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Herve Di Rosa (b. 1959-) sculpture of crocodile driving car, signed, French, 1983, metal, enameled metal and other media; car is 72in. wide. Est. $15,000-$20,000
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Every auction hosted by Palm Beach Modern is an event to remember, from its complimentary catered buffets and valet parking to the comfortable, friendly environment in which outstanding modern art and design are showcased. Over the weekend of February 23-24, Palm Beach Modern Auctions will share the spotlight with its spinoff company, Urban Culture Auctions, bringing bidders premier contemporary and modern art along with fascinating entertainment memorabilia, cool designer goods, and many other tangible artifacts reflecting todays ever-changing global culture. The Saturday, February 23 session is a Palm Beach Modern Auctions production and begins at 12 noon Eastern time, with all forms of remote bidding available, including live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers. The 492-lot offering includes the best of several important collections from art aficionados, noted gallerists, former art dealers, and estates. The ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A store sign depicting the profile of late German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is pictured at the Karl Lagerfeld concept store in Berlin, on February 20, 2019. The fashion world has been plunged into mourning by the death of legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld, the rapier-witted dandy who ruled over the industry for half a century. The German fashion designer has died at the age of 85. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
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 | | Bruce Museum bolsters permanent collection with recent gifts | | Strong attendance and sales marked the inaugural edition of Frieze Los Angeles | | Christie's Pre-Columbian sale led by a private Swiss collection and a very rare Aztec goddess | 
Frank Vincent DuMond (American 1865-1951), Upper Margaree (detail). Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 33 in. framed. 2018.07.01-02. Gift of Jill Warren. Bruce Museum Collection 2018.
GREENWICH, CONN.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, welcomed the New Year by making a number of significant additions to its permanent collection. At a meeting in late December, the Museums Collections Committee, chaired by Lynne Pasculano, reviewed an array of proposed gifts. True to its original charter, the Museum accessioned 24 separate gifts totaling 202 objects from the fields of art, history, and natural history to complement its long- and short-term exhibitions. Among a number of fine works of art acquired in 2018 by noted artists such as Alfred Thompson Bricher, Emil Carlsen, Elmer MacRae, and Emilio Sánchez-Perrier were two landscapes by American painter Frank Vincent DuMond that were donated by Jill Warren. A native of Rochester, NY, DuMond was an important American Impressionist ... More | | 
Victoria Miro, Frieze Los Angeles 2019. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy of Mark Blower/Frieze.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Frieze Los Angeles debuted as a new international art fair on February 14, 2019 and closed on Sunday, February 17, 2019, celebrating the citys pivotal role in the international art community. The fair attracted 30,000 attendance across the gallery tent and backlot program, including civic leaders, international art collectors, curators, critics, and members of the Hollywood entertainment community. 70 local and international galleries participated, and robust sales were reported from the opening hours of the fair and throughout the weekend. Frieze Los Angeles also built on Friezes long-standing commitment to curated content, with a non-stop program of immersive artworks, talks and screenings beyond the gallery tent in Paramount Pictures Studios. Frieze Projects, curated by Ali Subotnick, took over the New York City backlot with site-specific artist commissions; alongside Frieze ... More | | 
Aztec stone corn goddess named Chicomecóatl. Estimate: 100,000-125,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- Christies Paris will present on 9 April its annual Pre-Columbian auction, led by the most important private Swiss collection of Mezcala art with 90 works and further 50 lots with various owner provenances, ranging in date from 900 B.C. to 1350 A.D., from the cultures of Mezcala, Maya, Colima, Valdivia, Aztec and Veraguas. The auction is valued at a mid-estimate of 1.5 million. Private collections in the field of Pre-Columbian art are rare and to bring these to light and to share the beauty of their items with the wider public is a true pleasure. In April 2018 the collection of the late Professor Prigogine, a Nobel Prize Chemist of Russian origin, who started collecting in the early 1960s, had not been seen publicly for over 30 years - the collection realized 1,986,750 doubling its pre-sale estimate. A year later, the upcoming Pre-Columbian auction leads with another ... More |
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| | | Dealer discovers ancient fragment from Seti I's tomb in Valley of Kings | | Albert Einstein's God Letter highlights Treasures from the Eric C. Caren Collection at Bonhams | | Works from Frank Stella's personal collection to be offered at Christie's | 
Antonia Eberwein, of Galerie Eberwein Ancient Art in Paris, will unveil the piece at TEFAF Maastricht on March 16.
PARIS.- A dealer due to stand at the worlds most important art fair for the first time has revealed an astonishing discovery linked to the 3300-year-old tomb of Pharaoh Seti I. Antonia Eberwein, of Galerie Eberwein Ancient Art in Paris, has helped fill in a missing piece of the jigsaw to shed light on the tomb, which has had to be sealed for the past 30 years because of deterioration. She will unveil the piece at TEFAF Maastricht on March 16. Despite being one of the best-known tombs in the Valley of the Kings and having seen millions of visitors, Seti Is resting place remains one of the most mysterious and unknown of Egypts monuments to the cult of the dead. Humidity and tourists have had a damaging effect on the colours and clarity of the designs and hieroglyphs in the tomb, and only a few, rather inaccurate drawings of the interior have ever been published. When Giovanni Belzoni, ... More | | 
Einstein "God Letter" in English. Einstein, Albert. 1879-1955. Estimate: $100,000-200,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announces the seventh installment collector Eric C. Caren's voluminous collection of How History Unfolds on Paper, an online-only sale from March 6-14, with an exhibition in the New York galleries March 7-11. The collection begins in the 17th century and covers 4 decades of American and world history, focusing primarily on letters, documents, and printed media. Highlighting the sale is an Albert Einstein letter written to a young U.S. Naval Officer near the end of World War II (estimate: $100,000-200,000). The young man had written to Einstein relaying a conversation he'd had with a Jesuit priest who claimed he had convinced the scientist to believe in a "supreme intellect which governs the universe." Rather than his usual cagey response, Einstein admits that he has always been an atheist, but that the world is indeed wondrous: "We have to admire ... More | | 
Joan Miro, Peinture, 1927. Estimate: £1.2-1.8 million/ $1.6-2.4 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present Continuum: Selected Works from Frank Stellas Personal Collection, works personally selected by the artist that will be offered across Christies Sales in London and New York throughout 2019, including works in The Art of the Surreal, London, 27 February; Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London, 6 March; Old Master Paintings, New York, 2 May; and Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, New York, May 2019. Barrett White, Executive Deputy Chairman, Post-War and Contemporary Art, New York, remarked: Frank Stella is unequivocally one of the great artists of our time. He is an artistic polymathan expert on Renaissance Art, a teacher of architecture, a trailblazing painter, a brilliant printmaker and an innovative sculptor. The selection that we present here illustrates one of Stellas lesser known facets: his passion as a collector. Continuum: Select Works ... More |
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| | | Saint Louis Art Museum acquires 'Charles I' by Kehinde Wiley | | Hauser & Wirth announces representation of Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi | | Palais de Tokyo opens first exhibition in France of works by Theaster Gates | 
Kehinde Wiley, American, born 1977; Charles I, 2018; oil on linen; 96 x 72 in.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum recently purchased Charles I, a large-scale painting by Kehinde Wiley and one of the standout works from the recent exhibition of Wileys paintings at the museum. This painting is one of two works in the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis that Wiley based on a 1633 portrait of the English king by Daniel Martensz Mytens the Elder. The exhibition featured 11 paintings that were based on eight works from the Museums collection and one print from a local collection. Wiley creates large-scale oil paintings of contemporary African-American subjects that address the politics of race and power in art. Recalling the grand traditions of European and American portraiture, he depicts his models in poses adapted from historic paintings. Last year, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled Wileys official portrait of former President Barack Obama. To prepare ... More | | 
Portrait of Roberto Cuoghi. © Roberto Cuoghi. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Alessandra Sofia.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced worldwide representation of acclaimed Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi. Cuoghi is renowned for a diverse body of work that intentionally defies categorization. He skillfully masters the techniques of painters, sculptors, musicians, cartoonists, animators, and ceramicists, but refuses to commit to a single or predominant medium. Cuoghis oeuvre is distinguished by a strong emphasis on process and physical change as a manifestation of psychological metamorphosis: through careful historical research he utilizes ancient and traditional systems of making, or conducts scientific experiments to enact bio-chemical reactions in his materials. The artist prefers methods rooted in experimentation including endless trial and error, re-working, destruction, and modifications to achieve his objectives. By creating his own methodologies, ... More | | 
View of the exhibition « Amalgam » by Theaster Gates, Palais de Tokyo, 2019. Photo: André Morin.
PARIS.- For his first solo show in France, Theaster Gates has initiated a new project, pursuing the exploration of social histories of migration and inter-racial relations. He thus deals more exactly with questions of black subjugation and the resulting imperial sexual domination and racial mixing, while concentrating on an episode in American history. These themes allow Gates to explore new cinematographic, sculptural and musical futures while examining the history of land ownership and race relations in North Eastern, United States. The starting point of this exhibition, entitled Amalgam, is the story of Malaga Island, a small isle in the state of Maine, in the USA: In 1912, the governor of the state of Maine had all of its inhabitants expelled. This poor population, made up of an interracial, mixed community of about 45 people, considered to be indolent by many of the local inhabitants, was forced to spread ... More |
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| | | Significant Arte Povera artists included in Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary Art sale | | Great results achieved for Marc Litzler's collection with a total of €4.4 million | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac exhibits works by Cory Arcangel with a focus on his new series of 14 Scanner Paintings | 
Untitled, 1989, by Jannis Kounellis. Estimated £100,000-150,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Untitled, 1989, by Jannis Kounellis, leads a strong selection of Arte Povera works in Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art Sale on Wednesday 6 March in London. Untitled, executed in 1989, is firmly rooted in the Italian movement's ambition to challenge the hierarchies of artistic media in the late 1960s to early 70s. The work has an estimate of £100,000-150,000. Jannis Kounellis was one of Arte Poveras central figures since the term was coined by Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant, in 1967. Untitled, 1989, shows an antique sewing machine tightly bound to a sheet of metal by a rough-hewn rope. Combining both organic and man-made elements, the work is synonymous with the movements exploration of a wide range of materials beyond the traditional use of oil paint, bronze or marble. Instead, artists chose to use everyday materials to disrupt the values of the commercialised contemporary ... More | | 
Albrecht Dürer, LApocalypse, demi-vélin blanc à coins, à la Bradel, dos lisse (reliure ancienne) Estimate : 150.000-200.000 ©Christies Images Ltd, 2019.
PARIS.- The Marc Litzler collection offered by Christies in collaboration with Bertrand Meaudre, expert of the sale and proprietor of Librairie Larchandet, attracted international collectors and totalled 4,401,375 selling 86% by lot and 94% by value. Adrien Legendre, Director of Christies Book Department : Today's results confirm collectors appetite for high quality pieces and especially for illustrated books as the exceptional Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer. We are especially honoured that Marc Litzler entrusted us with his collection. Strong results speak for themselves. We would like to thank Bertrand Meaudre particularly for his collaboration in this sale. Albrecht Dürers (1471-1528) books were well received today. One of his masterpieces, The Apocalypse, realised 346,000 against a presale high estimate of 200,000 and the Passio domini nostril Jesu, 1511, ... More | | 
FIL, 2018. IQDemy Premium UV ink on IKEA LINNMON table tops, 299,7 x 74,9 cm (118 x 29,5 in) © Cory Arcangel. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg.
SALZBURG.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting Verticals, an exhibition of works by American artist Cory Arcangel with a focus on his new series of 14 Scanner Paintings. These new works are shown together with a number of drawings, a laser animation, two video sculptures referring to Nam June Paik's TV Buddha and a new minimalist sound installation. A pioneer of technology-based art, Arcangel works in a wide variety of media, including music composition, video, modified video games, performance and the Internet. The ease with which he recognises how to use software, hardware and Internet resources as raw artistic material, placing them in new contexts, reveals a new kind of style. The ageing process of technologies is always a central question in his oeuvre. The Scanner Paintings, a series conceived ... More |
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 Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Art sale to be curated by designer Roubi L'RoubiLONDON.- Bonhams announced that Roubi LRoubi, curator of the Saatchi Gallerys exhibition Forests and Spirits: Figurative Art from the Khartoum School will curate a section of its African Art sale on Wednesday 20th March at its New Bond Street Saleroom. The auction will feature works chosen by LRoubi in a section called the Creative Currents of the Nile. Roubi LRoubi said I am thrilled to have been invited to curate this important and ground-breaking exhibition. Art depicts the human condition in real-time and nowhere is this more authentically rendered than in the artists that lived and worked along the Nile. Other artists featured by Roubi LRoubi in Creative Currents of the Nile include Ibrahim El-Salahi, a founder of the eminent Khartoum art school, with his work Standing Figure, estimate £15,000-20,000. Sudanese artist Salah El Mur, a graduate from the school, who paints the peop ... More Exhibition presents a survey of the heights of the American watercolor movement from around 1870-1940NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art will explore the heights of the American watercolor movement in Watercolor: An American Medium. On view Feb. 21June 23, 2019, the exhibition features spectacular works by the leading watercolor artists of the 19th century as well as modern artists. The exhibition includes selections from the Chrysler Museum of Arts collection of works on paper, as well as works borrowed from collections throughout Hampton Roads, including the Hampton University Museum and several private owners. Because the watercolors in the Chryslers collection are especially sensitive to light, they are only displayed for limited periods to preserve the richness of their color. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view some of the Chryslers hidden gems. Bringing together these works from the Chrysler and its community allows for exciting ... More Jeu de Paume opens retrospective exhibition of photographs by Luigi Ghirri PARIS.- This first retrospective of photographs taken outside his native Italy by Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) focuses on the 1970s. It covers a decade in which Luigi Ghirri produced a corpus of colour photographs unparalleled in Europe at that time. Luigi Ghirri, who was a trained surveyor, began taking photographs at weekends in the early 1970s, devising projects and themes as he roamed up and down the streets, the piazzas and the suburbs of Modena. He cast an attentive and affectionate eye on the signs of the outside world, observing, without openly commenting on them, the changes wrought by humans to the landscape and the housing in the Reggio Emilia, his province of birth. It was a barometer for a local vernacular exposed to the advent of new forms of housing, leisure and advertising. I am interested in ephemeral architecture, in the provincial world, in objects ... More Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art: Putting the Tea in TeessideMIDDLESBROUGH.- Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art is to lead Teesside Universitys Fine Art provision. In this move MIMA, a renowned international museum with a civic mission and community engagement at its heart, will support new generations of artists to successfully begin their creative working lives. Drawing on MIMAs global professional networks of artists and institutional partners, Teesside Universitys Fine Arts courses locate under the guidance of MIMA from Easter 2019 to prepare for a new cohort of students in September 2019. With MIMA as a creative hub, students will gain the opportunity to connect with world-leading artists preparing new exhibitions and established curators working on commissions, projects and collections. MIMA has an innovative approach to community engagement and students will gain an insight into the wider civic role ... More International campaign to save mill featured in 'Outlander'BOSTON, MASS.- The National Trust for Scotland and The National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA are each launching international campaigns tomorrow, February 20, 2019, to raise $15,000 to restore one of Scotlands most picturesque mills, Preston Mill. Under the care of NTS, the mill is popularly known as the fictional Lallybroch where STARZs hit series Outlander filmed many of its most memorable scenes. Located on the banks of the River Tyne in East Linton, Preston Mill was one of the regions last working grain mills, being used commercially until 1959. The eighteenth-century mill is now in need of urgent help to repair its water wheel after the mechanism which allows it to turn broke over the winter months, causing it to jam in a fixed position. The enormous popularity of Outlander in the United States inspired NTSUSA to collaborate with NTS to ... More 34 carat diamond tops $500,000, Chicago World's Fair vase soars to $135,000 at ClarsOAKLAND, CA.- On Sunday, February 17th, the energy in the saleroom at Clars Auction Gallery was electrifying as bidders waited anxiously for numerous historic lots to be presented for sale. Phone bidders were poised from around the world as well for what would become an international bidding event. A 34.28 carat fancy light yellow old mine cut diamond and platinum ring that boasts both rarity and rich history came to the sale from the historic Spenger Collection of the San Francisco Bay Area. Bidding on this extraordinary diamond opened at $200,000 and the sale price quickly escalated to $530,000 selling to a bidder in the saleroom. This diamond rings provenance purportedly dates back to King Kalakaua of Hawaii who reportedly purchased this ring in 1887. In 1890, the King took out a loan on the ring from Crocker Bank in San Francisco but ... More Views of the East triumph at Bonhams 19th century picture sale in LondonLONDON.- Two paintings by the Austrian painter, Ludwig Deutsch (1885-1935), sold for a combined total of more than £1million in Bonhams 19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art Sale in London today (20 February). The sale made a total of £2,592,563. At the Mosque (1895) sold for £560,750 (estimate: £300,000-500,000) and Respect (1902) made £512,750 (estimate: £250,000-350,000). The works had been in the same private collection for over 40 years. Bonhams Director of 19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art, Charles OBrien said: I am delighted by the result. Deutsch was a magnificent painter whose painstaking attention to detail and beautifully controlled brushwork has made him one of the most coveted of painters in this genre. During the 1890s, Deutsch visited Egypt several times, ... More Alphonse Mucha & Art Nouveau lead Vintage Posters at SwannNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries February 7 sale of Vintage Posters saw numerous firsts and records. Nicholas D. Lowry, Swann President, noted, Lively bidding for ski posters and Art Nouveau images set the pace for an enthusiastic auction where eager bidders drove prices high for rare examples. Collectors dominated the activity. The sale was led by Alphonse Muchas Documents Décoratifs, 1902, a complete portfolio with 72 plates displaying examples of jewelry, furniture and silverware, as well as illustrations of how to draw women and flowers. The portfolio, which prominently displayed Muchas stylistic expertise, reached $18,750. Other notable works by the artist included Rêverie, 1897, which sold for $8,125; Biscuits Lefèvre Utile, 1897, The Seasons, 1896, a group of four decorative panels on fabric, and The Times of the Day ... More Judith Linhares' first solo exhibition with P·P·O·W on view in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is presenting Hearts on Fire, Judith Linhares (b. 1940) first solo exhibition with the gallery. Rooted in the California Bay Area Counter Culture of the 60s and 70s, Linhares practice combines modes of abstract expressionism with Bay Area figuration to create uniquely irradiant paintings. Linhares, whose prolific career spans nearly four decades, is now receiving due recognition for her lasting influence on feminist figuration and its recent resurgence. Hearts on Fire, a title that references the commercial name for a particular cut of diamond, describes a singular fantastical universe in which men are removed from the pictorial landscape. With her distinctly lush, almost edible, colors, Linhares depicts mythological women communing with nature alongside colorful portraits of farm animals and floral still lives. In works such as Saturday ... More New Art Dealers Alliance adds 17 new gallery membersNEW YORK, NY.- New Art Dealers Alliance, the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art, announced the addition of 17 new NADA Gallery Members to its international community. The new members represent the organizations growth as it continues to develop year-round programming and resources for its community. 17ESSEX, New York 321 Gallery, New York A.I.R. Gallery, New York Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York Helena Anrather, New York Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta Jack Barrett, New York EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York Essex Flowers, New York Franz Kaka, Toronto HOUSING, New York Howl! Happening, New York Larrie, New York OCHI PROJECTS, Los Angeles Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest PRIMARY, Miami Volume Gallery, Chicago ... More Osservatorio Fondazione Prada opens "Surrogate. A Love Ideal"MILAN.- Surrogati. Un amore ideale (Surrogate. A Love Ideal), an exhibition curated by Melissa Harris, opens on 21 February 2019 at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan. Comprising a selection of 42 photographic works by Jamie Diamond (Brooklyn, 1983) and Elena Dorfman (Boston, 1965), the project on view until 22 July 2019 - explores the notions of familiar, romantic and sexual love. Both artists focus on a specific and unconventional aspect of this universal theme: the emotional link between a man or a woman and a synthetic representation of a human. As explained by Melissa Harris, together, Diamonds and Dorfmans work presented in Surrogati vividly and nonjudgmentally documents the interactions of humans with their lifelike, inanimate companions. In her series Forever Mothers (2012-2018) and Nine Months of Reborning (20 ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy was born February 21, 1927. Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (born 21 February 1927) is a French fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. In this image: French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy poses at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, on November 23, 2016 during a retrospective of the designer's work at the exhibition To Audrey With Love. Bart Maat / ANP / AFP.
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