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The auctioneer takes bids for the sale of David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) during the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale November 15, 2018 at Christie's in New York. David Hockneys Famed Pool Scene Sells for $90.3 M. at Christies, New Record for Work by Living Artist at Auction. Don EMMERT / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- An iconic swimming pool picture painted by British legend David Hockney sold for $90.3 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new auction record for a living artist, Christie's said. "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" was snapped up after more than nine minutes of bidding, dominated by two rival telephone bidders. The previous record was held by Jeff Koons and his "Balloon Dog (Orange)," which sold for $58.4 million at Christie's in 2013. It was standing room only in the packed sales room at Christie's in New York, where a smattering of applause broke out when the sale concluded, the painting hammering for $80 million. The buyer's premium took the final price to $90,312,500, the auction house announced. Christie's had estimated the 1972 oil painting at $80 million and called the Hockney "one of the great ma ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day American contemporary artist, Ron English, (wearing hat) purchased a Jean-Michel Basquiat for 87,500 US dollars at the Julien's Auctions "Street & Contemporary Art Auction" November 14, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. Mr English also purchased Banksy's seminal protest artwork "Slave Labour", pictured, for 730,000 US dollars - the highest bid of the night. Mr English says he will paint over the Jean-Michel Basquiat and white wash the Bansky, the two he just purchased. He is pictured beside the newly acquired Banksy art. Photo by Barbara Davidson/Getty Images)
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| | | December auctions at Koller Zurich feature works by Nolde, Vallotton, Soulages and new online only sales | | Banksy's Slave Labour sold for $730,000 to artist Ron English at Julien's Auctions | | Sotheby's Milan announces highlights included in the Modern and Contemporary art sale |
Emil Nolde (Nolde 1867 - 1956 Seebüll), Doppelbild (Sie seltsames Licht). 1918. Oil on canvas. 60.6 x 56.2 cm. 500 000 / 750 000.
ZURICH.- The Swiss Art auction at Koller Zurich on 7 December will feature an overview of Swiss landscape painting from the 19th to 20th centuries. Switzerlands mountain meadows, lakes and majestic peaks are presented in widely diverse techniques and styles, from 19th-century classic views by Robert Zünd and Auguste Louis Veillon, to a landscape with willow trees by Ferdinand Hodler, to early-to-mid-20th century works by Augusto and Giovanni Giacometti, and Gottardo Segantini. Two views of sunsets over lakes by Felix Vallotton and Adolf Dietrich (Coucher de soleil jaune et vert, 1911, and Abendstimmung am Untersee,1926) are particularly interesting examples of two modern artists working independently and yet finding similar artistic solutions. Both artists delineated the subject in two distinct zones, ... More | |
The black and white aerosol on concrete piece, embellished with plastic flags was executed by the elusive provocateur in May 2012 on the outer wall of a Poundland discount store in Wood Green, London.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions held its fall Street & Contemporary Art auction last night November 14, 2018 live at the Standard Oil Building in Beverly Hills in front of an energized audience of collectors and bidders live on the floor, online and on the phone. One of the most talked about pieces Slave Labour (Bunting Boy) created by one of the most talked about street artists in the world, Banksy, sold for an astounding $730,000 to American contemporary artist Ron English. The black and white aerosol on concrete piece, embellished with plastic flags was executed by the elusive provocateur in May 2012 on the outer wall of a Poundland discount store in Wood Green, London. One of the most publicized and poignant examples of Banksys social commentary, Slave Labour ... More | |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1981. Est: 300.000-400.000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
MILAN.- This years second appointment with Modern and Contemporary art at Sotheby's Milan follows the April sale which achieved the Italian record for a 1967 Concetto Spaziale by Lucio Fontana ( 2,409,000). The Milan Evening sale will feature around 40 lots, led by an historical work by Afro. Exhibited in 1955 at the Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York, known for its promotion of the Italian Arte Informale on the international market, La persiana 2 is a 1954 painting from the artists most creative New York years. The work was showcased at Palazzo Reale, Milan, in 1992 and has an estimate of 180.000 - 250.000. From a Roman private collection are two works by Alberto Burri: Sportello, 1955 (est. 100,000 - 150,000) and a 1961 Combustione (est. 200.000 - 300.000). Next, Burris Bianco Plastica (est. 500.00 - 700.000) is unique in size and subject when compared ... More |
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| | | Kapwani Kiwanga wins 2018 Sobey Art Award | | Häusler Contemporary Zürich opens an exhibition of new work by painter David Reed | | Uruguayan poet, 95, wins top Spanish literary award |
Kapwani Kiwanga courtesy of National Gallery of Canada. Photo by miv photography.
OTTAWA.- Kapwani Kiwanga, representing the Ontario region, is the winner of the 2018 Sobey Art Award, confirming her position as a rising star in the Canadian contemporary art scene. The award was announced at the annual Sobey Art Award gala held Wednesday evening at the National Gallery of Canada. Upon receiving the award from Ursula Johnson, last years winner, Kapwani Kiwanga said: The Sobey Art Award is a humbling encouragement to continue to make work that asks us to look anew at society and its past while allowing us to imagine unbounded possibilities. The award affords me the opportunity to create conditions which will allow me to focus more intently on my work and push it further in the years to come. I am honoured to be included amongst this group of talented artists whose strong voices remind us of art's potential to both move and challenge. I am thankful to all those who have believed, encouraged, supported, ... More | |
David Reed, #696 20162018 Acrylic on polyester 193 x 27.9 cm / 76 x 11 inches. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Häusler Contemporary.
ZURICH.- Häusler Contemporary Zürich is presenting «Im trying to get closer but Im still a million miles from you», an exhibition of new work by renowned painter David Reed. This is the artists second solo exhibition with the Zurich gallery. Since the 1970s, David Reed (*1946, San Diego, US, lives in New York, US) has developed and built upon his particular painterly vocabulary and today remains a leading proponent of abstraction. Working in a labor-intensive, multi-layered process, Reed explores the continued relevance of painting in the contemporary digital landscape. The paintings combine influences from Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Pop Art with his interests in Renaissance and Baroque painting and a passion for film. The dozen new paintings created specifically for this occasion draw from three bodies of work. In a series of long, narrow horizontal paintings, ... More | |
In this file photo taken on September 10, 2018 Uruguayan poet Ida Vitale is pictured during an interview with AFP at her home in Montevideo. Pablo PORCIUNCULA BRUNE / AFP.
MADRID (AFP).- Uruguayan poet Ida Vitale, 95, on Thursday won the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world, Spain's Culture Minister Jose Guirao announced. Born in 1923, Vitale is the last surviving member of a Uruguayan art movement known as the "Generation of 45" and currently lives in the United States. Spain established the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, named after the famous author of 'Don Quixote', in 1975. It is considered to be "the most prestigious and remunerative award given for Spanish-language literature" by the Encyclopedia Britannica. The jury said Vitale was awarded the prize for her poetry, literary criticisms and translations, adding that her language was "one of the most remarkable and well-known in Spanish poetry, at the same time intellectual and accessible, ... More |
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| | | San Antonio Museum of Art opens re-imagined Texas Art installation in expanded gallery | | Christie's Paris Design Sale achieves a total of €5,395,000 | | New Orleans Museum of Art opens reimagined Decorative Arts Galleries |
In the Garden, En el Jardin, José Arpa y Perea, ca. 1931, Oil on canvas, 52 3/4 x 59 1/2 in. (134 x 151.1 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The Museums Texas Art collection is now in expanded gallery space on the Third Floor of the Museums East Tower. This new installation offers a fresh perspective and wider view of Texas art. Paintings by such iconic Texas artists as Julian Onderdonk and José Arpa y Perea are placed in the context of notable works from Texas abstract artists, artists influenced by surrealism, self-taught artists and craftsman, and significant pieces of decorative art. The new gallery has allowed space for a complement of nineteenth-century furniture as well, including armoires and an unusual day bed. These works of early Texas furniture, made in various locations throughout the state, were given to the Museum in the early 1990s by the legendary Houstonian collector Faith P. Bybee and have not been on view in decades. Texas Art has been at the forefront of developments in artistic practice, and our holdings reveal the ... More | |
Claude Lalanne, Fauteuil Crocodile, modèle réalisé en 2016 © Christies images limited.
PARIS.- The Design sale has, this season again, attracted international collectors achieving a total of 5,395,000 with sell-through rates of 88% by value and 83% by lot. Leading the sale was a section dedicated to Jean Dunand (1877-1942) composed of 24 lots which combined a total of 2,435,250. Estimates have more than tripled such as for the Vase à Ailettes which sold for 415,500 against a presale estimate of 150,000-200,000 and for the panel Femme et mouton acquired for 367,500 (estimated at 100,000-150,000). Flavien Gaillard, Head of Sale commented : The strong results realised tonight demonstrate that global collectors are continuously eager to acquire fresh to the market works of art. We are especially delighted about the results achieved by the section dedicated to Jean Dunand. The collectors payed a beautiful tribute to this talented artist with a combined total of 2,4M for the 24 lots offered, including the remarkable by size Conquête du C ... More | |
Christopher Dresser (English, 1834 1904), Minton & Co. (England, Stoke-onTrent), Garniture vase, c. 1878. Porcelain, parcelgilt; 10 1/4 x 4 in. New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum purchase, William McDonald Boles and Eva Carol Boles Fund, 95.417.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The Lupin Foundation Center for Decorative Arts on the second floor of the New Orleans Museum of Art has reopened with a new installation drawn from the permanent collection, and for the first time includes modern and contemporary design. This reimagined permanent installation highlights connections between society and design, craft and manufacture, and fine art and functional household items. We are thrilled to present vibrant decorative arts galleries that showcase art and design across a variety of materials and centuries, including, for the first time, 20th century contemporary design, said Susan Taylor, NOMAs Montine McDaniel Freeman Director. The newly reinstalled Lupin Galleries showcase a chronology of the Decorative Arts, beginning with 18th-century Rococo and Neoclassical furniture, paintings, silver, glass and ceramics, including ... More |
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| | | The Irish Museum of Modern Art announces Annie Fletcher as new Director | | Exhibition of iconic 1980s music photography by Peter Ashworth opens at Lever Gallery | | Rare Henry Moore masterpiece achieves £3.25M at Bonhams |
Ms Fletcher joins IMMA from the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands where she is Chief Curator.
DUBLIN.- IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, has this morning announced Annie Fletcher as its new Director. Ms Fletcher joins IMMA from the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands where she is Chief Curator. A noted international curator, Annie Fletcher has extensive leadership experience in the contemporary arts. In addition to her role as Chief Curator at Van Abbemuseum she is a tutor at de Appel, Amsterdam, the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and the Design Academy Eindhoven, and regularly worked with art institutions around the world including the SALT Istanbul, New Museum, New York, and LInternationale network and De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam. In 2012 she was Curator of Irelands Contemporary Art biennale EVA International and is regularly called upon to sit on major International juries, including the Turner Prize in 2014 and the selection committee for the Irish Pavilion ... More | |
Peter Ashworth, Annie Lennox, Touch, Eurythmics.
LONDON.- The Lever Gallery hosts, mavericks the work of legendary photographer Peter Ashworth in his first solo London exhibition. Ashworth created some of the most memorable images of 1980s icons. He photographed Soft Cell, Eurythmics, Blancmange, The The, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Adam Ant, Tina Turner, Julian Cope, and The Clash, to name but a few, for album sleeves and magazine covers. The album sleeve was the much-analysed visual focus of fans attention. It was critical to how the group and music were perceived. In some cases, it became synonymous with the image of the group or star. Take for example Ashworths portrait of Annie Lennox for the Eurythmics album Touch'. Ashworths skill was to capture the character of his subjects whilst setting them in meticulously detailed, colourful and rich backgrounds. His depth of knowledge matched with his urge to create resulted in work both fantastical and challen ... More | |
Mask by Henry Moore. Sold for: £3,248,750 against estimate of £1,000,000 - 1,500,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Mask, an extremely rare sculpture by Henry Moore (1898-1986), sold for £3,248,750 at Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art sale in London today, Wednesday 14 November. Estimated at £1,000,000-1,500,000, it was being offered for sale for the first time for more than 80 years, and had never before appeared at auction. It is the most valuable 1920s sculpture by a British artist sold at auction. The 84-lot sale made a total of £5,456,875. Bonhams Director of Modern British and Irish Art, Matthew Bradbury said, This is an excellent result for arguably the most visually appealing and beautiful example from the Mask series that Moore executed between 1924 and 1930. With three determined bidders in the room and on the phone, it was among the most closely fought contests I can remember a tribute to the exceptional quality of the piece, and to the great demand for Moores carved ... More |
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Rare original Russell Flint illustration expected to make $15,000 at auction
NEW YORK, NY.- This original gouache and watercolour illustration by Sir William Russell Flint is just one of 20 created for the landmark publication The Odyssey of Homer, published in 1925 by The Medici Society. To be offered for sale in Swann Auction Galleries Illustration Art Auction on December 6 in New York, it depicts the Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, at her loom awaiting his return from his ten-year travels. As the tale recalls, Penelope kept her many suitors at bay by telling them that she would not choose from among them until she had finished weaving the intricate burial shroud shown here for Odysseuss father, Laertes. Secretly, each night she would unravel part of her days work to ensure that the job was never done. Here, Russell Flint also depicts her maidservant, Melantho, who eventually betrays Penelopes secret to her suitors. Signed ... More
Country guitarist, 'Hee Haw' host Roy Clark dead at 85
CHICAGO, IL.- Country music star Roy Clark, who was the host of long-running US television variety show "Hee Haw," died Thursday of complications from pneumonia at his Oklahoma home, his publicist said. He was 85. Clark, a guitar virtuoso who became an ambassador for country music at home and abroad, was a Grammy winner and a member of the Grand Ole Opry, the premiere showcase for the genre in Nashville. In 1976, he toured the Soviet Union -- all venues were sold out. "Folks there said we wouldn't realize in our lifetime the good we'd accomplished, just because of our pickin' around," Clark once said, according to a statement released by his publicist. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009 and won seven Country Music Association (CMA) awards during his decades-long career. "My first CMA memory is sitting ... More
Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction totals $362.6 million │ 97% sold
NEW YORK, NY.- Grégoire Billaut, Head of Sothebys Contemporary Art Department in New York, said: Tonights results were among the best we have ever achieved, and reinforced the strong and consistent market we have experienced throughout the fall. From a record Contemporary Curated sale in September to our best online sale to-date and a 100%-sold Day Auction in Hong Kong, the market continues to grow across price levels. We saw a depth of bidding throughout the sale from buyers around the globe, and achieved great records for some very deserving names. Our goal is always to deliver for our consignors, and we did just that with an exceptional sell-through rate. David Galperin, Head of Sothebys Evening Auctions of Contemporary Art in New York, said: We were privileged to once again be entrusted with works from a number of prestigious ... More
Christie's Handbags & Accessories Auction includes exceptional pieces from Chanel and Hermès
LONDON.- On 12 December 2018 Christies London will present at auction 225 rare, limited edition, and one-of-a-kind Handbags & Accessories. With a focus on the most sought-after vintage and current pieces, the sale will offer something for every collector, with estimates ranging from £500 to £150,000. Highlights of the auction include an exceptional Chanel Matte White Diamonds Forever Flap Bag with 18k White Gold & Diamond Hardware (estimate: £50,000 70,000), one of a limited edition of only sixteen. Also offered is a Hermès, Matte Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Birkin 35 with 18k White Gold & Diamond Hardware (estimate: £100,000150,000). A similar piece in a smaller size was sold in London in June for £162,500 and currently holds the European record for most valuable handbag sold at auction. A leading lot of the sale is an extremely ... More
Walker Art Center opens a different kind of moving image exhibition
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Established and emerging, historical and contemporary. Platforms: Collection and Commissions is a different kind of moving image exhibition, displaying work across multiple interfacesfrom the palm of your hand to the wall of the gallery. The show highlights key works from the Walker's collection juxtaposed with new commissions by 12 international contemporary artists. Every seven weeks, a new grouping will be rotated into the space, encouraging viewers to return and experience yet another new perspective. Between 2014 and 2018, the Walker commissioned this series to respond to the influence and inquiry of leading artists and filmmakers in the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection. The new works bridge generations: the contemporary artists create a piece inspired by the work of a specific predecessor. The dynamic ... More
The OAS AMA │ Art Museum of the Americas opens exhibition of works by Roberto Huarcaya
WASHINGTON, DC.- The OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas and the Permanent Mission of Peru to the OAS announce the opening of Amazogramas, an exhibition of the Peruvian artists large-scale photo-based installations, curated by Alejandro Castellote. Just over two years ago, he began a project that took him to Bahuaha Sonene, a national park in the Amazon jungle at southeastern Peru. Throughout the first year, Huarcaya made several trips in which he found it impossible to "depict" the vast web of emotions that the Peruvian jungle inspired. To solve the dilemmas he faced, Huarcaya chose to discard the sophisticated cameras he had used on his initial journeys. Instead, he chose to go back 175 years, and recover one of the first procedures used in photography: the photogram. The photogram is a technique that, without a lens or a camera, ... More
Taiwanese puppet master fights to save dying art
TAIPEI (AFP).- At 87 years old, Taiwanese glove puppeteer Chen Hsi-huang is the star of a new documentary which reflects his determination to revive the dying traditional craft and a late-life renaissance as a high-profile promoter of the art form. The film, entitled "Father", tells the story of how Chen pursued the craft in the shadow of his father, the legendary puppeteer Li Tian-lu, who drew huge audiences to his shows in the 1950-1970s and appeared in several movies. Also known as "Budaixi", glove puppetry spread to Taiwan in the 19th century from the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian and was mainly performed at religious and festive occasions, becoming a popular form of entertainment. Puppeteers manoeuvre small glove dolls on ornate wooden stages to present historical and martial arts stories accompanied by live folk music. Chen said he values ... More
Greek silk road town finds itself back in fashion
SOUFLI (AFP).- Inside the machine-crammed Mouhtarides factory near the Greek-Turkish border, Ioanna Pistola deftly spins a silk thread in a loom, ignoring the deafening noise around her. "I've been working in this hall for 20 years," the middle-aged weaver shouts above the din. The dormant, isolated town of Soufli has been a key centre for Greek silk production since the 19th century. This was also the first area in Europe to rear silkworms after they were smuggled by Byzantine monks out of India in the 6th century AD. Silk, much of it homemade, has sustained the town of around 4,000 inhabitants for decades, although the number of factories has fallen. Now though, say the town's last two active producers, silk is again de rigueur on the world's most prestigious catwalks, and demand from designers for the luxurious fabric is on the up. "Penetrate into the world of fash ... More
"Little House on the Prairie" antagonist MacGregor dead at 93
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Katherine MacGregor, who played the nasty busybody Harriet Oleson on the TV series "Little House on the Prairie," has died at the age of 93. MacGregor died Tuesday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement community in Los Angeles, news reports said, quoting her representative, Tony Sears. On the popular 1970s show, Oleson and her also mean-spirited daughter Nellie, played by Alison Arngrim, were the nemesis of the wholesome Ingalls family including Pa (Michael Landon) and Laura (Melissa Gilbert). Born in California, MacGregor started off as a dancer in New York before switching to acting. She landed minor film parts and some work on TV before taking on the role that would define her career. The show was based on a book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder about her childhood. "She was outspoken and hilariously ... More
Lost in translation: Papua New Guinea wins the language Olympics
PORT MORESBY (AFP).- If you are travelling to Papua New Guinea, you don't need to pack a phrasebook, you need to bring an entire library. With 841 living tongues and a colourful creole lingua franca, this Pacific nation is the undisputed world champion of linguistic diversity. From Pii in the mist-cloaked highlands to Toaripi on the shores of the gleaming Coral Sea, Papua New Guinea is a linguist's paradise with one in 10 of the world's languages found here. The number of speakers of individual languages can range from a handful of people in the jungle -- not much more than an extended family -- to millions spread across provinces and terrains. Experts point to the country's relatively weak central government, deep valleys, almost impenetrable vegetation and roughly 600 islands to explain why a country of eight million people and smaller than Spain has such a bounty ... More
Exhibit examines broadcast television as an artistic medium
BOSTON, MASS.- Emerson Urban Arts: Media Art Gallery is presenting a new exhibition that surveys the development of broadcast television as an artistic medium from the 1950s to the 1977 Documenta contemporary art exhibit in Germany. In the 1950s and 1960s, when broadcast television was in its formative stage of program development, postwar artists became interested in the medium as a way to reach more people than through exhibition or installation. This idealistic Vision of Television is the conceptual foundation for understanding a period of experimental artists television programming in Europe and the United States that was first initiated by public television program broadcasts by WGBH-Boston and West German Broadcasting (WDR). The exhibit is one of a handful of exhibits planned by the gallerys late Director and Emersons ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Polish-Swiss art dealer Jan Krugier died November 16, 2008. Janick "Jan" Krugier (12 May 1928 in Radom, Poland - 16 November 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Polish born Swiss dealer in modern art most known for his relationship to the works of Pablo Picasso and a survivor of the Holocaust. Krugier was the exclusive dealer for the works by Pablo Picasso inherited by his granddaughter Marina Picasso and of the works of Joaquin Torres-Garcia from the collection of his grandchildren. In this image: Wassily Kandinsky, Herbstlandschaft, oil on canvas, 28 1/8 x 39 1/8 in. (71.6 x 99.3 cm.). Painted on 31 January 1911. Estimate: $20,000,000-25,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2013. Formerly in the collection of Jan Krugier.
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