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Real estate developer Sheldon Solow with his son, Stefan Soloviev, in New York, March 8, 2018. Its the art worlds new guessing game: Will Solows paintings and sculptures, conservatively valued at $500 million, be heading to a private museum or to auction? George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Katya Kazakina
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In an apartment high above Manhattan, paintings by van Gogh, Matisse and Modigliani overlooked the East River and tribal artworks and Egyptian antiquities mingled with Giacometti bronzes and furniture. Several blocks west, a monumental Miró bronze stood guard by a skyscraper known for its sloping glass facade and masterpieces inside. But now the future of one of the finest 20th-century art collections hangs in the balance after the death last month of Sheldon Solow, 92, the self-made real estate tycoon who amassed it over five decades. Many works decorated the Solows flat at United Nations Plaza. A rotating cast of trophies was displayed in a street-facing gallery at the Solow Building on West 57th Street, the home of the Solow Art and Architecture Foundation and the heart of his real estate empire. The art world is holding its breath. In the last decade, Solow emerged as a major seller of masterpieces at auction, and new consignments from his eclectic collection could infuse as ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, wearing a protective face covering to combat the spread of the coronavirus, studies an exhibit during a visit to the Corinium Museum in Cirencester, south-west England, on December 18, 2020. Prince Charles visited the Museum and viewed their interactive galleries depicting the story of life in the Cotswolds from 40,000 years ago, right up to the early- Corinium era (early Roman times) including Bronze Age and Iron Age artefacts. ARTHUR EDWARDS / POOL / AFP.
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| Sotheby's to offer personal art collection of celebrated artist duo Christo & Jeanne-Claude | | A record number of National Treasures accepted for the public this Christmas | | Sir Winston Churchill's 'Scene at Marrakech' to be offered in Christie's Modern British Art Evening Sale |
Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attesa. Courtesy Sotheby's.
PARIS.- It is always a special moment when works from artists personal collections appear on the market, but never more so than when those artists are among the worlds most celebrated names. Sothebys announced the sale of works from the long-time New York studio and home of internationally renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The captivating collection invites the world to step into the private sphere of the famed artistic couple, through nearly 400 lots that showcase the range of their artistic inspirations, friendships with leading 20th century artists, and the famed studio where Christo and Jeanne-Claude projected their artistic vision to the world. Additionally, the collection includes several works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude spanning their multi-decade practice, featuring many of their most well-known public projects, such as The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Project for Paris, and The Umbrellas, ... More | |
Orpheus (Maquette 1) by Dame Barbara Hepworth. Photo Courtesy of The Hepworth Wakefield.
LONDON.- The Arts Council has today, 21 December 2020, published the 2019/20 Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu Annual Report, revealing that objects worth nearly £65 million, settling tax of £40 million, were accepted for the nation. In a record-breaking year for the Government schemes, the number of cases reported was also the highest ever. Acceptance in Lieu plays a significant role in developing collections and has proved highly effective in securing important new acquisitions for national and regional collections. Its sister scheme, the Cultural Gifts Scheme, is also attracting donors and enriching the UKs cultural heritage. This years report shows the valuable role they both play in enabling public collections to acquire important cultural property, particularly at a time when organisations are facing extraordinary challenges with budgets and the acquisition landscape affected ... More | |
Sir Winston Churchill, Scene at Marrakech (detail), oil on canvas, 23 ¾ x 36 ⅜ in. (60.3 x 92.4 cm.) Painted circa 1935. Estimate: £300,000-500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Sir Winston Churchills Scene at Marrakech (circa 1935, estimate: £300,000-500,000) will highlight the Modern British Art Evening Sale, which takes place on 1 March 2021. The painting was a gift from Churchill to Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, one of the most distinguished generals of the Second World War who played a vital role in the retreat from the battle of Dunkirk, which saved many allied lives. Montgomery was instrumental in the tactics that delivered an eventual victory for the allied forces in 1945. The painting has remained with the Montgomery family since it was gifted by Churchill and is being offered at auction for the first time. Sir John Lavery, Churchills tutor in painting, was one of many friends who encouraged Churchill to visit Morocco and his first trip to the country was during ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth announce Louise Bourgeois exhibition at Tarmak22 Gstaad and online | | David Lee Roth Van Halen tour jacket & more head to Julien's Auctions | | Collectors going bananas for Del Monte-stickered $20 bill |
Louise Bourgeois, The Couple, 2007-2009. Cast and polished aluminum, hanging piece, 154.9 x 76.2 x 66 cm / 61 x 30 x 26 in. Photo: Christopher Burke. © The Easton Foundation / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich. Courtesy The Easton Foundation and Hauser & Wirth.
GSTAAD.- This winter, Hauser & Wirth brings the work of one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th Century, Louise Bourgeois, to the Swiss Alps. Available to experience at the exhibition space Tarmak22 in Gstaad and online, the exhibition takes its title from Blaise Pascals well-known phrase: the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Bourgeois studied mathematics and philosophy at the Sorbonne, Paris, and wrote her thesis on Pascal; but the death of her mother in 1932 eventually led her to abandon these studies and turn to art making. Yet she remained a Pascalian, so to speak, in her belief that there is something in our emotional and psychological experience of the Other that eludes, or transcends, rational explanation. For Bourgeois, this relationship to the Other is a complex arrangement, and a world in itself. The Heart Has Its Reasons features a selection of important sculptures and d ... More | |
David Lee Roth worn jacket with signed photograph. Estimate:3000-5000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions announced today the marquee lineup of items to be sold at Musicares® Charity Relief Auction taking place live in Beverly Hills and online juliensauctions.com on Sunday, January 31st, 2021. This Official Grammy® Week event precedes the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards® telecast. Proceeds will benefit MusiCares, the leading music industry charity, to provide aid to music people devastated by COVID-19. MusiCares provides the music community a support system of health and human services across a spectrum of need including physical and mental health, addiction recovery, unforeseen personal emergencies and disaster relief. BTS kicked off the initiative in the previous announcement of their generous offering of their pastel colored ensembles (estimate: $20,000 - $40,000), worn in their 2020 music video for Dynamite, the global superstars smash hit and first number one single in the United States. B ... More | |
Obstructed Printing Error with Retained Obstruction Fr. 2084-H $20 1996 Federal Reserve Note. PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 EPQ.
DALLAS, TX.- When is a banana sticker worth $25,000? When it's stuck to the front of a $20 bill. Heritage Auctions will offer the famed "Del Monte Note" what is considered perhaps the most famous of all U.S. obstructed error banknotes at auction January 22 for the first time since 2006. That's when the note sold for $25,300 to a collector who fell in love with the $20 bill's backstory. The obstruction caused a sensation among collectors of U.S. currency when it was discovered by an Ohio college student in the summer of 2004. The student received it as part of an ATM withdrawal and shortly thereafter posted it on eBay where it sold to the highest of 12 bids. Banknote collectors proclaimed the note a bargain when it sold at around $10,000 on eBay, as news of the note had barely hit the collecting community. "Collectors immediately fell in love with it," said Dustin Johnston, Vice President of Currency Auctions at Heritage Auctions. "The placement of the 'Del Monte Ecuador' banana sticke ... More |
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| Mark Minkman appointed interim Managing Director of Van Gogh Museum | | 'Just Breathtaking': Highest-graded copy of 1940's 'Batman' No. 1 heads to auction in January | | Edith Devaney appointed Managing Director and Curator for David Hockney |
Minkman assumes position after departure of Adriaan Dönszelmann as of 1 January 2021.
AMSTERDAM.- The Supervisory Board of the Van Gogh Museum has appointed Mark Minkman as interim Managing Director of the museum. Minkman will assume his position on 1 January 2021 and succeeds Adriaan Dönszelmann, who starts in his new role on the Board of MBO College Zuidoost on the same day. Mark Minkman (56) is a consultant at Andersson Elffers Felix (AEF), and is currently interim Director of the Stichting Regionale Publieke Omroep on behalf of AEF. Minkman previously spent seven years as Director of Paradiso Amsterdam, and between 2005 and 2013, was Financial Director of the VARA broadcasting corporation. Minkman: I am very much looking forward to working together with Emilie Gordenker to help effectively guide the Van Gogh Museum in a period in which the museum is facing extraordinary challenges. At the VARA, Minkman was ... More | |
Batman #1 (DC, 1940) CGC NM 9.4 White pages.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions will begin the new year by offering the finest-known copy of 1940's Batman No. 1 which until now has never been sold at auction. This near-mint issue, the sole copy ever to receive a 9.4 grade from the Certified Guaranty Company, is the centerpiece of the Dallas-based house's Jan. 14-15 Comics & Comic Art event. And this unrestored copy comes to market only weeks after Heritage sold a 7.0-graded copy of Detective Comics No. 27 for $1.5 million. For the moment, at least, that's the highest price ever paid for a Dark Knight title. "This Batman No. 1 is just breathtaking," says Heritage Auctions Senior Vice President Ed Jaster of this newly certified, newly discovered copy estimated to sell for more than $1 million. "Of course, no one can say for certain, but it's highly unlikely that a better copy is anywhere out there," Jaster says. "It has great color and white pages not off-white, ... More | |
Edith Devaney will leave her position as Contemporary Curator and Head of Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London early next year to take up this position. © Benedict Johnson.
LONDON.- David Hockney has appointed Edith Devaney in a newly created role of Managing Director and Curator and as such she will help manage the Hockney entities under his direction. He has also appointed her Editor-in-Chief of his Catalogue Raisonné project. Edith Devaney will leave her position as Contemporary Curator and Head of Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London early next year to take up this position. During her tenure, Devaney has instigated and curated many of the Royal Academys significant exhibitions of recent years which have included: David Hockney: A Bigger Picture in 2012, which attracted over 600,000 visitors making it the RAs most successful contemporary exhibition ever; Abstract Expressionism in 2016, which ... More |
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| Atheists to save historic wooden German church plank by plank | | Dolls house dinner service commissioned by the Queen's grandmother heads to auction | | Laurence King Publishing publishes a fascinating new biography of Keith Haring |
Regina Bierwisch, spokeswoman for the Stiege Stave Church Association, locks the front door of the Stabkirche, a stave church built in 1905 as part of the "Albert House" sanatorium for patients with lung diseases, in a wooded area outside the town of Stiege, Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany, on November 19, 2020. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
STIEGE (AFP).- Ask Hans Powalla if he is a believer and the immediate response is a firm "no". Yet he and other villagers in and around the German town of Stiege have embarked on the Herculean task of saving a picturesque church by moving it from the middle of a forest into the centre of town. Former electrician Powalla, 74, said they were driven by the "unique architecture of the building" and the "meaning that it gives to the region" in the Harz mountains. The object in question is a stave church, or wooden church, complete with dragon ornaments on the roof, built in the Nordic style in 1905. It is one of only three such churches from that era still standing in Germany, and is classed as a ... More | |
Miniature Dinner Set for Queen Mary's Doll's House. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This Winter, an extremely rare miniature dinner service commissioned in 1922, as a gift to HM Queen Mary for the worlds most famous dolls house at Windsor Castle will star as a highlight of the Thomas Goode auction at Sothebys [34-35 New Bond Street, Mayfair, London, W1A, 2AA]. Open for bidding from 22 December through to 8 January 2021, with an estimate of £20,000-30,000. Considered the largest, most beautiful and most famous dolls house in the world, the five foot-tall house with working electricity, silver bath taps and flushing lavatories, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the early 1920s as a gift for HM Queen Mary, Queen Consort to HM King George V of the United Kingdom; the British Dominions and Emperor of India and grandparents of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Over 1,500 artists, craftsmen and Royal Warrant holders were employed to create each element of the house in miniature from real vers ... More | |
Keith Haring by Simon Doonan. Hardback. £12.99. 9781786277879
LONDON.- Keith Haring by Simon Doonan is a fascinating new biography of a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells the iconic artists inspirational story. Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist for the people, creating an instantly recognisable repertoire of symbols: barking dogs, space-ships, crawling babies, clambering faceless people, which became synonymous with the volatile culture of 1980s. Like a careening, preening pinball, Keith Haring playfully slammed into all aspects of this decade: hip-hop, new-wave, graffiti, funk, art, style and LGBT culture, and brought them together. Harings fanatical drive propelled him into the orbit of the most interesting people of his time: Jean Michel Basquiat envied him; Warhol, William Boroughs and Grace Jones ... More |
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The New Press publishes 'Two Women in Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance'
NEW YORK, NY.- "The tireless Belarus Free Theatre, in short, is more than a theatrical marvel. It is, arguably, a theatre of firsts: the first contemporary company to survive, function and flourish both in exile and at home, despite repression; the first to rely on the Internet to direct and create its art; the first to campaign globally for human rights as well as basic artistic freedom; the first to perform before the UK's Parliament." -- American Theatre In the fall of 2017, the internationally acclaimed underground theater troupe Belarus Free Theatre took New York by storm for a production of their harrowing anti-torture, anti-Putin play, "Burning Doors." They were joined by Maria Alyokhina, a member of Russian punk group Pussy Riot, who made international headlines when they were imprisoned for staging an anti-Putin performance in a Moscow cathedral. ... More
Items signed by Sir Isaac Netwon and Albert Einstein included in University Archives auction
WESTPORT, CONN.- A four-page manuscript consisting of nearly 2,300 words written entirely in the hand of English physicist Sir Isaac Newton, a World War II-dated letter written in English by Albert Einstein in which he reveals that Nazi leaders didnt give much thought to his Theory of Relativity, and a 16-page letter signed by John Adams regarding British abuses eight years after his presidency ended, are just a sampling of whats in University Archives next online auction planned for January 6th. The full catalog, showing all 440 lots, is up for bidding and viewing now, on the revamped University Archives website, as well as on the popular platforms LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The sale contains rare and highly collectible items from multiple specialty categories. These ... More
55 Walker announces an exhibition of works by Carla Accardi and Elisa Sighicelli
NEW YORK, NY.- 55 Walker (Bortolami, kaufmann repetto, and Andrew Kreps Gallery), is presenting an exhibition of works by Carla Accardi and Elisa Sighicelli. At the center of the exhibition is Carla Accardis groundbreaking series of paintings on Sicofoil, a commercial plastic, which she first incorporated in her practice during the 1960s. Disrupting the traditional relationship between painting and its environment, the works investigate the interplay of multiple spatial planes within an artwork. This is the central interest of Elisa Sighicellis new photographs on satin, which form both a material and conceptual response to Accardis series of paintings on Sicofoil. Carla Accardi first encountered Sicofoil on accident, when it was included in a delivery sent to her studio. Initially incorporating the material in sculpture and installation, by 1966 Accardi ... More
Graffiti explodes across pandemic-era New York
NEW YORK (AFP).- Graffiti -- part of New York's history for over 50 years -- is flourishing during the coronavirus pandemic, a sign of decadence for some, but vitality for others. As dusk becomes nightfall, graffiti artist Saynosleep takes a quick look around and then gets to work on a luxury store closed since it was looted in June during protests over George Floyd's death. "If you're not painting right now, I don't know what you're doing," says the 40-year-old, adding an expletive. "There has never been a time like this." The facades of hundreds of store that have shut because of the pandemic are "an invitation" to artists, says Marie Flageul, curator at New York's Museum of Street Art (MoSA). Walls, bridges, sidewalks and subway cars -- 34 of which have been painted since the beginning of the month -- are canvases. "It's a big surge, a renaissance ... More
Christmas without music? Churches are finding a way
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In a normal year, Phil Hines takes a deep breath, lays his hands on the keys of the 135-year-old pipe organ and begins to play. The first notes of O Come, All Ye Faithful ring forth from some of the organs 2,200-plus pipes, creating a soaring herald that welcomes worshippers to St. James Catholic Church in Louisville, Kentucky, on Christmas Eve. For the churchs music season this is the liturgical Super Bowl, an event planned months and months in advance. The voices of 36 choristers mix with the organ, a trumpet, a baritone horn, a violin, cymbals and the thundering timpani, as 400 congregants, packed cheek by jowl, join in. Some arrive an hour early to get a seat. This December, at St. James and churches around the country where the joy of Christmas is channeled through music, the celebration is, of ... More
Jan Mot opens a group exhibition entitled A buoy if not a beacon
BRUSSELS.- Jan Mot presents a group exhibition entitled A buoy if not a beacon with work by Francis Alÿs, Giovanni Anselmo and Latifa Echakhch. Francis Alÿs recent painting Guerrero, Mexico, August 2020 was conceived during the period of the pandemic which the artist partly spent in isolation in a remote area of Mexico. On a tiny island surrounded by water one can see a small house, a few palm trees and a glowing beacon symbolizing a signal (or a warning) in the middle of uncertainty. In the adjacent space Alÿs Study for the animation Song for Lupita, 1998 is shown, the two drawings are related to the 16mm animation film Song for Lupita. The work depicts a woman pouring water from one glass into another over and over again. This action of doing and undoing is accompanied by a song on vinyl whose words Mañana, mañana ... More
Thierry Goldberg opens an exhibition of works by Nick Farhi, Exene Karros, Spencer Lai, and Anjuli Rathod
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting White Lilies, an online exhibition of works by Nick Farhi, Exene Karros, Spencer Lai, and Anjuli Rathod. The exhibition will be on view from December 18, 2020 through January 17, 2021. On the occasion of someones death it is a custom to bring their loved ones flowers, and perhaps the most common is the white lily: a symbol of purity, rebirth and hope. In WhiteLilies, four artists create worlds of potent color or darkness to contemplate isolation, mourning, and solitude. Nick Farhi paints objects that appear alone as if surrounded by silence. In his still-lifes there is a subtle loneliness that envelops everyday objects (like tableware and tchotchkes) as these are staged without context, and in front of blurred colors instead of in defined settings. Farhi views ... More
Alma Heikkilä presents a newly produced body of work at Grazer Kunstverein
GRAZ.- Describe the feeling: Energy (food / organic matter) going through my body, my colon. Soil (food / organic matter) going through the worms body. A neat pile of poop after us. Soft and flexible tunnels that are our bodies. Slowly, twisting around each other, humidity, and us reaching towards the rhizomes or them reaching to us. Alma Heikkilä is fascinated by the collective activities of soil creatures; from nematodes to fungi, spores to mycelium. Heikkiläs artistic work evokes a deep sensorial knowledge of ecosystems and the interdependencies of myriad organisms in mutual co-existence. Finding form in sculpture and large-scale painting, she strives to create a space for humans to imagine an up-close encounter or experience with the invisible processes that occur in the soil, often at a microscopic level. For her solo exhibition ... More
Prints by Cézanne, Munch, Nevelson, Cassatt, Rauschenberg, and more on view for the first time in Arizona
PHOENIX, ARIZ.- From January 2 through April 25, 2021, Phoenix Art Museum will present a new selection of long-term loans in the exhibition Out of Print: Innovations of 19th- and 20th-Century Printmaking from the Collection of Phoenix Art Museum and the Schorr Collection. Featuring more than 50 individual works spanning 200 years by both European and American artists, the exhibition will feature some of the most revered names in art history, including Paul Cézanne, Edvard Munch, Paul Klee, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, and many others. Out of Print includes long-term loans from the U.K.-based Schorr Collection, amassed by collectors Hannah and David Lewis, who previously lent a number of Old-Master paintings to the Museum beginning in 2017. The exhibition will also showcase works from the Museums own American ... More
Christie's announces Karl Lagerfeld Chanel Jewels │ Online auction in January 2021
NEW YORK, NY.- Featured as part of the landmark collection sales for The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Gutfreund 834 Fifth Avenue, Christies announces a dedicated online auction Susan and Karl: Important Chanel Fashion Jewelry from The Collection of Mrs. John H. Gutfreund (January 14-29). Spanning over 100 intricate creations, the Chanel jewels featured in this online auction provide a glimpse into the golden era of Karl Lagerfelds Chanel. Mrs. Gutfreunds deep appreciation of French culture extended to a love of couture and in particular designs from the house of Chanel. Susan Gutfreund was a friend to many of the most celebrated couturiers. She shared a close friendship with renowned designer Karl Lagerfeld from whom came an incredible selection of costume jewelry made for the Chanel runway. Intricately designed and incredibly ... More
Medals of one of the finest Mosquito and Photo Reconnaissance Unit pilots to be offered at auction
LONDON.- Group Captain J. R. H. Merifield was an outstanding individual in WW2. He was widely recognised as one of the finest Mosquito and Photo Reconnaissance Unit pilots of the War, he flew in over 160 operational sorties and took the first photograph of a V1 flying bomb on a launch ramp at the Luftwaffe Test Installation at Peenemunde on the Baltic Island of West Usedom. His group of twelve will be offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their live/ online auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, January 13, 2021 on their website www.dnw.co.uk. It is expected to fetch £20,000-30,000. Merifield went on to break two flying records, one over the Atlantic and one in South East Asia, prior to serving in Korea. At the outbreak of the Korean War, Merifield was one of a small number of R.A.F. officers seconded to the ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was born December 22, 1960. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. In this image: Basquiat: Boom For Real. Installation view Barbican Art Gallery 21 September 2017 - 28 January 2018 © Tristan Fewings / Getty Images Artwork: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982 Courtesy Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
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