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A historic night at Christie's in New York as the 19th & 20th Century Art Evening Sale, the first sale in the series from the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, totaled $646,133,594 / £476,148,559 / ?541,380,911, exceeding the collection estimate by $100 million.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The sale of the art collection amassed by the late banker David Rockefeller kicked off Tuesday, setting new auction records for French artists Claude Monet and Henri Matisse, Christie's said. Monet's "Nympheas en fleur," part of the impressionist's famed water-lily series inspired by his Giverny home, fetched $84.69 million at the evening sale in New York, the auction house said. The previous record for the Frenchman had been $81.4 million, set by Christie's in 2016 for "Meule" from Monet's famous grainstack series. Tuesday's sale also set a new auction record for Henri Matisse, with his 1923 "Odalisque couchee aux magnolias" selling for $80.75 million, Christie's said. The previous Matisse record was $49 million. But the top lot of the night was Picasso's 1905 masterpiece "Fillette a la corbeille fleurie" ("Young Girl With a Flower Basket") which sold for $115 million, over its pre-sale value of $100 million. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sican Copper Hammered Mask. Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Sican/Lambayeque culture, ca. 10th to 11th century CE. An incredible mask made of hammered copper, with small pierced holes around the edges for affixing it. Estimate $12,000 - $15,000.
| Georg Baselitz to be first living artist to have major show at Accademia in Venice | | Sotheby's to offer works from one of the most exceptional collections of Scottish Colourist works in private ownership | | Fashion priestesses get holy at New York Met Gala | 
Georg Baselitz © Georg Baselitz 2018.
VENICE.- A major exhibition by the internationally acclaimed artist Georg Baselitz will be the first show to be presented by a living artist in the exhibition galleries at the Gallerie dell' Accademia in Venice opening in May 2019, during the 58th Venice Art Biennale. Curated by Professor Kosme de Barañano and conceived specifically for the museum, the exhibition will include paintings, drawings and sculptures from the artists remarkable sixty-year career. Georg Baselitz said: "I am delighted to have been asked to present my work at the Gallerie dellAccademia in Venice next year. I have known the city and museum well for many years and I look forward to working with Kosme de Barañano to present a show that we hope will offer something different." Kosme de Barañano said: "Georg Baselitz is one of the most significant artists of the second part of the 20th century. He establishes the critique of painting not by stripping it bare, but rather by attacking the convention itself. We a ... More | | 
Samuel John Peploe, The House in the Woods , oil on panel, Estimate £70,000-100,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- This summer, Sothebys will offer at auction one of the most exceptional collections of Scottish Colourist works in private ownership. Featuring some of the finest Colourist paintings by George Leslie Hunter, Samuel John Peploe, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell and John Duncan Fergusson, The Harrison Collection was formed in the 1920s and 1930s by Major Ion Harrison, an important patron and close friend of the artists. Comprising 31 works, the group of paintings, watercolours and drawings will be presented in a single-owner sale in London on 12 June 2018, as part of Sothebys Modern British Art Week. Passed down through the family, the works remained together at Croft House, Major Harrisons home where he openly welcomed the Colourists. Thomas Podd, Sothebys Scottish Art Specialist, commented: Visiting Croft House for the first time was an experience that will live long in the memory. Crossing the ... More | | 
Salma Hayek attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images/AFP
NEW YORK (AFP).- Madonna and Rihanna stunned as fashion high priestesses on the red carpet at New York's Met Gala on Monday, headlining the most sought after invitation in the celebrity universe. Madge, the Catholic girl from Michigan and queen of pop whose 1989 hit "Like a Prayer" remains a dance-floor classic 30 years later, presided over the "Sunday Best" theme dressed head to toe in Jean Paul Gaultier. The 59-year-old mother of six balanced a golden crown studded with crucifixes on her head, shrouded her face in a black fishnet mantilla and donned a very flouncy, very full and very black gown. Held every year on the first Monday in May, the black-tie extravaganza is the chief source of income for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, reportedly raising more than $12 million in 2017. The gathering of A-list models, musicians and movie stars, ... More |
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| Artcurial announces highlights of the Archaeology, Middle East and Pre-Columbian Art sale | | Eli Wilner & Company creates a frame for a Tamayo at Sotheby's | | 13 Rockwells to lead Sotheby's American Art Auction on 23 May | 
Black granite Stele of Vizir Paser, Egypt. New Empire, 19th Dynasty. Estimate: $18,500-22,200.
PARIS.- The Archaeology and Oriental Art auction, hosted by Artcurial on 22nd May 2018 will introduce an exceptional and diverse selection of archaeological and art pieces: Mediterranean glassware, bronzes and sculptures from the Antiquity to the 19th century, Persian and Arabic manuscripts and Indian miniatures. Close to 300 lots will be introduced at auction. The auction will begin with a chapter dedicated to archaeology, Oriental and Classical antiquities, such as a marble Roman womans head from the 2nd century (estimate 60,000 70,000 / $74,000 87,000) or the stele statue of Vizir Paser in black granite (estimate: 15,000 - 18 000 / $18,500 22,200). The second chapter will be devoted to Islamic and Indian art, while the last chapter will introduce several Belgian and French private collections, including the second part of the Germaine Wenziner collection. The first half was ... More | | 
Rufino Tamayo, Perro ladrando a la luna, 1942, 44 1/4 by 33 3/4 inches. Frame price: $38,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Master framers Eli Wilner & Company has created a frame for a Rufino Tamayo painting, Perro aullando a la Luna, 1942, that will be included in Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 14 May, 2018. The framed painting was previously displayed in Sotheby's traveling highlights exhibition and is now on view in the pre-sale exhibition at Sothebys New York. This Tamayo painting could be the highest priced Latin American artwork sold at an auction, the current record holder being the artists Troubadour, created in 1945, selling for $7.2 million at Christies in 2008. With an estimated selling point of $5-7 million, Perro aullando a la Luna has the potential to set a new record. The frame was created by Eli Wilner & Company at the request of Sothebys Latin American department. In order to have the best color and wood option for the frame, Eli Wilner created both digital mock-ups and stained wood ... More | | 
Thomas Moran, A Showery Day, Grand Canyon. Oil on canvas, 25 by 20 inches. Estimate $800/1.2 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that their annual spring auction of American Art will be held in New York on 23 May 2018. Led by 13 works by Norman Rockwell from all periods of the artists decades-long career, the sale features 120+ lots that are together estimated at more than $40 million. The auction also includes exceptional examples by Frederic Edwin Church, N.C. Wyeth, Milton Avery, Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran many of which are from distinguished private collections and are coming to auction for the very first time. The exhibition opens to the public on 19 May, with a selection of highlights on view from 4 May. Leading the selection of works by Norman Rockwell is Blacksmiths Boy Heel and Toe (Shaftsbury Blacksmith Shop), sold to benefit the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (estimate $7/10 million). Commissioned for a 1940 The ... More |
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| Germany auctions ruins of vital WWII bridge | | Julien's Auctions to offer property from the Estate of Jerry Lewis | | Erik Thomsen Gallery opens exhibition of Post-War Japanese calligraphy | 
Two towers of the destroyed Bridge at Remagen are pictured on May 7, 2018 in Erpel near Remagen and Bonn, western Germany. Thomas Frey / dpa / AFP.
FRANKFURT AM MAIN (AFP).- German authorities are selling part of the remains of the "Bridge at Remagen" -- a World War II bridgehead into the country immortalised by a 1969 US film -- in a one-of-a-kind auction. "There are already a few people interested" in the towers that once flanked the bridge's eastern end, spokesman for the BEV railway authority Juergen Rothe told DPA news agency Monday. The BEV advertises the building as a "monumental bridge structure with military historical significance stretching beyond the local region" on its website. Christened the Ludendorff bridge after a famous World War I field marshal when it was built in 1918, the crossing took on vital strategic importance towards the end of World War II in early 1945. Allied forces rushed to capture it as a route across the broad Rhine river and into Germany's industrial heartland, ... More | | 
A custom made tweed burgundy suit worn by Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor (Paramount, 1963).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions, the worldrecord breaking auction house, will celebrate the life and career of the late "King of Comedy" in Property from the Estate of Jerry Lewis, an exclusive presentation of the legendary entertainer as part of their two day Hollywood Legends auction event with day one featuring Jerry Lewis on June 22nd and historical items by other Hollywood stars (to be announced later) on June 23rd live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegashis longtime home and the city where he made his mark as one of Las Vegas greatest nightclub performersand online on juliensauctions.com Comedian, actor, singer, humanitarian, film director, film producer and screenwriter, Jerry Lewis was one of Hollywoods greatest comic geniuses and a pop culture icon revered by millions around the world. Born March 16, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, into a vaudeville family, Lewis made his stage debut at ... More | | 
Yuichi Inoue (1916-1985), Fune (Boat), 1982. Ink on paper. Image size 55 3/4 x 60 3/4 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Erik Thomsen Gallery is presenting Post-War Japanese Calligraphy, featuring major works by two leading masters: Yuichi Inoue (1916-85) and Shiryu Morita (1912-98). Morita's sprawling, powerful forms crystallize the actions used in their execution, while Inoue's emotive single-character works preserve the linguistic essence of sho (calligraphy), treading an expressive line between text and pure abstraction. Yūichi's early experiments were shown in New York six decades ago in the summer of 1954, when the Museum of Modern Art mounted the exhibition Japanese Calligraphy. 40 years later Yūichi's searing masterpiece Ah, Yokokawa National School (1978), a work inspired by the horrors of wartime bombing, provoked comparison with Picasso's Guernica when it was included in the exhibition Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, curated by Alexandra Munroe and held at the Guggenheim ... More |
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| Gagosian opens "Ancestors," new paintings by Jenny Saville | | Thomas J. Putnam named Executive Director of the Concord Museum | | Freeman's to offer 18 works from the Bachman Collection | 
Jenny Saville, Vis and Ramin II, 2018 (detail), oil on canvas, 76 1/2 à 128 1/2 inches (194.3 à 326.4 cm) © Jenny Saville. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- In her paintings and drawings, Saville transcends the boundaries of both classical figuration and modern abstraction in her depiction of the human form. Her work reveals a deep awareness, both intellectual and sensory, of how the body has been represented over time and across culturesfrom fertility goddesses and antique and Hindu sculpture, to Renaissance drawing and painting, to the work of modern artists such as Henri Matisse, Willem de Kooning, and Pablo Picasso. In this exhibition, Saville depicts the body from the perspective of classical sculpture. The immense canvases recall archetypes from religion and mythology, such as the pietà and the Fates. Saville has always been fascinated by the visceral palpability of the human body. In 1994 she spent time observing a plastic surgeon at work, in order to study the construction of human flesh, in much the same way as Renaissance ... More | | 
Putnam is currently serving as the Director of Education and Public Programs at the National Archives and Records Administration.
CONCORD, MASS.- The Concord Museum Board of Governors has named Thomas J. Putnam the Museums new Edward W. Kane Executive Director. Putnam will begin his position on June 4, 2018, which follows Margaret R. Burkes recent retirement after seven years of leadership. Tom is an accomplished museum leader, educator, and visionary and we are very excited to welcome him as the new director of this treasured institution, stated Ralph Earle, Vice President of the Board of Governors and chair of the search committee, who conducted a nationwide search directed by Phillips Oppenheim. Putnam is currently serving as the Director of Education and Public Programs at the National Archives and Records Administration. In 2017, he served as the Director of Presidential Libraries and managed the nations modern presidential library system including the 14 federally-managed libraries from Herbert ... More | | 
Hans Hofmann, Phantasie in Red. Estimate:$20,000-30,000.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On June 4, Freemans will host 18 Works from the Bachman Collection, a thoughtfully curated group of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the Boca Raton Estate of Gilbert and Lee Bachman. Gilbert Bachman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1926, and went on to study Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He joined Dittler Brothers, a printing company, in 1948, and eventually became the Chairman and CEO before selling the company in 1983. Lee Gilner was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929, where she attended Girls High School before enrolling in the University of Tennessee. The couple married in 1950, and spent much of their lives in Atlanta, before moving to Florida after their children were grown. The Bachmans eventually compiled a collection of modern art that included major works by Hans Hofmann, Louise Nevelson, Willem de Kooning, and Fernando Botero. The couple were also active in several nonprofits ... More |
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 Seven paintings by William Bouguereau lead Sotheby's European Art Auction in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced their annual spring auction of European Art in New York on 22 May 2018. Led by seven paintings by William Bouguereau, the auction will offer 88 exceptional works that showcase the diversity of the collecting category. The sale also includes exceptional examples by Ãmile Renouf, Albert Edelfelt and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot many of which are from distinguished private collections and resurfacing at auction for the first time in over a century. The exhibition opens to the public on 19 May, alongside the exhibitions of American Art, Master Paintings and Important Design. The May auction will include seven works by William Bouguereau, including La bourrique (The Pony-back ride) from 1884, which is being sold to benefit the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (estimate $2/3 million). Painted during the height ... More $149K Man Ray sets record at Swann Graphic Design AuctionNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries auction of Graphic Design on May 3 offered vintage posters that defined the styles of the twentieth century. In a highly-curated selection of just over 250 lots, the highlight was Man Rays iconic poster for the London Underground, which reached a record $149,000. Done in the surrealist masters iconic rayographic style, the asymmetrical poster equated the reliability with the nascent tube system with the timeless regularity of the solar system. It was the worlds most expensive travel poster from June of 2007, when it sold for $100,906 at Christies, until 2012, when a poster by A.M. Cassandre sold at Swann Galleries for $162,500. The work was originally part of a pair of identical posters, with its complement reading London Transport. The two posters are not known to have appeared together at auction. Additional auction records ... More Tiffany Studios lamps expected to draw spotlight at Heritage Auctions' Tiffany, Lalique & Art Glass AuctionDALLAS, TX.- A collection of fresh-to-market lots from old collections will be among the highlights in Heritage Auctions' Tiffany, Lalique & Art Glass including Art Deco & Art Nouveau Auction May 16 in Dallas, Texas. "Heritage Auctions established a tradition of Spring and Fall auctions in this category a few years ago, and the May 16 auction does not disappoint," Heritage Auctions Vice President of Special Collections Nick Dawes said. "The property in this auction has not seen the market in decades." A Louisville, Kentucky estate produced five Tiffany lamps, including Tiffany Studios Leaded Glass Red Poppy Bronze Table Lamp (est. $50,000-70,000) and a Tiffany Studios Leaded Glass Banded Poinsettia Bronze Table Lamp (est. $25,000-35,000). Most of the other Tiffany lamps, including a Tiffany Studios Leaded Glass and Bronze Daffodil Table Lamp ... More Belgian singer dies just days after making comebackBRUSSELS (AFP).- Popular Belgian singer Maurane has died at the age of 57, just days after returning to the stage following an absence of more than two years, prompting an outpouring of emotion from the French-speaking music world. Maurane, real name Claudine Luypaerts, was found dead at home in Brussels around 8:00pm (1800 GMT) on Monday, according to the Belgian federal prosecutor's office. It said it had begun an investigation but that foul play was not suspected. Maurane shot to fame in the late 1980s in the sci-fi rock opera "Starmania" and had a string of French-language hits before putting her career on hold in 2015 because of problems with her vocal cords, according to Belgian news agency Belga. She announced a return to performing last week and took to the stage at an open-air festival in Brussels at the weekend, singing hits by legendary ... More Vleeshal opens a solo exhibition by Andrea Ãva GyöriMIDDELBURG.- Vleeshal is presenting Traumatized Lemon, a solo exhibition by Andrea Ãva Győri (1985, Hungary). The original opening, scheduled for April 14, was postponed to April 28, 2018 due to the artists unexpected hospitalization. This is the first institutional solo presentation of Győris work in the Netherlands. Győris practice is marked by an in-depth examination into the human body and mind. What do we know about our bodies? What do we share? In 2012, the artist started a shower tour, asking people for a possibility to shower in their place as she didnt have a shower in her own flat. As a reward, the shower host could document her showering. For the last Manifesta in 2016, she teamed up with a sex therapist, with whom she explored the female orgasm. I am especially interested in the female orgasm, the artist writes in her recent publication Vibration Highway ... More Solo show of botanical collages by American artist Jane Hammond opens at Lyndsey IngramLONDON.- Lyndsey Ingram presents the first London solo show of botanical collages by American artist, Jane Hammond (b. 1950), who combines printmaking techniques with painting, photography, found objects and digital elements to create one-of-a-kind large-scale collages that explore the infinite complexity of the natural and man-made worlds. Timed to coincide with the Chelsea Flower Show and the Chelsea Fringe Festival, this exhibition of new work showcases Hammonds modern and disruptive approach to the historic tradition of botanical prints and the science of horticulture. Instead of seeking to record and classify plants, the artist creates imaginary tableaux: Everything I make is a cocktail of fact and fiction of things found out in the world, things I invent, and hybrids of the two. Some of Hammonds botanical collages contain specific themes. For ... More Exhibition at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg explores Art Deco graphic design from ParisHAMBURG.- The term Art Deco is used to describe a style of decorative art popular between the heyday of Art Nouveau and the emergence of the International Style in the 1950s, roughly contemporaneous with the radical forms of avant-garde artistic expression exemplified by De Stijl, the Russian avant-garde, and the Bauhaus. The origins can be traced to Paris circa 1910. After 1930, Art Deco diverged in various directions. It was subsumed by the pompous neoclassicism of the 1930s, for example in Fascist architecture in Italy, and it survived in the USA until the 1950s in bakelite radios and plastic handbags. The name was derived from the 1925 world exhibition of applied arts in Paris: Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes. The very words Art Deco summon images of opulent curved forms, exquisite furniture, costly fabrics, and ... More Luhring Augustine opens an exhibition of new sculptures by the artist Oscar TuazonNEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine is presenting an exhibition of new sculptures by the Los Angeles based artist Oscar Tuazon, his first solo show since the gallery announced the artists representation in 2017. Tuazon identifies primarily as a sculptor, though his practice occupies a position between architecture and activism. His large-scale sculptural installations consist of structures that foreground their own means of construction, most notably through his use of industrial materials. Minimalist strategies inform Tuazons work, yet his concerns revolve around relationality and presence over purity in form. He considers a sculptural installation as being homologous to a house, as both are continuously built, repaired, and maintained. By extension, the act of inhabiting or occupying a space functions as a kind of artistic production, serving as the undercurrent of his ... More Exhibition at Metro Pictures presents more than fifty drawings by Camille HenrotNEW YORK, NY.- Camille Henrot presents more than fifty drawings in Born, Never Asked, curated by Kathy Noble for Metro Picturess upstairs gallery. The selection of drawings from her series Tropics of Love (2010- ), Bad Dad (2015-2017), The Narcissist (2015-2017), and the eponymous Born, Never Asked (2017- ) underscores her ever-developing exploration of power dynamics on both personal and social levels. The works interweave the external systems that influence the structure of our liveslike politics and religionwith the unconscious internal world of dreams and fantasies. Conventional ideas of dominance and subjugation unravel in Henrots depictions of psychically charged or graphically sexual scenes in which, as Noble writes in an essay for the shows accompanying booklet, characters morph in and out of each otherthey are never one gender, ... More Artcurial sale to feature three decades of United States urban culturePARIS.- On May 16th, Artcurial will host C.R.E.A.M., a unique and pioneering retrospective auction looking back onto 3 decades of urban culture in the United States. This event will only be revealed one week prior to the public exhibition and ten days prior to the auction. Through the prism of the works of art and inescapable destiny of the Supreme brand, Artcurial, already a precursor in Urban Art promotion throughout the international art market, is considering the emergence of urban culture as an artistic and fundamental societal factor in the recent evolution of western societies. «Now a worldwide manifestation, urban culture was developed in the United States representing art (with artists such as Kaws or Barry Mc Gee), music, fashion, skateboard and countless every day, now cult objects. In 30 years, icons of this new creative universe have invaded ... More Designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby open exhibition at the Josée Bienvenu Gallery in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- London-based designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby present their new exhibition, One by One, a collection of ceramics, graphite drawings and watercolours. The show marks their first exhibition with the Josée Bienvenu Gallery in New York. The exhibition is focused on a group of ceramics and the collection has roots in experimentation. Barber and Osgerby tested clays and glazed a few years ago while designing a collection of tableware in 2015. This experimentation inspired Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby to produce this exhibition. We were testing clays and glazes a couple of years ago whilst developing a collection of tableware and we were struck by the imprecision of the process. Clay reacts unpredictably especially when fused with glazes. Much of our work as industrial designers is concerned with control and perfection in manufacture, ... More Woody Auction to offer the collection of antique porcelain from the late John and Lavaun Headlee CollectionDOUGLASS, KAN.- Part 1 of the lifetime collection of R.S. Prussia antique porcelain from the late John and Lavaun Headlee of Illinois nearly all the pieces in the rare cobalt blue color will be sold at public auction on Saturday, May 26th, by Woody Auction, in the firms new Douglass gallery located at 130 East Third Street, starting at 9:30 am Central time. It will be an absolute auction, with no reserves. The Headlees were beloved members of the R.S. Prussia Collectors Club, and word quickly spread that their 40-year collection focused almost exclusively on cobalt blue examples. An auction with just ten percent cobalt blue pieces is special, but the Headlee collection and this is just Part 1 features over 99 percent cobalt blue in this exquisite sale, said Jason Woody of Woody Auction, based in Douglass. Mr. Woody added, Not only the color, but the condition ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Victorian painter James Collinson was born May 09, 1825. James Collinson (9 May 1825 - 24 January 1881) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850. In this image: Mother and Child by a Stile, with Culver Cliff, Isle of Wight, in the Distance, 1849-50.
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