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Mesopotamian faience shell and bitumen head, circa 14th-13th century BCE, published, similar to example in collection of The British Museum, $11,205. All images courtesy of Artemis Gallery.
BOULDER, COLO.- Artemis Gallery hosted a June 20-21 Connoisseurs Auction of exquisite antiquities, Asian and ethnographic art that set a new house record while attracting a legion of new collectors. The fully vetted 481-lot selection, with provenance from some of the worlds finest collections, followed a timeline that started in Ancient Egypt and proceeded through the centuries to the colonial settlements of the New World. In all, the sale surpassed the companys previous auction record by a remarkable 77 percent. Quality and authenticity are of paramount importance to our clientele, but they also want the assurance that what theyre bidding on is legal to purchase and, if ever desired, to resell. We offer an unconditional, broad-spectrum guarantee to buyers that we believe is unsurpassed anywhere, said Artemis Gallery Executive Director Teresa Dodge. We create a comfort level that is essential to have in pla ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an Ancient | Ethnographic | Fine Art sale on July 5. Featuring classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Fine Art, more! Group of 4 Egyptian Gesso'd Wood Ushabtis, ex-Bonhams. Estimate $2,200 - $3,300.
| Portrait miniatures from Bonaparte family collection unveiled at Sotheby's | | Hidden landscape by Lucian Freud revealed under painting by pub sign artist | | Major rediscovered portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby among master paintings unveiled at London Art Week | 
A gold and enamel Imperial presentation portrait snuff box, Gabriel-Raoul Morel, Paris, 1812-1815. Estimate: 80,000 100,000 GBP. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sothebys prestigious annual Treasures sale of decorative artists unveils a rare collection of intimate portrait miniatures relating to Napoléon Bonaparte and his family. Drawing together myriad lines of Bonaparte provenance, the forty-four lots together paint a picture akin to a photograph album, revealing the contrasting state and private concerns of a Royal and Imperial dynasty. Napoléon was acutely aware of the efficacy of the image as a tool for propaganda. When the Emperor set about trying to establish the Bonapartes as a hereditary dynasty, he carefully orchestrated the past and present to glorify his family adopting much of the protocol and etiquette that had been observed previously under the Bourbons. This collection is exceptional in the number of intimate portraits it contains of members of a family that is more usually defined by elaborately orchestrated images of state. Napoléon and Joséphines life to ... More | | 
The top layer of paint was painstakingly removed to reveal the landscape beneath.
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- A rare early landscape attributed to a young Lucian Freud has been revealed after conservators stripped off a picture by a Suffolk artist and friend of Freud who painted over it after World War II. The painting was found in the cellar of artist Elizabeth Bodman, who died in 2015, and was assumed to be painted by her husband and fellow artist Tom Wright, a wartime acquaintance of Freud. But the back of the canvas was signed "Lucian". On closer inspection, there were clear signs of a second image below Wright's. Conservator Gillian Musset painstakingly removed the top layer of paint chip by chip with a scalpel, to reveal the work now attributed to Freud. Just before World War II Tom Wright, an apprentice plasterer and sign painter in Hadleigh, Suffolk, was hanging a pub sign at The Shoulder of Mutton, in which the young Lucian Freud was drinking. Freud befriended him and persuaded him to join him at The East Anglian School of ... More | | 
Gaetano Gandolfi, The Holy Family and Saint Augustine, dated on the lower centre 1761. Oil on canvas, 230 x 152 cm. Courtesy Maurizio Nobile Gallery.
LONDON.- A major rediscovery from the mature period of Joseph Wright of Derby is among many important paintings being unveiled at London Art Week Summer 2018, open now through Friday 6 July at 40 galleries across Mayfair and St. Jamess. Presented by Ben Elwes Fine Art, the painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) depicts a young boy with a drum and a landscape beyond. It shows the artists virtuosity as a masterful and empathetic portrait painter - he excelled at children - and a superb landscape artist. It dates from around 1780, a period when, having returned from an Italian sojourn in 1775, Wrights art, across the genres, brimmed with confidence. Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art (new LAW participants from Rome) is exhibiting a sensational rediscovery of a work famed in art history circles; a painting by Antonio Canova thought to have been lost ... More |
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| The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation receives rare painting from the subject's descendants | | London's V&A Museum to stage 'reimagined' hit Dior expo | | Johannes Vermeer's 'Woman in Blue Reading a Letter' visits Alte Pinakothek | 
Joyce Armistead Booth (Mrs. Mordecai Booth) by William Dering (active 1734/1735-1755), oil on canvas, Williamsburg, Virginia, ca. 1745. Gift of Julia Miles Brock, Edward Taliaferro Miles and Georginana Serpell Miles in memory of their mother, Alice Taliaferro Miles, 2018-165, A&B.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- In the first half of the 18th century, William Dering was a well-connected dancing master and artist who lived and worked in Williamsburg, Virginia. Today, only six of Derings paintings are known to survive; four, including the artists only known signed and dated portrait, are in Colonial Williamsburgs collection, the largest assemblage of his work. Now, through a generous gift from the sitters descendants, Joyce Armistead Booth (Mrs. Mordecai Booth), ca. 1745, a large-scale, oil on canvas, joins Derings other works at Colonial Williamsburg, including the well-known portrait of the subjects son, George Booth. Until now, the painting of Mrs. Booth, which is in remarkable condition and survives in its original frame, has descended through the Booth family. Rare early works by local artists such ... More | | 
Ãcarlate afternoon dress, Autumn-Winter 1955 Haute Couture collection, Y line. Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photo © Laziz Hamani.
LONDON (AFP).- London's Victoria and Albert Museum said Sunday it plans a reprise in 2019 of a Christian Dior retrospective that last year drew record numbers to the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris. The show, to run from February 2 to July 14, promises to be "the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK on the House of Dior," the V&A said in a statement. "Spanning 1947 to the present day, 'Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams' will trace the history and impact of one of the 20th centurys most influential couturiers," the statement said. It said the expo would be "reimagined" for the V&A, the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, displaying 500 objects, from accessories and illustrations to perfumes and a plethora of clothing, including 200 haute couture creations. A highlight of the show will be the Dior dress worn by Princess Margaret for her 21st birthday celebrations, generously on loan from the Museum of London, ... More | | 
Johannes Vermeer, Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, c. 1663, oil on canvas, 46.5 cm x 39 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, on loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest) © Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
MUNICH.- To mark the reopening of all galleries and the collection display in the Alte Pinakothek, the public has the unique opportunity to see in Munich the famous Woman in Blue Reading a Letter by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (16321675). The canvas will be on show for the limited period of 03 July to 30 September 2018. This generous loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is not only the expression of the friendly ties between the two museums and their world-famous collections, but at the same time evidence of the close relationship between the Netherlands and Germany. Forgotten until the end of the 19th century, Vermeers work was rediscovered by the French journalist and art critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger and subsequently underwent a renaissance. Today Vermeer is one of the most famous painters of the Dutch Baroque, alongside Rembrandt and Frans Hals. This is due to the special atmosphere that ... More |
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| Icons of the Hellenic world opens at Museum of Russian Icons | | Final commissioned portrait of Michael Jackson goes on public display for the first time in the UK | | Getty Museum appoints Ulrich Birkmaier as Senior Conservator of Paintings | 
Riza-Tree of Jesse, c. 1700. Courtesy Museum of Russian Icons, the Tiliakos Collection.
CLINTON, MASS.- Icons of the Hellenic World is the first major exhibition at the Museum of Russian Icons that focuses exclusively on Greek and Byzantine iconography. On view June 22 October 21, 2018, the exhibit delves deeply into the links and the continuity of Greek art and culture from Late Antiquity, through Byzantium, to the present. The Museum of Russian Icons is located at 230 Union Street in Clinton, MA. Largely comprised of icons created after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, Icons of the Hellenic World also features works from the Byzantine period (330AD-1453). The earliest object in the exhibition is a rare Portrait of Man from Fayum, Egypt, produced in the 1st or 2nd century CE, and painted in the encaustic technique, a wax painting method practiced in ancient Greece that probably originated in Egypt. Encaustic portraits are thought to be prototypes for ... More | | 
Kehinde Wiley in front of his painting, Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II, 2009. Photo: Jorge Herrera.
LONDON.- The final commissioned portrait of Michael Jackson by the artist Kehinde Wiley is on public display for the first time in the UK in a major new exhibition, Michael Jackson: On the Wall, on view at the National Portrait Gallery, London. The exhibition, which explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary art, also includes 11 new works made specifically for the exhibition by contemporary artists including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Dara Birnbaum, Michael Craig-Martin, Graham Dolphin, Yan Pei Ming and Donald Urquhart. Other works on display for the first time in the UK include American artist and activist Faith Ringgolds story quilt Whos Bad?,a series of collages by Isaac Julien made in 1984 and Jacksons dinner jacket covered with forks, spoons and knives made by costume designer Michael Lee Bush. Keith Harings pop-graffiti style portrait of Michael Jackson is als ... More | | 
Birkmaier comes to the Getty from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the appointment of Ulrich Birkmaier to the position of senior conservator of paintings. Birkmaier comes to the Getty from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was chief conservator. Birkmaier replaces Yvonne Szafran, who retired at the end of June following a 40-year career at the Museum. Birkmaier will lead the Getty Museums department of paintings conservation, which is responsible for the long-term study and care of one of the finest collections of Old Master and nineteenth-century European paintings in the United States and an active program of study and treatments, including technical and materials analyses, on works within the Gettys collection and on works from other institutions. Ulrich Birkmaier is an esteemed conservator who has overseen the care of many of the worlds most important works ... More |
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| Highest ever number of artists take part in City of London's Sculpture in the City 2018 | | Carme Pinós releases MPavilion 2018 | | Paul Kasmin Gallery opens an exhibition in remembrance of Robert Indiana | 
Sean Scully, Stack Blues, 2017. Aluminium and car paint, 274.3 x 121.9 x 121.9cm. Courtesy the artist and Blain | Southern; Image © Nick Turpin.
LONDON.- Sculpture in the City, the City of Londons annual public art programme set amongst iconic architectural landmarks has installed the 18 artworks which make up this years outdoor sculpture park in the Square Mile. The exhibition includes works from internationally renowned artists including Sarah Lucas, Thomas J Price, Sean Scully and Nancy Rubins while also introducing three new commissioned works. The artworks are being displayed close to some of the Citys most famous buildings, including 30 St Mary Axe (the Gherkin), The Leadenhall Building (the Cheesegrater), as well as new locations for this, including historic corners of the City, Heneage Lane and Hartsthorn Alley. For Sculpture in the Citys eighth edition, the artworks are spread further than ever across the Square Mile, including four new locations and ranging greatly in form and ... More | | 
Carmes sculptural design incorporates floating planes resting at angles on elevated points within the park, connecting the MPavilion to the city.
MELBOURNE.- The Naomi Milgrom Foundation today released the design for MPavilion 2018, the fifth MPavilion in an ongoing series, by Barcelona-based architect Carme Pinós of Estudio Carme Pinós. The sharp design reveals an open civic space that invites interaction as well as a discourse between people, design, nature and the city. Celebrating Carmes design philosophy, which advocates building communities, inclusivity and universal connection, the pavilion will be a sensorial summer experience built in the Queen Victoria Gardens. Carmes sculptural design incorporates floating planes resting at angles on elevated points within the park, connecting the MPavilion to the city. The structures interconnected shapes bring to mind folded materials like origami. Dissolving the lines between architecture and urbanism, an ease of relationships is suggestedmaterial, environmental and human. Naomi ... More | | 
Installation view of Robert Indiana, ONE through ZERO, at Paul Kasmin Gallery, June 21, 2018 - August 10, 2018. © Morgan Arts Foundation / Artist Rights Society, ARS, New York. Photo: Christopher Stach.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery is presenting an exhibition in remembrance of Robert Indiana, whose death in May 2018 marked the end of a seven-decade-long career. In response to the news, Paul Kasmin said: Robert Indiana will remain alive through the great legacy he has left behind. He was unlike any other person I have ever met. A genius. ONE through ZERO is an installation of a single work made up of ten individual sculptures, each 18 inches high. It articulates the artists fascination with numbers as the most fundamental organizing principles of the world. Numbers fill my life, he has said. We are immersed in numbers from the day we are born. The work takes on a multitude of references that simultaneously hone in on autobiographical significances and conjure universal metaphors related to the sequential nature of life and death. Many ... More |
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 The Anita Shapolsky Gallery opens summer group exhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- As the long, grey months of winter finally melt away, one longs for yellow daffodils, a warm breeze, and the suns triumphant return. The Anita Shapolsky Gallerys summer exhibition, Different Strokes, seeks to fill this longing by bringing together six different artists whose works all capture the vibrancy of the season. Distinct, dynamic, colorful brushstrokes permeate each piece, but each artist uses different strokes to convey their own personal visual philosophies. DENISE CARVALHO is a Brazilian-born artist who draws inspiration from various philosophies such as Jacques Derridas deconstruction, Carl Jungs collective unconscious, Wassily Kandinskys concept of synesthesia, and El Lissitzkis prouns. Her paintings attempt to expand geometric forms into visual codes beyond language, using concepts of excess and restriction, ... More Rarities, new find of high-grade 1952 Topps Mantles anchor Heritage's Summer Sports Trading Card AuctionDALLAS, TX.- The most important trading cards auction of the summer is now open for bidding at in Heritage Auctions Summer Sports Card event, closing in Extended Bidding format July 19-20 on HA.com. Offering more than 1,400 lots, the sale provides opportunities across the full spectrum of sports, formats and eras, with a strong concentration on early tobacco and high-grade bubble gum rookies. More than 80 cards from the 1800s include three rare Old Judge cabinets and a near-set of the 1895 N300 Mayo Cut Plugs. High-grade candy cards follow chronologically, with E102s from Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner, E98s of Cobb and Christy Mathewson, and the all-time finest 1921 Oxford Confectionary Set on the PSA Registry. But the post-war era is expected to record the top results in the auction. This will be the first offering of ... More Kelvingrove Museum is the first museum in Scotland to join SmartifyGLASGOW.- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is the first institution in Scotland to join Smartify. The free app allows visitors to scan and identify artworks, access the accompanying interpretation and build a personal art collection in some of the worlds best museums and galleries. Smartify enables visitors to fully appreciate the beauty, history and significance of key objects in Glasgow Museums collection. Around 350 paintings at Kelvingrove Museum can be accessed via the app, which draws information from Glasgow Museums Collections Online. Any work in the citys collection that is still under copyright will not appear on Smartify. The collaboration is part of a trial exploring digital learning resources, particularly aimed at young adults and schools visiting the museum. The app lets users unlock the stories behind the art by simply scanning it with a smartphone ... More Unit London launches new Mayfair flagship gallery with inaugural solo show of works by Ryan HewettLONDON.- Unit London announced the launch of their new 6000 sq. foot gallery space at 3 Hanover Square, London. The former Citibank property covers two expansive exhibition floors and forms a new central London flagship to house the gallerys growing primary artist roster, in addition to a wider mix of creative collaborations and interdisciplinary cultural events. The inaugural exhibition, The Garden, by South African artist Ryan Hewett features an entirely new series of brightly-saturated oil paintings, drawing on continued notions of fantasy and surrealism. Unit London was founded in 2013 by Joe Kennedy and Jonny Burt in a pop-up space in Chiswick, later moving to Soho and Covent Garden, where the gallery will continue to manage a satellite space. With neither originating from a formal gallery background, Unit London remains firmly committed ... More Exhibition presents the first less known works of Judy ChicagoNICE.- Artist Judy Chicago appeared for the first time by placing an advertisement in a 1970 issue of Artforum magazine. She then became active in the first feminist educational program - Womanhouse (1971-72) in Los Angeles. Her performative and figurative forms address the Womans Liberation revolution. As an answer to this movement, Judy Chicago produced her first landmark piece, a permanent installation at the Brooklyn Museum: Dinner Party (1974-79). This famous piece the subject of several exhibitions and books eclipsed Judy Chicagos early work, before she became Chicago one might say: the work of Judy Gerowitz. The exhibition Los Angeles, The Cool Years, presents the first less known experiments of this uncategorizable artist, at the crossroads of the various movements which were making up the emerging forms of an era: Pop art, Light and ... More Amin Alsaden appointed as the Director of the Sharjah Architecture TriennialSHARJAH.- Amin Alsaden has been appointed the Director of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, the first major platform dedicated to architecture and urbanism in the Middle East, East and North Africa, and South Asia. Bringing a depth of experience to the position as an architectural scholar and practitioner, Alsaden will contribute to the organization's growth, sustainability, long-term mission, and launch one of the Triennial's core initiatives: a research program. Alsaden will work closely with the Triennial's selected curators toward realizing and anchoring their projects in Sharjah, and complementing the organization's own vision and gradual evolution. He will also oversee programming and related activities, as well as outreach and external relations with local, regional, and international partners. Alsaden received a PhD in architectural history from Harvard University, ... More KP Projects Gallery opens exhibition of photographs by Henri DaumanLOS ANGELES, CA.- According to TIME magazine, Henri Dauman created photos that play like a slideshow of some of the biggest moments in American history and popular culture. From JFK to Brigitte Bardot, Henri Dauman's iconic photography defined the 20th century. Now he's stepping out from behind the camera for the first time. Seminal, yet relatively unknown by name, Daumans work captures a powerful cultural and social narrative that serves as elegant testimony to modern America. Born in 1933 in Montmartre, the historic French arrondissement famed for its artistic roots, Daumans early childhood was plagued by extreme tragedy, losing both parents in World War II. In the face of such extreme adversity, Dauman had no other choice but to become self-reliant, and what brought him above the loss and gloom of his experiences was the camera. Following ... More New exhibition format aims to meet the needs and perspectives of childrenVIENNA.- Space for Kids. A Dream City sees itself as the prototype for a new exhibition format that aims to meet the needs and perspectives of children. The educational work becomes the object of an ongoing, ever-changing exhibition that combines action and contemplation, production and reception, as well as visual and other forms of art experience. In summer 2018, the lower hall of the Kunsthalle Wien at its Museumsquartier location serves as an innovative space of learning and encounter that is as much playground as art studio and exhibition. The focus is on an expanded notion of sculpture in other words, on experimenting with form, material, structure and ideas. Through a series of various workshop modules, the children will collaborate on a project of utopian-fantastic urbanism that will enable them make ... More 'Cats' choreographer Gillian Lynne dies at 92LONDON (AFP).- British choreographer Gillian Lynne, who was best known for her work on the long-running musicals "Cats" and "Phantom of the Opera, has died aged 92, her husband said. Lynne died on Sunday at the Princess Grace Hospital in London. "She leaves behind a huge legacy & is adored by many," her husband, actor Peter Land, said on Twitter, paying tribute to his "dearest wife & friend & love for 40 years". Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote: "Farewell dearest Gillie, three generations of the British musical owe so much to you." Lynne trained as a ballerina, working at the Sadler's Wells Ballet and the Royal Ballet, before starting her career in musicals. Lynne choreographed more than 50 productions on the West End and Broadway and was the recipient of two Olivier Awards. She was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her services ... More UNESCO marks Colombian national park for conservationMANAMA (AFP).- Colombia's massive Chiribiquete National Park has made UNESCO's World Heritage List, the United Nations body announced Sunday. "Congratulations," the UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization announced on Twitter. With an area of 2.7 million hectares (6.7 million acres) covering five Amazonian municipalities in the southern Guaviare and Caqueta regions, Colombia's largest natural park has rich biodiversity and is a sacred place for indigenous people. This is the ninth world heritage listing in Colombia, the second most biodiverse country in the world after Brazil. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said that his government will expand the protected territory in the area. "Tomorrow we will be in the park to further expand and protect our biodiversity #World Heritage," he wrote on Twitter. The territory, which is considered ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter John Singleton Copley was born July 03, 1738. John Singleton Copley RA (1738 - September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. In this image: John Singleton Copley, The Fountaine Family, 1776. Tate.
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