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Alexandre Cabanel's Le Paradis Perdu, (Paradise Lost) is now in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Gallery 19C, a Los Angeles based gallery specializing in 19th Century European Paintings, announced today the sale of LE PARADIS PERDU, (Paradise Lost), by Alexandre Cabanel, to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Eric Weider, founder of Gallery 19C, said, We are deeply honored that Alexandre Cabanels masterpiece is returning to Paris where it will be on public display at the Musée dOrsay. The great Academic painters like Cabanel deserve renewed attention and reevaluation and there is no better place in the world for this than at the Musée d'Orsay where the paintings of the 19th Century can be seen in full context. Alice Thomine-Berrada, Chief Curator at the Musée d'Orsay, commented, This painting is unique and is one of Cabanels most dynamic compositions. Furthermore, it represents a very rare German State commission of a French painter in the 19th Century - an important statement! Paul Perrin, C ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Eli Wilner & Company recently completed an elaborate tabernacle frame for an important Alma-Tadema painting, Fortune's Favorite, one of the highlights of Sotheby's Fall 2016 19th Century Paintings sale. In this image: A master carver used fine tools to re-chase any areas of detailed ornament that were flooded by the gesso.
| Stolen paintings by Van Gogh on public display again after fourteen years | | Eli Wilner Creates a Replica of a Historic Frame by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | | First U.S. exhibition of Della Robbia sculptures travels to National Gallery of Art, Washington | 
The festive unveiling in Naples of Van Goghs Seascape at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen by the museum directors and representatives of the Italian and Dutch authorities. ©photo: Jan-Kees Steenman.
NAPLES (AFP).- Two Van Gogh masterpieces stolen in Amsterdam in 2002 and recovered last year in Italy will be on show in Naples from Tuesday until February 26. The brief exhibition at the Capodimonte museum has been organised as a thank you to the southern city for the local police's role in tracking down the two small but hugely valuable and historically significant oil paintings. The works had gone unheard of from the time they were stolen in a daring raid on the Van Gogh Museum until they turned up last year at the house of a notorious mafia boss. The 1882 "Seascape at Scheveningen" and the 1884/5 "Congregation leaving the Reformed Church at Nuenen" were among the Dutch master's first oil paintings and, as such, are of enormous interest to art historians. How exactly the paintings ended up in Italy ... More | | 
Fortune's Favorite in its new frame designed/proposed by Eli Wilner & Company.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company recently completed an elaborate tabernacle frame for an important Alma-Tadema painting, Fortunes Favorite, one of the highlights of Sotheby's Fall 2016 19th Century Paintings sale. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), a painter active in the late nineteenth century in Britain, was well-regarded for his depictions of classical antiquity. Fortunes Favorite (oil on panel, circa 1890) is a light infused and intimate depiction of a trio of Roman women luxuriating on a carved stone balcony overlooking the Bay of Naples. Over time, the original frame was lost, prompting Sothebys to consult with Eli Wilner & Company. Alma-Tadema often made use of tabernacle frames for his paintings, some of which he designed himself. Eli Wilner & Company proposed to precisely replicate an Alma-Tadema designed tabernacle frame, which the artist designated for his painting, Spring (oil on canvas, 1894) ... More | | 
Giovanni della Robbia, Pietà , c. 1510/1520. Glazed terracotta. Overall: 72 x 44 x 32.7 cm (28 3/8 x 17 5/16 x 12 7/8 in.). Samuel H. Kress Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- More than 500 years after their creation, Della Robbia terracotta sculptures endure as some of the most innovative and expressive examples of art from the Italian Renaissance. On view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, West Building from February 5 through June 4, 2017, Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence is the first major American exhibition dedicated to works by three generations of the Della Robbia family and their competitors. The exhibition travels to the Gallery, the only other venue, after premiering at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) from August 9 to December 4, 2016. Some 40 examples illustrate the range of sculptural types produced by the workshopMadonna and Child reliefs, architectural decoration, portraits, household statuettes, and large-scale figures in the round. Even today the ceramics retain their signature opaque whites, deep cerulean blues, and lively ... More |
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| "Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas" opens at the Yale University Art Gallery | | Peter Doig's "Cobourg 3 + 1 More" to star in Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction | | Norway's National Museum announces Karin Hindsbo as new Director | 
Installation view.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- The exhibition Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas examines the many resonances between the art-making and art-collecting strategies of the Alberses, two of the most influential figures of 20th-century modernism. Between 1935 and 1967, the couple made numerous trips to Latin America, namely Mexico and Peru, and amassed a large collection of ancient artworks from the region. The exhibition looks at these objects in depth and considers how Anni and Josefs collection supported their aesthetic sensibilities and teaching practices. In addition to Prehispanic objects, the show gathers together dozens of works that the couple made, including textiles, paintings, works on paper, and rarely studied photographs that Josef took at archaeological sites and museums. Demonstrating the Alberses deep and sustained engagement with ancient American art, Small-Great Objects explores a fascinating dimension of the couples creative vision. Anni and ... More | | 
Peter Doig, Cobourg 3 + 1 More, 1994 (detail)), estimate £8,000,000 -12,000,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- Christies Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will present Peter Doigs Cobourg 3 + 1 More (1994, estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000), which stands among the great icons of Doigs early oeuvre. A visionary apparition rendered on a majestic scale, Cobourg 3 + 1 More conjures a distant, half-remembered reality beneath a shimmering membrane of scattered pigment. Recently awarded the Art Icon Award at Londons Whitechapel Gallery, Peter Doig placed himself in the Canadian landscape of his youth next to his brother. Acquired in 1994 by German insurance company Provinzial Rheinland Cobourg 3 + 1 More comes to auction for the first time in its history and will be exhibited at Christies New York from 24 to 26 February and at Christies King Street from 3 March as part of the 20th-Century series of sales ahead of the auction on 7 March 2017 in London. Provinzial Rheinland will ... More | | 
Hindsbo comes directly from the position as director of KODE Art Museums of Bergen.
OSLO.- Karin Hindsbo (42) will succeed Audun Eckhoff as museum director of the National Museum for a term of six years. Hindsbo comes directly from the position as director of KODE Art Museums of Bergen. She takes over Eckhoffs position on the 1st of June, 2017. The National Museum is one of the most important cultural institutions in the Nordic countries. We are about to enter the museums most exciting period ever with the pending relocation to a new building at Vestbanen in 2020. The move represents a historically unique investment in art and I am really looking forward to playing my part in shaping the national museum of the future, says Karin Hindsbo. Karin Hindsbo comes from the position of director of KODE, where she has done a successful job of modernising the museum and increasing its relevance and attractiveness for a number of new audience groups. Karin Hindsbo is one of Scandinavias most competent museum l ... More |
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| Amazon forest was transformed by ancient people: study | | Primary Source to exhibit rare Tribal and Asian art at the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show | | Selling exhibition of KLM Art Collection in Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen | 
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus. Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT.
MIAMI (AFP).- Long before European settlers arrived in the Americas in 1492, the Amazon rainforest was transformed for thousands of years by indigenous people who carved mysterious circles into the landscape, researchers said Monday. While the purpose of these hundreds of ditched enclosures, or geoglyphs, remains unclear, scientists say they may have served as ritual gathering places. Modern deforestation -- coupled with aerial photographs of the landscape -- helped reveal some 450 of these geoglyphs in Acre state in the western Brazilian Amazon. "The fact that these sites lay hidden for centuries beneath mature rainforest really challenges the idea that Amazonian forests are 'pristine ecosystems,'" said lead author Jennifer Watling, a post-doctoral researcher at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, University of Sao Paulo. Archeologists have found very few artifacts from ... More | | 
Dewi Sri Goddess, Hardwood, Traditional Pigments & Copper Adornments. West Bali. Circa 1900.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- When the 2017 San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show opens at Fort Mason Center on February 9, an eye-alluring range of ancient artifacts from Primary Source will take center stage. Running through February 12, the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show is the largest, most comprehensive and rigorously vetted fair in the United States. Says John Strusinski, who founded Los Angeles-based Primary Source 28 year ago, The Tribal & Textile Art Show is a must-attend destination for top collectors, museum curators, scholars and design aficionados who seek top-notch material. They know from experience what my gallery has to offer, and this year were especially delighted to showcase one-of-kind treasures that the fair-goers are not likely to forget. Among the Primary Source highlights are: This figure of the Goddess Sri was carried into the temple after she was placed on top of an ... More | | 
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AMSTERDAM.- A selection of paintings, watercolours and photography from the (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM company art collection will be exhibited at Museum Jan van der Togt in Amstelveen from 15 through 26 February 2017, in co-operation with Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Haarlem, Netherlands. The exhibition includes more than 50 works by leading Dutch artists such as Emo Verkerk, Rob Birza, Nico Molenkamp, Koen Vermeule and Erik Andriesse, as well as works by international greats such Laura Hernandez, Bhupen Khakhar, Barry McGee en Bjarne Melgaard. The sale includes photographs by Horst P. Horst, Nicolas Nixon, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Tom Hunter and Shirin Neshat. The centrepiece of the exhibition is the museum-quality large scale photo of Nanjing Xi Lu, Shanghai by Thomas Struth. For decades, KLM purchased artworks only occasionally, but in 1989 it appointed an Art Committee to implement an arts policy. From ... More |
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| Dirk Boll appointed President, Christie's EMERI | | Sotheby's to hold first auction of artworks from the Artist Pension Trust | | Silvia Filippini Fantoni joins North Carolina Museum of Art as Director of Programs and Audience Engagement | 
Dirk Boll has been appointed President, Christies Europe, Middle East, Russia and India effective immediately. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- Christies announces Prof. Dr. Dirk Boll has been appointed President, Christies Europe, Middle East, Russia and India effective immediately and reporting to Guillaume Cerutti, Chief Executive Officer. Dirk combines being a true art connoisseur with long, proven, commercial experience and acumen, commented Guillaume Cerutti, Chief Executive Officer, Christies. As President, EMERI, Dirk will oversee our business and client activities in the region working closely with Christies market-leading team of specialists, continued Christies CEO. Dirk joined Christies in 1998 in London before moving to Germany to head the Stuttgart office. In 2004, he transferred to Zurich to become Managing Director of the region before being promoted in 2011 to Managing Director, Continental Europe, relocating to London at the time. In this role he has run all the regional offices in ... More | | 
Ivan Navarro, Victor (The Missing Monument for Washington DC or A Proposal for a Monument for VÃctor Jara) (2008), est. $20,000-30,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- For the first time, the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) is to offer a selection of artworks from its vast holdings at auction. A total of 34 works have been chosen for sales in New York and London in the spring, coming from the studios of trail-blazing contemporary artists including Josh Smith, David Shrigley, Bob & Roberta Smith and Liam Gillick. The proceeds from the sales will benefit artists participating in APT. Mark Sebba, Chairman of MutualArt, which owns APT, said: For a decade weve had the privilege of working with many of the worlds most promising artists as we have been assembling an unprecedented collection of international contemporary art. But while a small number of works have been sold privately in the last couple of years, this springs offering represents the first time that works from the collection will ... More | | 
Before joining the NCMA Filippini Fantoni served as director of interpretation, media, and evaluation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art announces that Silvia Filippini Fantoni has joined the Museum as director of programs and audience engagement. In this role Filippini Fantoni will support the Museum in developing innovative experiences and methods that facilitate public engagement with the Museums rich collections, programs, and Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park. We welcome Dr. Filippini Fantoni as an exceptional leader in program creation and community engagement, says Lawrence J. Wheeler, director of the NCMA. She takes on this role at an important moment in the evolution of art museums to even greater relevance in society. As director of programs and audience engagement, Filippini Fantoni will lead the Museums efforts to provide creative, meaningful experiences with art to diverse audiences onsite, online, and in the larger community. She will ... More |
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 TEFAF New York Spring announces exhibitors for its debut fair NEW YORK, NY.- International art fair TEFAF New York Spring has announced the 92 internationally acclaimed exhibitors participating in its debut edition, with an emphasis on modern and contemporary art & design. The Fair will take place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from May 4-8, 2017, with the Opening VIP Preview on May 3, 2017. The Fair is an expansion of the TEFAF portfolio, adding a new platform for todays collectors and museums within the context of the TEFAF organization. In addition to modern and contemporary art & design, a small number of TEFAF New York Spring dealers will exhibit jewelry, African & Oceanic art, and antiquities. The inclusion of African & Oceanic works and classical antiquities will cement the coherent aesthetic that is popular among contemporary and modern collectors. TEFAF is committed to a unique standard of excellence ... More Artemis Gallery's Ancient Antiquities, Asian & Ethnographic Auction strong on provenance and varietyBOULDER, COLO.- Artemis Gallerys Thursday, Feb. 9 Variety Auction lives up to its name and then some, with hundreds of fine-quality pieces to suit all tastes and budgets. From relics of early Middle Eastern civilizations through to the Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial periods of the Americas rich history, there are many wonderful gems to be discovered in this sale. The cornerstone of every Artemis Gallery auction is classical antiquities of Ancient Egypt and Rome. Among the Ancient Egyptian highlights are: Lot 3A, an appealing circa 1070-712 BCE cast-bronze ibis, posed as though standing in the shallow waters of the Nile, estimate $900-$1,400; and an elegant Apulian (Magna Graecia, southern Italy) red-figure hydria, $2,000-$3,000. Dating to around the ... More Beautiful Chinese and other Asian antique objects will be sold in Converse's online-only auctionMALVERN, PA.- An online-only Winter Asian Auction featuring 400 lots of fine Chinese and Asian items, to include carvings in jade and other hard stones; Chinese, Japanese and Korean porcelain; bronze Buddhas and more will be held Friday, February 17th at 10 am Eastern time by Converse Auctions. People can register to bid and see the catalog at www.converseauctions.com. Two strong candidates for top lot of the auction, both carrying estimates of $2,500-$5,000, are a large Chinese lapis lazuli (rich blue semiprecious stone), elaborately decorated with gilt dragons, flaming pearls and clouds, and with defining details in pen and ink, 17 inches tall; and an antique Chinese Ming Dynasty gilt bronze Buddha, beautiful and diminutive at just 9 inches by 6 inches. A magnificent and large Chinese Qing Dynasty carved box containing 17 jade seals with a cover that ... More Secession presents an installation by Gabriel SierraVIENNA.- Conceived especially for the Secession, Gabriel Sierras installation grows out of his philosophical reflections on space and time. He is concerned with the idea of the present time and the moment when the visitoras spectatorenters the gallery to see the show. As Sierra developed this most recent installation, he also worked closely with the concrete site, the downstairs galleries at the Secession. The title Sierra has chosen for his show, The first impressions of the year 2018 (During the early days of the year 2017), outlines the framework of the exhibition as an abstract situation and locus of the imagination. Entering the gallery, the visitors are summoned to imagine stepping into the future, though the scene remains embedded in the present of the year 2017. On the visual level, the construction is sustained by the special light direction. The present is ... More Art star Anish Kapoor wins $1m Jewish prizeJERUSALEM (AFP).- Sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor was named on Monday as this year's winner of the million-dollar Genesis Prize, awarded for commitment to Israel and Judaism, organisers said. British-Indian Kapoor "is one of the most influential and innovative artists of his generation", they said in a statement. He won the prestigious Turner Prize in 1991 and was knighted in 2013. "Kapoor will use this award, and the global platform provided by the Genesis Prize, to raise awareness of the plight of refugees in order to engage the Jewish community in a global effort to help alleviate the refugee crisis," it said. The award is granted by the Israeli government, the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency and the Genesis Prize Foundation. "It recognises individuals who have attained excellence and international renown in their fields and whose actions and achievements express a ... More Blanton Museum of Art gifted twenty-eight video worksAUSTIN, TX.- The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has received a promised gift of 28 video artworks from Austin-based, internationally regarded collectors and Blanton National Leadership Board members Jeanne and Michael L. Klein, including works by Tania Bruguera, Isaac Julien, Pipilotti Rist, Javier Téllez, and others. The museum will share ownership of two of these works, Eve Sussmans 89 Seconds at Alcázar (2004) and Ana Mendietas Alma Silueta en Fuego (Silueta de Cenizas), November 1975 (1975), with the Whitney Museum of American Art. The gift to the Blanton comprises nearly all of the Kleins video collection, which they began donating to the museum in the 1990s. Along with significantly enhancing the Blantons holdings in this area, the gift will allow the museum to better represent this crucial medium in contemporary art and ... More Turner-prize nominated artist Richard Billingham shoots his first featureCRADLEY HEATH .- Production is underway on Turner-prize nominated and Deutsche Börse Prize winning artist Richard Billinghams first feature film, Ray & Liz. Filming commenced on the three week shoot on 30 January, with a variety of Black Country locations in and around Cradley Heath and Dudley. The project has been developed over five years with Producer Jacqui Davies. Working with cinematographer Daniel Landin (Under The Skin), Richard Billingham returns to the striking series of photographs that he captured of his family during Thatcher-era Britain to tell a universal story of everyday conflicts, loneliness, love and loss. Scenes incorporating the older Ray and Liz, played by Patrick Romer and Deirdre Kelly (UK reality star of Benefits Street and Big Brother) were shot in Cradley Heath, on the estate where Richard Billingham lived, in 2015. The cast includes ... More Fine art and Mid-Century Modern will share center stage at John McInnis' Feb. 19 auctionAMESBURY, MASS.- An auction largely dedicated to Mid-Century Modern pieces but also to include furniture and furnishings from the Art Deco period, fine paintings, pottery and decorative accessories more than 500 lots in all will be held on Sunday, February 19th, by John McInnis Auctioneers, in the firms gallery at 76 Main Street in Amesbury, starting at 10 am Eastern time. The sale will feature items from the collection of Elmar Oliveira and Sandra Robbins, removed from their home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. Mr. Oliveira is a world-class contemporary violinist and the first and only American violinist to win the gold medal at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, 1978. The items in the sale reflect his and Ms. Robbins refined taste. Fans and collectors of Mid-Century Modern will have a field day. Offerings will range from a set of three Charles and Ray Eames ... More Trio of new donations unveiled by Art Gallery of Greater Victoria VICTORIA, BC.- Local philanthropist Andrew Beckerman has pledged his personal art collection valued at $750,000 and $100,000 in cash to the Art Gallery of Victorias Next Gallery, the expansion of the Gallerys Moss Street home. Beckerman has challenged others in his adopted home of Victoria, British Columbia to match his generous and substantial gift. In addition the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has received two anonymous pledges of $500,000 and $200,000 respectively. The donations were announced today by AGGV Board Chair, Ruth Wittenberg. The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is extremely fortunate to have a patron like Andrew Beckerman who is willing to entrust us with his financial resources as well as his beloved art collection, said Wittenberg. We are also incredibly grateful for the support of others in our community who have ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter Boris Grigoriev, died February 07, 1939. Boris Grigoriev (11 July 1886 - 7 February 1939) was a Russian painter and graphic artist. Grigoriev was born in Rybinsk and studied at the Stroganov Art School from 1903 to 1907. Grigoriev went on to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg under Aleksandr Kiselyov, Dmitry Kardovsky and Abram Arkhipov from 1907 to 1912. He began exhibiting his work in 1909 as a member of the Union of Impressionists group, and became a member of the World of Art movement in 1913.[1] At that time he also wrote a novel, Young Rays. In this image: A Christie's employee stands next to a work by Russian Artist Boris Grigoriev entitled 'Portait of Patricio Edwards' dated 1928, during a press preview of important Russian Art in London, Friday, Nov. 23, 2012.
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