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His Majesty King Willem-Alexander opens the exhibition in the presence of the Japanese Ambassador his Excellency Hiroshi Inomata.
AMSTERDAM.- On 23 March 2018 the Van Gogh Museum opened 'Van Gogh & Japan', a major international exhibition about the influence of Japanese art on the work of Vincent van Gogh. With some sixty paintings and drawings by Van Gogh and a large selection of Japanese prints, the exhibition explores the extent of Van Gogh?s admiration for this form of art and the fundamental impact it had on his work. Exceptional loans from museums and private collections all over the world are coming to Amsterdam, among them Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889, The Courtauld Gallery, London), a painting that has not left the UK since 1955 and has not been shown in the Netherlands since 1930. Other highlights include Van Gogh?s Self-Portrait (1888, Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA), Woman Rocking the Cradle (Augustine Roulin) (1889, The Art Institute of Chicago), Undergrowth with Two Figures (1890, Cincinnati Art ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Dr. Robert R. Bigler is presenting the exhibition A Merger of Cultures: Art of the Yuan and Ming Eras during Asia Week New York 2018 at Dickinson Roundell Inc. 19 East 66th Street. In this image: Vajra. Mercury gilt copper alloy. China, Tibeto-Chinese style. Ming, first quarter of the 15th century. Length: 17.7 cm (6.97 in).
| Cincinnati Art Museum presents "Cagnacci: Painting Beauty and Death" | | Heritage Auctions brokers sale of 1787 Brasher Doubloon for record $5+ million | | Lévy Gorvy announces appointment of Andreas Rumbler as partner and plans for a new Zurich office |
Guido Cagnacci (16011663), Italy, David Holding Goliath's Head, 1650, oil on canvas, Gift of The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Columbia Museum of Art, 1962.21.
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Cincinnati Art Museum announces Cagnacci: Painting Beauty and Death on view March 23July 22, 2018. This free special feature brings together a select group of Italian Baroque paintings for the first time: three works by Guido Cagnacci and one by Bernardo Strozzi. Cagnacci: Painting Beauty and Deathl introduces museum visitors to the seventeenth-century painter Guido Cagnacci. The centerpiece of the special feature is the oil on canvas Death of Cleopatra (1660-62) on loan from the Pinacoteca de Brera (Brera Paintings Gallery) in Milan, Italy. The special feature came about thanks to the museums ongoing partnership with the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture (FIAC) that brought Raphaels Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn to the Cincinnati Art ... More | |
1787 New York Brasher Doubloon, MS63.
DALLAS, TX.- The first gold coin struck in the United States the finest certified 1787 New York Brasher Doubloon has been sold for more than $5 million in a private treaty transaction involving Heritage Auctions, Monaco Rare Coins and an anonymous West Coast collector. The more than $5 million deal sets one of the highest prices ever reported for an American coin. Terms of the transaction remain confidential by a non-disclosure agreement between buyer and seller, said Todd Imhof, Executive Vice President at Heritage, who brokered the coin on behalf of Heritage and the anonymous collector. The Brasher doubloon is truly one of the greatest numismatic rarities in the world, Imhof added. We are grateful to both Adam Crum at Monaco and to the prominent collector who purchased the coin for the opportunity to place this numismatic treasure in a new home. It is certainly one of the most exciting ... More | |
Andreas Rumbler will join Lévy Gorvy, launching Lévy Gorvy and Rumbler in Zürich in November 2018. Photography by Peter Hauser.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy, principals of Lévy Gorvy, announced today the formation of a new division to be based in Switzerland: Lévy Gorvy and Rumbler will be a special office in Zürich, in partnership with and under the direction of Andreas Rumbler, former Chairman of Christies Switzerland. Opening in November 2018, the new Zürich office builds upon Lévy Gorvys dedication to providing highly specialized, bespoke private advisory services to collectors and institutions around the globe, and follows the establishment in September 2017 of Lévy Gorvys special office in Shanghai, China. Rumblers presence in Zurich will enable the gallery to deepen its existing relationships with leading collectors and clients in Switzerland, Germany, and across northern Europe, while fostering new relationships and ... More |
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| Fantastic tunnels and ingenious engineering: New gallery and exhibition opens at London Transport Museum | | Man Ray's Surrealist Minotaur leads Sotheby's Photographs Auction | | de Young organizes large-scale, traveling survey of Precisionism |
New gallery: Digging Deeper explores the history of tunnelling from Brunel in the 19th century to modern day Crossrail.
LONDON.- An exciting new gallery permanent gallery and temporary exhibition opened at London Transport Museum on Friday 23 March as part of the national programme to celebrate Year of Engineering 2018. Digging Deeper uncovers the history of tunnelling from the early 19th century and The Secret Life of a Mega Project brings the story up to date with revelations about Crossrail, Europes largest infrastructure engineering project. Featuring a giant audio-visual tunnel projection and a life-size recreation of the tunnelling shield that helped create the worlds first electric Tube railway in 1890, visitors can lose themselves in the stories of remarkable engineering feats. The gallery explores lasting legacies of Londons tunnel pioneers and how their principles are still relevant today: Marc Isambard Brunel (1769 to 1849), the prolific Anglo-French engineer who developed the first tunnelling shield which was used to bui ... More | |
Brett Weston, Untitled (Lily Leaf, Carmel). Flush-mounted, mounted again to card, signed and dated in pencil on the mount, a Bruce Silverstein Gallery label on the reverse, circa 1929, 9 3/8 by 7 5/8 in. (23.8 by 19.4 cm.). Estimate $30/50,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys spring auction of Photographs on 10 April in New York comprises a wide selection of exceptional works tracing the beginnings of the medium to innovations of the present day. Of special note are masterpieces of early photography by William Henry Fox Talbot, E. J. Bellocq, experimental 1920s and 1930s photographs by Man Ray, Stefan Themerson, Pierre Dubreuil, as well as important contemporary works by Brigid Berlin, David Wojnarowicz, Vito Acconci, Cindy Sherman, Sandy Skoglund, Katy Grannan, and Thomas Demand. More than 160 works with estimates ranging from $1,000 to $250,000 will be on view in Sotheby's New York galleries beginning on 4 April. During the 1920s and 1930s, Man Ray experimented with imagery in which the sitters gender is intentionally ambiguous and, in ... More | |
Edmund Lewandowski, "Dynamo," 1948. Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 30 7/8 in. (91.7 x 78.5 cm). Flint Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Frank, by exchange, 1993.38. Photograph by Tom Cheek © Estate of Edmund Lewandowski. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco premiere Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art, the first large-scale exhibition in over 20 years to survey this characteristically American style of early twentieth-century Modernism. Organized by FAMSF and on view at the de Young, the exhibition addresses the aesthetic and intellectual concerns that fueled the development of this artistic style during the 1920s and 1930s. More than 100 Precisionist masterworks by seminal artists such as Charles Sheeler, Georgia OKeeffe, and Charles Demuth are displayed alongside prints by photographers such as Imogen Cunningham and Paul Strand; clips from films such as Charlie Chaplins Modern Times; and extraordinary decorative arts and ... More |
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| Berlinische Galerie opens exhibition of works by Carsten Nicolai | | Rare $1,000 bill sells for $960,000 | | Exhibition at Rockbund Art Museum tackles the ways and angles of "seeing" |
Carsten Nicolai, tele, 2018 © Carsten Nicolai und VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018. Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin und Pace Gallery. Photo: Julija Stankeviciene.
BERLIN.- Works by Carsten Nicolai (*1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, now Chemnitz) oscillate around the interfaces between art and science. He often explores sensory impressions and their (media-based) translation, with transmitters and receivers, classification systems and their breakpoints. Nicolai investigates intangible phenomena that give rise to fundamental questions about human consciousness such as how much of what we perceive exists beyond our perceptions and to what extent it is constructed by the neural networks in our brains. Inspired by themes usually associated with neurobiology and other natural sciences, which relate to the study of micro- and macrosystems, his objects and installations result from a process of distillation and reduction. He created the ... More | |
Among the top grossing lots of the auction were highlights like the finest graded Fr.186d 1863 $1000 Legal Tender Note. This piece, featuring the portrait of Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris, is graded by PCGS Currency as Choice About New 58 and realized $960,000.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The first installment of the landmark Joel R. Anderson Collection received considerable bidding interest with 64 lots realizing $7,912,140 during Stacks Bowers Galleries Thursday night session of their Official Currency Auction of the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Spring Expo. This is more than $800,000 ahead of the highest predictions for this sale. The Joel R. Anderson Collection represents the most complete collection of United States large size paper money ever assembled by type. In all, the collection consists of 241 notes spanning the entire large size note issuing era from 1861 to 1923. The collection is being sold by Stacks Bowers Galleries in four auction events ... More | |
Installation view.
SHANGHAI.- The Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai presents the latest exhibition Walking On The Fade Out Lines from March 24 to May 27, 2018. The fruit of a fascinating collaboration and exchange with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, one of the most renowned contemporary art institutions in Italy, the exhibition has been curated by Larys Frogier, the director of Rockbund Art Museum, and Hsieh Feng-Rong, the senior curator of Rockbund Art Museum. With 30 works from over 23 artists from all continents, spanning such various forms as paintings, interactive installations, photography, video, among others, the works are selected from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, along with additional video works from Song Tao and new commissioned works from Zhang Ruyi, with the latter two artists originating from Shanghai and thus strengthening the rich connection to local contexts. Walking On The Fade ... More |
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| Exhibition brings to the forefront African Americans, Native Americans and Latino Americans | | $6.6 million Zhang Daqian scroll painting leads the Chew Family Collection at Sotheby's NY | | Chatsworth opens following £33m restoration |
Titus Kaphar (born 1976), Billy Lee: Portrait in Tar, 2016. Oil on canvas with tar. Stretcher: 152.4 Ã 121.9cm (60 Ã 48") Collection of Bill and Christy Gautreaux.
WASHINGTON, DC.- As the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery marks its 50th anniversary, it will not only honor the past with special exhibitions but also shape the museums next chapter. The first contemporary exhibition of the museums anniversary season, UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light: Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar examines how people of color are missing in historical portraiture, and how their contributions to the nations past were rendered equally invisible. Focused around two contemporary artists, Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar, the exhibition brings to the forefront African Americans, Native Americans and Latino Americans to amend Americas historical narrative. Reworking traditional art presentations, Gonzales-Day and Kaphar aim to expose mainstream cultural biases and social constructions of race. This ... More | |
Zhang Daqian, Water and Sky Gazing After Rain in Splashed Color (detail). Sold for: $6.6 Million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Day four of Sothebys Asia Week sale series concluded tonight in New York with The Chew Family Collection of Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy totaling $13.3 million, doubling its high estimate of $6.6 million. The evening auction was led by Zhang Daqians Water and Sky Gazing After Rain in Splashed Color a monumental scroll from 1968 making its auction debut for which five collectors competed, with many more on the telephones, for nearly nine minutes. The exquisite work sold for a final price of $6.6 million, nearly four times its high estimate. Xian Fang, Head of Sale for Classical Chinese Paintings at Sothebys New York, commented: Over the last month, we have had the immense privilege of sharing the Chew Familys vision, and their friendship with master painter Zhang Daqian, with our clients in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and around the world. It is with great pride that ... More | |
Artist Linder Sterling at Chatsworth with Her Grace Land.
BAKEWELL.- With its gold leaf and pale yellow stonework glinting in the spring sunshine, Chatsworth reopens on 24 March 2018 following the biggest restoration and conservation of the house, garden and park since the 1820s. The 10-year long programme, costing more than £32m, sees Chatsworth restored to its full glory, inside and out. The Chatsworth Renewed exhibition, running between March and October, highlights the work of those involved in the restoration process. From rebuilding the Belvedere turrets to replacing vast tracts of lead on the roof; carving the tiniest details in stone using dentistry tools to replacing huge blocks in the walls; careful restoration of priceless artworks to the renovation of famous water features in the garden; over the last decade Chatsworth has been fully restored and made ready for the next century. The Duke of Devonshire: "The level of forensic research, expertise and craftsmanship applied by so ... More |
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Clare Twomey steps out of the shadows at Welbeck
WELLBECK.- Artist Clare Twomey has given a modern twist to old technology to unite past, present and future in her new artwork. Her exhibition Half in shadow: Half in light runs at The Harley Gallery on the Welbeck Estate from 24 March until 17 June and aims to shine a light on the people who live and work at the historic, ducal, Welbeck Estate. Twomey has used advanced digital production to overcome the technical challenge of engineering ultra-thin, 3mm thick, porcelain lithophanes at A3 size. Images can only be seen clearly when the lithophanes are illuminated from behind. Ten people were extensively photographed with each chosen to illustrate the diversity of life and work on the estate, which sits on the borders of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. After first visiting the estate fifteen years ago, Twomey has continued to follow its fortunes ... More
1966 Aston Martin DB6 leads H&H Classics' £3 million sale at Duxford
LONDON.- The H&H Classics auction at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford on March 21, showed once more why classic cars dominate the alternative asset investment market. There were hundreds of buyers on hand to vie for the stunning collection of vehicles. Recent analysis of the art and collectables market shows again and again that classic cars dominate the alternative investment market - with the additional pleasure of the fun of owning and driving one of these beauties. A Picasso just hangs on a wall. Among the H&H Classics offering yesterday the following group provided some of the highlights and some of the strongest bidding. The lovely 1966 Aston Martin DB6 was estimated to go for £170,000 to £210,000, but made £235,750. Finished in Silver Birch, the same livery as James Bonds iconic DB5, the four-seater grand tourer is understood ... More
Mickey Mantle mint rookie cards lead Heritage Auctions' first dedicated Sports Card Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Its been well over a decade since a PSA Mint 9 example of the hobbys most celebrated post-war trading card was offered at auction, but the inaugural Heritages spring Sports Card Auction, closing April 19-20, will tempt elite collectors with a 1952 Topps example of Mickey Mantles coveted rookie. It is estimated at $3,500,000+, and it is expected to compete for the most expensive price ever paid at auction for a baseball card ($3.12 Million) as it leads the nearly 2,000-lot event. Since the last auction offering of a PSA Mint 9 example over ten years ago, the 1952 Topps Mantle rookie card has exploded in popularity and identified itself as the hobbys ultimate blue chip stock, said Chris Ivy, Director of Sports Auctions at Heritage. In addition to the mint 1952 Topps example, the auction also includes a mint example of Mantles sought after 1951 Bowman ... More
Hake's Americana launches into second half-century with record-setting $2.35M auction
YORK, PA.- Hakes Americana launched into its second half-century of operation with a smash $2.35 million auction held March 13-15 that resulted in both ecstatic buyers and elated consignors. The two-day, 2,332-lot event, with an interim day separating the sessions, set a record not only for the highest dollar gross and sell-through rate ever achieved by the company, but also the largest number of registered bidders and bids ever placed in a single Hakes auction. We knew ahead of time that it was going to be a barnburner, said Hakes president, Alex Winter. Two weeks before the auction closed, absentee bids had already surpassed one million dollars. Interest was at an all-time high for so many categories, especially rare comic books, Star Wars figures and political memorabilia. As predicted, the top lot of the sale was an important, fresh-to-the-market issue ... More
Ceramic Art London 2018: The international contemporary ceramics event of the year opens
LONDON.- Ceramic Art London offers visitors the rare opportunity to buy beautifully hand-crafted pieces direct from the maker. Prices start at just £15 for one of Sue Prykes softly coloured earthenware teaspoons, and £25 for a perfectly formed minute vessel by Yuta Segawa, to £5000 for one of James Oughtibridges large-scale sculptures (recently commissioned for a set on the Bond film Spectre ). From those searching for a little something special to those looking to invest in a statement piece, CAL offers collectors of all budgets the chance to take something away with them. Opened with a keynote speech by Grayson Perry CBE, the always popular ClayTalks, programmed by the faculty at Central Saint Martins, includes Phoebe Cummings, winner of the Womans Hour Craft Prize 2017; Professor Simon Lacey on the history of the Craft Potters Association; artist Keith ... More
Ecstatic Landscape: An exhibition of new work by Darren Waterston opens at DC Moore Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announces Ecstatic Landscape, an exhibition of new work by Darren Waterston. Though they draw from the long lineage of landscape painting, Waterstons works are unbound, moving through uncharted territory. His works broach the psychological through a surreal and abstracted approach to the genre rather than taking a strictly descriptive method. The paintings are seductive, drawing the viewer in by their majesty and monstrousness. Thwarted by their artifice, one is left with a sense of yearning for something not quite attainable. To Meet as Far as This Morning (2017), is one of the four imposing canvases that anchor the show. A craggy entity, like a rock formation sculpted over millennia by water and time, hovers centrally in the gloaming. Behind it a hematoma of pink light breaks up the expanse of gray sky, infusing the ... More
Pair of period French chairs, circa 1755-1760, soars to $225,000 at Nye & Company auction
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- A gorgeous pair of French 18th century Louis XV giltwood fauteuils à la reine sold for $225,000 at an Estate Treasures Auction held March 14th and 15th by Nye & Company Auctioneers, online and in the firms showroom at 20 Beach Street in Bloomfield. The chairs were easily the auctions top lot. The unexpected discovery of the fauteuils in a New York City collection was a pleasant surprise, since much of what came from that group was primarily decorative, said John Nye, president of Nye & Company Auctioneers. They were, however, of the highest quality, and generated inquiries from all over the world as the word spread. The competition was intense. The chairs, originally part of a suite of at least six, were made in France circa 1755-1760 by Jean Gourdin, after designs attributed to Nicolas and Dominique Pineau. One was stamped Pere ... More
Endowed curatorship focuses on modern and contemporary art
SARASOTA, FLA.- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art has appointed Ola Wlusek to be the first to hold the title of Keith D. and Linda L. Monda curator of modern and contemporary art. The newly endowed curatorship has been funded by Keith and Linda Monda of Sarasota, Florida. Wlusek, a talented contemporary art curator with broad international experience, joined The Ringling on March 19, 2018. In her new role she will be responsible for the development, stewardship and research of The Ringlings modern and contemporary collections; directing The Ringlings ambitious modern and contemporary exhibitions schedule; and collaborating with a range of cross-disciplinary artists on new Ringling-commissioned projects and initiatives. The Monda familys philanthropic leadership and enthusiasm for modern and contemporary art and how it can ... More
Manuel Espinosa's second exhibition in London opens at Stephen Friedman Gallery
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting Manuel Espinosas second exhibition in London. Espinosa (1912-2006) was one of Argentinas most important post-war abstract painters. This is his first survey exhibition in Europe and it features paintings and works on paper dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. In 1943 Espinosa met JoaquÃn Torres-GarcÃa, the founder of Constructive Universalism. This meeting had a profound effect on his approach to painting. Two years later he co-founded the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invencion with Tomás Maldonado, Alfredo Hlito, and Raúl Lozza. Harnessing a post-war optimism, the group stopped painting from life and began painting abstract shapes and symbols. Espinosa travelled to Europe in the 1950s, forging friendships with members of the Movimento di Arte Concreta, Forma and De Stijl movements. These dialogues ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Edward Weston was born March 24, 2018. Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 - January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers?" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." In this image: Tina on the Azotea, with kimono, 1924. Edward Weston (American, 1886?1958). Photograph, platinum or palladium print. The Lane Collection. Photograph courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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