| The First Art Newspaper on the Net | | Established in 1996 | Tuesday, October 9, 2018 |
| | | Greek Cycladic marble figure could reach $100K-$150K at Artemis Gallery auction | |
|
|
Greek Cycladic marble figure of female, Spedos type, circa 2500-2400 BCE, 6.5in. Estimate: $100,000-$150,000. Image provided by Artemis Gallery.
BOULDER, COLO.- World renowned for their expertly curated ancient and cultural art auctions, Bob and Teresa Dodge of Artemis Gallery will host a Thursday, October 11 sale comprising 417 lots of exceptional antiquities, Asian and ethnographic art. Each item boasts impeccable provenance and is offered with the gallerys unconditional guarantee that it is authentic and legal to purchase, own, and if desired, resell. The highly anticipated auction, which invites absentee, phone and Internet live bidding, is a virtual timeline of the most significant civilizations of the past 4,000 years. As is the case with all of its sales, Artemis Gallery has organized the upcoming auction in a chronological manner, starting with the earliest pieces, from Ancient Egypt, and progressing through the modern era. The auction opens with Egyptian marble and pottery vessels, including a huge Pre-dynastic black-top jar, TL tested and estimated at $17,500-$25,000. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on October 6, 2018, shows the temple of Zeus among the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene, now Shahat, some two hundred kilometers from Benghazi, northeastern Libya. Cyrene was a colony of the Greeks of Thera (Santorini) and a principal city in the Hellenic world founded in 630 BC. The ruins have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982. Abdullah DOMA / AFP
| Christie's France announces "Hiroshi Sugimoto Photographs: The Fossilization of Time" sale | | Museo Picasso Málaga opens the exhibition "Picasso's South: Andalusian References" | | MPavilion 2018 by Barcelona's Carme Pinós opens in Melbourne |
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 2000. Tirage argentique, monté sur support cartonné, 63.6 x 50.8 cm. Estimate: 12,000-18,000 ©Christies Images Ltd, 2018.
PARIS.- As part of Paris Photo, Christie's France will organize three events around photography. The department will present for the first time, on November 8, a monographic sale dedicated to the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. This sale, part of this 160th anniversary celebrating the diplomatic and artistic relations between Japan and France, will also coincide with Sugimoto's current exhibition at the Château de Versailles, from 16 October 2018 to 17 February 2019. In addition, a general sale turned this year towards contemporary photography and composed of 105 lots will be offered on the same day. The public will also have the opportunity to discover a fashion photography exhibition featuring nearly fifty photographs by F.C. Gundlach as well as works from his personal collection. The sale dedicated to Hiroshi Sugimoto ... More | |
Installation view.
MALAGA.- Picassos South. Andalusian References provides a synthesis of Spanish art history, displaying works by Pablo Picasso alongside valuable archaeological artefacts and paintings by great Spanish masters, in an ambitious show that moves from Iberian art through Classical Antiquity, the Baroque, and ends when the Malaga-born artist had become a guiding figure to his contemporaries and the protagonist of an essential chapter in Spanish modern art. This exhibition explores the intellectual journey that Picasso made from south to north, using the symbolic heritage of his homeland to return somehow to his point of departure. It focuses on the profound imprint that Mediterranean culture left upon Picassos work and sets up a dialogue between a selection of works from his various creative periods and examples of Spains rich historic and artistic heritage, of which he was a great connoisseur. One of the aims of Picassos South. Andalusian References is ... More | |
MPavilion 2018 is the fifth in an ongoing series of annual architect-designed summer pavilions for Melbourne. Photo: John Gollings.
MELBOURNE.- MPavilion 2018, designed by Barcelona-based architect and educator Carme Pinós of Estudio Carme Pinós, opened today in the Queen Victoria Gardens. Internationally influential for her community-focused philosophy of design, Carme Pinóss MPavilion marks the first public work in Australia by a female Spanish architect. Initiated and commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation with support from the City of Melbourne, Victorian State Government through Creative Victoria and ANZ, MPavilion 2018 is the fifth in an ongoing series of annual architect-designed summer pavilions for Melbourne. The pavilion this year celebrates building communities and women in leadership, and heralds a free four-month program of events from 9 October 2018 to 3 February 2019, featuring over 500 Australian and international guests and collaborators. ... More |
|
| Auction of Fine Modern Art to be held at Doyle on October 17 | | Largest piece of the Moon ever offered up for auction | | Relational Undercurrents kicks off Art Basel season at FIU's Frost Art Museum |
Blanche Lazzell (1878-1956), Abstract Composition No. 6, 1928 (detail), Gouache on paper laid to illustration board. Est. $8,000-12,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle's inaugural sale in the new category of Fine Modern Art will be held on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 10am. The sale offers works by a wide range of American, European, Asian and Latin American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Showcasing paintings, drawings, sculpture and fine prints with moderate estimates, this new sale category is certain to generate excitement among seasoned collectors and new buyers alike. This auction is a well-rounded view of the modernist era from early American modernists like Abraham Walkowitz, to Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, and Cobra artist Karel Appel. Also contributions from Carribean artists Angel Botello and Jose Bedia and Malaysian artist Ibrahim Hussein. Featured in the auction is a sizeable selection of property from a Private New Jersey Collection. This collection is primarily, though not ... More | |
'The Moon Puzzle a massive 12 pound Moon Rock up for sale.
BOSTON, MASS.- An extremely rare lunar meteorite will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The lunar meteorite is classified as NWA 11789, lunar feldspathic breccia, unofficially known as Buagaba or The Moon Puzzle. The meteorite is comprised of six fragments that fit together, puzzle-like, to form a mass weighing slightly over 12 pounds (5.5 kilograms); the largest piece weighs more than 6 pounds (2,939 grams). With partial fusion crust visible on one side, it is a brand new classification and the largest known, complete lunar puzzle. Without a doubt, one of the most important meteorites available for acquisition anywhere in the world today and, perhaps, the most significant example of our nearest celestial neighbor ever offered for sale in the history of meteorite science. Its a highly important, world-class example of a lunar meteorite, said Geoff Notkin, CEO of Aerolite Meteorites, Inc., and star ... More | |
Didier William, Dancing, Pouring, Crackling and Mourning, 2015.
MIAMI, FLA.- Florida International Universitys Frost Art Museum, the Smithsonian Affiliate in Miami, announces a powerful new season of exhibitions and programming for Art Basel Season 2018 in Miami. Headlining this year is Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago (Oct. 13 Jan. 13), the first major survey of this size and scope of 21st century art by 67 contemporary Caribbean artists representing 14 Caribbean countries, whose works offer expansive perspectives that transcend the boundaries imposed upon Caribbean cultures. The museum presents a panel discussion, Saturday October 13 at 3:00 p.m., followed by the opening reception from 4:00-7:00 p.m. that same day. The panel will discuss contemporary art by Caribbean artists and the prevailing issues related to the Caribbean diaspora with moderator Dr. Tatiana Flores, the curator of the exhibition. ... More |
|
| Christie's announces highlights from the three-day sale of Prints and Multiples | | Thames & Hudson publishes "Josef Albers: Life and Work" by Charles Darwent | | Forgotten innovator Edith Cockcroft rediscovered |
Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Jazz, Tériade, Paris, 1947 the complete set of 20 pochoirs in colors. $300,000-500,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the three-day sale of Prints and Multiples taking place over four sessions on October 23-25. This sale includes over 350 lots spanning the 20th to 21st centuries and includes modern works by Marcel Duchamp, Edvard Munch, and Henri Matisseto Post-War and Contemporary editions by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring and David Hockney among others. This auction features several notable private collections including The Collection of Brad Gray, The Estate of Jacqueline Miller Matisse, The Collection of Joan A. Mendell and the Elton John Aids Foundation. The sale is led by a complete set of Andy Warhols (1928-1987) Myths (estimate: $450,000-650,000). This set of ten screenprints from 1981 features some of Warhols most sought after late iconography with portraits of mythical figures such as Santa Claus, Superman and Mickey Mouse. Other Post-War and contemporary editions ... More | |
Josef Albers: Life and Work y Charles Darwent. Publication: 11 October 2018. £24.95 hardback.
LONDON.- The first full-scale biography of one of the 20th centurys great makers, theorists and painters has been published to coincide with the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus. While Josef Albers Bauhaus colleagues Klee, Kandinsky and Marcel Breuer are familiar names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, a series of over 2,000 seemingly tightly controlled experiments in the interaction of colour. Yet he did not begin these pictures until he was in his sixties, already several decades into his career as an artist, maker and theorist, much of it pursued in the United States following the dissolution of the Bauhaus in 1933. Born in Germany and later married to the textile artist Anni Albers, his extensive archive includes letters from fellow artists John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra and Eva Hesse; colleagues such as Buckminster Fuller, Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson; and fans and ... More | |
Detail of The Circus Comes to Town, dated 1912, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, by Edith Varian Cockcroft, at the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
SLOATSBURG, NY.- The painter, inventor, couturier, textile designer and ceramist Edith Varian Cockcroft (1881-1962), although acclaimed in her lifetime, was almost wholly forgotten after her death. On October 14, the historian Eve M. Kahn, a longtime New York Times contributor, will lecture about Cockcrofts life and exhibit her artworks at Harmony Hall in Sloatsburg, New York, near the artists longtime home. Cockcroft, a Brooklyn native, studied art with William Merritt Chase and traveled widely before World War I. Critics lauded her atmospheric views of French and British coastal villages and portraits of nudes against vibrant fabric backdrops. Le Figaro observed that she succeeded at depicting peasant life with ardor or roughness, and the New York Times praised the character and vigor of her work. (Many reviewers mistook her for a man, since she invariably left off her ... More |
|
| Skarstedt opens an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Sue Williams | | Macallan 1926 60-year-old malt in a unique bottle painted by Michael Dillon to lead Finest & Rarest Wines & Spirits sale | | First fashion-focused design exhibition at the Serpentine opens in London |
Sue Williams (b.1956), Big Red Fuzzy, 2018 (detail). Oil on canvas, 70 1/8 x 80 1/8 in (178.1 x 203.5 cm) © Sue Williams, 303 Gallery, New York. Courtesy of Skarstedt.
LONDON.- Skarstedt is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Sue Williams (b. 1954) at the London gallery this October. Following the acclaimed exhibition of historical works from 1997-1998 in New York, the new paintings demonstrate Williams continued interest in exploring the fluid boundary between figuration and abstraction and her pursuance of the transformation of one into the other. In this body of work, the paintings have an increasing ethereality. They utilise the lightness of exposed ground to create areas of watery colour that combine with the elements of mark making, doodling, lining and smudging seen in her previous works. In them, as ever, gender roles and politics are alluded to whilst she also explores memory and personal experience. Emerging from the East Village, New York art scene in the late 1980s, Sue Williams work soon gained ... More | |
The Macallan 1926 60-Year-Old presented in a unique bottle painted by the Irish artist Michael Dillon. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- On 28 and 29 November 2018, Christies Finest & Rarest Wines & Spirits auction in London will be led by the most collectable single malt produced in the 20th century; The Macallan 1926 60-Year-Old presented in a unique bottle painted by the Irish artist Michael Dillon. The Macallan distillery located near the river Spey in North East Scotland was founded in 1824 and produces stunning examples of cask-matured single malts, particularly their highly prized and exceedingly rare single-cask, limited edition bottlings and Fine & Rare Collection. The Macallan 60-Year-Old 1926 takes this rarity to new heights for collectors of Macallan whisky and is the only bottle of this ultra-rare elixir to be hand-painted by Irish artist Michael Dillon. Considered the 'Holy Grail' for collectors, it is poised to set a new world auction record for a bottle of whisky. Furthermore, the ... More | |
Atelier E.B, The Inventors of Tradition II collection, 2015 Photography: Rob Smith.
LONDON.- This autumn, the Serpentine presents Passer-by, a new exhibition by Atelier E.B, the collaborative fashion label by designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie. Taking the figure of the mannequin as its central theme, the exhibition transforms the Gallery into three distinct interiors: a bespoke showroom for Atelier E.Bs latest collection, in which visitors are able to try on and order clothes; a display of historic material, photography and objects, and a series of newly-commissioned works by contemporary artists including Tauba Auerbach, Anna Blessmann, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Steff Norwood, Elizabeth Radcliffe, Bernie Reid and Markus Selg. Along with collaborations with artists Markus Proschek, Josephine Pryde and Calum Stirling and photographer Zoë Ghertner, the show features the work of more than 40 makers spanning fashion, sculpture, painting, graphic and commercial design, ... More |
|
href=' href='
How Photographer Michael Dweck Captures the Ephemeral
| More News |
Salvador Dali collaborator/protégé completes 'liquefied' portraits of international luminaries
BETHEL, CONN.- Louis Markoya, a 5-year collaborator and protégé of Salvador Dali, whose artistic mission has been to take Dalis surrealism and Nuclear-Mysticism to the next level, has just completed an astonishing series of liquified portraits of international luminaries. The 12 oils on canvas, all 12 x 12, are part of Markoyas The Influences series, which pays homage to a disparate selection of famous individuals whove influenced the 67-year-old Connecticut artists life and work. Not surprisingly, one of the portraits is of Dali. Dali introduced me to Surrealism, Nuclear-Mysticism, and the power of the image, says Markoya, who, among other efforts, helped paint some of the multi-colored cubes in Dalis highly popular Lincoln in Dalivision painting in the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Working with him for five-plus years was an amazing ... More
Exhibition seeks to confirm Karl Hagedorn's place in the story of Modern British art
CHICHESTER.- Karl Hagedorns paintings are some of the earliest and boldest examples of Post-Impressionism in Britain. Despite this, his name remains little-known to the wider public. A new exhibition at Pallant House Gallery looks to redress this and continues its mission to shine a light on overlooked but deserving figures in British art. Karl Hagedorn (1889-1969) was born in Berlin but much of his background is elusive, leading to some speculation that he was an illegitimate child of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He came to England in 1905 and went on to study at the Manchester School of Art and Slade School of Fine Art. Hagedorns early works baffled art critics of the time with their strange colours and sharp angles. He believed that art did not need to represent its subject in a conventional manner now that photography could fulfill that purpose. His paintings (which he called ... More
Auckland Art Gallery appoints new Head of Curatorial and Exhibitions
AUCKLAND.- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki announced the appointment of Sarah Farrar as Head of Curatorial and Exhibitions. Farrar joins the Gallery after eight years in the curatorial team at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, with the last six years as Senior Curator Art. She has previously held curatorial positions at City Gallery Wellington and is a graduate of the prestigious De Appel Curatorial Programme in the Netherlands. She has also recently submitted a PhD in Curatorial Practice at Monash University, Melbourne. Farrar led major art projects at Te Papa including the curatorial development of Ngā Toi | Arts Te Papa and she was the lead curator for Toi Art. Her other exhibitions have included Warhol: Immortal and Meridian Lines: Contemporary Art from New Zealand. In addition to curatorial work, Farrar has been a member ... More
Sterling Associates presents 'Sterling on Broadway,' Oct. 10 auction inaugurating new gallery
NORWOOD, NJ.- Sterling Associates Inc.s Sterling on Broadway online auction Oct. 10, 2018, coincides with the companys move to a new office and gallery at 537 Broadway in Norwood, near its former venue on Herbert Avenue in Closter. The 252-lot inaugural auction features fine jewelry, silver and coins, with live online bidding through LiveAuctioneers. Were very pleased that Sterling Associates now has a new, more prominent location on Norwoods main street, Broadway, said the companys owner Stephen DAtri. Our Herbert Avenue location will continue to function as a warehouse, but all auction business will be conducted from the new location. A marked Cartier vermeil necklace, which can also be worn as a belt, is similar to one that fashion icon Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was known to wear. Composed of 19 gilt-silver textured links with ... More
Joslyn Art Museum opens exhibition of American quilts from Shelburne Museum
OMAHA, NEB.- Shelburne Museum was the first American museum to exhibit quilts as works of art, a testament to the trailblazing vision of museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960) and her passion for fine, folk, and decorative arts. Fascinated by design elements of color, pattern, line, and construction, and eager to recover a quintessentially American style of material culture, she established the core of Shelburnes collection through the personal gift or purchase of over 400 historic bedcoverings in the 1950s. Pattern and Purpose pulls back the covers on these everyday household companions that can transcend the commonplace. Pattern and Purpose is organized by Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont. The exhibition opened to the public at Joslyn Art Museum on Saturday, October 6, and continues through January 6, 2019. Throughout ... More
Patrick Willocq opens exhibition in Genoa
GENOA.- Ten years have passed since at the end of 2008 VisionQuesT 4rosso opened its first season with the exhibition Mario De Biasi "Yesterday, Today" starting a slightly crazy but certainly passionate adventure into contemporary photography. I first saw Patrick Willocqs work in 2014 at Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles. The spectacular and striking images belonging to the I am Walé respect me series completely overwhelmed me. His rendering and re-creation of the Walé women's dreams, songs and rituals of the Ekonda tribe of the Democratic Republic of Congo were heart-stopping. They were more powerful than any other documentary photographs on the subject could have been, and reflected in every possible way, all my thoughts about fine art photography. I am therefore very pleased to celebrate our tenth year and start the new season ... More
Greenwich Historical Society opens inaugural exhibition at the new campus
COS COB, CONN.- The inaugural exhibition at the Greenwich Historical Society's newly reimagined campus opened to the public this weekend. Drawing on objects and images from the Historical Society's collections, History Is... encourages visitors to reflect on the role history plays at different stages in their lives and explores the ways individuals look at, define and interpret history. The exhibition embodies the Historical Society's mission to strengthen the community's connection to our past, to each other and to our future. According to Curator of Museum Collections Karen Frederick: "History is multi-faceted, and at different times in people's lives, can take on personal, local or global dimensions. Viewing history as a journey of continuity and change offers an opportunity for visitors to connect with our rich collections, which are ... More
Henry Miller Fine Art opens the first-ever UK retrospective of Michael Leonard's work
LONDON.- Henry Miller Fine Art is presenting the first-ever UK retrospective of Michael Leonards work, including drawings and paintings from the 1960s to the present. Spanning five decades, Leonards first London exhibition in 15 years features rarely seen examples of his commercial work from the 60s and early paintings from the 70s, alongside portraits and nudes from the 80s onwards. The show features some of Leonards most iconic works including Changing (1981) and Passage of Arms (1979) from the scaffolders series as well as his Thatcher cover for The Sunday Times Magazine (1980) and several still lives and line drawings, showcasing the range and versatility of one of Britains most talented artists. Born in 1933, Michael Leonard studied Commercial Design and Illustration at Londons Saint Martins School of Art from 1954 to 1957 and sp ... More
5-carat diamond ring makes $206,500 at Cottone Auctions
GENESEO, NY.- Five gorgeous early 20th century Tiffany Studios (N.Y.) table lamps gaveled for a combined $465,510 and a dazzling five-carat fancy vivid yellow diamond ring slipped onto a new finger for $206,500 at a Fine Art & Antique Auction held September 29th by Cottone Auctions. The auction was held online and in Cottones gallery at 120 Court Street in Geneseo. The sale featured an extensive variety of first-time offerings, including the impressive collection of Dr. Gregory Alan Zemenick, an orthopedic surgeon from Troy, Michigan with a passion for collecting Americana, Tiffany lamps and antiques spanning a wide range of interests. By the time the last of the 352 lots crossed the auction block, the sale overall had grossed $2.7 million. Interest was very strong across the board both nationally and internationally, said Matt Cottone of Cottone ... More
The Wolfsonian-FIU appoints Yucef Merhi as inaugural Curator of Digital Collections
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- Yucef Merhi has joined The WolfsonianFlorida International University as the museums first-ever curator of digital collections, a new role made possible by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Having started the position in late July 2018, Merhi rounds out The Wolfsonians curatorial team with his extensive experience integrating ambitious online and technology-based tools in the galleries and beyondskills that are integral to the long-term Wolfsonian goal of forging new avenues for visitors to connect with special exhibitions and the permanent collection. The tech-focused position is one of eight across the country funded by Knight Foundation to help art institutions implement digital strategies that improve the visitor experience and expand audiences. A large part of a museums success in the digital era ... More
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art opens exhibition of works by David Simpson
SANTA FE, NM.- An exhibition, Illumination by David Simpson, opened at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art on October 5 and extends through November 3. The gallery is located in the Railyard Arts District at 554 South Guadalupe Street. Pale pink stippled by an undertone of deep purple. A deep midnight blue that shimmers and pales into the color of coming dawn. The russet of fall leaves, edged in gold. The colors of the new selection of paintings by David Simpson featured in Illumination shift like moods. Depths of wine and opal and ice blue emerge and fade. These paintings become not just windows or doors but rooms, spaces, shifting worlds. But while the colors entrance and bind the viewer with their spell it is light, more than color, that David Simpson celebrates and explores in his mono-pigment interference paintings. Light is a wave. Light is a particle. ... More
|
|
href='
Flashback On a day like today, English photographer and journalist Don McCullin was born October 09, 1935. Sir Donald McCullin, CBE, Hon FRPS (born 9 October 1935), is a British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished. In this image: British photographer Sir Don McCullin's first gallery exhibition in the U.S. on view at Hauser & Wirth.
|
|
|
