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In contrast to his watercolours and paintings, Cézanne's drawings were rarely exhibited due to their fragility and, surprisingly, they have been little studied. Photo: Kunstmuseum Basel, Julian Salinas.
BASEL.- The Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel possesses the most comprehensive and significant collection of drawings by Paul Cézanne (18391906), with a total of 154 sheets. These provide the foundation for an extensive exhibition of more than 200 works that thematize the importance of drawing in the entirety of Cézanne's uvre, from the sketches and studies, to the water colours and the paintings. As early as 1934 and 1935, the Kunstmuseum Basel had already acquired two large lots of drawings from the estate of Paul Cézanne through the Swiss art dealer Wener Feuz. The purchase was made with the help of private donations, most notably from the collectors Martha and Robert von Hirsch. With this acquisition, the Kunstmuseum Basel became the first institution to recognize the significance of Cézanne's graphic uvre which was largely unknown at the time thus preventing the further dispersal of th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Chinese artist Liu Bolin poses during a photo session in Paris on June 10, 2017. JOEL SAGET / AFP
| 'Little Prince' watercolours top 500,000 euros at auction | | Warhol's first self portrait to be offered at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London | | The J. Paul Getty Museum and Italian officials announce agreement to return first century B.C. sculpture to Italy | 
The first work, an A4-sized image of the children's character watching a sunset, smashed its estimate to sell for 294,000 euros ($331,000).
PARIS.- Two watercolours of "The Little Prince", French polymath Antoine de Saint-Exupery's world-famous golden-haired creation, fetched more than half a million euros at auction in Paris on Wednesday. The first work, an A4-sized image of the children's character watching a sunset, smashed its estimate to sell for 294,000 euros ($331,000), according to the Artcurial auction house. The second piece depicting the prince laying on his stomach in a rose garden sold for 226,000 euros. "The prices reached by these iconic images are commensurate with this universal work and its international reputation," said Guillaume Romaneix, a books and manuscript specialist with Artcurial. "The Little Prince" ("Le Petit Prince"), a novella charting the fantastical interstellar voyage undertaken by the eponymous hero, has sold 145 million copies worldwide and been translated ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1963-64. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- A work from Andy Warhols very first series of self-portraits will star as part of Sothebys Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 28 June 2017. In the early 1960s the legendary Pop art pioneer had achieved renown for his candid portrayals of luminaries including Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor. Self-Portrait, 1963-64, represents the moment that Warhol stepped out from behind the camera and into the glare of its flashbulb and the moment that Warhol the icon was born. This was a turning point that reverberated throughout his oeuvre, as Warhol joined the ranks of Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Picasso to take his place among the most important and influential self-portraitists in the history of art. Created when Warhol was 35 years old, Self-Portrait will be offered at auction for the first time, 30 years after the artists death in 1987. In the age of Instagram, Warhols fabled prediction t ... More | | 
Statue of Zeus Enthroned, artist unknown, Greek, about 100 B.C. Marble, 74 Ã 46 Ã 45.6 cm (29 1/8 Ã 18 1/8 Ã 17 15/16 in.).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the voluntary return of a marble statuette representing the god Zeus which dates to about 100 B.C. The Museum acquired the sculpture in 1992. The Museum made its decision to return the Statue of Zeus Enthroned, a 29-inch high marble statuette, following thorough consideration of information provided by Italian officials, including a recently discovered fragment of the statue. The sculpture may originally have served as a cult statue in a private shrine of a wealthy Greek or Roman home. It appears to have spent a long period of time submerged in the sea and is partly covered in heavy marine incrustations. The Getty values greatly its relationships with Italian colleagues in museums and other cultural sectors, said Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The decision to return ... More |
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| Art market eyes rebound as Basel fair kicks off | | Marc Straus announces representation of Doug Argue | | Art Gallery of New South Wales to join world's greatest art museums | 
Kicken Berlin. Klaus Rinke © Art Basel.
BASEL (AFP).- The global art market appeared to collectively sigh with relief as deep-pocketed collectors descended on Art Basel this week after two years of dwindling sales. The world's biggest contemporary art fair opens to the public on Thursday, but VIPs got an advance peak at the vast array of artworks for sale. They range from 20th century masters like Pablo Picasso to today's cutting-edge creations. Nearly 300 galleries representing more than 4,000 artists from around the world have put their best goods on display at the show, which has become unmissable for sellers and collectors alike. "The mood is very, very strong," enthused Art Basel director Marc Spiegler. "There are great collectors here. Great artworks. There is a very good energy. Very good atmosphere," he told AFP ahead of the public opening, adding that ... More | | 
Doug Argue, Footfalls Echo in the Memory, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 99 x 95 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus announced that Doug Argue has joined the gallery, where an exhibition of new paintings will open in early 2018. New York City-based artist Doug Argues thirty-year painting career has culminated in a wellknown and recognizable body of work that ranges from pure abstraction to representation. His compositions have a sense of rhythm, as though music and dance are pulsing through. In his most recent work, Argue integrates words or phrases culled from literary classics such as Moby Dick to sonnets by thirteenth century poet Petrarch. Letters are individually stretched, skewed, rotated, and then each painted over the underlying image conferring a narrative to the work; elusive perhaps, a story which is accessible if only we knew the key. Argue comments, There are many ... More | | 
Image of Sydney Modern Project, view from north-east. © Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2017.
SYDNEY.- The NSW Governments $244 million funding commitment to support the expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales will transform the much-loved and historic Gallery into one of the worlds greatest art museums. Welcoming the landmark announcement made today by Arts Minister Don Harwin, Art Gallery of NSW director Dr Michael Brand said he was delighted with the funds. The expansion will significantly increase space for the Gallery to exhibit art, and is expected to attract two million visitors annually. This is a remarkable day for the Gallery and the Australian arts community, Dr Brand said. Our expanded Gallery will deliver an iconic building that combines art, architecture and landscape in an extraordinary way, and in one of the most breathtaking locations ... More |
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| The Redwood Library & Athenaeum announces new contemporary curator and summer lecture series | | Exhibition of oil pastel diptychs by Daisy Craddock opens at Garvey/Simon | | Christie's announces highlights from its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London | 
Maltz-Leca will be responsible for implementing a slate of exhibitions, presentations and special programs.
NEWPORT, RI.- The Redwood Library and Athenaeum announces the appointment of Dr. Leora Maltz-Leca as Curator of Contemporary Projects. Maltz-Leca will be responsible for implementing a slate of exhibitions, presentations and special programs with an emphasis on global contemporary art. In keeping with its tradition of robust programming, this summer the Redwood will launch its initial Contemporary Art Lectures with Maltz-Leca presenting an in-depth analysis into the history of global contemporary art in the three-part series: Wednesday, June 21: Flashbacks to Modernism or Where Does Contemporary Art Come From & Where is It Going? Wednesday, June 28: Mapping the Spaces of Global Contemporary Art Wednesday, July 5: Keeping Time or Refusing It: Contemporary Art & the Politics of Time This is a significant addition to our staff and an important expansion of our ... More | | 
Daisy Craddock, Cara Cara Study, 2017 (detail). Oil pastel and oil stick on Arches paper, 6 x 6 in (15.24h x 15.24w cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon presents Daisy Craddock: Summer Produce, an exhibition of oil pastel diptychs fresh from the studio, by Daisy Craddock. Her subjects flavors and fragrances can be sensed right away, and though these works appear to be minimalist squares of color from a distance, they are decidedly realist in nature. With skin on the left and flesh on the right, the diptychs display a subtle yet detailed complexity that is created from layers of scumbled and polished oil pastels and oil sticks. Whether from a farmstand upstate or a neighboring city deli, the fleeting nature of each edible specimen is palpable in Craddocks delicate surfaces. Her palette ranges from the rich purple of eggplant beside its smoky green-tinged ivory flesh, to the striated greens of watermelon with a juicy gradated pink interior. The exhibition explores the full range of natures color spectrum with an immediacy that both activates ... More | | 
Claude Monet, Saule pleureur, 1918-19. Estimate: £15,000,000-25,000,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- The Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 27 June, part of 20th Century at Christies, a series of sales that take place from 17 to 30 June 2017, will be led by a group of masterpiece paintings by Max Beckmann, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele and Vincent van Gogh. Claude Monets Saule pleureur (1918-19, estimate: £15,000,000 -25,000,000) is arguably one of the best of a series of ten works depicting the weeping willows surrounding Monets famous lily pond at Giverny, five of which reside in museum collections. Stripped of water and sky and painted with a heavily impastoed surface, the abstraction of Monets late works was a powerful influence on a generation of American abstract expressionist artists. A visionary approach is also seen in the allegory of Max Beckmanns political masterpiece Birds Hell (Hölle der Vögel) (1937-1938, estimate on request), a searing indictment ... More |
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| Prophet's cloak attracts Ramadan faithful in Istanbul | | Giant flying turkey once roamed Australia | | Teenagers rescued after 3-day ordeal in Paris catacombs | 
People look at and offer prayers beside what is believed to be the sacred cloak of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed in a mosque on June 2, 2017 in Istanbul. OZAN KOSE / AFP.
ISTANBUL (AFP).- A long queue of men and women standing in separate lines extends from an Istanbul mosque to see a centuries-old garment pressed down flat inside an glass exhibition case: the Prophet Mohammed's sacred cloak made of linen, cotton and silk. The Hirka-i Serif (the Noble Cloak) was brought to Istanbul in the seventeenth century, at a time when the Ottoman Empire controlled much of the Islamic world deep into today's Saudi Arabia. Every year, during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the cloak is put on special display at the Hirka-i Serif mosque in Istanbul, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors. "I was here last year. God willing, I will be here next year as long as I am alive," 78-year-old Nimet Sahin said, as caretakers warned visitors selfies were not appropriate. Neziha Polat, 76, said she felt as if she was in Mecca, the holy Islamic city to which ... More | | 
A reconstruction of Progura, right, alongside a kangaroo and modern bush turkey. By Elen Shute, from photos by Kim Benson, Tony Rodd and Aaron Camens.
SYDNEY (AFP).- A giant, flying turkey as tall as a kangaroo once roamed Australia, palaeontologists said Wednesday, after an analysis of fossils and bones from around the country revealed five extinct bird species. A team from Flinders University in South Australia said they were all chunky relatives of todays malleefowl and brush-turkeys. The megapode birds lived during the Pleistocene era, between 1.6 million and 10,000 years ago, alongside other giant Australian animals like diprotodons, marsupial lions and short-faced kangaroos. Scientists had initially thought the fossils, first found in the 1880s, represented a single ancient bird, but fresh examination has led them to conclude they belong to five different species. Among them was a turkey weighing up to eight kilograms (17 pounds) and standing taller than a grey kangaroo, which can reach 1.3 metres (4ft 3ins) -- four times ... More | | 
This file photo taken on October 14, 2014 shows a woman visiting the catacombs of Paris. PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Two teenagers were rescued from the catacombs beneath Paris on Wednesday after getting lost in the pitch-black tunnels of the underground burial ground for three days. The two, aged 16 and 17, were taken to hospital and were being treated for hyperthermia after being found by search teams and rescue dogs in the early hours of the morning. "It was thanks to the dogs that we found them," a spokesman for the Paris fire service told AFP at the end of the four-hour operation. A network of around 250 kilometres (150 miles) of underground tunnels forms a maze beneath Paris, with only a small section open to the public at an official visitors' site in southern Paris. Entering the other galleries has been against the law since 1955, but daredevil school children, explorers and alternative partygoers are known to access them through secret entrance points. The transfer of human remains from Parisian ... More |
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 Dylan accused of lifting passages of Nobel lectureNEW YORK (AFP).- A writer has charged that rock legend Bob Dylan lifted sections of his Nobel Prize lecture from SparkNotes, the free online study guide aimed at students. Dylan, the surprise winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, last week delivered a long-awaited lecture that was a requirement to receive the eight million kroner ($923,000) prize from the Swedish Academy. Author Andrea Pitzer, examining his lecture for the news site Slate, said she found striking similarities between Dylan's quotations from Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby-Dick" and the SparkNotes version. Dylan, for example, quotes Melville as calling the elusive whale Moby "the embodiment of evil." But Pitzer pointed that the phrase does not appear in the novel itself, although it appears in the SparkNotes synopsis. At least 20 references in Dylan's lecture about "Moby-Dick" bear some similarity ... More Louis Grandchamp des Raux joins ArtcurialPARIS.- Artcurial announced the arrival of Louis Grandchamp des Raux, who has integrated the auction house team since 1st June 2017. Henceforth, he will be Artcurials exclusive International Consultant, working in close collaboration with Matthieu Fournier, Artcurials associate director. While Louis Grandchamp des Raux is perfectly acquainted with the art market, in particular ancient paintings, his expertise goes beyond the speciality. Today, he places his experience and network of first-rate collectors in a position to promote Artcurials development. He thus achieves a 30-year-old dream, to move to the other side of the gavel, becoming a major player in the market. He will continue to nourish his passion for art by helping collectors to establish a collection, but also to separate from their paintings in the best conditions. « It is with an immense pleasure that ... More The V&A celebrates 50 years of Oz magazine with the acquisition of the Felix Dennis Oz ArchiveLONDON.- Today, the V&A announces that it has acquired the Felix Dennis Oz Archive, marking 50 years since the first UK publication of the revolutionary magazine, Oz. Felix Dennis was co-editor of the underground magazine published between 1967 and 1973, which sought to challenge the establishment and encapsulated the spirit of 1960s and 70s counter-culture. His archive not only recounts Ozs kaleidoscopic history across its 48 issues, but chronicles one of the most politically and socially revolutionary periods in world history. The Archive, purchased with Art Fund support, joins the V&As world-renowned Theatre and Performance collections alongside the archives of the Royal Court Theatre, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat and Glastonbury Festival. The Archive is currently being catalogued and digitised by the V&A, and highlights ... More Carnegie Museum of Art acquires important photographs by William Henry Fox TalbotPITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announced the acquisition of five photographs from the dawn of the medium. These images were created by William Henry Fox Talbot, and join an exhibition of this pioneering inventors work, opening November 18. Talbot made many photographs of lace because its delicate, geometric patterns highlighted the potential of this new medium to faithfully reproduce complex designs. Though his interest here lies in the documentary possibilities of photography, Talbot also understood its potential to beautifully frame and describe laces intricate detail. Photographs like these would help revolutionize and industrialize the lace-making trade. The desire to order and structure our environment is a deep-seated human instinct. Talbots balanced, pleasingly composed arrangement speaks to this. He also recognized ... More World record for David Jagger at Bonhams Modern British saleLONDON.- David Jaggers piercing Self-portrait set a new world record for the artist at Bonhams Modern British and Irish Sale today (Wednesday 14 June), achieving an exceptional £221,000 against an estimate of £20,000-30,000. Matthew Bradbury, Bonhams Director of Modern British and Irish Art said, Todays sale reflects the markets growing interest in and demand for works by home-grown artists. To once again set a world record for a work by David Jagger, particularly with a such a striking portrait of exceptional quality, is a wonderful result. Demand for the Yorkshire artists work has soared in recent years, demonstrated in the excited bidding between bidders online, on the phone and in the room for Jaggers self portrait. In the event, it was a battle between three bidders on the telephone. Previous works of Jaggers that have sold at Bonhams include The ... More Twentieth-century American books reach new heights at Swann GalleriesNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries June 13 auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books offered a spectrum of books that doubled as objets darte, with records for important twentieth-century works celebrating art and typography. The top lot of the sale was a signed and inscribed first edition Arthur Szyks Haggadah, 1939, printed on vellum with 14 full-page sumptuous color plates. The tome was purchased for $17,500*. A rare first edition of Grapefruit, 1964, Yoko Onos first event score, doubled its high estimate to sell for $13,750, a record for the work. Another auction record was achieved for Helen West Hellers woodcut poetry book Migratory Urge, 1928, which included an introduction by Llewellyn Jones; the signed association copy sold to a collector for $8,750. Specialist Christine von der Linn noted, The interest in hotly contested lots including Ono's Grapefruit and Heller's ... More Longtime Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon announces retirementQUEENS, NY.- Jenny Dixon, longtime director of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, today announced that she will retire from the position at the end of this year. The Museums Board of Trustees is forming a search committee to determine who will lead the Museum moving forward. Ms. Dixon joined the Museum as its fifth director in April 2003. At the time, it operated under the aegis of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, which had been established by the artist, and presented an ongoing exhibition of works by Noguchi, displayed as he had originally installed them. Early in her tenure, Ms. Dixon initiated a multi-year process that would transform the organization into an entity that encompassed a public museum, with a full roster of exhibitions and public programsall related to Noguchi, his work, and influenceand a foundation devoted to the preservation ... More Tarah Hogue named Vancouver Art Gallery's first Senior Curatorial Fellow, Indigenous ArtVANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announced the appointment of Vancouver-based writer and curator Tarah Hogue as the Gallerys first Senior Curatorial Fellow, focussing on Indigenous Art. Tarah Hogue, who is of Métis/French Canadian and Dutch ancestry, will begin her position in September, 2017. This fellowship was initiated to bring diverse perspectives to the Gallerys curatorial team, and to examine and re-contextualize the colonial legacy of the institution. Tarah Hogues curatorial practice aims to decentre institutional space and history. Using collaborative methodologies and a careful attentiveness to place, Hogue has been an active researcher of Indigenous knowledge. She grounds her own practice within a consideration of Indigenous feminisms, re/conciliation and cultural resurgence. The Vancouver Art Gallery is honoured to welcome Tarah ... More Jerwood Gallery's new exhibition shows Sir Quentin Blake in a productive modeHASTINGS.- Sir Quentin Blake is an artist and illustrator who needs little introduction. Such is his relationship with the British public that his work is as familiar as Marks & Spencer, Rolls Royce or Foxs Glacier Mints. Instantly recognisable, quintessentially British and undoubted national treasure. As adults, countless millions of us grew up with Blakes work, while current and future generations will continue to do so. We think we know the work of Sir Quentin Blake. Well, Jerwood Gallerys new show will certainly challenge that. Invited by gallery Director Liz Gilmore to explore themes that concern him, Sir Quentins new exhibition at the Hastings gallery reveals his thoughts on mental health, the squeezing of creativity and the refugee crisis. He is an astonishing artists and draughtsman, with a unique style says Gilmore. Jerwood Gallery is renowned for championing the artistic spirit ... More Anita Pallenberg, actress and Stones muse, dead at 73NEW YORK (AFP).- Anita Pallenberg, the globe-trotting actress and model who was best known as part of a love triangle within The Rolling Stones, has died, friends said Wednesday. She was 73. Pallenberg, who long struggled with drugs and alcohol, died Wednesday of unspecific causes, actress and friend Stella Schnabel announced on Instagram. Born in Rome to ethnically German parents, Pallenberg had an itinerant youth as she moved to New York to mingle in Andy Warhol's avant-garde art circles before heading to Paris to work as a model. She eventually landed cinema roles, most notably "Barbarella," the 1968 science-fiction film about a future world government starring Jane Fonda. She would become called an unofficial member of The Rolling Stones, a rare woman in the studio who offered her input on the direction of the 1968 album "Beggars Banquet." She ... More Israel's David Grossman wins Man Booker International PrizeLONDON (AFP).- Israeli author David Grossman won the Man Booker International Prize on Wednesday, sharing the £50,000 ($64,000, 57,000 euros) award with translator Jessica Cohen. Grossman, the first Israeli writer to win the prize, is now expected to enjoy a spike in international sales for "A Horse Walks Into a Bar". The book unfolds over the course of a stand-up show during which comedian Dovelah Gee exposes a wound he has been living with for years and the difficult choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him. "Thank you all. I will cherish this award and this evening," Grossman said after receiving the prize at a ceremony in central London. "I thank first of all my wonderful, devoted, translator, Jessica Cohen," the 63-year-old author added. Judge Nick Barley said Grossman "attempted an ambitious high-wire act of a novel, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Paul Georges was born June 15, 1923. Paul Georges (born June 15, 1923 Portland, Oregon - died April 17, 2002 Normandy, France). Paul made the first painting in history taken to court for libel. He lost but won on appeal: "The Mugging of the Muse", 1972-74 is a landmark 1st amendment case, the successful appeal (1981) was lead by Attorney's Victor Kovner & Harriette Dorsen. After 4 years in Asia in WWII, Georges studied with Hoffman (1947) & in Paris with Leger (1949-52). Georges moved to NYC in 1952 and was included in Clement Greenberg's 1954 "Emerging Talent" & 4 Whitney Museum "Annuals". His first review written by Frank O'Hara in Art News 1954, was for a show that never took place at co-op Hansa Gallery because the previous exhibitor refused to take down her show. Friends included Bill & Elaine de Kooning, Fairfield Porter, Aristodemos Kaldis, Pollock, Peter Busa, Kline, Rothko, Resnick & Pasloff, Gottlieb, Jane Frielicher, and Larry Rivers.
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