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In The Rocks of the Chateau De LHorizon, Seascape Near Cap Ferrat, an oil on canvas painted in 1933, Churchill depicted himself seated alongside Viscountess Doris Castlerosse on the rocks of the French Riviera.
WASHINGTON, DC.- British statesman Winston Churchill, known as a gifted political leader, orator, writer and historian, also left a legacy as a prolific painter. Over five decades, Churchill created more than 500 landscapes and seascapes, preferring to paint outdoors. The Potomack Company, a Washington, DC, area auction gallery noted for the expertise of its specialists, is now offering a rare Churchill self portrait through private sale. In The Rocks of the Chateau De LHorizon, Seascape Near Cap Ferrat, an oil on canvas painted in 1933, Churchill depicted himself seated alongside Viscountess Doris Castlerosse on the rocks of the French Riviera. (Provenance: From the artist to Maxime Elliott; bequest to her sister Lady Forbes-Robertson; to her benefactor J.J. Miles until 1984; Sothebys, NY, April 11, 1984; purchased at this sale by the present owner.) In addition to the Churchill self-portrait, other works Potomack is ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Experts work on the restoration of an ancient structure at the Chan Chan archaeological site, where archaeologists recently discovered 20 wooden sculptures, in the outskirts of the northern city of Trujillo, in Peru on October 22, 2018. The unique sculptures found in niches are fixed to the ground measuring an average of 70 centimeters and representing different characters. CRIS BOURONCLE / AFP
| Maccarone opens exhibition of original political cartoon drawings made over the past two years by Jim Carrey | | Eye disorder may have helped Da Vinci's art: journal | | Peruvian archeologists discover pre-Columbian statues |
Jim Carrey, I Scream You Scream Will We Ever Stop Screaming, 2018. Acrylic paint markers and water-based markers on paper, 12 x 9.5 inches. Images courtesy Jim Carrey and Maccarone.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Beginning October 23, 2018, Maccarone will present an exhibition of original political cartoon drawings made over the past two years by Jim Carrey. Selections from an ongoing body of work that began with the November 2016 election of Donald Trump to the office of President of the United States, the drawings on view in IndigNation: Political Drawings by Jim Carrey, 2016-2018 express Carreys views on the current American political climate. These drawings have been shared with the general public via social media Carrey has posted these images (and in some instances altered them using computer enhancement) on his Twitter feed along with impassioned, sometimes witty, often introspective or heart-wrenching messages. The exhibition at Maccarone will be the first to present his original drawings IRL. On view through December 1, IndigNATION coincides with the 2018 midterm elections across America. Carreys cart ... More | |
Recently restored oil painting Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1500).
LONDON (AFP).- A common eye disorder may help explain Leonardo Da Vinci's talent for three-dimensional representation and the sense of perspective in his mountain landscapes, according to research published in an academic journal. The study looked at two sculptures, two oil paintings and two drawings by the Renaissance master which it said showed "a consistent exotropic strabismus angle of -10.3 degrees". Exotropic strabismus is a form of eye misalignment and is the opposite of crossed eyes, or esotropia. A misalignment of 10.3 degrees would be considered a medium level. People with strabismus often have monocular instead of binocular vision, meaning that both eyes are used separately thereby increasing the field of view and depth perception. "The presence of exotropia, particularly if it was intermittent, may have contributed to da Vinci's exceptional ability to capture space on the flat canvas," according to the research published in the JAMA Opthalmology journal this month. The journal said da Vin ... More | |
An expert works to uncover one of the 20 wooden sculptures which were recently discovered at the ancient archaeological site of Chan Chan, in the outskirts of the northern city of Trujillo, in Peru, on October 22, 2018. CRIS BOURONCLE / AFP.
RUINAS DE CHAN CHAN (AFP).- Archeologists in Peru have found 20 800-year-old wooden statues in the largest pre-Columbian site in the Americas, Culture Minister, Patricia Balbuena and researchers revealed on Monday. The statues, all but one of which were in a good condition, were found in the Chan Chan archeological site: a city that was once the capital of the Chimu Kingdom and pre-dated the Inca Empire. Located close to the north Peruvian modern city of Trujillo, Can Chan was comprised of 10 citadels, or walled palaces, in its six kilometer squared (2.3 square miles) center of a wider city that measured 20 square kilometers. Each statue measures 70-centimeters (27.5 inches) in height and they were aligned in niches in the wall of a ceremonial corridor decorated with high mud reliefs in a thousand-year-old building. The corridor where they were found, buried in earth, was only discovered ... More |
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| US museum says five Dead Sea Scroll fragments fake | | Sotheby's to offer two exceptional landscapes by Caspar David Friedrich | | Pablo Picasso's La Lampe to highlight Christie's Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale |
In this file photo taken on November 14, 2017, visitors look at an exhibit about the Dead Sea scrolls during a media preview of the new Museum of the Bible. SAUL LOEB / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- A US museum announced Monday that five artifacts it had said were fragments of the ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls are in fact fake, and will no longer be displayed. Washington's Museum of the Bible -- which stirred controversy last year for its financial backing from a billionaire evangelical Christian -- removed the pieces from exhibition after a German research institution concluded that they weren't old enough. "Though we had hoped the testing would render different results, this is an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of verifying the authenticity of rare biblical artifacts, the elaborate testing process undertaken and our commitment to transparency," the museum's chief curator Jeffrey Kloha said in a statement. "As an educational institution entrusted with cultural heritage, the museum ... More | |
Caspar David Friedrich, Sonnenblick im Riesengebirge (Sunburst in the Giant Mountains) detail, oil on canvas, 25.5 by 32cm. Estimate £500,000-700,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Today more perhaps than at any time since Caspar David Friedrichs death almost 180 years ago, his sublime and timeless landscapes are being appreciated by artists and public alike. The artistic embodiment of landscape painting of the Romantic era, Friedrich strove to express mood and meaning through nature, his aesthetic informed by his Protestant upbringing and the idea of divine creation manifesting itself in the natural world. Now, on 12 December in London, Sothebys will offer two landscapes by Friedrich, each work a distillation of the artists search for deeper meaning within the appearance of nature. Both paintings come to auction with distinguished provenance: Landschaft mit Gebirgssee am Morgen (Landscape with Mountain Lake, Morning) from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher (est. £2-3 million / 2.2-3.4 million) and Sonnenblick im ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, La Lampe, oil on canvas, Painted in Boisgeloup, 21 January-8 June 1931 | $25-35 million. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will offer Pablo Picassos La Lampe, 1931 ($25-35 million) as a central highlight of its Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on 11 November in New York. The golden light from the lamps scarlet flame bares a closely guarded secret, known in early 1931 to only a few of Pablo Picassos closest friends and his trusted chauffeur. Disenchanted with his wife Olga, indeed, having fallen far out of love from her and the haute bourgeois life-style that she relished, Picasso had been clandestinely seeing, for more than four and a half years, a lovely blonde mistress 28 years his junior. La Lampe shines on the image of Marie-Thérèse Walter, whom Picasso showcased herein a large, elaborately orchestrated painting, as today one may instantly recognize herfor the first time. Max Carter, Head of Department, Impressionist and Modern Art, Christies New York, remarked: During the early ... More |
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| First U.S. museum exhibition of work by Günther Förg in nearly three decades debut at the Dallas Museum of Art | | Christie's to offer personal items from the Estate of Stephen Hawking | | The Wolfsonian-FIU opens its first-ever major exhibition devoted to Art Deco |
Günther Förg, Untitled, 2005, acrylic on canvas, Collection of Dr. Ramiro del Amo, © Estate Günther Förg, Suisse.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art is presenting exclusively in the US the most comprehensive survey to date for renowned German artist Günther Förg (1952-2013). The first American museum exhibition dedicated to the artist in nearly three decades, Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty, brings together over 40 years of the artists multimedia practice including work on paper, photography, sculpture, and rarely-exhibited late-career paintings to provide new insight on the practice and enduring influence of this extraordinary and complex artist. Organized in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and their curator of photography Hripsimé Visser, in close dialogue with the artists estate, Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty builds on both institutions histories with the artist, with each having staged ... More | |
Black hole explosions. Estimate: £3,000-5,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- A brilliant mind whose discoveries have shaped our understanding of the universe, Stephen Hawking, who died on 14 March this year, is one of the most well regarded physicists of all time. Christies will present a remarkable selection of 22 lots from the legendary physicists estate during an online sale entitled On the Shoulders of Giants, taking place between 31 October 8 November. The lots featured in Christies online sale range from the offprints (the scientists own printed copies) of his most important papers, including his seminal Black hole explosions of 1974, to a selection of his medals and awards, a copy of his best-selling A Brief History of Time (1988) signed with a thumbprint, a bomber jacket, and the script for one of his appearances on The Simpsons. Estimates in this auction start as low as £100. The last lot of the sale, one of Hawking ... More | |
Kem (Karl Emanuel Martin) Weber (American, b. Germany, 18891963), designer. Desk and chair, 1929. From the bedroom of the Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bissinger residence, San Francisco. Wood, paint, leather. The WolfsonianFlorida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection, 87.11.2.1.2
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- The WolfsonianFlorida International University announces the museums first large-scale exhibition devoted to Art Deco, the style so central to South Beachs world-famous architecture. On view starting October 19, 2018 and continuing for an extended run, Deco: Luxury to Mass Market maps the trajectory of Art Decos influence from its first appearance in Paris to its adoption by American tastemakers and trendsetters through more than 100 works from the Wolfsonian collection. This is a special opportunity for The Wolfsonian to share its vast collection of Art Deco objects in a way that it has never done before, said ... More |
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| In Delhi, walk with Gandhi in the President's House | | Very first American cent worth 100 million times its face value to be auctioned | | Portrait by Delacroix highlights Doyle's Old Master Auction on October 31 |
In this photograph taken on July 28, 2018, an Indian boy looks at a painting of India's independence icon Mahatma Gandhi displayed inside the Indian President's House museum in New Delhi. CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP.
NEW DELHI.- With a moon rock, a chunk of Mount Everest and the chance to stroll with Gandhi, the President's House in Delhi is lifting the veil on its treasures in its new museum. The President's House, a classical palace with an Indian twist, is one of the grandest buildings in India, built by the British as the Viceroy's House. Storerooms not opened for decades -- some because of superstition -- were unlocked in a treasure hunt to put together the Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum's collection. It recreates moments from India's independence struggle such as Mahatma Gandhi's landmark protest march against the salt tax in 1930 and the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre of civilians by troops under British command. Technology allows visitors to walk with Gandhi in the virtual reality room, while interactive features include a flipbook of India's constitution. ... More | |
The 1792 Birch Cent being offered by Stacks Bowers Auctions. It is the only one of its kind known to exist and its estimated value is as much as $1 million.
BALTIMORE, MD.- They say a penny saved is a penny earned. Well how about saving a penny and earning $1 million? Numismatic auction house Stacks Bowers Galleries is presenting the very first American cent at the Whitman Expo in Baltimore, Oct. 24-26, 2018. Known as the 1792 Birch Cent, this particular cent is estimated to be worth $1 million, 100 million times its original value. Talk about a pretty penny. Only a handful of Birch Cents were minted as an example of what the newly-formed U.S. government was considering producing at the time. There were four Birch Cent varieties that were originally struck and this particular Birch Cent, classified as Judd-3, is the only one known to exist without lettering on its edge. It has not been sold in more than 40 years. The Birch cents and a small handful of other varieties were actually commissioned by Thomas Jefferson and were seen first hand by Jefferson and George ... More | |
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Portrait of Charles-Etienne-Raymond Victor de Verninac (1803-1834), the Artist's Nephew. Est. $300,000-400,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle will hold an auction of Old Master Paintings and Drawings on Wednesday, October 31 at 10am in New York. The sale offers landscapes, still lifes, portraits and religious subjects by European artists from the Renaissance through the early 19th century. Highlighting the auction is an early portrait by the great Romantic master Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) whose work is currently the subject of an important exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The portrait depicts the artist's nephew, Charles de Verninac (est. $300,000-400,000). Charles-Etienne-Raymond-Victor de Verninac was the only child of Delacroix's sister, Henriette de Verninac, well known to connoisseurs of French art from her portrait by Jacques Louis David in the Musée du Louvre. Only five years younger than Delacroix, Charles grew up with the artist acting as his informal guardian and honorary older brother. He received a fine ... More |
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New book "Game Faces" showcases early baseball cards in story of national pastime
WASHINGTON, DC.- A new book, Game Faces: Early Baseball Cards from the Library of Congress, offers baseball fans and historians a visual delight that showcases early baseball cards from the 19th and early 20th centuries alongside photos from the early days of the nations beloved pastime. Author Peter Devereaux takes readers behind the scenes of the Library of Congress Benjamin K. Edwards Collection to see the vibrant world of the early boom of Americas pastime. Game Faces was published in October 2018 by Smithsonian Books in association with the Library of Congress. It is the first book to explore the Librarys extensive collection of early baseball cards, providing both the history and cultural context that reveals baseball cards as documents of their times as well as their teams. The book accompanies the Librarys ongoing exhibition Baseball ... More
The 25th Wolfgang Hahn Prize goes to the Brazilian artist Jac Leirner
COLOGNE.- In 2019, the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig is awarding the Wolfgang Hahn Prize to Jac Leirner. For many years now, the work of the Brazilian artist (b. 1961 in São Paulo) has engaged in a subtle analysis of social and representational systems. Found, often industrially produced everyday objects play an important role here; following the principle of collecting, accumulating, and classifying, Leirner uses them to create installations, collages, and sculptures. Jochen Volz, director of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and guest juror for the 2019 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, explains the jurys decision: Jac Leirner is one of the most important exponents of Conceptual Art today as well as of so-called Institutional Critique. Since the 1980s her sculptures, paintings, and installations have questioned the notion of the original and the ... More
Prints & Multiples achieve $11.9M at Sotheby's NY led by $1.2 million for Jasper Johns's 'Cicada'
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's fall auction of Prints & Multiples concluded this morning in New York with a total of $11.9 million approaching the sale's high estimate of $12.2 million, and marking one of the highest auction totals for the category at Sotheby's. In all, more than 300 works by artists spanning the 20th and 21st centuries were sold across four auction sessions that commenced on the evening of 18 October. Mary Bartow, Head of Sotheby's Prints Department in New York, commented: "We are thrilled to have achieved one of our highest auction totals this fall, with strong demand across price points for prints by icons like Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso, and international participation from private collectors as well as the trade. It has been a particular honor to present works collected by the great David Teiger, including Jasper Johns's divine Cicada which ... More
Berman Museum at Ursinus College receives iconic public sculpture from New York City
COLLEGEVILLE, PA.- An iconic public sculpture that was once a familiar sight to millions in Midtown Manhattan has moved from the bustling streets of New York City to the tree-lined Ursinus College campus. Cubed Curve (1972), by American sculptor William Crovello, joins the collection at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art after 42 years adorning the plaza of the Time-Life Building on West 50th Street and Sixth Avenue (the Avenue of the Americas). A Manhattan landmark for many passersby, it was donated to the Berman Museum by the Rockefeller Group. It was installed in front of the museum on Main Street on the Ursinus campus on Monday, Oct. 22. We are delighted to receive this major gift, which signals the growth of our collection and programming at the museum, Berman Museum Director Charles Stainback said. Just as ... More
The MIT List Visual Arts Center opens retrospective of the work of Tony Conrad
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University are co-presenting Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective on view October 18, 2018January 6, 2019 (MIT List Center) and October 18December 30, 2018 (Carpenter Center). Throughout his six-decade career, Tony Conrad (American, 19402016) forged his own path through numerous artistic movements, from Fluxus to the Pictures Generation and beyond. Conrad, a 1962 graduate of Harvard University, made visits to both Harvard and MIT over the years to present his work, and had formative experiences at both universities. Although he was best known for his pioneering contributions to both minimal music and structural film in the 1960s, his work helped define a vast range of culture, including rock music and public television. He once ... More
Lebanese seek to save landmark concrete park from crumbling
TRIPOLI (AFP).- Close to the seafront in Lebanon's Tripoli, giant curves of concrete stand testimony to dreams before the civil war, etchings of an exhibition park never finished but already cracking. This month, a rare exhibition is being held at the site designed by legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in a desperate call to save it from ruin. Inside the vast grey grounds of the Tripoli International Fair in northern Lebanon, a palm tree throws its dark silhouette onto a giant concrete dome. A thin arch sweeps high over a narrow footbridge, and a steep staircase spirals up vertically, onto a circular cement platform perched on a curvaceous pillar. "It's a futurist paradigm that is unique in Lebanon and the region," said Lebanese architect Wassim Naghi. "In its modernity, in its reliance on curves, it sums up the progress of architecture over a hundred ... More
Gladstone Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Austrian artist Birgit Jürgenssen
BRUSSELS.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting an exhibition of works by Austrian artist Birgit Jürgenssen, featuring drawings and sculptures from the 1970s and 80s. Her practice explores the representation of womens psychic lives as refracted by the dominant systems of labor and commodity. These works illustrate not only the facility with which Jürgenssen engaged with various media, but also exemplify her rigorous commitment to conflating Structuralism and feminist critique with the visual markers of Surrealism. Either as the direct subject in autobiographical self-portraits or the engaged chronicler of both the fantastic and the everyday, Jürgenssen questions accepted constructions of gender through depictions of the female body, sex, and the art historical canon that are both playfully humorous and bitingly critical. Jürgenssen emerged during the fecund Viennese ... More
Artcurial hosts an auction exclusively dedicated to Ettore Sottsass
PARIS.- For the fifth consecutive year, Artcurial hosts an auction exclusively dedicated to design. After Charlotte for ever, devoted to Charlotte Perriand last year, the genius of Italian design Ettore Sottsass is the focus of this new opus. Since the artist's death in 2007, never has his body of work been more celebrated. Ettore Sottsass' fantasy and joyful irony have marked the latter half of the 19th century the creative environment and since then has been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for large number of 21st century designers. In October 2018, the design department devoted a monographic auction to the founder of the influential Memphis movement. With some 40 lots, Repertorio Sottsass proposes an unique portrait of the creator, exploring all periods and mediums he favoured, from furniture to enamel including painting, ceramics and glass, ... More
A study attributed to Thomas Gainsborough will headline Woodshed's November 1st auction
FRANKLIN, MASS.- A study attributed to Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), for perhaps the renowned English painters most intricate and recognizable composition The Honourable Mrs. Graham one of the finest examples of 18th century portraiture, is an expected headliner in Woodshed Art Auctions next fine art auction, titled Gainsborough, Monet, Warhol & Friends. The auction will be held on Thursday, November 1st, online and live in the 500 Gallery, at 475 Franklin Village Drive in Franklin. Live bidding will begin promptly at 5:30 pm Eastern time. People can register and bid now, at www.woodshedartauctions.com. Previews will be held at the 500 Gallery starting on Wednesday, October 24th. Telephone and absentee bids will be accepted. The auction will comprise a select group of 58 paintings and studies by, and attributed to, master artists such as Andy ... More
Exhibition reimagines the traditional boundaries of body ornamentation
KATONAH, NY.- Outrageous Ornament: Extreme Jewelry in the 21st Century, on view at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, reimagines the traditional boundaries of body ornamentation. Jane Adlin, former curator of modern and contemporary design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, brings together 50 bold, unique, and innovative pieces of jewelry that broaden our expectations of personal adornment. Jewelry, in one form or another, has been around since the beginning of time, Adlin explains. From prehistoric evidence of body decoration made from found materials such as shells and bone, to Egyptian, Grecian and Roman use of newly invented material like glass, to Renaissance artisans use of vibrant stones and gem-set gold, jewelry has always been a cultural signifier. Rather than focusing solely on materials and process, this distinctive ... More
Bauhaus to Contemporaries: Design Auction to be held at Dorotheum on November 7th
VIENNA.- Conceptual differences aside, "design" traces its origins back to the beginning of the 20th century. This is where the upcoming Dorotheum design auction on November 7th, 2018, takes its cue, inviting all interested parties to take part in a journey through the history of design right up to the present. While Bauhaus provides a main focal point, the auction also features a strong presence of the work of Ron Arad. Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, the designer founded the design and production studio One Off in 1981, together with Caroline Thormann, and Ron Arad Associates in 1989. Dating to an early creative period of one of the 20th century's most influential designers, the prototype book shelf This Mortal Coil consists of a bent helical steel strip, subdivided into individual shelf sections; it comes from a German private collection and is estimated at ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor and painter Maggi Hambling was born October 23, 1945. Maggi Hambling CBE (born 23 October 1945) is a British painter and sculptor. Perhaps her best-known public works are the sculptures A Conversation with Oscar Wilde in London and Scallop, a 4-metre-high steel piece on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten. Both works have attracted a great degree of controversy. In this image: Maggi Hambling, Wall of water XIII, war, 2012. Oil on canvas, 78 x 89 in© Maggi Hambling, photograph by Douglas Atfield.
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