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French artist Dove Allouche poses during the exhibition "Versailles-Visible/Invisible", at the Cotelle Gallery of the Palace of Versailles, western suburbs of Paris, on May 13, 2019. For the 12th exhibition of contemporary art, the Palace of Versailles is bringing together five internationally renowned photographers from May 14 to October 20, 2019. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP.
PARIS.- The intimate surroundings of the Trianon will be the setting for the Palace of Versailles 12th exhibition of modern art. Versailles Visible/Invisible leads us as if through the antique darkroom of five photographers: Dove Allouche, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Eric Poitevin and Viviane Sassen, who will unveil works they have created specially to resonate with the chosen setting. This exhibition showcases their original and often surprising perspectives on not only the palaces most well-known spaces, but also its hidden gems.The works will reveal a new Versailles, between design and heritage. Photographer, printmaker and designer Dove Allouche, who was born in Paris in 1972, likes to reveal that which is simultaneously obvious and invisible. Like the concept of magic eye images, he endeavours to depict things that are too close to the eye to be seen, that are right there in front of us but through w ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An original painting for the poster art of the James Bond movie "You Only Live Twice" by artist Robert McGinnis that will be auctioned for an estimated $20-30,000.00 by Bonhams auctioneers on May 14 as part of the "Wonders of the Galaxy - Science Fiction and Fantasy in Film" auction in Hollywood, California on May 13, 2019. Mark RALSTON / AFP
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| | | Hollywood icon Doris Day dead at 97 | | Two works from the collection of Charles Aznavour will be offered at Christie's Paris in June | | Rare Lowry painting of cricket match to appear at auction this summer |
This undated file photo shows US actress Doris Day, well known for her romantic/comedy roles in Hollywood films of the 1950's and early 1960's. HO / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Doris Day, the US screen icon famed for her wholesome, girl-next-door appeal in a string of box office hits, died Monday at age 97, her foundation said. The Doris Day Animal Foundation said the actress and animal rights activist died at her Carmel Valley, California home, after a short illness. "Day had been in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia, resulting in her death," the foundation said in a statement. "She was surrounded by a few close friends as she passed." During much of her career, Day reigned as Hollywood's top female box office attraction, a darling of an adoring public who snapped up tickets to see her in musicals, comedies, suspense thrillers and westerns. The perky blonde star, whose career spanned nearly 40 movies from 1948 through 1968, excelled in one particular film genre of the day ... More | |
César (1921-1998), Plaque Tesconi signed César (on the front of the base); numbered and with the foundry mark 6/8 FONDERIA TESCONI PIETRASANTA (on the back of the base), bronze with brown patina, 32¼ x 20⅛ x 9⅞ in. Conceived in 1958 and executed in 1976-1983, this work is number six from an edition of eight and two artist's proof. 60,000-80,000.© Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- The Post-War and Contemporary Art department will present two works of art coming from the personal collection of Charles Aznavour (1924-2018). The singer, who passed last year, was passionate about art as evidenced by the two sculptures offered at auction on 4 June. La Tauromachie is probably one of the most emblematic work by Germaine Richier (1902-1959). Conceived by the artist in 1953 and realised in an edition of 11, this bronze sculpture with a gold patina was acquired by Charles Aznavour from his friend, the singer Fred Mella, member of the Compagnons de la chanson. Present in several prestigious institutional collections (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; ... More | |
L.S. Lowry, A Cricket Match, 1938 (detail), oil on board, 45.5 x 61cm (est. £800,000 1,200,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- One of Britains best-loved artists, L.S. Lowry turned his paintbrush to cricket on no more than a handful of occasions. When it last appeared on the market in its auction debut at Sothebys in June 1996, it set the then world record for a work by the artist at £282,000. It will now be offered as a highlight of Sothebys Modern & Post-War British Art Evening Sale on 18 June, with an estimate of £800,000 1,200,000. The painting will first be unveiled at The Lowry in Salford not far from the Old Trafford Cricket Ground. The special five-day view at The Lowry precedes a glorious summer of cricket with the much-anticipated ICC Cricket World Cup, with major venues across England and Wales, including Old Trafford, set to host fixtures. A Cricket Match will then return to London for the pre-sale exhibition in New Bond Street from 14 17 June. Lowrys interest in sporting occasions was ... More |
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| | | Large-scale new works by Sean Scully presented in collaboration with Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore | | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers sets record prices with 'The Somerson Collection' | | RM Sotheby's to offer the oldest car to wear the Porsche badge |
Sean Scully, Opulent Ascension (detail), 2019.
VENICE.- Sean Scully presents Human: an exhibition of more than forty recent works and new, unseen pieces at the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. The Benedictine monks, resident at San Giorgio, promote the dialogue between the church and contemporary artists, within the cultural activities of their non-profit programme, the Benedicti Claustra. The celebrated Irish-born abstract artist has created a series of new sculptures, paintings, stained glass windows and works on paper directly inspired by the monks Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore, their vast illuminated manuscript collections and the 16th century Benedictine church. Scullys instantly-recognisable visual vocabulary of horizontal and vertical stripes, which reflect fifty years of constant refining, transforms every corner of the High Renaissance church, designed four centuries ago by the legendary architect Andrea Palladio. Scullys response to this place of worship and contemplation includes a major ... More | |
The Kalo Shop, pendant necklace, 14K yellow gold, blister pearl, dog tooth pearl. Estimate $5,000-7,000. Sold for $20,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- On May 5, Toomey & Co. offered items from The Paul & Terry Somerson Collection of 20th and 21st Century Metalwork and Jewelry. This carefully curated, single-owner catalog sale drew on the largest private collection of American Arts & Crafts metalwork and jewelry. The auction achieved over $650K in 500 lots of a relatively niche collecting category. The sell-through rate was an astounding 93% for The Somerson Collection and 84% of the lots that sold, including buyers premium, realized prices within or well above their pre-auction estimates. Bidding was international, but American private collectors and important institutions competed to secure the vast majority of the lots. This significant activity attests to the strong renewal of collecting interest in metalwork and jewelry by American Arts & Crafts makers. Paul Somerson was a highly successful tech ... More | |
The only surviving example and the personal car of Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche, the Type 64 is the direct ancestor of the Porsche 356. Photo: Staud Studios © 2019 Courtesy of RM Sothebys.
BLENHEIM.- RM Sothebys announced it has secured the oldest car to wear the Porsche badge for its record-setting Monterey salethe only surviving 1939 Porsche Type 64 Berlin-Rome, No. 3. RM Sothebys has sold some of the worlds most important Porsches at auction in recent years, including significant models across the marques seven decades of production history at the Porsche 70th Anniversary Auction held at Porsche Cars North America headquarters in 2018. The Type 64 predates the first production Porschewhat would become known as the 356. A strive for technological advancement in motor car performance drove the motorsport industry in the 1920s and 1930s, resulting in some of the most iconic race cars of the period, which served as great sources of national pride. The advent of World War II saw Professor ... More |
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| | | The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum welcomes Director Cody Hartley | | Call to save judge's copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover used in famous obscenity trial | | Piguet Auction House announces highlights included in its May grand sales |
Cody Hartley, Director of the Georgia OKeeffe Museum, 2019 © Georgia OKeeffe Museum.
SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia OKeeffe Museum forges an exciting path for its future with the announcement of its new Director, Cody Hartley, PhD. He previously served as the Museums Director of Curatorial Affairs, its Senior Director of Collections and Interpretation, and, most recently, its Acting Director. Hartley has been a respected and innovative senior member of staff at the OKeeffe since 2013, leading a division of departments that included curatorial, conservation, and education teams, as well as the library, archives, research center, and historic properties. In that time, Hartley supported numerous exhibitions, including a blockbuster international retrospective Georgia OKeeffe at the Tate Modern. He was the key architect behind the record-breaking sale of Georgia OKeeffes Jimson Weed for $44.4 million, the proceeds of which established an acquisitions endowment for the Museum. Hartley has also trans ... More | |
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover.
LONDON.- The annotated copy of Lady Chatterleys Lover used by the judge who presided over the 1960 obscenity trial is at risk of leaving the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the £56,250 asking price. Lady Chatterleys Lover was D. H. Lawrences final novel before his death in 1930. While it was published privately in Florence in 1928 and in France the following year, the book was not published in full in Britain until 1960 due to fear of prosecution. Its eventual publication led to the trial in which this particular copy played a significant role. The book was owned by Sir Laurence Byrne, the judge who presided over the now famous obscenity trial. It contains annotations and two pages of notes with a list of page numbers with short content summaries. The principal hand is that of Byrnes wife Dorothy, who had studied the book and prepared a list of the pages she had annotated. Later notes have been made by the judge himself during the trial. Dorothy ... More | |
A rare first edition of the serialised novel by the author who rose to fame with The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870): The Count of Monte-Christo, Paris 1845-1846 (lot 81, estimate: CHF 40,000-60,000/ EUR 35,100 52,700).
GENEVA.- For the very first time, Bernard and Claire Piguet are presenting their next grand sales in the month of May, a time of great activity in Geneva amongst the world of Fine jewellery and watches. The spring auctions will involve an online auction (1,420 lots) as well as the traditional sales with an auctioneer (1,530 lots). All the lots will be on show during the public viewings (total estimate CHF 3.8 million CHF 5.6 million). Launching the occasion will be the antiquarian and modern book sale with a rare first edition of the Count of Monte-Christo by Alexandre Dumas as well as a collection of signed and autographed works. The sale will move on to luxury handbags and then to tableware with pieces by Paul Storr, Tiffany & Co. and Omar Ramsden. The Antiquities and Ancient art sale will follow, leading ... More |
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| | | Exhibition shows David Hayes' jewelry as sculpture | | A tantalising selection of over 600 objects from East and West come to auction at Matthew Barton Ltd | | Space exploration memorabilia, including Neil Armstrong Collection, brings $4.57 Million at Heritage Auctions |
David Hayes (American, 19312013), four pendants. Brass. Collection of the artist.
ATHENS, GA.- Humans have been crafting and wearing jewelry for the past 5,000 years. These objects of adornment serve as symbols of class, family, gender and originality. More than mere accessories, the miniature sculptures worn on ones person celebrate the union of craft and materials. Artists have built upon both old and new techniques to create jewelry that enriches the experience for the wearer and viewer. The exhibition Sculptured Adornment: The Jewelry of David Hayes focuses on the work of a sculptor who branched into jewelry-making during the 1950s. On view now at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, it will run through July 28. The jewelry included in the intimate exhibition primarily served as gifts for Hayes family members and friends. These unique objects represent the love and care cultivated between individuals over time. Hayes was born in 1931 and grew up in Connecticut during the Dep ... More | |
A particular highlight of the sale is a large bronze figure of Amitayus, a form of the Buddha, dating from 13th/14th century Tibet. Estimate: £15,000-£20,000.
LONDON.- The Asian works of Art Auction on Wednesday 22nd May truly demonstrates the diversity of influences and styles in the vast territories stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Chinese border. A particular highlight of the sale is a large bronze figure of Amitayus, a form of the Buddha, dating from 13th/14th century Tibet. This impressive bronze is inlaid with silver and copper and shows the strong influence from the earlier centuries of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent, before the religion spread North and Eastwards, eventually as far as Japan. Estimate: £15,000-£20,000. Another important religion in India, despite its minority status, is Jainism, which still has important enclaves in the Western regions and in the Deccan, further South. The iconography is similar to and often confused with Buddhism and several bronze images related to the faith are ... More | |
Special keepsakes owned by Armstrong brought top dollar, particularly the moonwalkers collection of pieces of the Wright Flyer.
DALLAS, TX.- Objects flown to the moon and kept for 50 years in the private collection of First Man Mission Commander Neil Armstrong sold for more than $4.57 million during Heritage Auctions $4.47 million Space Exploration auction May 9-11. The sale featured the second presentation of 620 lots of mementos and NASA-related items saved by the first man who walked on the moon, July 20, 1969. Special keepsakes owned by Armstrong brought top dollar, particularly the moonwalkers collection of pieces of the Wright Flyer, which was flown on Apollo 11 to commemorate mankinds first successful airplane flight made by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903. A group of nine pieces sold for a combined $888,750, the most expensive piece being a rare swatch from the wing fabric from flyer, which sold for $175,000, as did a section of the propeller. Additional highlights include: A single ... More |
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Jonathan Berger named Deputy Director of Marketing and External Affairs of Newfields
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- Dr. Charles L. Venable, The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of Newfields announced that Jonathan Berger has been promoted to Deputy Director of Marketing and External Affairs, after serving as the Interim Deputy Director for six months. In conjunction with the senior leadership team, Berger will continue to strengthen the Newfields brand as well as drive large-scale seasonal marketing campaigns designed to increase awareness of exhibitions and events, as well as increase membership, attendance and associated revenue at Newfields. I am delighted to elevate Jonathan permanently to Newfields senior leadership team, said Dr. Venable His broad background in brand management and commercial art fits extremely well with our institutional priorities at this moment in Newfields history. Berger has extensive experience in design, marketing ... More
SAM's Olympic Sculpture Park debuts new site-specific work by Brazilian artist Regina Silveira
SEATTLE, WA.- SAMs Olympic Sculpture Park presents Regina Silveira: Octopus Wrap (May 11, 2019March 8, 2020), a new site-specific installation for the PACCAR Pavilion. Inspired by the parks location at the intersection of several busy thoroughfares, Octopus Wrap envelops the buildings walls in a mind-bending tire track pattern that questions our perception of reality. This is the first time the internationally celebrated artist has shown work in Seattle. Brazilian artist Regina Silveira is renowned for her illusionistic interventions on buildings, city streets, and public parks. These surreal disruptions of public spaces have included exaggerated shadows, swarms of insects, dense clusters of footprints, and nocturnal light projections of animal tracks wandering across building façades. Silveira started her career in the 1950s and has become one of the countrys most ... More
Espace Louis Vuitton in Venice presents a whole new installation by French artist Philippe Parreno
VENICE.- The Fondation Louis Vuitton announced the opening of its new exhibition, Elsewhen, displaying a whole new installation by French artist Philippe Parreno at the Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia. As part of the Collateral Events of the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, this presentation has been produced in the framework of the Fondation Louis Vuitton Hors-lesmurs programme. This programme, inaugurated in 2014, showcases previously unseen holdings of the Collection in the Espaces Louis Vuitton in Tokyo, Munich, Beijing and Venice, thus realizing the Fondations commitment to mount international projects and make them accessible to a broader public. Emerging on the art scene in the early 1990s, Philippe Parreno constantly changes the relationship of an artwork and its exhibition ‒ the very notion of the exhibition is a creative piece; ... More
International fine art leads the sale at Shannon's
MILFORD, CONN.- Important paintings from the 19th century through the contemporary era were offered during Shannons semi-annual Fine Art Auction on Thursday, May 2, 2019 in Milford, Connecticut. Featuring 230 lots, the auction included quality examples of International Fine Art including works by Asian, African, Latin, European and American artists. The sale totaled over $2 Million dollars with 75% of the lots sold. Two exceptional paintings by Le Pho led the sale, both were filled with color and light and featured elegant ladies with flowers. Le The (Tea Time) achieved the highest price in the end selling for $100,000. In a similar manner, Harmonie Jaune (Harmony in Yellow) sold for $75,000. Managing partner, Sandra Germain commented We had a difficult time deciding which one we liked better and our clients did too. It was exciting to watch the energy and enthusiasm ... More
In Lebanon, vintage film posters question Western cliches
BEIRUT (AFP).- A pale woman rides through the desert, flanked by armed men on camels, a palace shimmering in the distance. This is Lebanon -- or so someone thought in the 1950s. At a Beirut cultural centre, Lebanese film buff Abboudi Abu Jawdeh is exhibiting vintage film posters from his collection that show off a lost art, but also offer insight into decades of Western cliches of the Arab world. On a guided tour, the collector gestures towards the desert scene, which is an Italian poster for the 1956 French movie "The Lebanese Mission". "This is from the artist's imagination," the 61-year-old says, standing beside the image featuring the camel riders and a palace resembling India's Taj Mahal. "He knew Lebanon was in the East, so he did this," he says, despite the country having ski slopes and sand only on its Mediterranean beaches. Abu Jawdeh moves along ... More
European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture opens 'FUTUROMA' in Venice
VENICE.- FUTUROMA draws upon aspects of Afrofuturism to explore Roma contemporary arts role in defining, reflecting and influencing Roma culture. FUTUROMA offers new and spontaneous re-interpretations of Roma pasts, presents and futures via a fusion of the traditional and the futuristic in order to critique the current situation for Roma people and to re-examine historical events. Imagining Roma bodies in speculative futures offers a counter-narrative to the reductive ways that Roma culture has been understood and constructedthereby moving our cultural expression beyond the restrictive motifs of oppression toward a radical and progressive vision of Roma to come. The confluence of traditional knowledge and contemporary art practice evident within FUTUROMA combines to highlight possibilities for different ways of being. Here, artworks are rooted in the techniques ... More
Austrian pavilion opens with exhibition of works by Renate Bertlmann
VENICE.- Renate Bertlmanns complex oeuvre bespeaks an artistic commitment that is both aesthetically and conceptually intricately connected to an aesthetics of risk. Always keeping a keen eye on the transformative potential of difference as a counterweight to power, the artist oscillates performative, sculptural, graphic, photographic, filmic, and textual aspects between the past and the present, between dispossession and covetousness, between the everyday and the unusual, between art and life. Renate Bertlmann not only distinguishes herself through her extraordinary formal and conceptual precision: The agitative programmatic character of her work, under the artistic motto Amo Ergo Sum, and her obsessive exploration of body images directly address the sociopolitics of popular culture. Already at the beginning of her artistic career, Renate Bertlmann ... More
Mead Schaeffer leads Swann Illustration Sale with Moby Dick design
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries sale of Illustration Art on Tuesday, June 4 is set to offer original works by favorite illustrators from literature, theater, advertisements and more. Auction debuts from some of the fields brightest ensure a standout auction. Mead Schaeffers frontispiece and dust jacket design for the 1922 reissue of Herman Melvilles Moby Dick leads the sale at $25,000 to $35,000. In the midst of a Melville rediscovery in the 1920s, Schaeffer was commissioned by Dodd, Mead & Co. to produce illustrations for a series of classic novels. His dramatic illustration of Ishmael and Ahab in the crows nest propelled his long career and aided in the revival of interest in the author. Frederic Remingtons depictions of the American frontier are highpoints alongside Schaeffer, with a pen and ink illustration for his story A Scout with the Buffalo Soldiers, published ... More
Boonserm Premthada named winner of the 2019 Royal Academy Dorfman Award
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts announced this evening, following a public presentation to an international jury, that Boonserm Premthada, an architect from Thailand and founder of the architectural practise Bangkok Project Studio, has been awarded the 2019 Royal Academy Dorfman Award, honouring an international talent that represents the future of architecture. The annual award, supported by the Dorfman Foundation, forms part of the RAs increased commitment to architecture and was decided by a distinguished international jury, chaired by the Royal Academician and co-founder of Stanton Williams Alan Stanton. Jury members included artist Phyllida Barlow RA, Director of LSE Cities Ricky Burdett, co-founder of Sauerbruch Hutton Louisa Hutton RA, Head of the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg Lesley Lokko, and broadcaster ... More
John Brennan Music Collection featuring an incredible selection of 100 signed guitars up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- For the much-anticipated Brennan Collection Part II, RR Auction worked closely with lifelong rock n roll memorabilia collector John Brennan, to present an exceptional sampling amassed over four decades of following the greatest names in music across the country. From his early days of autograph collecting in New York City, where he met the elites of music, like the Rolling Stones, Madonna and more, to his later years in Los Angeles and Seattle, following the tours of Van Halen, Guns N Roses and Nirvana, John Brennan became known by these greats and welcomed into their inner sanctums. RR Auction will present collectors with these 400+ hand-curated items out of thousandssigned photographs, albums, 45 rpmsand an incredible selection of 100 signed guitars that chronicle nearly half a century of musical legends. One of the highlights ... More
American art going strong at Heritage Auctions' with eight artist auction records
DALLAS, TX.- A pair of paintings by iconic American artist Newell Convers Wyeth combined to sell for more than $1.1 million, leading Heritage Auctions American Art Auction to a record $7,294,250 in total sales with a sell-through rate of 90 percent by value. The final total for the sale, in which auction records were established for eight artists, was the largest ever for American Art in Heritage Auctions history. This is the highest-grossing American Art sale in our companys history, Heritage Auctions Vice President and American Art Director Aviva Lehmann said. With a 90% sell-through rate by value, this auction is a clear indicator that Heritage Auctions is firmly rooted as a leader in the field of American Art. Multiple bidders lifted the result for Newell Convers Wyeth I am Sir Launcelot du Lake, King Ban's son of Benwick, and knight of the Round Table, The Boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory' ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Gainsborough was baptised May 14, 1727. Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) - 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. In this image: Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788), Holywells Park, um 1748 - 1750. Ãl auf Leinwand, 50,8 x 66 cm. Ipswich Museum and Gallery © Ipswich Museum and Gallery.
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