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Installation View, Frank Bowling at Tate Britain (31 May - 26 August 2019). Tate Photography, Matt Greenwood.
LONDON.- Tate Britain will present the first major retrospective of work by Frank Bowling. Since the early 1960s Bowling (b.1934) has explored and expanded the possibilities of paint, influencing generations of artists through his spectacular kaleidoscopic paintings. This long overdue celebration of his work will be the first exhibition to span the full breadth of BowlingÂs practice, bringing together rarely seen works and iconic series that highlight the quality and range of the artistÂs remarkable six-decade career. Tate Britain will chart Frank BowlingÂs rise to becoming one of BritainÂs most visionary painters. Born in Guyana (then British Guiana) Bowling moved to London in 1953, and while serving in the RAF he met Keith Critchlow who introduced him to the London art scene. He went on to study at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney and R.B Kitaj and became the first Black artist nominated as a Royal Academician. Living and wo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Carving in progress at the Eli Wilner & Company studio for the elaborate crest on George and Martha Washington's Front Parlor Looking Glass for George Washington's Mount Vernon.
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| | | Eli Wilner & Company recreates George and Martha Washington's Front Parlor Looking Glass | | Very first Tintin cover discovered, heads to June 8-9 European Comic Art Auction at Heritage | | Important William Hogarth painting saved for the nation |
George and Martha Washingtons Front Parlor Looking Glass for George Washingtons Mount Vernon, recreated by Eli Wilner & Company. Image by Gavin Ashworth, courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.
NEW YORK, NY.- In early 2017, Curator Adam Erby contacted Eli Wilner & Company about recreating a looking glass from an archival photo for the front parlor at George Washingtons Mount Vernon. Mr. Erby was already familiar with the firms capabilities in working from photos, including recreating a large pair of lost overmantle mirrors for Lyndhurst Mansion, a National Trust for Historic Preservation site in Tarrytown, NY. In this case, the frame in the photo is in fact still in existence, but it is in the possession of another institution, and for various reasons, unavailable for long term loan. George and Martha Washington purchased the original elaborate English neoclassical looking glass from New York City merchants J. & N. Roosevelt on April 15, 1790, during the brief period of time the United States capital was in New ... More | |
The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 1: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. Original Cover Art. Ink on paper (With gouache corrections), 27 x 29,5 cm (paper).
DALLAS, TX.- The first cover appearance of arguably the most popular comic character worldwide, as well as a pair of lots by the artist who has been called the Japanese equivalent of Walt Disney and a group of more than 50 lots of Walt Disney animation art, come to auction June 8-9 in Heritage Auctions European Comic Art Auction in Dallas, Texas. Hergé The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 1: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (estimate: $1,300,000+) incorporates Hergés unique artistic style and his reflection on the political scope of the time. The title character is shown carving a makeshift propeller for his plane from a tree trunk, under the watchful eye of his bandaged-but-attentive dog, Snowy. Tintin is a seminal character, who has been loved and admired for generations the world over, Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art Director Joe Mannarino said. His popularity is as great now as it has ever been. Addin ... More | |
William Hogarth (1697 1764), William Wollaston and his Family in a Grand Interior (detail). Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1730, 99 cm by 124.5 cm.
LEICESTER.- The painting William Wollaston and his Family in a Grand Interior by eminent 18th century English artist William Hogarth, has been allocated to New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, via the Acceptance in Lieu scheme, following a campaign to save it for the nation. Tax of £903,672 was settled by the acceptance of the painting. The value of the painting exceeded the liability on the estate and the City of Leicester Museums Trust launched the Save the Hogarth Campaign, which raised the £564,528 difference needed to secure the painting with generous grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) and Art Fund, and contributions made by the public of Leicester. The Friends of Leicester & Leicestershire Museums, The Leicester Archaeological & Historical Society, The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society and The Golden Bottle Foundation also played a vital part in the campaign. William ... More |
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| | | Frist Art Museum exhibits works from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection | | Drawings by Michael Graves acquired by Princeton University Art Museum | | Exhibition of new works by Michael Craig-Martin opens at Gagosian |
Frida Kahlo, Diego on My Mind (Self-Portrait as Tehuana), 1943. Oil on Masonite, 29 7/8 x 24 in. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of 20th Century Mexican Art and the Vergel Foundation. © 2019 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico City / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum is presenting Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collectionan exhibition that captures the vitality and expressiveness of twentieth-century Mexican art with iconic works by Frida Kahlo, her husband Diego Rivera, and their contemporaries, including Manuel Ãlvarez Bravo, MarÃa Izquierdo, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Organized by the Vergel Foundation and MondoMostre in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), the exhibition is on display in the Frists Ingram Gallery from May 24 through September 2, 2019. Among the more than 150 works on view are seven painted self-portraits by Kahlo, Riveras Calla Lily Vendor, and numerous portraits ... More | |
All of the drawings that will come to Princeton which were variously executed in pen and ink, charcoal, graphite, colored pencil, watercolor and pastel are in Gravess own hand.
PRINCETON, NJ.- The Princeton University Art Museum recently acquired a significant group of drawings by the renowned American architect and designer Michael Graves (1934-2015). The nearly 5,000 drawings, which come to the Museum from Gravess estate, span the entire range of his subject matter and design concerns and will form an immensely important resource for researchers, designers and Museum audiences. Graves founded his eponymous practice in Princeton in 1964 and taught architecture at Princeton University for 39 years, retiring as the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture Emeritus in 2001. We are pleased to be able to preserve and share these important drawings, which document numerous projects and reflect Michael Gravess manifold interests and talents, here at the Museum, where he was known as family, and with our global audiences, said James Steward, ... More | |
Safety Pin (blue), 2019. Powder-coated steel, 122 13/16 x 127 15/16 x 1 in. 312 x 325 x 2.5 cm © Michael Craig-Martin. Photo: Lucy Dawkins. Courtesy Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian presents new works by Michael Craig-Martin. This is the first time his sculptures have been shown indoors, and the first time they have been exhibited as a group in London. Among the leading generation of British Conceptual artists, Craig-Martin probes the relationship between objects and images, perception and reality, harnessing the unique human capacity to conjure ideas through symbols and signs. Since his time at Yale University in the 1960swhere he studied alongside artists such as Chuck Close, Brice Marden, and Richard SerraCraig-Martin has been building on a specific vocabulary of imagery based on common, everyday items. His early work used real objects to explore the nature of art and representation, illusion and belief. In the late 1970s he turned to making images of objects, beginning with simple and precise line drawings that have remained the foundation of his work. In the ... More |
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| | | Art Dusseldorf announces new partners | | Nationalmuseum acquires illustrations for Elsa Beskow's The Tale of the Little, Little Old Woman | | Golf legend Jack Nicklaus to auction his iconic Rolex Day-Date for Children's Hospitals |
The exhibition organisers Sandy Angus and Tim Etchells have taken over equal shares of the 25.1 per cent stake of MCH Group in art.fair International GmbH, organiser of Art Düsseldorf.
DUSSELDORF.- Art Düsseldorf has two new strong global partners at its side in the preparations for its third edition (15-17 November 2019, Areal Böhler): the exhibition organisers Sandy Angus and Tim Etchells have taken over equal shares of the 25.1 per cent stake of MCH Group in art.fair International GmbH, organiser of Art Düsseldorf. As organisers of international art and photography fairs, they have a worldwide network at their disposal, which they will contribute to the strategic partnership with Art Düsseldorf. With its shareholding acquired in February 2017, the MCH Group had accompanied Art Düsseldorf as a partner in its first two successful editions, but decided in autumn 2018 not to pursue its development of a portfolio of regional art fairs ... More | |
Elsa Beskow, The Tale of the Little, Little Old Woman circa 1949, NMH 315/2019. Photo: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired the illustrations for the reworked edition of the beloved book The Tale of the Little, Little Old Woman, created in the late 1940s. The book was Elsa Beskows debut piece and was first published in 1897. Nationalmuseum already has several of Elsa Beskow's illustrations in its collections, for example the book Children of the Forest and several pages from Mors Little Olle and other songs by Alice Tegnér. The Saga of the Little, Little Old Woman is Elsa Beskow's (18741953) debut book and one of the eternally central works in Swedish childrens literature. She has described how she among other things drew inspiration for the book from English designer and illustrator Walter Crane (18451915), whose work she had seen at an exhibition in Stockholm in 1896. ... More | |
Jack Nicklaus, Courtesy of Jim Mandeville / Nicklaus Companies.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips will present the cherished wristwatch of the greatest champion in the history of professional golf, Jack Nicklaus also known as the Golden Bear. This Rolex Day‐Date Reference 1803 in yellow gold has graced the wrist of Mr. Nicklaus nearly every day since he received it as a gift from Rolex in 1967 and was present when he won 12 of his record 18 professional major championship titles often photographed when Jack Nicklaus hoisted the championship trophy following his victories. The Day‐Date is Rolexs most prestigious model and one of the worlds most famous watches. Originally launched in 1956, the Day‐Date, with its famous President bracelet, was the first wristwatch to feature a date and fully spelled‐out day of the week indication on its dial. The sporty elegance of the Day‐ Date is appealing to a variety of consumers around the world, ... More |
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| | | SOMA presents Tierra Incógnita | | Artcurial to hold the Impressionist & Modern and Post War & Contemporary art auctions | | Heritage Auctions launches monthly online fine & decorative art auctions |
Work by Mimi Laquidara.
MEXICO CITY.- Beyond the horizon are the most remote places. Eleven artists are part of a two-year expedition, an art-educational process that seeks to expand the limits of their experience through a wide and constant dialogue with other artists. At the end of this sort of trip, an exhibition awaits. What is an opening, but an unknown land. Yolanda Benalba, Aleph Escobedo, Daniel Evo, Santiago Gómez, Margot Kalach, Mimi Laquidara, Ãngela Leyva, Roger Muñoz, Ilazki de Portuondo, Natalia RodrÃguez Caballero and Miriam Salado -2019 SOMA PES generation-, present Tierra Incógnita, exhibition that gathers the result of the reflections, inquiries and experimentations made during their stay in this educational program through workshops, public sessions and events aimed at strengthening horizontal understanding on different aspects of the contemporary art production. Tierra Incógnita, brings together different concerns and materialities: body politics, spe ... More | |
Zao Wou Ki, 24 1 61 62 © Artcurial.
PARIS.- On the evening of Tuesday 4 June, Artcurial will present major works from the 20th century during its prestigious Impressionist & Modern and Post War & Contemporary art auctions. Post War and Contemporary art will underline the achievements of Asian artists Chu Teh Chun, Zao Wou-Ki and Lee Ufan as well as Alexander Calder or Niele Toroni. Modern art will pay special tribute to Salvador Dalà with a painted white bronze with pompons of Vénus de Milo aux Tiroirs and an unprecedented set of 15 gouaches on paper by the catalonian artist. Commissioned from Dalà between 1959 and 1976 by a Spanish pharmaceutical laboratory, they were exhibited for two decades by the Dalà Foundation in Figueras. A Belgian collection composed of modern and contemporary Bernard Buffet and Albert Gleizes pieces will also be presented, alongside a French collection of Henri Martin and Henri Charles Manguin paintings. The auction on Tuesday 4 June ... More | |
Antoine Blanchard (French, 1910-1988), Port St. Denis in Winter. Oil on canvas, 18 x 21 inches. Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000.
DALLAS, TX.- The largest auction house founded in the United States will make its expansive offerings of fine & decorative art more accessible than ever before when Heritage Auctions launches monthly Fine Art auctions in the summer of 2019. The monthly auctions, which will be held the second Thursday of each month, and will complement Heritages slate of Signature Live Auctions and other current Online auctions of Prints & Multiples and Photographs. The newly added Monthlies will feature a combination of material primarily from estates and downsizing collections, including Decorative Arts, Silver, Art Glass, Asian Art, American Art, European Art and The Gentleman Collector, a section devoted to material from earlier eras of automobilia, travel and exploration. These monthly auctions will increase collectors ability to acquire exceptional decorative ... More |
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Getty Research Institute appoints Naoko Takahatake Curator of Prints and Drawings
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute announced today the appointment of Naoko Takahatake as Curator of Prints and Drawings. Naoko Takahatake is a gifted curator and has extensive expertise working with works on paper of the greatest importance, said Mary Miller, director of the Getty Research Institute. She has been a prominent colleague and critical figure in the field here in Los Angeles and internationally. We are excited to welcome her to the GRI, where she will be responsible for our exceptional collection of works on paper. Im confident she will help us expand and present our already broad holdings in meaningful ways. Takahatake comes to the Getty from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where she has been curator of prints and drawings since 2010, overseeing the collection of Old Master works on paper. At LACMA ... More
Exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery celebrates Gina Pane's actions for which she is best known
LONDON.- Gina Pane was instrumental to the development of the international Body Art movement, establishing a unique and corporeal language marked by ritual, symbolism and catharsis. The body, most often the artists own physical form, remained at the heart of her artistic practice as a tool of expression and communication until her death in 1990. Coming from the archives of the Galerie Rodolphe Stadler, the Parisian gallery of Pane who were themselves revolutionary in their presentation of avant-garde performance art, her exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery celebrates the artists pioneering career with a focus on the actions for which she is best known. It provides the most comprehensive display of the artists work in London since the Tates presentation in 2002. Exploring universal themes such as love, pain, death, spirituality and the metaphorical ... More
Presidential campaign banner lifts Heritage Auctions' Americana & Political Auction beyond $1.9 million
DALLAS, TX.- The only known example of a campaign banner for the United States 12th president soared past pre-auction estimates to lead the final total for Heritage Auctions Americana & Political Auction to $1,963,776 May 4-5 in Dallas, Texas. Zachary Taylor: Only Known Example Campaign Banner for the 1848 Whig Candidate and 12th President inspired bids from multiple collectors before it closed at $200,000, four times its pre-auction estimate. It is done in the style of banners that were popular in 1840 and 1844 but disappeared in ensuing elections before enjoying a renewed popularity in 1856. This is the only example of this flag we have ever seen, Heritage Auctions Americana Director Tom Slater said, making it one of the most important political flags ever to come to auction. Doubling its pre-auction estimate ... More
Phi Centre's main exhibition this summer offers an intimate conversation between human body and machine
MONTREAL.- The Phi Centre opened >HUM(AI)N, an exhibition in nine movements that is part meditation, part shock piece on a rapidly approaching reality where the separation between man and machines is no more. Grab a front-row seat for a glimpse of this fascinating future. With the rise of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, biotech, and their effects on human evolution, we are closer than ever to becoming demi-gods, masters of our own destiny. But the question now is what does it mean to be human or more than human? The new exhibition at the Phi Centre plunges visitors into a futuristic cultural experience where humans are inseparable from the works, not as heroes at the controls but as catalysts of the experience through virtual reality, interactive avatars, and artificial intelligence that is constantly learning. Activated by body movement, engaging ... More
Getty Unshuttered 2.0 available for download now
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announces the launch of Getty Unshuttered 2.0, an updated version of the photographic community named New App We Love by Apple in 2018. Now available on Android and iOS, Getty Unshuttered 2.0 is a positive community that helps emerging artists improve their portfolios, tell their own stories and explore issues they care about. Users post photographs, earn likes, share work, and inspire others. Its free to use and ad-free. With the ability to acquire followers and build and share portfolios, Unshuttered 2.0 fosters a more robust social community. In a few weeks, the app will add opportunities for artists to tackle different levels of challenges, leveling up as they develop photography skills. Every photo posted to the app between now and June 15 has a chance to be included in the Unshuttered ... More
Lights on! Vivid Sydney officially kicks off for 2019
SYDNEY.- Sydney is awash with breathtaking colour and special effects for the next three weeks, with the lights officially turned on for Vivid Sydney last Friday night (May 24) by Premier Gladys Berejiklian. The largest event of light, music and ideas in the Southern Hemisphere transforms the city into a colourful showcase of illumination, sensational sounds and creative thinking from 24 May to 15 June 2019. Ms Berejiklian said Vivid Sydney is a key attraction in the NSW events calendar, boosting visitor numbers to Sydney and the State. Vivid Sydney is an incredibly important event drawing millions of visitors to the city in May and June each year, many of whom have gone on to explore regional NSW as well, Ms Berejiklian. Australias largest event brings Sydney to life, as well as to light, by encouraging locals and visitors to enjoy Sydneys wonderful food, exciting ... More
Annet Gelink Gallery opens its second solo exhibition of works by Rezi van Lankveld
AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting the second solo exhibition of Rezi van Lankveld (1973, Almelo, NL) with the gallery. These recent paintings of Rezi van Lankveld have become more complex and defined in their form and composition, involving more coloristic elements and using more apparent brushwork. The act of painting is always made instinctively, without any preconceived design, and evolves through constant interaction between spontaneous making and conscious directing of the paint until it becomes transcended into an image. The French poet Paul Valery said: Finding amounts to nothing. The difficult thing is to take possession of what was found. Meaning, to assume the consequences of ones own creation. In the interplay of what role coincidence and what role intention plays, it is noticeable that Van Lankveld achieves a more balanced ... More
Massimo De Carlo exhibits works by Günther Förg, Mario Merz, Emilio Vedova and Mary Weatherford
MILAN.- Massimo De Carlo gallery opened Against Colour Stroke Vectors presenting works by Günther Förg, Mario Merz, Emilio Vedova and Mary Weatherford. The exhibition brings together seminal works by each artist, with the aim to investigate the variations of the relationship between the dynamism of the medium, the spatial degrees of object-hood in the context of the canvas, and qualities of colour. All artists on display have, consciously or unconsciously, explored ideational, interpersonal or textual functions of the canvas and the work of art: from Förgs daunting and materic bronze to Merzs 1980s investigations of nature, to Vedovas propulsive energy and Mary Weatherfords echoing glass light tubes the discourse can always be drawn back to the complex yet unstructured space between thought and action. Absolute and infinite, void and darkness, ... More
Cotterstock Hall contents up for auction along with excess stock of Windsor House Antiques
LONDON.- Cheffins Fine Art will next month conduct the sale of the principal contents of Cotterstock Hall, near Oundle, Northamptonshire, and the excess stock of Windsor House Antiques. By Instruction of Mr Kevin Smith, who has been in the antique business for over 60 years and single handedly built up Windsor House Antiques into a Globally recognised company, the lots will go under the hammer at Cheffins salerooms on Thursday 27 June 2019 at 11:00 and are being offered for convenience of sale. For the past 20 years, Windsor House Antiques has been based at Barnwell Manor, a former Royal residence near Peterborough, which offers collectors an opportunity to view fine antique and decorative furnishings in a period setting. Windsor House Antiques offers some of the best examples from all periods and covering a wide variety of disciplines. ... More
Iconic & original cinema posters and artwork worth over 170,000 to be auctioned in the UK
LONDON.- Prop Store one of the worlds leading film and TV entertainment memorabilia companies has today announced it is to hold its third cinema poster live auction this June, with the posters and artwork on offer expected to fetch in excess of £170,000 ($230,000). The auction is to be held at Prop Stores UK headquarters in Hertfordshire. Over 400 rare and sought-after posters and artworks will be sold during Prop Stores cinema poster auction on Tuesday 25th June 2019. The auction will be live-streamed online for fans to track the bidding on auction day. Items will be available to view by appointment at Prop Store in the run up to the auction, opening for registrations via: www.propstore.com/posterauction Top items to be sold at Prop Stores cinema poster auction include: JAMES BOND: DR NO (1962) Quad Poster (1962) £7k - £10k (approx ... More
Tiancheng International Jewellery and Jadeite Spring Auction 2019 achieves excellent results
HONG KONG.- Tiancheng International Jewellery and Jadeite Spring Auction 2019 concluded today with excellent results. It is noteworthy that branded jewellery and designer pieces were sought-after by connoisseurs and all timepieces were sold. The top lot of the sale was a 20.09-Carat Natural Unheated Mozambican Pigeons Blood Ruby and Diamond Ring. Bidding opened at HK$9 million and after a fierce bidding battle of nearly 20 bids, the treasure was eventually sold to a phone bidder for HK$23.04 million／US$2.95 million. Mozambican rubies of over 20 carats and excellent quality are rare, whilst the Pigeons Blood colour is even rarer, making this ruby of superb transparency and marvellous luminescence no doubt of unrivalled desirability. Another highlight was an Important Diamond Watch／Bracelet, Ring and Earrings by Audemars ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Robert Ryman was born May 30, 1930. Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930) is an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He is best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lives and works in New York. In this image: Robert Ryman, Untitled, signed and dated 61; signed four times and dated 61 three times on the overturned left edge, oil on canvas, 48 3/4 x 48 3/4 in. 123.7 x 123.7 cm. Est. $15/20 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
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