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PBMAs auctioneer Rico Baca speaks with a previewer about the monumental Manolo Valdes painting in their April 23rd sale. The 86 tall work is estimated to sell between $125,000 and $175,000.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Palm Beach Moderns auctioneer Rico Baca can tell you a thing or three about the shopping habits of their local clientele, but one stands above the rest: whatever they buy, it needs to be big. Big tables, big vases to go on them, big jewelry, big names
and (debatably) most importantly, big art. You need to have a special wall for an 86 piece of art, says Baca, referring to the Manolo Valdes portrait leading the way in large-scale art in their April 23rd sale. This is a highly textural work with sophisticated subject matter. Its neutral color palette lends decorative flexibility, but Jacqueline is still going to become the dominant factor in a room. The Valdes is not the only work by an acclaimed artist in the sale, just one of the largest. Its rivals in size include a 62 Yaacov Agam 3D Op Art painting estimated at $80,000-$120,000, a 72 David Bates floral still lif ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Variety Auction | Ancient & Ethnographic Art on Apr 21, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. Featuring classical antiquities, ancient, and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, more! In this image: Chinese Song Dynasty Blue Glazed Bowl, TL Tested. Estimate $5,000 - $7,500.
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| The Tony Bingham Collection of Musical Portraits lead the British and Continental Pictures Auction on 21st April | | Lost Judy Garland "Dorothy" dress from the Wizard of Oz comes to auction at Bonhams | | Jackson Pollock masterpiece will lead Christie's 20th Century Evening Sale | 
Portrait of an Apollo Lyre player, Follower of François-Joseph Kinson (1771 1839). Oil on canvas. Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000.
LONDON.- Tony Bingham has been one of the leading figures in the world of antique musical instruments for over fifty years. He started in a shop on the Kings Road in the 1960s, followed by premises on Sohos Poland Street and finally a gallery on Pond Street, Hampstead which was his base for almost four decades. Tony has dealt in instruments from all over the world, specialising in those from Western Europe and America. He has sold to the worlds leading institutions in the United States, Europe and Japan. The present pictures were hung in the various premises he occupied for many years and Tony and his wife Irene have now decided it is time for them to be enjoyed by new collectors and music enthusiasts. Among the forty paintings of singers, string, wind, and brass players spanning the 17th 20th centuries, highlights include a rare depiction of a female flautist painted during the first half of the 19th century at a time when playing the flute was considered ... More | | 
The Dororthy dress, offered at Bonhams Classic Hollywood: Film and Television sale. Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- A Judy Garland-worn "Dorothy" dress from the world-renowned film, The Wizard of Oz, will be presented at the Bonhams Classic Hollywood: Film and Television sale in Los Angeles on May 24. Estimated at $800,000-1,200,000, the iconic blue and white gingham dress is one of only two existing dresses retaining the white blouse and only one of four blue and white dresses in existence. This incredibly rare and iconic Hollywood costume has also been matched to a specific scene in the beloved movie, namely when Dorothy faces the Wicked Witch of the West in the Witchs Castle. The dress is being offered by The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. It was originally gifted to the Universitys former beloved Head of Drama, Reverend Gilbert Hartke, by Mercedes McCambridge, a Hollywood actress and Artist in Residence at the University in 1973. After going missing in the 1980s, the costume was recently discovered, and proceeds ... More | | 
Jackson Pollock, Number 31, signed and dated 'Jackson Pollock 49' (upper left) oil, enamel, aluminum paint and gesso on paper mounted on Masonite, 31 x 22 ½ in. (78.7 x 57.2 cm.) Executed in 1949. Estimate on request; in excess of $45 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced that Jackson Pollocks Number 31, 1949 will lead the 20th Century Evening Sale taking place 12 May 2022 at Rockefeller Plaza (Estimate on request; in excess of $45 million). Painted in 1949, the work is among the richest and most powerful examples of Pollocks celebrated drip paintings, standing as an icon from a seminal moment in the development of twentieth-century art. It has been featured in a number of important exhibitions, including the 1967 Jackson Pollock MoMA retrospective in addition to the 1998 retrospective mounted at MoMA and The Tate. Held in the same private collection for over two decades, the work is incredibly fresh to market. Pollock executed Number 31 during a flurry of brilliant artistic activity during the end of 1949. The work was subsequently exhibited with Pollocks new dealer Betty Parsons later that ... More |
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| MoMA PS1 presents first New York museum survey of Deana Lawson | | As one Alaskan museum closed, a Native heritage center prospered | | Boijmans wins restoration prize for Van Gogh painting | 
Deana Lawson. Hair Advertisement. 2005 (detail). Pigment print. Courtesy the artist; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. © Deana Lawson.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents Deana Lawson, the first museum survey dedicated to the work of the celebrated photographer, on view from April 14 through September 5, 2022. For more than 15 years, Deana Lawson (b. 1979, Rochester, NY) has been exploring and challenging conventional representations of Black life through photography, drawing on a wide spectrum of photographic languages, including the family album, studio portraiture, staged tableaux, documentary pictures, and appropriated images. Through a selection of more than 50 works from 2004 to the present, including photographs that were featured in PS1s signature exhibition series Greater New York in 2010 and 2015, Deana Lawson features the full range of the artists career to date and establishes a narrative arc of her expansive vision for the first time. This nationally touring exhibition was co-organized with the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA), where it was on view from ... More | | 
Angie Demma, a curator at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, the only statewide center dedicated to celebrating all of Alaskas Native cultures, April 5, 2022. Brian Adams/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- At the turn of the last century, Edward Anton Rasmuson arrived on the Alaska frontier, a Swedish-born missionary there to teach Tlingit children at a time when many small villages did not have public schools. Before he died in 1949, Rasmuson would rise to lead the territorys biggest bank, the National Bank of Alaska, but would never lose his interest in Alaska Native culture. He and his family collected some 6,000 artifacts, textiles and tools, most of which ended up in a museum created by the bank in downtown Anchorage in 1968. But that museum, which was taken over by Wells Fargo when it acquired the National Bank of Alaska in 2000, closed its doors in 2020, a casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, much of this historical trove has been turned over to the Alaskan Native Heritage Center, a museum that focuses on Indigenous culture and is operated by Alaska Natives. ... More | | 
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is delighted to announce the receipt of support from the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund to investigate and restore Van Goghs Poplars near Nuenen. Is this painting a pivotal work in the artists oeuvre?
ROTTERDAM.- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has been awarded the Museum Restoration Fund by the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) to restore Vincent van Goghs Poplars near Nuenen (1885). The generous prize of 25,000 will enable the museum to undertake a through investigation and restoration of the painting. This is the tenth time that TEFAF has awarded the prize, marking an important anniversary for the fair, which takes place in Maastricht this year from 24 to 30 June. Poplars near Nuenen will be displayed at the fair prior to the major restoration along with the findings from the preliminary investigation. It is the first time that TEFAF is presenting a work of art supported by the Museum Restoration Fund at the fair prior to restoration. Sjarel Ex and Ina Klaassen, directors of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: In addition to a being new typology, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen provides state-of-the-art facilit ... More |
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| Christie's to offer the collection of the late Lord and Lady Swaythling | | Morphy's May 4-6 auction presents exceptional antique coin-op machines, early advertising signs | | 1960 AC 2+2 Greyhound restored after 45 years ow ready for the Concours d'Elegance | 
Deux cavaliers au bois by Kees van Dongen, which appealed to Lord Swaythlings love of horses. Estimate: £150,000-250,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- On Friday 27 May, Christies will offer 170 lots from The Collection of the late Lord and Lady Swaythling in a live auction. David Montagu, 4th Lord Swaythling (1928-1998), had an illustrious career spanning the worlds of banking, racing, politics and media. The charming works being offered weave together fascinating strands of several notable family collections inherited by Lord Swaythling and his French wife Ninette (née Dreyfus) (1927-2021). Lord and Lady Swaythling established their own collection to which these inherited works were added, becoming part of their striking modern London residence and their country house in Newmarket. The sale comprises Impressionist and Modern paintings, Jewellery, Furniture, Decorative Arts and Silver, Old Master paintings, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. With estimates ranging from £300 to £300,000, the Collection is ... More | | 
Symphonion Musik-Automat #120W music box made for American market, walnut case, wall-mount style. One cent plays 13¼in discs on double cone with 120 notes. Comes with one disc. Estimate $6,000-$10,000.
DENVER, PA.- Long before the era of instant entertainment from TV, downloaded music and streaming videos, Americans could amuse themselves with a pocketful of change at an arcade. The thrilling atmosphere of those places, whether indoors or on a seaside boardwalk, resonated with the clanging and whirring of slot machines, the pinging of bagatelles, and orchestral tunes performed by mechanical music machines. Coin-ops were also found in saloons and other social establishments. Today, the mechanical entertainers of yesteryear are displayed in collections from coast to coast, often flanked by antique advertising signs of the same period. Many of the rarest and finest of all antique coin-ops and signs have passed through the doors of Morphy Auctions, which will hold its next sale of these popular specialties on May 4-6. The ... More | | 
Ahead of its time with echoes of the Aston Martin DB4.
LONDON.- One of 83 examples of AC's pretty, Bristol-engined 2+2 Greyhound, sympathetically restored and now ready for the next sixty years, the car goes on sale with Silverstone Auctions Supercar Fest of Iconic and Classic cars on May 28th at Sywell Aerodrome. It is estimated to sell for £60,000 to £70,000. Harry Fox-Edwards of Silverstone Auctions, says of this car: The restoration was completed in early 2022 and we understand from our vendor that the engine is running well and the car is a delight to drive. This has got to be one of, if not the finest example of a Greyhound to come to market recently and with prices of the Ace and Aceca having soared in recent years, we cant help feeling that the Greyhound is somewhat undervalued by comparison. With the striking looks of a DB4, 75% of the performance, 10 times rarer, yet only 20% of the cost, it looks remarkable value at todays guide price. When the last 2-litre saloon left the Thames Ditton factory in 1958 ... More |
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| Milan's Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana announces "The Visi" Project | | Alison Bradley Projects announces recent museum acquisition of painting by Yuki Katsura | | Alexandra Letvin named Associate Curator of European Art at the Princeton University Art Museum | 
Mondadori Portfolio © Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
MILAN.- The Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana of Milan, Italy today announced the launch of The Visi (The Faces), the first NFT project to feature Leonardo da Vincis historic creations, pairing three rarely-seen drawings by the great Master with a limited collection of pfp evoking Renaissance settings. Each of the pfp works are registered on the Ethereum blockchain. The NFT collection will be available later this spring. The initiative initially launched on April 15, the birth date of da Vinci will feature three original da Vinci drawings from the vault of the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, which possesses the worlds largest collection of drawings, plans and writings from the legendary Renaissance figure. These particular drawings two of men, one of a woman have been kept at the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana for more than 400 years, and demonstrate the great artists subtle ... More | | 
Yuki Katsura, Towering Rage (怒髪天をつく), 1953. Oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 17 7/8 in. (53 x 45.4 cm). Asian Art Museum, Museum purchase, Tomoye Takahashi Acquisition Fund, F2022.1
NEW YORK, NY.- Alison Bradley Projects announced that Yuki Katsuras 1953 painting Towering Rage (怒髪天をつく) has entered the permanent collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Towering Rage offers important insight into the evolution of Yuki Katsuras career, especially her skillful use of traditional motifs as a subterfuge for her political sentiments. Having survived the wartime devastation of Tokyo and the political conversion of many of her artist peers, Katsura dedicated herself to a bold new body of political works in the tumultuous years of the early 1950sworks that engaged with the impacts of the U.S. Occupation, the end of Japanese imperialism, and the adoption of a new democratic constitution. Dohatsu ten o tsuku, the works original Japanese title, is an idiom that conveys a fury so intense that ones hair stands upright and ... More | | 
Alexandra Letvin, Duane Wilder, Class of 1951, Associate Curator of European Art at the Princeton University Art Museum.
PRINCETON, NJ.- The Princeton University Art Museum has appointed Alexandra Letvin as the inaugural Duane Wilder, Class of 1951, associate curator of European Art. Letvin joins Princeton from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where she has served as assistant curator of European and American art since 2019. She will begin her appointment at Princeton early this summer. The newly endowed position is named in honor of Duane Wilder, who was an avid art collector and a tireless advocate for the arts and humanities on Princetons campus and beyond. He served for nearly 40 years on the Princeton University Art Museums Advisory Council and bequeathed his extensive collection to the Museum upon his death in 2017. In 2020 the Museum presented The Eclectic Eye, a digital exhibition featuring highlights from Wilders collection that ranged from ... More |
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Harry Winston's Swirling Diamond Fringe Necklace, Circa 1960s
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 Museum to receive approximately $50 million from Lenfest EstatePHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Museum of the American Revolution today announced that it will receive a total of approximately $50 million from the estate of H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest, the Museums Founding Chairman, who passed away in 2018. The monumental gift the largest single gift in the Museums history was announced on April 19, the Museums fifth anniversary. We are deeply grateful to the Lenfest family, without whom the Museum of the American Revolution would not have been built, said Dr. R. Scott Stephenson, Museum President and CEO. Gerry understood the critical role that a strong endowment plays in the financial stability of a nonprofit organization such as ours. As we celebrate our fifth anniversary and look ahead to the 250th anniversary of the nations founding in 2026, this extraordinary gift will strengthen ... More  The June Kelly Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Philemona WilliamsonNEW YORK, NY.- Recent Paintings by Philemona Williamson, visual conundrums intrigue with depictions of the edginess of curiosity, imagination, and present-day actuality. The exhibition opened at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, on April 7 and will remain on view until May 10. Williamson, longtime fascinated with the phenomenon of pubertal development and its inevitable progression toward adulthood, fittingly portrays accompanying emotional stages ambiguity, uncertainty, vulnerability. In this body of work, Williamsons fabled energetic adolescent figures, yet raw with instinct, in throes of tension, in pause of wonder, on precipice of hesitancy, are joined with subjects appearing older, reflective of solemnity and awareness beyond immediacy of themselves. Implications of the border between innocence and awareness, ... More  James Hyman Gallery announces their representation of Nigel HendersonLONDON.- James Hyman Gallery announced their representation of The Estate of Nigel Henderson (19171985) and are excited to offer works from the Estate that have never previously been available. They will be bringing a selection of works to the London Art Fair this week. Championed as "a seminal figure in post-war British art" by the great art critic David Sylvester, Henderson was recently the subject of a magnificent exhibition at Tate Britain Vital Fragments: Nigel Henderson and the Art of Collage as the culmination of major research project by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art. Henderson's creative career spanned fine art, photography, exhibition-making and interior design. At the heart of his practice was the photographic image and collage. His experimental approach to photography occupies a unique place in British ... More  Items signed by Bob Dylan, Charles Darwin, and Babe Ruth headline auctionWILTON, CONN.- Five items pertaining to Albert Einstein (two typed letters; a handwritten letter; an awards program; and a humorous card; all five of them hand-signed); Bob Dylans handwritten lyrics to the song Mr. Tambourine Man; a handwritten letter by Charles Darwin discussing hereditary traits; and an author-signed first edition copy of The Babe Ruth Story are just a few of the expected highlights in University Archives next big online-only auction, slated for Wednesday, May 4th. The Rare Books, Autographs, Manuscripts & Photos auction, starting at 10:30 am Eastern time, features historical material from multiple collecting categories. All 410 lots are up for viewing and bidding now, on the University Archives website www.UniversityArchives.com), as well as LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and ... More  Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings opens at Palazzo Tiepolo PassiVENICE.- The Buffalo AKG Art Museum and curators Cathleen Chaffee (Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York) and Vincenzo de Bellis (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis) are delighted to reveal further details about Stanley Whitneys presentation for the Collateral Event at the Biennale Arte 2022. The exhibition will feature large and small-scale paintings and works on paper, alongside Whitneys sketchbooks, many exhibited for the first time, offering a glimpse into the artists process and experimentations. A look at Whitneys practice over the last three decades seen through the lens of Italy, Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings is not only the first time the New York-based painter will present works that have been exclusively created in Italy, but it is also the first opportunity to experience these works together ... More  Daylight Books to publish 'Station to Station: Exploring the New York City Subway' by Ed HotchkissNEW YORK, NY.- The New York City subway system shuttles many of the over 8 million NYC residents from here, to there, and photographer Ed Hotchkiss journeyed on every line, criss-crossing the city and its boroughs, discovering and noticing. The subway cars gather and hold for a finite amount of time a seemingly random group of people, all with their own unique lives, hopes, and plans, and who each disperse and disappear upon exiting the train. This setting provides a unique opportunity to observe the vast array of humanity that signifies New York. These images reflect the value Ed saw in what he found. Working to be as discreet as possible, Ed would wear unassuming clothing, hold a newspaper and pretend to read it, all the while sneaking glances, holding his camera on his hip, and often using a cable-release shutter to be ... More  From cave art to TikTok, new AGO exhibition celebrates how we document everyday lifeTORONTO.- Paintings, photo albums, home movies, mixtapes, Instagram posts and TikTok reels all unique mediums, but each, in their way, capable of capturing life as it happens. Celebrating that desire, with more than 100 artworks and artifacts, including found home movies from the Prelinger Archives, comes I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces, a new exhibition from the Art Gallery of Ontario. Co-curated by Jim Shedden, the AGOs Manager of Publishing, and Alexa Greist, AGO Associate Curator and R. Fraser Elliott Chair, Prints & Drawings, in collaboration with archivist and writer Rick Prelinger, I AM HERE is a joyous medley of familiar sights and sounds, organized by theme. Artworks from the Renaissance to the present, by some of the biggest names in art history, punctuate a journey through our obsessions ... More  Fox Family pledge $100 million towards NGV Contemporary, Australia's largest gallery of contemporary art and designMELBOURNE.- The Victorian Government and National Gallery of Victoria are grateful for the extraordinary generosity of Lindsay Fox AC and Paula Fox AO, who today pledged $100 million towards NGV Contemporary the largest cultural gift for a capital program ever made to an Australian art museum by a living donor. The gift towards NGV Contemporary coincides with the 85th birthday of Mr Fox and is offered in recognition of NGV Contemporarys important role in enriching the cultural and civic lives of all Victorians. This unprecedented act of philanthropy reflects the Fox familys long-held commitment to uplifting the Victorian community through their wide-ranging philanthropic giving and fundraising. In recognition ... More  Letizia Battaglia, photographer of mafia brutality, dies at 87ROME.- Letizia Battaglia, a photographer who chronicled years of Sicilian Mafia bloodshed in Palermo, Italy, in unflinching images that became ingrained in the national consciousness, died April 13 at her home in Palermo. She was 87. Her daughter Patrizia Stagnitta confirmed her death but did not specify the cause. Mario Puzo wrote a book about the Mafia. Coppola made a film. But only Letizia Battaglia tells of the true story and its harsh reality, said the blurb for Anthology, an art book of her photographs that grew out of a 2016 exhibition of her work in Palermo, the capital of Sicily. Battaglia went to work for the Palermo newspaper LOra in the 1970s during the turbulent years known as the second Mafia Wars, when mobsters from the town of Corleone muscled in on Palermo crime gangs. The gangland war felled hundreds of Mafiosi but also law enforcement officers, prosecutors and politicians. Battaglia and photographer Franco Zecchin, her companion in life, were often first o ... More  San Diego's Chicano Park celebrates its anniversarySAN DIEGO, CA.- Below crisscrossing freeway overpasses and the whooshing of speeding cars is one of the largest collections of outdoor murals in the United States. Frida Kahlos distinct features are rendered huge on a concrete pylon. Majestic Aztec warriors prepare for battle. On a recent afternoon, a woman stopped to photograph Cesar Chavez and other Latino leaders painted on the side of a highway off-ramp. This is Chicano Park, the heart of San Diegos oldest Mexican American neighborhood, known as Barrio Logan. The park, which will mark its 52nd anniversary Friday, remains a symbol of Latinos struggle for recognition and power in this border city as well as the rest of California. In most of our lives, this is probably the only time that weve ever had a voice a say in something we wanted, Jose Gomez, one of the leaders in the creation of the park, said in Chicano Park, a 1988 documentary. You know, its not much of a park, but it ... More  Where Winslow Homer went to fish and paintNEW YORK, NY.- When Winslow Homer first arrived in Homosassa, Florida, to fish in the winter of 1904, he wrote to his brother Arthur: âDelightful climate here about as cool as our September â Fishing the best in America so far as I can find.â The artist would stay to paint some of his most luminous watercolors: of fishing along the junglelike banks of the Homosassa River: of black bass jumping from the water; and of the Shell Heap, an ancient refuse mound left by early Native Americans. Homer worked in watercolor overseas and up North as well as in many parts of Florida and the Bahamas where he traveled to escape the harsh Maine winters. The Florida works had a fresh, light quality, quite different from the oil paintings for which the artist is still best known. Homer, who died in 1910, made four trips to Florida between 1904 and 1909 and it was there he would paint some of his last watercolors: often works where the dense jungle quality of the shoreline played against the glistening waters. But the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Odilon Redon was born April 20, 1840. Odilon Redon (born Bertrand-Jean Redon (April 20, 1840 - July 6, 1916) was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.In this image: Odilon Redon, The beasts of the sea, round like leather bottles, (detail). Plate 22 of The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1896. Lithograph. The Kirk Edward Long Collection, 2010.60.22. Plate size: 8-3/4â x 7-1/2â.
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