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A Pierre Auguste Renoir painting "Femmes Dans Un Jardin",stolen by the Nazis was unveiled by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and returned to the heir of its rightful owner, Sylvie Sulitzer, during a ceremony at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York on September 12, 2018. The painting was taken by the Nazis during World War II. The 1919 painting was stolen from a bank vault in Paris in 1941 from art collector Alfred Weinberger. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A Renoir painting stolen by the Nazis from a Paris bank vault was returned to its rightful owner Wednesday after a more than 70-year odyssey from South Africa to London, Switzerland and New York. "Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin," painted in 1919 in the last year of French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir's life, is finally back in the hands of the granddaughter of the Jewish owner who spent decades trying to get it back. Sylvie Sulitzer, the last remaining heir of her grandfather Alfred Weinberger, a prominent art collector in pre-war Paris, received the work from US authorities during a ceremony at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Although Sulitzer knew her grandfather, she had no idea about the missing Renoir until a German law firm, specialists in recovering art looted by the Nazis from Jewish families, contacted her in the early 2010s. "I'm very thankful to be able to show my beloved family wherever they are that after all they've been through, there is a justice," Sulitze ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A photo taken on on September 7, 2018 shows details of the Thesaurus Hyeroglyphicorum book at the Ajaccio library on the French Mediterranean Island of Corsica. PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP
| Exhibition brings together eight of Lee Krasner's rarely exhibited studies for an unrealized WPA mural | | $4.3 million Tang Dynasty Bodhisattva leads Chinese Works of Art Auctions | | Two royal portraits by Van Dyck to lead Sotheby's Old Masters sale this autumn | 
Lee Krasner, Untitled Mural Study, 1940 (detail). Gouache on paper, 7 1/8 x 23 1/4 inches, 18.1 x 59 cm. © 2018 Pollock- Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mural Studies brings together eight of Lee Krasners rarely exhibited small-scale, gouache-on-paper studies for an unrealized Works Progress Administration mural painting. Created in 1940 (the same year Krasner produced, in her own words, her first abstract work) the gouaches investigate varying configurations of geometric and biomorphic forms alongside linear elements reminiscent of Jean Arp and Joan Miró. Dancing on flat backgrounds and reveling in vivid color, Krasners shapes consistently avoid the same designated window and door areas in each composition, suggesting that they were created with a single, now unknown, space in mind. A few years prior, in 1937, Krasner was assigned to finish a mural begun by Willem de Kooning after the artist was dismissed from the WPA project due to his lack ... More | | 
A Rare Painted Limestone Figure of a Standing Bodhisattva from the Tang dynasty that fetched $4.3 million far surpassing its high estimate of $2.5 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys Asia Week sale series began today in New York, with nearly 200 works sold across two auctions of important Chinese works of art for an overall total of US$20.2 million / HK$158.6 million. The day began with an auction dedicated to a selection of magnificent Chinese Buddhist sculpture from the collection of Stephen Junkunc, III a Chicago-based connoisseur who formed one of the largest and most important collections of Chinese art ever assembled in the United States. The sale offered works spanning nearly 1,000 years of early Buddhist stone, lacquer and gilt-bronze sculptures dating from the Northern Wei to Ming dynasties, led by a Rare Painted Limestone Figure of a Standing Bodhisattva from the Tang dynasty that fetched $4.3 million far surpassing its high estimate ... More | | 
Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Portrait of Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, 1641. Oil on canvas. Estimate: £600,000-800,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Two portraits of Charles Is eldest children - the eleven year-old Prince of Wales, (later King Charles II), and his nine year-old sister Mary, the Princess Royal, (later, the mother of the future king, William III) will be among the highlights of Sothebys London Old Master Evening sale on 5 December. Among the very last works that Van Dyck painted for his royal patron, these charming, beautifully preserved portraits have been in the same private collection for nearly a century, and come fresh to market with a combined estimate of £2.6 million 3.8 million. Conceived and executed in the summer of 1641, months before the artists death in December the same year, it is possible that they are the portraits of the Prince and the Princess recorded as being among the possessions left in the artists studio in Blackfriars on his death. Epitomising the extraordinary skill which Van ... More |
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| Exhibition highlights Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's ongoing engagement with diverse forms of digital media | | Photographia Erotica Historica: Goliath Books releases a leather-bound miniature book | | Exhibition paints a multifaceted picture of the earth's only natural satellite through art | 
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Vanishing Points, 2017. Custom software (color, silent), two screens, computer, 3D sensor. Dimensions variable. Edition of 6, 1 AP. Courtesy bitforms gallery, New York. Photo: Emile Askey.
NEW YORK, NY.- bitforms gallery announces Confirmation Bias, Rafael Lozano-Hemmers sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring an immersive light installation, a 3D printed steel sculpture and three data-driven screen-based works, the exhibition highlights the artists ongoing engagement with diverse forms of digital media. Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses. In a scientific context, confirmation bias proposes human perception as a negative effect that causes misinterpretation of data. Lozano-Hemmer reinterprets this term to emphasize the role of human perception in the creation and understanding of art, which speaks ... More | | 
The book is filled with photographic "obscenities" from the turn of the century.
NEW YORK, NY.- "Photographia Erotica Historica, a leather-bound miniature book with over 380 pages, gold embossed, and filled with photographic "obscenities" from the turn of the century. A unique, erotic collection of the best book arts. Reminiscent of times when printed nudity still had to be hidden, which may be the case again soon. A miniature book is a very small book, sized no larger than 3 inches in height. These books became more popular in the last few decades of the 19th century because they were portable and easy to hide. Many are bound in fine leather, gilt and contain excellent examples of woodcuts, etchings, or watermarks. Subjects range from the Bible, encyclopedias, stories, and of course to the desired miniaturization of eroticas. Many are now collectors' items, with prices ranging from a few hundred to many thousands of US dollars. In 1837, the French painter and ... More | | 
Salvador DalÃ, Girl with Curls, 1926. Oil on panel, 50,8 x 40 cm. Collection of The Dalà Museum, St. Petersburg, FL © Salvador DalÃ, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation / VISDA 2018.
HUMLEBÃK.- This autumns major exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art occupies the South Wing of the museum with a comprehensive cross-aesthetic exhibition about one of the great themes of our culture, the moon. The exhibition, which consists of more than 200 works, paints a multifaceted picture of the earths only natural satellite through art, film, music, literature, objects from cultural history, design, architecture, science and astronomy. The exhibition has been put together by curator at Louisiana, Marie Laurberg, who in recent years has engaged in in-depth research on the significance of the moon for art and culture from Romanticism to contemporary art and has developed the exhibition in dialogue with a number of institutions in other disciplines. ... More |
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| Frieze Los Angeles announces galleries and curators for the inaugural edition | | Nahmad Contemporary presents works by Joan Miró and David Hammons | | Hirshhorn announces museum premiere of Sean Scully's Venice Biennale "Landline" paintings | 
Opening at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood from February 14 through February 17, 2019, Frieze Los Angeles will join Frieze New York, Frieze London and Frieze Masters at the forefront of the international art fair calendar.
LONDON.- Frieze today announced the 68 participating galleries in the inaugural edition of Frieze Los Angeles. The new annual contemporary art fair will feature a site-specific program of talks, music and commissioned artist projects organized in collaboration with leading curators. Opening at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood from February 14 through February 17, 2019, Frieze Los Angeles will join Frieze New York, Frieze London and Frieze Masters at the forefront of the international art fair calendar, celebrating Los Angeles position as a global arts center and destination. Taking place in a bespoke structure designed by Kulapat Yantrasast, Frieze Los Angeles is led by Bettina Korek (Executive Director, Frieze Los Angeles) working with Victoria Siddall (Director, Frieze Fairs). Joining them is the newly ... More | | 
Joan Miró, Sobreteixim 9, 1973. Acrylic and felt stitched to wall-hanging woven by Josep Royo, 73.5 x 78.3 inches (187 x 200 cm). ©2018, Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nahmad Contemporary announces its exhibition (UN)COVERED: Miró | Hammons running from Sept. 12 to Oct. 27, 2018. The first to present the works of Catalan master Joan Miró (18931983) alongside postmodern American artist David Hammons (b. 1943), the exhibition illuminates the parallel iconoclastic practices of these two seemingly divergent artists whose careers only briefly overlapped. (UN)COVERED: Miró | Hammons highlights the analogous artistic strategies used to subvert traditional aesthetics in Mirós visceral Sobreteixims (1972-73) and Hammons tarp-cloaked canvases (2000spresent). Whether uncovering alternative materials or covering conventional aesthetics, the works illustrate each artists unique formal innovations and conceptual undertakings. Notably, the exhibition is the first to present Miros Sobreteixims in the United ... More | | 
Sean Scully, Stack Blues, 2017. Aluminum and automotive paint. 108 à 48 à 48 in. (274.3 à 121.9 à 121.9 cm). Private collection. © Sean Scully, Photographed by Robert Bean.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents the museum premiere of Sean Scullys (b. 1945) acclaimed Landline series Sept. 13Feb. 3, 2019. One of the major highlights of the 56th Venice Biennale, the abstract paintings represent a dramatic and seminal shift in the work of one of todays most important abstract artists, and the exhibition marks the first chance for audiences to experience the full range of Scullys latest evolution, including nearly two dozen works never before seen by the public. Following its Hirshhorn debut, Landline will travel to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, in spring 2019. Sean Scully: Landline traces the series expression through a variety of media, with nearly 40 oil paintings, pastels, watercolors and photographs (19992017), and layered aluminum Stack sculptures, iconic ... More |
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| Senior & Shopmaker opens exhibition of works by Al Held, Michael Craig-Martin, Judy Pfaff, and Stanley Whitney | | Gerard Sekoto top lot at Bonhams South African sale | | Works by contemporary and classic masters lead Phillips' Photographs Auction | 
Al Held (American, 1928-2005), Hudson 12, 1989 (detail). Watercolor on paper, 22 1/2 x 27 3/4 inches (57.2 x 70.5 cm) Frame size: 28 x 35 inches (71.1 x 88.9 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Senior & Shopmaker presents Spheres of Influence: Al Held, Michael Craig-Martin, Judy Pfaff, and Stanley Whitney, a group exhibition of drawings by preeminent abstract painter and former Yale professor, Al Held (1928-2005), along with three illustrious former students from the Yale School of Art graduate program in the 1960s and 70s. Long established in their own careers, Michael Craig-Martin (MFA 1966); Judy Pfaff (MFA 1973); and Stanley Whitney (MFA 1972) have each acknowledged the impact Held had on the development of their critical thinking and practice during their student years and beyond. This exhibition brings together works on paper by each artist, suggesting overlapping spheres of influence rather than linear attributions. Within the works on view, which date from 1963 to 2018, common themes emerge: the depiction of volumetric space, ... More | | 
Gerard Sekoto, Portrait of a Man, sold for £380,750 against an estimate of £100,000-150,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Gerard Sekoto, the widely recognised pioneer for black South African modern art, led the success of the Bonhams South African Art Sale today at New Bond Street (12 September). His top two works far exceeded their initial estimate. Portrait of a Man, achieved an impressive £380,750 against an estimate of £100,000-150,000, while Three School Girls made £308,750 from an estimate of £120,000-180,000. Bonhams Director of the South African Sale, Giles Peppiatt commented, The sale today demonstrates the continuous growth of popular interest in South African art, with particular enthusiasm for artists such as Gerard Sekoto and William Kentridge. Other highlights include: William Kentridges work Drive-in (drawing for Felix in Exile), sold for £106,250. The estimate was £40,000-60,000. Irma Sterns (South African, 1894-1966), The Visitation, surpassed its estimate of £25,000-35,000, achieving an ... More | | 
Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer 20, 2003. Estimate: $120,000-180,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights from the upcoming Photographs auction, taking place on Thursday, 4 October, in New York. Comprised of over 200 lots, the sale will include works by contemporary and twentieth century masters such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Cindy Sherman, Helmut Newton, Man Ray, and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others including Robert Frank, Walker Evans, and Paul Citroen. Our Photographs sale brings together a wonderful group of works that span the very best of the photographic medium, said Sarah Krueger, Head of Department, Photographs, New York. From Wolfgang Tillmans Freischwimmer 20 to Helmut Newtons large-scale print of his iconic Saddle II, this sale pairs contemporary and classic prints to showcase the wide breadth of 20th and 21st century photography. This season we are also honored to be offering the private collection, A Constant Pursuit: Photographs ... More |
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 The first book published and printed in Antarctica offered at Bonhams New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- On September 25, Bonhams sale of Exploration and Travel, Featuring Americana will offer a large range of over 300 lots, which is highlighted by significant works from George Washington, Mark Twain, and Ernest Shackleton some of the most important figures in US history, literature, and exploration. Highlighting the sale is Aurora Australis, 1908, the first edition of the first book published and printed in Antarctica by Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) (estimate: $70,000-100,000). The book was printed during the Nimrod expedition of 1908-1909 to keep his men occupied during the dark winter months in the Cape Royds hut. Shackleton brought with him a small printing press, paper and type (donated by J. Causton & Sons Ltd) and asked for written stories, poems, or humorous short essays from his men. The printing and publishing was ... More Lisa Laskowski appointed Director of Development & Chief Development Officer at Remai ModernSASKATOON.- Gregory Burke, Executive Director & CEO of Remai Modern, announced the appointment of Lisa Laskowski as Director of Development & Chief Development Officer at the museum.Laskowski is an award-winning professional with more than 25 years of organizational advancement experience in the culture, health care and higher-education sectors. Most recently she served as Chief Development Officer at the Royal University Hospital Foundation. Lisa is an incredible addition to the Remai Modern team. Her work over more than two decades has helped raise over $100 million in the education and health-care fields. She is an expert at establishing and fostering meaningful relationships with donors, sponsors, staff and volunteers at local and global levels, said Burke. Her work will be essential in continuing the momentum at Remai Modern as we deepen ... More Ronin Gallery exhibits Kuniyoshi's iconic series 'Biographies of the Loyal Retainers' NEW YORK, NY.- Ronin Gallery invites you to experience Kuniyoshis iconic series Biographies of the Loyal Retainers (1847-1848) in its entirety. Based on true events from the turn of the 18th century, this series captures the legend of the 47 loyal samurai who avenged their masters unjust death. In one of its most famous visual tellings, this tale of vengeance and loyalty comes to life through Kuniyoshis fierce portraits. The celebrated legend of the 47 loyal retainers stems from the historical event known as the Ako incident (1701-1704). Continuously illustrated, adapted, parodied, and performed since the 18th century, the Ako incident entered Edos popular culture through the literary rendition Kanadehon Chushingura (1748). The story goes as follows: The shogun appointed Asano, a young lord from the country, to receive the emperors ambassadors. ... More Sotheby's to offer Richard Feynman's Nobel Prize, papers and research libraryNEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that the Nobel Prize, papers and personal research library of the brilliant, inspiring, and much-beloved theoretical physicist Richard P. Feynman will headline their second annual History of Science & Technology auction in New York on 30 November 2018 in the year of the centenary of his birth. The group is led by the Nobel Prize including its associated presentation materials that Feynman shared in 1965 with Julian Schwinger and Shinichiro Tomonaga for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics. The offering also features a remarkable and enlightening collection of manuscripts spanning the full length of Feynmans career the only known collection of manuscripts by Feynman to exist outside of the archive at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he taught for nearly four decades. ... More Whyte's to offer Irish & International art worth over € 1.3 millionDUBLIN.- Whytes auction of Irish & International Art takes place at 6pm, Monday 1 October 2018 at the RDS, Ballsbridge Dublin. The sale will offer collectors major examples by Irish & International artists including Jack B. Yeats, Paul Henry, Seán Keating, John Lavery, Walter Osborne, Louis le Brocquy and Patrick Heron among many others. Whytes invite bidders to view the sale at the RDS, from Saturday through to Monday (day of the sale) 29 September to 1 October 10am-6pm daily. JACK YEATS - PILOT SLIGO RIVER (Lot 15, 200,000-300,000) An impressive (18 by 24in.) oil painting by Irelands most distinguished artist, dates to 1927 and was selected by Yeats for three major exhibitions during his lifetime including Oireachtas, Dublin (1941). The mythical figure of the pilot is a critical and recurring theme offering insight into Yeats childhood in Sligo and ... More Massimo De Carlo Hong Kong opens the first solo exhibition by the Chinese artist Wang Yuyang HONG KONG.- Massimo De Carlo Hong Kong is pleased to present The Moon, the first solo exhibition by the Chinese artist Wang Yuyang with our gallery. Wang Yuyang (b.1979, Harbin) graduated from China Central Academy of Drama and the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The artist currently lives in Beijing, where he has been teaching at the School of Experiment Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts since 2008. Wang Yuyangs oeuvre is a multi-medial practice that encompasses sculpture, painting, photography and video, focusing on the relationship between humans and technology, earth and space. For The Moon the artist presents a new series of large-scale canvases, created specifically for this exhibition, that are immersed in the painterly gesture and the use of primary colours, and investigate the depths and significance of the earths only permanent ... More Items signed by John Hancock, Bruce Lee, JFK, and Napoleon included in University Archives auctionWESTPORT, CONN.- A superb John Hancock signed manuscript from 1783 in remarkable condition, plus items pertaining to other signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Judaica, JFK and family, Rev War, U.S. presidents, Napoleon and other foreign leaders, Bruce Lee and more will be in University Archives online-only auction, slated for Wednesday, September 26th. Live bidding will begin at 10:30 am Eastern time. In all, 288 lots will be offered in a sale packed with rare and highly collectible autographed documents, manuscripts, books and relics. The full catalog can be viewed now, at www.UniversityArchives.com. Internet bidding will be provided by Invaluable.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. As we enter the new auction season were very proud of our current offering, most of which ... More Two-part exhibition project provides further thoughts on earthy materials HAMBURG.- In times when contemporary art more strongly reflects the conditions and aesthetics of virtual realities, post-human theories abound, and the digitization of the world has created a fascination with surfaces and found images, a parallel art production is emerging; one that deliberately uses haptic materials and artisan production processes. The two-part exhibition project Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials at the GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen and the Kunsthaus Hamburg asks what the underlying questions of the shift towards techniques and the material of ceramics in the artistic production of the 21st century are. Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials brings together works of a younger generation of artists that take an unconventional approach to ceramic materialworks that do not signify a revival of traditions ... More Simon Lee Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Gary SimmonsLONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery presents Green Past Gold, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist, Gary Simmons. This is his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Across his wide-ranging practice racial, social and cultural politics have been central themes and continue to occupy this recent series of the artists signature erasure drawings. Since the early stages of his career, Simmons has used the act of erasure as a means by which to interrogate racial identity and oppression in America. In these new monumentally-scaled works, he depicts the names of African-American actors of the silver screen alongside the titles of the silent films and early talking pictures in which they starred. Towering over the viewer as though cinema screens themselves, each work is crafted over time with washes of grayscale pigment that evoke the wiped-clean slate ... More Charlotte Jackson Fine Art opens exhibition of works by John BeechSANTA FE, NM.- Strange shapes. thick whorls of paint. photos of everyday objects like dumpsters or movers dollies set within a canvas and covered over by layers of paint. Outside the Drift, an exhibition of works by John Beech, resembles nothing so much as a walk through a museum of artifacts from some unknown and yet hauntingly familiar culture. Along with works from his Kenchis, Photo-Paintings, and Small Paintings series, Beech will also be creating an impromptu sculpture on-site at the gallery. Made with the space in mind, Beech will set himself a particular time-constraint to create the work which will be made with materials he finds in santa Fe (most likely building materials, with the whole piece set on casters). the space, the time constraint, objects and materials near-to-hand, will influence the process of how the sculpture develops, as well as when Beech ... More Solo exhibition of work by celebrated New York street artist Richard Hambleton opens in LondonLONDON.- Maddox Gallery will open a solo exhibition of work by celebrated New York street artist Richard Hambleton in September. It will be the first major gallery exhibition dedicated to the seminal godfather of street art, since his death in October 2017 and will feature original pieces as well as limited edition prints. Ahead of the Maddox Gallery exhibition, a large show of over 60 original Richard Hambleton works will take over Londons Leake Street Tunnels from 13-15 September. The Maddox Gallery exhibition will open on 20 September and see the 4000 square foot Westbourne Grove space entirely dedicated to Hambleton, with further works on display at Maddox Gallerys flagship location in Mayfair. Richard Hambleton is renowned for his black shadowman silhouettes that graced dark corners, alleyways and walls across Lower Manhattan in the early ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and sculptor Robert Indiana was born September 13, 1928. Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark; September 13, 1928 - May 19, 2018) was an American artist associated with the pop art movement. His "LOVE" print, first created for the Museum of Modern Art's Christmas card in 1965, was the basis for his 1970 Love sculpture and the widely distributed 1973 United States Postal Service "LOVE" stamp. In this image: Robert Indiana, "LOVE WALL" 1966 - 2006, Cor-ten steel, 144 x 144 x 48 inches, 366 x 366 x 122 cm. Installation view at Paul Kasmin Gallery 2018 © 2018 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Christopher Stach.
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