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Wayne Thiebaud, Pies, Pies, Pies, 1961. Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Philip L. Ehlert in memory of Dorothy Evelyn Ehlert, 1974.12. © 2021 Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museum is presenting Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, an extensive, celebratory survey featuring a full range of the California artists achievements on canvas and paper in an exhibition on view at the McNay from October 28, 2021 to January 16, 2022. Opening in Thiebauds 100th year, the career-spanning exhibition of 100 objects is the largest survey of Wayne Thiebauds work in two decades. Artworks drawn from the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento and the collection of the Thiebaud Family and Foundation, many of which have never been shown publicly, as well as the artists newest body of work, circus clowns, reveal an extraordinary, expansive practice informed by memory, tradition, and imagination. Wayne Thiebaud is an artists artist, said Richard Aste, McNay Director and CEO. It is therefore so fitting that our Museum, which was founded by an artist, joi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day President Emmanuel Macron (C), flanked by president of the Maison Zola-Musee Dreyfus association Louis Gautier (R), French President's wife Brigitte Macron (2L), French writer and journalist Emile Zola's great-granddaughter's Martine Le Blond-Zola (C-L), French Junior Minister of Gender Equality Elisabeth Moreno (3L) and Paris' Ile de France president and candidate to the French right-wing Les Republicains (LR) primary election Valerie Pecresse (L), sits at the late French writer and journalist Emile Zola's desk, in the Emile Zola house in Medan, near Paris, on October 26, 2021. The French President inaugurated on October 26 the first museum dedicated to the Dreyfus affair, installed in the house of late French writer and journalist Emile Zola, defender of Alfred Dreyfus and author of the famous "J'accuse" article published in L'Aurore newspaper in 1898. Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP.
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| Cheim & Read opens an exhibition of paintings by Milton Resnick | | Russia reopens the last czar's palace, a century after his execution | | Palace of Versailles hosts the exhibition "The King's Animals" | 
Milton Resnick (1917 - 2004). A City Place, 1957. Oil on canvas. 34 x 26 inches / 86.4 x 66 centimeters. © 2021 Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation / Artist Rights Society (ARS). Photo: Alex Yudzon / Cheim & Read, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read is presenting Milton Resnick: Paintings 1954 - 1957. The show opened on October 26 and runs through December 17 at the gallerys uptown location, 23 East 67th Street in New York. This is the gallerys fourth solo exhibition with the artist; the first was in 2008, A Question of Seeing: Paintings 19581963. In BW and Alice, both from 1957 and on view in this exhibition, Resnick combines thick black lines, muscular shapes, and brooding color to create the building blocks of rich, jagged abstractions. They are strongly related to Low Gate, 1957, which is now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Two other works, Untitled, 1956, and Freehold, also from 1957, attest to the fecundity of that year with their viscous, swirling brushstrokes and eruptive bursts of velvety blacks ... More | | 
The living room in the reconstructed Alexander Palace outside of St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 13, 2021. Mary Gelman/The New York Times.
by Ivan Nechepurenko
ST. PETERSBURG.- Maria Ryadova recalled being in a dusty room inside the Alexander Palace, hopping from one floor beam to another and peering into the dark chasm beneath, on the day she and her team of workers made a momentous discovery. A pile of broken blue tiles had been hiding in the darkness. These shards, Ryadova knew from archival black-and-white photos, were the remains of tiles that had once adorned the walls of that room, which used to be Czar Nicholas IIs private pool and bathroom in the early 1900s. But before they were uncovered, she had never known their color. The discovery of these glossy pieces of cobalt and turquoise completed another piece of the puzzle that has been reconstructing this imperial mansion, which was once the home of the last czar of Russia and his family. This was ... More | | 
Paintings, sculptures, mounted animals, tapestries, sleds, vellums, porcelain, goldwork and more.
PARIS.- The Palace of Versailles is hosting the exhibition The Kings Animals. Some 300 works breathe new life into a spectacular artistic menagerie encompassing the thousands of animals that lived in and around the Palace during the Ancien Régime. The exhibition also sheds light on the opposition, among certain great minds of the French Court, to the Cartesian vision of animals as mere machines bereft of intelligence and sensibility. Looking at the Palace and Gardens of Versailles today, we can hardly imagine them awash in animal life. And yet the Palace was once home to dozens of companion animals, with dogs, monkeys, cats, birds and more occupying the apartments and antechambers. The now bygone Royal Menagerie featured the rarest species, from the coati to the quagga, and from beavers to black crowned cranes. Game was plentiful in the park, the royal stables accommodated 2,000 horses and the kennels held 300 hunting dogs. An ... More |
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| Hindman Auctions to Present Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana & Selections from the Studio of Barry Moser | | Christie's announces The Nile Rodgers Collection sold to benefit The We Are Family Foundation | | Freeman's white-glove sale of Alexander Hamilton material delights collectors of American history | 
A first edition of the Federalist Papers. James Madison and John Jay. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. New York: John and Andrew M'Lean, 1788. Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions November 9-10th Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana auction will feature 687 lots. The sale will be led by strong sessions featuring printed and manuscript Americana, natural history, science and microscopy, and fine bindings including fore-edge paintings and publishers trade bindings and childrens literature. A dedicated session of selections from the studio and personal archive of Barry Moser will also be offered. Moser, a renowned artist and illustrator, is the owner, operator and proprietor of the Pennyroyal Press. This selection, the most comprehensive group of Moser material ever offered at auction, represents the full range of Mosers creative process from his own annotated source material and preliminary drawings to his trial designs and proof impressions ... More | | 
A Solid-Body Electric Guitar. Telecaster, Serial number 6619. Fender Electric Instrument Company, Fullerton California, Circa 1954, length of back 15 3/4 inches. Estimate: $15,000-25,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies presents The Nile Rodgers Collection, a live auction on Thursday, December 16, 2021 in New York City from the legendary and multiple GRAMMY-winning composer, producer, arranger and guitarist. The items being auctioned have meaningful and important stories that are steeped in the soundtrack of peoples lives, with the music they created while defining an iconic era and sound. Niles work with the CHIC Organization and his renowned productions for artists such as David Bowie, Diana Ross and Madonna have sold over 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide, while his trendsetting collaborations with Daft Punk, Avicii, Keith Urban, Disclosure, Sam Smith and Lady Gaga reflect the vanguard of contemporary music. All net auction proceeds will benefit We Are Family Foundation, a non-profit organization co-founded ... More | | 
A first edition of Hamiltons fundamental report that ushered in the financial revolution in the United States, achieved $81,900 following a competitive bidding war (Lot 10; estimate: $30,000-50,000).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans October 25 white-glove sale of The Alexander Hamilton Collection of John E. Herzog confirms Freemans strength in presenting single-owner collections and securing excellent results for significant historic American material. The auction totaled nearly $600,000 in 44 lots, achieving 185% of the overall high estimate. Im very happy with the result, says Darren Winston, Head of Freemans Books and Manuscripts department. Our department and the consignor both did our part, and we were able to congratulate one another on an excellent sale. The buyers that participated in the sale were a very dedicated and passionate group that were all determined to bring home a piece of American historyand were thrilled to have sold all lots offered, thanks to them. The auction, featuring significant documents, first-edition pamphlets, and autographed material, is a deep dive into ... More |
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| Rare Renoir leads Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale in New York | | Perrotin opens an exhibition of works by Barry McGee | | Pop Larkin's beloved yellow Rolls-Royce from ITV series 'Darling Buds of May' for sale with H&H Classics | 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Vue de Montmartre (detail). Estimate: $380,000 - 550,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Vue de Montmartre, a rare landscape painting by Pierre-Auguste Renior (1841-1919) leads Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale on November 10 in New York. The work, which captures the Belle Ãpoques epicenter in the painters renowned pallet, has an estimate of $380,000 - 550,000. The 75-lot sale will present works across various artistic mediums including paintings, works on paper, and sculpture, and will include pieces from a number of distinguished private collections such as the late Ann Reinking, Dr. Paul Cushman, Jr., Adolph and Phyllis Green and Lynda Thomas. Highlights include an exceptional early bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, a remarkable group of four works on paper by Henri Matisse and two distinguished works on paper by Diego Rivera. Molly Ott Ambler, Bonhams Head of Fine ... More | | 
View of Barry McGees exhibition Fuzz Gatheringat Perrotin Paris, 2021. Photo: Claire Dorn. © Barry McGee: Courtesy of the artist, Perrotin, and Ratio 3, San Francisco.
PARIS.- Broken paint theory: Throw-up: paint spewed. The term refers to a form of quickly executed graffiti using rounded letters, which has long been Barry McGees signature practice. Illegal painting with an urban diffusion is like a process of contamination. Paint is corrosive, toxic, instinctual, repetitive: a ritualized and collective painting. Barry McGee has mastered the art of turnaround, which surely stems from his legendary street alias, TWIST. In his studio, graffiti extends beyond the plastic form, reaching towards experience, material, memory, attitude, an underground community. Inside or outside, Barry McGees painting is thus a situationist drift within anesthetized1 cities. Privatized cities where structures proliferate and hostile architecture2 blocks errant lives: the vertigo ... More | | 
1926 Rolls-Royce 20hp Landaulette by Park Ward.
LONDON.- Pop Larkins (David Jason) beloved Rolls-Royce 20hp Park Ward Laundalette that starred in ITVs The Darling Buds of May comes to market with H&H Classics on November 17th at the imperial War Museum in Duxford. Arguably one of the most beloved UK film car characters ever, this 1926 vehicle of dreams for Mom and Pop Larkin was purchased by its current keeper in 2019 for £100,000, and its previous keeper beforehand for the same sum. It is now offered for sale with an MOT certificate valid until 5th May 2022. The Darling Buds of May was a television series produced for the ITV network by Yorkshire TV and first broadcast between 1991 and 1993. The first six episodes of Series 1 and the first two of Series 2 are adaptations of the 1958 novel of the same name by renowned author H.E. Bates. The remaining episodes are original storylines based on the same format. Set in rural 1950s Kent, it follows ... More |
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| Acrylic nails get the fine art treatment | | Lalanne, Bertoia, and Warhol head up powerful array of works at Freeman's November auction | | Kurt Kauper now represented by Miles McEnery Gallery | 
Pamela Council, in front of their work, A Fountain for Survivors, in Times Square in New York on Oct. 14, 2021. Sunny Shokrae/The New York Times.
by Sandra E. Garcia
NEW YORK, NY.- For most New Yorkers, most of the time, Times Square is a challenge. Walking through the crowds of tourists, vendors, break dancing crews, and multiple Elmos and Iron Mans can be daunting when youre just trying to make it to work. But its also disturbing to see the area nearly cleared out, as it was last year during the pandemic. As pedestrians slowly begin to fill the area again, a monument has been erected for those who have been there through it all. A Fountain for Survivors, created by Pamela Council, an artist whose works are steeped in Black American culture, is an 18-foot fountain embellished with more than 350,000 acrylic nails, on display in Times Square until Dec. 8. The hundreds of thousands of ... More | | 
Modern and Contemporary Art features seven sculptures by celebrated artist and designer Harry Bertoia.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans Modern and Contemporary Art auction, beginning at 11am on Wednesday, November 17, offers something for every collector, from Pop Art aficionados to connoisseurs of Modernism. With works by some of the leading figures of 20th-century art, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alice Neel, Andy Warhol, Les Lalanne, Chuck Close, Arshile Gorky, and Harry Bertoia, among others, Modern and Contemporary Art provides opportunities to collect drawings, sculptures, paintingsand even stone-and-bronze sheep. Five Moutons de Pierre, designed in 1979 and executed in 1988 by French artist and designer François-Xavier Lalanne, will be offered at the November 17 auction at an estimate of $100,000-150,000 each (Lots 55-58). Equal parts conceptual and functional, these playful, charming ... More | | 
Kurt Kauper, Watching Men, 2020 (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announced representation of Kurt Kauper. Kurt Kauper received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA and his BFA from Boston University, Boston, MA. Recent solo exhibitions include Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming); New Work, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming); Women, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY; New Paintings, ACME, Los Angeles, CA; Barack and Michelle Obama, Deitch Projects, New York, NY; Everybody Knew That Canadians were the Best Hockey Players, Deitch Projects, New York, NY; ACME, Los Angeles, CA; Deitch Projects, New York, NY; ACME, Los Angeles, CA and ACME, Santa Monica, CA. Recent group exhibitions include Le Déjeuner sur lherbe, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming); Flesh, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; Salon de Peinture, ... More |
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Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South
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 Photo book follows NYC girls' 30 years of friendshipNEW YORK, NY.- In 1985, Karen Marshall began photographing a group of teenagers in New York City. A decade older than them, her intent was to look at the emotional bonding that happens between girls at age 16 and document the emblematic relationships that often develop at this time in their lives. Marshall captured the girls passage into womanhood and Between Girls tells their story, both unique and universal. What began as a 35mm black and white documentary photography project evolved into a thirty-year meditation on friendship, expanding to include audio, video, and ephemera. The publication of Between Girls in 2021 marks the final resolve of this three-decade project, allowing the readers to experience the photographs along with other media elements accessible via QR codes. In the fall of 1985, I met Molly Brover, a bright, ... More  Martha Henry, a leading stage actress in Canada, dies at 83NEW YORK, NY.- For the last role of her long career, Martha Henry, one of Canadas finest stage actors, played the character in Edward Albees Three Tall Women known simply as A. Albees character description reads in part, a very old woman; thin, autocratic, proud, as together as the ravages of time will allow. As Henry took to the stage at the Stratford Festival in Ontario in August to begin the plays two-month run, the cancer she had been dealing with for more than a year was well along. She used a walker in the first shows. In September she performed the role from a wheelchair, soldiering on in the demanding part through the final performance, on Oct. 9. She died of the disease Oct. 21 at her home in Stratford, the festival announced. She was 83. The effort Henry put into her final role A is a dying woman, mean and prone to bursts ... More  James Cohan opens the first US gallery exhibition of work by multimedia artist Emeka OgbohNEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Notes on Exile, the first US gallery exhibition of work by multimedia artist Emeka Ogboh, on view at 48 Walker Street from October 28 through December 18, 2021. This exhibition marks the US premiere of The Way Earthly Things Are Going, 2017, Ogbohs internationally acclaimed work from documenta 14. The Nigerian-born, Berlin-based artist Emeka Ogbohs multi-sensory practice explores the transient nature of culture. Ogboh refers to the ubiquity of sonority as a mnemonic device, creating sound and multimedia installations that prick collective memories of place. Likewise, he crafts flavors from varying regions of the world into blended gastronomic experiences, mimicking intricate narratives of migration. His practice is rooted in synthesizing sounds found in his home country of Nigeriasuch as the bustle ... More  The Schick Art Gallery pens an exhibition of works by four sculptors who also create drawings and digital printsSARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Schick Art Gallery presents Parallel Play, an exhibition co-curated by Skidmore Assistant Professor of Sculpture John Galt and featuring works by Chris Duncan, DeWitt Godfrey, Coral Penelope Lambert, and Mary Neubauer, four sculptors who also create drawings and digital prints. For each artist, working in two dimensions is an end in itself, as well as a means of engendering ideas. Reflecting on drawing and his development as an artist, Chris Duncan says, I became very engaged in the immediacy of making work on paper, and much less interested in using drawings as a provisional or intermediate step toward something else. Duncans sculptures and drawings play ... More  Russia to probe Dutch decision on Crimean goldMOSCOW.- Russian investigators said Wednesday they will probe a Dutch court decision to transfer a priceless collection of Crimean gold to Ukraine, a ruling hailed by Kiev as a victory over Moscow. An Amsterdam court ruled this week that the pieces, dubbed "Scythian Gold" and loaned to the city's Allard Pierson Museum just before Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014, should be handed over to Ukraine. "The Netherlands made a decision to please the political situation," Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement, adding that the collection had been stored "for decades" in Crimean museums. It said it had instructed investigators in the Russian-controlled peninsula to "organise a probe on the fact of a non-return of cultural items belonging to the Republic of Crimea." The head of the committee, Alexander Bastrykin, had also asked for investigators ... More  20th Century French, Italian and Scandinavian design lead Phillips' London auctionLONDON.- Phillips announced highlights from the London Design auction, taking place on 9 November. Featuring 139 lots, the sale brings together rare and important works of 20th and 21st century French, Italian, and Scandinavian design. Led by François-Xavier Lalannes 'Agneau', highlights from the sale will be on view at Phillips London galleries on Berkeley Square from 3 - 9 November 2021. Domenico Raimondo, Senior Director, Head of Department, Europe, and Senior International Specialist, said, With an exciting and varied selection of French, Italian and Scandinavian post-war design alongside contemporary pieces, lighting, and ceramics, our design sale this fall brings together a breadth of material of the highest quality and craftsmanship, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. We are proud to offer this selection and particularly honored ... More  The MFAH announces appointment of Anita Bateman as Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art HOUSTON, TX.- Gary Tinterow, director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, today announced the appointment of Anita Bateman as Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. Dr. Bateman will work with Alison de Lima Greene, The Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, on exhibitions, acquisitions and the display of the permanent collection, with a special focus on work by African American artists and on defining and expanding long-term collection goals. I am delighted to welcome Anita Bateman to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in a role that will encompass the Museums exhibitions, collections and programming in Modern and Contemporary Art, said Tinterow in announcing the appointment. Dr. Batemans groundbreaking work on East African photography; ... More  Prestwick Collection of Carson City rarities among top draws in Heritage Auctions' U.S. Coins eventDALLAS, TX.- When the hammer falls for the final time in Heritage Auctions US Coins Signature® Auction November 11-14, a number of seldom-seen rarities, many from long-held private collections, will have found new homes. We are very excited to offer such a wonderful array of scarce and rare pieces from passionate collectors, Heritage Auctions Senior Vice President Sarah Miller said. From Carson Cities to early US type to patterns, there is truly something for everyone in the November Auction. The Prestwick Collection of Carson City coins reflects the owners appreciation of both Scotlands Prestwick Golf Club, with its legendary place in the annals of golf, and the legacy of Carson City coinage within the numismatic field. Viewed by many as the true home of the British open, the venue served as host to the first 12 Opens, starting in 1860, as ... More  David DePatie, producer behind the Pink Panther, dies at 91NEW YORK, NY.- David DePatie and Friz Freleng, the celebrated former Warner Bros. cartoon director, had just opened their animation studio in 1963 when filmmaker Blake Edwards hired them to design an animated character for a comedy starring Peter Sellers in his first foray as bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The character Edwards wanted was a pink panther. We took all these drawings over to Blakes house and laid them all on the floor and he walked around and said, Thats the one I want, and the character was born right there, DePatie told the Kitsap Sun, a newspaper in Bremerton, Washington, in 2010. Edwards did not know exactly how he wanted to deploy the pink panther until after he finished the film when he cast it as the star of the opening credits. The nearly 4-minute title sequence for The Pink Panther (1964) created ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Andre Masson died October 28, 1987. André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 - 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Masson drew the cover of the first issue of Georges Bataille's review, Acéphale, in 1936, and participated in all its issues until 1939. His stepbrother, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, was the last private owner of Gustave Courbet's provocative painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World); Lacan asked Masson to paint a surrealist variant. In this image: Artist Roy Lichtenstein has applied his trademark benday dots to the cover of a limited edition 1985 Taittinger champagne, center. At left is a bottle designed by Victor Vasarely and on the right one by Andre Masson. All are part of the ``Art in Wine'' exhibit in Brussels' Credit Communal gallery.
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