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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Sainte Marguerite. Panneau de chêne, deux planches, non parqueté, 33 x 45,7 cm.
LILLE (AFP).- A lost sketch by Flemish Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens was sold at auction on Sunday for $1.46 million (1.3 million euros) after being rediscovered due to an inheritance, French auctioneers said. The work which depicts Saint Margaret dressed in a red and white dress holding a cross in her hand and crushing a dragon dates from 1620, according to the Mercier auction house in Lille in northern France. "This is the sketch that served as a model for one of the very large panels destined for the ceiling of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp," auctioneer Patrick Deguines told AFP. In 1620, 39 panels were commissioned from Rubens for the church which was to become one of the largest in Flanders and "by its magnificence the spearhead of the Catholic Church in its fight with its Protestant rival", according to Mercier. "These big panels were done by the whole workshop with the help of Rubens' students but the sketches were entirely painted by the master who refused to sell them," Deguines added. Th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on March 27, 2019 shows weight stones that were part of an ancient olive press at the site of the remains of a Jewish village from the Hasmonean period (approximately 2000-years-old), which are currently being uncovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), in the Sharafat neighborhood of Jerusalem. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP
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| | | Fossil 'mother lode' records Earth-shaking asteroid's impact: study | | Moderna Museet receives donation from the Irving Penn Foundation | | Christie's Restitution Department facilitates the return of Nazi-looted painting |
Robert DePalma and Jan Smit examine a sample at Tanis, North Dakota. Photo: Robert DePalma/University of Kansas.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Scientists in the US say they have discovered the fossilized remains of a mass of creatures that died minutes after a huge asteroid slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago, sealing the fate of the dinosaurs. In a paper to be published Monday, a team of paleontologists headquartered at the University of Kansas say they found a "mother lode of exquisitely preserved animal and fish fossils" in what is now North Dakota. The asteroid's impact in what is now Mexico was the most cataclysmic event ever known to befall Earth, eradicating 75 percent of the planet's animal and plant species, extinguishing the dinosaurs and paving the way for the rise of humans. Researchers believe the impact set off fast-moving, seismic surges that triggered a sudden, massive torrent of water and debris from an arm of an inland sea known as the Western Interior Seaway. At the ... More | |
Irving Penn, 1,00 Year Old Eggs, 2003. Conde Nast.
STOCKHOLM.- The Irving Penn Foundation has donated eight photographs to Moderna Museet. The Museum already has one of the worlds largest collections of Irving Penns photographs, most of which was donated by Penn himself. Irving Penn (19172009) had a long, successful career, and many others have been inspired by his photographs and methods. From the mid-1940s, Penn worked for the fashion magazine Vogue, and he followed the annual haute couture shows in Paris closely until the late 1970s. Early on in his career, Penn developed a minimalist focus on form and surface a style he continued to refine and never abandoned. In 1995, he donated a collection of 100 photographs to the Moderna Museet collection, in memory of his Swedish-born wife, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (1911-1992). In connection with the 100th anniversary of Irving Penns birth in 2017, the Irving Penn Foundation decided to donate a further eight photograph ... More | |
Salomon Koninck, (Amsterdam 1609 1656), A Scholar Sharpening His Quill. Signed and dated SKoninck 1639. Oil on panel. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies confirmed it has facilitated the successful return of a 17th century Dutch Old Master painting confiscated by the Nazis from a renowned French private collection in 1943 during the Nazi occupation of France. Solomon Konincks A Scholar Sharpening His Quill, painted in 1639, will be returned to the heirs of Adolphe Schloss (1842-1911) on Monday April 1 at the Consulate General of France in New York under the auspices of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs for the French Republic. The ceremony, organized with the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, will include representatives from the Schloss family, the FBI Art Crime Team, and Christies. Confiscated by the Nazis in France in 1943, the painting was rediscovered by Christies Restitution Research ... More |
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| | | Modern 20th century works and coveted Pop Art prints lead Phillips' Auction of Editions & Works on Paper | | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam acquires Infe©ted Mondrian #2 by ground-breaking artist collective General Idea | | Unknown footage of John Lennon, Yoko Ono resurfaces after 50 years |
Roy Lichtenstein, Thinking Nude, from Nude Series, 1994 (detail). Estimate: $120,000-180,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, 23 April, Phillips will host its first Editions & Works on Paper sale of the season in New York. Offering over 340 lots, the auction will be comprised of examples that represent the milestones of artistic achievement over the last hundred years. Works by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, among others, will be offered across the Day, Afternoon and Evening sale sessions. Kelly Troester and Cary Leibowitz, Phillips Worldwide Co-Heads of Editions, said, Following the Editions departments record-breaking year in 2018 and exceptional performance this January in London, we are delighted to host our first New York sale of the year. We have seen a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in recent seasons from collectors across the globe for rare and high-quality prints and multiples. Our April sale offers a broad and wonderful selection of modern and contempor ... More | |
Infe©ted Mondrian #2 (1994) by General Idea was acquired with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund and the International Collector Circle and Curator Circle of the Stedelijk Museum Foundation.
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum has acquired the painting Infe©ted Mondrian #2 (1994) by the artists collective General Idea. The work is part of the last, internationally renowned series Imagevirus, and a direct copy of a painting by Piet Mondriaan, but is contaminated with a green patch. By infecting modernist icons with the so-called GI virus, the artists Jorge Zontal, Felix Partz and AA Bronson of General Idea wanted to openly address the AIDS crisis, a central theme in their work. Infe©ted Mondrian #2 is on view in STEDELIJK BASE, the permanent installation of the collection. The purchase was made with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund and the Stedelijk Museum Foundation. Beatrice von Bormann: The purchase of Infe©ted Mondrian #2 fills an important gap in the collection of works by General Idea that the Stedelijk Museum already owns. It is also a critical addition to the large collection of abs ... More | |
This file photo taken on March 25, 1969 shows Beatles member John Lennon (L) and his wife Yoko Ono receiving journalists in the bedroom of the Hilton hotel in Amsterdam, during their honeymoon in Europe. ANP / AFP.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Fifty years after John Lennon and Yoko Ono famously staged a honeymoon "bed-in" for peace in an Amsterdam hotel, a Dutchman has unearthed 30 minutes of colour footage of the event from his cellar. The couple spent a week mostly under the sheets at the Hilton hotel to spread a pacifist message -- smoking, eating, singing and playing guitar while receiving journalists for interviews. The European leg of their honeymoon, which included an unusual press conference in Vienna with the glamour pair obscured inside a giant "bag", was a huge media event -- each step captured by photographers and videographers. This included a Dutch team shooting footage for a two-part, 84-minute documentary, a kind of video diary filmed at the pair's request. It was broadcast only once, shortly after the honeymoon, and shown at the ... More |
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| | | The Cincinnati Art Museum to make landmark acquisition of photographer Nancy Rexroth's archive | | Julio Le Parc's first exhibition in Asia on view at Perrotin Hong Kong | | 26 artworks acquired for UK collections following fig-futures |
Nancy Rexroth (b. 1946), United States, My Mother, Arlington, Virginia, 1967, toned gelatin silver print © The 1988 Rexroth Family Trust.
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Cincinnati Art Museum announces a landmark acquisition agreement to form The Nancy Rexroth Collection, which will bring together over 300 rare and vintage photographic works, including a complete set of pictures from the 1977 and 2017 editions of the artists iconic photobook, IOWA. The acquisition marks the creation of the definitive collection of Rexroths artistic achievementsa chapter of photographic history the Cincinnati Art Museum is proud to steward. A photographic pioneer in the 1970s, Nancy Rexroth (American, b. 1946) is best known for her virtuosic use of the Diana camera, a plastic device manufactured to be a toy. She was introduced to the Diana during graduate studies at Ohio University, where she earned her MFA in 1971. Between 1969 and 1976, with the aid of an NEA grant, Rexroth created a body of Diana images that stands as a unique achievement in photographic history. Her pictures of sm ... More | |
View of the exhibition Light Mirror at Perrotin Hong Kong. Photo: Ringo Cheung © Julio Le Parc / ADAGP, Paris & SACK, Seoul 2019. Courtesy of the artist & Perrotin.
HONG KONG.- Perrotin Hong Kong is presenting Light - Mirror, the first exhibition dedicated to the Paris-based Argentine artist Julio Le Parc in Asia, and his third with the gallery following his inaugural show in New York in 2016, and Bifurcations in Paris in 2017. The 90-year-old pioneer of op art and kinetic art has conceived two site-specific installations for this exhibition, which also comprises recent mobiles and paintings. Born in 1928, Le Parc gained international recognition as one of the leading figures of the Groupe de Recherche dArt Visuel (GRAV), which he cofounded in Paris in 1960 along with François Morellet, Francisco Sobrino, Yvaral, Horacio Garcia Rossi, and Joël Stein. The collective remained active until 1968, two years after Le Parc was awarded the International Grand Prize for Painting at the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966. Geometric abstraction, especially the canonic works of Piet Mondrian and ... More | |
Eva Rothschild, Double Eclipse, 2017, Norwich Castle Museum.
LONDON.- One year of touring the UK, 16 week long shows, four galleries, several community spaces and 18 artists later, fig-futures announced that 26 new art works have been acquired for the collections of the participating institutions. fig-futures launched in January 2018 with the ambition to build both a new collecting model for the country, as well as artist and curatorial development opportunities for galleries and practitioners outside the capital. It built on the ideas developed by fig-2, where 50 consecutive week-long exhibitions took place in 50 weeks at the ICA, London in 2015. Now, in 2019, as the final exhibition closes, fig-futures announced this major set of acquisitions, benefiting several regions across the UK, from Lancashire to Cornwall, via East Anglia and the Midlands. Artworks acquired range from performance works, films, large scale sculptures, photography and paintings to durational dance pieces, diversifying the collections the artworks will go ... More |
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| | | China Guardian Hong Kong Spring Auctions 2019 conclude with 7 sales bringing US$ 48M | | Andy Warhol: Legendary star artist, cynic, or wayward follower? | | Artworks amplify the relationship between land and the human body |
Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) 01.03.99 HK$ 37,710,000 / US$ 4,835,000.
HONG KONG.- China Guardian Hong Kong Spring Auctions 2019 concluded on 31 March with 7 sales in 4 categories, namely Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy, Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, as well as Jewellery, Watches and Luxury Goods, bringing a total of HK$ 372 million / US$ 48 million. Ms. Hu Yanyan, President of China Guardian (HK) Auctions Co., Ltd, says, The spring auction season in Hong Kong this year opened with 7 sales at China Guardian (Hong Kong) bringing a total of HK$ 372 million / US$ 48 million. Our flagship sales of Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy were led by Ming dynasty painter Lan Yings album leaves Landscapes, which fetched HK$ 29.8 million / US$3.8 million. Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art continued to be strong, bringing an impressive total well over HK$ 100 million / US$ 13 million, with Zao ... More | |
Richard Forrest. Photo: Helena Toresdotter.
MALMO.- Warhol 1968 opened at Moderna Museet Malmö. In the Turbine Hall, visitors can discover an entirely new side of the legendary Andy Warhol a name that most of us know, but perhaps only on the surface. The exhibition features a series of unique works that are being shown for the first time at Moderna Museet Malmö. Its a chance for visitors to experience a unique collection of the album covers Warhol designed, his famous cow wallpaper, Ten-Foot Flowers, Electric Chair, and more. 1968 was a politically tumultuous year both in Sweden and in the rest of the world. It was also a dramatic year for Andy Warhol. And that is what well explore in the exhibition Warhol 1968, which opened on March 30 at Moderna Museet Malmö. In 1968 Andy Warhol had his very first solo museum exhibition, and it was at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Just a few months after it closed, he was shot in an attempt to murder him. After that, ... More | |
Robert Smithson (American, 19381973), Slant Piece, 196976. Mirror and rock salt. Allen Memorial Art Museum, gift of the Buckeye Trust in memory of Ruth C. Roush (OC 1934), 1980.22.
OBERLIN, OH.- Through June 23, an exhibition at the Allen Memorial Art Museum explores the expansive legacy of the Land art movement that emerged in the 1960s in revolt against white-walled museums and galleries as the primary places to encounter art. The Body is the Map: Approaches to Land in the Americas After 1960 presents more than 40 works from the Allens collection. Beginning in the 1960s, artists such as Christo, Mary Miss, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, and Robert Smithson journeyed outside of New York to create monumental works out in the land, frequently using earth itself as a sculptural material. Moving art outdoors challenged the materiality, spatiality, and temporality of art as most understood it at the time, says Andrea Gyorody, the museums Ellen ... More |
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Edward Weston and Tina Modotti: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection
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Outdoor media company Smartbox transforms train station restrooms into art galleries
SYDNEY.- Public restrooms across Sydney Trains stations will soon be transformed into art galleries by outdoor media company Smartbox. Reframed, a new digital art exhibition series, launches this April. With Reframed, commuters are introduced to up and coming artists and their work. Selecting a new emerging artist to be displayed annually, the exhibition gives the opportunity for the artists to have their work viewed by commuters using the Sydney Trains network. The artist selected for the exhibition is Brisbane based photographer and stylist Evelina Fietisova. Reframed is an artistic viewing, made possible by outdoor media company Smartbox. Relatively new to the Australian scene, Smartbox is an automated and interactive data-led retail and advertising network reframing the way advertisers speak to consumers. For Smartbox the aim of Reframed ... More
Catholic priests burn Harry Potter books in Poland
WARSAW (AFP).- Catholic priests in Poland burned books they say are sacrilegious this weekend, including tomes from British author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of fantasy novels. "We obey the Word," priests said in a Facebook post showing photographs of the public book burning and quoting Biblical passages from the book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament. One passage exhorting believers to destroy the enemies of God includes the command to "burn their idols in the fire". The post, on a page run by the Catholic "SMS from Heaven" evangelical group, stirred controversy and has gone viral. Photographs show three priests carrying a basket of books and other items, including an African-styled face mask through a church to an outside fire pit. Priests are seen saying prayers over the fire pit where other items, including a book ... More
Art Central 2019 draws to a close
HONG KONG.- Art Central, presented with Lead Partner United Overseas Bank (UOB), was successfully concluded on 31 March. With 107 participating galleries from Asia and across the globe, the Fair presented a dynamic and thoughtful selection of artworks and progressive curated programmes, which widely appealed to collectors, art enthusiasts, and the art-loving public. The five-day programme attracted 37,313 visitors, reaffirming its position as one of Hong Kong Art Weeks flagship events with the blend of private and institutional interest creating strong sales throughout the week. Charles Ross, Managing Director, Art Central says, We are proud that Art Central once again presented a showcase of some of the best of contemporary art practices from Asia and across the globe. The Fair experience was elevated by high-quality and vibrant programming. ... More
University of Michigan Museum of Art reinstalls its iconic gallery
ANN ARBOR, MICH.- On April 2, the University of Michigan Museum of Art opens Collection Ensemble, the first major reinstallation of UMMA's historic entry space in over a decade. The reinstallation highlights the breadth and variety of the Museums collection and juxtaposes works of art from different artists, periods, areas, and media. The display, set against black walls, uses the dramatic quality of the Greek revival architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall. The installation is organized around a very large photograph of a Baroque church by Candida Höfer (Basilica do Palácio Nacional de Mafra III 2006). From this centerpiece, the works of art are grouped in scenes between and around the tall white columns of the entry, and the entire installation becomes a series of distinctive vignettes leaving open for the visitors a range of interpretations. The ... More
"1919: Peace?" Special exhibition opens at National WWI Museum and Memorial
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The World War I armistice on Nov. 11, 1918 ended fighting on the Western Front, but the warand its lasting effectsdid not end even with the signing of the Treaty of Paris at Versailles on June 28, 1919. Men and women still lost their lives either directly from continuing hostilities or from lingering wounds and diseases. The influenza epidemic continued unabated until the summer of 1919. From the dark hostile woods of North Russia to the uneasy peace along the Rhine in occupied Germany, death and the threat of war reigniting continued. 1919: Peace?, the latest special exhibition at the National WWI Museum and Memorial featuring more than 100 objects and documents never previously exhibited, opens Tuesday, April 2 and examines the incredibly complex situations found throughout the world in the wake of the first truly global ... More
First solo exhibition of Gina Beavers opens at MoMA PS1
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition of New York-based painter Gina Beavers (American, b. 1974), who transforms digital images appropriated from social media and the Internet into thickly layered compositions that border on sculpture. Across a recurring repertoire of subject matter―from photos hashtagged #FoodPorn to step-by-step cosmetics tutorials―Beaverss work offers uncanny and often unsettling visions of our digitally mediated lives. On view from March 31 through September 2, 2019, Gina Beavers: The Life I Deserve surveys the artists recent work through more than forty paintings made over the past decade. Built up through dense accumulations of acrylic medium or foam and imbued with almost cinematic color, Beaverss works are at once repulsive and alluring, highlighting the gap between our ... More
Sotheby's Hong Kong witnessed the highest contemporary art sales in Asia totalling US$102 million
HONG KONG.- Todays sales of Contemporary Art in Hong Kong have just concluded, bringing the total for Contemporary Art sold at Sothebys to HK$802 million / US$102 million. Yuki Terase, Sothebys Head of Contemporary Art, Asia, commented: When the hammer fell on the final lot of tonights evening sale, Sothebys concluded what now stands as the highest totaling series of Contemporary sales ever staged in Asia a testament not only to pan-Asian demand, but also to our ability to stage innovative and exciting auctions that set new benchmarks for the international market. In the evening sale, we are deeply honoured to have set a new auction record for Kusama Yayoi, demonstrating yet again the importance of Hong Kong in the artists market. We also achieved a new auction record for Ethiopian-born female artist Julie Mehretu in what was ... More
Museum receives $1.5 million to endow a garden curator position
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens has received an $800,000 gift to name and endow the position of Garden Curator, thanks to the generosity of the Lorena Lory Doolittle and her family. The gift allows the Museum to create The Doolittle Family Garden Curator position, which will work with the Museum team to create meaningful, impactful, and artful opportunities that share the Museums historic Gardens with visitors in engaging and inspiring ways. With this gift, Lory Doolittle and her family help assure that the treasures of landscape architecture here at the Cummer Museum will be stewarded into the future, states Adam Levine, Ph.D., the Museums George W. and Kathleen I. Gibbs Director & Chief Executive Officer. The Cummer Museum houses masterpieces in its galleries by Rubens, Turner, and Degas, ... More
Lyon & Turnbull inaugural London auction: Artist records achieved
LONDON.- Artist records were broken at Lyon & Turnbulls inaugural Modern Made auction in London on 27 March. The innovative sale of 270 lots of British and international post-war art, sculpture, design and ceramics held at the Mall Galleries, SW1, received plaudits from the dealing and collecting community as it posted a total of £1m (including premium). The financial highlight was provided by an auction record for Malaysian modernist painter and poet Abdul Latiff Mohidin (b.1938). Acquired by the north of England vendor in London in the early 1970s, Growth I, signed and dated 1968, was sold at a record £245,000 to a phone bidder against an underbidder in a busy saleroom against an estimate of £30,000-50,000. The 2ft 6in (77cm) square oil dates from the latter part of Mohidins so-called Pago Pago period that brought him his first wave of international ... More
The estate of the Leonrod family achieves excellent results at 78th Auction of Hermann Historica
MUNICH.- During the run-up to the auction, the sale of the large estate belonging to the significant von Leonrod family had attracted a great deal of interest, even in international circles; nonetheless, the final hammer prices surpassed even the highest expectations by far. It was yet another occasion for Hermann Historica to demonstrate its long-standing expertise in successfully handling and auctioning complete collections and entire estates. The end of the day saw top-notch results realised and starting prices eclipsed, with estimates often multiplied many times over, while barely a single lot remained unsold. Inextricably bound up with the history of Bavaria, countless members of the von Leonrod dynasty also helped shape the fortunes of the federal state. A great many eminently honourable careers in the military, the civil service and the clergy can be ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, botanist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian was born April 02, 1647. Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 - 13 January 1717) was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly. In this image: Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647 - 1717), Dwarf Caiman and False Coral Snake from The Insects of Suriname, 1719. Hand-colored etching. 87.5 x 53 cm EX.2008.2.14. Universiteitsbibliotheek, Groningen, Netherlands, 699Z. Photo: Dirk Fennema, Haren (Netherlands).
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