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This file photo taken on March 21, 2017 shows a woman looking at Andromede, a marble sculpture by late French sculptor Auguste Rodin at the Artcurial in Paris. A white marble sculpture by late French sculptor Auguste Rodin representing an Ethiopian princess "Andromede" nude and asleep on a rock has been auctioned 3,6 million euros on May 30, 2017, at the Artcurial auction house in Paris. GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Auguste Rodin's white marble sculpture of the mythical Ethiopian princess "Andromede" fetched nearly 3.7 million euros ($4.1 million) at a Paris auction Tuesday, well above the top estimated price of 1.2 million euros. The rediscovered masterpiece -- created in 1886-1887 and depicting the daughter of Ethiopian King Cepheus nude and asleep on a rock -- was sold by the Artcurial auction house just as Paris is marking the centenary of Rodin's death. An exhibit of more than 200 of his works and those of artists he influenced is showing at the Grand Palais in the French capital until the end of July. In 1888, Rodin presented the work to Carlos Morla Vicuna, a Chilean diplomat living in Paris at the time, as a gift, said Bruno Jaubert, Artcurial's director of the impressionist and modern art department. It has been in the Vicuna's family ever since. "For 130 years she stayed in this family of diplomats de ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French President Emmanuel Macron (R) speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) in the Galerie des Batailles (Gallery of Battles) as they arrive for a joint press conference following their meeting at the Versailles Palace, near Paris, on May 29, 2017. French President Emmanuel Macron hosts Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in their first meeting since he came to office with differences on Ukraine and Syria clearly visible. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / POOL / AFP
| Dallas Museum of Art opens "Visions of America: Three Centuries of Prints from the National Gallery of Art" | | The Maria Fitzherbert Jewel To Star In Christie's Classic Week Exceptional Sale | | Modern & Post-War British Art at Sotheby's London to star important works by Hockney & Hepworth | 
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DALLAS, TX.- Prints are designed to circulate and reach wide audiences; they are to painting and sculpture what the Internet is to the book or printed newspaper. They are capable of being a fundamentally disruptive medium, wrote the Washington Post. On view at the Dallas Museum of Art and remaining on view through September 3, Visions of America: Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art presents an exploration of more than 150 outstanding prints, featuring more than 100 notable artists from Paul Revere to John James Audubon, and from Andy Warhol to the Guerrilla Girls. The exhibition, organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, is the first major museum survey of American prints in more than 30 years. The DMA is the final venue of a four-city international tour for this remarkable exhibition that critics have described as historically riveting . . . full of the drama of American life and his ... More | | 
The Maria Fitzherbert Jewel. Estimate: £80,000-120,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- On 6 July 2017, Christies will offer The Maria Fitzherbert Jewel in The Exceptional Sale as part of Christies Classic Week. The gold locket, which contains a portrait miniature of King George IV by the celebrated artist Richard Cosway, is one half of a pair. The other locket contained an image of the Kings secret and illegal wife, Maria Fitzherbert and was worn by the King on his deathbed, before being buried with him at Windsor Castle. The surviving half of the pair, The Maria Fitzherbert Jewel (estimate: £80,000-120,000), has passed down through descent directly from Maria Fitzherbert and offers an important insight into this most private relationship. The pair of miniatures were each contained within diamond-set lockets and faced with sections cut from a diamond, known as a portrait diamond. When Maria died seven years after the King she was holding a portrait ... More | | 
Dame Barbara Hepworth, Standing Figure, 1934 (est. £500,000-800,000). Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin and Peter Blake were all part of the same stellar generation of British artists as well as lifelong friends with Blake and Hodgkin even visiting Hockney in Los Angeles in 1979. This drawing is a study for one of David Hockneys most iconic paintings, Study for Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) which features on the cover of the catalogue for the current David Hockney retrospective at Tate Britain. Completed in 1972 following the devastating end of a fiveyear relationship with his first-love Peter Schlesinger, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) shows a fullydressed Schlesinger standing at the edge of the pool gazing at a submerged figure swimming underwater. Originally derived from the accidental juxtaposition of two photographs on his studio floor, the work reveals the parallel intimacy and distance between the ... More |
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| Sir Elton John's Emily Kngwarreye painting leads Bonhams' June sale | | Palace of Versailles and the Hermitage Museum collaborate on Peter the Great exhibition | | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture acquires jazz legend Sonny Rollins' personal archive | 
Emily Kngwarreye, My Country, 1993 (detail). Photo: Bonhams.
SYDNEY.- An Emily Kngwarreye painting owned by Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish will lead Bonhams auction of Important Australian and Aboriginal Art in Sydney on June 6. The impressive work, which is almost four metres wide, has been in the collection of Sir Elton and Mr Furnish for two decades and was featured in a major touring exhibition almost a decade ago. My Country, 1993 depicts the abundant summer flora of Kngwarreyes traditional lands at Alhalker, on the north-western edge of Utopia, with the vivid yellows, ochres and pinks representing the blossoms, seeds and pencil yams of the artists birthplace. In 2008, My Country was one of the major works included in Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, which toured to Japans National Museum of Art in Osaka and the National Art Center in Tokyo before showing at the National Museum of Australia ... More | | 
Jean-Marc Nattier, Pierre Ier de Russie, 1717 huile sur toile. Saint- Pétersbourg, musée d'Etat de l'Ermitage © Musée de l'Ermitage, Saint-Petersbourg.
PARIS.- The exhibition called «Peter the Great, a Tsar in France. 1717» is on display in the Grand Trianon from 30 May to 24 September 2017. It is dedicated to Tsar Peter the Greats trip in and around Paris in May and June 1717, and commemorates the 300th anniversary of this diplomatic visit. The fruit of exceptional collaboration between the Palace of Versailles and the Hermitage Museum, the exhibition presents over 150 works including paintings, sculptures, decorative artworks and tapestries, as well as plans, medallions, scientific instruments, books and manuscripts, two thirds of which belong to the collections of the prestigious museum in Saint Petersburg. A member of the house of Romanov and son of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich (1645-1676) and Nataliya Naryshkina (1651 1694), Peter I (1672-1725) embarked on a second ... More | | 
Sonny Rollins. Photo: Chuck Stewart.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library today announced the acquisition of American tenor saxophonist and jazz legend Sonny Rollins personal archive. The robust collection includes more than 150 linear feet of material that document Rollins life and career from the 1950s to the present. This acquisition also marks the Harlem natives return to the neighborhood of his youth. Rollins was profoundly influenced and inspired by the sights and sounds of the Harlem Renaissance and its pioneers, including Duke Ellington and Louis Jordan, who shaped modern music and Rollins creative life. Well, Im home again. Home, where I absorbed the rich culture which was all around me. Where, on 137th Street, two blocks from the Schomburg, I was born in 1930, Sonny Rollins said. This archive reveals my life in music, how someone principally self-taught becam ... More |
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| Centre of Innovation and Design opens exhibition of works by Japanese collective nendo | | Buddhist art preview opens on Friday, June 3, at Gianguan, NYC | | A royal acquisition for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | 
nendo, Scatter Shelf, 2011. Photo: Friedman Benda © Masayuki Hayashi.
HORNU.- Following its debut exhibition in 2003, the nendo phenomenon has developed at an astounding pace. Under the guidance of Oki Sato, the Japanese collective has continued to impress us through the coherence and power of its vocabulary, its design that is imbued with simple, Japanese lines and given a twist not devoid of humour. Weather it is creating furniture, objects, accessories, eating utensils or interiors and architectures, nendo responds to the most broad-ranging projects with the same natural rigour, charged with enormous inherent poetry. Now aged 39, Oki Sato has enthusiastically accepted the Centre of Innovation and Design, Grand-Hornus invitation and for four months takes over all the interior and exterior spaces: stables, the hay store, atrium, north wing, the square courtyard and the oval courtyard
His exhibition forms an exclusive creation, devised in close relationship with the location. This is a ... More | | 
Qing, gilt bronze Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. 14" tall. Lot 155. Gianguan Auctions. June 10.
NEW YORK, NY.- Buddhist sculptures, which hold a commanding niche at the core of Asian art, come to the podium at Gianguan Auctions on Saturday, July 10. The gallery at 39 W. 56th Street opens its preview on Friday, June 3, giving collectors ample time to study the works. The earliest statue is a Northern Wei (386-535AD) stone Bodhisattva in an unusual seated asana with crossed ankles and hands in mudras fear not and charity. Backed by a mandorla, positioned atop a base flanked by lions, the 11 tall, mottled figure with some remaining pigment captures the sculptural style of the Wei period. It is Lot 148, valued at $40,000 or above. Two hundred years later, during the Northern Qi (550-557 AD) period, an anonymous artist carved a marble statue of a slender standing Buddha in a frontal stance. The spare, columnar posture is marked by a curved profile, and the long robe is crafted with parallel U-shaped folds. T ... More | | 
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Modello for the Portrait of Louis XIV in Royal Ceremonial Robes, 1701. Oil on canvas, 55 x 45 cm.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has just acquired a remarkable work: the modello, or painted sketch, for the famous Portrait of Louis XIV in Royal Ceremonial Robes by Hyacinthe Rigaud (Musée du Louvre, Paris). We are pleased that we were able to acquire this iconic painting on the art market. It is the modello for one of the most famous portraits in the history of Western art, said Nathalie Bondil, the MMFAs Director General and Chief Curator. Often copied and even imitated, the painting is the origin of a rich iconographic lineage in the history of state portraiture. It is an important addition to our collection of historical international art, since Louis XIV enabled New France to evolve from a trading outpost to a populated settlement. Hilliard T. Goldfarb, Senior Curator of Old Masters, had this to say about the work: The canvas is in very good condition ... More |
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| Comprehensive retrospective of Carolee Schneemann's work opens in Frankfurt | | Greek shipbuilding and seafaring from antiquity to modern times explored at Museum Herakleidon | | RM Sotheby's and Ferrari set stage for most significant single-marque sale in auction history | 
Carolee Schneemann: Flange 6rpm, 2011-2013. Courtesy Carolee Schneemann, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, Hales Gallery, London, Galerie Lelong, Paris and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Photo: Axel Schneider.
FRANKFURT.- Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939), who in May 2017 was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale, went down in art history as a pioneer of performance art. In cooperation with the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main is now presenting a comprehensive retrospective of the American artists work. Along with other protagonists of the 1960s New York City art world, Schneemann questioned the boundaries of traditional artistic disciplines as well as their overall cultural context. In the process, she arrived at intriguingly new and challenging forms of a visionary, multidisciplinary art. Spanning the entire six-decades of the artists career, the exhibition will introduce the genealogy of a painting approach that literally entered into motion and led to a number of significant ... More | | 
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ATHENS.- The exhibition Voyage: Greek Shipbuilding and Seafaring from antiquity to modern times is being extended through August 27th, 2017. Voyage presents the history of Greek seafaring in the Aegean and the Mediterranean from prehistoric times to the middle of the 20th century. A history of maritime voyages, achievements in naval architecture, exchange of ideas and technological developments, through about 40 handmade wooden models of Greek ships of excellent, detailed construction with authentic materials, based on naval architectural drawings, following traditional methods. The creator of these models is Dimitris Maras, M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and model shipbuilder, who has studied in depth the shipbuilding history of Greece, as well as the construction of ship models. The painter-printmaker Mary Schina, associate professor of the Printmaking department of the Athens School of Fine Arts, is participating in this exhibition with selected works from her series "Aegaeis", ... More | | 
The iconic 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa (TR) which smashed records to sell for 9,020,000 at RM Sotheby's Ferrari Leggenda e Passione sale in 2009. Photo: Courtesy RM Sotheby's (3)
BLENHEIM, ON.- RM Sothebys announced an historic sale held in partnership with one of the most revered marques the world over: Ferrari. The sale takes place during Ferraris 70th anniversary year, an extraordinary achievement in automotive history, and a major milestone in the marques rich heritage that will hold the attention of the global motoring community throughout 2017. The collaboration will see RM Sothebysthe clear leader in the market for Ferraris at auctionjoin in the international year-long 70th anniversary celebrations. RM has successfully sold more examples than any other auction house, and proudly holds the record for four of the top 10 most valuable Ferraris ever offered for public sale. RM Sothebys and Ferrari have come together on numerous occasions in the past, including the 2007-2009 record-setting Leggenda e Passione auctions ... More |
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 Original painting by Peter Max up for bid in Qart.com fine art auction ending June 4thLOS ANGELES, CA.- An original acrylic painting on canvas by the Pop Art icon Peter Max, titled Flowers, hand-signed by the artist and housed in a custom frame, is on auction at Qart.com, a full online art gallery that also runs auctions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Flowers is up for bid in an auction that ends on Sunday, June 4th. Works like this can sell for $85,000 in high-end galleries. The bright and vivid colors in Flowers are typical of Peter Maxs style, which he once described as cosmic imagery. Born in Germany in 1938 (full name, Peter Max Finkelstein), Max is still active today and living in New York City. Hes best known for his wildly colorful, psychedelic artworks that synthesized the Summer of Love in 1967, making Peter Max a household name. Flowers measures 44 ½ inches by 56 ½ inches (in the frame) and comes with a certificate of authenticity from ... More Vero Beach Museum announces new curatorVERO BEACH, FLA.- After conducting a national search, the Vero Beach Museum of Art announced that Danielle Johnson has been appointed Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art effective July 10, 2017. Dr. Johnson is currently teaching in New York Universitys Department of Art History. From 2011-2015 she was Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. At MoMA, she worked on the landmark exhibition, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938. Anne Umland, The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, stated, Danielle Johnson was a stellar partner on MoMA's 2013 Magritte exhibition; her in-depth expertise, energy and enthusiasm made the project the best it could possibly be. Johnson holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Art from the Institute ... More Art Nouveau to Andy Warhol: Graphic design shines at Swann GalleriesNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries May 25 auction of Graphic Design offered a cornucopia of inspired design spanning fin de siècle Art Nouveau masters to psychedelic concert posters. The top lot of the sale was Col Van Heusen, 1928, one of the most elegant, Cubist-style designs created by Charles Loupot. The strikingly colored work, which was intended to advertise mens collars, displays some of the richest inking seen in the artists work; it sold for $50,000*, far exceeding its pre-sale high estimate of $30,000. Works by Loupot performed well overall, with several claiming places in the top lots. The verdant 1923 advertisement for Voisin Automobiles reached $30,000, while his 1919 poster for Sato / Cigarettes Egyptiennes went to a collector for $7,500. Several works reached new heights at auction, most notably Ludwig Hohlweins charming life-size image of a baby ... More Exhibition captures the urban environment of the Greater Vancouver regionVANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery is presenting Pictures From Here. Featuring photographs and video works from the early 1960s to the present that capture the urban environment of the Greater Vancouver region, its citizens and the vast natural landscape of the province, Pictures From Here engages with the histories that shape our different perceptions of this place. A number of the works, including Jeff Walls Monologue (2013), Rodney Grahams Paddler at the Mouth of the Seymour (201213), Sandra Semchuk and James Nicholas Taking Off Skins (1994) and 26 Street Scan Photographs (1969-1996) by Christos Dikeakos will be on display for the first time in Vancouver. Artists in the exhibition include Roy Arden, Karin Buba, Stan Douglas, Christos Dikeakos, Greg Girard, Rodney Graham, Mike Grill, Arni Haraldsson, Fred Herzog, Barrie Jones, Evan ... More Heritage Auctions adds 20th century and contemporary design expert Brent LewisBEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Heritage Auctions has hired Brent Lewis, an art and design specialist based in Los Angeles, as Director of Design. He will begin immediately in Heritages Beverly Hills office. Brent has worked in the art and design community the majority of his professional career. His passion for mid-century and post-war design as well as his auction house experience will be a huge asset for Heritage, said Ed Beardsley, Vice President of Heritage Auctions. While Brent will be based in Beverly Hills, he is happy to view collections around the world and will regularly visit our offices in New York, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco and Palm Beach. Lewis has spent over 15 years in the auction business, working with both East and West Coast firms as a specialist and auctioneer. In this role at Heritage, he will oversee the department of 20th Century and Contemporary Design, ... More Exhibition brings together works by Phyllida Barlow, Michael Armitage and JMW Turner MARGATE.- Every Day is a New Day asks that we start from scratch and look at the world differently. A celebration of the capacity of arts to pioneer change, challenge perceptions and embolden society. It includes work by Phyllida Barlow, Michael Armitage and JMW Turner shown alongside teachers and pupils from Kent, Medway and Kenya. Phyllida Barlow has been making large-scale sculptural works for 5 decades, as well as being an inspirational teacher to many young artists at the Slade School of Art. Barlow is renowned for her experimental use of materials such as plywood, scrimp, concrete and polystyrene to create seemingly precarious sculptures and installations that invade the gallery space. This exhibition brings together works from the ARTIST ROOMS collection, alongside other sculptures and a selection of drawings from throughout ... More Frieze Artist Award 2017: Kiluanji Kia HendaNEW YORK, NY.- Frieze announced Kiluanji Kia Henda as the winner of the 2017 Frieze Artist Award. From 48 October, Kia Henda will realize a new installation at Frieze London as part of Frieze Projects, the fairs celebrated nonprofit programme, curated by Raphael Gygax. Frieze Projects and the Frieze Artist Award are supported by the LUMA Foundation. Following an open call, artist applications were received from more than 82 countries. Kia Hendas proposal was selected by the jury including Cory Arcangel (artist), Eva Birkenstock (Director, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf ), Tom Eccles (Executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York) and Raphael Gygax (Curator, Frieze Projects & Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich), chaired by Jo Stella-Sawicka (Artistic Director, Frieze Fairs). ... More Exceptional results at Bonhams Hong Kong Chinese Ceramics and Early Jade SalesHONG KONG.- Bonhams Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Sale, and the Sale of The Songzhutang Collection of Early Jades, both held in Hong Kong on 30 May, made an astonishing joint total of HK$92,738,750 (US$11,900,000). The top performing piece in the Fine Chinese Ceramics Sale, which made HK$68,177,500 (US$8,750,000) overall, was the exceptionally rare pair of Imperial blue and white 'Bajixiang' moonflasks, bianhu, Qianlong seal marks and of the period. They were sold for HK$28,540,000 (US$3,660,000) against an estimate of HK$ 20,000,000 30,000,000 (US$2,570,000 US$3,850,000). In a packed auction room, the moonflasks attracted frenzied bidding from global collectors before being hammered down to a bidder from mainland China in the room. Other highlights of the Fine Chinese Ceramics Sale included: An exceedingly rare pair ... More Historic preservation award given to Fradkin & McAlpin Architects NEW YORK, NY.- New York Citys Fradkin & McAlpin Architects has received a 2017 Preservation Award from the Chatham Historical Society in Chatham, MA. The award recognizes the firms work on a Chatham property belonging to the family of David McAlpin, a principal at Fradkin & McAlpin. The award was presented at a ceremony on May 21, 2017, at The Wayside Inn in Chatham. The goals of the project, the restoration and expansion of an early 20th century free-standing garage and apartment at 191-193 Bridge Street, was threefold. First, to create a design to preserve the early 20th-century garage in keeping with the understated old Cape Cod character of historic Chatham. Second, to accommodate year-round use. Third, to expand accommodations for a fourth generation of McAlpins. The new 1,000-square-foot cottage achieves ... More Harry Moore-Gwyn to host selling exhibition at Olympia of works on paper by Sir George ClausenLONDON.- To coincide with their return to the 45th Art & Antiques Fair Olympia from June 26th July 2nd Harry Moore-Gwyn Fine Art Ltd will be selling over 20 works on paper by Sir George Clausen, some previously unseen. It will comprise landscape pastels and watercolours, figure and portrait studies, still lifes and sketches for larger works. The dealer discovered works done by the artist for his late mural commission for St Stephens Hall in the Palace of Westminster. Prices will range from under £1,000 to over £8,000. The catalogue will be available from a week or so before the fair and the works will be available for sale on the stand. Harry Moore-Gwyn said of the works, 'Whilst his work on paper has always been highly sought-after, making as much as £500,000 at auction (for a pastel drawing of a girl in 2010), the majority of his landscapes, figure studies and sketches ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Walter Sickert was born May 31, 1860. Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 ? 22 January 1942) was an English painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the 20th century. In this image: Brighton Pierrots (1915)
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