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Where Monet layered meridian green thickly on top of cobalt blue to give more interest to the sky in the Norton Simon's picture, in the companion piece it's defined instead by contrasts of thick and thin, and patches of exposed canvas ground.
by Olivia Hampton
WASHINGTON (AFP).- For the first time since they were painted more than a century ago, two oil paintings of Claude Monet's garden in Vetheuil have been reunited, in Washington. Monet moved to this village in the Paris suburbs in 1878 with his sickened wife Camille and their two young children as they faced financial difficulties, along with the family of one-time patron Ernest Hoschede. The period that ensued was one of the most prolific for the French Impressionist, who produced in just three years nearly 300 paintings, including "The Artist's Garden at Vetheuil" (1881). Until August 8, the National Gallery of Art is presenting two of four known works of this lush summer scene with huge sunflowers, including its own, larger piece and another temporarily on loan from California's Norton Simon Museum. "It's a turning point in terms of his career, his struggles, he's turning more toward landscape, he's becoming more interested in atmospheric effects," National Gallery curator of 19th century French paintin ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows Indonesia's President Joko Widodo (L) a kite on display at the India-Indonesia kite exhibition at the National Monument in Jakarta on May 30, 2018. Goh Chai Hin / AFP
| Getty Museum acquires bronzes by Claudel and Rodin | | Sotheby's Paris to offer historic works by Zao Wou-Ki, Jean Dubuffet & Kazuo Shiraga | | Tate Britain to unite Burne-Jones's two great painting cycles for the first time |
Bust of John the Baptist, model 1880, cast 1886, Auguste Rodin (French, 18401917). Bronze, 48 x 38.8 x 27 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2018.33).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of two important French bronze sculptures, Torso of a Crouching Woman, by Camille Claudel (1864-1943) and Bust of John the Baptist by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Each of these bronzes is a work of outstanding quality and importance, but it is the close connection between the two artists that makes their combined acquisition such a powerful statement about French sculpture at the turn of the twentieth century a moment when this medium was fundamentally transformed, said Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. It is particularly gratifying to be able to acquire a major work by Claudel Rodins student and lover at a time when her achievement as an artist is receiving the recognition it deserves. I have no ... More | |
Jean Dubuffet, Portrait dHomme Façon Carton-Pâte. Oil and mixed media on board, 59,5 x 50 cm; 23 3/8 x 19 5/8 in. Executed in May 1946. Estimate: 1,250,000 - 1,800,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
PARIS.- After an outstanding season in 2017 setting several world records, the Contemporary Art department opens its 2018 season on 6 and 7 June with a selection that promises a truly landmark event: for this is the most important contemporary art sale ever staged at Sothebys in Paris, featuring historic works never seen on the market before by Kazuo Shiraga, Zao Wou-Ki, Simon Hantaï, Joan Mitchell, Nicolas de Staël, Jean Dubuffet and Pierre Soulages. They were all acquired at the time of their creation and have stayed in the same private collections until now. The Evening sale will also feature a group of works by Yayoi Kusama, Rudolf Stingel, Christopher Wool, Gerhard Richter, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst and Georg Baselitz. The spotlight is on two paintings by Zao Wou-Ki of rare quality, dating from the time between his ... More | |
The Rock of Doom, 1885-8. Oil paint on canvas, 1550 x 1300 mm. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
LONDON.- Two celebrated series of Pre-Raphaelite paintings will be brought together in their entirety for Tate Britains Burne-Jones retrospective this autumn. The artists most famous narrative cycles, The Briar Rose c.1890 and the unfinished Perseus series (started 1875), have never been shown together before. A major highlight of the exhibition, two rooms will be dedicated to displaying these dramatic large-scale canvases as immersive environments full of exquisite detail. One series is drawn from the northern fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, depicting a princess and her court frozen in time in a medieval dream world, while the other depicts the action-packed classical myth of Perseus, a hero who slays Medusa and saves Andromeda from a sea monster. Exceptional loans from five different collections will provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience these outstanding works together. All four canvases in Burne-Joness Th ... More |
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| Library of Congress receives donation of popular art valued in the millions | | Design unveiled for historic evolution of the 9/11 Memorial | | Temporary exhibition of Salvador Dalà portraits by Robert Whitaker opens at the Dalà Theatre-Museum |
Entrepreneur Stephen A. Geppi with some of his most treasured comic books, including (front, far left) Action Comics No. 1 featuring the first appearance of Superman. Courtesy of The Library of Congress.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress announced today that collector and entrepreneur Stephen A. Geppi has donated to the nations library more than 3,000 items from his phenomenal and vast personal collection of comic books and popular art, including the original storyboards that document the creation of Mickey Mouse. This multimillion-dollar gift includes comic books, original art, photos, posters, newspapers, buttons, pins, badges and related materials, and select items will be on display beginning this summer. The Stephen A. Geppi Collection of Comics and Graphic Arts has been on public display in Baltimore, Maryland, for the past decade and is a remarkable and comprehensive assemblage of popular art. It includes a wide range of rare comics and represents the best ... More | |
Six large stone elements break the surface of the plaza and rise, pushing their way up and out of the ground.
NEW YORK, NY.- The conceptual design for the historic evolution of the 9/11 Memorial that honors those who are sick or have died from exposure to World Trade Center toxins was unveiled today on the 16th anniversary of the formal end of rescue and recovery operations at Ground Zero, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum announced. The new dedicated space, which will be integrated into the Memorial plaza, also recognizes the tremendous capacity of the human spirit, as exemplified during the rescue and recovery efforts that lasted for nine months after the 9/11 attacks. The design includes a pathway that will be part of a grassy area called the Memorial Glade, occupying the southwest side of the plaza, just west of the Survivor Tree. The location of this new path is roughly where the primary ramp used during the rescue and recovery effort once stood. The ... More | |
Robert Whitaker © Fundació Gala-Salvador DalÃ, Figueres, 2018. Image rights reserved.
FIGUERES.- A new temporary exhibition was presented today to the media at the Dalà Theatre-Museum in Figueres. It is devoted to portraits the English photographer Robert Whitaker took of Salvador Dalà in Portlligat and Paris from 1967 until 1972. Montse Aguer, director of the Dalà Museums, presented the exhibition to the media today. It is entitled Salvador DalÃ. Robert Whitaker. 1967-1972 and will be on show for one year in the Loggias Room. It aims at presenting Dalà as the protagonist of his museum. On this occasion, we show 27 pictures by Robert Whitaker which were known but have never been exhibited together. It is a carefully selected sample of the many portraits that the English photographer made of Salvador Dalà in his homecum-studio at Portlligat and in Paris, between 1967 and 1972. They belong to the Robert Whitaker collection consisting of 707 images ... More |
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| Exhibition at Lyndhurst features more than 50 rarely seen works by Louis Comfort Tiffany | | Bertoia Auctions' Spring Signature Sale hits $1.9 million with global turnout of enthusiastic bidders | | Auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg achieves more than €1.6 million |
Louis Comfort Tiffany, The Reaper, c. 1879-1881.
TARRYTOWN, NY .- A groundbreaking new exhibition of works by legendary artist Louis Comfort Tiffany fills the Lyndhurst Mansion and gallery this summer. Charting the development of Tiffanys career from the 1870s through the early 1900s, the display features more than 50 pieces, focusing primarily on early and rarely-exhibited works. The exhibit includes glass and mosaics from the Haworth Collection in Accrington, England, the home town of Tiffanys glass foreman, rare textiles from the Mark Twain House, rarely seen early paintings from the Brooklyn and Nassau County Museums and furniture and decorative arts from the Driehaus and other notable private collections. Based on new research, the exhibition conjures little known and unexpected dimensions of Tiffanys career. Works in the exhibition reveal his radical exploration of racial inequality in the North, his work with the Jewish community on synagogues in Albany and ... More | |
Jerome B. Secor Freedmans mechanical bank, circa 1880, American, one of fewer than 10 known examples, $132,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- Family-owned Bertoia Auctions produced another big winner on April 27-28 as their 2018 Spring Signature Sale rang the register at $1.9 million. More than 1,000 lots of high-quality toys, banks, trains and Christmas antiques with prestigious provenance attracted an energetic crowd to Bertoias gallery. Hundreds of other bidders battled for favorites over the phone and via the Internet. Bidders wasted no time reaching for the top shelf, so to speak. Lot 5, a very rare Citroen delivery wagon emblazoned Au Louvre, suggesting it was a depiction of a Louvre Museum vehicle, came to the auction block with a $2,000-$3,000 estimate. It was off to the races from the very beginning and didnt apply the brakes till it had reached an astonishing $48,000. Chatter during the preview suggested it was likely ... More | |
Lateinisches Stundenbuch Workshop Vrelant, Bruges, ca.1460-70. Calling price: 20.000 Sold for: 103.000.
HAMBURG.- With total proceeds of more than 1.6 million the auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg on May 28, 2018 realized an excellent result. The fact that the last auctions result was topped by around 200,000 surely is also owed to the sophisticated new catalog concept. Late medieval books of prayer and devotion were particularly sought-after. With its thematic focal points, our concept, which is probably unique in Germany, creates a very unusual flair in the evening auction, says auctioneer Christoph Calaminus. Objects gain an enormous presence in this special environment. This increases the reach and eventually leads to top prices. It all began with a big bang. The very first lot in the evening auction was the whole auctions top lot. A private collection from Hamburg and a written bid that would have allowed for some more bidding ... More |
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| FIAC 2018 announces list of galleries for its 45th edition | | Simon Lee Gallery opens a solo exhibition of new work by Holly Coulis | | Erin M. Riley's first solo exhibition with P·P·O·W opens in New York |
Ugo Rondinone, neunundzwanzigsteraprilzweitausendundfünfzehn, 2015 / Eva Pressenhuber, Zürich, New York © Marc Domage.
PARIS.- For its 45th edition, which will take place from 18 to 21 October 2018 in Paris, FIAC will host, within the prestigious halls of the Grand Palais, an exacting selection of modern art, contemporary art, and design galleries, among the most emblematic of the international scene. The selection of exhibitors, undertaken by a jury of gallerists recognised for their expertise, reflects a desire to showcase the diversity of artistic creation since the early 20th century. Ranging from modern masters to the most cutting-edge trends notably represented by the Lafayette Sector the 2018 selection will assuredly attract collectors and professionals from across the globe and delight art enthusiasts with a cultural and festive programme of unrivalled scope. This year, the list of galleries brings together exhibitors from 25 countries, including 2 new countries (Germany, Austria, ... More | |
Holly Coulis, Potato Chips, American Cheese, Hotdogs, 2018 (detail). Oil on linen, 81.3 x 96.5 cm (32 x 38 in.)
LONDON.- As part of its Viewing Room programme, Simon Lee Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Holly Coulis, her first in the UK. In her latest work, Coulis presents a series of vibrant paintings that traverse the traditional genre of still life painting, and delight in the geometry of the everyday. The oil on linen works on view depict simple scenes of quotidian life - familiar objects and foodstuffs arranged precisely and playfully on tables and countertops. Reminiscent of early modernist and cubist still life painting, Couliss domestic scenes are flattened, and the objects and surfaces are broken down into distinct areas or planes of unvariegated colour that represent different viewpoints. In each painting, there is a play and invention in constructing the space, and often the challenge lies in deciphering the dynamic of the table, whose lines and edges bisect and mirror the shape of the canvas. Mundane and everyday objects ... More | |
Erin M. Riley, Pain Releif Tablets, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and P.P.O.W, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is presenting Used Tape, Erin M. Rileys first solo exhibition with the gallery. Riley is a fiber artist who makes large-scale tapestries using a centuries-old hand weaving process. For her work, Riley sources yarn from shuttered textile mills around the United States; she then washes, strips and hand-dyes the wool before weaving on a Macomber loom. The exhibition will feature her meticulously crafted, tapestries depicting intimate scenes that reflect on relationships, memories, fantasies, sexual violence and trauma. The imagery in Rileys work is derived from personal photographs, found photographs sourced from the internet, and still lifes. She explores the innate difficulty of womanhood, objectification of the female body, and traumas both large and small that weigh on the search for self-identity. Riley has a history of sexual assault and violence in her family, the fear of which had a deep impact on the formation of her sexual identity. Her work is ... More |
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New work by Avril Paton goes on show at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
GLASGOW.- Scottish artist Avril Patons latest work, The Four Graces (Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum), has gone on show in the iconic building it depicts. Completed in 2016 the artwork shows a moment in time, in the life of Kelvingrove Museum, one Scotlands most popular visitor attractions. Well known for her watercolours of Glasgow city scenes, Avril Paton has loaned her most recent work to the city. It will hang in the Glasgow Stories gallery on the ground floor of Kelvingrove Museum until November 2018. The colorful painting shows the museum building as seen from outside, with people around and is described by the artist as Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on a winter Saturday 2016. Avril Paton said: When I started painting in Glasgow in 1982, the city and its citizens became the principle focus of my artistic strivings. I fell in love with the people and ... More
Oil painting by Francis Newton Souza soars to $235,000 at Weiss Auctions
LYNBROOK, NY.- A large oil on Masonite painting by the Indian-American artist Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002) climbed to $235,000, and three artworks by the Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin (b. 1943) a painting and two sculptures combined to bring $44,800 at an auction held May 17th by Weiss Auctions, online and in the firms Lynbrook gallery at 74 Merrick Road. The Souza painting was by far the top lot of the auction. Titled Head in a Landscape, the work was impressive at 35 inches by 47 ½ inches. It was also completely fresh to the market, making the important estate find that much more attractive to the collectors who were eager to bid on it. Francis Newton Souza was raised by his dressmaker mother in India and attended art school in Mumbai but was expelled in 1942 for supporting the Quit India Movement. Five years later he helped found the ... More
Bonhams appoints April Matteini and Natalie Waechter as representatives
NEW YORK, NY.- The international auction house Bonhams announced the appointments of April Matteini as representative in Florida and Natalie Waechter as representative in the Midwest. Bonhams Managing Director of US Regions, Simon Cottle said: I am delighted to welcome both April Matteini and Natalie Waechter to Bonhams. Their appointments are key to raising our profile, build our presence and engage with new clients in Florida and the Midwest. April Matteini is the Florida representative and will be based in Miami. Prior to joining Bonhams, she was the Florida representative for Skinners and ran her own consultancy both in Florida and New England for the past 13 years. April is an experienced jewelery appraiser and specialist with a wide knowledge of Fine and Decorative arts. Natalie Waechter is the Midwest ... More
MAXXI BVLGARI Prize: MAXXI and Bvlgari support young art talents
ROME.- The 2018 MAXXI BVLGARI Prize, the museums project supporting and promoting young art, is gathering pace. This year, thanks to its important partnership with Bvlgari, it has been revised and enriched as it opens to the international artistic scene. From 1 June to 28 October 2018, the works from this editions shortlisted artists - Talia Chetrit (1982), Invernomuto (Simone Bertuzzi, 1983 and Simone Trabucchi, 1982) and Diego Marcon (1985), will be shown in an exhibition at MAXXI curated by Giulia Ferracci. Chosen by an international jury composed of David Elliott Independent Curator, Yuko Hasegawa, Artistic Director at MOT in Tokyo, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director at the Serpentine Galleries in London, Hou Hanru, Artistic Director at MAXXI and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Director of MAXXI Arte, the shortlisted artists were selected for their awareness ... More
Boscobel names Executive Director
GARRISON, NY.- Boscobels Board of Directors has appointed Jennifer Carlquist as Executive Director, effective immediately. Since joining Boscobel as Curator in 2015, Carlquist has spearheaded innovative and widely attended exhibitions including Hudson Hewn: New York Furniture Now and Make-Do's: Curiously Repaired Antiques. Prior to joining Boscobel's staff, she served in curatorial and fundraising roles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Weisman Art Museum, and Glensheen Historic Estate; and completed a fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. Carlquist is a 20-year museum professional specializing in period interiors and their contents. From 2012-17, she taught as an Adjunct Professor at SUNY New Paltz. She lectures widely for design-related museums and programs across the country, including the Victorian Society Summer ... More
Tomaso Binga and Greta Schödl's first UK exhibition opens at Richard Saltoun Gallery
LONDON.- Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the first UK exhibition of Tomaso Binga and Greta Schödl, the female pioneers of the PoesÃa Visuale (visual poetry) movement. Both incorporate text to conjure a unique visual language, which they developed to assert their identity as women artists. Greta Schödl (b.1929, Hollabrunn, Austria) moved to Bologna in the late 50s, where women artists were a rarity. After marrying Dino Gavina, designer and friend of Lucio Fontana, she ceased her practice for seven years to raise a family. Over the past five decades Schödl produced an extensive oeuvre and now, aged 89, she continues to work in her Bologna studio. Schödls delicate and intricate works scale from postcard size to over 3 meters long. Geometric forms and bold colours are interwoven with written words, repeated obsessively until they appear abstract. Gold leaf, wire and ... More
Galerie Parisa Kind opens exhibition of recent work by Mike Bouchet
FRANKFURT.- Mike Bouchet's recent series of Colachrome paintings are made with his self produced Diet Cola. Though the works cover a range of themes, what Bouchet is primarily working with is the immaterial cultural fabric that ties all of these themes together. Bouchet's works are never didactic gestures, nor are they ironic or condescending. The criticality of his perspective is tempered by the empathy and humor of his approach. His work displays a heightened sensitivity and awareness of the myriad ways in which we are both the passive and active agents of mass corporate culture. Rather than turn his back to it, however, he quite literally jumps into this sea, and swims in its relentless tide of materials, formal qualities and immaterial notions found in its larger waves for relevant creative and critical inspiration. It can be argued that the history of human ... More
Alicja Kwade presents first, large-scale solo commission in the US at Castle Hill on the Crane Estate
IPSWICH, MASS.- The Trustees announces the third installation in its contemporary Art & the Landscape public art initiative on view now at Castle Hill on the Crane Estate, a National Historic Landmark located in Ipswich. The installation features an original piece specifically designed for the site of Castle Hills former hedge maze by Berlin-based, award-winning, Polish artist Alicja Kwade who is internationally recognized for creating works that interpret and question reality, time, science, and space. Titled TunnelTeller, the new work for Castle Hill represents Kwades first large-scale public artwork commission in the U.S. A rapidly rising star in the art world, Kwade presented her first U.S. solo exhibition at 303 Gallery in New York in the spring of 2016 and has since opened several other international exhibitions. The Trustees launched its Art & the Landscape initiative in ... More
Burning in Water opens a solo exhibition of recent work by the Oakland-based artist Oliver Lee Jackson
NEW YORK, NY.- Burning in Water - New York presents Untitled Original, a solo exhibition of recent work by the Oakland-based artist Oliver Lee Jackson featuring recent paintings, sculpture and mixed media works. Untitled Original will be the first solo gallery show of Oliver Lee Jacksons art in New York in over 25 years and precedes an upcoming major exhibition of the artists work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Featuring 25 large-scale works, Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings will open at the National Gallery of Art in March of 2019. The paintings and sculptures in Untitled Original were created between 1988 and 2016. Born in 1935, Oliver Lee Jacksons initial emergence as an artist occurred amidst the vibrant, crossdisciplinary arts scene of St. Louis in the mid-1960s where Jackson led a series of community arts programs. Though never ... More
South London Gallery launches Fire Station crowdfunding campaign
LONDON.- Today, the South London Gallery launched a month long crowdfunding campaign on Art Happens, Art Funds crowdfunding platform. Money raised will go towards the final stages of transforming the formerly derelict Fire Station into a new cultural centre that will open on 20 September 2018. With construction work on the Fire Station nearing completion the SLG now needs to raise the final £350,000 in the £4 million campaign. The SLG is working with Art Happens, Art Funds crowdfunding platform to raise £25,000 towards the target to kit out the building, so that it is ready for visitors this autumn. Donations will go directly towards preparing the new education space, archive room, artists studio and communal kitchen. For example, for the communal kitchen to become a hub for community meals and artist-led events, it will need cooking ... More
Exhibition of 18 prints from the 1970s by Alan Shields on view at Van Doren Waxter
NEW YORK, NY.- Van Doren Waxter is resenting Rolling Orbit, an exhibition of 18 prints from the 1970s by Alan Shields, on view from May 17 through July 27, 2018. The focus of the exhibition, the fourth solo show the gallery has presented for the artist since 2011, is a highly-dynamic installation and viewing experience in the gallerys upper east side townhouse, of the earliest prints made by Shields at Jones Road Press and Stable, along with works made at Tyler Graphics Ltd. Shieldss approach to printmaking mirrored his achievement in painting, which was to upend the conventions of the medium. Rather than executing a single conventional technique such as etching or lithography on paper, he considered paper as a medium that was as important as his treatment of it. Shieldss use of handmade paper opened up new opportunities in format allowing ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Ellsworth Kelly was born May 31, 1923. Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 - December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York. In this image: A woman walks past the work 'White Relief with Black III' by the artist Ellsworth Kelly during a press conference at the Haus der Kunst (House of Arts) in Munich.
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