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Pyotr Konchalovskys Self-Portrait (1912) will remain in France as long as its owner, a Russian oligarch, remains subject to an asset freeze, a French government spokesman said. Photo: Succession Kontchalovski Piotr.
NEW YORK, NY.- A painting owned by a Russian oligarch that was seen by more than 1.2 million people who visited a blockbuster art show in Paris will not be returning to Russia for the foreseeable future, a spokesperson for Frances Culture Ministry said Monday. The 1912 artwork, Self-Portrait, by Russian avant-garde painter Pyotr Konchalovsky, is owned by Petr Aven, a director of one of Russias largest banks. After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Aven became one of the first Russian businessmen to fall under European Union sanctions. A spokesperson for Frances Culture Ministry said in an email that the painting, whose seizure was first reported by French newspapers Saturday, will remain in France as long as its owner, a Russian oligarch, remains subject to an asset freeze. Another painting Portrait of Timofei Savvich Morozov (1891), by Valentin Serov may also not be kept in France because it is also connected to an oligarch, the m ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Ancient | Asian | Ethnographica Auction on Apr 14, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. Featuring antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the Near East as well as Asian Art, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African/Tribal/Oceanic, Fine & Visual art, and much more! In this image: Rare Teotihuacan Alabaster Offering Platform. Estimate $4,500 - $6,750.
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| Magnificent 3rd century Buddha leads spectacular collection of Claude de Marteau at Bonhams | | Pace Gallery announces global representation of Maysha Mohamedi | | Hindman's announces highlights included in the Native American Art Auction |
A grey schist Buddha sculpted in the ancient region of Gandhara during the 3rd century. Estimate: 500,000-700,000. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- A grey schist Buddha sculpted in the ancient region of Gandhara during the 3rd century leads the sale of The Collection of Claude de Marteau, Part I, in Paris on Tuesday 14 June. It is estimated at 500,000-700,000. Gandhara sat at the crossroads of Eurasian trade networks linking East, Central, and South Asia with the Near East and the Mediterranean. (The area corresponds roughly to modern northwest Pakistan and southern Afghanistan). It was in Gandhara, in the first century CE, that artists trained in Greco-Roman aesthetics produced some of the earliest sculptures of the Buddha. The Collection, which has an estimated value of more than 10 million, is a unique assemblage of art gathered over several decades by the late dealer and collector, Claude de Marteau. Much of it has never been seen in public. It spans works ... More | |
Portrait of Maysha Mohamedi © Megan Cerminaro
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery announced its global representation of the Los Angeles-based artist Maysha Mohamedi, who is known for her singular approach to calligraphic abstraction and Color Field painting. Mohamedi will present her first solo exhibition in New York with Pace in 2023. A self-taught artist raised in San Luis Obispo, California, Mohamedi creates paintings that function as maps of sensation, cognition, and experience. Her compositions are indices of the complex manifolds of selfhood and identity. Suggesting an aesthetic of fragmentation, her paintings are also laboratories in which to explore the expressive possibilities of color. Through a distinct visual lexicon of forms, symbols, and calligraphic marks, the artist infuses her canvases with a rhythmic energy that suggests the unfolding of poetry. Grounding her palettes in specific moments in time, Mohamedi uses abstraction to summon life through color and line, oscillating ... More | |
Prairie Grizzly Bear Claw Necklace Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000.
CINCINNATI, OH.- This Friday, Hindmans Native American Art auction will spotlight a variety of one-of-a-kind and historically significant lots spanning the Paleo Indian Period through the 1930s, with nearly 300 lots of prehistoric artifacts, pottery, jewelry, beadwork, weaving and more. The auction features several important collections including Property from The John Baldwin Trust (Chicago, Illinois), the Collection of Bruce and Claire Montgomerie, the Marilyn Eber Collection of Native American Art (Denver, Colorado), the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter (Alpharetta, Georgia), the Estate of Donna Wasserstrom (Carefree, Arizona) and the Carl Lewis Druckman Collection (Arizona). Paleo points from the Collection of Claude Henry Withers (Laconia, Indiana) will also be offered to start the sale. John Baldwin was a distinguished collector and author of several ... More |
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| Christie's to offer a magnificent and extremely rare large Doucai Vase | | Significant collection of glass donated to Peabody Essex Museum | | Christie's presents The Red Cross Diamond |
A Magnificent And Extremely Rare Large Doucai Vase. Qianlong Six-Character Seal Mark In Underglaze-Blue And Of The Period (1736-1795), 20 ¾ in. (52.7 cm.), wood stand. Estimate: HK$30,000,000 50,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
HONG KONG.- This spring, Christie's will present A Magnificent And Extremely Rare Large Doucai Vase, to be offered as a leading highlight in the Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art auction on 30 May, 2022. Proceeds from the sale of the lot will benefit The Helen Munson Williams Acquisition Fund, solely for the purchase of artwork for the permanent collection. Carefully Applied Technique: A unique technique and style of decoration, doucai was both difficult and expensive to execute. After shaping and drying the vase, fine underglaze cobalt blue outlines were painted onto its porous unfired body. As the cobalt immediately soaked into the unfired clay, no mistakes could be rectified. Exceptionally Rare: There are very few surviving doucai vases of such massive size from the Qianlong period. A related Qianlong vase in the Walters ... More | |
Nancy Callan, Melon Droplet, 2019. Blown and etched glass. Gift of Carl and Betty Pforzheimer. 2022.6.18. Courtesy of the artist. Photo © Russell Johnson.
SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum announced that it has received a generous and inspiring gift of the glass collection of New York-based philanthropists, Betty and Carl Pforzhiemer. The Carl and Betty Pforzheimer Collection contains over 200 works of international studio glass and 40 pieces of historic European and American glass. This acquisition significantly expands PEMs noted historic glass collection while celebrating the extraordinary aesthetic possibilities that the combination of sand and fire achieves. Selections from this collection, which is remarkable for the diversity of form, scale and technique, will go on view in PEMs Native American and American Art galleries in the coming year. In 2024, the collection will be featured in the new Pforzheimer Gallery. Betty and Carl Pforzheimer have assembled an astounding collection, featuring the work of more than 90 artists, many of whom will be represented in PEM's collection ... More | |
The original rough stone was found in 1901 in a De Beers South African mine and is said to have weighed some 375 carats. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
GENEVA.- Christies announced The Red Cross Diamond, a historically important fancy intense yellow, cushion-shaped diamond of 205.07 carat (estimate on request). A symbol of the altruism and heroism of the worlds largest humanitarian network, this famous diamond will live up to its name with part of the sale revenue to be donated to the International Committee of the Red Cross. This is the third time in over 100 years for Christies to present this extraordinary canary yellow diamond of 205.07 carats. This is a very special bond and tremendous honour. Part of the proceeds of the sale will benefit the International Committee of the Red Cross, for a cause that is even more poignant in the midst of current events., said François Curiel, Chairman of Christies Europe and Head of the Luxury Department. The original rough stone was found in 1901 in a De Beers South African mine and is said to have weighed some 375 ... More |
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| Ukraine benefit featuring Russian ensemble is canceled in Vienna | | Fondazione Memmo opens Amalia Pica's first solo exhibition in Italy | | Drawing Room Hamburg opens an exhibition of works by Mariella Mosler |
The Vienna Konzerthaus said it canceled the concert after the Ukrainian ambassador to Austria, Vasyl Khymynets, expressed concern about featuring Russian artists at an event meant to benefit Ukraine. © Rupert Steiner.
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- A planned benefit concert in support of Ukraine was canceled in Vienna on Monday amid concerns about the Russian-based ensemble it was to feature, MusicAeterna, which is led by conductor Teodor Currentzis and is supported by a state-owned bank in Russia. The concert, organized by the Konzerthaus in Vienna, one of Austrias premier halls, was to take place Tuesday and feature MusicAeterna, which is based in St. Petersburg and is financed in part by VTB Bank, one of Russias largest financial institutions. The United States and other Western countries have recently imposed sanctions on the bank because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Vienna Konzerthaus said it canceled the concert after ... More | |
Amalia Pica, (Quasi) Catachresis, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Fondazione Memmo. Photo: Daniele Molajoli.
ROME.- Fondazione Memmo presents Quasi, Amalia Picas first solo exhibition in Italy, running from Tuesday, April 12 to Sunday, October 16, 2022. The exhibition, curated by Francesco Stocchi, represents a new chapter in the Argentinean artists practice, focusing on the analysis of the strategies implemented in communication and, more generally, on the use of language. For years, in her drawings, installations, sculptures and performances, Amalia Pica has been exploring the dynamics through which we communicate a feeling or an idea to others. The public is often involved in her works, which invite both intellectual and physical forms of participation. In creating her pieces, the artist adopts everyday objects such as furniture, shoes, bottles and various utensils, used in a paradoxical overturning of semiotics and its rules. For the exhibition at Fondazione Memmo, Amalia Pica presents a body of new sculptures, a continuatio ... More | |
Installation view.
HAMBURG.- The dialectical interplay between the two-dimensional surface and the three-dimensional space is a central pictorial method of Mariella Mosler, who is presenting her second exhibition in the Drawing Room. These dialectics are also operative in the ornament, an aesthetic core element in the works of the Hamburg-based artist who teaches as a professor in Stuttgart. It runs through her entire art production in various incarnations, materials, and dimensions. Mosler became internationally renowned with ephemeral, geometrically structured floor reliefs comprised of quartz sand, which were shown in the context of Catherine David' s documenta X in Kassel and other venues. As a stylized, abbreviated, reality-charged symbol language, ornaments translate fundamental phenomena of existence into a rapport of recurring forms. Decorative patterns harbor deeper layers that make reference to the origins and continuity of systems and genealogies of various kinds. ... More |
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| Oolite Arts unveils Miami home by Barozzi Veiga | | The April sale at Clars will be led by the Asian art department with numerous highlights | | Monumental Chihuly chandelier lights up Heritage Auctions' May Design event |
By contrasting the buildings enigmatic exterior with a lush interior, Barozzi Veigas courtyard design offers something unexpected for artists and the community.
MIAMI, FLA.- Oolite Artsone of Miamis leading supporters of visual artistspresents architectural renderings of its new headquarters, designed by Barozzi Veiga of Barcelona. Opening in 2024, the building will be the award-winning architects first-ever built project in the United States and represents Oolite Arts status as a world class cultural center. Oolite Arts has been supporting the arts in Miami since 1984, and the organizations new home demonstrates its ongoing dedication to artists and the community. Located at 75 NW 72nd Street in the City of Miami, the new center is situated in a burgeoning arts district that is easily accessible within the city and close to many artist studios, homes, and galleries. The campus will expand opportunities and programming to meet the continued needs of Miamis growing visual arts ecosystem while also enriching conversations about architecture and art in the city. ... More | |
The Guangxu mark and period famille rose Three Rams bowl, which has four medallions each depicting the Three Rams against a lemon-yellow sgraffito ground.
OAKLAND, CA.- Clars Auction Gallery will offer a fine selection of Asian works of art on Sunday, April 24th. This auction will include various Chinese antique porcelains, jade and stone carvings, furniture, Chinese paintings, embroidered works, and other categories of Asian works of art. A finely molded Dingyao bowl featuring lotus and other aquatic plants along with a double-fish medallion will headline the auction. The Song dynasty bowl was acquired from the late Chingwah Lee Collection of San Francisco sold at Sothebys Los Angeles Fine Oriental Art Sale on June 8th, 1981. A fine example of Chinese monochromes is the Qianlong mark and period celadon-glazed and carved vase displaying overlapping lotus petals throughout. Another Qing imperial porcelain is the Guangxu mark and period famille rose Three Rams bowl, which has four medallions each depicting the Three Rams against a lemon-yellow sgraffito ground. The ... More | |
Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941), Clear and Gold Chandelier, 2000. Blown glass, neon, metal armature, 156 x 156 x 108 inches. Estimate: $100,000 - $150,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Designed to occupy the grand hall of a palatial residence, the extravagant Dale Chihuly chandelier offered in Heritage Auctions May 4 Design Signature® event is one of the largest Chihuly works ever to cross the auction block. Measuring 13 feet long and 13 feet in diameter, the one-of-a-kind work by the renowned artist comprises 1,450 pieces of colorless glass, each punctuated with gold and silver overlays and handcrafted by Chihulys team at his glass studio in Seattle. Known for creating glass sculptures of all scales, including monumental installations at museums and gardens around the world, Chihuly has long used the traditional chandelier form as a medium for creating large-scale sculptures for a domestic setting, says Brent Lewis, Heritage Auctions Director of Design. This ambitious example is one of the largest and most elaborate works by Chihuly ever to come to auction. Commissioned in 2000 ... More |
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A Blade of Grass announces departure of founding Director and new Interim
BROOKLYN, NY.- A Blade of Grass, the national nonprofit dedicated to socially engaged art, announced today that its Founding Executive Director Deborah Fisher will step down on May 31, 2022. Fisher has been instrumental in shaping the organizations mission and program as well as guiding it through the challenges of the pandemic. To support the transition leading up to and following Fishers departure, A Blade of Grasss Board of Trustees has appointed Suzy Delvalle as Interim Executive Director. Delvalle brings considerable experience in arts nonprofit leadership and will support the organization in a research and evaluation phase geared to maturing the nonprofit, diversifying its funding, and rebuilding the structures necessary to reestablish its grants to individual artists. Delvalle most recently served ... More
Guan Xiao joins David Kordansky Gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announced their representation of the Beijing-based artist Guan Xiao. To learn more about Guan Xiaos work. Guan Xiao takes a playful approach to making sculptures, videos, and installations, identifying disparate relationships between unexpected materials to create a visual language that breaks historical and cultural boundaries alike. She often positions physical objectssuch as industrial products and cultural artifactsalongside images amassed from scrolling through the infinite universe of desktop and laptop screens. Her works generate cohesive textures between binaries sourced from contrasting and even conflicting worlds, and fuse old and modern, digital and analogue, and natural and artificial modes. Attuned to both possibilities and looming hazards, Guan Xiaos prescient ... More
Chick Corea, the master mixer of jazz's past and future
NEW YORK, NY.- When the groundbreaking pianist Chick Corea died unexpectedly, at 79, in February 2021, he left a legacy of experimentation, preserving and expanding the jazz tradition. Over more than a half-century, he deftly navigated the musics continually shifting boundaries. Corea started his career playing with Afro-Cuban percussionist Willie Bobo and spent time with bossa nova stalwart Stan Getz. His presence in Miles Davis Bitches Brew ensemble, and later, his leading role in Return to Forever, gave him a seminal role in the origins of 1970s jazz fusion. But Corea didnt stop there, devoting himself to straight-ahead jazz trios and quartets; duos with greats such as Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett; outside-the-box collaborations with the bluegrass banjo player Béla Fleck; and even to playing Mozart Concertos with Bobby ... More
The Honolulu Museum of Art receives American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
HONOLULU, HI.- The Honolulu Museum of Art has received a $150,000 American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Grant funding comes from the American Rescue Plan Act legislation, designed to support the nations recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The NEA will award grants totaling $57,750,000 to 567 arts organizations across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Washington, D.C. Our nations arts sector has been among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan funding will help arts organizations, such as the Honolulu Museum of Art, rebuild and reopen ... More
Chrysler Museum receives $2.5 million from the Goode Family to fund a new works on paper center
NORFOLK, VA.- David R. and Susan S. Goode and their daughters, Christina and Martha, have long been dedicated to advancing the institutions mission of bringing art and people together. Recently, the family committed two of their largest gifts to the Chrysler Museum of Art to date: a $2.5 million donation that will fund the new Goode Works on Paper Center and a group of 100 photographs by O. Winston Link. The new facility, to be located within the main Museum building adjacent to the McKinnon Contemporary Galleries, will improve public access to photographs, drawings, prints and other works on paper, which account for one-third of the Chryslers collection. The Chrysler Museum will also showcase artworks from the Goodes collection in Lasting Impressions: Works on Paper from the Collection of David and Susan Goode ... More
The Armory Show announces exhibitors for 2022 edition
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show announced the exhibitor list for its 2022 edition, featuring over 240 leading international galleries from more than 30 countries. Following the success of the 2021 edition, the fair will once again feature a floorplan by Frederick Fisher and Partners, and will take place at the Javits Center from September 911, 2022, with a VIP preview day on September 8. Returning exhibitors to The Armory Show include 303 Gallery (New York), Ben Brown Fine Arts (London, Hong Kong), Massimo De Carlo (Milan, London, Paris), Galerie EIGEN + ART (Berlin, Leipzig), Kasmin (New York), Sean Kelly (New York, Los Angeles), Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna), Simon Lee Gallery (London, Hong Kong), Victoria Miro (London, Venice), Galeria Nara Roesler (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York), Galerie Templon ... More
Museum Tinguely opens an exhibition of works by Jean-Jacques Lebel
BASEL.- From April 13 to September 18, 2022, Museum Tinguely will be showing Jean-Jacques Lebel's La Chose de Tinguely, quelques philosophes et Les Avatars de Vénus, an exhibition that grew out of Europes first Happening, Lenterrement de la Chose de Tinguely, which was staged by Lebel on July 14, 1960 in Venice and centred on a sculpture by Jean Tinguely. In addition to documents relating to that pioneering event, the show will also feature some of Lebels and Tinguelys philosophes as well as Lebels late work, Les Avatars de Vénus. The Happening Lenterrement de la Chose de Tinguely took place in the wake of the second edition of Anti-Procès, a series of three manifestations staged in protest at French brutality in the Algerian War of Independence. The arc they trace began with anti-colonialist sentiment ... More
Patricia MacLachlan, author of 'Sarah, Plain and Tall,' dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- Patricia MacLachlan, a celebrated author of childrens books, including the bestselling Sarah, Plain and Tall, about a young woman who moves to a pioneer homestead to join a widower and his children, died March 31 at her home in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. She was 84. The death was confirmed by her son John, who declined to specify the cause. Praised for its interiority and sparse, gentle prose, Sarah, Plain and Tall sold millions of copies and earned a Newbery Medal, the premier honor for childrens literature. Set in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the book centers on the story of Jacob Witting, a farmer on the Wyoming prairie trying to raise his children after his wife has died in childbirth. A woman named Sarah Wheaton answers a newspaper ad to become his new wife and the mother to the family, ... More
Works from The Nobel Collection on view at the Pera Museum
ISTANBUL.- Pera Museum presents new exhibition And Now The Good News, bringing together a comprehensive selection of works from the Annette and Peter Nobel Collection. The exhibition focuses on the dialogue between art and the mass media, taking the invention of the printing press in the late 18th century and the formation of periodic journalism in the 19th century as a starting point. And Now the Good News: Works from The Nobel Collection brings together around 300 works of Press Art by significant artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Andy Warhol, Andreas Gursky, Jenny Holzer, Bedri Baykam, Barbara Kruger, Christo, David Hockney, Dennis Hopper, Elmgreen & Dragset, Fernand Légér, Georges Braque, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joseph Beuys, Ãzlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, Le Corbusier, Malevich, ... More
9th edition of EXPO CHICAGO returns to Navy Pier with strong sales and high attendance
CHICAGO, IL.- EXPO CHICAGO, the international exposition of contemporary and modern art, concluded its ninth edition on Sunday, April 10, with strong attendance of international collectors and curators alongside 30,000 visitors, exceptional presentations from exhibiting galleries and strong sales, in what was its most global edition to date. On opening day alone, the exposition welcomed more than 8,000 VIP guests while raising $260,000 to benefit the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago during the fairs Vernissage. Collectors, curators, artists and art professionals enjoyed an exclusive first look at over 140 leading galleries from 25 countries and 65 cities throughout Navy Piers iconic Festival Hall. EXPO CHICAGO will return to Navy Piers Festival Hall on April 13 - 16, 2023. "We are thrilled with the enthusiastic return of EXPO ... More
Almine Rech Paris opens the first solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Umar Rashid
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris is presenting Ancien Regime Change Part Two. En Germinal: Les Printemps de Guerre, the first solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Umar Rashid (also known as Frohawk Two Feathers), opening on April 13, from 11am-8pm, and running through May 04, 2022. In Ancien Regime Change Part Two. En Germinal: Les Printemps de Guerre, the year is 1796 and Rashids Frenglish Empire has sent commanders on colonial reconnaissance missions to discover new territories and countries to occupy. Unlike many of his shows, whose fictitious events take place on the gallerys home soil (a Los Angeles show might detail the imagined wars between the Tongva population of LA and the Frenglish Empire, for instance), Rashid moves this shows subjects out of Frances domestic borders, expanding ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Lawrence was born April 13, 1769. Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 - 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. In this image: Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830) Portrait of the Hon. Emily Mary Lamb (1787-1869), 1803. ©The National Gallery.
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