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Order of St. Stanislaus - a badge for order-officials, Russian Federation, 1870.
MUNICH.- With the current auction, the catalogue system of the militaria section will be reorganized. Previously, a distinction was made between "International Militaria" and "German Contemporary History"; now the break is no longer thematic, but occurs with the year 1919. From now on, the objects will be assigned to the catalogues "International Orders & Military Collectibles" and "International Military History from 1919 onwards". Large numbers of treasures from the personal possessions of crowned heads have long been offered in the auctions of Hermann Historica GmbH, where they attract widespread interest among museums and collectors. Objects from the intimate lives of the households of the Bavarian and Austrian court are particularly sought-after. Once again, this year's lineup will not disappoint. Buyers can look forward to fabulous garments, such as an exceptionally elegant salon gown in cream-coloured silk and matching lace t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The BotÃn Centre, in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris and with the inestimable support of the Picasso family, presents the exhibition Picasso Ibero, which can be enjoyed in Santander from 1 May to 12 September 2021.
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| The BotÃn Centre explores the influence of Iberian art on the work of Pablo Picasso | | Hindman Auctions to present Spring Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana sale | | Escher exhibition on view at the Columbia Museum of Art | 
Installation view.
SANTANDER.- The BotÃn Centre, in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris and with the inestimable support of the Picasso family, presents the exhibition Picasso Ibero, which can be enjoyed in Santander from 1 May to 12 September 2021. Curated by Cécile Godefroy, with Roberto Ontañón Peredo as associate curator, the exhibitions scientific committee is made up of leading international experts on Iberian art: Teresa Chapa Brunet, Hélène Le Meaux, Alicia Rodero Riaza and Rubà Sanz Gamo, coordinated by Pierre Rouillard. Picasso Ibero, the first major exhibition on the influence of the art of the Iberians on the work of Picasso, comprises over 200 pieces from different collections. There are works of Iberian art from museums, including 41 pieces from the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid and others from the museums of Jaén, Albacete, Elche, Valencia, Córdoba, Teruel, Alcudia, Alcoy, Alicante and C ... More | | 
Limited Editions Club. A very extensive run of The Limited Editions Club publications through 2010. Estimate: $50,000-70,000.
CHICAGO.- On May 12, Hindman Auctions will present its spring Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana sale. The auction will showcase 368 lots of books, manuscripts, Americana, prints, and maps. The sale will feature fine collections of Bibles, fine press books, and American prints, including a very extensive collection of Currier and Ives. Property from the Historic Sengen House in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, the Collection of Jack Belcher, a Distinguished Midwestern Collection, and LSC Communications, Inc. will be included in the sale. A large collection of Bibles will lead the auction. Highlighting the session is a copy of Robert Barkers He Bible, the first edition of the King James Bible, published in 1611 (lot 7; estimate: $8,000-12,000). The collection features a very fine tall copy of the Rheims New ... More | | 
This is the largest private traveling Escher collection in the world and includes woodcuts, lithographs, drawings, and all eight mezzotints from his career.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art presents its featured spring exhibition, The Imaginative Worlds of M.C. Escher, on view February 6 through June 6, 2021. A consummate boundary-pusher and arguably the most famous printmaker of the modern era, Maurits Cornelius Escher (18981972) used his work to challenge perspectives, deftly exploring the relationships between art and science, reality and illusion, chaos and order, and logic and absurdity. Escher has to be one of the most recognized artists of the 20th century. His mind bending, reality-warping prints include subjects like infinite staircases, tessellating birds changing into fish and back again, and two hands drawing each other, says CMA Executive Director Della Watkins. His work is known and beloved today by everyone from kids to designers to ... More |
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| Maruani Mercier presents works celebrating the power of an inspiring and highly symbolic colour: Black | | Sotheby's and Phillips announce departures and arrivals | | Worldwide David Hockney digital artwork on view in Times Square, London, Seoul, and Tokyo | 
Paul Kremer, Pinch02, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 183 x 137.2 cm. 72 x 54 in.
KNOKKE.- The perception of colours and its use has always been cultural and ideological. A colour is often associated to an economic, political, social, symbolic issue within a specific context. Any history of colours must first be a social history. In this sense, the colour is a fact of society and as for each colour, the nature of black is twofold as it has been developed by the historian Michel Pastoureau in his book Noir: Histoire dune couleur. * The black colour sometimes cumulates at the same time pejorative charge and elective value. Over the centuries, its symbolism has been subject to debate. Often associated with witchcraft or mourning, from the 14th to the 16th century, black became a respectable and luxurious colour, related to royalty until the middle of the 17th century. Later, the black colour has been linked to modernity. As such the meaning of the black colour has evolved over the years and its significance is now pluri-vocal. It has become tragic, poetic, mod ... More | | 
Amy Cappellazzo, chairman of the fine art division of Sotheby's, who is leaving after five years with the company, at her office in Manhattan, Nov. 14, 2017. Karsten Moran/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Wednesday, two of the three major auction houses announced shifts in the makeup of their leadership teams. Phillips announced that Stephen Brooks would become the companys next chief executive as its former leader, Edward Dolman, transitioned to a new role as executive chairman. Separately, Sothebys said that the head of its fine art division, Amy Cappellazzo, would depart the company after more than five years guiding it toward billionaire clients and major sales; her duties will be divided among three different employees when she leaves the auction house this summer. Changes in the upper echelons of the auction world demonstrate how companies are trying to reposition themselves for growth during the pandemic, said Natasha Degen, chair of art market studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology. This is a ... More | | 
A view of an electronic billboard featuring animated artwork by British artist David Hockney in Times Square on May 01, 2021 in New York City. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- A new video work by David Hockney, one of the worlds most celebrated living artists, has been unveiled across a network of the worlds most iconic outdoor video screens in London, New York, Seoul and Tokyo this May. The global collaboration, curated by Josef OConnor, Founder and Artistic Director of CIRCA, an innovative new platform showcasing digital art in the public space, is in partnership with Times Square Arts Midnight Moment program in New York, the worlds largest, longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized over 70 electronic billboards, COEX K-POP Square, the largest LED screen in Korea, and Yunika Vision in Japan. David Hockney, said: What does the world look like? We have to take time to see its beauty. That's what I hope my work will encourage people to do when they see it on the large screens. The new ... More |
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| David Zwirner opens two concurrent exhibitions of new work by Carol Bove | | Recent acquisitions on display at the Morris Museum of Art | | Christie's France announces a sale dedicated to women artists | 
Carol Bove, 2020-008, 2020 (detail) © Carol Bove. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting two concurrent exhibitions of new work by American artist Carol Bove (b. 1971) at its 537 West 20th Street and 34 East 69th Street locations in New York. These presentations coincide with her work being featured in The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances arent helping (on view through November 2021) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Known for works that incorporate found and constructed elements with a unique formal, technical, and conceptual inventiveness, Bove stands as one of the foremost contemporary artists working today; her work has consistently challenged and expanded the possibilities of formal abstraction. On view at the gallerys West 20th Street space, features a group of seven large-scale, vertically oriented works in one of Boves largest installations yet. Boves new sculptures convey an apparent lightness that belies their materiality, and continu ... More | | 
Edgar Nye, Poppies, undated. Oil on board. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
AUGUSTA, GA.- An exhibition of recent acquisitions, currently on display at the Morris Museum of Art, highlights a selection made from the more than two hundred works of art added to the permanent collection during 2020. The exhibition remains on display through June 6, 2021. Recent Acquisitions celebrates the art of the South and the artists who created it, as well as the many generous donors whose gifts of art have broadened and deepened the museums already admired collection. Those donors include: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City; Bobbi Adams, a stalwart figure in South Carolinas art scene from her home and studio in Bishopville; the estate of Lucile Eleanor Caraker (through the intercession of Jean Michael, Cole Murphy, and Mary Ann Sears); Nelson Danish, longtime resident of Burke County who now lives in North Augusta, South Carolina; Dr. Mary Frances Gardner of New Orleans; Kate and Kevin Grogan of August ... More | | 
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Mrs Charles Mitoire. Estimate: 100,000-150,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
PARIS.- For the first time, Christie's in France will hold a sale dedicated to women artists, covering all mediums - ancient and modern paintings, sculptures, books and autographed letters, photographs, engravings, design, jewels, fashion. The panorama will pay tribute to women artists working over five centuries, of different nationalities, all of whom have marked art history, from the 16th to the 21st century. Alice Chevrier, specialist in the Rare Books and Manuscripts department and Bérénice Verdier, specialist in the Old Master Paintings department, in charge of the sale: "We are very proud to organise in France the first sale dedicated to women artists. In recent months, we have watched as events devoted to women artists were held by museums, including the exhibition "Peintres femmes, 1780-1830" at the Musée du Luxembourg, the upcoming exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, "Elles font l'abstraction" (Women in abstraction) and the Mooc ... More |
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| Almine Rech Brussels opens two new exhibitions | | Christie's announces highlights included in the Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art auctions | | Jill Newhouse and Mireille Mosler to present exhibitions of 19th/20th works on paper and paintings | 
Michael Kagan, Time To Go, 2021. Oil on linen, 203.2 x 152.4 cm, 80 x 60 in.
BRUSSELS.- Almine Rech Brussels is presenting Resting Point of Accommodation, a group exhibition organized with Bill Powers. Resting Point of Accommodation is an optical term for the visual distance eyes settle on when the viewer lets them drift out of focus, almost like a default setting. Its a physical state prevalent amongst daydreamers where all vision becomes a type of peripheral perspective.The blending of science with a more lyrical interpretation calls to mind Thomas Aquaniss notion of poetic knowledge, a sense of lovely bewilderment about the world. Through this lens artists were invited to participate in the group show. The extrapolations upon this theme are meant to be the faintest of breadcrumbs. With a wink toward sensory disruption, Ana Benaroyas Dont Be Cruel gives us double vision in the tradition of Warhols iconic Elvis portrait. Mike Lee employs the perfume of animation graphics for ... More | | 
An Important And Extremely Rare Blue And White KUI DRAGON Jar. Xuande Six-Character Mark In Underglaze Blue Within A Double Circle And Of The Period (1426-1435), 7 ¼ in. (18.3 cm.) high. Estimate: HK$30,000,000 50,000,000 / US$3,900,000 6,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
HONG KONG.- Christies Hong Kong Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art auctions will take place on 28 May. This season presents two dedicated themed auctions - Chinese Jade Carvings From A Distinguished European Collection and Classical Chinese Furniture From Heveningham Hall - as well as the highly anticipated Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sale, which will showcase the ever-evolving aesthetics of celebrated Chinese art forms through specially themed sections. Marco Almeida, Head of Chinese Works of Art Department, Hong Kong comments: We are privileged this season to continue our track record in bringing the very best private and institutional collections to auction with a sensational series of ... More | | 
Balthus (1908-2001), Fleurs, 1963. Photo: Jill Newhouse Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jill Newhouse and Mireille Mosler will present Dreaming of France and, Dreaming of Holland, two simultaneous exhibitions of 19th/20th works on paper and paintings at Jill Newhouse Gallery. While travel restrictions this year have prevented the two dealers for the first time in their careers from visiting Europe, their countries of expertise have remained on their mind. The result is two simultaneous exhibitions highlighting each of the galleries area of specialization. Artists flocked to the city of Paris in the late 19th century, eager to admire innovations in art and architecture, while others traveled to Holland for the fishing villages and countrysides, attracted to a world seemingly frozen in time. Each exhibition transports us so that we can see what these artists saw, in portraits, landscapes, and still lives. On view in French art of the 19th century are works by ... More |
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Basquiat Confronts the Legacy of Italian Masters
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 MAGMA gallery pens the first solo exhibition of Amandine Urruty in ItalyBOLOGNA.- MAGMA gallery is presenting The Most Incredible Things, the first solo exhibition of Amandine Urruty in Italy, from April 17th to May 29th 2021. Amandine Urruty was born in Toulouse in 1982. Her incredible technical ability in using graphite and charcoal on paper seems to take us back to our childhood, to our playrooms, to our most distant memories. In fact, each of her 12 works represents a microcosm animated by curious creatures and people. Surreal and mysterious scenes, disturbing and attractive at the same time, in which irreverent masks, toys, macabre puppets and pop icons of the past seem to find themselves in a bizarre family album. Self portrait with trunk contains the very spirit of the exhibition in small dimensions: the artist stares at us seriously, while wearing a trunk. An image with a classic and extremely ironic appearance, which tells the present but also the childish ... More  Asia Society Texas opens "The Mountain That Does Not Describe a Circle: Works by Hong Hong"HOUSTON, TX.- Asia Society Texas Center welcomes Houston-based artist Hong Hong in a new free exhibition of her large-scale paper works on view now through July 25, 2021. In this site-responsive installation, The Mountain That Does Not Describe a Circle responds to the architecture of ASTC as both a support and a counterpoint for ideas of scale, visual perception, and experiential connection. The Mountain That Does Not Describe a Circle, which includes 25 works in 5 different installations, invites viewers to more deeply consider the material structure and surfaces of paper, its function, and its ability to communicate a broad range of information. While handwriting or printed text is on most of the paper we encounter, these works by Hong Hong feature mark-making of their own which can be read through the lens of gesture the gestures of the artist as she pours the paper pulp into the ... More  Napoleon's Mideast campaign still contentious, two centuries onCAIRO (AFP).- Napoleon Bonaparte's bloody campaign in Egypt and Palestine, which marked the start of modern European colonialism in the Middle East, remains contentious two centuries after the French emperor's death. The Corsican general set sail eastwards with 300 ships in 1798, aiming to conquer Egypt and block a crucial route between Britain and its colonial territories in India. It was an occupation that was to leave thousands dead in Egypt and Palestine. But Bonaparte also brought some 160 scholars and engineers, who produced mountains of research that would play a key role in transforming Egypt into a modern state. For Egyptian writer Mohamed Salmawy, speaking ahead of the May 5 bicentenary of Napoleon's death, the venture was a mix of "fire and light". "It was a military campaign, for sure, and Egyptians put up resistance to French forces. But it was also the ... More  James Prigoff, who documented street art, dies at 93NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- James Prigoff, who after beginning his career in business turned his attention to photography, documenting public murals and street art in thousands of pictures taken all over the world and helping to legitimize works once dismissed as vandalism, died April 21 at his home in Sacramento, California. He was 93. His granddaughter Perri Prigoff confirmed his death. Prigoff was the author, with Henry Chalfant, of Spraycan Art (1987), a foundational book in the street-art field that featured more than 200 photographs of colorful, intricate artworks in rail tunnels, on buildings and elsewhere not only in New York, then considered by many to be the epicenter of graffiti art, but also in Chicago, Los Angeles, Barcelona, London, Vienna and other cities. It included interviews with many of the artists and even captured some of them in the act of creating their work. ... More  UCCA announces appointment of Peter Eleey as Curator-at-LargeBEIJING.- UCCA Center for Contemporary Art announced that Peter Eleey has joined UCCA as Curator-at-Large. Eleey will advise on the development of the museums exhibitions and programs as UCCA expands to Shanghai next month and continues its work at UCCA Dune, which opened in Beidaihe, Hebei province in 2018. Eleey will collaborate with the UCCA team to further elaborate its curatorial direction and process. He will also periodically organize exhibitions at UCCA and work to expand the museums program and partnerships from his base in New York. UCCA Director Philip Tinari notes, I have known Peter and admired his work for a long time. His role in shaping MoMA PS1s leading program and expanding its capacity over the past decade makes him an ideal partner for UCCA during this next phase of our development. His remarkable curatorial vision, and especially ... More  Anne Douglas, widow of Hollywood legend Kirk, dies at 102LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Anne Douglas, a philanthropist and widow of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, her family said. She was 102. Kirk Douglas, who died in February 2020 at the age of 103, met his future wife in Paris in 1953, while filming "Act of Love." After a whirlwind courtship, the couple got married in Las Vegas on May 29, 1954. "It wasn't romantic, but it was legal and her new husband vowed that someday he would marry her again in a big celebration," the Douglas family said in their statement. Kirk Douglas, one of the last superstars of Hollywood's golden age of cinema renowned for performances in "Spartacus" and "Paths of Glory," fulfilled that promise in 2004 for their 50th anniversary. The couple were married for 66 years and had two sons, Peter and Eric. Their family also included two other sons, Michael and Joel, children from ... More  M 2 3 opens an exhibition of recent work by Amina Ross, Chadwick Rantanen, Sean DonovanNEW YORK, NY.- M 2 3 presents 4 - an exhibition of recent work by Amina Ross, Chadwick Rantanen, Sean Donovan. The exhibition is on view 24 April through 06 June 2021. /// It should be noted that theyre also exist diagonal relations, as it were, between the opposing corners of this rectangle. First of all, between articulation and derivation: if the existence of an articulated language is possible, with words and juxtaposition, interlocking or arranging themselves in relation to one another, Then it is so only in so far as the words of that language starting from the original values from the simple act of designation that was their basis have never ceased to move further and further away, by a process of derivation, does acquiring a variable extension; hence an access that cuts across the whole quadrilateral of language; and it is along this line that the state of the language is marked ... More  Works by Nydia Blas and Devin Troy Strother join the permanent collection of the California African American MuseumLOS ANGELES, CA.- Over the Influence announced the acceptance of works by Nydia Blas and Devin Troy Strother into the permanent collection of the California African American Museum (CAAM). Each individual will have two artworks join the museums collection- Blas photographs Way Up and Whatever You Like, both from 2017, and Strothers sculptures downward thoughts of colour, 2020 and guuuuurl you know i love me some yves kleins to, 2013. Nydia Blas (b. 1981) is a visual artist whose work focuses on womanhood, self identity, and race politics. Her highly acclaimed photo series The Girls Who Spun Gold is a collection of images of young black women from a Girl Empowerment Group the artist founded in Ithaca, New York. Blass work was ... More  Freeman's to bring Sylvia Shaw Judson's Bird Girl to auction for the first timePHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans will present Sylvia Shaw Judsons Bird Girl, the highlight of its June 6 American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists auction. This fresh-to-market work is one of the most recognizable American sculptures to ever appear at auction. Conceived in 1936 by the Chicago-based Judson, Bird Girl was cast by Roman Bronze Works in New York. One of four extant original bronzes, this iconic image is immediately familiar from Jack Leigh's haunting photograph used as the cover of John Berendts 1994 best-selling novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. This life-size statue of a nine-year-old girl holding a pair of shallow bowls in outstretched arms has been in the same private family collection in Reading, Pennsylvania for generations, and now makes its first public appearance since 1939, following its discovery by Freeman's during a routine estate appraisal. ... More  Christie's announces Handbags and Accessories live auction in Hong KongHONG KONG.- Christies will present a meticulously curated Handbags and Accessories live auction on 21 May at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The sale features over 230 lots of some of the most sought-after and rarest collectible pieces from legendary fashion houses such as Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and Chanel. With estimates ranging from HK$10,000 to HK$1,200,000, style connoisseurs and collectors worldwide will easily find their desired pieces at different budgets in this sale. Led by The Kellywood a rare, fauve barénia leather & bog oak Kellywood 22 with palladium hardware, Hermès 2020 (Estimate: HK$600,000 800,000), the auction will also offer other coveted designs from the revered brand including the renowned Himalaya, a selection of limited edition styles, prestigious custom-made pieces, charming Kelly Dolls, exotic skin handbags and lifestyle ... More  Mudam Luxembourg presents over two hundred images from the Archive of Modern ConflictLUXEMBOURG.- With Enfin seules (alone at last), Mudam Luxembourg Musée dArt Moderne Grand Duc Jean presents a selection of over two hundred images from the Archive of Modern Conflict. Established in London in 1992, the Archive of Modern Conflict describes itself as a repository for the lost and forgotten stories that lie hidden in the photographic record. Initially focusing on conflict, it has grown into something more resembling a laboratory than a traditional archive. Today it is one of the largest collections of photography in the world, comprising over eight million images and producing books and exhibitions that span a multitude of genres. Presenting photographs from across several continents and a period that extends from the early history of the medium in the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s, Enfin seules offers a fresh look at the photography of the natural ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Karel Appel died May 03, 2006. Christiaan Karel Appel (25 April 1921 - 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in the museum of Great Samo and MoMA. In this image: Karel Appel, "Portrait of Rudi Fuchs". Photo: Bram Saeys.
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