehl made work ... More Solo gallery exhibition of works by American designer Chris Schanck on view at Friedman BendaNEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda is presenting Unhomely, American designer Chris Schancks solo gallery exhibition, from March 1 through April 14, 2018. This exhibition marks a culmination of his acclaimed sculptural approach and the first time a comprehensive body of work by Schanck is on public view. Unhomely features 15 works with independent, stand-alone narratives woven into an otherworldly landscape. Synthesizing premeditation and spontaneity, Schancks highly individualized, low-tech, idiosyncratic technique, Alufoil, was conceived in 2011 while studying for an MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. The process begins with Schancks imaginative drawings and models, which are then executed by a burgeoning community of artists and collaborators, all apprentices of the Alufoil methodrecalling a medieval craft guild practice. Hybrids ... More Exhibition brings together the recent photography of Linda Connor and sculptures by Zhan WangSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines Gallery is presenting Speak to the Stones, and the Stars Answer, an exhibition bringing together the recent photography of Linda Connor and sculptures by Zhan Wang. The exhibitions title, taken from a poem by Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), suggests a bridge between geology and cosmology and, more generally, the interconnectedness of all matter. Looking to the sky and the earth, Speak to the Stones, and the Stars Answer considers our place in a world in which history is measured in both minutes and millennia, writ by the glacial movements of tectonic plates and the circuitous motions of the heavens, remade by sudden eruptions, forever in flux. Speak to the Stones
brings together a selection of celebrated Bay Area photographer Linda Connors most iconic images, presented as glistening sublimation prints ... More Works by Thibault Brunet and Isabelle Le Minh on view at Kehrer GalerieBERLIN.- Kehrer Galerie is presenting two positions from France. Thibault Brunet and Isabelle Le Minh, whose works have been exhibited in French institutions on several occasions, both deal with the reactivation of images and play with our collective visual culture. Thibault Brunet (b. 1982) describes himself as a »photographer without a camera«. One of his fields of experimentation is the video game »Grand Theft Auto«, whose space he explores to create dreamy images that have more in common with the visual heritage of Romanticism than with the aesthetics of video games (»Vice City«, 20072013). In another series, he works with images of isolated buildings in suburban areas, modeled in 3D by their own inhabitants and found on Google Earth. Through the process of appropriation, Brunet builds a typology that unfolds in a subtle chromatic palette (»Typologie ... More Tiffany Studios Venetian lamp soars to $102,000 and new fine art world record set for Paul Sawyier at ClarsOAKLAND, CA.- Clars Auction Gallerys February 24th and 25th Important Fine Art, Decorative Art, Furniture, Jewelry/Timepieces and Asian Art Auction drew high profile and investment level collectors, celebrities and global bidders for the important property that was offered in all categories of this sale. After the sale, Deric Torres, Vice President of Decorative Art & Furnishings commented, It was a great honor for Clars to represent the property from these important estates and collections and we were extremely pleased at the global reach we achieved and securing the results we did for our consignors and the collectors we serve. Achieving the price we did for the Tiffany lamp, setting a new world fine art record, confirms that Clars competes and succeeds in this robust world market. The star of this sale was the circa 1910 Tiffany Studios ... More New York-based artist Jennifer Packer's first solo museum exhibition on view at the Rose Art MuseumWALTHAM, MASS.- The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University is presenting Jennifer Packer: Tenderheaded, the New York-based artists first solo museum exhibition, March 2 July 8, 2018. Based in observation, improvisation, and memory, this selection of recent work by Packer (b. 1984) presents paintings of funerary bouquets and intimate portraits. Pointing to possibilities both bodily and emotional, fragile and strong, her works exhibit a rigorous engagement with art history as well as a highly personal response to how black bodies navigate within the present political landscape. Packers figurative paintings are marked by a powerful quietude. Each canvas reads as a self-contained world, its subject emerging from or dissolving into its surroundings. She presents those who sit for herusually family members and friends with compassion, foregrounding T ... More Urban art auction offers rapper's KAWS and Supreme streetwear collection DALLAS, TX.- A private collection formerly owned by L.A.-based rapper Madchild spanning items by pop artist KAWS and rare items by streetwear brand Supreme highlights an auction of Urban Art March 6 at Heritage Auctions. Highlights from the online auction will be on display at Heritage Auctions New York, 445 Park Ave., March 1-2 and 5-6. This sale marks the first auction house to offer collectibles by the iconic streetwear label Supreme and includes rare BAPE collectibles by the popular Japanese street fashion brand. "We are excited to offer a wide selection of lifestyle collectibles and street art in our March sale," said Leon Benrimon, Director of Modern & Contemporary Art at Heritage. "Our Urban Art department has grown exponentially in the last year. We've seen tremendous interest and a large collector base for this type of work." Shane ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born March 05, 1696. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. In this image: View of the ceiling of the Imperial Hall in the Wurzburg Residenz. After more than two years the frescoes painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo have been restored.
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