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Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983), Sculpture et Ceramics, 1973, artist's proof on Arches paper, pencil-signed by artist with additional notation H.C. Created as signature art for Miro exhibition at Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, June 1973. Size: 41½ by 31½ inches (framed), 33¾ by 23¾ inches sight. Provenance: Galerie Maeght (Paris), private US collection since 1988. Estimate $6,000-$12,000.
SOUTHAMPTON, PA.- Philadelphias booming real estate market has had a welcome peripheral effect on Stephensons auction business over the summer, with daily house calls being the norm. Its a sellers market, and many houses are selling right away. As a result, weve been called to many very nice homes to appraise and remove high-quality art and furnishings, said Stephensons Auctioneers owner, Cindy Stephenson. The fruits of those visits to elegant homes throughout the Mid-Atlantic region will be featured in a 500-lot live gallery auction on Friday, October 30. Bidders may also participate by phone, absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers. Social distancing and masks will be required both at the auction and preview. A beautiful selection of fine art awaits bidders, starting with a large and outstanding Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983) artwork titled "Sculpture et Ceramics." Miro created ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Join Artemis Gallery on Thu, Oct 29, 2020 10:00 AM CST for a special auction featuring artifacts and fine art from the continent of Asia - from Warring States to Western Asia, this auction will have something for everyone. In this image: Long Gandharan Schist Frieze 2 Buddhas, Attendants. Estimate $9,000 - $12,000.
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 | | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts acquires watershed work by Paul Sérusier | | One of the Great Books of Ireland returned by Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement | | Can fashion photography survive the pandemic? | 
Paul Sérusier, The Three-Pond Cottage at Le Pouldu, 1889 (detail). Collection of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced today that it has acquired The Three-Pond Cottage at Le Pouldu, an ambitious painting by Paul Sérusier (1864-1927), a pioneering Post-Impressionist who inspired the Nabis art movement and helped revolutionize 19th-century French art. During the summer of 1888 Sérusier, a student at the Académie Julian, a renowned private art school in Paris, traveled to Pont-Aven (Brittany, northwestern France), a small artist enclave where Paul Gauguin agreed to take him as an apprentice. Rejecting the approach of Impressionists who focused on the light, color and shading to give visual dimension to a subject, Gauguin had already begun to distill subjects to their essence, formed by bold, flat planes of color and contour lines, a style that came to be known as Cloisonnism. Gauguin also delved into Synthetism, a style which sought to explore and visually ... More | | 
Book contains some of the greatest masterpieces of medieval Irish literature.
CORK.- The Book of Lismore, created in the late 15th century, has been donated by the Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement to University College Cork. This major medieval manuscript, created at Kilbrittain, Co. Cork, in a golden age of Irish literature, is rightly considered as one of the Great Books of Ireland. Consisting of 198 large vellum folios, The Book of Lismore contains important texts, many drawn from Irish tradition and others, that are translations of contemporary European works. The Book reflects an Ireland that was deeply engaged with the contemporary European culture of the time. The owners of this major medieval Irish manuscript, the Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement, have made the decision to donate The Book of Lismore to UCC in recognition of academic and curatorial expertise at the university, and in appreciation of a very long and fruitful partnership between the Cavendish Family and UCC. The Book of Lismore has been in ... More | | 
Collier Schorr in her photography studio in New York, Feb. 11, 2014. Benedict Brink/The New York Times.
by Lou Stoppard
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the 1930s and 40s, when photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe took models out of the studio and onto location shooting them poolside for Harpers Bazaar, say she was making pictures about freedom, about womens changing role in society, about travel and leisure culture. In 1975, when Helmut Newton took his famous image of model Vibeke Knudsen in Yves Saint Laurents Le Smoking tuxedo, flanked by a nude female companion, he was capturing new ideas of sexuality and gender, lust and power. And today, when Collier Schorr focuses her lens on androgynous models for fashion houses and magazines, she is conveying a softer, contemporary way of thinking about self-expression, fantasy and desire. A fashion image is never just about clothes. For the last century, fashion photographers have celebrated ... More |
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| | After honing his painting skills as a soldier, an artist finds his voice | | How New York's small cinemas are hanging on | | Danish museum brings witch hunts to life | 
The artist Samir Khurshid in Portland, Ore., where he has lived since arriving as a refugee in 2010, Sept. 28, 2020. In Iraq, Khurshid had to paint portraits of Saddam Hussein in Oregon, hes still painting, and his former life makes its way into his work. Ricardo Nagaoka/The New York Times.
by Alex V. Cipolle
PORTLAND, ORE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In Baghdad, on March 9, 2000, at the age of 22, Samir Khurshid completed his final mandatory portrait of Saddam Hussein for the Iraqi military. He cannot recall exactly how many portraits he painted in all, but the number, he estimates, is in the hundreds. As far as Khurshid knows, not one of these portraits survived the fall of Husseins government in 2003. Khurshid says he even burned one himself. I feel terrible, but I did it, he recalled in an interview, flashing a wide smile. Now, 6,500 miles away in Portland, Khurshid, 42, still paints, creating tapestry-sized oil canvases featuring a freedom of content he never dreamed of as an artist in Iraq. His packed tableaus recall the frenzy of Hieronymus Bosch, bursting with elements that symbolize Khurshids former and current life: family allegories, critiques of militarizing youth and endless war and 9/11, American girlfriends, the purity and potential of ... More | | 
Karen Cooper, the director of Film Forum, outside the theater in New York, Oct. 24, 2020. Were only still alive because of the largess of our audience members and our board, said Cooper. Calla Kessler/The New York Times.
by Cara Buckley
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hollywood bromances, gay skin flicks, obscure art-house hits Nick Nicolaou has screened them all at the assorted New York City movie theaters he has owned in the last 38 years. Midway through April, with his four remaining theaters shuttered because of the coronavirus pandemic, he tried his hand at something new: virtual cinema, offering the documentary The Booksellers online. Audiences didnt exactly come in droves. His net proceeds came in a check for a whopping $4.99 that he hasnt bothered to cash. Nicolaou, whose theaters include Cinema Village, a tiny downtown art house, remains in an uneasy limbo along with the people behind indie cinemas like Film Forum, Anthology Film Archives and Nitehawk desperate for audiences to return, yet terrified of cinemas becoming petri dishes. On Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo allowed cinemas statewide to reopen, except in a few hot spots, one of them being New York City. Ticket sales over the weekend were strong in pl ... More | | 
The Wax Doll is displayed at the HEX!, a museum of Witch Hunt, on October 1, 2020 in Ribe, Denmark. Located in the home of a former witch hunter, the Hex! Museum of Witch Hunt sheds light on how a fear of witches led to persecutions that swept across Denmark and Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP.
by Camille Bas-Wohlert
RIBE (AFP).- The fire crackles and a woman shrieks as flames lick her body, burning her alive -- a museum in Denmark is bringing the dark period of witch-hunting to life. Located in the home of a former witch hunter, the "Hex! Museum of Witch Hunt" in the town of Ribe sheds light on how a fear of witches led to persecutions that swept across Denmark and Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. While today's Danish kids happily dress up as witches and wizards for Halloween, Denmark at the time was a religious and superstitious Lutheran society where fear and distrust were often intertwined with the secret use of magic to keep God's wrath at bay. Across Europe, approximately 100,000 people went on trial for witchcraft, with as many as 50,000 burned, museum historian Louise Hauberg Lindgaard told AFP. Denmark sentenced 1,000 people to death for witchcraft which, she said, "is quite a lot" given the country's population ... More |
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| | East Germany's love affair with Angela Davis | | Artist Chris Santa Maria debuts "PRESIDENT TRUMP" (2016 - 2020) | | Bertoia's to auction fine antique toys, trains & holiday antiques, Nov. 12-13 | 
Melvin Edwards, Samora (For Samora Machel), 1986. Stahlskulptur, 33 x 23 x 20,5 cm © Melvin Edwards / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020, courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.
by Kimberly Bradley
DRESDEN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Philosopher, feminist and Black liberation activist Angela Davis is everywhere right now. In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests around the world, TV networks, magazines and newspapers have turned to her, drawing on her decades of activism and scholarship to explain the current moment. But its not her first turn as a household name: In the early 1970s, Davis was a global intellectual star, especially behind the Iron Curtain, and, perhaps surprisingly, in East Germany in particular. 1 Million Roses for Angela Davis, a dense, heady exhibition running through Jan. 24 at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau in Dresden, takes Davis cult status in East Germany as a starting point. The show combines documentary and archival ... More | | 
Chris Santa Maria, PRESIDENT TRUMP (2016 2020). Paper collage on canvas, 72 x 72 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Chris Santa Maria debuted a monumental collage work PRESIDENT TRUMP (2016 2020) taking over the window on 10th Avenue and 23rd Street at Jim Kempner Fine Art. At once a document encapsulating the unprecedented media environment surrounding the turbulence of Donald Trumps four years as president, the large scale collage is also a performance reflecting on how we consume news and imagery that simultaneously repulses and compels. The work will be on view through November 7, 2020. In 2016 like many people, I was disturbed by the election of Donald Trump and began the collage as a way to work through my own fascination and revulsion at the situation we found ourselves in as Americans, states Santa Maria. The work has been an ongoing 4-year process charting the whiplash pace of scandals, misdeeds and lies of Donald Trumps presidency. ... More | | 
Circa-1905 Steiff cone-nosed teddy bear, rich golden mohair with black shoe-button eyes, 28in high. Estimate $10,000-$15,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- All year long, collectors wait for Bertoias Annual Fall Auction to be announced, and for good reason. Its unfailing reputation for quality and rarity makes it one of the premier highlights on any toy, train, doorstop or holiday buyers calendar. This years edition is bigger and better than ever before, with irresistible last-minute consignments arriving just in the nick of time to make the catalog publishing deadline. We were ready to wrap up the catalog to send to the printers, but then shipments of toys came through the door that were so exceptional, we knew we had to take the extra time to get them into this sale, said Michael Bertoia, president of Bertoia Auctions. An all-star lineup awaits bidders taking part in the two-day event, starting with the world-class Bob Merck Halloween collection. A longtime collector whose name is well known in ... More |
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| | Italian mid-century design leads Phillip's London auction | | Rare items signed by Marilyn Monroe, George Washington & Napoleon Bonaparte headline auction | | Marc Chagall's show-stopping curtain offered at Bonhams New York | 
Gio Ponti, Prototype Mariposa sofa, designed for the XI Milan Triennale, circa 1957. Vinyl, brass, painted brass. 80 x 167 x 89.5 cm. Produced by Cassina, Meda, Italy. Estimate £70,000 - 90,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips announced highlights ahead of the London Design sale on 12 November. This sale presents a carefully curated selection of works celebrating design in its many forms and featuring significant pieces from key periods of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Italian Mid-Century Design, French Modernism and Contemporary through to Nordic Design and Modern Ceramics. Domenico Raimondo, Head of Design, Europe and Senior International Specialist, said: We are thrilled to present our November auction highlights, led by a series of exceptional examples of mid-century Italian Design. This sale celebrates pivotal moments in the history of 20th and 21st century design, showcasing how certain forms are perfected throughout an architect, designer or artists career. The present selection explores those career trajectories, emphasising critical moments through significant and rare ... More | | 
Black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe signed and inscribed to Joe (possibly Joe DiMaggio), unusually large at 11 inches by 14 inches (est. $20,000-$25,000).
WESTPORT, CONN.- A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe signed and inscribed to Joe (possibly Joe DiMaggio), a one-page letter written in 1796 and signed by George Washington on the eve of his retirement, and 25 lots relating to Napoleon Bonaparte (mostly from an important single-owner collection) are all part of University Archives next online-only auction slated for Wednesday, November 11th. The auction will begin at 10:30 am Eastern time. The full catalog, showing all 289 lots, is up for bidding and viewing now, at the newly revamped University Archives website, as well as the online platforms LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The sale contains rare and highly collectible items from multiple specialty categories. These include presidential (Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, JFK, both Adams, FDR and Teddy Roosevelt, others); early American (Benja ... More | | 
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Stage curtain for Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' (Finale). Created with the collaboration of Volodia Odinokov. Casein, aniline and gold-leaf on linen, 258 x 816 in (655.3 x 2072 cm). Designed, created and painted by Marc Chagall in 1966-67; Executed and painted by Volodia Odinokov in 1967. Estimate: $250,000-450,000. © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Many great artists have been fascinated by the world of the stage. Pablo Picasso, David Hockney and Marc Chagall to name a few have all designed sets and costumes for major opera and ballet productions in some of the worlds greatest auditoria Chagall went one step further, of course, famously decorating the ceiling of the Palais Garnier, home of the Paris Ballet. A stage curtain designed, created and painted by Marc Chagall for the Metropolitan Operas 1967 production of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' comes to Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York on Tuesday 17 November. It has an estimate of $250,000-450,000. Chagall (1887-1985) was aged 77 when in September 1964, he met with Rudolf Bing, director of New York's Metropolitan ... More |
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 ART X Lagos postponed due to #EndSARS protests in NigeriaLAGOS.- ART X Collective, the company behind West Africas premier international art fair ART X Lagos, has decided to postpone its 2020 edition after serious consideration of the ongoing civil unrest in Nigeria, and out of respect for the lives lost in the recent #EndSARS protests. The decision to postpone the fair - originally scheduled for 6-15 November - was made after thorough consultation with gallerists, collectors, partners, and stakeholders. ART X Lagos new dates will be confirmed in the coming weeks. Tokini Peterside, Founder & CEO of ART X Collective, said: Although we have taken the decision to postpone this years fair until a later date in 2020, our dedication to championing the excellence, creativity and resilience of artists from Africa and the Diaspora remains unchanged. 2020 has been a year of awakening - from the turmoil ... More High Museum appoints new curator of African art, Lauren Tate BaezaATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art today announced the appointment of Lauren Tate Baeza as its Fred and Rita Richman curator of African art. Baeza, who is the director of exhibitions at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, brings a wide range of experience as a curator and Africanist working with museums and international aid organizations. She will join the High on November 9. Laurens depth of experience in not only museums but also community organizations focused on education and outreach, and her considerable accomplishments as a curator, scholar and leader, make her uniquely positioned to guide the future of our African art department, said Rand Suffolk, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., director of the High. We look forward to working with her to further our efforts to build a robust exhibition program and ... More Cauleen Smith named recipient of 2020 Wein Artist PrizeNEW YORK, NY.- In conjunction with The Studio Museum in Harlems annual Gala campaign, Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden announced that Los Angeles-based artist Cauleen Smith has been selected as the winner of the fifteenth annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize. Established in 2006 by jazz impresario, musician, and philanthropist George Wein to honor his late wife, Joyce Alexander (19282005), a long-time Trustee of the Studio Museum, the Prize honors the achievements of an African-American artist who demonstrates great innovation, promise, and creativity and bears a cash prize of $50,000. A multidisciplinary artist rooted in mid-twentieth-century experimental film, Cauleen Smith describes her work as reflecting on the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Her first solo New York City exhibition, Mutualities, ... More Susan Hendl, ballet master and dancer, dies at 73NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Susan Hendl, a dancer and longtime teacher at New York City Ballet, who staged works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins and inspired generations of dancers, died on Oct. 12 in New York. She was 73. Her death, at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, was from renal failure, said Ellen Sorrin, the director of the George Balanchine Trust. Hendl joined City Ballet in 1963 and was promoted to soloist in 1972. Her first principal role with the company was in 1970, as the Strip Tease girl in Balanchines Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. (She danced with an unabashed enthusiasm, the critic Don McDonagh wrote in The New York Times.) Before retiring from the stage in 1983, Hendl danced in numerous Balanchine and Robbins ballets. Balanchine created roles for her in Who Cares? (1970), Coppélia ... More Art advisor duo Alexandra Ray and Catherine Loewe present 'The Eye of the Huntress' at Le Petit TrianonLONDON.- International art advisor duo Alexandra Ray and Catherine Loewe announced the launch of a new quarterly online exhibition series The Eye of the Huntress on Tuesday 20 October with their inaugural group exhibition titled Le Petit Trianon. The first exhibition includes works by Agostino Bonalumi, Conrad Shawcross, Davina Semo, Enrico Castellani, Hans Op De Beeck, Jim Lambie, Kate McGwire, Katy Grannan, Lothar Gotz, Richard Patterson, Davina Semo, Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz and Zak Ové. Combining Ray and Loewes impressive art market insight with their visionary expertise in interior design and collecting, The Eye of The Huntress is a trailblazing new exhibition series dedicated to showcasing works by some of the worlds most exciting contemporary artists in spectacular architectural spaces recreated by using ... More Clare Kobasa joins the Saint Louis Art Museum as assistant curatorST. LOUIS, MO.- Clare Kobasa recently joined the Saint Louis Art Museum as assistant curator of prints, drawings and photographs. Kobasa also will manage the museums Print Study Room, where students, scholars and members of the public can make appointments for free viewings of more than 14,000 works on paper in the collection. Clare brings a wealth of relevant experience and curiosity to the position, said Elizabeth Wyckoff, curator of prints, drawings and photographs. We look forward her fruitful collaborations with colleagues throughout the Museum and with the many visitors to the Print Study Room. Kobasa recently completed a two-year appointment as the Suzanne Andrée Curatorial Fellow in Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she helped run the museums study ... More Navajo blanket could bring $50K+ at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A Navajo Man's Wearing Blanket could vie for top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions' Ethnographic Art Auction Nov. 20, an event buoyed by two elite private collections. "This is an exceptionally well-rounded sale," Heritage Auctions Ethnographic Art Director Delia Sullivan said. "We have a strong selection of Plains beadwork, Pueblo pottery, Pre-Columbian gold, jade and high-end textiles, many from an outstanding New York collection. There are numerous opportunities here for collectors of all levels and all tastes." The Navajo Man's Wearing Blanket Second Phase Chief's Pattern (estimate: $30,000-50,000) is a Late-Classic weaving, circa 1870. Created with native handspun and raveled wool, indigo, aniline and cochineal dyes, the lot is accompanied by two dye tests. The event includes more than 250 lots from the Collection ... More Art Brussels launches Art AntwerpANTWERP.- Art Brussels announces the launch of a new fair in Antwerp, Art Antwerp, a regional contemporary art fair of approximately 60 galleries, taking place from Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 December 2020 at Antwerp Expo. Just like when visiting a gallery, Art Antwerp will allow you to view art in situ. Art lovers are extremely keen to engage with art despite the context of the Covid-19 virus. From this point of departure and to support the regional art market, Art Brussels is launching this new initiative in full compliance with the security measures imposed by the Belgian government. Art Antwerp is already enthusiastically welcomed among contemporary art professionals. Given the current circumstances, the fair will be organised on a smaller scale with most exhibitors hailing from Belgium and its surrounding countries.Its no coincidence ... More Clark Art Institute names Sarah Grandin as Clark-Getty FellowWILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute announces the appointment of Sarah Grandin to a newly created position as the Clark-Getty Curatorial Fellow. The Clark is one of a select group of international museums to receive a grant through The Paper Project, a Getty Foundation initiative aimed at providing training and professional development for early- to mid-career works-on-paper curators. Grandins appointment provides a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, during which she will assist in the development of a planned 202223 exhibition of eighteenth-century French drawings in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France. In addition to working on this ambitious exhibition, organizing a related Study Day, and contributing to the accompanying catalogue, Grandin will play a key role in the work of the Clarks Manton Study Center for Works ... More Balboa Art Conservation Center names new Executive DirectorSAN DIEGO, CA.- The Balboa Art Conservation Center, the western regions premier and only nonprofit art conservation center, announced that it has hired cultural heritage champion and experienced arts administrator Leticia Gomez Franco as its next Executive Director. She will start in early December. I am incredibly honored and humbled to lead BACC as its new Executive Director and committed to the possibilities in this new position, Gomez Franco said. Conservation centers play a pivotal role in ensuring the objects that make up our historical cultural inheritance survive the times. Let us dare to reimagine our role as more than caretakers of objects, but also of the stories they keep, the societies they represent, and the people they exclude. Let this be the moment we shift along with the world into the uncharted territory ... More Say My Name, presented by US filmmaker Ava DuVernay opens today at Signature African ArtLONDON.- Signature African Art presents Say My Name, two exhibitions of works curated by Khalil Akar and presented by acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay in London from 27 October 2020 and in Los Angeles in February 2021. Say My Name resonates with the Black Lives Matter movement through new works which celebrate influential figures and moments in Black history in the UK and the USA. The exhibitions coincide with Black History Month in both countries. Featuring portrait paintings and sculpture, Say My Name aims to connect African artists with the histories of the Diaspora in Europe and America. The exhibition in London features 13 African artists and honours the names of Black lives which have been lost at the hands of the police, including George Floyd. His last words are portrayed by Nigerian artist Oluwole Omofemi, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Andre Masson died October 28, 1987. André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 - 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Masson drew the cover of the first issue of Georges Bataille's review, Acéphale, in 1936, and participated in all its issues until 1939. His stepbrother, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, was the last private owner of Gustave Courbet's provocative painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World); Lacan asked Masson to paint a surrealist variant. In this image: Artist Roy Lichtenstein has applied his trademark benday dots to the cover of a limited edition 1985 Taittinger champagne, center. At left is a bottle designed by Victor Vasarely and on the right one by Andre Masson. All are part of the "Art in Wine'' exhibit in Brussels' Credit Communal gallery.
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