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Left: Suzuki Goro, Oribe Goribe Mizusashi, 9.65h x 5.71w x 5.31d in. Right: Suzuki Goro. Oribe Goribe, 7.28h x 5.31w x 4.72d in.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery announces its current exhibition Suzuki Goro: The Story of Oribe, through November 28, 2021, in celebration of the revered Japanese ceramic masterâs 80th birthday. In realizing that 2021 was master Suzuki Goroâs 80th birthday year, we knew this milestone was worthy of celebration. Talking to Goro-san, he suggested that all the works be in Oribe, a style known for its eccentricities and free expression. Oribe originated in the Momoyama period (1573 â 1615) in Japan. While thought of by most as a flowing green glaze, it can be many other colors, including red, black, and brown. Influenced by Japanese fabric design, it often includes drawings in asymmetrical shapes such as squares, rectangles, and circles, on which it is easy to expand, leading to infinite artistic expression. The innovative âGoroâ style embodies the spirit of the Momoyama period (spontaneous flowing creativity) combined with his own iconic la ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on October 12, 2021 shows Japanese artist Masakazu Rokuhara, who is also an architect and a member of the Taiyoshi Hyakuban restoration project, posing outside Taiyoshi Hyakuban, a former brothel-turned-restaurant in the historic Tobita-Shinchi red light district in Osaka. Taiyoshi Hyakuban hasn't functioned as a brothel for decades, and now operates as a restaurant, but it is seen as a symbol of the surrounding neighbourhood, which is still associated with the sex industry. Philip FONG / AFP.
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| Getty Museum acquires Gustave Caillebotte's iconic Young Man at His Window | | Van Gogh, Caillebotte set records at NY Impressionist sale | | Christopher Walken destroys Banksy painting on BBC comedy show |
Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894), Young Man at His Window, 1876. Oil on canvas, 116 x 81 cm (45 11/16 x 31 7/8 in.)
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum acquired at auction in New York today Young Man at His Window, 1876, regarded as the most important painting by French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte (French, 18481894) in private hands. The large-scale figure painting, widely considered a masterpiece of modern realism and a key moment in the history of Impressionism, will go on view at the Getty Center Museum in 2022. We expect Caillebottes Young Man at His Window to become a new standout in our popular Impressionist gallery, said Timothy Potts, Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Robert Tuttle director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. This extraordinary painting exemplifies Caillebottes carefully constructed and sharp-edged brand of urban realismso distinct from the informal landscape aesthetic of artists like Monet and Renoirand will allow us to present to our public a fuller picture of the art associated with the Impressi ... More | |
Among the Van Gogh works were his oil on canvas "Wooden Cabins among the Olive Trees and Cypresses," which sold for $71.3 million, becoming one of the painter's most expensive works.
NEW YORK, NY.- Works painted in the final years of Vincent Van Gogh's life fetched a combined $150 million at a Christie's Impressionist auction in New York Thursday evening, while a Gustave Caillebotte oil on canvas smashed records for the French artist. More than 20 pieces spanning Impressionist history -- also including works by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Berthe Morisot -- brought in a total of $332 million at the auction, which took place at the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
The paintings were part of the Cox Collection of Impressionist art, named for Texas businessman Ed Cox who died in 2020. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles purchased Caillebotte's "Young Man at His Window" for $53 million -- more than double the previous record set by the artist's painting "Rising Road," which ... More | |
A still from the BBC program The Outlaws, showing Christopher Walken painting over a work by the street artist Banksy. Photo: Big Talk/Four Eyes.
NEW YORK, NY.- With a few swipes of a paint roller, actor Christopher Walken wiped away a real Banksy painting from the side of a building in England on an episode of BBCs The Outlaws that aired Wednesday night. Although Banksys work has fetched millions of dollars at auction, Walken unceremoniously painted over the artwork on the comedy-drama series, which is set in Banksys hometown, Bristol. A spokesperson from Big Talk Productions, the shows production company, confirmed that the artwork was an original Banksy and that Walken painted over it during filming, ultimately destroying it. The production company offered no more details, and a representative for Banksy did not respond to a request for comment. Banksy, a street artist and one of the worlds most expensive artists, has rigidly maintained his anonymity. He has often manipulated the news media with stunts, notably in 2018 when a painting ... More |
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| Hindman achieves highest sale total in its history for a various owner Books & Manuscript auction | | Exhibition presents highly energized circle, square, and diamond shaped paintings by Gary Lang | | Excellent results for early American furniture, silver, flags, and more at Freeman's |
[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (Lewis Carroll) (1832-1898). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there. West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1982. Price Realized: $8,750.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions set a house record on November 9 and 10 when its Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana auction achieved a sales total of $1.5 million, the most ever for a various owner Fine Books & Manuscript auction in the companys 39 year history. The 686 lot auction saw competitive bidding from around the globe that resulted in lots consistently soaring past their presales estimates on both days. I am proud of this department and everyone who helped us achieve this tremendous result, said Gretchen Hause, Hindmans Director and Senior Specialist of Books & Manuscripts. The results of the past two days demonstrate not only the strength of the market, but the breadth and diversity of interests of collectors today. The strongest category of the sale ... More | |
Gary Lang, BLUELIGHTSEVEN, 2015 - 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 54 inches diameter.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art announced the opening of Gary Lang: Centers. Centers marks BGFAs reintroduction of this important California painters work to Bay Area audiences. Known for his highly structured formal investigations of line and color, Gary Langs 40 year exploration of pictorial space through abstraction has included this group of highly energized circle, square, and diamond shaped paintings. Replete with rich, vibrant tones, Lang masterfully uses bands of color in each painting to create a visual tension that both pulls the eye to the centers of his compositions, and simultaneously pushes the viewer back. The exhibition will be on view through January 8, 2022. On view is one of Gary Langs signature painted circles, BLUELIGHTSEVEN, from 2015-2021. Also featured are three new digitally printed circles on canvas, as well as a group of recent concentric square paintings and a pair of diamond shap ... More | |
A silver coffeepot made by William Hollingshead circa 1770, which achieved $37,800 (Lot 88; estimate: $20,000-30,000).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans November 10 American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts auction was characterized by competitive bidding over American national flags, rare silver, early American furniture, and 19th-century paintings. The sale achieved an impressive $1.64M. The auction was a panoply of rare and historic Americana that appealed to a broad range of collectors and dealers, says Lynda Cain, Head of Sale. From extraordinary folk art and American Flags, to a fine selection of 18th-century silver by renowned makers, to historic Philadelphia landscapes, portraits, and furniture, fine representative examples garnered considerable attention and achieved strong prices. We are delighted with the results. Key to Freemans successes in Wednesdays auction and beyond is a market return to regionalism; as we witness a growing appreciation for American-made objects, quintessentially American items ... More |
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| Columbus Museum of Art exhibition uncovers Vincent van Gogh's creative process | | Exhibition presents ten new paintings and nine new works on paper by Brice Marden | | World record price for Luigi Querena |
Vincent van Gogh, Roses, 1890. Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, gift of Pamela Harriman in memory of W. Averell Harriman.
COLUMBUS, OH.- An exceptional gathering of works by Vincent van Gogh, in conversation with the artists and artworks that spoke to him the most, premiered at the Columbus Museum of Art this fall. Through Vincents Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources, on display Nov. 12, 2021, through Feb. 6, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio, assembles more than 140 works of art by the artists who influenced Van Gogh, affording museumgoers rare insight into what spurred the Dutch artists own visionary work. To fully grasp how Van Gogh processed these influences, audiences will experience 17 of the painters signature works firsthand, including Tarascon Stagecoach (1888), the still-life Roses (1890) and the landscapes Les Vessenots in Auvers (1890) and Undergrowth with Two Figures (1890). Through Vincents Eyes is organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in partnership with the Columbus Museum of Art. I ... More | |
Brice Marden, Rowdy, 201321. Oil, charcoal, and graphite on linen, 96 x 72 in. 243.8 x 182.9 cm © 2021 Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian presents These paintings are of themselves, an exhibition of ten new paintings and nine new works on paper by Brice Marden. This is Mardens first exhibition at Gagosian in Chelsea. A group of eight paintings, some of which were initiated as early as 2013, were completed in 2021; one additional canvas, Prelude (201121), and a separate larger, two-panel painting, Rocks (2008/201721), are also on view. These paintings evoke the daily and seasonal shifts in natural light and color that Marden observes when working in his studio in Tivoli in upstate New York. He begins with drawing, filling some canvases with gestural glyphs that occupy a realm between writing and painting. Over these, he applies sinuous, multihued networks of linear brushstrokes, establishing interrelationships between the ... More | |
Luigi Querena (Venice 18241890) The Blessed Doge Francesco Morosini Leaving Venice in 1693 to Fight the Turks in the Peloponnese, dated 1865,132 x 190 cm; realized price 528,000.
VIENNA.- If one adds to an attractive subject painted by an outstanding artist the fact that it has been in an Italian private collection for over 100 years, then everything is just perfect. This is precisely the case with a work by the Venetian painter Luigi Querena at the Dorotheum sale of 19th century paintings on 9th November 2021. 528,000 euros mark a world record for the history painting The Blessed Doge Francesco Morosini leaving Venice in 1693 to Fight the Turks on the Peloponnese, which measures 132 x 190 cm. In addition to topographical details, it also depicts the ship of the eccentric Doge who loved his cat and went into battle with it. Luigi Querena (1824-1890) specialised in traditional Venetian views, earning a reputation for reviving the subjects made popular by Canaletto. Prominent artists dominated the first of the autumn Old Master Paintings ... More |
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| Two exceptional private collections lead Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art sale | | The Winter Show announces exhibitors for 2022 fair returning in-person to Park Avenue Armory | | Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art co-acquire painting by Kehinde Wiley |
Hampton Court by Christopher Nevinson. Estimate: £50,000-80,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A strong selection of works from two exceptional private collections leads Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art Sale in London on Wednesday 24 November. It includes Four Pears by William Scott (1913-1989) estimated at £150,000-250,000, and In the Park by William Roberts (1895-1980) estimated at £70,000-100,000. Four Pears was painted in 1976 and, with its two companion works Three Pears and Five Pears, was extensively exhibited in South America in the late 1970s. It was inspired by a pear tree growing outside the artist's studio at Coleford in Gloucestershire. The painting has not been seen in public since it was exhibited at Irish Art in the Seventies: The International Connection in 1980. Bonhams Director of Modern British and Irish Art, Matthew Bradbury, said: The two collections which form the backbone of the sale were put together with an ... More | |
The Winter Show 2020, Overhead View. Photo: Matthew Gilbertson.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Show announced the participating exhibitors for the 68th edition of the fair, to be held in-person at the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City from January 2130, 2022. The Winter Show, a benefit for East Side House, will feature 68 exhibitors, including several new galleries that represent the fairs legacy in showcasing dealers with unparalleled expertise in their fields. We are delighted to hold The Winter Show in January in-person again with this exceptional group of exhibitors, said Executive Director Helen Allen. The upcoming edition of the Show will feature many of the returning exhibitors that are integral to the fairs long-standing commitment to presenting the highest quality in the fine and decorative artsour focus since the Shows inception. Were also excited to welcome a new roster of exhibitors as we continue to engage ... More | |
Kehinde Wiley (Yale MFA 2001), Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite, 2017, oil on canvas, joint purchase by the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art with support from the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund, Friends of British Art Fund, and a gift from Sean and Mary Kelly in honor of Courtney J. Martin, Paul Mellon Director of the Yale Center for British Art © Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy of Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- The Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art have co-acquired Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite (2017) by Kehinde Wiley, who graduated from the Yale School of Art in 2001. This is the first time that the Gallery and the Center have jointly purchased an artwork. It is also the first acquisition of a painting by Wiley for both museums. My work is highly inflected by the tradition of Western easel portrait painting and with specific emphasis on the British school. Through my time at Yale ... More |
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Gallery Tour: 20th Century & Contemporary Art | New York | November 2021
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Egyptian artist Ahmed Morsi opens first solo show at Salon 94
NEW YORK, NY.- It has been said that Ahmed Morsi (born 1930) "paints his poetry and writes his paintings." With a seven-decade oeuvre that spans paintings and poetry composed in his birth city of Alexandria, Egypt in the late 1940s and 1950s to more recent works from his New York studio where he has resided since 1974, Ahmed Morsi is one of the most prominent living Egyptian artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While never part of an established artistic school, Morsi's work can be considered under the larger umbrella of global Surrealisma revisionist category that looks beyond the narrow, Parisian-centric definition of surreal practices policed by avant-garde purists such as Andre Breton. Coming of age in the late colonial period in Alexandria where French, Italian, Greek, Armenian, and Syrian cultures thrived alongside the local inhabitants, Morsi ... More
Young Concert Artists is back, with a superb pianist
NEW YORK, NY.- Since its founding in 1961, Young Concert Artists has supported emerging musicians who win its annual competition including offering a coveted New York recital. But during the pandemic, these recitals had to go virtual. On Thursday, the organization became the latest New York institution to resume in-person concerts when Zhu Wang, a 24-year-old pianist from China, gave an impressive recital at Zankel Hall. Zhu, making his New York debut, played a demanding 90-minute program without an intermission. With an unusually interesting and adventurous set of pieces, Zhu proved a thoughtful, sensitive performer. He began with Bachs arrangement for keyboard of Alessandro Marcellos Oboe Concerto in D minor; this was Bachs pragmatic way of getting to know the latest currents in Italian music from the inside. A lithe, flowing first movement leads to a ... More
Zadie Smith's first play brings Chaucer to her beloved northwest London
NEW YORK, NY.- Zadie Smith grew up around the corner from the Kiln Theater, which sits on the bustling Kilburn High Road in Northwest London. She took drama classes at the theater as a child and remembers when a fire caused significant damage to the building more than 30 years ago. Now, her relationship with the theater has become even more intertwined, with the Kilns staging of Smiths first play, The Wife of Willesden, which runs through Jan. 15. Its very moving, if I allow myself to think about it very much which I dont, we dont have time, Smith, 46, said in a recent interview at the theater. Weve got work to do. The Wife of Willesden which opened Thursday is an adaptation of the Wife of Baths tale from Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales, transposing the prologue and tale into a love letter to contemporary London (Willesden is an area ... More
Art on the Underground presents 5 more minutes, a new commission by Joy Labinjo at Brixton Underground station
LONDON.- Art on the Underground presents 5 more minutes, a new large-scale public commission at Brixton Underground station by Joy Labinjo on view for one year. Drawing on her personal experiences of growing up in the UK with British-Nigerian heritage, the London-based artists commission explores ideas of memory and belonging, and the significance of the hair salon as a centre of community in both Labinjos personal experience as well as in wider Black British female culture. This work is the fifth in a series of commissions at Brixton station, following on from Helen Johnson, Denzil Forrester, Aliza Nisenbaum and Njideka Akunyili Crosby. The programme invites artists to respond to the diverse narratives of the local murals painted in the 1980s, the ... More
1925 Bentley 3 Litre Dual Cowl Tourer for sale with H&H Classics
LONDON.- One of just twenty-four Bentley 3 Litre cars known to have survived with its original J. Gurney Nutting coachwork, CR 9914 also boasts matching chassis, engine, bonnet, steering box, rear axle and gearbox numbers. It comes to sale on November 17th with H&H Classics at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. Remarkably original with pot joints at both ends of the propshaft plus Gurney Nutting floorboards / fasteners and door furniture, the car has been much improved during the current ownership by Ewen Getley's Kingsbury Racing Shop including an engine overhaul (£14,797.20), new clutch, replacement exhaust, relined brakes and sundry electrical work. Damian Jones of H&H Classics comments: This is a wonderful, imposing and unusually correct Vintage Bentley. Cyril Posthumus and David Hodges writing in 'Classic Sports Cars' stated: "It was not the means ... More
Koller Auctions to offer a wide range of attractive modern & contemporary works
ZURICH.- Willem de Kooning apparently worked on the untitled composition offered in the 2 December sale over a long period of time, as he painted over his signature twice during the process. This small-format work belongs to a series dating from the early- to mid-1970s, and its broad black lines recall de Kooning's sculpture from the same period (lot 3444, CHF 600 000/900 000). Two works in the auction by Czech artist Zdenek Sykora are from his 'Lines' series, which brought the artist worldwide recognition from 1972 onwards. Sykora was also a pioneer of computer art, and the form, colour and positioning of the lines are determined by random, computer-generated numbers (lots 3469 and 3470, CHF 150 000/250 000 and CHF 80 000/140 000). 'Aspects', 1965, is a significant work by Mark Tobey, typical of his calligraphic explorations of line, mass and volume (lot 3413, CHF ... More
Juilliard stages an Orpheus rarity from opera's early days
NEW YORK, NY.- What became known as opera originated in Florence, Italy, during late-16th-century equivalents of college-dorm bull sessions. At the time, that cultured city was a hotbed of artistic experimentation. A group of composers, poets, singers, intellectuals and royal patrons formed a club for discussions that eventually led to an idea: to create a new hybrid of music and theater in the manner of Greek tragedies, which they believed had been written as sung-through dramas. There was striking consensus about the ideal subject for the first attempts at this art form: the mythological Orpheus whose songs had the power to entrance nature, soothe souls and even conquer death. When his wife, Eurydice, dies from a snake bite right after their wedding, the grief-stricken, resolute Orpheus descends to the underworld, charms Pluto himself and receives conditional ... More
In 'Nollywood Dreams,' a star and an industry are born
NEW YORK, NY.- Producing more than 1,000 movies a year each, Bollywood, Indias Hindi film industry, and Nollywood, the Nigerian version, have long outpaced the California dream-makers who think they rule the world in Hollywood. It is against this shift in the shaping of global culture that Nollywood Dreams, a giddy if wobbly comedy by Jocelyn Bioh, plays out. But the template is pure MGM: Our sweet heroine, Ayamma Okafor (Sandra Okuboyejo), works, along with her tart sister Dede (Nana Mensah), in their parents travel agency in Lagos. When rising film director Gbenga Ezie (Charlie Hudson III) announces open auditions for the title role in his latest project, The Comfort Zone yes, theres a title role Ayamma sees a chance to be like the women in all of those Hollywood films I spent my life watching and become a star herself. There are complications, of course, ... More
'Like queens': Divisive legacy of Senegal's women traders
SAINT-LOUIS.- Aminata Sall, who rents out brilliantly coloured dresses in the Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, systematically quizzes her clients about their motivations for the prized cultural heirlooms. Kept in a storeroom near her office, the gowns represent a now-vanished group of mixed-race merchant women known as the Signares. "If it's just for show, I won't rent them to you," Sall says, recounting how she once rejected a bid by a university professor hoping to hire some Signare-style dresses. The Signares were a colonial-era class of female traders of gold, ivory and slaves who once strutted their wealth in West African trading hubs -- in magnificent spangled dresses and conical hats.At their height, they were powerful commercial brokers in Saint-Louis and further south on the island of Goree, developing their own unique Euro-African hybrid culture. They have since faded ... More
'Ugly history': Battle to restore iconic Japan brothel building
At the corner of a red-light district in the Japanese city of Osaka stands an unlikely architectural gem: a century-old former brothel at the centre of a restoration campaign. Taiyoshi Hyakuban hasn't functioned as a brothel for decades, and now operates as a restaurant, but it is seen as a symbol of the surrounding neighbourhood, which is still associated with the sex industry. Experts say the wooden two-storey structure is a rare original example of architecture from the Taisho era of 1912-1926. "Most Japanese architecture dating from a century or more burned down in wartime air raids or big fires," Shinya Hashizume, a professor of architectural history at Osaka Prefecture University, told AFP. "Old brothel buildings, in particular, have rarely survived," he said on a visit to the site. Taiyoshi Hyakuban has dozens of Japanese and Western-style party rooms, some featuring ... More
Menil Drawing Institute presents Marcia Kure Wall Drawing
HOUSTON, TX.- The Menil Collection announced the exhibition of NETWORK, 2021, a monumental site-specific work by artist Marcia Kure. The work is the latest commission for the Menil Drawing Institute, which has featured an ongoing series of ephemeral wall drawings since the building opened in 2018. Wall Drawing Series: Marcia Kure will be on view at the Menil Drawing Institute through August 2022. Through her multidisciplinary art practice, Kure examines a wide range of concepts, including colonial legacies and diasporic identities. She is known for compositions that feature the curvilinear Uli line, an abstract design motif associated with Nigeria and best known for its application in temporary circumstances like body painting and murals, as well as her use of natural, plant-based pigments extracted from kola nuts, indigo, and tea. Exploring line as concept, form ... 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-Honoré après-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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