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In an undated image provided via the US Department of State, a portrait of George Washington hangs in the Paris home of the U.S. ambassador to France. The authenticity of the painting, which was seized by the British Navy during the Revolutionary War, had been questioned because of overpainting and gaps in its provenance. (via the US Department of State via The New York Times)
by Ralph Blumenthal
NEW YORK, NY.- For years, there had been skepticism about the large portrait of George Washington that has long hung in the baronial Paris residence of the U.S. ambassador to France. It had been left to the government in 1989 by an American arts patron and was described as a painting by Charles Willson Peale, the celebrated patriarch of Americas first artistic dynasty and founder of the nations first public museum. The near life-size image of Washington cast as a Revolutionary War hero after the Battle of Princeton, a blue sash adorning his chest certainly resembled other Peale portraits. But the paintings provenance was murky. Washingtons face was overpainted and mushy looking, one Peale expert thought. Sothebys had evaluated the painting for ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Sargent & Spain, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 2023. Photo by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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| Art Valorem announces the sale of the collection of Christine Poirot-Delpech | | Exhibition at Museum Tinguely deals in experimental ways with the human senses | | Christie's to offer masterpieces from the S.I. Newhouse Collection | 
Bernard Buffet, Les Ãcorchés « Tête décorché de face », 1964. Oil on canvas (lifts), signed on the back with a n°5, B, 15, n°85P and the stamp David et Garnier, 162x131 cm. Estimate : 120 000 - 150 000 .
PARIS.- On Thursday April 6 at the Hôtel Drouot, in Paris, Art Valorem will hold the sale of the collection of Christine Poirot-Delpech, collaborator and assistant at the Galerie Maurice Garnier between 1972 and 2002. The work of French artist Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) is at the center of her exceptional collection. This unique ensemble brings together twenty-five major works by the artist, including paintings made between 1949 and 1990, but also a selection of lithographs and albums featuring his recurring and most sought-after themes. Bernard Buffet, an expressionist painter, is today considered as the greatest representative of modern French figuration and one of the most famous post-war artists. A painting genius at the age of 16, his unique and assertive style quickly propelled him to the forefront of the art scene. In 1948, during his first exhibition, Buffet ... More | | 
à bruit secret takes inspiration from this call for a more differentiated perception of sounds.
BASEL.- Ã bruit secret. Hearing in Art is the fourth in a series of five themed exhibitions at Museum Tinguely dealing in experimental ways with the human senses. Focusing attention on hearing, which plays an important role in multisensory experiences of art, the exhibition offers various immersive and interactive encounters with familiar and less familiar soundscapes. Historical works as well as pieces created specially for the show by 25 international artists, invite visitors to pay attention to what they are hearing, opening up acoustic fields usually hidden from the human ear. What does the Rhine sound like as it flows through Basel? Whats to be heard beneath the surface of the ocean? Can urban noise or the voices of animals and humans be used to make artworks? How have human activity and climate change altered the sounds of the jungle? Can soundwaves be perceived other than by our ears, and how can acoustic phenomena be visualized ... More | | 
Jasper Johns (B. 1930), Decoy oil, silkscreen ink and brass grommet on canvas. Executed in 1971. Estimate: $14,000,000-18,000,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- This May, Christies will present Masterpieces from the S.I. Newhouse Collection. This single-owner Evening Sale will feature 16 exceptional modern and post-war paintings from the collection of S.I. Newhouse, one of the most celebrated, admired and influential art collectors of the 20th century. The selection includes masterworks by icons across generations, including Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, and Lee Bontecou, among others. Leading highlights include: Orestes, one of Willem de Koonings most important black-and-white paintings ever to appear at auction (Estimate on request; in excess of $25,000,000), Francis Bacons landmark1969 Self-Portrait (Estimate on request; in excess of $20,000,000), and L'Arlésienne by Pablo Picasso, executed in 1937 in the months between his completion of the works Guernica and La ... More |
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| "Alvin Ong: Polyphony" on view until March 25th at rodolphe janssen | | Hew Locke's 'The Procession' launches at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art | | Christie's unveils view of 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale & The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 
Alvin Ong, Late Bloomer, 2022. Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm, 59 x 47 1/4 in. Photo courtesy of Rodolphe janssen and the artist.
BRUSSELS.- rodolphe janssen is presenting Polyphony, an Alvin Ong solo exhibition curated by Kami Gahiga through March 25th. The art- ists style combines multiple overlaid visual vocabularies which endow his paintings a rhythmic quality. Colour, shape, texture, and form but also instruments, notation, and scale, are considered as sites of enquiry. Taking the polyphonic and contrapuntal expressive qualities of Johann Sebastian Bachs The Art of Fugue (published post- humously in 1751) as point of departure, Polyphony showcases fifteen paintings developed throughout the second half of 2022 in London and Ongs art residency at Eton College. The exhibition addresses the diversity of layers, references, and influences that inform Ongs paintings including classical music, traditional Malay folktales, and technology blended ... More | | 
Hew Locke: The Procession, installation view at Baltic, Gateshead. Photo: John McKenzie © 2023 Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
GATESHEAD.- We have all taken part in some sort of procession. People assemble and move together to celebrate, worship, protest, mourn, escape or to better themselves. Hew Lockes The Procession evokes all such endeavours, it is populated by imagined people who move through Baltics vast Level 4 gallery, claiming it for themselves. Commissioned by Tate and originally presented in Tate Britains Duveen Galleries in 2022, Lockes installation takes as its starting point the history and character of Tate Britains building and its original benefactor, the sugar refining magnate Henry Tate. More broadly, with The Procession, Locke invites visitors to reflect on the cycles of history, and the ebb and flow of cultures, people, finance and power. The figures travel through space but also through time. They carry historical and cultural ... More | | 
Remedios Varo, Retrato del Doctor Ignacio Chávez (1957, estimate £2,500,000-3,500,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
LONDON.- Giovanna Bertazzoni, Vice Chairman, 20th / 21st Century Art Department, Christies: Our dynamic London 20/21 sale series responds to and amplifies the defining themes of the market today. Offering exquisite collections, iconic works, and a strong representation of pioneering female artists who powerfully shaped the Surrealist movement, we have assembled a vibrant, diverse and celebratory group of works, the majority never seen at auction before, that exemplify the purpose of Christies signature 20/21 category: to unite contemporary names with their artistic forebears. Christies 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale will offer works by artists that defined the artistic movements of the 20th Century, while showcasing their legacy in those artists shaping the 21st Century 66% of the 20th / 21st Century: L ... More |
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| In Vermont, a school and artist fight over murals of slavery | | Previously unknown major painting by Raphael and studio discovered | | Super Bowl wager brings Eakins painting to Nelson-Atkins | 
Sam Kerson, who painted the murals at Vermont Law and Graduate School 30 years ago, at his studio in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, Feb. 11, 2023. (Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times)
SOUTH ROYALTON, VT.- For years, when students at Vermont Law and Graduate School came to Shirley Jefferson with objections to the murals in the student center, and their depictions of Black people that struck some as racist caricatures, the longtime Black administrator urged those protesting to move on. Jefferson, 69, is no stranger to racism, nor to protest. Born in segregated Selma, Alabama, in 1953, she helped integrate her high school, marched for civil rights and graduated from Vermont Law in 1986, later returning to work in admissions and alumni affairs. Still, hoping to avoid division, she advised the students to focus on their studies. I told them, You all did not come here to fight over a mural, you came to get educated, Jefferson recalled one recent afternoon, her Southern accent still evident after more than two ... More | | 
Raphael, Flaget Madonna. Faces of the Madonna and Child identified as painted by Raphael through brushstroke AI analysis.
NEW YORK, NY.- A previously unknown 16th century panel painting by Raphael and studio, the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, has been discovered. Known as the Flaget Madonna, the painting depicts the Madonna and Child with Elizabeth and John the Baptist. The works attribution is the result of more than two decades of study, and includes new brushstroke AI analysis that identifies both the faces of the Madonna and infant Jesus as by the Masters own hand. Dr. Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, was the first art historian to examine the painting and propose that it was from the studio of Raphael with significant parts of the work attributed to the artist himself. Further examination by Art Analysis and Research including pigment analysis and provenance review reinforced this attribution. ... More | | 
Thomas Eakins (American, 18441916). Sailing. c. 1875 (detail). Oil on canvas. The Alex Simpson, Jr., Collection, 1928. 1928-63-6
KANSAS CITY, MO.- A Kansas City victory in a hard-fought Super Bowl brings a winning painting to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Thomas Eakins Sailing is the trophy following #MuseumBowl23. Had the game ended differently, the Nelson-Atkins would have packed one of its own treasures to send to Philadelphia. While both the Chiefs and the Eagles played an excellent and very entertaining game, we were delighted the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of the Nelson-Atkins. Had the Eagles won, the Nelson-Atkins would have loaned the Philadelphia Museum of Art Raphaelle Peales Venus Rising from the Sea- A Deception. Since Peale was from Philadelphia, we thought it would be fun to affect a family reunion between ... More |
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| Exhibition explores the myriad cultural influences that Modigliani encountered in Paris in the early 20th century | | Bonhams celebrates Black women cermacicists at dedicated sale | | The Brooklyn Museum awards fourth annual UOVO Prize to Suneil Sanzgiri | 
Amadeo Modigliani, Tête. Photo: Stuart Burford. Courtesy of Ordovas.
LONDON.- Ordovas presents Tête, an exhibition of three rarely seen works on loan from private collections, centred around an exceptional limestone sculpture carved by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920). The exhibition explores the myriad cultural influences that Modigliani encountered in Paris in the early twentieth century and focuses on two which had an especially profound impact on his art: Cycladic sculptures and African masks. Alongside the head carved by Modigliani one of the most refined examples from a legendary series created by the artist are a Cycladic marble head of the Spedos variety, similar to the example in the Louvre likely seen by Modigliani on his visits to the museum; and a Guro mask which was formerly in the private collection of Paul Guillaume, the artists dealer, and which was also almost certainly known by the artist. Each of the three works is exhibited in the UK for the first time. Amedeo Mo ... More | | 
Ladi Kwali (Nigerian, circa 1925-1984), Vessel, 51.5 x 39 x 39cm. Estimate: 10,000 - 15,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Abuja! Ladi Kwali & The Art of Clay, a special sale celebrating the Abuja Pottery training Centre and the work of Black women ceramicists, is now live on bonhams.com until 2 March. Estimates range from £80 to £15,000. The Abuja Pottery Training Centre in Suleja (formerly called Abuja) was set up by British potter Michael Cardew in the 1950s. Students specialised in specific types of ceramicware, often mixing local Gwari pottery hand-building techniques, traditional shapes and decorations with Western pottery motifs. Helene Love-Allotey, Bonhams Head of Sale, said: Though historically overlooked, Abuja pottery is finally gaining more appreciation from collectors and museums, and we are delighted to showcase some wonderful works in our dedicated online sale. With estimates starting at just £80, this is a perfect opportunity for ... More | | 
Suneil Sanzgiri, 2022 (Photo: Shala Miller).
NEW YORK, NY.- UOVO announced that The Brooklyn Museum will award Suneil Sanzgiri the fourth annual UOVO Prize, which recognizes the work of emerging Brooklyn-based artists. Sanzgiri will receive a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum; a commission for a fifty-by-fifty-foot public art installation on the facade of UOVOs Brooklyn facility, located in Bushwick; and a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant. A jury of Brooklyn Museum curators chose Sanzgiri for the award. Drew Sawyer, Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, will curate Sanzgiris exhibition, which will be the artists first solo museum show. Both the exhibition and public installation will debut later this year. We are thrilled to present the fourth UOVO Prize to Suneil Sanzgiri, whose recent trilogy of short films greatly impressed the jury. Using a range of imaging technologies to meditate on what it means to see at a distance, Sanzgiri ... More |
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 Important religious work by Polenov stars in Bonham's 19th century art sale in LondonLONDON.- 'There were also women looking from afar off' an important oil on canvas by Vasilii Dmitrievich Polenov (Russian, 1844-1927) is amongst the highlights of Bonhams 19th Century and British Impressionist Art sale on 29 March at New Bond Street, London. The work has an estimate of £500,000 - 700,000. 'There were also women looking from afar off' was part of the series of paintings entitled The Life of Christ, completed by Polenov in late 1890s and early 1900s. The subject of the Gospel was consistent with Polenov's desire to show the moral power and triumph of the humanistic ideas espoused by Christ, whom Polenov perceived as an historical figure. He therefore wanted to search for historical truth in his work, and so, to recreate the 'authenticity' of the events, Polenov travelled to Egypt, Syria and Palestine in 1881-1882. Direct work on the paintings ... More  Christian McBride, revered in jazz, is playing the long gameNEW YORK, NY.- On a Friday night in late January, it was almost showtime at the Village Vanguard, but Christian McBride, eminent jazz bassist, had not yet arrived. Earlier that evening, he had enthused about the gig part of a week of sold-out shows with a new quintet led by pianist Brad Mehldau in between sips of Sandeman port and puffs of Mac Baren pipe tobacco at the Carnegie Club, a midtown Manhattan smoking lounge. Its starting to sound like a band, he said. As the set time approached, he was navigating heavy Times Square traffic in his Lincoln SUV and air-drumming along to Bernard Purdie fills on SiriusXM station Soul Town. Slipping into the venue just a few minutes late, he demonstrated what hed said earlier, in his smooth rumble of a voice, about not requiring any pre-show rituals: I can show up and hit. McBrides assurance ... More  Now open: Yelena Yemchuk exhibition at the Ukranian Museum New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- The Ukrainian Museum is presenting the first large-scale exhibition of work by artist Yelena Yemchuk, and the debut of a haunting new short film shot in the Carpathian Mountains of her native Ukraine. The exhibition brings the modalities of life in Ukraine into focus and broadens our understanding of this vivid and complex part of the world. The exhibition is now open, and will run until the 16th April 2023. From teenagers on the Black Sea to a pagan-rooted festival, Yemchuks individual stories are positioned as driving narratives within her compositions. At first glance, her works demonstrate specific decisive moments, with the surrounding stories remaining elusive to the viewer. Seen together, they weave a compelling and moving visual story. As a child growing up in Kyiv, Yelena Yemchuk was fascinated by the reputation of Odesa ... More  MASSIMODECARLO opens Pam Evelyn's first solo exhibition with the gallery at MASSIMODECARLO, Pièce UniquePARIS.- MASSIMODECARLO presents Amid Tall Waves, Pam Evelyns first solo exhibition with the gallery at MASSIMODECARLO, Pièce Unique, Paris. The works that form Amid Tall Waves are each distinct, standalone pieces, not linked by a complimentary palette but tied together by their shared reference to the time the artist spent in the fishing town of Newlyn, Cornwall. Always enraptured by the elemental and relentless movement of the sea, the works in this exhibition are informed by the view from her expansive studio window overlooking the bay of the fishing village. Changes in weather, light, colour and tone over the sea dictated Evelyns vision and experience of painting, as the subtleties in weather systems varied ... More  Klaus von Nichtssagend opens a show of works by artists and mathematiciansNEW YORK, NY.- Klaus von Nichtssagend is presenting a show of works by artists and mathematicians creating a conversation between their respective creative fields. The show consists primarily of works on paper the artists works framed on the walls, the mathematicians notes presented horizontally on a table. This dual presentation alludes to the differences in the function of the work, and to the ways in which artists and mathematicians use visual languages to their own ends. In the field of topology, mathematicians sketches can be simple and doodle-like comprising, for example, a tubular form bent in a U shape with colorful lines intersecting. These drawings guide a math practice that is inextricable from thinking about shape and form, and is similar to the process artists go through when creating abstract art. Without knowing art or math, ... More  Gallery Wendi Norris opens an exhibition of works by MarÃa Magdalena Campos-PonsSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Afro-Cuban artist MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons addresses issues of history, memory, gender and religion through her work; she investigates how each one of these themes informs identity. Campos-Pons employs painting, installation, performance, video and photography to create autobiographical works that invite close examination and consideration. Marking the 20th Anniversary of Gallery Wendi Norris and inaugurating their new headquarters at 436 Jackson Street, Finding Balance is the second solo presentation for Campos-Pons with the gallery. The exhibition borrows its name from Campos-Pons's monumental 28-panel multimedia masterwork, which is the centerpiece of the show. The exhibition will focus on Campos-Pons's large-format polaroid works, including a complementary array of multi-paneled ... More  Pop-up exhibition of Subwaygram photographs + book signingNEW YORK, NY.- For years New York photographer Chris Maliwat has documented the New York City subway system and shared his images of everyday riders via his popular Instagram feed subwaygram. Its nearly 20k followers have come to enjoy the happenstance moments and sartorial street portraits created almost daily by Maliwat with his iPhone camera. Last Fall, Daylight published Subwaygram, a photo book featuring some of Maliwat's greatest hits from his Instagram feed. These portraits were taken two years prior and two years after the first COVID-19 cases were detected in Manhattan, and the book layout and photograph sequencing are structured to reflect this. This year, Sounds of NYC, a storytelling project that spotlights the unheralded voices of the NYC subway from riders to buskers, invited Subwaygram riders to have their ... More  The Tel Aviv Museum of Art marks one year since the Russian invasion of UkraineTEL AVIV.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art marks one year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. On the day of February 19th, 2023, the Tel-Aviv Museum will hold an open evening for the public, with the participation of leading media reporters and photo-journalists from Israel who documented the horrors of war and civilian suffering throughout the past year. Among them will be Yediot Ahronoth journalist Ronen Bergman, staff writer for The New York Times; journalist Itai Engel ("Uvda", Channel 12), and Neta Livneh, editor-in-chief of Yedioth Ahronoth. During the week of February 19, 2023, the Tel-Aviv Museum of art, in collaboration with the Charney Resolution Center and ZAZ10TS cultural initiative in New York will screen the war photographs of photojournalist Ziv ... More  The Architecture Drawing Prize Exhibition opens at Sir John Soane's Museum in London LONDON.- This month sees the opening of The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum in London. It features drawings by the finalists and category winners of the 2022 Architecture Drawing Prize. The Prize categories are hand-drawn, digitally rendered and a hybrid of these two media. Bruce Boucher, Director of Sir John Soane's Museum comments: This annual exhibition has become a showcase for the best in contemporary draughtsmanship across media, which remains central to architectural practice today, and with architectural drawing such an important part of our collection, Sir John Soanes Museum is proud to be the venue for exhibiting the Architecture Drawing Prize. Created as a collaboration between Sir John Soane's Museum, Make Architects and the World Architecture Festival, The Architecture Drawing ... More  Golden Sun Auctions to offer the collection of horse-related items from the Estate of John BarrFULLERTON, CALIF.- An amazing collection of horse-related items and other objects from the estate of John Barr, who was heavily involved in the horse racing industry over the last half a century, will come for bid in a live online auction scheduled for Sunday, February 26th, by Golden Sun Auctions, Inc. (formerly Appraisal & Estate Sale Specialists), at 3 pm Pacific time. Mr. Barr was the owner of Oakcrest Stables, the former director of Oak Tree Racing Association and president of the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association. He was originally an oil man and real estate developer, but later became a prominent breeder who had several winning race horses. Some of his trophies will come up for bid in the auction. His love of horses is evident in the collection, which ranges from Lladro to Tiffany and everything in between. The Barrs ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and curator Rembrandt Peale was born February 22, 1778. Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 - October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties. In this image: Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860), George Washington, circa 1856. Oil on canvas, 36-1/2 x 29 in.
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