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Rembrandt Van Rijn, Self-portrait, wearing a ruff and black hat, 1632, est £12-16 million ($15-20 million). Photo: Antony Jones. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- No artists face is so instantly recognisable as that of Rembrandt. From sketches of an ambitious and self-confident youth of 22, to detailed and sobering self-depictions of a careworn and prematurely aged old man of 63, he recorded his own physiognomy in some 80 paintings, etchings and drawings, documenting his enduring captivation with his own image throughout almost the entire span of his career. Almost all of Rembrandts painted self-portraits are by now in major museum collections, and only three remain in private hands. One of these, discovered and sold at Sothebys in London in 2003, is in the Leiden collection in New York, while another is on long-term loan to the National Gallery of Scotland. The third the earliest in date of the three, and in some ways the most revealing will be offered with an estimate of £12-16 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors wearing face masks gesture as they look at a piece displayed at the Louvre Lens museum as France eases lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. DENIS CHARLET / AFP
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 | | La Biennale Paris partners with Christie's to organize a major online-only auction | | Gagosian to reopen all London galleries on 15 June | | Someone found the treasure that an art dealer buried in the Rocky Mountains | 
La Biennale Paris 2019. Photo: Florent Drillon.
PARIS.- More than 50 internationally renowned dealers, brought together by La Biennale Paris and the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, will be invited to participate in an online auction at Christies from September 10 to 21, 2020. The planned sale follows the postponement of the 32nd edition of La Biennale Paris to September 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the health risks associated with the organization of an international event. All disciplines will be represented, covering 6,000 years of art history. From antiquity to contemporary art, from classic furniture to design, dealers will offer a carefully established selection of works and objets dart, of furniture and jewelry. The works offered online will also be exhibited and on view at the participating galleries, for the duration of the sale. Georges De Jonckheere, President of La Biennale Paris, commented: La Biennale Paris is an event ... More | | 
Crushed, Cast, Constructed: Sculpture by John Chamberlain, Urs Fischer, and Charles Ray, installation view, 2020 © Urs Fischer. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates. Courtesy Gagosian.
LONDON.- One of the worlds leading galleries, Gagosian will reopen all three of its London spaces, Grosvenor Hill, Britannia Street and Davies Street to the public with brand new exhibitions on Monday 15 June 2020. The exhibitions include a group show of large-scale sculptures by John Chamberlain, Urs Fischer, and Charles Ray; the first UK solo-exhibition of Italian sculptor Piero Golia; and a special presentation of furniture from the iconic Casa Malaparte in Capri. Larry Gagosian said: Our London galleries will reopen with three new exhibitions on June 15. London has always had a special energy and appreciation for the arts, and I look forward to seeing that vitality return. At Grosvenor Hill, Crushed, Cast, Constructed: Sculpture by John Chamberlain, Urs Fischer, and Charles Ray ... More | | 
Forrest Fenn, an art collector, at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. on June 17, 2016. Fenn who created the treasure hunt, announced this weekend that someone had found the bronze chest that he had buried in the mountains, filled with gold nuggets, coins, sapphires, diamonds and pre-Columbian artifacts that together he estimated were worth $2 million. Nick Cote/The New York Times.
by Johnny Diaz
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- After 10 years, a chase for hidden treasure in the Rocky Mountains has come to an end. Forrest Fenn, a New Mexico art collector who created the treasure hunt, announced over the weekend that someone had found the bronze chest that he had buried in the mountains, filled with gold nuggets, coins, sapphires, diamonds, pre-Columbian artifacts and other items. He has estimated the hoard is worth $2 million. It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky ... More |
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| | Floyd case forces arts groups to enter the fray | | The wisdom of Plato at Bonhams Important Manuscript Sale | | Mario GarcÃa Torres uses Museo Jumex's gallery space as a private studio to create new work | 
Julián Zugazagoitia, the director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, at the museum in Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 17, 2011. We need to revisit deeply everything our organizational structures, the programs that we value, what exhibitions we should be doing, said Zugazagoitia. The actions speak more than declaratory statements. Steve Hebert/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin and Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The apologies keep coming. After the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, allowed police to use its property to stage a response to a protest over George Floyds death, its director asked the police to gather elsewhere and issued a public apology. When the Getty was criticized for putting out vague social media posts calling for equity and fairness that failed to mention Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25, its chief executive pledged to do better. The language of contrition was similar from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art after it was ... More | | 
Renaissance manuscript featuring two works by Plato. Estimate: $200,000-300,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- A beautiful and very rare early Renaissance manuscript of two of Platos greatest dialogues, Phaedo, known to ancient readers as On the Soul, and Gorgias, translated from the Greek by Leonardo Bruni, leads Bonhams online-only Essential Genius: Ten Important Manuscripts for Modern Times sale which runs from June 1- 10. This is the first Bruni-Plato manuscript of comparable quality to be offered at auction in the past 50 years. It has an estimate of $200,000-300,000. This compilation of essential works, written circa 1420, which also includes Brunis influential Cicero Novus, as well as a series of important Bruni translations of Demosthenes and Aeschines, represents meditations on mortality and morality, and begins with Platos arguments for the immortality of the soul from the point-of-view of Socrates death-bed. Book and Manuscript specialist at Bonhams New York, Darren Sutherland said, ... More | | 
Mario GarcÃa Torres: Solo, Museo Jumex, 2020. Photo: Courtesy Museo Jumex.
MEXICO CITY.- As part of Museo Jumexs programming during the museums temporary closure due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Museo Jumex presents Mario GarcÃa Torres: Solo from June 2 until the museum reopens. GarcÃa Torres occupies Gallery 1 of the closed museum, making use of the space as a private studio to create new work. A daily live stream of the gallery is available on the museums website and the exhibition is accompanied by video interviews, digital publications, and educational activities. Solo is produced in response to the temporary closure of cultural institutions and the abrupt changes to artists production as a result of the current pandemic. The exhibition is a means for the artist to reconsider the relationship between the artist, the studio, the public, and the institution during the current hiatus from exhibitions around the world. GarcÃa Torress projects frequently draw from contemporary art ... More |
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| | Notre-Dame workers start removal of fire-damaged scaffolding | | Dazzling Ruth Asawa sculpture oofered in Bonhams New York Post-War & Contemporary Art sale | | Norman Rockwell's most important literary digest cover leads Heritage Auctions' American Art auction | 
Workers take part in the dismantling operation of the scaffolding at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on June 8, 2020 that was damaged in the April 15, 2019 blaze. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
by Adrien Marotte
PARIS (AFP).- Workers at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday began the delicate task of removing tons of metal scaffolding that melted together during the fire that destroyed the monument's roof and spire last year, one of the riskiest operations in the rebuilding effort so far. Around 40,000 tubes were fused into a tangled mass in the intense heat of the blaze, and must be removed without further damaging the limestone walls supporting the gothic vault. Half of the metal remains suspended some 40 metres (130 feet) above the church's floor. "When all this is taken care of, we'll be extremely relieved because the cathedral will have been saved," said Christophe Rousselot, director general of the Fondation Notre-Dame, the charity that is overseeing the collection of donations to the cathedral. "Pieces of the scaffolding could fall and weaken parts of the walls," ... More | | 
Ruth Asawa (American, 1926-2013), Untitled (S.408, Hanging Five-Lobed, Two-Part Form, with the Second and Third Lobes Attached by Chain and Interior Spheres in the First and Third Lobes) circa 1953-1954. Estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- A dazzling wire work by Ruth Asawa (1926-2013), Untitled (S.408 Hanging Five-Lobed, Two-Part Form, with the Second and Third Lobes Attached by Chain and Interior Spheres in the First and Third Lobes), leads Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale on July 1 in New York. It has an estimate of $1,000,000-1,500,000. The work will be on display at Bonhams saleroom in Los Angeles. Untitled (S.408) was acquired in 1954, directly from the artist by the present owners, who were family friends. The work has remained hanging in the same family collection ever since. Asawa herself would often visit the house to see the sculpture, which was placed near a window to channel the light. This the first time Untitled (S.408) has ever been seen publicly. Born in California in 1926, Ruth Asawa is best known for her delicate looped-wire sculptures which challenge conventional notions of form. As Rachel Spence ... More | | 
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978), Mother Tucking Children into Bed (Mother's Little Angels), Literary Digest cover, January 29, 1921. Oil on canvas, 28-1/2 x 24-1/4 inches. Estimate: $1,800,000 - $2,400,000.
DALLAS, TX.- A classic masterwork by the most beloved American illustrator of all time could bring $1.8 million or more in Heritage Auctions American Art Auction July 1 in Dallas, Texas. Norman Rockwells Mother Tucking Children into Bed (Mother's Little Angels) Literary Digest cover, January 29, 1921 (estimate: $1,800,000-2,400,000) is a deeply personal work, arguably the artists most iconic Literary Digest cover of his 47 covers published between 1918 and 1923. The painting was given by Rockwell to Literary Digest editor Rudolph E. Leppert in 1921, and has remained in Lepperts family ever since. Few images hold the same sense of nostalgia in the American consciousness than that of a mother tucking her little children into bed at night, and few artists ever have captivated the nation's imagination as adeptly as Rockwell. Heritage has long been considered a leader in the field of Illustration and ... More |
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| | Tribal Art London introduces its first online selling exhibition | | Auction world record set for ledger drawing by Southern Cheyenne Howling Wolf | | 1934 Lagonda M45 T7 Tourer in original condition for sale with H&H Classics | 
Ashante prestige ring in gold, 19th Century POA, Ian Shaw.
LONDON.- Due to the Covid-19 pandemic Tribal Art London has made the difficult decision to postpone the September 2020 UK fair to September 2021. It continues to support the Tribal Art community through the introduction of a new series of curated, commercial, online exhibitions. The series will open with Merging Cultures: The impact of trade and travel on Tribal Art which will run via www.tribalartlondon.com from 25th June to 1 August 2020. This exhibition explores the development of trade routes used to move items such as gold and salt through Africa and to the rest of the world, and in contrast the impact of European imports into Tribal communities. The exhibition will not only explore trade though physical goods but the movement and exchange of ideas, artistic inspiration and religious doctrine. Through this exhibition visitors will be able to navigate virtual galleries learning about the impact of trade on Tribal communities. Ma ... More | | 
A Southern Cheyenne Ledger Drawing, Howling Wolf (1849-1927), c. 1875.
DALLAS, TX.- A ledger drawing by a Southern Cheyenne artist soared to $106,250 to establish a world record for a single ledger drawing and to lead Heritage Auctions Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Auction Featuring the I.S.K. Reeves V and Sara W. Reeves Collection to $1,228,339 in total sales May 29 in Dallas, Texas. The auction boasted sell-through rates of more than 93% by value and by lots sold. The auctions top lot was part of the collection of Keith and Sara Reeves, who have spent more than half a century researching and pursuing artwork in an ongoing effort to improve their Florida-based collection. A Southern Cheyenne Ledger Drawing by Howling Wolf soared to more than five times its low pre-auction estimate before finishing as the auctions top lot and establish the new standard for individual ledger drawings. Howling Wolf, a Southern Cheyenne warrior, is the only Plains artist known to have cr ... More | | 
Estimated to sell for £100,000 to £120,000 it still has its original factory T7 coachwork.
LONDON.- This splendid example of a 1934 Lagonda M45 T7 Tourer, among the most desirable and sporting Lagondas ever made, is coming up for sale with H&H Classics at their June 24 Live Auction Online. Estimated to sell for £100,000 to £120,000 it still has its original factory T7 coachwork. Supplied new by Warwick Wright Ltd to A.H. Mann Esq of the tobacco firm John Player & Sons it has a
well documented ownership chain and has been in the current family since 1991. The car pleasingly retains much of its original leather upholstery and other fittings and fixtures.
Assessed by renowned marque specialist Peter Whenman of Vintage Coachworks in 1991 he concluded: This is a very nice, original car not over-restored, in need of some care and attention and probably one of the best available at the moment. The last MOT certificate expired in 2010. The car is running and driving but in need of recommissioning.
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 Anna Laudel reopens with Mehmet Sinan Kuran's solo exhibition "Posthumous"ISTANBUL.- After COVID-19 hiatus, Anna Laudel reopens on Tuesday, June 9th with the extensive solo show entitled Posthumous by contemporary miniature artist Mehmet Sinan Kuran. The exhibition is based on the idea of humankind's need to act and think differently around the concept of togetherness. With the exhibition and its name, Posthumous, meaning afterlife in Latin, Kuran reminds the audience that we must be together while still alive, be more sensitive than before and have to learn new things. Underlining the importance of being together and united as the world shrinks and as the resources are gradually running out, Kuran deepens the possibilities of the mind, the connections between objects and people, and the boundaries of the image. With this understanding, the artist has been working, producing, reproducing and looking ... More Rare medals that belonged to captain of plane the mysteriously disappeared in 1947 to be offered at auctionLONDON.- The rare Second War D.S.O., D.F.C., D.F.M. group of seven awarded to Flight Lieutenant R. J. Cook, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who as an Observer with 15 Squadron and took part in numerous sorties against targets in France and Germany in 1941 and then was Captain of the ill fated Star Dust Avro Lancastrian airliner that disappeared without trace on a flight between Buenos Aires and Santiago in 1947. The wreckage of his aircraft was only discovered in 1998: the meaning of Star Dusts cryptic last Morse code message STENDEC has been debated ever since and has been the subject of various documentaries and books. It will be offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their online/ live auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Thursday, June 18, 2020 on their website. It is being sold by Cooks family and is estimated to ... More 'And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? A Prologue in Public Space presented by Kunsthalle Wien VIENNA.- The title of the exhibition And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? quotes Cecilia Vicuña, a Chilean poet and activist who urges us to weave aesthetic and spiritual threads between people and nature. The exhibition, organized in collaboration by Kunsthalle Wien and Wiener Festwochen, was scheduled to open on May 29, 2020, with over 35 artists who are located everywhere from the Amazon region to Australia, from Guatemala to India. But in the final stages of its realization, it was put on hold for a full year, and will now take place in 2021. Across the planet, the COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted our everyday lives and the ideas that form the basis of our understanding of the world. Public space has been the field experiencing the most significant change within our lives, made unavailable and charged with restrictions. Understanding ... More 10 comic books to celebrate prideNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- These comic books and graphic novels chronicle chance encounters, leaps through time and first romances. They also transport readers to unexpected locations like the alien landscapes of Mars to front-row views of mixed martial arts tournaments. Uniting these tales are characters who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. In this future society, technology can be used to alter ones physical appearance in seconds. But one character, Sunati, has noticed another, Austen, who stays in her natural form. After Sunati summons the courage to ask her on a date, the two young women embark on a relationship with the usual fits and starts. It almost feels like eavesdropping as they start to open up with each other. By Ari North for Little Bee Books. This five-part story is about Barbalien, a superhero from Mars ... More You live outside New York. Are you ready to return to Broadway?NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- New Yorkers are reluctant to return to the theater this fall, according to a survey commissioned by The New York Times. What about out-of-towners, who make up more than two-thirds of the Broadway audience? What would it take for them to be comfortable? We put that question to readers of the Theater Update newsletter and received hundreds of responses, most of them pessimistic and pained. Here is an edited sampling: Im ready now. Ill wear the mask, Ill wash my hands, Ill sit every third or fourth seat. Whatever I need to do to get back in front of a live performance while safely and respectfully protecting my neighbors and theater staff! Corinne Rossi, Stonington, Connecticut Without a vaccine or a cure, to attend a performance would not be a rational choice. The issue is not the statistical ... More Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art publishes London's New Scene" Art and Culture in the 1960sLONDON.- Londons New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s by Lisa Tickner is published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (distributed by Yale University Press), 9 June 2020, £35.00 hardback. This is a new and richly detailed study of the London art world in the 1960s. It is not a survey, but a sequence of chapters devoted to particular institutions and events in a transformational period for British art. There is still little in the published literature concerned with art patronage, art education, influential galleries and the market, significant exhibitions, increases in public funding and corporate sponsorship, or the new prominence of art and artists in the media. These were essential nodes in the warp and weft of art as a social activity which, with the rise of jet air travel, the emergence of the colour supplements and the projection of creative Britain as part of the exp ... More Meadows Museum announces appointment of two curatorial fellowsDALLAS, TX.- Today the Meadows Museum, SMU announced two curatorial fellowship appointments. Julia M. Vázquez, who was recently awarded a Ph.D. from Columbia University, has focused her research on the life, career, and historic influence of painter Diego Velázquez, and will serve as the Mellon Curatorial Fellow for a period of two years, starting in October 2020. Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink, a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge, UK, who has focused her research on the Latin American reception of works by Spanish Golden Age painter Francisco de Zurbarán, will join the institution for a one-year term beginning in September 2020 as the first Center for Spain in America (CSA) Curatorial Fellow. Both fellowships include an annual stipend, of $50,000 and $40,000 respectively. The fellowships provide scholars at different stages ... More The Saint Louis Art Museum will reopen June 16ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum will reopen June 16 with new safety and well-being protocols for visitors and staff. The measures incorporate guidelines issued by public-health agencies and the museums reopening plan was approved by the City of St. Louis Department of Health. Days and hours of operation remain unchanged. For more than 140 years, the museum has been an essential part of the civic life of St. Louis, and it will remain a source of inspiration, education and delight during difficult times, said Brent R. Benjamin, the Barbara B. Taylor Director of the Saint Louis Art Museum. Now more than ever, we are guided by the message carved in our historic buildings south façade: Art still has truth, take refuge there! Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to DalÃ, the groundbreaking exhibition that opened just four weeks ... More Michaan's sale features Escher, rare snuff bottles and porcelains, fine furniture and a Kashmir sapphireALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans Auctions continues to serve the international community of buyers and sellers, sustaining the momentum created by many years of successful auction events. The Alameda, California auction gallery reopens this month. On Friday, June 19, the Summer Fine Sale showcases fine art, fine jewelry, Asian art, furniture and decorations curated by Michaans team of experienced and dedicated auction specialists. Michaans selection of fine art will delight, in equal measure, the longtime collector and the novice bidder. A case in point: the iconic works of M.C. Escher. The Escher pieces in this sale were purchased from the artist, in the Netherlands, by the current owners grandfather. Eschers lithograph, Convex and Concave (Hol en Bol), is estimated at $10,000-$15,000. Sphere Surface With ... More 500 Gallery to offer artworks attributed to, or in the manner of mastersFRANKLIN, MASS.- Multiple artworks attributed to Vincent van Gogh (two signed studies, in materials that van Gogh was known to use and on paper dated to the 19th century) and Maurice Prendergast (a pair of watercolor and pencil works on illustration board) are expected highlights in an online-only Summer Fine Art Sale scheduled for Wednesday, June 17th by 500 Gallery. The auction, with a 5:30 pm Eastern start time, is packed with decorative artworks that have been done in the styles of, or are attributed to, master artists such as Warhol, Basquiat, Monet, Klein, Krasner, Renoir and others. 500 Gallery has launched a new bidding platform, with discounted or free shipping for those who bid on it, at https://bid.500gallery.com/auctions/catalog/id/24195. In addition, folks can also bid on the popular online bidding platform ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jacob Lawrence died June 09, 2000. Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 - June 9, 2000) was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. As well as a painter, storyteller, and interpreter, he was an educator. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. In this image: Jacob Lawrence, "Forward Together," silkscreen on paper, 25.5" x 40.125", 1997. © 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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