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David Hockney, Garden, 2015. Acrylic on canvas. Collection of the artist © David Hockney, Photo: Richard Schmidt.
NEW YORK, NY.- For nearly 60 years, David Hockney (British, born 1937) has pursued a singular career with a love for painting and its intrinsic challenges. A major retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Artthe shows only North American venuehonors the artist in the year of his 80th birthday by presenting his most iconic works and key moments of his career from 1960 to the present. Working in a wide range of media with equal measures of wit and intelligence, Hockney, has examined, probed, and questioned how to capture the perceived world of movement, space, and time in two dimensions. The exhibition David Hockney offers a grand overview of the artists achievements across all media, including painting, drawing, photography, and video. From his early engagement with modernist abstraction and mid-career experiments with illusion and realism, to his most recent, jewel-toned landscapes, Hockney has consistently explored the ... More |
| The Best Photos of the Day | | | | Morton Subastas announces its upcoming Latin American Art Auction. For this highly anticipated sale, the auction house will showcase an exceptional selection of 260 lots by some of the most important Latin American Masters. In this image: Leonora Carrington, Virginia´s fish, signed, oil on canvas, 79.5 x 130 cm. Estimate: USD $670,000 - $830,000. | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Grand Palais offers an exceptional journey into Paul Gauguin's fascinating creative process | | Monet's glasses sold for over $50,000 in Hong Kong | | Exhibition offers a fascinating journey into the uniqueness of Galileo |
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Dans les vagues, 1889. Huile sur toile ; 92,5 x 72,4 cm. Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, don de Mr et Mme William Powell Jones © The Cleveland Museum of Art.
PARIS.- On the strength of a collection of over 230 of the artists works (54 paintings, 29 ceramics, 35 sculptures and objects, 14 blocks of wood, 67 engravings and 34 drawings), Gauguin the alchemist is an exceptional journey into this major artists fascinating creative process. It is the first exhibition of its kind to study in depth the remarkable complementarity of the artists creations in the field of painting, sculpture, graphic and decorative arts. It focuses on the modernity of Gauguins creative process (1848-1903), and his ability to constantly push the limits of each medium. Following the founding exhibition, Gauguin, organised in 1989, this new collaboration between the Art Institute of Chicago which owns a significant collection of Gauguins paintings and graphic works and the musée dOrsay which has ... More | |
A pair of golden metal spectacles, round eye wires and short temples terminating by flexible ends, illegible maker's mark. Sold for: $51,457. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
HONG KONG (AFP).- A collection of French artist Claude Monet's personal belongings, including a pair of round-rimmed wire spectacles, have fetched almost $11 million at an auction in Hong Kong, Christie's said. The dainty glasses, made from gold-coloured metal, went to an unnamed Asian buyer on Sunday for $51,457, far exceeding the auction house's estimate of $1,000 to $1,500. The sale included other rare items like Monet's pencil sketches, paintings and Japanese woodblock prints from the French master's personal collection. A sculpture of a cat from 19th century Japan's late Edo or early Meiji period, sleeping curled up and measuring 32.8 centimetres (12.9 inches), went under the hammer for $67,538. "This collection provides an intimate insight into the life of Monet the artist and Monet the collector," ... More | |
Santi di Tito, Ritratto di Galileo.
PADUA.- Nothing was ever the same again after Galileo. Not only in terms of astronomical research and science, but in art as well. With him, the sky became the realm of astronomers rather than astrologists. For the first time ever, the exhibition conceived by Giovanni C.F. Villa for the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo (Padua, Palazzo del Monte di Pietà , 18th November 2017 18th March 2018) relates the role of one of the leading characters of the Italian and European myth, outlining his figure in full. This art show, completely original in nature, brings together masterpieces of Western art and a variety of papers and artefacts that take us on a journey of discovery of a man that everyone has heard of, but few really know. The exhibition reveals multiple facets of the man Galileo: from the scientist who invented the scientific method to the man of letters extolled by Italian authors and critics such as Foscolo and Leopardi, Pirandello and Ungaretti, De Sanctis ... More |
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| Small exhibition at Kunsthistorisches Museum showcases work by Girolamo da Treviso | | Picasso's erotic etchings sell for nearly 2 million euros | | Latin American Art Sale by Morton Subastas coming up on November 30 in Mexico City |
Girolamo da Treviso (Treviso c. 1490?1548 Boulogne), Female Nude with a Male Torso © KHM-Museumsverband.
VIENNA.- Although Female Nude with a Male Torso by Girolamo da Treviso (Treviso c. 1498 1544 Boulogne) is rarely on show it deserved the Kunsthistorisches Museum's attention for a number of reasons. The artists eclectic personality still poses a host of questions, its subject- matter is strange and difficult to decipher, and the painting technique is highly unusual in the venetian context around 1515 these are some of the things that whetted the curators' appetite and encouraged them to study the canvas more closely. A woodcut produced in Venice in 1515 depicting Susanna and the elders is inscribed with a monogram associated since the mid-nineteenth century with Girolamo da Treviso. It is also found on five paintings, one of which is the one showcased here. Its allegorical meaning reflects the intellectual climate prevalent in Venice during the first decades of the sixteenth century; this period witnessed ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Suite Vollard.1930-1937. Eau-forte, aquatinte, pointe sèche et grattoir.
PARIS (AFP).- A series of 100 etchings by Picasso, which depict his personal and political turmoil in the 1930s, has sold for 1.9 million euros ($2.2 million) in Paris, auctioneers said. The Spanish-born artist took seven years to complete the prints called the "Vollard Suite", which deal with his erotic obsessions and marital strife as well as the gathering storm clouds of war over Europe. The hammer came down on the prints late Sunday as part of a weekend of sales in the French capital from the collection of art dealer Henri Petiet. Some 622 lots were sold for 3.3 million euros, which the auction house Ader Nordmann called an "enormous success". It said the Picasso series was bought by an unnamed American collector. Civil war erupted in Picasso's homeland as he was working on the series, leaving his alter ego in the drawings -- the minotaur -- lost and blind by the end. Picasso's technique also developed greatly over the years from his relatively simple early prints of his voluptuous ... More | |
Raul Anguiano, Magnolias IV, Firmado y fechado 96, Ãleo sobre tela, 101.5 x 76 cm
Estimate: $ 220,000 to $ 300,000.
MEXICO CITY.- Morton Subastas announces its upcoming Latin American Art Auction. For this highly anticipated sale, the auction house will showcase an exceptional selection of 260 lots by some of the most important Latin American Masters. Leading the auction is an outstanding oil on canvas by Leonora Carrington (estimate US$670,000-$830,000). Filled with otherworldly creatures, this piece is a fine example of the magnetic power of Carringtons metaphysical universe. The sale also includes a few other works by renowned women artists who defied social and artistic conventions and played a vital role shaping the landscape of Mexican and international modern art. For example, an early still life by Frida Kahlo made by the artist right after the tragic accident that would deteriorate her health for years to come (estimate US$180,000- $220,000). In spite of being an early painting, it already foreshadows Fridas ... More |
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| August Uribe rejoins Sotheby's as Vice Chairman, Americas | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens the most comprehensive and extensive show to date of Arnulf Rainer's early work | | Solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Brian Fahlstrom on view at Marlborough Contemporary |
August was formerly with Sothebys Latin American and Impressionist & Modern Art departments over a 22-year tenure that began in 1991. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's announced that August Uribe has rejoined the auction house as Vice Chairman, Americas. August was formerly with Sothebys Latin American and Impressionist & Modern Art departments over a 22-year tenure that began in 1991. In 2014, he joined Phillips auction house as Worldwide Co-Head of Contemporary Art. His new role at Sothebys will call upon this cross-category expertise as well as his international network of clients. Valentino D. Carlotti, Sothebys Global Head of Business Development, commented: We are delighted to welcome Augie back to Sothebys. His deep relationships and network across geographies will be critical assets for us in serving our clients. Amy Cappellazzo, Chairman of Sothebys Fine Art Division, said: Augies significant expertise spanning the 20th and 21st centuries is a perfect match for the ethos of our Fine Art Division. ... More | |
Arnulf Rainer, Proportion, Ohne Titel, 1953/54 Oil on paper, collage, 58,5 x 39 cm.
LONDON.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London is presenting the most comprehensive and extensive show to date of Arnulf Rainers early work. From 23 November 2017 to 10 February 2018, the exhibition brings together Rainers Red and Black Overpaintings [Ãbermalungen], dating from 1953 to 1971, and Proportion Studies [Proportionsstudien] from the early and mid-1950s. Following the exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg in the summer of 2016, this presentation provides an impressive insight into the artist's early work, in which the field of tension between Surrealism, American Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism and European Informel reaches a climax. Arnulf Rainer is regarded as a pioneer of Austrian Informel, a movement which moved away from geometric abstraction toward a more intuitive form of lyrical expression. In the 1950s, he developed his Ãbermalungen series, ... More | |
Brian Fahlstrom, Crescent Bloom, 2017. Oil on linen, 65 x 50 x 1 7-8 in., 165.1 x 127 x 4.8 cm. CNON 59.488. Marlborough Contemporary New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Contemporary New York is presenting Truth in the Night, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Brian Fahlstrom. Brian Fahlstrom makes paintings that engage with ideas of the contemporary via a full immersion in the more-distant history of painting. The works represent a deliberate removal of the artist from media fixations, and a commitment to self-generation and tradition stretching back to the 14th Century. As painting has necessarily become a self-conscious crowd-sourced reaction to image-bombardment, Fahlstrom has dedicated himself to channeling more distant influences (El Greco, Rubens, Poussin, etc) and privileging the solitary act of painting. Working without preparatory drawings or from existing images, Fahlstrom conjures these analog compositions in the moment, moving freely between pure abstraction, ... More |
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| Petzel Gallery opens a group exhibition featuring works by seven artists at Nanzuka in Tokyo | | Major sculpture by leading 20th-Century artist acquired by Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art | | Kim Foster Gallery opens exhibition of works by Susan Wides |
Nicola Tyson, The Grin, 2017. Oil on linen, 72 x 60 inches, 182.9 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York.
TOKYO.- Nanzuka and Petzel Gallery are presenting, Petzel at Nanzuka, a group exhibition featuring works by Simon Denny, Sarah Morris, Joyce Pensato, Seth Price, Dirk Skreber, Hiroki Tsukuda, and Nicola Tyson. The New Zealand born, Berlin-based artist, Simon Denny, who exhibited his first solo show in Asia earlier this year at OCAT, Shenzen, China, exhibits three sculptures that explore Blockchain, the technology that underpins the digital currency Bitcoin. The sculptures, each composed of diverse media including Plexiglas, wood, and LEDs, examine how Blockchain could shape future societies and scrutinize competing views about the ways technology should evolve. Futurism similarly threads through the work of Sarah Morris. Known for her unique use of vivid color and grid-like geometric shapes, Morris Italia [São Paulo] (2015), represents this American artists quintessence. Rendered in household gloss paint on canvas, Morris wo ... More | |
Column, 1921-22/ 1975 by Naum GABO (1890-1977). Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by H.M. Government from Graham Williams on behalf of himself and his wife, Nina Williams, and allocated to The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2017.
EDINBURGH.- A remarkable glass, perspex and stainless steel sculpture by the Russian artist Naum Gabo (1890-1977) has been acquired by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, thanks to the generosity of the artists family. The work has been gifted through the Arts Councils Cultural Gifts Scheme by Graham Williams on behalf of himself and his wife, the artists daughter Nina Williams. Gabo was born in 1890 in Russia. He studied medicine, then physics and engineering in Munich. At the start of the First World War he moved to Norway, where, inspired by new scientific thinking about time, space and matter, he began to make sculpture out of card, sheet metal and, later, new kinds of transparent plastic. Instead of modelling or carving, he created a completely new kind of sculpture, which is glued or screwed together, and which the viewer can literally ... More | |
October 27, 2014_12:43:47, dye sublimation on aluminum, 60 x 40 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Drawing on an alliance with the Catskills environment, these works propose a renewal of vision, an experiential encounter between the self and nature out in the world, rather than an encounter mediated by technological devices. this: seasons reflects upon our distance from our imperiled environment in the anthropocene. Working on-site, a camera and the unique focal properties of its lenses map the immediacy of sensory awareness and impermanence. Focal manipulations from sharp depiction to defocused abstracted elementsindicate shifting and elusive perceptual awareness experienced amidst light, air, water, rocks and trees. The way the eye seamlessly darts from place to place, selective attention, memory, and the movement of the body through space all coalesce in a multivalent visualization of a site via the lens. The photographs of this: seasons were made in the Kaaterskill Clove, the inspiration for the Hudson River School artists. Luminous color and light and ... More |
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Christie's Important Russian Art Auction achieved £13,278,500 in total
LONDON.- The sale achieved £13,278,500 in total, selling 85% by value and 76% by lot. The highlight of the sale is Still life with teapot and oranges by Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962), sold for £2,408,750 / $3,208,455 / 2,680,939. World auction record set for a work by Apollinarii Vasnetsov (1856-1933), Old Veliky Novgorod, sold for £848,750 / $1,130,535 / 944,659. Works of art section is highlighted by rare guilloché enamel and varicolour gold miniature model of a Sedan chair by Fabergé that sold for £788,750 / $1,050,615 / 877,879. Sarah Mansfield, International Director, Russian Art: It was thrilling to watch a packed saleroom fall silent to witness an exciting tennis match of bidding, with opponents battling on the internet, telephone banks and in the room for Natalia Goncharova's 'Still life with teapot and oranges'. The work realized four times its low estimate, ... More
Elite treasures from Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle and more featured in Heritage Auctions sale
DALLAS, TX.- The New York Yankees' 2017 season ended in the seventh game of the American League Championship Series, but Heritage Auctions keeps the spirit of pinstriped competition alive with a special, single-consignor collection titled, "Yankee Legends," which is now open for bidding at HA.com/7230. The special sale will close in extended bidding format Dec. 10. The consignor has chosen to remain anonymous but the figures represented in this extraordinary collection are immortalized in both Yankee Stadium's Monument Park and further upstate in Cooperstown, New York. "The consignor sees himself as a curator of Yankees history," said Chris Ivy, director of Sports Collectibles at Heritage Auctions, "so the collection is remarkably comprehensive in scope and breadth, but with a heavy concentration on the most significant Yankee memorabilia ... More
Washington, Lincoln, JFK, Reagan memorabilia at University Archives auction, December 6th
WESTPORT, CONN.- A baseball bat signed by both Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, a baseball signed by Jackie Robinson, the life raft from Francis Gary Powerss downed U-2 spy plane and several pieces of dishware from Ronald and Nancy Reagan will all come up for bid Wednesday, December 6th, in University Archives online-only auction, beginning at 10:30 am Eastern time. The 211-lot auction is a fabulous assemblage of autographed documents, rare books, relics and manuscripts. The full catalog can be viewed now, at www.universityarchives.com, with internet bidding facilitated by Invaluable.com. The sale is packed with important, scarce and collectible signed documents and other items relating to some of the most important names in all of history. This sale is one of the most eclectic and interesting weve had to date, said John Reznikoff, the founder and president ... More
A rare pink-purple diamond ring by Cindy Chao is top lot at Bonhams Rare Jewels and Jadeite Sale
HONG KONG.- An impressive Fancy Coloured Diamond and Diamond dress ring by Cindy Chaos iconic Ribbon Collection triumphed at the Bonhams Rare Jewels and Jadeite auction selling for HK$9,100,000 with an estimate of HK$8,000,000-10,000,000. The Fancy Pink-Purple oval-cut diamond, weighing 4.23 carats, is wrapped within a setting of ribbon design, pave-set with brilliant and cushion-cut diamonds. Led by Bonhams CEO and Group Head of Jewellery, Matthew Girling, the 123-lot sale in Hong Kong totalled HK$55,236,250. Interest was strong for a rare 10.02 carat Fine No Oil Emerald and Diamond ring which went under the hammer for HK$6,100,000 (estimate HK$3,400,000-4,000,000), featuring a cushion-shaped set between trillion-cut diamond shoulders. The sale ended with a heated bidding war for an impressive 10.03 carats Diamond and ... More
Kallos Gallery exhibits works from the Grand Tour period to today
LONDON.- Kallos Gallery opened their winter exhibition, Splendour & Revival (27 November to 22 December 2017) which celebrates the enduring appeal and influence of the ancient world. Including an impressive collection of jewellery, as well as coins and sculpture, the exhibition includes ancient objects that inspired and enlightened travellers, collectors and antiquaries through the ages, from the Grand Tour period to today. Individual prices range from £1,500 to over £100,000. A specific highlight of the exhibition is a selection of jewellery made from the 19th to the 21st centuries using ancient intaglios. Revival jewellery became very popular as travel and the Grand Tour gathered momentum during this period. The upper classes brought back many objects from abroad and were inspired by their new discoveries. By combining ancient gems and intaglios into ... More
French art highlights Heritage's European Art Auction December 8
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions' Dec. 8 European Art Auction features a choice array of 19th- and early 20th-century French paintings and works on paper by top academic, Fauve, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters, including Raoul Dufy, Jean Béraud, Guillaume Seignac, and Paul Signac. In addition, the auction includes a fine group of works by British animaliers, a notable landscape by Neapolitan Baroque painter Antonio de Bellis, and select genre, landscape and portrait subjects by a host of Continental painters. One of the stars of the sale is Raoul Dufy's Régates à Deauville, 1936 (est: $150,000-250,000), a delightful panorama of sailboats along the Normandy coast. The painting comes to auction from the Spiegel family of mail-order fame, who owned it since 1960, and prior to that figured in the collection of French art historian and essayist ... More
Masterwork by ceramist Peter Voulkos to lead Phillips' December Design Auctions
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, 12 December, Phillips will host its final Design auctions of the year with the Evening and Day Sales in New York. These auctions will present an opportunity for collectors of all levels and interests to acquire exceptional examples of 20th and 21st century Design. The Day Sale will begin at 10am, offering over 100 lots, with works by Fausto Melotti, Harry Bertoia, and Carlo Scarpa, among others. The Evening Sale will take place at 5pm, including 31 lots with works by Peter Voulkos, Jean-Michel Frank, Alberto Giacometti, and Eugene Schoen. Six works from the esteemed collection of Betty and Stanley Sheinbaum will be offered across both sessions. Meaghan Roddy, Phillips Senior Specialist, Design, said, Our Design sales across the globe this year have seen a strong response from the market, with works ... More
The Electric Comma: V-A-C Foundation opens a group exhibition at Palazzo delle Zattere
VENICE.- Taking its title from Shannon Ebners installation The Electric Comma, the exhibition focuses on shifts in language, perception and understanding in the age of artificial intelligence. Through varied practices and from different backgrounds, participating artists deal with the negotiations between the conscious mind and todays pervasive learning machine, imagining pathways of exchange between human and nonhuman, ranging from the poetic and intuitive to the algorithmical and analytical. A number of works in The Electric Comma look at ways in which we communicate with information technologies and the ecological impact they may have, paralleling cryptographic and biological systems, revealing or imagining living infrastructures for artificial life. Andrey Shentals video installation Descent into the Fungal features fungal mycelium networks that ... More
Different strokes: Taiwan's creative campaign for traditional characters
TAIPEI (AFP).- As a growing number of people around the world learn simplified Chinese instead of the more complicated traditional characters, young creatives in Taiwan are fighting to promote what they fear will become a dying art. Introduced by the Chinese Communist Party in the 1950s to boost literacy, the simplified version of the script uses fewer strokes and is now the predominant writing system in the mainland. Foreigners learning Chinese also tend to be taught the simplified characters, used in official documents by international organisations including the United Nations. Even in Taiwan, where most people still use traditional characters, there is a growing tendency to opt for the more convenient simplified script. And with an increasing number of the island's young people pursuing higher education and careers on the mainland, the influence of the ... More
NGV commences installation of spectacular 18m long work by Chinese contemporary artist Xu Zhen
MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria has begun installing one of its largest works specially commissioned for its summer exhibition, the NGV Triennial. Spanning 18m in length, Xu Zhens monumental installation, Eternity-Buddha in Nirvana 2016-17, brings together different cultural traditions by combining replicas of a famous reclining Buddha statue with 3D scanned and cast Greco-Roman, Renaissance and Neoclassical sculptures. As visitors arrive in Federation Court they will encounter the sheer scale and beauty of this world-premiere installation by renowned Chinese contemporary artist Xu Zhen said Tony Ellwood, Director, NGV. Xus work brings together elements from Eastern and Western cultural heritages to promote cross-cultural understanding and appreciation, said Ellwood. Xu Zhen is a leading international contemporary ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French graphic artist Tomi Ungerer was born Noviembre 28, 1931. Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer (born November 28, 1931) is a French illustrator best known for his erotic and political illustrations as well as children's books. In this image: Drawer, illustrator and author Tomi Ungerer stands in front of three of his artworks in the exhibition 'Eklips - Neues fuer die Augen 1960 bis 2010' ('Eclipse - New things for the eyes 1960 to 2010') at the Wuerth art gallery in Schwaebisch Hall, Germany, 11 May 2010. The largest Ungerer exhibition ever displays some 600 artworks from five decades.
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