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Vase with Poppies fits stylistically with a group of works the artist made shortly after arriving to Paris in the spring of 1886. Van Gogh took advantage of the easy access to flowers as he reinvented his stylistic approach after two years of depicting peasant life in Nuenen.
HARTFORD, CONN.- After nearly 30 years of doubt, the Wadsworth Atheneum's painting, Vase with Poppies, by Vincent Van Gogh, has now been fully authenticated by specialists at the Van Gogh Museum. While the painting came to the Wadsworth in a bequest from the writer and French Impressionist collector Anne Parrish Titzell in 1957 along with works by Renoir, Monet, and Redon, Vase with Poppies has been difficult to confidently attribute since questions about Van Gogh's practice remained unresolved. Experts in Amsterdam following scientific and art-historical inquiry have determined that the painting technically and stylistically concurs with Van Gogh's documented work in 1886. This new finding means that the Wadsworth is home to two Van Gogh's, Vase with Poppies will join Self Portrait, both painted during his Paris period 1886-1887 atop earlier paintings. Vase with Poppies fits stylistically with a group of works the artist made shortly after a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Reynolda House Museum of American Art's fine art conservator Ruth Cox performs a surface cleaning on Lee Krasner's 1956 painting Birth. The large oil on canvas in Reynolda's collection will be on loan to the exhibition "Lee Krasner: Living Colour," the first European retrospective of Krasner in over 50 years. The exhibition is curated and organized by Barbican Centre, London, in collaboration with Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. It opens May 30 at the Barbican.
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| | | Carlo Orsi - Trinity Fine Art sells Baroque masterpiece by Foggini | | Gianguan Auctions Spring Sale breaks world record for Chinese Contemporary artist Dr. Yuhua Shouzhi Wang | | Museum der Moderne Salzburg opens the first retrospective of the work of Asger Jorn in Austria |
Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652-1725), Portrait of Marguerite Louise dOrléans, 1687, marble, 77 cm.
MAASTRICHT.- The highlight sale at TEFAF Maastricht 2019 for Carlo Orsi Trinity Fine Art was the magnificent marble portrait bust portraying Marguerite Louise of Orléans, wife of Cosimo III de Medici, created in 1687. Marguerite Louise was a free-spirited woman and the enfant terrible of the Medici dynasty, who eventually obtained a separation and returned to France , where she lived as she pleased, bringing even her cousin King Louis XIV to despair at her outrageous behaviour. Carlo Orsi confirmed the sale to a new private European client for a seven-figure sum after it received substantial interest from collectors and museums world-wide. In the run up to TEFAF Maastricht several fresh discoveries had been made, including previously unpublished documents clarifying that the bust was commissioned by the Medici, that it is a fully autograph work by Giovanni ... More | |
Yuhua Shouzhi Wang, Pomegranates in Bamboo Basket sold for $1,270,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Monday, March 18, Dr. Yuhua Shouzhi Wangs Pomegranates in Bamboo Basket commanded $1,270,000 at Gianguan Auctions. The sale, to one of four bidders in the gallery, set a world record price for the Chinese contemporary artist. The masterpiece led a strong slate of traditional art, porcelains and carved jades, all of which reached or exceeded their pre-sale estimates. Dr. Wangs framed ink-and-color on paper, 27" X 18", has been called a blending of realism and rejection-of-perspective painting by Professor Stephen Fasin of the Royal Academy of Arts. Its immediate charm lies in the fluidity of line that delivers a naturalistic composition of fruit and green branches as contrast to a monochromatic basket with handle. The work is inscribed Pomegranates and has one artist seal. It was painted in the United States. Dr. Wang, formerly a professor at the H ... More | |
Asger Jorn, Nasobois The Wild Sow Who Thought She Was a Sphinx, From the series Studies and Surprises, 1971. Colour woodcut Museum Jorn, Silkeborg © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019.
SALZBURG.- In the exhibition Asger Jorn. The Prints, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg presents around 550 works of graphic art by the preeminent Danish visual artist, including lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, linocuts, silkscreen prints, and potato prints. As with past exhibition projects, we are drawing on our own collection; fine art prints make up half of our holdings, and among them are works by Asger Jorn given to the museum by its founding director, Otto Breicha, that are now on view in our galleries. A generous loan from the Museum Jorn enables us to show the complete set of ca. 550 prints, the first such presentation anywhere in the world, Thorsten Sadowsky, director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, notes. An ensemble of fifty-two ... More |
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| | | Lehmann Maupin opens South African artist Nicholas Hlobo's first exhibition in Seoul | | Large donation of work by Italian artist on show in exhibition Alighiero Boetti - Arazzi | | First UK solo exhibition by the late Swiss visionary artist Emma Kunz opens at The Serpentine |
Nicholas Hlobo, Installation view, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, 2019. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Photo: OnArt Studio.
SEOUL.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting South African artist Nicholas Hlobos first exhibition in Seoul. The show features new and recent paintings by Hlobo, who has garnered acclaim for his works composed with his signature materials of ribbon, leather, wood, and rubber, employed with conceptual specificity to address complex issues of identity. Also included in the show is a new sculpture, Dyumpu (2019), made from copper pipinga new addition to his material repertoirewhich is prominently featured in his current exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art in the United States. At the core of Hlobos practice is the exploration of his own identity, as he attempts to ascertain qualities that exist outside of codifying labels associated with gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. In order to challenge the restrictive terminology typically used surrounding identity, ... More | |
Alighiero Boetti, Cinque x cinque venticinque, silk embroidery on linen, 22,3 x 22,2 x 1,8 cm, 1989 (Archivio Alighiero Boetti nr.9087) © Alighiero Boetti c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2019.
THE HAGUE.- Originally a member of the Arte Povera movement, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti (19401994) quickly took a different direction of his own. From the 1970s, he specialized in colourful, playfully inventive embroideries produced for him in Afghanistan. The works seem to reflect a mysterious system in which a major role is played both by compositions featuring letters and words and by maps of the world. Thanks to former gallery holder and collector Tanya Rumpff, who has made the museum a large donation of these Arazzi of the 1979 1993 period, the Gemeentemuseum has instantly acquired a marvellous selection of items from Boettis multi-faceted oeuvre. The new acquisitions are on show from 23 March in the Alighiero Boetti - Arazzi exhibition in the Project ... More | |
Emma Kunz, 1912, Photo: © Emma Kunz Zentrum.
LONDON.- The Serpentine presents the first UK solo exhibition by the late Swiss visionary artist, healer and researcher Emma Kunz (18921963) that features over 60 of her rarely seen drawings. In the past, Emma Kunzs work has been shown alongside Hilma af Klint, who was presented at the Serpentine in 2016, Georgiana Houghton and Agnes Martin, all of whom share her preoccupation with spirituality and forms of abstraction. This survey exhibition is a timely review of Kunzs work which is underpinned by her belief in a holistic worldview. Systematic yet expansive in their compositions, her energy-field drawings simultaneously contain micro and macro perspectives of nature, chiming with current discourses on ecology, as well as a desire to forge meaningful connections with our environment. Never shown in her lifetime, Emma Kunz predicted her drawings were destined for the 21st Century. ... More |
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| | | Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin opens an exhibition of works by Günther Förg and Julian Lethbridge | | Rare, private collection of Old Master paintings makes exclusive appearance in Florida | | New Art Centre opens the first exhibition to concentrate solely on Gary Hume's sculpture |
Julian Lethbridge, "Capital 1", 2018. Ãl und Pigment auf Leinen, 183 x 152,5 cm 72 x 60 in.
BERLIN.- Günther Förg (1952-2013) and Julian Lethbridge (*1947) come from two worlds Förg working and teaching at the University in Karlsruhe and later at the Academy in Munich, Lethbridge painting in New Yorks Meatpacking District since the heydays of Maxs Kansas City. Their paths never crossed, the connection between the two is not obvious. Upon closer look, however, a story about painting arises, where gesture, tactility, repetition and seriality are paramount. In the meeting of these painters, we are struck with the insistence that constraint and repetition enable expression. As Förg and Lethbridge meet in Ballad of a Thin Man , the second presentation of works by the artists at CFA, the pair appear as the cool and collected conjurers of the poltergeists of the 20th century. The exhibition borrows its title from Bob Dylan, whom Förg ... More | |
Jan Davidsz. De Heem (Dutch, 1606-1683/4), A Still Life of flowers in a glass vase in a stone niche, Oil on oak panel, Grasset Collection.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Dreamy landscapes and luscious still life paintings from one of the worlds greatest private collections join together in A Feast for the Eyes: European Masterp ieces from the Grasset Collection, a stunning exhibition opening March 23 at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. The exhibition features 40 of the finest Old Master paintings by artists from the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and Germany including Jan Brueghel the Elder and Canaletto, one of the greatest view painters of all time represented here with an iconic view of Venice. The works span from 1600 to 1750. The collection is on loan from the Grasset family of Spain, whose patriarch assembled this group of masterpieces. The St. Petersburg exhibition is the last time the works are expected to be shown together. ... More | |
Gary Hume, American Tan VII.
SALISBURY.- New Art Centre is focusing on Gary Humes sculpture for this exhibition of Carvings in the Gallery. Surprisingly, this will be the first exhibition to concentrate solely on Humes sculpture. Gary Hume is well known for his paintings on aluminium panels, which often feature striking colour combinations made using household paint. His sculpture is perhaps less familiar, though in fact he has continued to make three-dimensional objects throughout his career and it has often had a strong punctuating presence in his exhibitions of painting. In 2010, at the time of his last show at the New Art Centre, he joked that he tried his hand at sculpture in the very early days but: "They kept falling over. That was my main trouble: gravity." (The Independent) In fact, Humes sculpture such as Beauty Spot, which was shown in the park at Roche Court in 2008 are amongst some of his ... More |
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| | | Luc Tuymans' first personal exhibition in Italy opens at Palazzo Grassi | | Exhibition of new color photographs by Alec Soth opens at Fraenkel Gallery | | Zurich Asia to offer rare stamps and philatelic treasures in March Hong Kong auction |
Luc Tuymans, Isabel, 2015. Oil on canvas, 144.9 x 124 cm. Private collection. Courtesy David Zwriner, New York/London. Photo: Studio Luc Tuymans, Antwerp.
VENICE.- As part of the cycle of monographic shows and carte blanche dedicated to major contemporary artists, launched in 2012 and alternating with thematic exhibitions of the Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi presents Luc Tuymans first personal exhibition in Italy. Curated by Caroline Bourgeois in collaboration with the artist (Mortsel, Belgium, 1958), the show is entitled La Pelle (The Skin), after Curzio Malapartes 1949 novel. It includes over 80 works from the Pinault Collection, international museums and private collections, and focuses on the artists paintings from 1986 to today. The exhibition path is not chronological. It suggests dialogues and comparisons and rather insist on the spatialisation of the artworks. Considered as one of the most influential painters of the international art scene, Luc Tuymans has been dedicating himself to figurative painting since the mid 1980s and has co ... More | |
Alec Soth, Bill and Marthas. St. Louis. 2018 © Alec Soth, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From March 23 through May 11, 2019, Fraenkel Gallery presents new color photographs by Alec Soth, coinciding with the release of his book I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating, published by MACK. The exhibition marks a shift towards a stripped down, connection-driven approach to photography that Soth began exploring during his 2017 FraenkelLAB residency. Taking its name from a line in Wallace Stevens poem The Gray Room, the project investigates the possibilities and limitations of what photographs can convey about the inner lives of their subjects. Often the result of extended engagements with the people he photographs, the large-scale portraits and interiors were made in the U.S. and Europe, and often depict artists, writers and choreographers, among others. Intimate and quiet, the images reveal something otherwise unknowable about both the sitter and the photographer. Soth commented: After the ... More | |
A rare complete sheet of 80 stamps of 8 fen from the 1980 Year of the Monkey (known as Golden Monkey) in fresh golden and vivid red colour, expected to fetch HK$1,000,000-1,100,000/ US$128,205-141,026.
HONG KONG.- Zurich Asia announced its Hong Kong spring auction to be held on 30 & 31 March 2019 at the Harbour Plaza North Point Hotel, offering over 3,000 lots of rare philatelic treasures, banknotes and coins. The public preview will take place between 28 & 29 March from 10am to 6pm. The auction will present an outstanding selection of stamps of the Liberated Areas and the Peoples Republic of China. Taking the centre-stage is a rare complete sheet of 80 stamps of 8 fen from the 1980 Year of the Monkey (known as Golden Monkey) in fresh golden and vivid red colour, expected to fetch HK$1,000,000-1,100,000/ US$128,205-141,026. Further highlights include an exceptional, unused 1968 8 fen stamp of Chairman Maos inscription to a Japanese labour friend. Estimated at HK$500,000-600,000/ US$64,103-76,923, this rare gem comes with a certificate ... More |
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Single owner collection of Halfcrowns fetches £620,418 at Dix Noonan Webb
LONDON.- A single-owner collection of 194 lots of Halfcrowns from the reigns of Edward VI through to Elizabeth II was sold today (Thursday, March 21, 2019) at Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists. The auction was held at their auction rooms in central Mayfair - 16 Bolton St, London, W1J 8BQ. As Christopher Webb, Head of the Coin Department explained: We were delighted to offer this collection on behalf of Brian Dawson, a well known and respected coin dealer from Lancashire who was selling his collection of Halfcrowns. Brian started collecting coins in 1956, starting like most young men with Pennies in his change, from this he acquired the taste for dealing, so he could finance his collecting from the profit of selling coins, his first sales through Exchange and Mart, 10 different date Pennies for £1! ... More
PinchukArtCentre announces the winner of the 5th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize 2019
KYIV.- Emilija karnulytė (Lithuania) is the winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2019, the fifth edition of the global art prize for artists under 35, established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009. The winner was announced by the international jury at the award ceremony in the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine on 22 March. Emilija karnulytė received a total of $100,000: $60,000 as a cash prize, and $40,000 to fund their artistic practice. An additional $20,000 was awarded between Special Prize winners Gabrielle Goliath (South Africa) and Cooking Sections (UK). The winners were chosen by the prizes distinguished international jury, consisting of: Pablo León de la Barra, curator at large, Latin America, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York; Björn Geldhof, artistic director, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv; Gabi Ngcobo, curator, 10th Berlin Biennale; ... More
Stedelijk Museum exhibits three films by the Brazilian artist duo Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin
AMSTERDAM.- This spring at the Stedelijk Museum the Brazilian artist duo Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin present YOU ARE SEEING THINGS, a triptych of their videos Faz Que vai / Set To Go (2015), Estás Vendo Coisas / You Are Seeing Things (2016) and Terremoto Santo / Holy Tremor (2017). These three short, narrative works blend fiction and documentary into a form with echoes of the musical genre. Through music, dialogues and dance the artists evoke the complex interconnectedness in Brazilian popular culture of class, gender, race, religion and the economy. On display at the Stedelijk for the first time in this interrelated form, they bear witness to the powerful do-it-yourself culture in Northeast Brazil that is helping to shape a new collective identity through new music and dance cultures, and emergent religious movements. Part scripted, part documentary, ... More
Modern Art Oxford opens a thought-provoking show by Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari
OXFORD.- Modern Art Oxford presents a solo exhibition of works by renowned Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari (b. 1966, Saida, Lebanon). This thought-provoking show explores Zaataris on-going fascination with how people choose to present themselves to the outside world. A major new video work, The Script (2018) was born out of research into online content connected with the Arab world. Exploring YouTube using relatively neutral search terms such as father and son, Zaatari discovered a sub-genre of films depicting fathers praying. Despite being produced by different men from different regions in the Middle East, Zaatari observed telling similarities in content depicting men fulfilling the duty of salah the ritual of five daily prayers undertaken by practicing Muslims within a domestic setting. As breaking off from prayer is often frowned upon, the ... More
Exhibition brings the breadth of David Austen's artistic practice to audiences in Scotland
DUNDEE.- Dundee Contemporary Arts offers up a new constellation of work by British artist David Austen, bringing the breadth of his artistic practice to audiences in Scotland for the first time with the exhibition Underworld. Since the 1980s Austen has worked as a painter, sculptor, printmaker and filmmaker. The stylistically diverse elements of his work come together to reveal an often dark yet endearing vision of the world. The artworks in this exhibition, from oil paintings on heavy flax canvas and delicate watercolour works on paper to suspended sculptural objects and cinematic film projects, create an otherworldly space inhabited by Austens strange and lovelorn characters. With sources as varied as 19th century literature, poetry, ancient myth and film noir, the impetus of Austens work often derives from his immediate surroundings. There is a liveliness and generosity ... More
Back to the future: cassettes launch comeback tour
NEW YORK (AFP).- The humble cassette -- that tiny little plastic rectangle containing the homemade mixtapes of yesteryear -- is back, joining vinyl as a darling of audiophiles who miss side A and side B. But as top musicians including Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber release their music on tape and demand continues to climb, the niche revival has faced a global shortage of music-quality magnetic tape needed for production. Now, two facilities -- one in the American Midwest and the other in western France -- have stepped in to meet the need. "It's a good place to be -- there's plenty of business for both of us," said Steve Stepp, who founded the National Audio Company in Springfield, Missouri with his father 50 years ago. He said that around 2000 the "imperial hegemony of the CD" cut his business, which stayed alive as a major manufacturer of books on tape that ... More
Mystics, selfie-seekers celebrate spring at Mexico pyramids
TEOTIHUACÃN (AFP).- Thousands of people dressed in white flocked to Mexico's ancient pyramids Thursday, seeking to soak up the rays of the spring equinox sun in body and spirit. The equinox held special significance for many of Mexico's pre-Columbian peoples, who built their architecture around it in some cases. Famous examples include the Mayan pyramid of Kukulkan, in the ancient city of Chichen Itza, where at the moment of the equinox, the sun's rays generate a shadow of seven triangles that look like a serpent descending the stairs. Also on the Yucatan peninsula, at the Temple of the Seven Dolls in Dzibilchaltun, the sun aligns precisely with a pair of east- and west-facing doors this time each year, illuminating the structure with a burst of light. Dressed in traditional indigenous garb, dancers performed ceremonies at these and other sites, including ... More
Monumentally scaled photographs by Jean-Luc Mylayne on view at the Parrish Art Museum
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum presents Jean-Luc Mylayne: A Matter of Place, monumentally scaled photographs by the French artist who juxtaposes natural and man-made, stillness and motion, calm and tension within poetic and mysterious photographs. On view from March 24 to July 28, 2019, the exhibition reflects the artists almost metaphysical approach to image-making. Through his lifetime pursuit to photograph commonplace birds in natural habitats, Mylayne has engaged in a profound investigation of how humankind and nature can coexist. The exhibition features nine images made in New Mexico and Texas, gifted to the Parrish by the artist and the Lannan Foundation. A Matter of Place is part of Parrish Perspectivesa series of concentrated exhibitions that offers the Museum opportunities to respond spontaneously and directly to unique ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter and sculptor Juan Gris was born March 23, 1887. José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 - May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor born in Madrid who lived and worked in France most of his life. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive. In a file picture taken on January 30, 2014 a gallery assistant looks at Juan Gris's "Nature mort a la nappe a carreaux" (1915) during a press call for the "Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist Art" sale at Christie's auction house in London. Juan Gris's Cubist still life "Nature Morte a la Nappe a Carreaux" sold for 34.8 million GBP at a London sale on February 4, smashing the auction record for the Spanish artist. AFP PHOTO/Leon NEAL
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