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From Brooklyn to Bristol, Basquiat to Banksy, tonight saw artists who made their names on the streets set records on New Bond Street. --Alex Branczik, Head of Contemporary Art, Sothebys Europe Courtesy Sotheby's
by Robin Millard
LONDON (AFP).- A Banksy painting depicting the British parliament populated by chimpanzees smashed the record for the mysterious British street artist on Thursday, fetching nearly £9.9 million pounds, Sotheby's auction house said. The 2009 work entitled "Devolved Parliament" sold for £9,879,500 ($12.1 million, 11.1 million euros) following a 13-minute battle between 10 different bidders. "Record price for a Banksy painting set at auction tonight. Shame I didn't still own it," the artist said on his Instagram account. The previous auction record for a Banksy artwork was $1.87 million, achieved by "Keep it Spotless" at Sotheby's New York in 2008. "Devolved Parliament" was expected to fetch £1.5 million to £2 million in Thursday's sale. The oil painting measures 4.2 metres ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books, Frieze Masters 2019. Frieze Masters 2019. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy of Mark Blower / Frieze.
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| | If you have $30 million, you could have a Botticelli | | UK particle accelerator to reveal secrets of 2,000-year-old papyrus | | Rediscovered masterpiece by Andrea Mantegna to highlight Sotheby's Masters Week in NYC |
Trinity Fine Art, Frieze Masters 2019. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy of Mark Blower / Frieze.
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Sandro Botticelli, who died five centuries ago, is best known for his Spring and Birth of Venus paintings, which help draw more than 2 million visitors a year to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. His works are not generally expected to be found outside the worlds major museums. Yet a portrait painted by the Renaissance master has just cropped up on the international art market. With an asking price of $30 million, it is set to be the lone work at the booth of Trinity Fine Art, a London-based gallery, at this years Frieze Masters fair from Thursday to Sunday. The portrait, Michele Marullo Tarchaniota (circa 1497), shows a dark-haired man dressed in black who casts a sideways glance at the viewer. Marullo was a soldier and poet of Greek origin who was close to the Medici dynasty of bankers and arts patrons and was celebrated and admired in late 15th-century Florence. He drowned while crossing a river after visiting a fellow scho ... More | |
Herculaneum Scroll Fragment. © of Diamond Light Source Ltd.
DIDCOT (AFP).- A leading science facility in the English countryside is helping in a bid to decipher Roman-era scrolls carbonised in the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. Researchers led by antiquities decoder Professor Brent Seales have turned to Diamond, Britain's national synchrotron in Didcot, Oxfordshire, to examine the papyri, which are described as "fragile like butterfly wings". They hope the synchrotron -- which harnesses the power of electrons to produce powerful scans -- could now end a decades-long effort to read the historic artefacts owned by the Institut de France. "Our normal idea of a scroll is that you can just unroll it and read it," Seales, director of the Digital Restoration Initiative at the University of Kentucky, told AFP during a recent tour of the site in Didcot. "But these scrolls can't be unrolled because the carbonisation makes them completely brittle and that brittle nature would damage it completely if you tried to bend ... More | |
Recently rediscovered drawing for his famed series The Triumphs of Caesar. Estimated to achieve in excess of $12 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that it will offer one of the most art-historically important drawings ever to appear at auction: Andrea Mantegnas only known preparatory drawing for one of the canvases in the Triumphs of Caesar, the Italian Renaissance artists most influential and revered work. Recently rediscovered, the masterwork will headline Sothebys Old Master Drawings auction in New York on the 29th of January 2020, when it is estimated to fetch in excess of $12 million. Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506) was one of the most innovative, influential and celebrated artists of the Italian Renaissance. His importance was very recently underscored by the major exhibition, Mantegna and Bellini, dedicated to his work and that of his brother-in-law Giovanni Bellini, held at the National Gallery, London, and the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Approximately 20 drawings by Mantegna are known, all except two (including ... More |
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| | Masters of paint, time and intimacy | | J. Paul Getty Museum acquires two Italian masterpieces | | Huguette Caland, artist who celebrated freedom in art and life, dies at 88 |
Alex Katz, Ada Smiling, 1993, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in., 152.4 x 121.9 cm, unframed, 314424, N32.950
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Contemporary artist Alex Katz has painted more than 250 portraits of his wife, Ada. Even though Alex is 92 years old and Ada is 91, he never tires of her as a subject. I made four this summer, he said in a telephone interview recently from his studio in New York. When we initially started with it, she was much more generic looking. She was a pretty girl. As she got older, she became like an icon. The first time Alex painted Ada was in 1957, the year they met, and that painting, Ada, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts collection. He still recalls exactly what she was wearing the evening they met: a beige sweater and a gray skirt, and her hair was pulled back very severe looking. He said: She smiled, and Ive never seen anything like it. It was fantastic. After that, he painted her frequently; sometimes he has painted multiple images of her in the same painting. She turned out to be the perfect model,& ... More | |
Virgin and Child With Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist by Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572). J. Paul Getty Museum.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the purchase of two extraordinary works of Italian art: a rare and beautifully preserved painting, Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist, by Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), the leading painter in Florence in the middle of the 16th century; and an extremely rare pair of marble sculptures, The Annunciation, (about 1333-34), by the Late Gothic sculptor Giovanni di Balduccio (about 1290-1339), both through private sale. Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist is an arrestingly beautiful work that counts among Bronzinos most spectacular religious pictures, said Timothy Potts, director of the Getty Museum, in announcing the acquisition. The wonderfully sculptural portrayal of the Christ Child and the vibrant juxtaposition of bright colors in the drapery are typical of Bronzinos meticulous style, qualities that ... More | |
Huguette Caland, Visages sans bouches, bouches sans visages (Faces without Mouths, Mouths without Faces), 197071. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Huguette Caland, a provocative Lebanese artist who celebrated freedom of expression in both her color-drenched paintings and her unconventional life, died Sept. 23 at her home in Beirut. She was 88. Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Brigitte Caland. Her mother, she said, had experienced neurological problems since a fall in 2006 and by 2013 had lost her ability to paint. As an artist, Caland moved freely among oils, ink, sculptures and textiles, between representational figures, abstractions and line drawings. Her pieces were voluptuous, organic, whimsical, erotic, exuberant, sometimes cartoonlike, but most often decidedly feminist. Perhaps her most famous work was Bribes de Corps (Body Parts), a series of paintings, begun in the 1970s, showing fleshy, curvaceous forms that resemble parts of the female ... More |
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| | Freeman's to offer the collection of Philadelphia Pop Art collector Robert J. Morrison | | Hindman to offer significant works by A.R. Mitchell in Arts of the American West Auction | | Musée national Picasso-Paris exhibits Picasso's "magic paintings" |
The core of Morrisons collection is comprised of graphic works by two of the most important and influential artists of the Pop Art movement -- Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On October 30, Freemans will present the Collection of Philadelphia Pop Art Collector and Philanthropist, Robert J. Morrison, whose extensive collected works include prints and multiples by Pop Art icons such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Frank Stella, and Jim Dine. Robert Morrison was a generous, witty man and an intellectually curious collector. His collection was built around iconic Pop works but also included invitations, posters and ephemera that together tell the story of a lifelong collector and ad-man who loved a witty turn of phrase and a colorful, effective image. Bob was drawn to the democratic nature of Pop art, and loved nothing more than to share his collection with others.Head of sale, Anne Henry The core of Morrisons collection is comprised of graphic works by two of the mostL ... More | |
A.R. Mitchell, Morning Friskies, oil on canvas, 26 x 25 inches. Property Being Sold to Benefit The A.R. Mitchell Museum. Estimate: $2,000.00 - $4,000.00.
DENVER, CO.- Hindmans November 7 Arts of the American West auction in Denver, CO will offer a selection of original paintings by Arthur Roy Mitchell in partnership with The A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art in Trinidad, Colorado. The items come to auction as part of an effort to raise awareness of the artists legacy and also to perpetuate long-term preservation of the collection. Colorado native Arthur Roy Mitchell, was once considered The King of Pulp for his significant contribution to the adventure-themed magazines that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. Mitchell neither sought nor received the widespread acclaim given to his better-known Western art contemporaries. By partnering with Hindman, we anticipate introducing Arthur Roy Mitchells body of work as well as his life as an illustrator, fine artist, historian, working cowboy and ardent lover of his native southwest to a br ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Buste de femme avec autoportrait, février, 1929. Huile sur toile, 71 x 60.5 cm. Collection particulière, Courtesy McClain Gallery.
PARIS.- Many of the paintings that Picasso did over a period of some four years (summer 1926-spring 1930) form a cohesive group, which Christian Zervos would later (1938) describe as magic paintings. With these works -- principally figure paintings -- Picasso opened a new chapter in his oeuvre, probing a deep emotional dimension, which anticipates the power of Guernica a decade later. This was accompanied by formal developments that are as radical as anything he had done before, including experimentation with materials and the realization of monumental sculptural ideas in paint. The works in the show have been set not only in terms of the artists own development, but, importantly, in the context of contemporary Surrealism and psychology (Jung vs Freud) and especially the interest among writers such as Leiris and Zervos in the magical powers of art. In the summer of 1926, in Juan-les-Pins, Pablo Picasso began ... More |
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| | For Frieze, there's no place like London | | Sterling shines alongside classic and contemporary design in Rago's October Remix Auctions | | Wealth keeps museums alive, and galvanizes activists too |
David Nolan Gallery, Frieze London 2019. Frieze Art Fair 2019, London, UK. Photo by Linda Nylind. 3/10/2019.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- For art fairs, location is destiny. The organizers of Frieze London and Frieze Masters twinned events taking place near each other in Regents Park from Thursday to Sunday have capitalized on Londons role as a market hub and cultural center. Then they seized opportunities to expand to New York in 2012, and, earlier this year, to Los Angeles. Similarly, Art Basel expanded over the years from its base in Basel, Switzerland, to stage fairs in Miami Beach and Hong Kong, the idea being that each city is good for doing business and somewhere collectors want to go. The fairs are all defined by the places theyre in, said Victoria Siddall, the director of Frieze Fairs. But this years London events are happening in a city roiled with uncertainty over the economic consequences of Britains withdrawal from the European Union, a reminder that the art world though it sometimes sets itself ... More | |
Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Ewer. Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Ragos Remix Auction returns on October 18-19 with two sessions hosted over two days. The sale commences on Friday, October 18 with Remix: American, English + Continental Silver, which presents nearly 200 lots of silver including a large and impressive collection of Tiffany & Co. hollowware and flatware services. The sale will also feature fine and heirloom pieces of silver from other makers such as Georg Jensen, Gorham, and Christofle. Among the sterling silver highlights are several works by Tiffany & Co. including a wine cooler, an Aesthetic movement water pitcher, tea and coffee service, an ewer, and a pair of candelabra. Additional highlights from the silver session include: a finely engraved American coin silver two-handled tray; a large Gorham centerpiece bowl; a Braganti silver gilt epergne; and an Edward VII ox-eye cup by Ramsden & Carr. Then on Saturday, October 19, Remix: Classic + Contemporary presents pieces of co ... More | |
Amin Husain, an organizer for Decolonize This Place, addresses protesters inside the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, May 17, 2019. A recent protest at the Whitney that drummed out a vice chairman exposed the symbiotic, but potentially problematic, relationship that museums have with some trustees. (Andrew White/The New York Times)
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Warren B. Kanders, a vice chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, had just been driven out by a cascading protest over his companys sale of law enforcement and military supplies. And his fellow trustee Kenneth C. Griffin was livid. So hours after Kanders resigned in July, Griffin, a hedge fund titan and one of the worlds richest men, followed him out the door, quitting in outrage during a conference call with other board members. Before lunchtime, the Whitney had lost two major benefactors the lobby is named after Griffin, and Kanders and his wife have an adjoining stairwell. By the end of the day, Griffin had changed his mind. But according to people privy to the events, he did so ... More |
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Exhibition at La Mama Galleria explores the pain shared by women who have endured domestic violence
NEW YORK, NY.- In Divine Breath NYC Ruby Rumié, with her 100 individual ceremonies, thrives toward helping abused women overcome their pain and get on with their lives. This project explores the pain shared by women who have endured domestic violence, identifies the damage this violence does to them, and recognizes the need for them to fully mourn in order to revive their self-esteem. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of the Divine Breath committee and the support of the Safe Horizon Foundation , this exhibition recreates artist Ruby Rumie ́s project of one hundred survivors of domestic violence in Cartagena , Colombia with one hundred survivors in New York City. The participants joined Ms . Rumié in intimate ceremonies of meditation and breathing exercises , after which, each woman exhaled her pain into a ceramic vessel as a symbol of recognizing, ... More
The Morgan Library & Museum announces plans for a new garden
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum today announced site improvements to its 36th Street grounds as part of its four-year, $12.5 million project to restore and enhance the exterior of J. Pierpont Morgans Library. Developed by award-winning landscape designer Todd LongstaffeGowan and lighting designer Linnaea Tillett, the new garden and lighting will revitalize the southern section of the Morgans campus and provide visitor access to its grounds for the first time in the institutions history. The exterior restoration of J. Pierpont Morgans Library that is currently underway presents a unique opportunity to reimagine its setting. The existing landscapingessentially a simple lawndoes little to complement the architecture of the Library, nor does it encourage visitor interaction with the landmark buildings exterior. By creating new ... More
Phillips announces highlights from the October Editions Auction in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced highlights of the Editions & Works on Paper sale in New York this October. Featuring a selection of modern works by Matisse, Duchamp, DalÃ, Miró, Munch, and Redon, along with contemporary editions by Celmins, Gober, Wojnarowicz, Marclay, Ruscha, Bourgeois, Nara and Nauman, the sale will be held during New Yorks Print Week alongside the IFPDA Print Fair and the EAB Editions fair. Phillips Editions sale on 25 October will present over 400 lots, which will be split across three sessions: 10am, 2pm and 6pm. Kelly Troester and Cary Leibowitz, Phillips Co-Heads of Editions, said, This season we are thrilled to present a sale with such a wide breadth of master prints, with examples produced in the late nineteenth century all the way up through this year. We will offer several iconic portfolios, including Keith Harings ... More
Museum of London acquires extremely rare plate that belonged to Samuel Pepys
LONDON.- The Museum of London has acquired a silver trencher plate that until recently was unrecognised as relating to and bearing the coat of arms of famous naval administrator, member of parliament and 17th Century diarist, Samuel Pepys. It is one of only three items of silver plate known to have belonged to Pepys as part of his personal collection and is now the only one on display in the UK. Samuel Pepys began his diary in 1660 and it provides unmatched detail of 17th Century life ranging from everyday observations, interactions and customs to detailed accounts of some of the most significant events and people of the time including the Great Plague of 1665, the Great Fire of London, Charles II's coronation and mentions of Sir Christopher Wren and Sir Isaac Newton among others. In his diary, Pepys often expressed his passion for acquiring ... More
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers announces expansion in Florida
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers has announced an expansion of its Florida operations with the addition of two prominent auction professionals. Furniture and Decorative Arts Specialist Sebastian Clarke has been appointed Senior Vice President, and Jewelry Specialist Katherine Van Dell has been appointed Vice President. Both Specialists are now based in Florida. They join Doyles Director of Florida Operations Collin Albertsson, a Silver Specialist and Senior Vice President. With the addition of two seasoned appraisers to Doyles Florida team, we can provide our full range of auction and appraisal services even more effectively to collectors, families and fiduciaries throughout the state of Florida and the Southeast, said Collin Albertsson. We are delighted to welcome specialists Sebastian Clarke and Katherine Van Dell to Doyle, said ... More
Deborah Marrow, who led the Getty Foundation for 30 years, passes away
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Deborah Marrow, who retired as director of the Getty Foundation at the end of last year after more than three decades of leadership in various roles at the Getty, including two stints as interim president, died early Tuesday morning. No one has contributed more to the life and mission of the Getty than Deborah, and we will miss her deeply, said James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. She provided inspiring leadership in almost every aspect of the Getty, in roles including director of the Getty Foundation, acting director of the Getty Research Institute, and interim president of the Getty Trust. She brought clarity, vision, and selfless dedication to her work, and made loyal professional friends around the world. As Foundation director, Marrow oversaw all grantmaking activity locally and worldwide ... More
Kapwani Kiwanga has more questions
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Though Frieze London was only a few short weeks away and Kapwani Kiwanga still had tweaking to do on some of her works that would be featured there, she bounded into a cafe near the Bibliothèque Nationale de France with a vivacious smile and relaxed demeanor. But the almost instant impression upon meeting Kiwanga, 41, an Ontario-born Paris-based artist who last year won the inaugural Frieze Artist Award in New York is that little seems to get her riled up, anyway. It is busy now, getting everything out there in time, she said with a chuckle when describing a sculpture edition project she was working on for the German-based African art magazine Contemporary And (C&) that will be displayed at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, an off-Frieze event at Londons Somerset House. I ... More
World auction record for monumental Cragg sculpture at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Sale
LONDON.- Constant Change, a monumental sculpture by Tony Cragg, topped Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Sale in London today (3 October), selling for £849,063. It set a new world record for the artist at auction. The work had been estimated at £450,000-650,000. The sale as a whole totalled £5,351,214. Cragg (b. 1949) created Constant Change in 2005. Standing over 4.5 metres tall, the sculpture is the largest work by the artist ever to appear at auction with the two, highly polished, stainless steel columns towering over viewers. Bonhams Global Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art, Ralph Taylor, commented, Tony Cragg is one of the most important sculptors of our time, and Constant Change was an incredibly exciting work to bring to auction. We were very confident that this sculpture would appeal to collectors, and the fierce competition ... More
Frieze Focus Stand Prize awarded to Proyectos Ultravioleta
LONDON.- The Guatemala City-based gallery awarded prize by international jury of curators and directors. Special mentions given to Commonwealth & Council (Los Angeles) and Galerie Tanja Wagner (Berlin) The Frieze Focus Stand Prize 2019 has been awarded to Proyectos Ultravioleta (Guatemala City) for their outstanding solo presentation of Hellen Ascoli in Focus, the section at Frieze London for galleries aged 15 years or younger. This years jury of institutional curators and directors included Fatoş Ãstek (Director, Liverpool Biennial); Anna Katherine Brodbeck (Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art); and Tanya Barson (Chief Curator, MACBA Barcelona). Jurors commented that The solo presentation of Guatemalan artist Hellen Ascoli at the Proyectos Ultravioleta booth stands out with its subtle aesthetics, sophisticated revisiting ... More
Exhibition presents a series of paper sculptures and watercolours by British architect Nigel Coates
LONDON.- Betts Project presents a series of paper sculptures and watercolours by British architect Nigel Coates. These works emerge from a theoretical environment Coates calls Voxtacity which revives the area of Vauxhall in London as a pleasure garden in the more recent tradition of the expo or the theme park. During the mid-17th century to the mid-19th century Vauxhall Gardens was one of the leading venues for public entertainment in London. Several acres of trees and shrubs with large pavilions were designed to host crowds of people for entertainment; tightrope walkers, hot-air balloon ascents, concerts, operas, fireworks, food and drink all amounted to a new form of capitalism in the city. It was a commercialised pleasure, where the glamorous world of riches, fashion and high culture revealed its gluttonous dark side; royals partied with prostitutes, and ... More
White Cube opens an exhibition of work by Dóra Maurer
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting an exhibition of work by Dóra Maurer at Bermondsey. Coinciding with her year-long display at Tate Modern, London, Maurers second exhibition with the gallery focuses on paintings from three distinct series produced during the past 30 years: Overlappings, Quod Libet and IXEK. Maurers rigorous conceptual practice, which encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and filmmaking, is rooted in a sense of movement and indeterminacy. Focusing on the grammar of geometrical forms and using systematic analyses and mathematical methodologies, her approach can alternate between process-based experiment and formal investigations of rule-based compositional logic. Originally trained as a graphic artist during the late 1950s, traces of the printmaking process its methods of distortion, duplication and ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Jean-François Millet was born October 04, 1814. Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. The exhibition "Jean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern ArtJean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern Art" opens today at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. In this image: Jean-François Millet, 'The Angelus', 1857-1859, Musée d'Orsay, Paris (bequest of Alfred Chauchard, 1910)
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