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"Portrait of a Seated Woman" by artist Thomas Couture was looted by the Nazis. AFP Photo.
BERLIN (AFP).- Germany on Tuesday returned a painting looted by the Nazis to the heirs of French Jewish politician and resistance leader Georges Mandel. The portrait of a seated woman by 19th-century French painter Thomas Couture had been on display in a spectacular collection hoarded by Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer. German Culture Minister Monika Gruetters presented the work to relatives of Mandel -- who was executed by French fascists near Paris in 1944 -- in a ceremony at the Martin Gropius Bau museum in Berlin. Experts determined two years ago that the painting had been looted from Mandel, relying on a small hole in the canvas as evidence of its provenance. Mandel's lover had cited the hole above the seated woman's torso when she reported the painting stolen after the war. Gruetters was joined at the c ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Ancient | Asian | Ethnographic Winter Variety Sale on Thursday, Jan 10, 2019 9:00 AM CST. Travel the world & back in time... Antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine Art, much more! In this image: Egyptian Late Dynastic Cedar & Gesso Sarcophagus Mask. Estimate $1,800 - $2,500
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 | | Sean Kelly announces new partners | | Palmer Museum of Art announces its 2019 exhibition lineup | | Partially shredded Banksy canvas to go on view in Germany | 
Lauren Kelly; Janine Cirincione; Cecile Panzieri; Thomas Kelly. Photo courtesy Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly announced that four senior members of the gallerys management team have been appointed Partners. Kelly states, "2019 marks Executive Director, Cecile Panzieris twentieth anniversary at the gallery. At this moment, it gives me great pleasure to recognize her and three other colleagues as Partners in the gallery. Lauren Kelly joined the gallery in 2006, Janine Cirincione joined eight years ago, and Thomas Kelly joined in 2012. Each of them have made invaluable individual contributions over the years and continue to do so in the dynamic, evolving and fast-growing culture of the gallery, declared Kelly. Cecile joined the gallery in 1999, without her hard work, support and commitment the gallery would not be what it is today, therefore she has been appointed Senior Partner, said Kelly. Panzieri stated, I feel fortunate to do what I love, and be recognized for my role in furthering th ... More | | 
Roger Shimomura, Kansas Samurai, 2004, lithograph, 44 ¾ x 31 inches. Palmer Museum of Art. Purchased with funds provided by the Sidney and Helen S. Friedman Endowment, 2018.12.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State announced an exciting and diverse schedule of exhibitions for 2019. Highlights include an ambitious loan exhibition featuring works by Pennsylvania-native John Sloan, exhibitions of prints and works on paper by an international roster of artists, a major show highlighting modernist photographers enthralled with Mexico, and two exhibitions examining the powerful work of noted African American artists of the twentieth century. The new year starts with the opening in early February of From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space. Organized by the Palmer Museum of Art, this groundbreaking exhibition brings together dozens of works by Ashcan school painter Sloan, as well as by some of his peers and protégés, all focused around the ... More | | 
Banksy's Girl with Red Balloon mysteriously shreds following its sale at Sotheby's London. Image Courtesy of Casterline Goodman Gallery.
BERLIN (AFP).- A partially destroyed Banksy canvas, shredded moments after it was sold at auction last year, will be exhibited in Germany next month, the Frieder Burda museum in Baden-Baden said Tuesday. The work, now called "Love is in the Bin", will be shown for the first time since it was created in a theatrical stunt at Sotheby's in London in October. "Since the birth of conceptual art, there have always been artistic attempts to volatilise or even destroy an artworks own existence, thus undermining its material value or trying to transfer it into a different value context," the Frieder Burda museum said, announcing the show. Moments after the painting "Girl with Balloon" sold for £1,042,000 ($1.4 million, 1.2 million euros) -- a joint record for the maverick artist -- it unexpectedly passed through a shredder hidden in the frame. The ... More |
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| | | Todd Merrill Studio presents sale of iconic mid-20th century design on Bidsquare | | Hindman LLC acquires Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions | | Rossetti drawing bought in second-hand bookshop for £75 on display | 
Wendell Castle, Foyer Console Table, USA, 2003, Estimate $9,000-12,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- In an exclusive partnership with Bidsquare, Todd Merrill Studio presents a sale of iconic mid-20th century design from some of the period's most celebrated artists, makers, and designers featured in the recently published 10th Anniversary Edition of Modern Americana: Studio From High Craft to High Glam. This unprecedented sale features exceptional pieces from celebrated designers Wendell Castle, Stephen Chase, John Dickinson, Frances Elkins, Paul Evans, William "Billy" Haines, Vladimir Kagan, Larry Laslo, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, James Mont, Tommi Parzinger, Harvey Probber, Ron Seff, and Karl Springer. Internationally recognized Paul Evans is featured the most in this sale, with cabinets, tables, lighting and more by Evans. One unique piece is a Forged Front Console. For the past decade, Merrill's book, Modern Americana has been celebrated by designers, collectors, curators, and journalists and has ... More | | 
The Hindman Team: Thomas Galbraith, Leslie Hindman, Wes Cowan.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman LLC announces today that it has acquired auction houses Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions. The new venture brings together two of America's defining auction firms, uniting a nationwide network of specialists and resources. Born to serve and grow the industry landscape through digital transformation and customer service, Hindman LLC reflects the shared vision of Leslie Hindman and Wes Cowan, the respective founders of each firm. We're thrilled to join forces with Cowan's who shares many of our core values, including our vision for a national client-centric auction house, said Leslie Hindman, Co-Chair of the newly formed Hindman LLC. Weve both grown by connecting local communities to the global art market and by providing excellent service across all categories, sales channels and price points. And now we can further accelerate our vision through this combined ... More | | 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ricorditi di me che son la Pia (from Dante's 'Purgatorio') detail, red and black chalk on paper, 1868. PD.155-2015.
CAMBRIDGE.- A drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 1882) for one of his greatest paintings, that was discovered in a second hand book shop for £75, is amongst an eclectic collection of art gifted to the Fitzwilliam Museum and on display in Collecting and Giving: Highlights from the Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest (4 December 2018 ‐ 3 March 2019). The drawing dates from Rossetti's late career, between 1868 and his death in 1882 when he produced his largest and most powerful paintings. The woman is readily identifiable as one of Rossetti's favourite models, Alexa (Alice) Wilding (c.1847‐84), a dressmaker. Rossetti discovered her while walking in the Strand, was struck by her auburn hair, and declared that she had the type of face he had been seeking for so long. Rossetti's assistant described her as having 'a lovely face, beautifully moulded in every feature, full of quiescent, ... More |
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| | | Masako Miki showcases new work in UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive exhibition | | "Missing" Japanese cloisonne vase from 1893 Chicago World's Fair discovered and coming to auction | | National Museum of Women in the Arts unveils major collection reinstallation | 
Masako Miki: Abumi-guchi (Stirrup Mouth Furry Ghost), 2018; wool on foam, walnut wood; 53 1/2 x 48 x 29 in.; courtesy of the artist and CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions.
BERKELEY, CA.- The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive opens its 2019 exhibition season with a presentation of new work by the acclaimed Berkeley-based artist and designer Masako Miki. An important figure in the Bay Areas creative community for more than two decades, Miki creates colorful forms in a range of media, which are inspired by her interest in the folklore traditions and religious practices of her native Japan. Miki is the latest artist to present new work in BAMPFAs MATRIX Program, an exhibition series that highlights distinctive voices in contemporary art. For her exhibition at BAMPFA, Miki has created more than a dozen large-scale felt-covered sculptures that appear as dreamlike shapes, subtly invoking figurative objects such as lips, umbrellas, and insects. These works draw on the artists interest in Shinto, Buddhist, and traditional Japanese culture, such as the belief in ... More | | 
The front of this spectacular vase is adorned with a dragon among clouds. The neck of the vase is decorated in a design of stars, stripes and maple leaves interwoven with chrysanthemum flowers.
OAKLAND, CA.- For over 100 years, a monumental 8-foot Japanese cloisonné vase reigned as the centerpiece in the main dining room of Spengers Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkeley (CA), one of the San Francisco Bay Areas oldest and most beloved restaurants. And, for over 100 years, no one was aware that this vase was one of Japans most spectacular works of art created for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. On February 17th, 2019, Clars Auction Gallery of Oakland, CA, announced that they will be presenting this historic vase to the world market on behalf of the Spenger Family. This magnificent vase was created as part of a triptych composed of two vases that each stood over eight feet high centered by a censer, mounted on beautifully carved bases made of keyaki wood to celebrate Japans entry into the modern era. Together, this triptych was the largest example of cloisonné enamel made through ... More | | 
Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of a Noblewoman, ca. 1580; Oil on canvas, 45 1/4 x 35 1/4 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay; Funding for the frame generously provided by the Texas State Committee; Photo by Lee Stalsworth.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents a major reinstallation of its collection galleries with an expansive array of paintings, photographs and sculptures, including recent acquisitions, rarely exhibited works and familiar favorites. The new installation features collection highlights that emphasize diversity and enhance connections between historical and contemporary art. Organized by six themesFamily Matters, Roots to Routes, Rebels with a Cause, Built to Order, Space Explorers and the Great Outdoorseach gallery examines subjects that engage women artists worldwide. A selection of recently announced gifts from the trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art are also displayed at NMWA for the first time, including Marisols The Large Family Group, Niki de Saint-Phalles Pregnant Nana and Kiki Smiths ... More |
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| | | Exhibition of new work by Altoon Sultan opens at McKenzie Fine Art | | Exhibition at David Zwirner examines Josef Albers's relationship to music | | Sperone Westwater opens an exhibition of new work by Emil Lukas | 
Red Yellow Blue, 2018, egg tempera on calfskin parchment stretched over wood panel, 10 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- McKenzie Fine Art announces an exhibition of new work by Altoon Sultan. This is the third solo exhibition at the gallery for the Brooklyn-born, Vermont-based artist, and will feature paintings, drawings, and painted porcelain relief sculptures. The show will open on Wednesday, January 9 with a reception for the artist from 6 to 8 p.m., and run through Sunday, February 10, 2019. In the three bodies of work in this exhibition, imagery derives from a common source: the artists own photographs of agricultural machinery taken at nearby farms in the rural part of Vermont where Sultan has lived since 1994. Sultan has long been attached to agriculture as a subject matter because of her interest in food production and the complex environmental issues that surround it. As an avid vegetable gardener herself, she also loves ... More | | 
Josef Albers, Treble Clef (G-Clef/Diskant VII), c. 1932 © 2018 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting Sonic Albers, an exhibition that examines Josef Alberss relationship to music, musical imagery, and sonic phenomena, on view at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location in New York. Organized in collaboration with The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the show provides a far-reaching look at this underexplored facet of the artists practice. It features a wide selection of paintings, glassworks, drawings, and ephemera from throughout Alberss career, including a number of the album covers he designed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. While he is recognized for his rigorously experimental investigations of color, spatial form, and visual experience, Albers often found analogies to and inspiration for his work in the compositional ... More | | 
Third Floor Installation View.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting new work by Emil Lukas. His fourth exhibition at the gallery is comprised of stacks, thread paintings, bubble wrap paintings and larvae paintings. Lukas work continues to demonstrate a keen interest in issues of perspective and process. The artists last exhibition at Sperone Westwater saw a return to the stack format, comprised of dozens of individual works layered one on top of the other to constitute the sculpture, which engaged him early in his career. In his newest stack works, he employs elements that suggest a continuous state of flux and becomingstructural fragments, rolls of larvainked paper, thread and tubing. Intended to be experienced as chaptersand documented as such in books made by the artistthe individual layers disassemble and on close inspection reveal more about the wide-ranging yet interrelated strains of Lukas ... More |
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An act of faith: Peaceable Kingdomby Edward Hicks
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 Lauren Applebaum awarded Leadership FellowshipTOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has awarded Lauren Applebaum the TMA Leadership Fellowship. Applebaum completed her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The recently established TMA Leadership Fellowship Program has been endowed with gifts from Scott and Margy Trumbull and the late Dorothy MacKenzie Price, and a challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr. Applebaums education and experience make her a great choice for the TMA Leadership Fellowship, said Lynn Miller, associate director at Toledo Museum of Art. We believe TMA will give her the opportunities that will allow her to use her past business and curatorial experience to continue to develop and excel as a museum leader. The goal of the fellowship program is to prepare and cultivate the next generation ... More Perrotin opens the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong of Claire TabouretHONG KONG.- Claire Tabouret sees her successive exhibitions as different acts in one and the same play. From one work to the next, from one exhibition to the next, a thread is being drawn, an underlying narrative is taking shape. In the group portraits that characterized a previous stage of her work, each character, as though frozen in a timeless pose, was the mute protagonist of a buried story. In her recent paintings and works on paper, the artist seems to be launching a new form of narration. A tighter, more concentrated narration, one might even say reduced to its essence: you, me the couple, whether fighting or embracing. Getting to the heart of the matter also means without beating about the bush, in the artists words tackling a theme that has been overinvested in the iconographic history of the couple and of love affairs. The first act of this story ... More German Jewish artist rediscovered after wartime persecutionNEW YORK, NY.- Fritz Ascher: Expressionist is the first-ever retrospective of an overlooked but significant German artist. Characterized by the Nazis as degenerate (along with other artists who were banned and persecuted), Fritz Ascher (18931970) survived two world wars, and then remained in Berlin where he lived and worked. In addition to painting and drawing, he turned to writing poetry later in life. Organized by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, Inc., the exhibition comprises some 75 paintings and works on paper, ranging from early academic studies and figural compositions to the artists late colorful, mystical landscapes devoid of human presence. Fritz Ascher: Expressionist will be on view at New York Universitys Grey Art Gallery from January 9 through April 6, 2019. Ascher developed his bold and colorful ... More Two rare portraits by José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza headline Crescent City auctionNEW ORLEANS, LA.- Two exceedingly rare oil on canvas portrait paintings by the Mexican-born Louisiana artist José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (1750-1802) will headline a major two-day auction slated for the weekend of January 19th and 20th by Crescent City Auction Gallery, online and in the gallery at 1330 St. Charles Avenue. Nearly 1,000 lots will be offered. The first painting (lot #330, to be sold on Day 1, Jan. 19) was rendered in New Orleans circa 1785-1795 and depicts Matias Francisco Alpuente y Ruiz (1750-1812), a member of the distinguished Caribiner Cavalry and the Financial Administrator of New Orleans, under Spanish rule. The work, measuring 36 ½ inches tall by 28 ½ inches wide, has a pre-sale estimate of $100,000-$150,000. The other portrait, to be offered immediately following, at lot #331, is either one of ... More Torch used at 1968 Olympic closing ceremony up for auctionNEW YORK (AFP).- A torch used by French wrestler Daniel Robin to light the Olympic cauldron for the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games closing ceremony is among the Olympic items on auction starting Thursday. Boston-based RR Auction will hold an auction of the items January 10-17, including an ice hockey gold medal from Grenoble, a 2016 Rio Olympic gold medal and a 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympics bronze medal. Robin, a 1967 world welterweight wrestling champion, took Olympic silver in freestyle and Greco-Roman disciplines at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. He died last May at age 74. The torch, among only 33 made for the Grenoble Olympics, was used by Robin at Le Stade de Glace on February 18, 1968, and features plaques with the Games emblem on the sides of the burner head. Robin, who owned the torch for the past half-century until his passing, ... More Beverly Fishman announces departure from Cranbrook Academy of ArtBLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- Cranbrook Academy of Art announced today that Beverly Fishman, Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Painting Department, will leave the Academy at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year. Fishman notified the Academy of her decision in December. Fishman was appointed Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Painting Department in July of 1992 and is currently in her 26th year of teaching at the Academy. For the 2019-2020 academic year, current Visiting Artists-in-Residence Martha Mysko and Willie Wayne Smith will return for the entire year. An international search for Fishmans permanent replacement will begin in the fall. Fishman holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Philadelphia College of Art, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. Prior to coming to Cranbrook, she held positions at Maryland ... More 'Say It Loud,' The John Silverstein Collection of African American social history to be offered at auctionDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions will present its first sale dedicated exclusively to African Americana on Jan. 15: "Say It Loud," The John Silverstein Collection of African American Social History. The auction includes a thoughtful and carefully curated selection of items that tell the sweeping story of the trials and triumphs of black life in America. The Silverstein Collection "is the most comprehensive and voluminous collection of photographs and related materials of its kind ever to be offered for sale at public auction in North America," writes Cheryl Finley, an Associate Professor Art History at Cornell University. "It is distinguished by its historical breadth, spanning the 19th century daguerreotype to the early 21st century digital prints, and its attention to black life in America through the lens of social political activism, especially of the 1960s and 1970s. ... More Queen of Nice's famed Negresco hotel dies at 95NICE (AFP).- The flamboyant owner of the seafront Negresco hotel in the French city of Nice has died at the age of 95, her guardian told AFP on Tuesday, plunging the future of the pink-domed Riviera landmark into uncertainty. Jeanne Augier, the heirless matriarch of the palatial Negresco which has dominated the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais for a century, died Monday night in the hotel she ran for over 60 years, her guardian Laurence Cina-Marro confirmed to AFP. Augier inherited the hotel from her father in 1957 and built it up into a favourite with the Cote d'Azur jetset. Its guests included Salvador Dali, the Beatles and Elton John, who featured the hotel in the video for his hit "I'm Still Standing". "The Negresco is above all a place where everything is possible, flamboyance served on a tray," it boasts on its website. The death of the queen of "Nice's ... More 1stdibs' Designer Survey reveals industry insights, trends for 2019NEW YORK, NY.- 1stdibs, the leading global destination for designers and collectors of beautiful things, revealed the results of its second annual Interior Designer Trends Survey, which focuses on interior styles that are expected to reign in 2019, those anticipated to decline in popularity, and industry insights. The survey, commissioned by 1stdibs and conducted by research firm Surveys & Forecasts, LLC, sampled the opinions of hundreds of top designers from around the world. Its important that we listen to the design communitywith particular focus on designers at the highest caliberto learn how tastes and preferences may be evolving, says Sarah Liebel, SVP and GM of Trade at 1stdibs. From there, we can identify how to best respond to those developments and continue to be a leading resource for the industry. Among the most ... More The Minot collection of African notes offered by Heritage at FUNDALLAS, TX.- The Minot Collection of rare African currency did three things right: It concentrated on key notes, it endeavored to purchase the best grades where possible, and it took a good look, amongst others, at African rarities. The stellar collection will highlight Heritage Auctions' World Currency Auction during the Florida United Numismatists Jan. 10-14. "Even though Africa is considered as the 'last frontier' within numismatics, it has made some strides of late, towards the right direction," said Dustin Johnston, Vice President of Currency Auctions. "The Minot Collection rightly recognized this. "African banknotes have it all," Johnston continues. "They are aesthetically pleasing while boasting some real scarcities with many overlooked as such. It is our opinion that this 'last frontier' it will not remain for much longer, as efforts such as the Minot ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, art collector Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was born January 09, 1875. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 - April 18, 1942) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostess, who was born into the wealthy Vanderbilt family and married into the Whitney family.
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