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Louis Rolland Trinquesse, An Interior with a Lady, her Maid, and a Gentleman, 1776, oil on canvas, unframed: 96.52 x 121.92 cm (38 x 48 in.) framed: 124.78 x 147.96 x 10.48 cm (49 1/8 x 58 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.) Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund.
WASHINGTON, DC.- When Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon I, fled to America in 1815, he packed his collection of 18th-century French painting. In an effort to spread his native country's culture across the United States, he put his works on public display, causing a sensation and inspiring a new American fascination with French art. From then on, such works made their way into museums and private collections from coast to coast. America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting, on view in the West Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from May 21 through August 20, 2017, is the first survey of American taste for French painting of the period. Presenting 68 of the finest examples found in American museums today, the exhibition tells the story of the collectors, curators, museum directors, and dealers responsible for bringing the paintings across the Atlantic and into the collections they now call home. Rococo and neoclassical ma ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Doug Argue's "Chicken Painting" was up for seventeen years in Minnesota at the Weisman Art Museum. The painting was then sent to the collector's namesake museum in Armenia, Argue thought permanently. After he passed away, his daughter wanted it back in Minnesota, so she returned it to the Frank Gehry-designed museum that is part of the University of Minnesota. This past Saturday, May 20, the Weisman Art Museum celebrated the return of the painting.
| Expressionist masterpiece by Kandinsky to appear at Auction for first time | | Works by Alberto Giacometti and Peter Lindbergh on view at Gagosian | | Kröller-Müller Museum opens major retrospective of the work of Hans (Jean) Arp | 
Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau Landschaft mit grünem Haus (detail), oil on board, 1909 (est. £15-25 million). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Kandinsky was at the forefront of the momentous changes that were to transform the face of art history and it was in the critical year of 1909 that the artist took his first steps along the path towards creating something radically new. Works from this transformative expressionist year are rare to the market, attracting strong interest whenever they appear (in 2012, another painting from 1909 made $23 million to establish a record for the artist that was only recently eclipsed). This summer, Sothebys will bring to the market one of the finest early works by Kandinsky left in private hands. Having remained in the private collection of the same family since the 1920s, Murnau Landschaft mit grünem Haus will appear at auction for the first time with an estimate of £15-25 million. Helena Newman, Global Co-Head of Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Department & Chairman of Sothebys Europe, said: Kandinsky& ... More | | 
Peter Lindbergh, Alberto Giacometti, Buste de Diego (vers 1964-1965), Zurich, 2016, 2016 Hahnemuhle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 grs 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 inches. © Peter Lindbergh © Succession Alberto Giacometti (Fondation Giacometti + ADAGP) Paris 2017 Courtesy Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, together with photographs by Peter Lindbergh. In 2016, Lindbergh was invited to photograph bronzes and plasters by Giacometti held in the collection of the Kunsthaus Zurichthe largest and most important collection of Giacometti works in a museum, including one hundred and fifty sculptures, as well as key paintings and drawings. Giacomettis work presents an unprecedented visual discourse on the figure and its relation to space. His highly distinctive entities, molded in plaster or cast in bronze, charge the spatial voids that surround them. Exemplified by the cast bronze Diane Bataille (1947), Giacomettis oeuvre is at once conceptual and emotional, anonymous and specific, archaic and modern. In ... More | | 
Jean Arp, Pre-dada drawing, 1916. Collection Arp Stiftung Berlin.
OTTERLO.- Arp: The Poetry of Forms is the first major retrospective of the work of Hans (Jean) Arp (Strasburg 1886-Basel 1966) in the Netherlands since the nineteen sixties. The German-French sculptor, painter and poet Arp is one of the most influential artists of the European avant-garde and plays an important role in the development of modern art. In addition to some eighty of his visual works drawings, collages, paintings, wood reliefs and sculptures there are also examples of Arps poetry, writings and publications. In 2017 it will be a hundred years since the founding of De Stijl. The close relationship between Arp and the leading light of De Stijl, Theo van Doesburg, is the occasion for the exhibition, which is showing from 20 May to 17 September 2017. In Arp: The Poetry of Forms, emphasis is placed on the constant interaction between visual art and poetry in Arps oeuvre and on the humour and playfulness in his works. Raised in the bilingual Alsace, the ease with w ... More |
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| Zisha teapots and Chinese seals on the podium at Gianguan Auctions | | Drawings from the early 1960's by Sonia Gechtoff on view at Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art | | Barnebys.com: Opening the digital door to the exclusive auction world | 
Songhua stone eggplant-form Inkstone has an eye at the grinding surface and the small well, forming the sun and moon. Of the Qing Dynasty, it is 7 long, signed Miao Quan Sun. Lot 279.
NEW YORK, NY.- Its the little things of daily lifematerial culture its calledthat can make collecting a joy. Among the Chinese arts, Zisha teapots and seals reflect a dedication to form that has appealed to Western civilizations since before the Portuguese arrived in the 18th century. Deep collections of both highlight Gianguan Auctions June 10 sale. Highlights of the Zisha (purple clay) teapots include works by 20th Century maker Gu Jingzhou who was named a Master of Industrial Arts by Chinas government. Several years ago, a 1948 Jingzhou teapot reached $2M USD at auction. Lot 159, for example, bears three of his artists marks. It is a tall bamboo reed pot with a mouse finial and a caterpillar spout. The pre-sale estimate is upwards of $5,000. Lot 166, with five Gu Jingzhou, artist marks is ... More | | 
Untitled, 1966. Graphite on Paper, 14.5 x 12.75 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art is presenting, Drawings from the Early 1960s, an exhibition of select drawings from the vibrant Abstract Expressionist, Sonia Gechtoff. Born in 1926 in Philadelphia, Gechtoff arrived in San Francisco in 1951 and became immersed in a potent mix of artists, poets and jazz musicians feeding off each others energy. Here she shared her social and professional life with such famous Bay Area artists as Hassel Smith, Jay DeFeo, Philip Roeber, Madeleine Diamond, Julius Wasserstein, Ernest Briggs, Elmer Bischoff, Byron McClintock, Deborah Remington and her husband, James Kelly. It was an exciting time to be an artist and an exhibition that included the work of Clyfford Still inspired her to try her hand at abstraction. She was enthralled by the expansiveness in his paintings and felt she could more fully develop her own concepts in that style. In her own words, The whole idea of pai ... More | | 
Pontus Silfverstolpe.
NEW YORK, NY.- Barnebys.com is changing the 300-year-old auction industry by connecting auctioneers and consumers in an entirely new way. Buyers at all price points anywhere in the world now have access to unique auction items, and a treasure trove of price data from across the globe. The fastest growing art market platform in the world, Barnebys.com quietly launched in the U.S. in 2016. Bolstered by a recent round of venture capital, the Scandinavian start up is preparing to take the U.S. art, antiques, vintage and collectibles market by storm. Once thought untouchable, the auction industry now faces disruption. Barnebys, a metasearch engine (or aggregator), compiles data from hundreds of sites, puts thousands of auctions and millions of items at buyers fingertips in a simple, single search. Detailed in Barnebys Online Auction Report, a new generation of consumers to whom trust, accessibility and ... More |
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| Heritage Sports photography auction recalls the joy and heartache of a century of Yankees history | | Bidsquare's "Gone Mad", rewinding to retro featuring curated midcentury furniture, design and fashion | | Xavier Hufkens presents two site-specific murals by Swiss artist Nicolas Party | 
1961 Roger Maris 61st Home Run Original News Photograph, PSA/DNA Type 1.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions' Vintage Sports Photography auction documents the highs and lows of nearly a century of New York Yankees history, featuring some of the most recognizable images ever to derive from the storied franchise. Carefully curated to just 140 lots, the auction is now open for Internet-only bidding, and will close in Extended Bidding format on Saturday May 20th. Initial bids must be placed by 10 PM Central time on Saturday night. "New York City is, of course, the media capital of the world," noted Chris Ivy, director of Sports Auctions at Heritage. "So it's little wonder that the greatest sports photographs ever captured often derive from that location. And certainly the New York Yankees have provided plenty of memorable moments worthy of the film." The legendary Babe ... More | | 
Max Bill Designed Mid-Century Wall Clock with Timer for Junghans from JenMod, asking bid $90.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bidsquare's second themed auction, Gone Mad: Rewind to Retro channels midcentury vibes featuring a curated collection of vintage furniture, decorative arts and fashion. The themed auction is open for bidding, live on Bidsquare until May 31. Featured galleries include Marlene Wetherell, Nicholas Brawer, Orley Shabahang, JenMod, ModeModerne and Lampedo. "Make it simple, but significant," Don Draper said in Mad Men at his now-iconic digs at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Step into Bidsquare's swanky office of an auction with that inspiration. Keep up the timeless look of retro chic in the office or home by browsing JenMod's high-end midcentury modern Danish furniture. Nicholas Brawer selects only pieces of the most impeccable quality, specializing in industria ... More | | 
Nicolas Party, Tree with snow, 2017. Pastel on canvas, 240 x 170 cm. Photo: Isabelle Arthuis. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- For his inaugural exhibition at the gallery, Swiss artist Nicolas Party has executed two site-specific murals that transform the interior while creating a singular environment for a recent group of large-scale pictures and bronze sculptures. Working exclusively in vivid, highly-pigmented chalk pastels either directly on the walls or primed canvases Party invites us to rediscover this once popular but now often neglected medium. Respectful of the traditions that precede him on the one hand, but radically extending them on the other, the artists handling of the medium is anything but academic. Here, all associations with drawing, delicacy and fragility have been supplanted by a fresh, graphic sensibility and a technique more akin to painting. ... More |
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| Leopold Museum opens exhibition on the paradigm of exploration and discovery | | 1856 campaign flag sells for $275,000 at Heritage Auctions, shattering world record | | Giant octopus playscape by artist Florentijn Hofman and UAP unveiled in Shenzhen | 
John Akomfrah, Tropikos, 2016. Single channel HD colour video, 5.1 sound Dauer. Duration: 36 minutes, 41 seconds. Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films; Lisson Gallery Filmstill | Video still: © John Akomfrah.
VIENNA.- Of all the waves of explorations known in history, from the Carthaginian in West Africa in 500 BC, through the Greeks ventures in Northern Europe around 380 c. 310 BC, the Han dynastys exploration of Central Asia in the 2nd century BC, the Vikings exploring most of Europe and setting foot in America around 800 to 1040 AD, the Polynesian exploration of central and south pacific until 1280, the Chinese exploration of Southeast and South Asia as well as the East African coast in the 14th century, the most striking of all, most productive and enriching for some and at the same time most devastating of all exploration ages was what has been coined the European Age of Discovery. The stories of the European explorers that charted the world from early 14th to 19th centuries in their discovery spree from Columbus to Humboldt, Cao to Cook, from Dias, da Gama or Magellan to ... More | | 
James Buchanan: An Extraordinary 1856 Campaign Flag.
DALLAS, TX.- A stunning, 1856 campaign flag for President James Buchanan set a world record at Heritage Auctions May 13 when it sold for $275,000, shattering the previous record for a campaign flag sold at auction, set by Heritage in 2009. The flag was the centerpiece of a $1.9 million Americana & Political sale that focused on memorabilia from the nation's Founding Fathers and other historic figures. "The previous record of $95,600 was set in November of 2009 for an 1860 John Breckinridge portrait flag," said Jeff Bridgman, the winning bidder and owner of Jeff R. Bridgman American Antiques of York County, Pennsylvania. Colorful campaign banners in the style of American flags were produced for every winning presidential candidate from William Henry Harrison in 1840 up through, at least, Woodrow Wilson. Highly collectible, none is rarer than the 21-1/2" x 15" flag banner for James Buchanan. "As thrilling as it was to see it sell, I was not ... More | | 
Florentijn Hofman is the Dutch artist renowned for his enlarged animal sculptures, most notably the Rubber Duck.
SHENZHEN.- Kraken , a giant octopus by artist Florentijn Hofman and creative studio UAP, has been unveiled in Shenzhen. The large-scale artwork is featured on the seaside park of Vankes One City Development in Yantian district and forms an immersive, magical playground. Florentijn Hofman is the Dutch artist renowned for his enlarged animal sculptures, most notably the Rubber Duck - a giant inflatable yellow duck created in 2007, which has since travelled to more than 25 cities around the world. Kraken has been designed alongside the Shanghai team of UAP, which has gained an international reputation for collaborating with acclaimed artists to deliver large-scale artworks. The imaginative sculpture is inspired by the history of the area where, until recently, the harbour housed a battleship, blocking the panoramic ocean views of Hong Kong. The name Kraken is a nod to the mythical giant sea monster known ... More |
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 Chewday's opens exhibition of works by Mathis GasserLONDON.- Mathis Gassers Inhabitants (Spaceships) oil on canvas, 270 x 200 cm takes as its source a meticulously constructed starship size comparison chart, uploaded as a jpg to the underground animators forum deviantart.com by a German science fiction pundit, username: DirkLoechel. The vast diagram catalogues against a black field, widely appropriated images of several hundred space vessels which have appeared throughout the canon of science fiction (a narrative mass incl. literature, film, cartoons, video games, board games). Over the course of several years, the chart was published in drafts, which DirkLoechels enthusiastic online community would collectively edit, providing detailed queries regarding the identification of various vessels, and strings of requests for additions to be made. Now finished -- and freely available to print in high resolution ... More Largest solo exhibition of Nobuyoshi Araki opens in Hong KongHONG KONG.- Over The Influence gallery is presenting the largest solo exhibition of Nobuyoshi Araki in Hong Kong. Curated by Hisako Motoo, the show features over 70 photographs including more than 50 works from Arakis acclaimed Last by Leica series and 20 polaroids. The landmark exhibition of one of the worlds most important post-war Japanese photographers, runs from 18 May 30 June 2017. Last by Leica is an ongoing project started in 2012, through which Nobuyoshi Araki documents his life, artistic work and photographic practice in the form of a visual diary. The series embodies a dual significance, all the works were captured by his Leica M7, the last analogue camera from the manufacturer, and marks the final episode of his Leica series after the success of Life by Leica which he began in the 1980s and continued in 2000 with Love by Leica. Underlying the ... More Ellis King presents Grear Patterson's "Cereal Eater"DUBLIN.- Ellis King is presenting Grear Pattersons Cereal Eater. Pattersons practice draws upon fragmentary information from popular culture and his own life to produce works that play with the fungibility of identity, autobiography, and personal inquest. In sculptures, installations, paintings, drawings, videos, and photographs, Patterson engages images and objects in a very physical, visceral manner. His closed circuit anarchy always calls authority, especially his own, into question. Desire and entropy both shape and reveal his work. For him, meaning is situational and, unstuck; it can evolve, change, acclimatise, and deteriorate. Positing cerebral concepts from psychology, philosophy, and art theory against kitschy media, awkward adolescent scenarios, and rudimentary renderings, Grear Pattersons practice works against arts hierarchical history as it expands ... More Highlights, rediscoveries of American design trends on view in new exhibitionHARTFORD, CONN.- A new exhibition brings together key paintings with more than 90 works of ceramics, furniture, glass, metalwork and textiles from the Wadsworth Atheneum's extensive collection of American decorative arts to tell stories of 300 years of design innovation. On view through Aug. 13, 2017, "Simply Splendid: Rediscovering American Design" reintroduces the museum's significant American collection and includes objects that have not been on public view in years. The selections highlight the intersections of the artifacts themselves, the museum's legacy and particular episodes in American and Hartford history. Drawing broadly from the Wadsworth Atheneum's American art collection with significant works from several sub-collections (including the Wallace Nutting Collection of Colonial American Furniture and Ironwork, the Philip ... More Exhibition presents recent initiatives designed to improve the temporary situations faced by refugeesAMSTERDAM.- Today, 60 million people are fleeing from war, or have been displaced for other reasons. They often lack even the most fundamental necessities of life. Designers and architects can get involved and respond to these needs by developing inexpensive and/or smart solutions. And at a later stage when people have arrived at a new destination designers can help them to build new lives, and integrate into society through new technologies and innovative solutions. The Stedelijk Museum presents almost 50 recent initiatives designed to improve the temporary situations faced by refugees. One of the designers central challenges was to devise practical, real-life solutions. From clothing that can double as a tent, to improved signage in a refugee camp, and from linkable plastic floor sections for temporary shelters to a digital service that helps ... More Willem Dafoe to play painter Van Gogh in new biopicCANNES (AFP).- Hollywood star Willem Dafoe is to play the painter Vincent Van Gogh in a new film about the tortured genius by artist Julian Schnabel, its producers said Sunday. "At Eternity's Gate" takes its title from one of Van Gogh's last canvasses which shows a man holding his head in his hands. "This is a film about painting and a painter and their relationship to infinity," said Schnabel, who won best director at the Cannes film festival in 2007 for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly". "It is told by a painter. It contains what I felt were essential moments in his life. This is not the official history -- it's my version," he added. Schnabel wrote the script with acclaimed French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere. The film -- which will be shot in France -- centres on Van Gogh's time in the southern French city of Arles and the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris. ... More Fifty years following the start of the Rosc Exhibitions IMMA and NIVAL revisit these landmark exhibitionsDUBLIN.- For many visitors, Rosc was the first time they would have been introduced to work by international artists such as Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Laurie Anderson among others. Indeed, from 1967 the Department of Education enabled all schools to take a day out of school to visit the Rosc exhibitions, a visionary policy which had a significant impact on future generations of artists and arts audiences. There were several landmark moments across the exhibitions including the first performance of Rest Energy by Marina Abramović and Ulay in Rosc 80, which involved Ulay holding a steel arrow pointed directly at Abramovics heart for four minutes. But there were also many controversies associated with Rosc during its 21 years, such as the movement of ancient monuments for the 1967 Rosc, the exclusion of Irish artists from ... More Pioneering conceptual multi-media exhibition by Vivan Sundaram on view at sepiaEYENEW YORK, NY.- sepiaEYE is presenting Terraoptics, a pioneering conceptual multi-media exhibition by one of Indias most prolific artists, Vivan Sundaram, that pairs two important bodies of work. Terraoptics includes installation-based video and photography that reference Sundarams ground-breaking work Black Gold (2012), a large-scale installation that debuted in the 2012 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Sundaram is considered one of the few conceptualist artists of his generation in India, having gravitated from his accomplished practice as a painter in the early 1990s towards working with assemblage, photography, video, and installation. Sundaram explains: the material genesis of Terraoptics is the large site-specific installation made up of discarded potshards from Pattanam, Kerala. The potshards were from archaeological remains attributed to the ... More Forbidden City ceramic ware and works by Christopher Wilmarth featured in exhibitions CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums hold the largest and finest collection in the West of a rare and strikingly beautiful type of ceramic ware used in the private quarters of the Forbidden City, the Chinese imperial palace in Beijing. These numbered Jun waresso named because each is marked on its base with a single Chinese numeralhave long been admired for their fine potting, distinctive shapes, and radiant purple and blue glazes. Opinions on these vessels dates of origin vary widely, and given the scarcity of numbered Jun in most museum collections, a comprehensive study of this unusual ware has never been undertaken outside the imperial collections in China and Taiwan. Drawn entirely from the museums permanent collections, "Adorning the Inner Court: Jun Ware for the Chinese Palace" ... More Million euro castle-find Mercedes leads the pack at Bonhams Spa Classic SaleSTAVELOT.- Today, 21 May, saw Bonhams triumph once again at its fourth Spa Classic Sale, held at the legendary Circuit de Spa Francorchamps, Belgium. The deafening roar of 250 GTOs, McLaren F1s and 300SLs at full throttle around the track provided the perfect background for the sale, which saw an impressive 80% of lots sold. German motor cars proved particularly popular today, with half of the top ten lots coming from the Mercedes and Porsche marques. The star of the show was the perennially popular 1958 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster, which achieved an astonishing 1,127,000 against a pre-sale estimate of 600,000-800,000. After a lengthy duel between two keen bidders, the hammer finally fell to an international buyer on the phone to a tremendous round of applause. No Bonhams sale would be complete without a barn find, but the Spa Classic auction ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Mary Cassatt was born May 22, 1844. ALLEGHENY CITY, PA.- Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. In this image: The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt, 1893-94, oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 46 in., National Gallery of Art, Washington
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