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The musket bears not only the imperial reign mark on top of the barrel, but in addition, incised on the breech of the barrel, are four Chinese characters which denote the guns peerless ranking the exceptional grading te deng di yi, Supreme Grade, Number One. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Today at Sothebys in London, the first Chinese firearm with an imperial reign mark ever to be offered at auction sold for £1,985,000 / US$2,461,400 / HK$19,198,920. The gun a brilliantly designed and exquisitely crafted musket, produced in the imperial workshops was created for the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty, arguably the greatest collector and patron of the arts in Chinese history. Estimated at £1-1.5 million (US$1,330,000-1,990,000 / HK$10,270,000-15,410,000), the firearm ignited a ten-minute bidding battle, finally selling to an Asian private collector. Robert Bradlow, Senior Director, Chinese Works of Art, Sothebys London, said: This gun ranks as one of the most significant Chinese treasures ever to come to auction. Todays result will be remembered alongside landmark sales of other extraordinary objects that epitomise the pinnacle of imperial craftsmanship during the Qing dynasty ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day (FromL) Luc Glorieux, Queen Mathilde of Belgium and King Philippe - Filip of Belgium visit the 'Koning Albert I en de Grote Oorlog - King Albert I and the Great War' exhibition and the presentation of the book 'Albert and Elisabeth', on November 8, 2016, at Rumbeke Castle. KURT DESPLENTER / BELGA / AFP
| Tate Modern exhibits Modernist photography | | Exhibition traces the history of Mark Rothkos use of dark colors | | Attic Caravaggio to go on display in Italy | 
Man Ray (1890-1976), Glass Tears (Les Larmes) 1932 (detail). Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper, 229 x 298 mm. Collection Elton John. © Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016.
LONDON.- Tate Modern presents a major new exhibition, The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection, drawn from one of the worlds greatest private collections of photography. This unrivalled selection of classic modernist images from the 1920s to the 1950s features almost 200 works from more than 60 artists, including seminal figures such as Berenice Abbott, André Kertész, Man Ray, Alexandr Rodchenko and Edward Steichen among many others. The exhibition consists entirely of rare vintage prints, all created by the artists themselves, offering a unique opportunity to see remarkable works up close. The quality and depth of the collection allows the exhibition to tell the story of modernist photography in this way for the first time in the UK. It also marks the beginning of a long term relationship between Tate and The Sir Elton John Collection, as part of which Sir Elton and David Furnish have agreed to give imp ... More | | 
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969. Acrylic on paper, 51-5/8" x 41". Collection of Christopher Rothko © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Tom Barratt, Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery is presenting Rothko: Dark Palette, an exhibition tracing the history of Mark Rothkos use of dark colors in his sectional paintings. It is on view at 510 West 25th Street from November 4, 2016 through January 7, 2017. The exhibition reveals the development of Rothkos expressive use of color from 1955 through the 1960s. Presented in association with the Rothko family, Dark Palette features loans from museum collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, and is accompanied by a hardcover book with writings by Mark Rothko, his son Christopher, and an introduction by Arne Glimcher. In a landmark untitled painting from 1955, which has never been shown in the United States, Rothko begins his journey into the dark palette that will dominate ... More | | 
French art expert Stephane Pinta shows a radiography of the painting entitled "Judith cutting off the head of Holofernes", presented as being painted by Italian artist Caravaggio (1571-1610), while experts are still to determine its authenticity, on April 12, 2016 in Paris. The painting was found out in an attic of a house near Toulouse, southwestern France. PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP.
MILAN (AFP).- A painting discovered in a French attic that was controversially deemed to be a Caravaggio will go on display at a top Milan museum from Thursday alongside authenticated works by the Renaissance master. "We do not want to take part in the debate over the authenticity of the painting, we just want to allow it to be compared to contemporaneous works by Caravaggio," said a spokesman for Milan's Brera museum of painting, where the work will be on display until February 5. The 400-year-old tableau made headlines in 2014 when the owners of a house near the southwestern city of Toulouse discovered it while investigating a leak in the ceiling. It depicts a biblical scene -- the beheading of an Assyrian general, Holofernes, by Judith -- and was in remarkably ... More |
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| Fashion mogul raises $5.5m in second sale of famed library | | 20th century design auction at Morton Subastas: Designing a new lifestyle | | Sotheby's New York presents American Art sale | 
This file photo taken on February 11, 2015 shows French businessman Pierre Berge. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The second part of the sale of fashion magnate Pierre Berge's famous library -- one of the most valuable in private hands -- raised nearly five million euros (£5.5 million) Wednesday when it went under the hammer in Paris. Some of the most rare first editions of classics of 19th century European literature were among the 376 works sold by Sotheby's including signed books by such French greats as Balzac, Hugo, Stendhal and Baudelaire. One handwritten manuscript, which shows how Gustave Flaubert scratched out whole passages of his travelogue "Over the Fields and over the Shores" -- an account of his tour of France's Loire and Brittany regions in 1886 -- went for 537,880 euros. An original edition of his masterpiece, "Madame Bovary", made 190,369 euros, nearly twice its estimate. But the highest price in the two-day sale was for the manuscript of Stephane Mallarme's "Noces d'Heriodiade" (The Wedding of ... More | | 
Danish style mahogany and red leather upholstery armchair. 1950?s. Estimate: $651 - 868 USD.
MEXICO CITY.- Morton Subastas presents Modernidad Eterna, a special auction to be held in our Salón Moliere on November 12th 2016 at 11 am. This auction includes a unique selection of 305 lots of modern furniture and applied arts. This auction brings together some of the most recognized designers of the 20th century in Mexico and abroad. Names like Gustavo Pérez, Arturo Pani, Eugenio Escudero, Gaetano Sciolari, Eero Saarinen, Michael Van Beuren, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Florence Knoll, Frank Kyle and Don S. Shoemaker head our list. Exhibition will be opened to the public from November 7th to November 11th in Prolongación Moliere 515, Colonia Ampliación Granada, Mexico City. Each of the lots involves a distinctive sense of comfort and good taste. These are pieces not only to be possessed but to feel them and appreciate them. Morton Subastas will present creations of the outstanding architect, entrepreneur, furnitu ... More | | 
Albert Bierstadt, Sunset In California, Yosemite, signed ABierstadt (lower left), oil on canvas, 28 1/2 by 22 inches (72.4 by 55.9 cm). Estimate $1/1.5 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys New York announced highlights from the 21 November auction of American Art. The sale is headlined by Norman Rockwells Saturday Evening Post cover, Which One?. Depicting an undecided voter attempting to choose between the 1944 presidential candidates, Which One? is an exceptional and timely example of Rockwells beloved imagery. The fall sale also includes strong examples of modernism by artists including Milton Avery and Charles Ephraim Burchfield, as well as Western art, which is well represented by Albert Bierstadts stunning Yosemite and four paintings formerly in the collection of Philadelphia sports owner and legend, Edward M. Snider. Following an exhibition in San Francisco and with several highlights on view during the Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art sale previews in New York, the full offerings of ... More |
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| Exhibition of recent paintings by Yvonne Jacquette opens at DC Moore Gallery | | Dorotheum announces auction week with Modern & Contemporary art, antique silver, jewellery and watches | | Neal Slavin's first one-person show in New York City in 30 years on view at Laurence Miller Gallery | 
Yvonne Jacquette, New Highrise Hotel, Old Chelsea, 2014. Oil on linen, 42 1/4 x 33 1/2 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announces the opening of Yvonne Jacquette: Paintings, 1981-2016. Jacquettes work evokes the complexity, confusion, and wonder of seeing in the city and contemplating the landscape. The exhibition features recent paintings of New York City and Maine alongside important canvases that mark major developments in Jacquettes oeuvre over the last thirty-five years. In recent paintings of New York City, Jacquette heightens the disjunctive, collage-based sense of space that she has employed since the early 1990s. Studio on Tin Pan Alley, N.Y. (2015) presents a compression of mid-rise brick and glass interrupted by ambiguous glimpses into interiors. In the mosaic-like Delirious Manhattan (2014), buildings tilt and shapes shift wildly in shades of electric orange, yellow, and blue. Surprising overlays, patterns, and upturned elements also appear in Buoyancy (2014) and ... More | | 
Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985), Fleurs, 1924, oil/canvas, 72 x 57 cm. Estimate 750,000 - 1,000,000.
VIENNA.- Dorotheum's fourth and final international auction week this year is above all characterised by a strong offer in Modern & Contemporary Art. Marc Chagall's Fleurs, 1924, 750,000-1,000,000, is an absolute highlight of Modern Art auction on 23 November 2016, and as much an homage to mother nature as it is a still life. Giacomo Balla's square-shaped Valori plastici, 1929, holds the entire cumulative force and energy of Futurism condensed into one intense expression. The Contemporary Art Auction on 22 November 2016 includes works of incredible quality by artists as diverse as: Carla Accardi, Agostino Bonalumi, Paolo Scheggi and Guiseppe Uncini in the Italian section, which also includes pieces by Tano Festa and poetic works by Pier Paolo Calzolari; the ZERO art movement members Herbert Zangs, Adolf Luther and Günter Uecker representing the New German Art, and Maria ... More | | 
Neal Slavin, Sabrett Hot Dogs, 1974 (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery presents Neal Slavin A Forty Year Chronicle of Groups and Gatherings, the artists first one-person show in New York City in thirty years. Slavin, a native New Yorker, began photographing groups in 1972. He quickly realized that shooting in color yielded greater nuance and detail, placing him among the first generation of photographers, along with William Eggleston and Joel Meyerowitz, to fully embrace color. Over the past four decades, Slavin has recorded hundreds of groups from the most obscure to the most celebrated, both in the US and abroad: Sabrett Hot Dog vendors, NYC; The Silurian Border Morris Men, Herefordshire; the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Salt Lake City; Elephant Keepers with Katie and Kumara, Bedfordshire; and the Mahayana Buddhist Service, NYC. He has published three books: PORTUGAL, Lustrum Press, 1971; WHEN TWO OR MORE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER, Farrar Straus Giroux, 19 ... More |
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| Exceptional diamonds and a Kashmir sapphire headline Bonhams Fine Jewellery Sale | | Art auction in Munich features works by avant-garde artists of the past 60 years | | Exhibition presents the works of one most original landscape painters of the 19th century | 
Art Deco Emerald Single-Stone Ring. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An exceptional collection of gemstomes and jewellery will lead the final Bonhams London Fine Jewellery sale of 2016 on Sunday 4th December. Gracing the catalogue front cover is an extremely rare Kashmir sapphire single-stone ring, weighing 14.13 carats. The cushion-shaped sapphire has no indications of heating and is estimated at £600,000800,000. Jean Ghika, Head of Jewellery for Bonhams UK and Europe, says: "Kashmir sapphires are amongst the most highly prized gems for serious collectors. The mines, located high in the Himalayan mountain range in north west India, were only open for a period of approximately 30 years from the late 1880s onwards. Supplies were soon exhausted, making an example of this size a very rare specimen. The global appetite for coloured diamonds has hit the headlines in 2016 and Bonhams is delighted to present a Fancy pink-brown diamond ring for sale at the auction. The step-cut diamond weigh ... More | | 
The acrylic work on aluminum Pure Freude 84 by Imi Knoebel is estimated at 60,000-80,000.
MUNICH.- From Albers to Zimmermann: The small but exciting special catalog Good Taste A private Collection comprises almost 50 select works of post-war and contemporary art. The artworks in this exquisite collection of a Southern German architect, most of them were acquired directly from the artists, will be sold in context of the auctions at Ketterer Kunst in Munich from 8 to 10 December. The collector is not only acquainted with many gallery owners but also counts many of the artists represented in his collection among his circle of friends. Accordingly, it is no surprise that the collection is characterized by a clear avant-gardist leitmotif, especially since many of the works found their way into the collection through direct contact with the artist. This high-quality collection is particularly captivating for its puristic conciseness. It was compiled with a feel for the pulse of the times and reflects the unique ... More | | 
Piazza San Marco and Campanile. Oil on wood, 82 x 68 cm, 1880 - 1890. Musée Ziem Collection.
ISTANBUL.- Pera Museums Félix Ziem: Wanderer on the Sea of Light exhibition presents the works of one most original landscape painters of the 19th century: Félix Ziem. The exhibition focuses on Ziem as an artist who left his mark on 19th century painting and who is mostly known for his paintings of Istanbul and Venice, where the city and the sea are intertwined. The exhibition organized in collaboration with Musée Ziem in Martigues, is curated by Lucienne DelFuria and Frédéric Hitzel. Félix Ziems oil paintings stand out with their lively colors and the artists effort to capture the flickering effects of the continuously changing light by using a rapid and dynamic brush style. The exhibition illustrates the reasons why the artist was hailed as a forerunner of impressionism and as a pre-impressionist; his stylistic relationship with artists like Monet is quite visible. ... More |
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Anne Patterson "Pathless Woods" installation at The Ringling
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 Major exhibition of British landscape artist Norman Ackroyd RA opens at The Fine Art SocietyLONDON.- The Fine Art Society presents a major exhibition of British landscape artist Norman Ackroyd RA. The exhibition includes some of Ackroyds greatest expressions of Natures grandeur in prints and watercolours. Most of the 70 works in the show have been drawn from the period 1978 to 2000. Norman Ackroyd is widely considered one of the great landscape artists. Drawing on the advice of his tutor at the Royal College of Art, Cecil Collins, to Be single-minded. Just be a poet, Ackroyd has remained true to his vision for the last 60 years. Ackroyd is inspired to his most powerful reflections on his native land by the extremes of Nature and weather, producing wild, romantic landscapes. His knowledge of the British Isles, coastlines and its remotest places is deep, encyclopaedic, and unrivalled, informing a body of work like no other in his time. In his essay for the ... More New artwork by Langlands & Bell at Piccadilly Circus station to honour design visionary Frank PickLONDON.- Hundreds of thousands of customers, using one of Londons busiest Tube stations are able to enjoy a new contemporary artwork titled BEAUTY London Transport Museum and London Undergrounds Art on the Underground programme in partnership with London-born gift and interiors retailer Bouf.com, the new art installation was inspired by Frank Pick, London Transports first Chief Executive. Frank Pick was the mastermind behind Londons iconic Underground designs, such as the famous bar and circle logo known as the roundel and many of London Undergrounds Art Deco stations. The artwork was launched by Mike Brown MVO, Londons Transport Commissioner and highlights the continuing importance ... More Single-owner collection of early political and presidential Americana could exceed $700,000DALLAS, TX.- A single-owner collection of historic and rare political and Presidential memorabilia is expected to exceed $700,000 when Heritage Auctions presents the Scott W. Dolson Catalog Dec. 3 in Dallas. The life-long collection consists of over 500 selected items representing virtually every president and presidential candidate from George Washington through Theodore Roosevelt. "Scott collected with remarkable sophistication and discipline," Heritage Director of Americana Auctions Tom Slater said. "He gravitated toward the unusual or exceptional in each category he pursued, with a special emphasis on condition." The Dolson offerings range from glass and china and snuff boxes to lapel studs and pinback badges. Perhaps the most novel item in the collection is a large cast iron stove with a high-relief portrait of 1848 Democratic ... More Fastest 500cc car in the world for sale with Mossgreen Auctions AustraliaMELBOURNE.- Mossgreen, Australias leading independent auction house, is selling a number of unusual cars on November 27 in Melbourne including the land speed record holder at 500cc. It is estimated to sell for A$30,000 to A$45,000 (£18,400 to £27,500) The Julien and Boyer land speed record car was purpose- built to out-perform the 500cc one-hour record of 189.5km/h (118mph average) set by Englishman John K. Brisse in 1953. This achievement remained unbeaten until 1997 when Henri Julien and Bernard Boyer built a record car capable of exceeding Brisses 1953 average speed record. The inimitable French Blue aerodynamic streamliner set a new world record by achieving an average speed of 222.5km/h (138.26mph) at the CERAM track in Mortefontaine situated 40km from Paris on 3rd September, 1997 beating the record Brisse had held for ... More Major new public art commission unveiled at King's CrossLONDON.- A major new outdoor work by Bangladeshi-British artist Rana Begum was unveiled at Kings Cross today, Wednesday 9 November, marking the start of a new series of public art commissions for the area. Measuring 50 metres long and 3.5 metres high, the work, entitled No.700 Reflectors, Cubitt Sq. 2016, occupies the full length of Lewis Cubitt Square at Kings Cross. With saturated colour and complex 3D surfaces, the Kings Cross work features 35,000 reflectors, which create a continuous surface of shifting colour and form, a dynamic interaction with viewers as they pass by. The work by Begum is part of The Kings Cross Project, a three-year programme of art commissions for the buildings and public spaces of Kings Cross, curated by Tamsin Dillon and Rebecca Heald. With close to 9 million visitors enjoying the area every year, and a growing residential ... More Significant Martin Bros. bird collection offered Nov. 18 at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A large and impressive Glazed Stoneware Bird Jar and Cover, circa 1898, by the famed Martin Brothers pottery (seen peering into a Tiffany Studios Bronze Fern Mirror), is expected to sell for $30,000-$40,000 as part of an important collection of Martinware birds offered Nov. 18 at Heritage Auctions. Considered pioneers in both practice and societal commentary, the Martin Brothers work represents the transition from decorative Victorian ceramics to 20th-century studio pottery in England. Towering at an unusually tall 13-1/4 inches tall, the bird-form jar with a detachable head is modeled with blue, cocked eyes and raised brows in the Martin Brothers iconic human-like expression, said Nick Dawes, Vice President of Special Collections at Heritage Auctions. "This is one of the largest collections of Martin Brothers birds to come to market in recent memory," Dawes said. ... More Anne Patterson's first show at Alfstad& Contemporary opens in SarasotaSARASOTA, FLA.- Airidescence, a combination of abstract watercolor paintings, hanging ribbon sculptures and wire installations, is Anne Pattersons first show at Alfstad& Contemporary. The work transforms the gallery into a multi-sensory realm where viewers experience Pattersons integration of two worlds: art and music. The exhibition opens the evening of November 10, and runs through December 9. Due to synesthesia, a neurological condition in which the stimulation of one sense causes an involuntary response to another sense, Patterson hears color and sees sound. I see an incredibly magnificence of colors and shapes when I hear music, she says. My art is my interpretation of the natural world, through paintings, sculptures and installations. I try to render my reality into physical forms, with no limitations, just possibilities. Installing her wire pieces at Alfstad& ... More Annie Lapin's third exhibition with Honor Fraser Gallery on view in Los AngelesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Honor Fraser Gallery is presenting Annie Lapin: Watchers and Winks, on view November 5 through December 16, 2016. Watchers and Winks is Annie Lapins third exhibition with Honor Fraser Gallery. Though still connected to her prior investigations into landscape, perception and cognition, and the materials of painting, Lapins new paintings constitute a significant departure in her method of working and reworking each canvas. Her compositional deliberations coalesce into a series of evocative, otherworldly spaces that involve a multifaceted combination of poured stains, digital deconstruction and augmentation, and a broad range of other techniques. Incorporating both chance effects and purposeful marks, Lapins resulting environments record her concerted efforts to picture the processes of perception and cognition. To create the initial ... More V&A celebrates 1.5 million visitors to David Bowie Is LONDON.- The V&A announces that it has surpassed 1.5 million visitors to its landmark David Bowie Is exhibition, making it the most-visited show in the Museums 164-year history. The best-selling exhibition has been on a worldwide tour of ten venues since its inception at the V&A in 2013, and has already travelled to eight sites in countries including Canada, Australia and Brazil. It is currently in its final weeks at the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo) in Italy, and will open at the TERRADA G1 building in Tokyo, Japan in January 2017 followed by the Museu del Disseny, Barcelona in May. Victoria Broackes, co-curator of David Bowie Is, said: One stand-out visit amongst the many people who saw the show was, of course, David Bowie himself. We were very honoured that he came to visit. In the course of a couple of hours he seemed to go from showing his family ... More 'Lazarus': David Bowie's musical legacy opens in LondonLONDON (AFP).- David Bowie's musical "Lazarus" has arrived in London, with an opening line evoking the spirit of the late British star: "Look up here, I'm in heaven." The play's run in the British capital brings Bowie's legacy back to his home city nearly a year after he died on January 10 following a 10-month battle with cancer. Bowie, who grew up in London's Brixton neighbourhood, made his last public appearance at the show's gala night in New York on December 7 last year. The sombre musical is inspired by Walter Trevis's 1963 science fiction novel, "The Man Who Fell To Earth", which was turned into a 1976 film featuring Bowie in the lead role. "Lazarus" recounts the tormented life of Thomas Newton, an alien in the guise of a human who finds himself on Earth and incapable of dying. He lives with just a television and a bottle of gin for company -- until the arrival of "another ... More French New Wave cinematographer Raoul Coutard dies BAYONNE (AFP).- Raoul Coutard, the renowned cinematographer who worked with directors including Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut during the French New Wave movement, died Tuesday aged 92, his family told AFP. The Frenchman shot some of the biggest French films of the second half of the 20th century, including "Breathless" (1960), "Contempt" (1963), "Pierrot le Fou" (1965) and "Jules and Jim" (1962), along with "Z" alongside Greek director Costa-Gavras. Born in Paris on September 16, 1924, Coutard was a sergeant in the colonial infantry during the Indochina War, commanding a section in Laos before becoming an army photographer and then, while still in Southeast Asia, a photographer for Paris Match and Life magazines. It was there that he met French filmmaker Pierre Schoendoerffer, with whom he collaborated on his first films including "The Devil's ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English artist William Hogarth was born November 10, 1697. William Hogarth (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian." In this image: A visitor looks at a William Hogarth painting 'David Garrick as Richard III', on display at Tate Britain art gallery in London, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007.
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