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Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, 'Self-portrait as the apostle Paul', 1661 (detail). Rijksmuseum, de Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland.
SYDNEY.- Its one of the most exciting episodes in art history, and one that still delights today. In the 17th century Dutch Republic a newly wealthy and independent nation the art of painting flourished like never before. Dutch artists sensitively observed the beauty of the world around them, transforming it with great skill into vivid and compelling paintings, from intense portraits and dramatic seascapes, to tranquil scenes of domestic life and careful studies of fruit and flowers. The first major exhibition of Dutch masters in Sydney, Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum, comprises 78 exceptional works of art from the renowned Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, as part of the Sydney International Art Series 2017-2018. Art Gallery of New South Wales director Dr Michael Brand said the close collaboration with the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The new Tate St Ives opened on 14 October 2017. A four-year building project has doubled the space for showing art, adding almost 600 square metres of galleries, and created spectacular new studios for learning activities.
| Lost portrait of Nelson discovered by Philip Mould & Co. | | "Treasures of the Earth: Mineral Masterpieces from the Robert R. Wiener Collection" opens at the Bruce Museum | | Major exhibition celebrating the life and work of Frederic William Burton on view at the National Gallery of Ireland |
Portrait of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson KB by Leonardo Guzzardi.
LONDON.- An important portrait of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson will go on public display for the first time in over one hundred years at Philip Mould & Co. this week. The portrait, by Neopolitan artist Leonardo Guzzardi, was painted in Palermo in 1799 and is remarkable for its searingly honest portrayal of the battle-worn hero. The portrait will be exhibited at Philip Mould & Co.'s Pall Mall gallery from 13th November alongside a newly commissioned replica of the now-lost legendary Chelengk jewel, which is depicted here pinned to Nelson's hat. The jewel, made in diamonds and enamel with a clockwork mechanism, will be displayed on a replica of Nelsons bicorne hat, made to his exact specifications by Lock & Co. Hatters of St Jamess who made the original in 1800. In this portrait Nelson is emaciated and battle worn, with a scarred head, a missing arm (undetectable in the rendering), a blood-shot eye, and largely missing eyebrow. The ... More | |
Chalcopyrite. Robert R. Wiener Collection. Photo by Paul Mutino.
GREENWICH, CONN.- Visitors to the Bruce Museum can take a global tour of the splendor, wonder, and science of minerals as Treasures of the Earth: Mineral Masterpieces from the Robert R. Wiener Collection opens to the public. Continuing through April 1, 2018, this exhibition offers a rare chance to discover the wondrous beauty and amazing properties of world-class minerals from a remarkable private collection. Approximately 100 dazzling specimens are on display, ranging from intricately connected cubes of pyrite, to dazzlingly clear crystals of selenite, to fiery red hexagons of vanadinite. Robert R. Wiener, chairman of MAXX Properties, a fourth-generation, family-owned real estate company based in Harrison, N.Y., has built this comprehensive collection over the past four decades. The collection includes minerals from Madagascar, China, Peru, Australia, Morocco, the United States, and beyond. ... More | |
Frederic William Burton (1816-1900), Mrs George nee Elizabeth Blakeway. Private Collection.
DUBLIN.- The National Gallery of Ireland is presenting a major exhibition celebrating the life and work of Frederic William Burton (18161900), the distinguished Irish artist and influential director of The National Gallery, London, from 25 October 2017 to 14 January 2018. Featuring c.100 works drawn from the National Gallery of Ireland, British Museum, The National Gallery, V&A, National Portrait Gallery, London, Yale Centre for British Art, and other international public and private collections, the exhibition will explore all aspects of Burtons career as an artist, including his years in Germany and in London working alongside the Pre-Raphaelite Circle. It will also give insights to his tenure as director of The National Gallery, London, where over twenty years, he was responsible for extending the Gallery and creating more public access as well as overseeing the acquisition of 500 works including Leonardos Virgin ... More |
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| Exhibition of works by some of the greatest masters of Avant-Garde opens in Bologna | | Bonhams to offer an impressive array of 275 watches and wristwatches | | Sotheby's announces highlights from the November Sale of Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art |
Jean Crotti, Untitled, 1920. Gouache and collage on cardboard, 49,5x35,5 cm. F. 73x53x4 cm. The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art in the Israel Museum. B98.0431 © Jean Crotti by SIAE 2017.
BOLOGNA.- Through a rich narrative, the exhibition illustrates these artists determination to revolutionize art, make a break with the past, and fashion a new world. -180 works are on display from The Israel Museum,Jerusalem, which for the occasion has generously emptied over 1,000 square metres of its exhibit itinerary, so as to share its amazing collections with visitors in Bologna. The connection between Dada, Surrealism, and the Israel Museum began as a chance encounter more than fifty years ago and has since evolved into a deep and lasting relationship. Thanks in great part to generous gifts from donors and artists alike, the Museum has been able to form a spectacular holding of Dada and Surrealist material, embracing all of the media employed by these groundbreaking movements: paintings, readymades, collages ... More | |
A gold, enamel and seed pearl set key wind open face pocket watch (£1,500-2,000), Patek. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams will offer an impressive array of 275 watches and wristwatches at its sale on 21 November at its Knightsbridge saleroom. The auction is traditionally broad, with lots ranging from the elegant Johnson, Grays Inn Passage. Gold, enamel and seed pearl set key wind open face pocket watch (£1,500-2,000) to the imposing Tag Heuer black DLC coated stainless steel and titanium automatic calendar chronograph wristwatch (£1,500-2,000). The sale also includes the impressive and expertly-curated Ken Kessler collection. A large range of exquisitely crafted, ornate pocket watches will be offered, including several automatons. The Thomas Gray, Sackville Street fine gold key wind open face pocket watch is set with diamonds, seed pearl and electric blue enamel (£2,500-3,500) is a beautiful example of early English watchmaking, and the silver key wind open face automaton pocket watch depicting the Battle of Arcola (£800-1,200) is another eye-ca ... More | |
A Roman Black Marble Herm Head of Hermes, circa 2nd Century A.D, Estimate: £35,000-45,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Covering an unprecedented spectrum of objects from Classical Greece and Rome to Ancient Egypt and the Near East, Sothebys November sale of Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art brings to life past civilisations. With estimates ranging from £800 to £400,000, the sale presents an opportunity for first time buyers as well as seasoned collectors. One of the most finely carved Roman marble heads to be offered at auction in recent history, this portrayal of divine hero Ganymede is the only known copy of a lost Classical Greek original sculpture. The youthful face is depicted with parted lips and heavy-lidded eyes, his long wavy hair parted in the centre and falling in corkscrew curls over the sides and nape of the neck, the ear-flaps of his Phrygian cap pulled up and knotted at the back. The most complete of all known Byzantine marble table tops with relief-decorated borders, this extremely rare table is exceptional in a number of r ... More |
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| Controversial Da Vinci is New York auction season star | | Blurring gender lines in the ancient world at Bonhams Antiquities Sale | | Berggruen Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Christopher Brown |
Christie's will offer Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi'.
NEW YORK (AFP).- What is the only Da Vinci painting on the open market worth? A Russian billionaire believes he was swindled when he bought it for $127.5 million. This week he'll find out if he was right. "Salvator Mundi," a painting of Jesus Christ by the Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci circa 1500, is the star lot in New York's November art auctions that will see Christie's and Sotheby's chase combined art sales of more than $1 billion. It goes under the hammer at Christie's on Wednesday evening, something of an incongruous lot in the postwar and contemporary sale, which attracts the biggest spenders in the high-octane world of international billionaire art collectors. The auction house, which declines to comment on the controversy and identifies the seller only as a European collector, has valued the painting at $100 million. "Look at the ... More | |
1st-century AD Roman figure of Hermaphroditos. Estimate: £25,000-35,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A rare example of a 1st-century AD Roman bronze figure of Hermaphroditos will be offered at Bonhams Antiquities sale in London on 28 November. It is estimated at £25,000-35,000. In his Metamorphoses the Roman writer Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.) told the tale of Hermaphroditos, the beautiful son of Aphrodite and Hermes, with whom the water nymph Salmacis fell passionately in love. Although the boy rejected her advances, Salmacis pleaded with the gods to be united with him forever. A god took pity on her and merged the two bodies, creating an androgynous being who was worshipped as a deity during the Hellenistic period approximately from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the emergence of the Roman Empire in the closing years of the millennium and well into the Roman era itself. The figure for sale is of the rare ... More | |
Christopher Brown, Turquoise, Blue Black, 2017 (detail). Oil on linen mounted on board, 30 x 45 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Berggruen Gallery is presenting Christopher Brown: The Waters Sliding, an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Christopher Brown. This show marks Browns seventh solo exhibition at the gallery and is on view November 2 through December 23. The title of the show, The Waters Sliding, is a phrase loosely based on a poem by Philip Levine. In Levines poem, Salt and Oil, the writer ponders a moment of daily life in the world through the unraveling of memories connected to working class life. These moments are distilled into what Levine describes as the unwritten biography of your city or my city unless it is frozen in the fine print of our eyes. Browns interest in Levines writing unfolds in the artists new paintings, which feature people, objects, and activities drawn from everyday life as well as a continuation of his most recurring motif: water. ... More |
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| New art foundation will develop digital catalogue raisonnés of Egon Schiele and other artists | | Regen Projects opens an exhibition of new and recent work by Jack Pierson | | Contemporary Fine Arts open their first exhibition with Maki Na Kamura |
Egon Schiele Life and Work, the catalogue raisonné by Jane Kallir, 1990, will be updated by the new Kallir Research Institute.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Kallir, co-director of the Galerie St. Etienne in New York and a renowned expert on Austrian Expressionism, has announced the formation of the Kallir Research Institute, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the development of catalogue raisonnés and related art research. The Institute, which will be housed at the Galerie St. Etienne, is named after Jane Kallirs grandfather, Otto Kallir (1894-1978), Americas first proponent of the works of Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Richard Gerstl, and other Expressionists. Kallir made the announcement during her keynote address today at the opening of the Egon Schiele Symposium at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. The Institutes initial focus will be the publication of a digital catalogue raisonné of Egon Schieles work in all mediums. The first catalogue of Schieles oils was written in 1930 by Otto ... More | |
Jack Pierson, MORE FASTER NOW, 2010. Metal and plastic, 95 1/2 x 102 x 5 inches (242.6 x 259.1 x 12.7 cm) © Jack Pierson, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects announces an exhibition of new and recent work by Jack Pierson. This marks the artists ninth solo presentation at the gallery. For close to three decades, Pierson has created a multi-disciplinary artistic practice that utilizes the visual languages of photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture to examine themes of memory, desire, longing, absence, despair, and glamour. The exhibition brings together a selection of Piersons signature large-scale word sculptures formed from individual found letters salvaged from vintage commercial signage, collected by the artist over the years. The sculptures are comprised of individual letters each one with a distinct color, surface, texture, shape, and size placed together to create incantations of emotionally charged words and poetic phrases. ... More | |
Maki Na Kamura, "dXd XXIV", 2017. Ãl und Wasser auf Leinwand, 80 x 60 cm.
BERLIN.- Contemporary Fine Arts announce their first exhibition with Maki Na Kamura (born in Osaka), titled début. Maki Na Kamuras supposed landscape paintings feed on viewing other paintings. While many painters begin with sketches, Maki Na Kamuras preparatory work involves comparative looking at painting. In doing so, she plays the role of art historian, using detailed detective work to reveal references to painters from different epochs, leaving some to categorize her work as conceptual. In her paintings, Na Kamura synthesizes compositions by artists such as Giorgione, Nicholas Poussin, Puvis de Chavannes, and Jean-François Millet, however, in her own painting process, she is not interested in the motifs and iconography of her predecessors, but rather in their structures, which she can adapt and employ in her paintings. The traces of these supposed art historical references, however, ... More |
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Exhibition of architectural drawings by Sergei Tchoban on view at the Architecture and Design Museum
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In the solo exhibit Sergei Tchoban Architectural Drawings, the author presents a line of architectural fantasies and imaginary studies, which above all depict the dialectic between historical and contemporary architecture. Sergei Tchoban studied at the architectural department at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, Russia before moving to Germany in 1991. His most significant works are realized in Berlin, Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 2009 he founded the Tchoban Foundation - Museum for Architectural Drawing. He works not only as an architect, but also as a curator, lecturer and architectural draftsman. Displayed within the exhibit are works from Diary Series (2002), in which Sergei Tchoban refers to the historical period of flooding of the beautiful, old cities during the leadership of Joseph Stalin. The sketches depict the canals and manmade ... More
Parrasch Heijnen Gallery opens a career survey of Tony DeLap's work
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, and Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, are presenting Tony DeLap: A Career Survey, 19632017. Each gallery presents iconic examples of sculpture, drawing, and painting from various periods throughout Tony DeLaps six-decade practice. In its New York space, Franklin Parrasch Gallery will include early mixed media sculpture and related drawings from the 1960s, formed paintings from the 1970s and 1980s, and shaped paintings from the 1990s to the present. Parrasch Heijnen is presenting a similar range of works in Los Angeles, as well as an architectural intervention not exhibited since DeLaps 1972 solo exhibition at Nicholas Wilder Gallery. DeLaps oeuvre defies fixed categorization. Initially brought to the attention of New York gallerist Robert Elkon by Agnes Martin in the early 1960s, ... More
Celaya Brothers Gallery opens exhibition of works by Agostino Iacurci
MEXICO CITY.- In an essay from 1953 named Les tombeaux de Ravenne, the recently departed French poet and essayist uses these words to define what ornament is, and compares this to the concept, as opposed to the object. We may paraphrase Bonnefoys words by saying that, like a concept usually does, ornament has the particular power of showing the essence of an object by means of abstraction. This understanding of ornament seems to perfectly fit what Agostino Iacurci is doing in this unedited corpus of artworks, which for many aspects represents a breaking point in his production so far: an exploration of local ornaments through painting and sculpture. But let us step back a moment to our starting concern: ornament as a sort of abstract, ontological tool, a way to reveal the essence of a specific object. Is not this, indeed, the endeavor of art ... More
Hayward Gallery Touring presents a new exhibition of prints by Cornelia Parker
LONDON.- Southbank Centres Hayward Gallery Touring presents One Day This Glass Will Break, an exhibition of twenty large-scale photogravures by Cornelia Parker from three experimental series: Fox Talbots Articles of Glass (2017); One Day This Glass Will Break (2015) and Thirty Pieces of Silver (exposed) (2015). On view at londonprintstudio (10 November10 December 2017) then touring throughout the UK, these three series, which are brought together for the first time in this exhibition, explore the artists fascination with the physical properties of objects, materials and their histories. The exhibition includes eight works from the series One Day This Glass Will Break (2015) which arose from Parkers investigations into the photogravure, a photomechanical process which produces an image through the exposure of a photographic positive onto a copper printing plate. ... More
Clémence de La Tour du Pin installs exhibition 13 meters underground
TURIN.- Treti Galaxie, in collaboration with Museo Pietro Micca and Associazione Amici del Museo Pietro Micca, is presenting sept préludes, the first solo show by French artist Clémence de La Tour du Pin in Italy. The exhibition is installed 13 meters underground in the galleries, tunnels and combat rooms of the Pastiss Underground Fortress, built in the XVI Century by Duke Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy. Buried since 1705, the space opened to the public for the very first time on the occasion of the exhibition. La Tour du Pin envisions Pastiss' labyrinthine network of tunnels as intrauterine architecture, which she compares to the unconscious side of the city of Torino with its forgotten souls, desires and hidden phobias. For sept préludes the artist has developed a space-sensitive walk in the depths of the Fortress, involving displacement interventions, fictional elements and ... More
The gold medal Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to George de Hevesy to be auctioned at Morton & Eden
LONDON.- The magnificent gold Nobel prize medal for chemistry, together with three further significant medals awarded to the renowned Hungarian scientist George Charles de Hevesy are to be auctioned by specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden in London on Thursday November 23, 2017. The group is estimated to fetch £120,000 to £150,000 (lot 77). George Charles de Hevesy (1885-1966) is credited with being the founder of radio analytical chemistry. He was joint discover of the element Hafnium in 1922 and he developed the use of radioactive isotopes as tracers. It was for his considerable scientific achievements that Hevesy was awarded the Nobel Prize, which he received in 1944, at the same time accepting the Nobel Institutes offer of Swedish citizenship. The official citation for his prize used the now-familiar terms isotopes and tracers, which had not ... More
Russia's pre-Revolutionary estates crumble in neglect
GREBNEVO (AFP).- Boris Netchaeff's family estate was once the image of aristocratic life in pre-Revolutionary Russia but is now a long-neglected site where teenagers hold what he calls "Satanist parties". Netchaeff's grandfather abandoned the complex of buildings after the 1917 Revolution, leaving his home and his country along with a wave of other anti-Bolshevik Russians. But nearly a century later, Netchaeff has returned to the country with plans to rescue from oblivion the Novosiltsev estate in the Oryol region, about 270 kilometres (168 miles) southwest of Moscow. "Since my childhood, I dreamed of restoring the estate, it is a big part of my life," said Netchaeff, who grew up listening to his grandfather's stories in France but now lives with his wife and children in Moscow. The Novosiltsev estate is one of thousands in the country, a spectre of the life of Russia's aristocracy ... More
Sierra Leone unearths 476-carat gem in new diamond find
FREETOWN.- Sierra Leone said Saturday miners had unearthed a huge 476-carat diamond, eight months after an even more valuable find in the country's diamond-rich east. It appears to be the 29th largest diamond ever found, according to experts, but it is unclear what the hefty stone might be worth. The latest discovery came, as did its predecessor, in the province of Kono, said Sahr Wonday, director general of Sierra Leone's National Minerals Agency. For Wonday, the latest find "provides a remarkable indication of the potential of the mineral resources" in the area. He said the company that uncovered the stone, Meya Mining, has won government approval to export it and the diamond is to be sold at international auction. Last month, Sierra Leone announced it plans to auction off a massive 709-carat diamond at a December sale in New York, aiming to make ... More
110-Carat Round Diamond joins Sotheby's December Jewelry Auctions in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Just in time for the holidays, Sothebys Magnificent Jewels and Fine Jewels auctions will be held in New York on 5 & 7 December 2017. Both sales feature a wonderful variety of vintage and contemporary pieces by renowned houses including Van Cleef & Arpels, Tiffany & Co., JAR, and Harry Winston alongside significant gemstones of superlative quality. The Magnificent Jewels sale is led by an exquisite 5.69-Carat Fancy Vivid Blue Diamond Ring (estimate $12/15 million) and an extremely rare 110.92-Carat Round Diamond - the largest round diamond ever to be offered at auction (estimate $4.2/6.2 million). All works from both sales will be on public exhibition in our York Avenue galleries from 30 November 7 December, highlighting the inaugural A Life of Luxury auction series. Gary Schuler, Chairman of Sothebys Jewelry Division, Americas ... More
Petzel Gallery opens a solo exhibition by London-based artist John Stezaker
NEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by London-based artist John Stezaker. This is the artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and his first at Petzel Gallery's Upper East Side location. Stezaker first came across photoromans on a trip to Italy in 1973. Attracted by their modern, colorful aesthetic he began collecting them, but it was not until he discovered the Spanish iterations that Stezakers collages took off. The female-orientated romantic plots of the black and white Spanish photoromans were similar to their Italian counterparts, but where the Iberian ones differed, was in their slight bent toward soft porn; seemingly with a male audience in mind. Titillating shower scenes and other narrative intrusions often ... More
Modern Art Oxford opens major exhibition of works by Hannah Ryggen
OXFORD.- Modern Art Oxford presents a major exhibition of works by Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970), one of Scandinavias most outstanding artistic figures of the 20th century. Ryggen is renowned for her monumental tapestries dealing with the pressing social and political concerns of her time. Bringing together 16 powerful works from Norway and Sweden, the exhibition offers the first in-depth exploration of Ryggens work for a UK audience. Hannah Ryggen: Woven Histories runs from 11 November 2017 until 18 February 2018 and entry is free. Hannah Ryggens practice was distinguished by her impassioned response to contemporary socio-political events, both regional and international. Her work dealt with a range of issues from the rise of fascism (Ethiopia, 1935), the Nazi occupation of Norway (6 October 1942, 1943) and its impact on her own family (Grini, 1945, which ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Camille Pissarro died November 13, 1903. Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 - 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54. In this image: An unidentified visitor looks at the Impressionist painting by Camille Pissarro called the "Rue Saint-Honore apre-midi. Effet de Pluie (Rue Saint-Honore Afternoon, Rain Effect)," in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Thursday May 12, 2005.
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