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An auctioneer holds a letter co-written by Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh and French painter Paul Gauguin on the eve of its auction sale at Drouot auction house in Paris on June 15, 2020. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A letter written jointly by Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in which they talk of their brothel visits and share their mutual admiration, sold for 210,600 euros ($236,000) at auction in Paris on Tuesday. The letter, which mentions how they wanted to revive modern art and set up an "association of painters", was signed by both painters. It is addressed from Arles to their painter friend Emile Bernard and dated November 1/2, 1888, less than two years before Van Gogh died at the age of 37. Gauguin arrived in Arles, where Van Gogh was living, on October 23, 1888 and the two spent several stormy months painting together. It was during the fateful visit that Van Gogh lost his ear, presenting it to a brothel maid. The incident effectively ended his often strained relationship with Gauguin. In the letter sold by Aristophil Collections at the Drouot auction rooms in Paris, both men insisted that art was surging towards what Van Gogh called "an immense ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman is pictured on June 15, 2020 in front of the Great Ziggurat temple, a massive Sumerian stepped mudbrick construction dedicated to the moon god Nanna which dates back to 2100 BC in the ancient city of Ur that falls now in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar province, 375 kilometers (235 miles) southeast of Baghdad. The location of the city of Ur, where the Bible says Abraham was born, is one of Iraq's oldest archaeological sites of the ancient region of Mesopotamia. Asaad NIAZI / AFP
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| | Asian Art Museum to remove bust of patron. That's just a start. | | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers to present 'Art & Design' sale on June 28 | | New Mexico takes down statue of its conquistador |
The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Feb. 15, 2018. Aaron Wojack/The New York Times.
by Carol Pogash
SAN FRANCISCO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For 48 years, visitors to this citys Asian Art Museum have had to pass the bust of Avery Brundage, its towering patron, an industrialist and former president of the International Olympic Committee. The museum, a jeweled attraction at Civic Center Plaza, was established in 1966 to house his nearly 8,000 art pieces. But Brundage was also dogged by accusations that he was a Nazi sympathizer and a racist something that has not escaped critics. After the museum posted a message about Black Lives Matter, Chiraag Bhakta, a Bay Area artist and designer, taunted its officials on Instagram with a selfie in front of Brundages bust and the added text: Helllooo Anyone home? When the museum reopens this summer, as the city relaxes its coronavirus quarantine, the bust prominently displayed in its foyer will be tucked into storage, ... More | |
Lot 276: Tiffany Studios, Moorish four-light chandelier. Estimate $15,000-25,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will conduct its second Art & Design sale of 2020 on Sunday, June 28, showcasing nearly 600 lots of fine and decorative artworks, sculpture, early 20th century and modern furniture, art pottery, lighting, silver, jewelry, and more. Among the highlights of the auction will be works by notable Chicago and African-American artists and many fine examples from Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts makers plus items by mid-century American and Danish designers. The auction on June 28 will start at 10:00 a.m. CDT. at Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, 818 North Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois. In light of COVID-19, the sale will not be open to the public, but bidders may participate by phone (708-383-5234) or leave absentee bids ([email protected]). Early registration with Toomey & Co. is strongly recommended. In addition, bids may be placed via two real-time, third-party digital platforms (LiveAuctioneers and Invaluable). Leading up t ... More | |
Statue called La Jornada in Albuquerque, N.M., which features Juan de Oñate, on the property of the Albuquerque Museum on June 15, 2020. Adria Malcolm/The New York Times.
by Simon Romero
ALBUQUERQUE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Authorities in New Mexico on Monday removed a statue of Juan de Oñate, the despotic conquistador of New Mexico, as anti-racism protests around the United States are evolving to target symbols of colonial atrocities. The removal of the Oñate statue in Alcalde in northern New Mexico came amid a flurry of other actions aiming to topple monuments to Oñate, who became the province of New Mexicos brutal colonial governor in 1598, putting into motion centuries of Spanish rule in the region. A protest against another Oñate statue, in Albuquerque, was scheduled for Monday night. Protesters recently sprayed the words your God is not my God on a colossal Oñate statue in El Paso. The agitation against honoring ... More |
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| | White Cube opens an online exhibition of new work by Tracey Emin | | Freeman's sets new world auction records in American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists auction | | Pace London opens an exhibition of new works by Light and Space master James Turrell |
Made in her London home, these intimate paintings capture this time of solitude and reflection, whilst offering a glimpse into the sanctuary that is her domestic environment. © Tracey Emin.
LONDON.- White Cube presents an online exhibition of new work by Tracey Emin, created during the UKs recent months in lockdown. During a period of isolation in her London home, Tracey Emin made a series of works that offer insight into the sanctuary of the domestic realm. Focusing on a range of intimate interior spaces, these small paintings are concise studies that, for Emin, represent a transference of emotions and place. After twenty years living in the same house, the artist is on the brink of leaving it for a new home. The memories and her sense of belonging, coupled with feelings of anticipation and the prospect of adventure, coalesce in these works. A glimpsed domestic object, such as a chair or bed, takes shape like an elusive recollection, while the bath, a familiar trope in art history, provides the private setting for intimate reflection ... More | |
Detail of The Bonfire by William Langson Lathrop (Lot 39). Estimated at $15,000-25,000, the important work elicited spirited bidding from 14 phone lines before ultimately selling to an online bidder for $112,500.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans announced the results of its highly successful American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists auction featuring The Collection of Heidi Bingham Stott. With a sell-through rate of 95%, the 74-lot sale achieved over $2.8 million, surpassing its pre-sale high estimate. The Pennsylvania Impressionists section of the sale achieved an 100% sell-through rate and accounted for nearly 80% of the sale total, realizing over $2.2 million in just 36 lots. The section opened with 11 works from The Collection of Heidi Bingham Stott, which totaled $1.3 million with nearly 82% of the works selling above their pre-sale high estimates. The stellar results achieved for Pennsylvania Impressionists, including works by Edward Redfield, Daniel Garber, George Sotter, and Fern Coppedge, reaffirmed ... More | |
Installation view. © James Turrell, courtesy Pace Gallery and Kayne Griffin Corcoran.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery is presenting its second solo exhibition of new works by Light and Space master James Turrell at 6 Burlington Gardens. The exhibition is extended until 14 August 2020. This is the gallerys ninth exhibition of Turrell works. Influenced by the notion of phenomenology in pictorial art, Turrell focused, in his earliest work, on the dialectic between constructing light and painting with it, building on the sensorial experience of space, colour, and perception. These interactions became the foundation for Turrells oeuvre, which evolved to an investigation of the immateriality of light itself. Turrells exhibition at Pace features four new works from the Constellation series staged in site-designed chambers. The works feature elliptical and circular shapes with a frosted and curved glass surface animated by an array of technically advanced LED lights, which are mounted to a wall and generated by a computer ... More |
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| | Christie's to offer an important rediscovery by Soulages from 1950 | | Rock 'n' roll memorabilia from a roadie goes up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals | | Almine Rech now represents Kenny Scharf |
Pierre Soulages, Peinture 130 x 89 cm, 25 novembre 1950 (detail). © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
PARIS.- Christies France will offer an important rediscovery by Pierre Soulages which will highlight the Paris leg of ONE: a Global Sale of the 20th Century on 10 July 2020. The painting, executed in 1950, has been in the same private Australian collection since being first acquired in 1953 by the present owners father from the Galerie Louis Carré & Cie Paris, when it was included in a major exhibition that toured to Australia. Etienne Sallon, specialist in charge of the sale: We are very proud to offer this luminous and vibrant painting by Soulages, which has been unseen by the public since its acquisition in 1953 when it toured to Australia for the exhibition French Painting Today. This fantastic rediscovery illustrates the artists early career and his first uses of black bars in oil paint, giving transparency, light and dynamism to the canvas. By offering this important painting in Paris, we will pay ... More | |
A BG-105 1968 Rick Griffin Flying Eyeball Jimi Hendrix poster, second printing. Size: 21 1/2" high x 14". Condition: Good, slight crease to middle right side. Estimate $400 - $500.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present Rock 'n' Roll Memorabilia from a Roadie on Saturday, June 27, 2020, featuring over 130 posters and memorabilia from a man who has worked with renowned musicians like the Grateful Dead for many years. With items from the 1960s to 2000s, but mostly from the 1960s-1970s, the posters include famous musicians and rock groups such as the Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam, Jerry Garcia, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Neon Rose, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver, Country Joe and the Fish, Phil Lesh & Friends, Incubus and others. Other posters of Motown, soul and blues musicians include Sam and Dave, Memphis Slim, Muddy Waters, Smokey Robinson, the Temptations, Ray ... More | |
Kenny Scharf, ZOOM WAY!, 2020 (detail) - Oil and acrylic on linen with powder coated aluminum frame - 60 x 72 in, 152.4 x 182.9 cm / © Kenny Scharf - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech announced the representation of iconic American artist Kenny Scharf, and his inaugural solo exhibition of new paintings at Almine Rech New York this fall. Opening September 10, Kenny Scharf: Dystopian Painting will debut 15 paintings and a sculpture by Scharf, showcasing the energy and depth of his singular artistic practice. The artists new body of work reflects his continued immersion in the everyday life of urban society and circumstances of our time, blending quotidian and deeply relevant themes within the framework of his bright, frenetic canvases and enduring optimism. Kenny Scharf (b. 1958, United States) is a renowned artist affiliated with the 1980s East Village Art movement in New York. Alongside his mentor Andy Warhol, and contemporaries Jean-Michel ... More |
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| | Czech sculptor creates 3D-printed floating house | | Rupert Hine, synth-pop music producer, dies at 72 | | Artcurial announces sales dedicated to design, Art Deco and Scandinavian design. |
This picture taken on June 15, 2020 in Ceske Budejovice city shows the 3D printing of the first-ever concrete house in Czech Republic. Michal Cizek / AFP.
by Jan Flemr
CESKÃ BUDEJOVICE (AFP).- A Czech sculptor has teamed up with a group of architects to create a 3D-printed house prototype that could become a holiday home for the future. The house is being printed from special concrete in the southern Czech city of Ceske Budejovice and is planned to float on the Vltava river in Prague in August. "I dare say it's the first-ever floating 3D-printed building in the world," sculptor Michal Trpak, the mastermind behind the project, told AFP. The design of the house, which can be printed in two days, was inspired by a single-celled creature known as a protozoa, he says. As an added attraction, Trpak plans to turn the abode into a floating garden, with plants covering its roof and outside walls. The simple 43-square metre (51.4 square yards) floor plan includes a living room with kitchen, a bedroom and bathroom. "3D houses will adapt to the people or the countryside. ... More | |
Rupert Hine produced two albums for Rush Presto in 1989 and Roll the Bones in 1991.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rupert Hine, a prolific English producer and songwriter who thrived in the synth-pop heyday of the 1980s making hits with Tina Turner, the Fixx and Howard Jones, died on June 4 at his home in Wiltshire, England. He was 72. The death was confirmed on his website. His wife, Fay Morgan Hine, said he had quadruple bypass surgery in 2010 and learned he had renal cancer in 2011. Hine began his recording career in 1965 and made six albums under his own name from 1971 to 1994, as well as albums with a group he started, Quantum Jump, in the 1970s. But he was better known as a hit-making producer. He produced the Grammy-winning Turner hit Better Be Good to Me and other songs for her in the 1980s, and he produced the biggest hits by the Fixx, Jones and Duncan Sheik. He also made albums with Stevie Nicks, Rush, Suzanne Vega and Underworld, and produced all-star projects dedicated to environmental awareness and to human rights in Tibet. I never wanted to be a rock star, he t ... More | |
Gaetano Pesce, Chaise longue « Il Piede - UP7 » Created 1970. 82 à 166 à 60 cm. Estimate: 1,500 - 2,000. / Franco Albini, Chaise longue mod. PS16. Created 1956, Edition Cassina, 70 à 170 à 70 cm. Estimate: 8,000 - 12,000.
PARIS.- The Design Week at Artcurial will get underway with the sale of a collection of European design, on Wednesday 1 July at 6pm. Acquired and housed in a 17th century château by an enthusiast of post-war design, this collection of furniture and objects focuses on Italian and Scandinavian designers. Comprising nearly 130 lots, it is packed with treasures such as a pair of rare wingback armchairs (circa 1947) by Gio Ponti, from an edition manufactured by Ariberto Colombo, Cantù, estimate 80,000 to 120,000 and a ceiling light from Studio B.B.P.R., estimate 30,000 to 40,000. On Thursday 2 July at 6pm the theme continues with a sale dedicated to Scandinavian Design. The selection of around a hundred lots showcases pieces by the biggest names in Nordic design including Paavo Tynell, Poul Henningsen, Alvar Aalto, Märta Blomstedt and Poul Kjærholm. Star lots include a large ceiling light mod. ... More |
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Ancient Resource Auctions' announces online Summer Antiquities Discovery sale
MONTROSE, CALIF.- A lovely Moche portrait vessel made between 100 BC and 500 AD, a Late Period Ptolemaic Egyptian bronze sarcophagus of a lizard, and a gorgeous Cypriot alabaster dish from the 4th or 5th century BC are a few expected top lots in Ancient Resource Auctions online-only Auction #85, a Summer Antiquities Discovery Sale slated for Saturday, June 27th. Our Summer Discovery Sale will feature a wonderful selection of authentic, museum quality and well-provenanced items from various cultures, as well as other ethnographic and antique items starting at great values, said Gabriel Vandervort of Ancient Resource Auctions. Also sold will be an array of antique and ancient-style reproduction pieces. The auction is up and online now for pre-bidding. It will go live on auction day, July 27th at 9 am Pacific time and will continue ... More
Ralph Caplan, design critic big on sit-ins but not chairs, dies at 95
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ralph Caplan was the E.B. White of design writing. He disliked windy sentences and pompous clichés and was always ready to poke fun at orthodoxies. He said he wasnt sure he saw the point of a chair, since human beings could sit on pretty much anything except a cactus. To Caplan, design wasnt really about objects anyway, but about making things right, which is why to him the most emblematic and successful design of the 20th century was the sit-in civil disobedience as perfected by the young civil rights activists at lunch counters in Montgomery, Alabama, and elsewhere in the South. Caplan, an essayist, professor, lecturer and consultant on design, died June 4 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 95. His wife, Judith Ramquist, said the cause was heart failure. In 1957, Caplan was an out ... More
Black director says France 'in denial' of its racism and its past
PARIS (AFP).- Acclaimed black film-maker Raoul Peck has accused France of being in denial of its racism, its colonial past and its wealth "built on the misery of others". The Haitian-born maker of the Oscar-nominated documentary, "I Am Not Your Negro", said he was with young people who have taken to the streets in France and the US to protest against police violence in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. "They are right to rise up. They are right to protest, they may even be right to smash everything," Peck wrote in a piece to be published Wednesday in the French weekly, Le 1. Headlined "I Can't Breathe", echoing Floyd's last words as a white US police officer kneeled on his neck, Peck said "France is in denial and its 'adulterated' children no longer have the time to wait," he added, referring to its ethnic minorities. "Every citizen has to take their ... More
Phillips announces 'Tailor-Made: Fashion Photographs from the Collection of Peter Fetterman'
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced Tailor-Made: Fashion Photographs from the Collection of Peter Fetterman, an exclusive online auction that celebrates a century of fashion photography, tracing the history of womens fashion through 64 quintessential images spanning from the 1920s to today. Drawn from the collection of esteemed gallerist and collector Peter Fetterman, Tailor-Made includes work by legendary fashion photographers Lillian Bassman, Sarah Moon, Sheila Metzner, Gordon Parks, Ormond Gigli, William Klein, and Horst P. Horst, among many others. The sale will be live to bidders worldwide June 18 25 on Phillips.com. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative to help further their mission to end mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the US, and to challenge racial and economic injustice, and ... More
'Justice for All' by Yinka Shonibare CBE on show to mark the reopening of Stephen Friedman Gallery
LONDON.- In light of the events of the past month and the Black Lives Matter movement, Stephen Friedman Gallery has been amplifying its artists' voices in solidarity with the cause. To mark the reopening of the gallery, a monumental work by acclaimed British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE is presented for the first time in the UK. The sculpture is installed in the gallerys Viewing Room, making Justice for All visible from the street and giving the work the public focus it deserves. Lights remain on during the night to make the sculpture available to the public 24/7. Shonibare explains, I wanted to think about Justice, especially in the light of George Floyds tragic death. This particular work was exhibited at Singapores Old Parliament House earlier this year. Justice has to be equally applied. People of African origin do not seem to have fair justice. Those injustices have always been there a ... More
Kehrer Verlag to publish 'Nowhere to go but Everywhere' by Dotan Saguy
NEW YORK, NY.- Award-winning photographer Dotan Saguy first met the Reis family, Mormons from Brazil, the day they arrived in Los Angeles in a converted yellow school bus they call home with their three children ages 10, 5 and 2. They had come to the United States two years prior to chase the American Dream. While they quickly found financial footing in the US and acquired all the material things they wanted, they were still not happy. Inspired by a YouTube video by a Brazilian artist who quit everything to travel and sell his art, they decided to explore an alternative lifestyle that would allow them to spend more time as a family and discover the world together through travel. In Nowhere to go but Everywhere (Kehrer Verlag, September 2020), Saguy documents artfully and with compassion the Reis family's trials and tribulations during their ten-month stop in the City of Angels as ... More
National Portrait Gallery announces NPPP and Darling Prize People's Choice awards
CANBERRA.- The votes have been counted, and the winners of the National Portrait Gallerys Peoples Choice Awards for the Prize exhibitions are: David Darcy, for his portrait of his neighbour, 86-year-old farmer and environmentalist Wendy Bowman. Darcy wins a $10,000 cash prize thanks to the generous support of the Liangis family, founding benefactors of the National Portrait Gallery. John Liangis said he was delighted with the selection. The people have chosen well. The portrait expresses a life of experience, vitality and resilience. Darcy, based in the Upper-Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, is a successful photographer and peoples favourite (he won the National Photographic Portrait Prize Peoples Choice award in 2016) who only began painting two years ago. On winning, Darcy said he was overwhelmed. There ... More
Christie's Jewels announces global sales calendar, June & July 2020
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies Jewels announces the global sales calendar for June & July 2020 to include live and online auctions in all major sale sites spanning Geneva, Hong Kong, London, New York, and Paris. A total of nine auctions are planned, five live and four online, beginning with Jewels Online in New York (16-30 June) and ending with Important Jewels in London (30 July). The global sales will collectively feature over 1,000 jewels, including a significant selection of colorless diamonds, colored diamonds, and rare gemstones, along with signed creations by Belperron, Bulgari, Cartier, Graff, Harry Winston, JAR, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels, and Verdura, with estimates ranging from $5,000 to $8m. Rahul Kadakia, International Head of Jewelry at Christies, remarks, As the jewelry auction market leader for over twenty-six years, our team ... More
Antique gold and platinum pocket watches tick with precision as they await start time at Morphy's
DENVER, PA.- Times may change, but time never does. Whether measured by the Greenwich Royal Observatory clock in England or a bedside digital alarm clock, a day is universally considered to be a 24-hour period with 60 minutes in each hour. And as Morphys Tuesday, June 30 auction attests, no device keeps track of the hours and minutes quite as precisely or beautifully as an antique pocket watch. Over 650 high-quality pocket watches from a single-owner collection, including more than 250 complicated examples, are entered in the no-reserve sale, each a reflection of the era in which it was created. It is believed to be one of the largest collections of gold pocket watches ever to be offered for public sale. The first pocket watch was invented in 1510 by Peter Henlein, in Nuremberg, Germany. Italians were producing clocks small enough to be worn ... More
New Yorkers will experience new monuments this summer at Socrates
NEW YORK, NY.- As the country grapples with both a deadly pandemic and the tragic consequences of systemic racism, Socrates Sculpture Park will open an exhibition of new outdoor monuments this summer. MONUMENTS NOW seeks to address the role of monuments in American society some of which have been removed in recent days and presents artist-envisioned monuments highlighting underrepresented histories including queer, Indigenous, and diasporic narratives. Socrates Sculpture Park, as with all NYC Parks, has been open and operating during the pandemic. With Phase I reopening of the city, Socrates will begin installing and presenting MONUMENTS NOW with the initial installation and presentation of Jeffrey Gibsons project, Because Once You Enter My House, It Becomes Our House on July 10th. MONUMENTS ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch illustrator M. C. Escher was born June 17, 1898. Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically-inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. In this image: Installation view, ESCHER. The Exhibition & Experience at Industry City, June 8, 2018 - February 3, 2019. Photo by Adam Reich. Courtesy Arthemisia.
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