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Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp), The Virgin And Christ Child, with St. Elizabeth and St. John the Baptist (detail). Oil on panel, 47⅞ by 37⅝ in.; 121.6 by 95.5 cm. Estimate $6/8 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that Sir Peter Paul Rubens The Virgin and Christ Child, With Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist will be offered as a highlight of Sothebys Masters Week in January 2020, marking the first appearance of the work at auction since 1946, where it is estimated to achieve $6/8 million. The annual week of auctions at Sothebys New York features masterworks spanning six centuries of the pre-Modern period, including impressive Old Master Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and 19th Century European Art. Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577 1640) is one of the most well-known and revered artists of the Flemish Baroque style that flourished in the early 17th century. Though he resided in Antwerp, Rubens traveled throughout Europe and his influence was for felt for generations. The present painting is a large-scale work on panel depicting the popular subject of the apocryphal meeting of the Christ Child and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Fondazione Prada today presented "Entrata di emergenza", a choreographic project conceived by Elie Tass for Deposito, one of the buildings of its Milan venue. Developed in collaboration with Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan, "Entrata di emergenza" involved fifteen recently graduated dancers or students of the schoolÂs Corso Danzatore, coordinated by project advisor Marinella Guatterini.Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani Courtesy Fondazione Prada.
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 | | Black is still the only color for Pierre Soulages | | Pompeii's grand baths unveiled, with hidden tragedy | | Nationalmuseum to introduce a new collection of fashion | 
The French artist Pierre Soulages, at home in Sete, France, on Nov. 22, 2019. Sandra Mehl/The New York Times.
by Nina Siegal
SETE (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- To get to work, French artist Pierre Soulages must navigate about a dozen steps from his house overlooking the Mediterranean to his studio downstairs, just above a sparkling blue pool. At age nearly 100, this has become a little difficult lately. Its just because of my knee, he said as an assistant gave him a hand. But he still makes it down there to paint regularly, if not every day. The cavernous space is remarkably tidy, with canvasses hung against the walls and tools stored neatly. Im not a believer in the myth of the chaotic artist, he explained, with paint everywhere. Indeed, Soulages is a man who favors simplicity in his lifelong quest to create a profound body of work using as little color as possible. For more than ... More | | 
Visitors walk along the cobbled Via del Mare on November 25, 2019 in Pompeii. While treasure hunters regularly pillaged Pompeii down the centuries looking for precious jewels or artifacts, whole areas have yet to be explored by modern-day archaeologists. Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP.
POMPEII (AFP).- Magnificent thermal baths designed to be the jewel of Pompeii but destroyed by a volcanic eruption before they could be completed opened to visitors for the first time on Monday after a painstaking excavation. Marble pillars and blocks lie where they were abandoned when the city was submerged by a pyroclastic flow from Mount Vesuvius in the 79 AD disaster. But excavators also found a victim of the disaster, the skeleton of a child who had sought shelter there in vain. The architects "were inspired by Emperor Nero's thermal baths in Rome. The rooms here were to be bigger and lighter, with marble pools," the archaeological site's director Massimo Osanna told AFP. The ... More | | 
Martin Bergström, Arty Farty, 2014.
STOCKHOLM.- As part of the assignment to preserve and collect form and design, Nationalmuseum in Stockholm has now started a collection of Swedish fashion items with high artistic originality, created from the year 2000 and on. The collection started with the donation of a dress by Martin Bergström and five dresses designed by Pär Engsheden for Sara Danius. The collection will comprise unique, artistically designed fashion garments. The criteria for inclusion in the collection is that the garments must show artistic originality, artistic individuality and innovation. The garments must be from 2000 and on and created by a designer or company operating in Sweden. Nationalmuseum is responsible for preserving form and design, and we are increasingly aware that fashion has become an important and natural part of this field. We are therefore now collecting fashion garments that change our perceptions of what design ... More |
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| | Napoleon's boots walk tall at Paris auction | | John Lennon's round sunglasses to be sold at auction | | Art Basel Miami, where big money meets bigger money | 
This file photo taken on November 8, 2019 shows an expert holding a pair of Napoleon I's riding boots. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A pair of boots worn by Napoleon during his final exile on St. Helena sold in Paris on Friday for 117,000 euros ($128,000) -- more than twice the initial estimate. The size 40 boots (roughly seven in British measure) were saved for posterity by General Henri Gatien Bertrand, who had followed the French leader into exile on the far-flung South Atlantic island after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, auctioneers said. The general later gave the shoes to a sculptor working on an equestrian statue of Bonaparte. The relics were expected to fetch between 50,000 and 80,000 euros, but bidding at the Drouot auction rooms was brisk. Like Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines, Napoleon had a large collection of footwear, which he bought from the Paris shoemakers Jacques in Montmartre. Although British propagandists often caricatured the Corsican as an authoritarian midget, at 1.69 metres (five foot two inc ... More | | 
Alan Herring, who worked as a chauffeur for Starr and bandmate George Harrison in the late 60s, said Lennon had given him the glasses after leaving them on the back seat of his Mercedes. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- A pair of John Lennon's trademark round sunglasses are going up for auction along with a parking ticket given to Beatles drummer Ringo Starr -- items kept for half a century by a former driver for the band. Alan Herring, who worked as a chauffeur for Starr and bandmate George Harrison in the late 60s, said Lennon had given him the glasses after leaving them on the back seat of his Mercedes. "When John got out of the car I noticed that he'd left these sunglasses on the back seat and one lens and one arm had become disconnected," he said. "I asked John if he'd like me to get them fixed for him. He told me not to worry, that they were just for the look." The vintage glasses and the parking ticket -- issued on April 25, 1969 in London outside the band's own label Apple Records -- will be sold online by Sotheby's with other Beatles memorabilia next month. Herring said the decision to sell the objects ... More | | 
Mera and Don Rubell at the new Rubell Museum, which houses their private art collection, in Miami, Nov. 16, 2019. Rose Marie Cromwell/The New York Times.
by Rose Marie Cromwell
MIAMI (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- As the global art world descends on South Florida for next weeks Art Basel fair, which is celebrating its 17th anniversary, its worth remembering how truly small the art world once was. As late as the 1980s, you could fit contemporary arts A-list players all in one room. And the room in question often belonged to the prominent collectors Don and Mera Rubell inside their Manhattan town house, then the de facto after-party place for the Whitney Museum of American Arts career-launching biennials. We knew every collector in the world then, Don Rubell recalled with a chuckle. Ninety percent of them were in New York or Germany. Richard Prince was a fresh arrival to the Rubells after-party in 1985, having made his biennial debut that year with his signature photo appropriations. He would later write of his nervous excitement at threading ... More |
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| | Holiday museum guide: Where to see art this season | | Fondation d'entreprise Hermès opens an exhibition of works by Babi Badalov | | Exhibition at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf presents works by Carroll Dunham and Albert Oehlen | 
A young visitor with Piet Mondrain's "Summer, Dune in Zeeland," from 1910, in Paul Chan's section of the show "Artistic License" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, June 24, 2019. Karsten Moran/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- This season can make even the grouchiest New Yorker an urban romantic, and encourages local residents and visitors alike to rediscover the museums and monuments we sometimes take for granted. Prepare for good cheer, special programming and big crowds. Whether youre coming with your family, your friends, your lover or your good old self, youll want to plan ahead when visiting New Yorks unsurpassed arts institutions, and exploring some exquisite smaller museums outside the tourist green zone. Check online before you go: most have shortened hours on Christmas and New Years eves, and are closed Christmas and New Years days. (An exception: The Jewish Museum, on Fifth Avenue, is open as usual on Dec. 25 and reliably ... More | | 
Babi Badalov, Doll 4, 2006, stitchwork, 90 x 40 cm, courtesy of the artist and gallery Jérôme Poggi, Paris.
BRUSSELS.- For the third segment of the season Matters of Concern | Matières à panser, launched in April 2019 at La Verrière, the Brussels art space of the Fondation dentreprise Hermès, curator Guillaume Désanges presents a solo exhibition by the France-based Azeri artist Babi Badalov. Babi Badalovs generous, fertile oeuvre is a concrete exploration through drawings, collages, publications, wall painting, textiles and objects of the connection between words and pictures. It delves into the ways in which the non-mastery of a language can reinvent our relationship not only to knowledge, but also to others and the wider world, through a practice of alienation, alterity and poetry. Drawing on art brut, classicism, baroque and punk, his works offer a virtuosic play on form and colour, exploiting the arabesque in a handwritten script of words and slogans on supports of every kind. This obsess ... More | | 
Albert Oehlen.
DUSSELDORF.- The world-renowned painters Carroll Dunham (*1949 in New Haven, Connecticut, lives there and in New York) and Albert Oehlen (*1954 in Krefeld, lives in Gais, Switzerland), who are enormously influential especially for a younger generation of artists, are being featured together in an exhibition for the first time. Both artists are known for their extremely independent and complex oeuvre. At the very moment when Albert Oehlen shifted from figurative Bad Painting toward abstraction in the late 1980s, Carroll Dunham went in the opposite direction, developing from his early organic abstract work into a surreal figuration in which different characters shape entire blocks of work, which in turn build on each other with an almost conceptual rigor. While Dunham introduced a figure with a phallic nose wearing a hat in his work beginning in the 1990s, which years later was replaced with female "bathers" with sometimes grotesquely exaggerated sexual organs, ... More |
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| | Quintessentially Colourist: Important works by Scottish Colourists lead Lyon & Turnbull's next auction | | High Museum debuts Alex Harris photography featuring southern film sets | | Collection de l'Art Brut opens the fourth Art Brut Biennial | 
George Henry, Straw Hat.
EDINBURGH.- A beautifully executed work by celebrated Scottish artist Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) valued at £150,000 to 200,000 leads Lyon & Turnbull's forthcoming Scottish Paintings auction on 5th December in Edinburgh. An elegant example of Peploe's mastery of colour and composition, Still Life of Roses and Pear will be offered alongside a number of important works by the other Scottish Colourists John Duncan Fergusson, George Leslie Hunter and Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell. The Scottish Colourists Samuel John Peploe (18711935), John Duncan Fergusson (18741961), George Leslie Hunter (18771931) and Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (18711935), are among Scotlands most cherished artists. Although individually distinct, and never all working together in their lifetimes, they had a shared affinity that has united them posthumously. Nick Curnow Paintings Specialist ... More | | 
Alex Harris (American, born 1949), And the People Could Fly in Columbia, South Carolina, 2018, pigmented inkjet print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, commissioned with funds from the H.B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust and the Picturing the South Fund. © Alex Harris.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art debuts more than 60 new works by North Carolinabased photographer Alex Harris in the latest exhibition for its Picturing the South series: Our Strange New Land: Photographs by Alex Harris (Nov. 29, 2019 May 3, 2020). Established in 1996, Picturing the South is a distinctive initiative that asks noted photographers to turn their lenses toward the American South to create work for the Highs collection. For his commission, Harris made photographs on independent film sets throughout the South to explore how the region is seen, imagined and created by contemporary visual storytellers. We are delighted to acquire ... More | | 
Aleksander Lobanov, Untitled, between 1960 and 2003. Pasted photograph sewn with copper wire on cardboard, plastic, 16 x 11.5 x 1.5 cm. Photo: AN Collection de lArt Brut, Lausanne.
LAUSANNE.- The fourth Art Brut Biennial invites visitors to further discover the Lausanne museum's wealth of holdings, with an eye to the presence of theatre in Art Brut. Works by a selection of twenty-eight creators are presented through costumes, sculptures, drawings, paintings, photographs and cutouts. These portray various theatrical worlds, be they formal several by Victorien Sardou come to mind or contextual, for instance pieces by Helga Goetze. Moreover, the presentation of documents from the museum archival holdings in the form of films, sounds and images adds a further dimension to the selection on display, helping viewers understand the creative process behind the works. The creators in this show use various theatre codes to build up projects from which they themselves ... More |
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 Exhibition provides the most comprehensive insight into van der Stokker's oeuvre to dateZURICH.- Lily van der Stokker (b. Den Bosch, Netherlands, 1954) has been renowned since the early 1990s for her playful wall paintings in bright colors. Floral motifs and ornamental clouds are dominant elements in works whose aesthetic and fluorescent palette bring Pop art to mind. Meticulously executed in a time-consuming and labor-intensive process, the murals are based on small-format drawings the artist prepares with scrupulous precision. Simplicity and humor are hallmarks of van der Stokkers oeuvre. Integrated text fragments or affirmative messages such as Friendly Good, or Hoi often directly address the viewer. Recurrent concerns in her art revolve around the stereotype of femininity, ostensible banalities, but also the economics of art and everyday life or the artists existence. Her playful use of color can also be read as a challenge ... More Placido Domingo says harassment accusations 'a nightmare'MADRID (AFP).- Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo said Friday he has faced a "nightmare" since he was accused early this year by multiple women of sexual harassment. The famed singer -- who has been a conductor and director of some of the world's most prestigious opera houses -- has been accused by at least 20 women of forcibly kissing, grabbing or fondling them in incidents dating back to at least the 1980s. He has strongly disputed the accusations. "Without a doubt these have been the most difficult months of my life. Unimaginable," the 78-year-old said during an interview published in online Spanish newspaper El Confidencial. "I feel judged, condemned and sentenced, but I have not been accused of any crime... I continue to work, study, rehearse and perform. This gives me the serenity I need to face this nightmare," he added. The accusations, ... More An appetite for masterpieces and foodNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Museums, like department stores and airports, are now counting food among their attractions. They recognize that after a few hours of John Singer Sargent or Betye Saar visitors might have an appetite for a plate of pasta or a juicy burger instead of basic coffee-shop fare. The following museum restaurants would be worth a meal even if not surrounded by masterpieces. Most of them can be visited independently of the museums. A serene oasis filled with trees and plants is where the chef de cuisine, Tsering Nyima, touches down on several Asian destinations. Steamed Chinese dumplings served in bamboo baskets share the menu with Indian samosas, Korean japchae glass noodles and a Japanese bento box assortment. Wine and beer are served. Keep the Garden Court Café in mind when visiting the Frick Collection ... More Jadeite bangle achieves $5.85 million at Tiancheng International Jewellery and Jadeite Autumn AuctionHONG KONG.- Tiancheng International Jewellery and Jadeite Autumn Auction 2019 realised excellent results today, totaling HK$ 108,048,000／US$ 13,852,308. Many lots were sold for remarkable prices and the jadeite section was particularly successful, achieving an impressive sold rate of over 90%. Jadeite pieces were highly sought-after and achieved fantastic prices. The top lot was a Very Important Jadeite Bangle of exceptional quality and ample proportions. Bidding opened at HK$15 million and after a competitive bidding battle of 16 bids, the bangle was eventually sold to a telephone bidder for a spectacular HK$ 45,600,000／US$ 5,846,154, nearly doubling the pre-sale estimate. With its saturated emerald green colour, marvellous luminescence and elegant contours, this outstanding bangle exemplifies the very essence of Chinese culture and virtue. ... More Shapero Rare Books opens an exhibition of new works by Sir Quentin BlakeLONDON.- Shapero Rare Books is presenting an exhibition of new works by Sir Quentin Blake. Anthology of Readers is comprised of sixty pen, ink & watercolour drawings, all of which affectionately caricature people who love books. Famous for his work with Roald Dahl he provided the illustrations for The incredible Mr Fox, Matilda, The BFG and Charlie and Chocolate Factory, amongst others Anthology follows a highly-acclaimed presentation of Blakes work at Hastings Contemporary in the summer. The artworks, in various formats, are executed in the artists trademark style, which Daily Telegraph writer Melanie McDonagh described as anarchic, moral, infinitely subversive, sometimes vicious, socially acute [and] sparse. Prints of four of the original artworks, each in a limited edition of 25, also are available, and to mark the exhibition, Shapero has ... More Sotheby's Art of Travel online auction open for biddingLONDON.- This December, Sothebys will host Art of Travel, a new themed auction exploring the enduring allure of travel. In the 19th century, art and society were transformed by the possibilities offered by ever more affordable and convenient travel and transport. Views by artist-travellers of inspiring destinations around Europe and further afield, from Marrakech to Venice, and Paris to Istanbul, will lead the sale. For the first time at Sothebys these will be presented together with a diverse selection of photographs, maps, and luxury travel collectibles, including Louis Vuitton vintage luggage. This online sale will launch with a selection of highlights on view at Belmond Cadogan Hotel on 2 December, and will remain open for bidding until the 12. Highlights will also be on public view in Sothebys New Bond Street galleries from 7 to 11 December. Richard Lowkes, ... More Holly's International Autumn Auctions conclude: HK$526 million achievedHONG KONG.- Hollys International 2019 Autumn Auctions concluded successfully on 24th November. The six curated sales offered by four departments were highly successful, with total proceeds reaching almost HK$526 million. Among the lots on offer, Album of Jinlings Ten Places of Interest by Dong Gao (1740 - 1808) sold for a record high of HK$83,780,000 and emerging as the top lot of the season. Dr. Li Yifei, founder of Hollys International Auction Co., Ltd., commented, The strong results achieved in our Autumn sales is a proof of Hong Kong remaining as a vital art hub in the global art market. Today, the sales by all four departments were met with very enthusiastic bidding from collectors. We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all of our friends who came to support us despite the social unrest. This support will become a driving force ... More Exhibition inspired by the classical painterly representation of interiors opens at Haus der KunstMUNICH.- Today the far-reaching effects of global networks historically, economically, politically and culturally permeate the everyday life and private realm of all individuals. At the same time, positions based on concepts of a homogenous national and cultural identity are gaining ground. Interiorities confronts this development and embarks on a search for alternative strategies. The exhibition explores the fabric of transnational and fluid identity and aesthetically formulates new and complex images of a fragmented self. Based on the art historical genre of interior painting, Interiorities unites four artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Leonor Antunes, Henrike Naumann and Adriana Varejão who explore the relationship between interior and exterior space. Whether as an imaginary or real setting, as metaphor or a concrete site for intimate ... More Conversing with Leaves: Exhibition of works by Uriel Orlow on view at Kunsthalle MainzMAINZ.- Trees as actors in history, the migration of flowers, and medicinal plants testifying to neo-extractivismthese are some of the themes that Uriel Orlow pursues in his research-based art. Concrete circumstances and developments invariably form the basis of his multi-layered multi-media works. In recent years his attention has mainly focused on entanglements between the African continent and Europe. Plants are both the narrators and protagonists here, anchoring all the events in the present day. For his solo show at Kunsthalle Mainz the artist has developed a route through the exhibition that takes visitors room by room from the origins of colonialism via the anti-apartheid movement through to contemporary concerns. The Memory of Trees is a series of large-format black-and-white photographs of trees, which are presented as historical witnesses. Each ... More Eleanor Macnair's Surrealists rendered in Play Doh at Elephant WestLONDON.- Innovative new art space, Elephant West launched its Surrealism Season this November with a series of playful photographic portraits of some of the most iconic surrealists of the 20th century, rendered entirely in Play-Doh by artist Eleanor Macnair. Inspired by a series of self-portraits of André Breton, the father of Surrealism, and his circle taken in photomatons or photo booths in Paris in the 1920s, Macnair has rendered nine of these early 20th century selfies in her own disposable material of choice, Play-Doh. Working from images found on the internet, the original photographs are reinterpreted in lurid colour, and thrown back into the digital realmand now, blown up to giant size and plastered on the walls of Elephant West. Macnairs reimagined, technicolor portraits of André Breton, Salvador Dali, Suzanne Muzard, Paul Eluard, Louis ... More rosenfeld porcini opens a joint exhibition of works by Enrique Brinkmann and Verónica VázquezLONDON.- rosenfeld porcini is hosting a joint exhibition of the Spanish artist Enrique Brinkmann and the Uruguayan Verónica Vázquez. The exhibition is a collaboration between rosenfeld porcini gallery in London and Piero Atchugarry Gallery. A second exhibition featuring the same artists will open at Atchugarry Art Center in Miami in October 2020. The intense responses which the artworks of both Enrique Brinkmann and Verónica Vázquez conjure up in us relate to one of the principle dilemmas which govern our lives: the need for order, whilst contemporaneously nurturing a primal desire for freedom. The evident sense of structure and geometry, which exists in nearly all their works, is subsequently torpedoed by what takes place within the apparently rational space. The emotivity derives from that unresolvable tension; the coldness which ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian architect Andrea Palladio was born  November 30, 1508. Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 - 19 August 1580) was an architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered the most influential individual in the history of Western architecture. All of his buildings are located in what was the Venetian Republic, but his teachings, summarized in the architectural treatise I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture), gained him wide recognition. The city of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In this image: A Royal Academy of Arts staff looks over a model of the Villa Emo at the Royal Academy in London, Britain, 27 January, 2009. The Royal Academy of Arts showed the first exhibition devoted to one of Italy's greatest architects Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) to be held in London. The exhibit follows Palladio's career, from the earlier palazzi in Vicenza, the Basilica and his innovative solutions to rural buildings.
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