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The night was led by Pablo Picassos Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), which was competed for by three bidders to sell for £49.8m / $69.2m / 56.7m *the highest price for any painting sold at auction in GBP. Painted just months after Guernica and his Weeping Women, this appeared at auction for the first time, having remained in the same distinguished private collection since it left the artists estate. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- A Pablo Picasso portrait of his muse Marie-Therese Walter with future lover Dora Maar emerging from the shadows fetched £50 million (57 million euros, $69 million) at a London sale Wednesday, a European auction record for a painting. The 1937 "Femme au Beret et a la Robe Quadrillee (Marie-Therese Walter)" beat expectations it would sell for £36 million (41 million euros, $50 million) at the sale of impressionist, surrealist and modern art at auction house Sotheby's. It was the first time the oil on canvas had emerged on the international art market and headlined the auctioneer's first major sale of the year, it said. The identity of the seller, and its new owner, were not released. "It's an incredibly important museum quality picture," James Mackie, director of the impressionist and modern art department at Sotheby's, told AFP last week. "It comes from a key era in Picasso's career, 1937, when he makes the great painting 'Guernica'," he added, referring to the masterpiece which portray ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Creations by Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela are displayed as part of the exhibition "Margiela / Galliera 1989 - 2009" at the fashion museum Galliera in Paris on February 28, 2018. The first retrospective in the French capital devoted to Margiela, which traces his career from spring-summer 1989 to spring-summer 2009 will open on March 3, 2018. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP
| Prehistoric 'Venus' statue too hot for Facebook | | $1bn painting 'only matter of time' as art prices surge | | Gagosian Beverly Hills presents Damien Hirst's latest series | 
This undated picture released on February 28, 2018 shows the prehistoric "Venus of Willendorf" figurine pictured at the Nature Historical Museum in Vienna. Helmut FOHRINGER / APA / AFP.
VIENNA (AFP).- The prehistoric "Venus of Willendorf" figurine, considered a masterpiece of the paleolithic era, has been censored by Facebook, drawing an indignant response Wednesday from the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where it is on display. The tiny statuette of a voluptuous naked woman, which is some 30,000 years old, was discovered in the Austrian village of Willendorf in the early 20th century and is considered "the icon" of the museum, the facility's director general Christian Koeberl said in a statement. The 11 centimetre (4 inch) statue from the early stone age is "the most popular and best-known prehistoric representation of a woman worldwide," he added. The controversy began in December when Italian arts activist Laura Ghianda posted a picture of the artwork on the social networking site which went viral. After it was censored she messaged that "this statue is not 'dangerously pornographic'. The ... More | | 
Artprice founder Thierry Ehrmann told AFP the revival of the market after two years of falling prices was spectacular, with prices surging across the globe in the second half of the year.
PARIS (AFP).- The fine art market is going through such a boom that it is only a matter of time before a painting sells for $1 billion (818 million euros), according to a new report seen by AFP Wednesday. Driven by the record sale of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" to a Saudi prince for $450 million ($550 million) in November, the market is rising in a way not seen for three decades, the authoritative Artprice index said. "The latest spectacular all-time fine art auction record... for 'Salvator Mundi' represents the beginning of a new era for the art market in which the next big milestone will be the $1 billion threshold," it said. "In the meantime, we are bound to see results between $179 million and $450 million in 2018," it predicted. Artprice founder Thierry Ehrmann told AFP the revival of the market after two years of falling prices was spectacular, with prices surging across the globe in the second half of the year. "All the ... More | | 
Damien Hirst, Veil of Love Everlasting, 2017. Oil on canvas, 120 x 90 inches 304.8 x 228.6 cm. © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2018.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Gagosian will present Damien Hirsts latest series, The Veil Paintings as the 2018 Oscars show, a much-anticipated annual fixture in the Los Angeles cultural calendar. Hirsts last exhibition in Los Angeles was The Complete Spot Paintings in 2012. Following Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, his highly ambitious sculpture exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice last year, Hirst was drawn towards the immediacy of painting and a return to the studio. This new series takes the Visual Candy paintings of the 1990s as a point of departure and embraces color and gestural painting on a large scale. Referencing both Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism, The Veil Paintings layer brushstrokes and bright dabs of heavy impasto, enveloping the viewer in vast fields of color. Inspired partly by the Pointillist innovations of Georges Seurat ... More |
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| Getty Museum presents rare early American photographs | | Bavarian State Painting Collections open major special exhibition of works by Paul Klee | | 'African Mona Lisa' smashes estimates at London auction | 
Abraham Lincoln, February 1860, Mathew B. Brady (American, about 1823 - 1896). Salted paper print. Image: 19.5 Ã 14.4 cm (7 11/16 Ã 5 11/16 in.). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The early history of paper photography in the United States is a formative but rarely studied aspect of the mediums evolution. While Americans were at first slow to adopt Europes negative-positive photographic practices, the countrys territorial expansion and Civil War increased demand for images that were easy to reproduce and distribute. The exhibition Paper Promises: Early American Photography, on view February 27 May 27, 2018 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, features rare 19th-century paper negatives and paper photographs from this important era of American experimentation, including portraits of some of the countrys most notable political and cultural figures, as well as searing images from the Civil War. In the mid-nineteenth century, photographs did much more than merely document the development of the nation; increasingly they became central to debates about the U.S. and its place ... More | | 
Paul Klee, Ãber Bergeshöhe, 1917. Aquarell auf Papier auf Karton, 31 x 24,1 cm. Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag © Collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, www.gemeentemuseum.nl
MUNICH.- With Construction of Mystery the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen are dedicating their first ever major special exhibition to the work of Paul Klee, featuring around 150 works. The exhibition revolves around Klees productive years at the Bauhaus and the conflicts within modernism in the 1920s. The show presents Klee as a thinking artist who systematically explores the boundaries of the rational in his work, and transcends them to approach the mysterious and enigmatic. The organizers have managed to secure some 130 high-calibre loans from prominent public and private collections in Europe, the United States, and Japan for an exhibition which will not travel and is on show for a limited time in Munich only. Many of the works have rarely gone on show in Germany or are going on display here for the first time in decades. The Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungens extensive Munich collection inc ... More | | 
Tutu by Ben Enwonwu. Estimate: £200,000-300,000. Sold for £1.2 million (1.4 million euros, $1.7 million). Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON (AFP).- A long-lost portrait of a Nigerian princess dubbed the "African Mona Lisa" sold at auction in London on Wednesday for £1.2 million (1.4 million euros, $1.7 million), exceeding estimates and setting a record for the artist. The 1974 painting of Adetutu "Tutu" Ademiluyi, by Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu, was expected to fetch up to £300,000 (339,000 euros, $414,000) when it went under the hammer at Bonhams auction house. It described the painting of an Ife royal princess which recently turned up in a London flat after not being seen in decades as "rare and remarkable". "The portrait of Tutu is a national icon in Nigeria, and of huge cultural significance," said Giles Peppiatt, Bonham's director of modern african art. He uncovered the work after a family in north London contacted him following lucrative recent sales of Nigerian artworks at auction. Peppiatt added the family were "pretty astounded" to learn it was "a missing masterpiece". "It is very exciting to have played a part in the ... More |
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| Exhibition at Atlas Gallery celebrates Richard Caldicott's 30-year career | | New exhibition explores British influence on the quintessential American painter Winslow Homer | | The Duchess of Cambridge unveils Patron's Tour at the National Portrait Gallery | 
Richard Caldicott, Mustard, 1996. © Richard Caldicott, courtesy of Atlas Gallery.
LONDON.- Over 30 works by acclaimed British contemporary artist Richard Caldicott, many of which have never been exhibited before, are on display at Atlas Gallery this spring. The exhibition celebrates Caldicotts 30-Year career, gathering an exciting variety of works in all media, shown together for the first time. From early photographs through to his recent prints and paintings, the show illustrates the sustained innovation and experimentation within his unique personal aesthetic. Working and shifting across mediums photography, drawing and painting Caldicotts work is inextricably linked through its minimal aesthetic and focus. His early photographs of precise arrangements of Tupperware and everyday objects placed like trophies against painted backdrops are striking compositions of chromatic colour and form. The use and elevation of these usually mundane, household objects in these photographs result ... More | | 
Winslow Homer, Hark! The Lark, 1882 (detail). Oil on canvas. Layton Art Collection Inc., Gift of Frederick Layton at the Milwaukee Art Museum, L99. Photo by John R. Glembin.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The 19th-century painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is one of the most beloved figures in American art, perhaps most associated with the pastoral beauty of rural America and his dramatic Maine seascapes. The new exhibition Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England, opening March 1 and on view through May 20, 2018 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, explores how English artists and Homers nearly two-year stay in the seaside village of Cullercoats, England, impacted the style and subjects of the artists work for the rest of his career. Fifty works by Winslow Homer are featured in the exhibition, including a selection of some of his most famous early scenes of independent farmers and outdoorsmen, as well as women at leisure and mischievous country children at play. Displayed alongside the art that ... More | | 
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge at the National Portrait Gallery by Noah Goodrich, 2018 © Noah Goodrich.
LONDON.- The Duchess of Cambridge visited the National Portrait Gallery, London on Wednesday 28 February, to unveil a personal selection of portraits that comprise a Patron's Trail of the major new exhibition Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography, which opens on Thursday 1 March. The Duchess, who has been Patron of the National Portrait Gallery since 2012, selected seven images from the exhibition for which she has written personal captions displayed alongside the photographs. During her visit, The Duchess took a tour of the Victorian Giants exhibition with Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery and Phillip Prodger, curator of the exhibition, before meeting lenders and supporters in the Gallery's Ondaatje Wing Main Hall. The Duchess, an enthusiastic amateur photographer, has also written a foreword to the exhibition ... More |
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| New, large-scale paintings by Chris Martin on view at Anton Kern Gallery | | Christie's announces a series of auctions, viewings, and events during Asia Week New York | | International Slavery Museum acquires painting that depicts the powerful and resonant iconography of abolition | 
Chris Martin, Golden Age (for Harry Smith), 2018. Acrylic, oil, collage and sativa on canvas, 135 x 118 inches. Courtesy the artist and Anton Kern Gallery, New York / © the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- For his third exhibition at the Anton Kern Gallery, Chris Martin presents a number of new, large-scale paintings, inspired by the gallerys two-story atrium and the artists new upstate painting studio. Chris Martin is something of a New York institution. His Brooklyn studio floor radiates with years of glitter traces and paint stains. He approaches every canvas with a deep knowledge and respect of the mediums history. There is a sense of joy in his work; particularly in the iconic glitter pieces. Martin loves painting, and wants you to love painting too. He balances the glitter against vibrant fields of color, collaged images, and fearless gestures. There is a physical practicality to this approach, and Martin uses his whole body when making work. He can often be found literally in the paintingstepping onto the canvas and ... More | | 
A rare blue and white reverse-decorated 'dragon' Meiping, 18th century, 14.1/2 in. (36.8 cm.) high. Estimate: $150,000-200,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Asian Art Week, a series of auctions, viewings, and events, from March 16-23. This season presents six distinct live auctions featuring approximately 650 lots spanning all epochs and categories of Asian Art from archaic bronzes through contemporary Indian painting. In addition to the dedicated category sales, this season includes two stand-alone auctions, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics - The Linyushanren Collection, Part III, the third auction of a sale series of superb Chinese Ming and Qing porcelains from the Song to early Ming dynasties from an important private Japanese collection, and The Studio of the Clear Garden: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, presenting a range of ceramics, jades, and lacquers from a private collection. Taking place concurrently are three online sales, ... More | | 
Am Not I A Man and a Brother. Painting shown pre-conservation work. © National Museums Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL.- The International Slavery Museum in Liverpool has been awarded a significant grant to support the acquisition of its first painting to depict the powerful and resonant iconography of abolition. The £50,000 used to acquire Am Not I A Man and a Brother, a painting dating from around 1800, is the result of a joint funding effort, made possible through a generous grant award by Art Fund and the Heritage Lottery Funds Collecting Cultures programme. The paintings dominant motif is that of an enslaved African, kneeling, bound in chains and set against the backdrop of a Caribbean sugar plantation. It is based on a design commissioned by the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade on 5 July 1787, and is considered to be one of the first instances of a logo designed for a political cause, and used famously by the potter Josiah Wedgwood. A significant acquisition for the UK, it is only ... More |
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 Jack Resnick & Sons launches art exhibition inside newly redesigned lobby at 315 Hudson StreetNEW YORK, NY.- Jack Resnick & Sons announced today that it has launched a contemporary art exhibition inside its newly-redesigned lobby at 315 Hudson Street, a distinctive class A property located in the heart of New Yorks dynamic Hudson Square neighborhood. The exhibition, which is open to the general public, features works entitled E Pluribus by British-born visual artist Muriel Stockdale, and Reef by Brooklyn-based light sculptor Jason Krugman. Both are currently on display inside the lobby at Resnicks 500,000-square-foot neoclassical office building. Upon entering the space, guests will encounter eight handcrafted American flag tapestries on each side of the lobby, as well as a cascading, 10-by-10 LED light installation behind the lobby desk. Stockdales inspiring flags are the first of the buildings rotating installation, while Reef is Krugmans ... More Breadth of Louis Comfort Tiffany's decorative genius on display in major traveling exhibitionCINCINNATI, OH.- Opulently colored stained glass windows, iconic iridescent vases, intricate metalwork and floral patterned lamps. Spanning 30 years of Louis Comfort Tiffanys design career and showcasing a wide range of his objects and ingenuity, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection presents a superb opportunity to experience the lifes work of one of the most innovative and esteemed American artists of all time. The exhibition features more than 60 masterworks of exceptional beauty and unrivaled quality including vases, lamps, windows, furniture and ornamental works that have never been seen in any museum outside of Chicago before now. Over the last few decades, financier and philanthropist Richard Driehaus has acquired more than 1,500 Tiffany windows, vases, candlesticks, accessories, pieces of furniture and lamps. ... More King's College London opens a major exhibition exploring antiquity in the modern artistic imaginationLONDON.- The Classical Now, a major exhibition exploring Greek and Roman antiquity in the modern artistic imagination, opens at Kings College London on 2 March 2018. Presented by Kings College London in partnership with MACM (the award-winning Musée dArt Classique de Mougins), the exhibition traces the ways in which Graeco-Roman art has captured and permeated the modern imagination. It examines classical presences in the works of twentieth-century artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore and Yves Klein, and leading contemporary artists including Damien Hirst, Alex Israel, Louise Lawler, Grayson Perry, Marc Quinn and Rachel Whiteread. The show explores the myriad continuities and contrasts between the ancient, modern and contemporary, revealing the classical as a living and fluid tradition. The Classical Now is staged across two spaces at Kings ... More Petzel opens exhibition of works by Sean Landers NEW YORK, NY.- Hey you artists go weave a basket! Make something [useful]. For Christ sakes theres enough trash in New York already. Look at this show augh! Fuck! Get me out of here please somebody take this off the wall and [throw] it away
(1) scribbled Sean Landers on yellow legal paper in 1991. It was so close to me today, I almost got to it. But it got away. I wonder about it though. Where it is, what it looks like and how its doing(2) Landers muses in 2017; an echo of the vulnerability shown in the early works, but here his sentiments are painted on canvas. If the early works were considered Landers antidote to the aesthetics of a hyper-inflated art industry of the 1980s, these twelve new paintings (approximately 36.25 x 27.5 inches, and 71.5 x 55.5 inches) are more elegiac. The paint is delicately applied on pre-printed yellow canvas; each touch is clearly ... More Bowdoin Museum exhibition examines blindness and invisibility in contemporary artBRUNSWICK, ME.- Opening on March 1, 2018, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present Second Sight: the Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, an exhibition that examines themes of the nonvisual in contemporary American art. Examining blindness as a physiological and cultural construct, the exhibition encourages museumgoers to consider the primacy of visual experience, and challenge conventions of visual representation, which has contributed to the marginalization of groups throughout American history. Featuring over 35 sculptural, sound, language-based, conceptual, and immersive artworks by artists who include Terry Adkins, William Anastasi, Sophie Calle, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joseph Grigely, Ann Hamilton, Glenn Ligon, and Lorna Simpson, Second Sight explores the notion of sight, representation, and ability as social concepts. The Museum will also ... More Belvedere 21 opens Anna Witt's first solo exhibition at a Viennese institutionVIENNA.- Anna Witts artistic practice is performative, participatory, and political. She creates situations that reflect interpersonal relationships and power structures as well as conventions of speaking and acting. The Belvedere 21 is showing her first solo exhibition at a Viennese institution. It consists of three video installations along with photographs and texts that shine a light on various aspects of our ideas around work. The art of Anna Witt stands out for presenting thematic focal points regarding how we live together; it is a practice in which social, political, and economic parameters are reflected in ways that enable them to be experienced and debated. In the context of Spirit of 68, this years program motto at the Belvedere 21, which is dedicated to the relevance of the social struggles and achievements of the sixties movement in the present day, ... More impulses, restraints, tones: New compositions by Hannah Quinlivan on view at JanKossen ContemporaryNEW YORK, NY.- JanKossen Contemporary presents impulses, restraints, tones an exhibition by Australian contemporary artist, Hannah Quinlivan. impulses, restraints, tones is the artists first exhibition in New York and will be on view from March 1 - April 20, 2018. Best known for her work within the movement of experimental drawing, Quinlivan expands upon the medium to create drawings that employ wire, steel, salt, yarn, shadow, and LED light, constantly evolving and dissecting the elements of a drawing to investigate the confines of the line itself. Twisted wire structures are the basis for her shadow drawings, which Quinlivan later develops further into sculptures; 2D drawings turn into 3D drawings, that are then turned back into 2D drawings. With a deep commitment to the exploration of and innate response to her materials, Quinlivan composes lyrical ... More Exhibition provides unprecedented access to a collection of rare and iconic pieces of modern artLONDON.- Olivier Malingue announces the exhibition, Surrealism: A Conversation, running from 2 March 12 May 2018. Surrealism: A Conversation provides unprecedented access to a collection of rare and iconic pieces of modern art, showing works by some of the most significant figures within the Surrealist movement, including Hans Arp, Salvador DalÃ, Ãscar DomÃnguez, Max Ernst, René Magritte and Yves Tanguy. The exhibition covers the period between 1923 and the early 1960s, and seeks to reaffirm the overarching influence that the Surrealist movement had on the development not only of modern art but the broader cultural climate, in the latter decades of the 20th century. Surrealism: A Conversation reflects the Surrealist movements highly structured, theoretical doctrine, as well as the world-view of surrealist artists, whose guiding principle was the ... More Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens announces two new curatorial appointmentsWASHINGTON, DC.- Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens has appointed two new curators to manage, research, and publish on areas of Hillwoods collection and further develop the dynamic special exhibitions program. Associate curator of 18th-century French and Western European fine and decorative arts, Rebecca Tilles will spearhead exhibitions, publications, and acquisitions related to Hillwoods collection of 18th-century French and Western European art. Megan Martinelli Campbell, as the new assistant curator of apparel, jewelry, and accessories, will manage and research Hillwoods collection of more than 175 dresses and over 300 accessories, all acquired and left to Hillwood by Marjorie Merriweather Post. Both curators began their work at HIllwood in February. Marjorie Post had a discerning eye for the finest and most important works of 18th-century France ... More Reimagined Arkansas Arts Center revealedLITTLE ROCK, ARK.- Transformational changes are coming to the Arkansas Arts Center, Executive Director Todd Herman announced Tuesday. Alongside architect Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang and landscape architect Kate Orff of SCAPE, Herman presented a striking architectural design that strengthens the connections between the visual and performing arts in an inclusive space that welcomes a diverse community. This an exciting moment for the Arkansas Arts Center, central Arkansas, and the entire state, Herman said. The reimagined Arts Center will be a welcoming place that encourages prolonged and meaningful interaction with the collection and programs at the Arts Center. It is intended to be a gathering place for the community that highlights the interplay between the AAC and the surrounding park. The Arkansas Arts Center welcomes more ... More Sale celebrates America's gold rushes from Georgia and North CarolinaRENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC will conduct a major Gold Rush Sale celebrating Americas gold rushes from Georgia and North Carolina to California in a four-day auction event planned for March 15th-18th, online and in the firms gallery at 3555 Airway Drive (Suite 308) in Reno. Start times all four days will be 8 am Pacific Daily Time. For those unable to attend the auction live, internet bidding will be facilitated by iCollector.com, Invaluable.com, eBay Live and Auctionzip.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The Gold Rush sale will be nothing short of phenomenal, said Fred Holabird, president and owner of Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC. Many fine collections will be sold, but the headliner will surely be the Al Adams collection. Mr. Adamss specialty is an area few people even know about the Georgia ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian-Swiss painter Oskar Kokoschka was born March 01, 1886. Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 - 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this image: Installation view "Oskar Kokoschka. Humanist and Rebel" © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014. Photo: Marek Kruszewski
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