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Lot 95: Pablo Picasso, Hibou Mat, 1955 (A.R. 284). Estimate $10,000-20,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On Wednesday, May 19, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will present its second Modern Design + Post-War & Contemporary Art sale of 2021, with an impressive selection of art and design by individuals who have shaped their respective fields during the mid-to-late 20th century. The auction features a variety of sculptures, paintings, works on paper, ceramics, glass, furniture, lighting, metalwork, and more. Among the examples available are works by European and American innovators as well as those who made their mark in Chicago specifically. Logistical details for the sale and bidding instructions are provided below. Highlights of Modern Design + Post-War & Contemporary Art on May 19 An impressive range of sculptural works will be on offer May 19, such as Pablo Picassos red earthenware plate decorated with an owl, Hibou Mat, 1955 ($10,000-20,000), Peter Voulkos stoneware abstract plate and lidded vessel (each $5,000-7,000), and D ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Parrasch Heijnen is presenting Sacred Witness Sacred Menace, the galleryâs first exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Maysha Mohamedi. Maysha Mohamediâs large-scale abstract paintings energetically fill the gallery with chromatic boldness. Each piece operates using a record of precious symbols and lyrical markings. The discovery of moments imparted by the artistâs personal language presents time and place intertwined with identity. In this new body of work, Mohamedi gestures color in a nuanced way, using paint as a trail that tumbles down the canvas.
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| A soaring arts scene in Los Angeles confronts a changing landscape | | Basquiat painting sells in New York for $93.1 million | | Photo discovery shows wartime roundup of Paris Jews | 
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a $482 million complex designed by Renzo Piano that is scheduled to open this year, in Los Angeles, May 6, 2021. Alex Welsh/The New York Times.
by Adam Nagourney
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an open construction pit these days, surrounded by 12-foot-high wooden fences, with cranes rising across now open skies. Most of its midcentury modernist complex on Wilshire Boulevard was quietly demolished during the COVID shutdown to make way for a wavy $650 million light-filled building spanning the boulevard and designed by architect Peter Zumthor. LACMA, as it is known, has long been a cultural anchor for Southern California, extraordinarily popular and as responsible as any institution for helping define the regions cultural identity. New Galleries. More Art. Opening 2024, promises a sign in the courtyard. But the success of its next incarnation is hardly assured as the museum seeks to redefine its mission in a smaller building whose design, if ... More | | 
'In This Case' by Jean-Michel Basquiat is on display during a preview of the upcoming 21st Century Evening Sale at Christie's on May 07, 2021 in New York City. Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting "In this Case" sold for $93.1 million in an auction Tuesday at Christie's in New York, the second-highest price paid for a work by the late artist. The 1983 painting, which depicts a skull on a red background, sold for $81 million, but with fees and commissions the final price came to $93.1 million, well above the estimate of $50 million. It was another skull, "Untitled", that set the record for the most expensive by Basquiat (1960-1988), which went for $110.5 million in May 2017 at Sotheby's in New York. "In This Case" reprises two dominant themes in Basquiat's work, anatomy and representation of African-American characters. In a sign of Basquiat's growing status in the art world, the same canvas was sold in November 2002 for just $999,500, barely more than a hundredth of the price paid on Tuesday. With the exception of New York-based Basquiat, African American painters have long been undervalued by collectors and ... More | | 
May 14, 1941. Separated families of the men summoned for a 'check-up'. © Shoah Memorial.
by Alexandra Del Peral
PARIS (AFP).- Never-before-seen photos going on display in Paris this week shine a light on a dark moment in France's role in rounding up Jews to send to Nazi death camps during World War II. The "green ticket round-up" was first carried out in Paris on May 14 and 15, 1941, with more than 6,000 foreign-born Jews summoned to town halls across the city for what was billed as routine registration. Instead, the 3,747 men who showed up were arrested by the French authorities and shipped to camps south of Paris. Thousands more were rounded up in the following months. They were held there for a year before being deported to the Auschwitz death camp. By chance, a stash of 98 photos from the first green ticket round-up, taken by a German soldier on propaganda duty, were recently discovered by the Memorial de la Shoah, the Holocaust Museum of Paris. Most were taken at the Japy sports hall in the city's 11th arrondissement, where close to 1,000 were arrested, and where ... More |
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| Bob Dylan Center, featuring archival materials, to open in 2022 | | Michael Jordan rookie sneakers sell for $152,500 | | Napoleonic jewels dazzle in Geneva auction | 
Bob Dylan in New York in 1963. William C. Eckenberg/The New York Times.
by Joe Coscarelli
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Dylanologists, rejoice the archives are going on display. Starting May 10, 2022 six years after the secret Bob Dylan Archives were revealed and acquired by the foundation of an Oklahoman billionaire some 100,000 pieces of ephemera will be available to visit in Tulsa. The opening of the Bob Dylan Center, announced on Wednesday, will include rare and never-before-seen lyric manuscripts, photographs, songs and footage, alongside a new immersive film experience and a recreation of an authentic studio environment, organizers said. Public admission information will be released later in the year, while a founding membership (limited to 250 people) is available now for $7,500. The three-story center in the Tulsa arts district designed by the architecture firm Olson Kundig was founded by the American Song Archives and its backer, the George Kaiser Family Foundation, which along with the University ... More | | 
Michael Jordan Game Worn 1985 Player Sample Air Jordan 1s | Sizes 13, 13.5. Courtesy Sotheby's.
GENEVA (AFP).- A pair of basketball legend Michael Jordan's famous Air Jordans from his rookie season sold at auction for $152,500 on Wednesday, the star item in Sotheby's first international dedicated sneaker sale. Seen as a niche interest 10 years ago, sneakers are now one of the fastest-growing markets at auctions, attracting attention from the general public as well as leading collectors. The "Gamers Only" auction, conducted entirely online, featured 13 pairs of match-worn basketball shoes from some of the NBA's greatest athletes, including Scottie Pippen and Shaquille O'Neal. They went on show beforehand in Geneva and took their place alongside standout jewels, watches and handbags from Sotheby's Luxury Week of sales in the lakeside Swiss city. Nike Air Jordan 1s "not only changed basketball footwear forever but are also considered foundational to the development of sneaker culture", Sotheby's said. The pair sold -- in the Chicago Bulls' red, white and black -- were worn by Jordan during his ste ... More | | 
A picture taken on May 5, 2021 shows an early 19th-century sapphire and diamond brooch circa 1800, made with an oval-shaped sapphire and old-cut diamonds, once owned by Napoleons adopted daughter, Stephanie de Beauharnais, during a press preview ahead of sales by Christies's auction house on May 12, 2021 in Geneva. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP.
GENEVA (AFP).- A jewellery set worn by French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's adopted daughter sold for $1.65 million in Geneva on Wednesday, soaring way above the pre-auction estimate. Marking the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's death, Christie's auction house sold the nine imperial jewels adorned with sapphires and diamonds, which were from the collection of his adopted daughter Stephanie de Beauharnais. Some 38 sapphires from Sri Lanka were used to create the set in the early 1800s. Offered as separate lots, the jewels had remained in the same family ever since they were offered to Beauharnais on her wedding to Charles, the grand duke of Baden, at the Tuileries Palace in Paris in 1806. Besides their historical value, the jewels were also prized for their natural blue, as sapphires usually undergo heat ... More |
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| Greene Naftali presents two new groups of paintings and works on paper by Monika Baer | | Previously unseen works by Yayoi Kusama achieve $15.2 million at Bonhams | | Norman Lloyd, veteran Hollywood hyphenate, is dead at 106 | 
Monika Baer, Yet to be titled, 2020. Oil, acrylic, crayon and rigid foam on canvas, 90 x 62 inches (228.6 x 157.5 cm). Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Monika Baer has spent three decades inventing forms to convey the inner workings of her chosen medium, bringing paintings disparate visual traditions into productive conflict. Her second solo exhibition at Greene Naftali features two new groups of paintings and works on paper, alternating between styles and techniquesoften within a single work. Trompe loeil matchsticks, illusionistic tree bark, mineral deposits and scattered coins: her combination of these rendered and actual elements lays competing claims to painterly realism, yielding what she calls a clash of logics, through which the medium itself is activated and performed. A cycle of five large-format paintings depict what appear to be listing tree trunks, partially framed by masonry walls that fill the bottom edge of each canvas. Painted bark peels back in strips until it falls away entirely, exposing ... More | | 
Lifelong friends: the late Dr Teruo Hirose (1926-2019) with Yayoi Kusama (b.1929). Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- The previously unseen collection of early works by Yayoi Kusama achieved a total of $15,225,938 at Bonhams dedicated 11-lot sale of Kusama: The Collection of the late Dr Teruo Hirose on May 12 in New York. The sale, which was 100% sold, is a world auction record for a single-owner collection of works by Yayoi Kusama. The top lot of the collection was Untitled (1965), which sold for $4,590,313. Ralph Taylor, Bonhams Global Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art, said: It has been an honor to bring not just one rare Kusama work, but 11 of them to auction for the first time. The sale results demonstrate collectors enthusiasm for Kusamas work is stronger than ever. We salute the memory and legacy of the late Dr Hirose whose kindness and philanthropy made this possible. Bruno Vinciguerra, Bonhams CEO, said, It has been an enormous privilege to bring these wonderful works to auction. Until they were unveile ... More | | 
He was the chilly fascist sympathizer who kept audiences on the edge of their seats as he dangled from the Statue of Liberty in Alfred Hitchcocks 1942 film Saboteur.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- He was the young actor who moved the audience as Cinna the poet in Orson Welles 1937 theatrical production of Julius Caesar. He was the chilly fascist sympathizer who kept audiences on the edge of their seats as he dangled from the Statue of Liberty in Alfred Hitchcocks 1942 film Saboteur. And he was the kindly Dr. Auschlander on the popular 1980s hospital drama St. Elsewhere. His face was recognizable to generations of people. But his name? Well, just consider this: When a filmmaker decided to make a documentary about him, he ended up titling it Who Is Norman Lloyd? Lloyd, who died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles at 106, carved out a successful career over seven decades as an actor, producer and director, working with some of the best-known names in the business even if his own was barely ... More |
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| Jay-Z and Tina Turner lead Rock Hall of Fame's 2021 inductees | | Garvey│Simon opens an exhibition of paintings by Alan Bray | | Von Bartha announces representation of Marina Adams in Switzerland | 
Tina Turner performs at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 7, 2000. Ruth Fremson/The New York Times.
by Ben Sisario
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For years, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has been pummeled by criticism that its inductees the marble busts in the pantheon of rock were too homogeneous, and that the secretive insiders who create the ballots showed a troubling pattern of excluding women. This year the voters seem to have listened: The class of 2021 features Jay-Z, Foo Fighters, the Go-Gos, Carole King, Tina Turner and Todd Rundgren a collection of 15 individuals that includes seven women. That ratio alone should lend a new energy to the 36th annual induction ceremony, planned for Oct. 30 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland. In past years, when women have been inducted, they have been far outnumbered by men. In 2019, for example, Stevie Nicks and Janet Jackson may have stood triumphant, ... More | | 
Alan Bray, Shallows, 2020, casein on panel, 20 x 16 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon is presenting Alan Bray: Presence and Absence on view May 13June 6, 2021 at Foley Gallery, 59 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002. Hours are Wednesday through Saturday 11am-6pm, and Sunday 12-5pm. An indoor/outdoor opening reception for the artist will take place on Friday, May 14, from 6-8pm. Masks required. The full exhibition will also be available on Artsy. Alan Brays landscape paintings of his native, central Maine explore the ever-ebbing dynamic between nature and humanity. His paintings capture an asymmetrical pas de deux. Painted with uncompromising precision by his quick-drying casein tempera paint, Brays trailheads, shorelines, and vast horizons show evidence of previous human presence as it succumbs to natural growth. Brays stylized scenes center on these afterimages of human interference as well as other natural phenomena. Inundated with detail, nature reclaims ... More | | 
Marina Adams © Grace Roselli, The Pandora's BoxX Project. Courtesy the artist & von Bartha.
BASEL.- Von Bartha announced representation of American artist Marina Adams in Switzerland. Von Bartha will present Deep Breathing, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Adams at its S-chanf space this Summer, 8 July 25 September 2021. Stefan von Bartha, Director said: Marina Adams' paintings have immediately absorbed me in the most fascinating and unique way. I am therefore deeply fortunate to welcome her to the gallery programme. Based between New York and Parma in northern Italy, Marina Adams is known for her dynamic, abstract works which explore colour, form and movement, featuring vibrantly coloured interlocking shapes and lines. Often large in scale, Adams practice draws inspiration from a range of subjects including architecture, ceramic and textiles, from the richly patterned rugs of Morocco to the Moorish tiles found in the Alhambra Palace in Spain. Adams practice is notable for its ... More |
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 Copenhagen Contemporary wins Denmark's most prestigious art prizeCOPENHAGEN.- In just five years Copenhagen's youngest art institution, Copenhagen Contemporary has established itself as a leading cultural operator, showing large-scale installation art created by art-world superstars. Because of the Vision Award the art centre's ambitious exhibition concept Yet, it moves! will occupy not only CC's exhibition hall but central parts of Copenhagen, as well, with ground-breaking art experiences centred on the theme of movement. The visionary exhibition and research project, made in collaboration with external curator Irene Campolmi, brings together powerful actors from the worlds of art and science. Yet, it moves! is a visionary research project and public art exhibition that investigates the interconnected movements across scales from the micro to the macro cosmos. The project will unfold through a series of decentralized ... More  Shannon's kicks off the spring auction season with strong results and world recordsMILFORD, CONN.- Shannons launched the spring season with strong results during their April 29th Fine Art Auction. Nearly 90 percent of the 201 lots offered were sold, realizing $2.4 million in total sales. Works by women artists, 19th century American art and Modernism led the sale, which was upbeat with busy chatter from a bank of 20 phone bidders and robust online participation. All prices reported include the buyers premium. The top lot of the auction was a masterpiece by Charles Morgan McIlhenney, titled Summer Afternoon by the Shore. The painting quadrupled the high estimate, selling for an even $100,000. When it was first offered in 1992, the painting set a world record price for the artist when it brought $33,000. Buyers remembered this work and aggressive phone bidding shattered the previous record by threefold. From the same Connecticut ... More  Brazil carnival artist rises above pandemic -- on stiltsRIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Raquel Poti barely stands five feet tall, but the diminutive stilt-walker used to tower over the crowd at Rio de Janeiro's carnival -- whose cancelation due to Covid-19 has made her reinvent her art form to keep it alive. Poti, 37, is one of the legions of Brazilian "pernaltas," or stilt-walkers, who loom like colorful giants over the festivities at Rio's famed carnival, an extravaganza of parades and street parties that draws millions of revelers each year -- except this year, when the pandemic forced the authorities to cancel it. Poti fell in love with performance at age four, at an Epiphany festival. "I saw a clown there, and I was completely enchanted," she said. "I've spent my life searching for that magic again." It is a search that has taken her around the world, introducing her to myriad forms of popular performance art -- and ultimately ... More  Exhibition of mixed media works from the 1980s by Silvio Merlino opens at Nohra Haime GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Beings of Light is an exhibition of mixed media works from the 1980s by Italian artist Silvio Merlino, on view from May 12 through June 12. Merlinos works have been shown internationally, most notably at the Venice Biennale, Nohra Haime Gallery, and throughout Europe. Inspired by Italian landscapes, Italian artist Silvio Merlino creates magical environments where the power of nature collides with mans struggle to control it. Through his work we enter day-glo fantasies of a universe where beauty, elegance and grace are created through phantasmagorical collages utilizing fake fur, flippers, corals, glass candy and grated glass that shimmers. This dichotomy between nature and technology is strikingly ominous. Scenes of fossilized creatures and fighter planes evoke a time-warping sensation of a different era. Mountains, volcanoes, ... More  Treasured items of Broadway legend Carol Channing head to auction on June 17LOS ANGELES, CA.- Fans and admirers of the legendary Broadway icon Carol Channing may bid on one-of-a-kind pieces from her remarkable Southern California estate on Thursday, June 17 at 10 a.m. PDT. The live online-only sale will feature treasured Tony, Golden Globe and lifetime achievement awards, as well as Broadway memorabilia, stage-worn costumes and a personal collection of original Al Hirschfeld drawings. Proceeds from the sale will benefit her alma mater Bennington College and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Channing is best known for her enduring role in Hello, Dolly (1964), for which she won her first Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and later performed major revival runs, appearing in the play at least 5,000 times during her lifetime. Rising to stardom on her dazzling smile and comedic timing, her stage credits ... More  The Metropolitan Museum of Art appoints Regina Lombardo as Chief Security Officer NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Regina Lombardo has been appointed to the role of Chief Security Officer for the Museum. Ms. Lombardo is currently Acting Director of the Department of Justices Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in Washington, D.C., where she is responsible for upholding the Bureaus mission and overseeing all operational activities, including the management of more than 5,000 employees and a $1.4 billion annual budget. She is the ATFs first female Acting Director. Dan Weiss, President and CEO of the Museum commented: The safety and security of The Mets staff, visitors, and collection is our top priority. Regina Lombardo brings 30 years of professional expertise as a security, law enforcement, and risk management professional to this essential role, and ... More  Heritage Auctions' $10.75 million American art event sets records - and resets marketDALLAS, TX.- Befitting its motto as Americas Auction House, Heritage Auctions has arrived as the new powerhouse in American art. The auction houses latest American Art event, held May 7, was its biggest ever, realizing more than $10.75 million in a near-sellout that resulted in myriad records, among them the highest price by far ever paid for a painting by legendary illustrator Joseph Christian Leyendecker. His Beat-up Boy, Football Hero, which appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on Nov. 21, 1914, sold Friday for $4.12 million, shattering the previous world record for a work by the influential illustrator. The Beat-Up Boy had never before been to auction, having remained with the family of its original owner for more than a century. I always vowed that I would be the first one to sell a million-dollar Leyendecker, says Aviva Lehmann, ... More  Freeman's Modern and Contemporary Art auction achieves $1.8 million in sale led by women artistsPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced the results of its May 11 Modern and Contemporary Art auction, which clearly demonstrates Freemans strength in the sale of Modern and Contemporary works by significant artists across multiple media. The 54-lot auction achieved over $1.8m, selling all but one lot and eliciting competitive bidding from phone and online buyers. There was a strong showing throughout the sale, with interest in paintings, sculpture, prints, and works on paper, said David Weiss, Head of Sale. It shows the strength of the market for Modern and Contemporary art, and interest in fine examples by well-known, established artists, with the majority of works being fresh-to-market with strong provenance. The auction was marked by significant interest in 20th-century women artists. A floral still life by Maria-Mela Muter ... More  Nassima Landau opens a group exhibition featuring new works from contemporary art stalwartsTEL AVIV.- Nassima Landau, the new foundation and contemporary art space in Tel Aviv, announces Parallel Worlds, a momentous group exhibition featuring new works from contemporary art stalwarts including Daniel Arsham, Friedrich Kunath, Chloe Wise, Honor Titus, Ori Gersht, Alex Gardner and Onur Hasturk. Parallel Worlds opened May 6th and runs through June 10th, 2021, and is the fourth exhibition hosted at the Tel Aviv space of Nassima Landau, which was founded in November 2020 by former Tel Aviv Museum of Art Director and Chief Curator Suzanne Landau and collector and former businessman, Steeve Nassima. Parallel Worlds touches the subject of the extensive influence of masters of the past on contemporary art and traces how the participating artists incorporate them in their artistic language. What fascinates me most ... More  Philippe Labaune Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings and original comic strips by Miles HymanNEW YORK, NY.- Philippe Labaune Gallery presents Narrative Images, an exhibition of paintings and original comic strips by French American artist Miles Hyman. This will be the debut of Miles Hyman's paintings in New York. Informed by mid-century American realism, European symbolism, and film noir, Hymans recent work is a study in light, imaginative juxtapositions, and a record of personal geography. Accompanying his paintings will be a selection of original comic strip drawings from graphic novel adaptations of Hymans grandmother Shirley Jacksons The Lottery, James Ellroys The Black Dahlia, among others. Narrative Images will be on view from May 13 June 26, 2021 with an opening reception on May 13th from 11 AM to 9 PM. The exhibition presents two painting series Crash and East Coast Light. In the ongoing painting ... More  Metropolitan Opera reaches deal with union representing chorusNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Metropolitan Opera, whose efforts to cut the pay of its workers to help it survive the pandemic had left it locked in a bitter dispute with its unions, threatening to derail its planned September reopening, announced Tuesday that it had reached a deal with the union representing its chorus and other workers. The union, the American Guild of Musical Artists which also represents soloists, dancers, actors and stage managers is the first of the three largest Met unions to reach such a deal after months of sometimes-bitter division between labor and management over how deep and lasting the pandemic pay cuts should be. The Met had been seeking to cut the payroll costs for its highest-paid unions by 30%, which it said would cut the take-home pay of those workers by around 20%. The terms of the deal ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Georges Braque was born May 13, 1882. Georges Braque (13 May 1882 - 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions to the history of art were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1906, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. In this image: The Port (Le Port), winter-spring 1909. Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 48.2 cm. Washington, National Gallery of Art,Gift of Victoria Nebecker Coberly in memory of her son, John W. Mudd © Georges Braque, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2014. Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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