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Willem de Kooning (American/Dutch, 1904-1997), Untitled, ca. 1937. Gouache on paper (framed), 4 1/4" x 6 1/4" (sight) Literature: Willem de Kooning: Liquefying Cubism, Allan Stone, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, 1994. illus. pl. 6B. Provenance: Rudolph Burckhardt, New York. Anthology Film Archives, New York. Christie's New York, May 8, 1984, lot 2. Allan Stone Collection, New York. Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- On Friday, November 8 Rago brings to auction a significant collection of over 100 paintings, sculptures, mixed-media, and works on paper from the estate of art dealer and pioneering supporter of Abstract Expressionism, Allan Stone. Over the course of 50 years, Allan Stone amassed a vast art collection of exceptional depth and diversity. A self-proclaimed art-junkie, Stone was driven by passion and by an unerring eye. He acquired works that spoke to him regardless of trends or differing opinions. The Allan Stone Gallery, founded in 1960, was famous for welcoming artists into its fold whom other dealers had turned away, including Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Estes. A proponent of young talent, Stone is credited with giving many emerging artists their start. He was instrumental in the early careers of Eva Hesse, Jack Whitten, James Grashow and Lorraine Shemesh, among many others ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Eli Wilner & Company recently created new historically-appropriate replica frames for two late 15th Century German altarpiece wings in the Eskenazi Museum of ArtÂs collection. These paintings will be back on public view beginning November 7, 2019, after an extensive renovation of the museum and reinstallation of its galleries. In this image: A master artisan at Eli Wilner & Company hand-carves the corner ornament on a replica frame for a 15th Century panel in the collection of the Eskenazi Museum of Art.
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| | Eli Wilner & Company reframes two 15th Century altarpiece panels for the Eskenazi Museum of Art | | Early Renaissance painting found in French kitchen fetches 24 mn euros | | Preserving the past for museum visitors of the future |
Master artisans at Eli Wilner & Company gilding and burnishing a replica frame for a 15th Century panel in the collection of the Eskenazi Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company recently created new historically-appropriate replica frames for two late 15th Century German altarpiece wings in the Eskenazi Museum of Arts collection. These paintings will be back on public view beginning November 7, 2019, after an extensive renovation of the museum and reinstallation of its galleries. In April of 2019, Jennifer McComas, the Eskenazis Curator of European and American Art, contacted Wilner about the project. The two exterior panels, titled: The Adoration of the Magi and The Resurrection, are attributed to the Master of the Holy Kinship, active circa 1475-1510 in Cologne, Germany. Each panel measures approximately 54 x 37 inches and is dated circa 1490. Appropriately framing works of this scale can be a financial challenge for an institution of any size. Eli Wilner & Company were pleased to be able to offer matching funds to offset the cos̴ ... More | |
This file photo taken on September 23, 2019, shows a painting entitled "the Mocking of Christ" by the late 13th century Florentine artist Cenni di Pepo also known as Cimabue. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
SENLIS (AFP).- A rare masterpiece by Italian early Renaissance master Cimabue that was discovered in a French kitchen was sold on Sunday for 24 million euros ($26.6 million), about five times the initial estimate. The Acteon auction house did not identify the winning bidder for the painting, "Christ Mocked", at the sale in Senlis, outside Paris. The selling price, which included costs, smashed the initial estimate of between four million and six million euros. Bidding began at three million euros, with only three of the eight bidders present at the auction. It is the first time in decades that a painting by Cimabue, a pioneering primitive painter who lived from 1272-1302 and is also known as Cenni di Pepo, has gone under the hammer. Acteon said the figure was the highest ever reached for a mediaeval painting and the eighth-highest ever reached for a mediaeval or old master painting. ... More | |
Start of Operation Night Watch. Photo Rijksmuseum.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is getting ready to open a $24 million center that will allow visitors to watch conservators at work. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has begun a lengthy restoration of Rembrandts The Night Watch, which can be seen by visitors at the museum and followed online. When the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, wanted to restore Watermelon Regatta, a painting from the 1700s that measures 8.6 feet by 6.5 feet, it raised $35,000 in one night through crowdfunding to support the effort. Now the museum is creating a space where visitors can peer through windows to watch conservators at work. And its not just older pieces that are being restored. Joan Mitchells Untitled, 1965, also at the Ringling, is getting work because the paint has flaked. Across the United States and around the world, museums are increasingly using conservation to engage visitors and help expand their understanding of what museums do. In some ... More |
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| | The Vancouver Art Gallery opens Cindy Sherman's first major Canadian retrospective in twenty years | | A 40-year-old painting on gun violence takes on new meaning | | For Bill Traylor's art, 'Outsider' doesn't apply |
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #17, 1978. Silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the Artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Cindy Sherman from October 26, 2019 to March 8, 2020, an acclaimed retrospective of more than 170 works by the American artist known for her conceptual portraits. This exhibition focuses on Shermans manipulation of her own appearance and her deployment of material derived from a range of cultural sources, including film, advertising and fashion. Organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery, it is the first retrospective of Shermans work in Canada in twenty years. In a community of photo conceptual artists, we are proud to have Cindy Sherman headline our fall season, says Daina Augaitis, Interim Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Evoking the power of appearances, Sherman has for more than four decades adopted hundreds of characters in her creation of fictional portraits that both ... More | |
A photo provided by the Charles White Archives shows the artist Charles White in 1976. White, who died in 1979 at 61, is recognized widely for his draftsmanship and as an African-American artist who did not get his due during his lifetime. The Charles White Archives via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The marquee evening sales at the big auction houses are exclusive clubs of a sort, filled with works by artists who have already proven their market clout. Take, for example, the upcoming Nov. 13 evening sale of postwar and contemporary art at Christies New York. Francis Bacons Study for Self Portrait (1979) will be offered with an estimate of $8 million to $12 million right alongside Andy Warhols Muhammad Ali (1977), estimated at $4 million to $6 million, and Ed Ruschas Hurting the Word Radio #2 (1964), with an eye-popping estimate of $30 million. Rarefied air, indeed. But there is also a new member of the club, an artist who has never been included in that evening sale company before: Charles Whites Banner for Willie J (1976) will ... More | |
A photo provided via the Alabama State Council on the Arts shows the Alabama artist Bill Traylor in the 1940s, working under a shade tree in a Montgomery neighborhood. His figures and animals, sparely drawn, evoke weighty themes about the Jim Crow South. A show at Zwirner Gallery of works by Traylor, with the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, argues for a more inclusive vision of American art. Via the Alabama State Council on the Arts via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus remembers her father, William Louis-Dreyfus, swearing on the phone in the 1990s as he almost got outbid on a painting by Bill Traylor, the Alabama artist born into slavery who took up drawing around age 85. He amassed quite a number of them, she said of the works, which the artist made with scraps of cardboard as his canvas, using poster paint, charcoal and pencil. He really likened Traylor to the greats the Giacomettis, the Kandinskys. Forty of those Traylors will go on view at David Zwirners Upper East Side space Tuesday ... More |
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| | The Brooklyn Museum unveils newly installed Arts of Asia Galleries | | All-time finest, historic silver dollars collection offered | | DESA Uncium auction house to offer Antonio Canova's "Dancer with Finger on Chin" |
Wine Jar with Fish and Aquatic Plants. China, Yuan dynasty, 1279 1368. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue decoration, 11 15/16 x 13 3/4 in. (30.3 x 34.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The William E. Hutchins Collection, Bequest of Augustus S. Hutchins, 52.87.1. Photo: Brooklyn Museum.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Following a multiyear renovation and the reopening of the Arts of Korea collection, the Brooklyn Museum unveiled two new galleries highlighting its important and diverse collection of works from China and Japan. The Arts of China and Arts of Japan galleries feature masterworks as well as rarely seen or never-before-shown treasures from the Museum's collection of Asian art. Both galleries also highlight new acquisitions and contemporary works, connecting centuries of artistic practice through common themes and mediums. These galleries have been closed since 2013; the first phase of the reinstallation was unveiled in 2017, when the gallery for Korean art reopened, and will later be followed by galleries for arts of South Asia, Buddhism, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas. This ambitious reinstallation project celebrates the immense diversity that has long ... More | |
This is the finest known 1892 U.S. silver dollar struck at the Carson City Mint with silver mined from Nevadas famous Comstock Lode. It is one of the 117 historic coins in the all-time finest set of historic Morgan silver dollars now being offered intact for $9.7 million. Photo courtesy of Professional Coin Grading Service.
WOODLAND HILLS, CA.- The worlds finest collection of superb-quality, late 19th and early 20th century United States silver dollars, carefully assembled over a 14-year period by an Illinois manufacturing company owner, is being privately offered for sale intact. The new owner also gets naming and pedigree rights. The 117-coin set of historic silver dollars some made with ore mined from Nevadas famous Comstock Lode -- is 100 percent complete. Its ranked as the all-time finest in five major categories by the highly respected Professional Coin Grading Service (www.PCGS.com), PCGS, an independent rare coin authentication and certification company, said Barry Stuppler of Mint State Gold by Stuppler and Company (www.MintStateGold.com) in Woodland Hills, California who assisted the ... More | |
This 19th century sculpture used to be exhibited in the National Museum in Warsaw from 1938 to 2005. Its estimated value is PLN 8 million (around EUR 1.7 million, more than USD 2 million).
WARSAW.- Antonio Canovas Dancer with Finger on Chin will be put up for an auction in Poland on October 29. This 19th century sculpture used to be exhibited in the National Museum in Warsaw from 1938 to 2005. Its estimated value is PLN 8 million (around EUR 1.7 million, more than USD 2 million). Dancer with Finger on Chin has not been exhibited publicly for 13 years. Antonio Canova is considered to be one of the most outstanding European sculptors; recently his works have quoted record-high sums on the art market. Last year, in London, one of the artist's works was sold for a record amount of almost EUR 6 million. Two years ago another work was sold for EUR 4.3 million. It is often said that Canova is the greatest sculptor of all times and all nations. The artist is praised as the new Phidias. He was the court artist of Venetian nobility and the Vatican City. Catherine the Great invited Canova to visit her court but the artist rejected her ... More |
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| | Fall exhibition juxtaposes the art of Duane Michals and treasures from the Morgan's collection | | Oda Jaune presents a brand-new series of oil paintings at Galerie Templon | | Qatar Museums presents first exhibition of the artist KAWS in the Middle East |
John F. Collins (18881990), Multiple Self-Portrait, 1935. Gelatin silver print. The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchase on the Photography Collectors Committee Fund, 2014.93.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition combining a six-decade retrospective of Duane Michals with an artists-choice selection of works from all corners of the permanent collection. Michals is known for his picture sequences, inscribed photographs, and, more recently, films that pose emotional, conceptual, and cosmic questions beyond the scope of the lone camera image. Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan (October 25, 2019 to February 2, 2020) takes viewers on a tour of the artists mind, putting work from his expansive career in conversation with Old Master and modern drawings, books, manuscripts, and historical objects. The first retrospective on Michals to be mounted by a New York City institution, the exhibition is organized around animating themes in the artists work: Theater, Reflection, Love and Desire, Playtime, Image and ... More | |
P, 2019. Oil on canvas 190 x 139,5 cm. 74 3/4 x 54 7/8 in. Photo: Bertrand Huet/ Tutti. Courtesy of the Artist and Templon, Paris Brussels.
PARIS.- What is it that underpins human freedom? Why do humans keep striving to surpass themselves? Why are they never satisfied with what they are? Oda Jaune is back at Galerie Templon this autumn with a brand-new series of oil paintings where these questions are given flesh. The artist, focusing on her figures, creates works with no predefined orientation so they can be hung any way up, as though unbound by gravity. The interpretation changes depending on how the painting is hung. During the exhibition in November, the works will be turned upside down, revealing new narratives and new interpretations. The artist will also be creating a mural piece in dialogue with the fourteen paintings and occupying the space with her surprising and flamboyant anthropomorphic sculptures. With this new series of works, Oda Jaune is observing the human being, a creature constantly seeking to push the body's biological and physical boundaries ... More | |
KAWS, Isolation Tower (MBF), 2015. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 39 inches. 152.4 x 99.1 cm © KAWS. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: Farzad Owrang.
DOHA.- Qatar Museums is presenting KAWS: HE EATS ALONE, the first museum show in the Middle East dedicated to Brian Donnelly (b. 1974, USA), known professionally as KAWS, at the Fire Station: Artist in Residence in Doha from October 25, 2019 through January 25, 2020. Curated by acclaimed art historian Germano Celant, this solo survey explores the artists career and vast oeuvre, featuring paintings, graphic design, small-scale objects, and large-scale sculptures made over the past twenty years. The exhibition features forty artworks representing the artists studio practice on view at the Garage Gallery in the Fire Station and a monumental (40-meter long) inflatable sculpture titled HOLIDAY (2019) installed in the Dhow Harbour. Some ninety examples of products and commercial collaborations designed by KAWSamong them sneakers, skateboards, and toys are being presented in the Archive located on the second floor of the Fire ... More |
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14 ship figureheads weighing over 20 tonnes arrive at the UK's newest museum The Box in Plymouth
PLYMOUTH.- In what is the most ambitious sculpture conservation project currently taking place in the UK, 14 monumental 19th century naval figureheads have been saved from decay for the nation. From spring 2020, these icons of Britains maritime history will be on public display at The Box in Plymouth. The Box is the largest museum & art gallery space opening in the UK next year and will be the biggest arts & heritage centre in the South West of England when it opens. Three specialist conservation teams in London, Devon and Cornwall, led by Orbis Conservation, have spent over two years painstakingly restoring the 14 wooden figureheads to their former glory, after years of water damage led to rot and decay. On loan from the National Museums of the Royal Navy, the carved figureheads, built to adorn the bows of 19th century naval warships, started ... More
Hirschl & Adler Modern opens an exhibition of works by John Moore
NEW YORK, NY.- Hirschl & Adler Modern is presenting After the Rain, a solo exhibition of thirteen recent paintings by John Moore. With these works, the artist reveals the vestiges of industry around his adopted-home state of Maine and places a marked emphasis on the landscape which seeks to reclaim them. Moore's luminous handling of land, sky and water opens the space beyond his signature depictions of factory windows and bridges and, with this heightened atmosphere, recalls the rich tradition of American landscape painting. To assume these paintings are about the continuing decline of industry limits their reach. These paintings are about the beauty and quiet power of the true American landscape - one of cyclical growth and intervention between man and nature. In his essay for the exhibition catalogue, Christopher Crosman delves ... More
The Quest for Happiness of Italian artists on display in Serlachius Museums
MÃNTTÃ.- The Quest for Happiness Italian Art Now presents a selection of the most interesting Italian contemporary artists following the scarlet thread of the pursuit of happiness. The majority of them have never exhibited in Finland before. For many of them, creativity and energy have been the answer to the economic and political crisis that struck Italy in 2008 as well as the whole Western world. After a decade of geopolitical overturn, happiness became a value of rising importance and a remarkably popular subject in many fields: personal achievement, job contexts, academic researches, consumerism and environment protection, to name a few. The exhibitions artists present through their artworks a kaleidoscopic interpretation of the concept of happiness today, touching on key topics such as spirituality and materialism, family and communities, time ... More
Air de Paris opens new gallery space in Romainville
PARIS.- To mark the opening of the new Air de Paris in Romainville the gallery is presenting the choral exhibition More: 40 artists on four floors and the chance for a stroll through all the gallerys spaces, from cellar to attic, from reserves to roof terrace. Running over a three months time, this exhibition sees the achievement of the interior design of the gallery, a project led by Sébastien Truchot - PCA STREAM. For some 30 years now Air de Paris has cultivated a fondness for the peripheral. The move to Romainville shows us pursuing this notion in a restating of Liam Gillicks maxim «Just More/More Just». The office tables, titled {{Reflist}}, are an artwork by Aaron Flint Jamison that the artist produced for the Editathon Art + Feminism 2016 with Lafayette Anticipations, Fondation dentreprise Galeries Lafayette, organized by Kvardek du and Flora Katz. ... More
For Teresita Fernández, personal is political
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The beautiful and experiential installations of Teresita Fernández allude to landscapes historical, geological, internal, all in a heady mix. Her Island Universe, for example, a stunning wall-sized mosaic composed of smoky chunks of charcoal at the Ford Foundation in New York, renders the seven continents as a horizontal daisy-chain of land masses. It suggests the ancient footpath of humankind, a time long before nations and borders. The history of land formation is also the history of migration, said Fernández, 51, at her studio in Brooklyn, where the Miami-born, MacArthur award-winning artist has been based since 1998. Her work and career are now being celebrated in her first comprehensive survey exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Island Universe was inspired by R. Buckminster Fullers Dymaxion ... More
Lamenting the plight of nature
NEW ORLEANS (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In one photo, ice floes separate like shattered glass a world of blue and white, cracking apart. The photo beside it looks almost like a scene from another planet: a marsh overflowing with water, rivulets of deep blue between bright patches of green. These aerial photos were taken by New Orleans-based photographer Tina Freeman, many miles apart: the ice, off the eastern coast of Greenland and the marsh, near Delacroix, Louisiana. But Freeman paired them as a diptych, part of her exhibition Lamentations, on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art through early March. Side by side, the structures in the two photographs are strikingly similar. The ice and the marsh shapes look almost like inverses of each other, a negative and positive of the same photograph. Both environments in these photos are unhealthy ... More
George Finlay Ramsay's first solo London exhibition opens at SET Alscot Road
LONDON.- SET Alscot Road, Bermondsey, London, is presenting Volcanoes & Regret, a new work by the Scottish artist George Finlay Ramsay. Ramsay makes performances, films, music, collage and poems. His recent work has been shown at Art Basel, Camden Arts Centre, Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia and the Barbican. His background is in theatre and the DIY music scene he trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq and plays in multiple music collaborations. Ramsay says: I see it as all part of the same thing really, movement, emotion, form or lack of it. Configuring reality as feels right in the moment. Volcanoes & Regret is the culmination of a three-year project that pivots around the act of burning human regrets in volcanoes. It includes three films, a live sonic installation and a Volvo 240 estate car encased in a volcano proof suit. In 2017 and ... More
Henry Moore Institute presents Edward Allington: Things Unsaid
LEEDS.- Sculptor, writer and educator Edward Allington (1951-2017) made a body of work that was part of a sea change in British sculpture from the 1980s onwards. The title of the exhibition is taken directly from a drawing by the artist in the Leeds Collection and is a reminder that we often know more than can be spoken. The exhibition spans all of the Institutes gallery spaces as well as Leeds Art Gallerys Upper Sculpture Study Gallery. It includes fourteen sculptures alongside photographic works, archive material and preparatory objects. Allington was one of a generation of artists who came to prominence following the group exhibitions Objects and Sculpture at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and Arnolfini, Bristol in 1981 and The Sculpture Show at the Hayward Gallery and Serpentine Gallery in 1983. Like many of his contemporaries Tony ... More
Marie-Eve Celio to lead new Textile Study Center at the GWU Museum
WASHINGTON, DC.- The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum announced the appointment of Marie-Eve Celio as the academic coordinator for the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Center. In this role, Dr. Celio will develop scholarly programming, build academic collaborations and facilitate research related to the museums prominent study collection of global textiles. The collection and the new endowed position were part of a $18.4 million gift from the Cotsen 1985 Trust to GW. Dr. Celio previously worked as a scholar with the museums curatorial team since April 2018. She also served as a guest lecturer of art history at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland and was a scientific collaborator and curator at Museum Rietberg in Zurich. She also spent eight years in India, where she consulted ... More
The Colnaghi Foundation launches 'The Practice of Drawing'
LONDON.- The Colnaghi Foundation announces the launch of The Practice of Drawing, a digital gallery introducing some of the most compelling but rarely displayed drawings in the Western tradition from collections around the world. This free educational resource provides an introduction to the world of drawings for non-specialists and also includes glossaries, introductions and short but informative film clips by leading experts including Professor Catherine Whistler, Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum. The development of the website has been supported by the Tavolozza Foundation, the Charles Douglas Home Memorial Trust and Colnaghi. The Practice of Drawing offers different pathways to enable visitors to explore Medieval and Renaissance drawings, as well as works from the 17th century to the present day. Short introductory texts ... More
Heather Gaudio Fine Art opens an exhibition of work by Ian McKeever
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art is presenting Ian McKeever: The Nature of Painting, the British artists first exhibition at the gallery. The show will run through November 16th. McKeever began his artistic practice in the late 1960s, executing landscape drawing and photographic works influenced by the writings of land artist Robert Smithson, and his own travels to Greenland, Papua New Guinea and Siberia. He began painting over his imagery by the 1980s, shifting his attention to emphasize gestural brushstrokes. Although McKeever had a growing interest in the figural and architectural, he eventually abandoned any sense of representation. Using different techniques to apply translucid layers of paint, McKeever went on to create beautiful lyrical abstractions on canvas. Increasing in scale, his paintings became more about their implicit ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Andre Masson died October 28, 1987. André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Masson drew the cover of the first issue of Georges Bataille's review, Acéphale, in 1936, and participated in all its issues until 1939. His stepbrother, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, was the last private owner of Gustave Courbet's provocative painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World); Lacan asked Masson to paint a surrealist variant. In this image: Artist Roy Lichtenstein has applied his trademark benday dots to the cover of a limited edition 1985 Taittinger champagne, center. At left is a bottle designed by Victor Vasare-ly and on the right one by Andre Masson. All are part of the ``Art in Wine'' exhibit in Brussels' Credit Communal gallery.
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