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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mme Monet et son fils Jean dans le jardin à Argenteuil, Juillet 1874. Huile sur toile, 50,4 x 68 cm © Washington, National Gallery of Art, legs Ailsa Mellon Bruce, 1970 © Courtesy Washington, National Gallery of Art.
by Antoine Froidefond
PARIS (AFP).- The "secret" art collection amassed by Claude Monet, the father of Impressionism, went on display for the first time in Paris on Thursday, 90 years after the great painter's death. French art historians spent four years tracking down the startling collection of work by contemporaries including Renoir, Cezanne, Pissarro and Delacroix that Monet secretly bought. "I am selfish. My collection is for myself only... and for a few friends," the master once told journalists who called on him at his country home at Giverny in Normandy, whose remarkable gardens draw half a million visitors a year. "We knew really very little about the collection," said Marianne Mathieu, one of the curators of the show at the Marmottan Monet Museum, which has brought together the bulk of the collection. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From 7 September 2017 through 14 January 2018 the Mauritshuis is telling the story of Flemish portraiture using a selection of the best Flemish portraits from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp (KMSKA), including major works by Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Pieter Pourbus, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.
| Christie's to offer landmark Francis Bacon painting to be seen in public for first time in 45 years | | Caravaggio project aimed at spotting genuine masterpieces | | Exhibition features widest ranging collection of Argentine photography ever displayed in the U.S. |
Francis Bacon, Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd Version 1971. Oil on canvas, 78 x 58⅛in. (198 x 147.5cm.) Estimate on Request. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- This October, during Londons Frieze Week, Christies will present Francis Bacons landmark painting Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971, unseen in public for 45 years. It stands as the grand finale to his celebrated body of Papal portraits and is the only painting that unites the Pope with his greatest love George Dyer, who is depicted as the Popes reflection. First exhibited on 26 October 1971, in the legendary retrospective of Francis Bacons work at the Grand Palais in Paris, Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971 was executed six months earlier in April 1971. The painting represents the first and only time in his oeuvre that Bacon united his two greatest obsessions: the Pope and George Dyer his great muse and lover. The canvas became a tragic premonition of Dyers fateful end when, less than thirty-six hours before the opening of the career-defining ... More | |
In this file photo French art expert Stephane Pinta shows a radiography of the painting entitled "Judith cutting off the head of Holofernes", presented as being painted by Italian artist Caravaggio. PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- An institute dedicated to the work of the Italian artist Caravaggio, aimed particularly at identifying his genuine paintings, is to open in Rome. The research and education centre -- an unlikely collaboration between the Borghese Gallery and fashion house Fendi -- follows a number of false claims of authenticity in recent years. "Since the great specialists of Caravaggio are no longer here, anyone can decide to attribute a piece to the artist," the director of the Borghese Gallery, Anna Coliva, said at a press conference to launch the project on Wednesday in the Italian capital. The latest example of controversy is a painting found in 2014 in an attic near Toulouse in the south of France, which some experts claim is an authentic Caravaggio, while others say is a copy. The Caravaggio Research Institute was created to avoid ... More | |
Antonio Pozzo and Samuel Rimathé, Chief Pincén, negative 1878, printed 1880s. Albumen print. Image: 20.2 x 14 cm (7 15/16 x 5 1/2 in.) Photo: Javier AgustÃn Rojas. Diran Sirinian Collection EX.2017.5.156.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- From its independence in 1810 until the economic crisis of 2001, Argentina was seen as a modern country with a powerful economic system, a predominantly European immigrant population, a strong middle class, and an almost nonexistent indigenous culture. This idea of a homogenous society differs greatly from the perception of other Latin American countries and underlines the difference between Argentinas colonial and postcolonial history and those of its neighbors. Photography in Argentina, 1850-2010: Contradiction and Continuity, on view September 16, 2017-January 28, 2018 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, features nearly 300 photographs created by Argentine artists from the dawn of the medium to the present day. The exhibition includes a large body of newly acquired work from the Gettys permanent collection, ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of paintings, sculpture and installations by Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa on view at Blum & Poe | | Blain/Southern opens the first solo exhibition in Germany by Michael Simpson | | Christie's to offer Man Ray masterpiece during Paris Photo Fair |
Solange Pessoa, Untitled, 2017 (detail). Soapstone, 12 1/4 x 22 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (31 x 57 x 47 centimeters). © Solange Pessoa, Courtesy Mendes Wood DM and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo. Photo: Bruno Leão.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe is presenting a solo exhibition of paintings, sculpture and installations by Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa, her first in the US. Pessoa hails from the state of Minas Geraisthe land of Baroque and Rococo, soapstone mines, vast celestial nightscapes, and reserved temperamentselements inextricable from her philosophical practice, channeled in her work. The concepts of time, intuition, and primordial memory guide her outputthe creatures of her Botânica paintings recall those of prehistoric cave paintings; her Mimesmas sculptures conjure mollusk fossils or ancient tools of stone. Her art privileges the organicshe mines the primal realms of the psyche by means of hair, dry leaves, leather, oil, fat, wax, animal blood, minerals, powder, pigment, plants, roots, moss, seeds, and ... More | |
Michael Simpson, Squint 52, 2016-2017. Courtesy the artist, Blain|Southern and David Risley Gallery. Photo: Trevor Good.
BERLIN.- Blain|Southern announces SQUINT, the first solo exhibition in Germany by Michael Simpson (b. 1940, Dorset, UK). Simpson presents a significant body of new work, including drawings, large-scale canvas paintings and a four-part polyptych over three metres high and seven metres wide. Over the last thirty years Simpson has focussed on just two series, Bench Paintings (1989-2009) and Squint (2009 present). A leper squint is an architectural feature that can be found in medieval churches across Europe. The narrow aperture allowed lepers and other undesirable members of society to witness the service from outside without threatening the congregation with disease. While on one level Simpsons subject matter is the infamy of religious history and the politics of belief, the artist states that these subjective references provide only a subtext for his principal subject: the mechanics of painting. Acco ... More | |
Man Ray (1890-1976), Noire et Blanche, 1926 (detail). Estimate: 1,000,000-1,500,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
PARIS.- Christies France announced that it will offer Stripped Bare: Photographs from the Thomas Koerfer Collection, comprising 73 lots and led by the emblematic Man Ray masterpiece, Noire et Blanche, formerly in the collection of Jacques Doucet, on November 9, while collectors are gathered for the Paris Photo Fair. Thomas Koerfer is a highly-regarded film director, writer as well as producer, whose films include The Death of the Flea Circus Director, Henrys Romance, The Passionate and Embers. From childhood Koerfer was surrounded by the art collection of his parents and in 1992 he established his own collection by concentrating on modern and contemporary photography, and some years later he added paintings and sculptures from the same era. The entire collection focuses on the body and human form as well as the various aspects of sensuality and sexuality and represents the most comprehensive ... More |
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| Henri Matisse's illustrations illuminate the Columbia Museum of Art | | Paintings of Hitler found in Austrian parliament | | Poland acquires gas-chamber paintings by late Holocaust survivor |
To complement Matisses works, the exhibition incorporates relevant objects from the CMA collection, including ancient Greek vessels, pages from a medieval book of hours, and a 19th-century bronze.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art presents Henri Matisse: Jazz & Poetry on Paper, a sweeping exhibition that celebrates four of the artists books, including his iconic Jazz portfolio, on view from Friday, September 15, 2017 to Monday, January 15, 2018. Drawn from the Bank of America art collection, the exhibition features 80 framed illustrations that together offer meditations on life, love, hardship, and utter joy. Henri Matisse is one of the essential European artists of the modern era, says Lynn Robertson, CMA interim director. As South Carolinas only international art museum, we are thrilled to partner with Bank of America to give our community the chance to see the artist in one of his most personal and experimental genres. To make art accessible in the communities it serves, Bank of America converted its ... More | |
This file photo shows bottles of wine with pictures of Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin and Stalin at a shop in the center of Rome. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
VIENNA.- Pieces of art depicting Adolf Hitler have been found in the bowels of Austria's parliament -- more than 70 years after the Nazi leader's death. Workers renovating the 134-year-old building came across the four paintings, two busts and a relief in a cupboard in the cellars, officials said Friday. "It's not really a surprise when you clear out a building after 130 years," a spokeswoman for the parliament told AFP. "We know that the building was used as a 'Gauhaus' (local Nazi party headquarters) during World War II and we expected to make discoveries like this." The artefacts have been given to two historians currently working on a history of the parliament building during the country's Nazi period (1938-1945). The major renovation of the neo-classical parliament is set to last several years. Lawmakers are meeting in the meantime in the nearby Hofburg palace. ... More | |
File photo of a painting by David Olère gifted to the Collections of the Auschwitz Memorial in 2014.
WARSAW (AFP).- The museum at the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau has acquired 18 post-war paintings by a Polish-French Holocaust survivor that depict the horrors of the gas chambers, and which will go on public display next year. "Often in the paintings, we see the author himself, with a tattooed number on his arm, as a prisoner of the Auschwitz camp, who with his own eyes saw the process of the extermination," museum art historian Agnieszka Sieradzka said in a statement on the site's web site. The late Jewish artist, David Olere, was born in 1902 in Warsaw. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts before leaving for Berlin and finally Paris, where he worked for Paramount Pictures, Fox and other film studios by designing posters, costumes and set designs. A few years after becoming a French citizen, Olere was arrested by French police in 1943 and sent to the Drancy camp and then onward ... More |
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| Phillips names Philip Anders as Chief of Staff | | 303 Gallery opens exhibition of new sculpture by Eva Rothschild | | Pluriverse of Images: Museum Folkwang shows Alexander Kluge |
He joins Phillips from his post as Managing Director of Greatford Associates Limited, a strategic financial consulting company.
LONDON.- Phillips is pleased to announce the appointment of Philip Anders as the companys new Chief of Staff, replacing Lisa King, who is leaving Phillips after three years with the company. While Mr. Anders will start immediately in his new role, Ms. King will remain with Phillips through the end of the year to complete the strategic plan for the next three years and to hand over her responsibilities to her successor. Ms. King joined Phillips soon after Edward Dolman came on board as Chief Executive Officer at Phillips, working on the companys long-term strategy of creating a significant competitor in the global auction market for 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Design, Photographs, Watches, Latin American Art, Jewelry and Editions. Ms. King was instrumental in creating a long-term strategy, recruiting the executive, management ... More | |
Eva Rothschild, Technical Support, 2016. Steel, jesmonite dimensions variable.
NEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery announces "A Material Enlightenment," their third exhibition of new sculpture by Eva Rothschild. Treating sculpture as a way to mediate simultaneous forms of presence, Rothschild implicates the viewer in a continuous search for possible outcomes, even from within a "completed" work. Rothschild's works frequently occupy the intersection between ritual objects and minimalist formal tradition. Often relying on simple geometric shapes the work engages with these intertwined histories, amplifying the psychological and critical associations they connote. "An Array" (2016) brings together a set of forms from Rothschild's own lexicon. The sculptures, all black and arranged on a low platform, are realized in Perspex, jesmonite, papier-mâché, and steel, and loosely demarcated via open steel frames. This tableau of objects, with pedestals and ... More | |
Alexander Kluge. Photo: Jens Nober.
ESSEN.- Alexander Kluge sees himself as an author. He inspires his readers, listeners and viewers with his films, texts interviews and much more besides. On the occasion of his 85th birthday, with Alexander Kluge: Pluriverse Museum Folkwang is presenting an exhaustive exhibition destined to visualize the core of his multimedia oeuvre. Kluge forges links and then explores through them what makes human beings tick, how we are unique and stubborn, capable of judgement, to what extent history and stories are stored within us, what felt and what real options for action we have, and why our biographies are a currency. Alexander Kluge uses images, texts and objects to create ever new constellations, whose sense or nonsensicality is primarily the product of montage. Kluge allows our imagination to germinate in the interstices between the two poles. Central to him are the links between emotion and reason, and he is ... More |
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Exhibition presents approaches for processing material to create a product of greater value
HAMBURG.- As part of the ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) 100th anniversary celebrations, the co-creative exhibition format Pure Gold. Upcycled! Upgraded! opened at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. The exhibition in Hamburg is the start of a ten-year tour of 20 venues worldwide. The exhibition, devised by Volker Albus, designer and professor at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, runs from 15 September 2017 until 21 January 2018. Devoted to the subject of waste, Pure Gold presents approaches for processing material to create a product of greater value. The focus is on current international design trends that discuss the treatment of these waste and/or cheap materials. The ifa has structured the exhibition as an innovative co-creative format. Curators from a total of seven regions present 53 designers with 76 pieces relating to this theme: ... More
Berliner Liste presents a wide spectrum of international contemporary art at affordable prices
BERLIN.- The Berliner Liste is taking place parallel to Berlin Art Week from September 15th to 17th at the Postbahnhof am Ostbahnhof on 4.000 square meters. For the fourteenth time, the discovery fair presents a wide spectrum of international contemporary art at affordable prices. More than 90 exhibitors from 34 countries and five continents present their latest work and current programs. This makes the 2017 edition the most international LISTE of all times. You can look forward to an interdisciplinary experience: The Temple a Gesamtkunstwerk by the artists Vera Kochubey and Mischa Fanghaenel, in collaboration with AP Entertainment. On opening night, The Temple presented an audio-visual light and art installation with live painting and a contemporary dance performance from the Russian dancer and choreographer Valentin Tzin, with ... More
Exhibition features wide range of Art Deco works by French master René Lalique
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art showcases one of the most talented and influential French designers of the 20th century, René Lalique, in its new exhibition René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass. This comprehensive look at the Laliques career traces the development of his artistry and innovation through displays of glass decor, jewelry, production molds and design drawings. The exhibition is on view from Sept. 15 through Jan. 21, 2018. Admission is free. Trained through an apprenticeship with Parisian jewelry designer Louis Aucoc in the Art Nouveau style, Lalique (1860-1945) freelanced for Cartier and Boucheron before opening his own shop in 1885. Within five years, his designs were the favorite of the eras celebrities, including famed theater actress Sarah Bernhardt. His experiments with glass in jewelry led him to explore the further applications ... More
Freeman's offers rare John Vesey desk once owned by Philadelphia Eagles and Flyers owner, Jerry Wolman
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Sleek Mid-Century Modern design meets ornate Louis XVI aesthetics in this rare John Vesey (American 1924-1992) desk circa 1958, to be sold in Freemans Oct. 8 Design sale. Having been owned by former Flyers and Eagles owner, Jerry Wolman, this desk holds a distinguished history in Philadelphias favorite fall pastimes. The ultimate corner office desk, the stainless steel and gilt bronze piece is representative of Veseys opulent aesthetic. Gilt detailing along the trim, legs and leather top showcase Veseys knowledge of 18th and 19th century furniture from his time spent as an antiques dealer. Steel is putty in John Veseys Hand. He bends [steel], tapers it and turns it, ending up with chars and tables as the antiques that inspired him, The New York Times once reported in 1958. Vesey found success as a designer throughout the 1950s and 1960s ... More
15 artists respond to architecture's vernacular at the Berman Museum
COLLEGEVILLE, PA.- Architecture is art. From the monumental to the ordinary and from the historic to the derelict, the architectural spaces that we construct, visit, inhabit, socialize, or work in are more than structures. They signify history and within them dwell politics, shared memories, and the fabric of everyday life. Fifteen artists explore varying aspects of real estates vernacular buildings, rooms, structures, monuments, properties, and homes and what each can say about society in Real Estate: Dwelling in Contemporary Art, an exhibition running from Sept. 15 to March 18 at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art on the Ursinus College campus. The intersection of contemporary art and architecture has a discernable prevalence over the last half-century of art making, says Charles Stainback, director of the Berman Museum and the curator ... More
Michael Janssen opens first solo exhibition in Berlin with Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen
BERLIN.- Michael Janssen is presenting his first solo exhibition in Berlin with Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen. After the showing of the video-installation Pythagoras in 2013 at Janssen's gallery space in Singapore, Ho now presents a new multimedia installation entitled No Man II. In his works, Ho Tzu Nyen (1976) examines the power of epic myths from the past up to the present day. Although always invoking their grandeur, he also reveals them not to be merely stories, but discursive tools, used to shape the present. This is surely significant to Hos field of research: the recent historiography of Southeast Asia and especially Singapore, established as an independent city-state in 1965. Through his work, he therefore acts as a critical historian for his home region, examining hegemonies to expose their structures and faults. In his latest project The Critical Dictionary of Southeast ... More
Jonathan LeVine Projects opens exhibition of new work by Brett Amory
JERSEY CITY, NJ.- Jonathan LeVine Projects is presenting Its Wonderful Your Demons Came Today, an exhibition of new work by Brett Amory in what is his fourth solo show at the gallery. Myths are the worlds dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form. Joseph Campbell. In his latest series of paintings and sculpture, Its Wonderful Your Demons Came Today, Amory takes a drastic departure from his previous work to discuss personal explorations of philosophy, comparative mythology and religion, and the collective unconscious. The artists previous bodies of work, Waiting and Twenty Four, focused on societys relationship to the urban environment while investigating the banality of modern living. Through ... More
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Bryn Mawr College partner to exhibit art by women
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Bryn Mawr College present Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms, a dual-sited exhibition of artworks from PAFA's Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women and BMC's The William and Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection of Works by Women Artists. The collaboration brings together two institutions, collections, and curatorial teams for an exhibition that highlights and re-examines each institution's inclusive efforts to collect artworks by women. Organized according to seven themes, the exhibition investigates the many ways in which women artists challenge stereotypes attributed to the female body, landscape, language, myth, and spirituality, inspiring new interpretive possibilities. The exhibition features over 80 works on paper, photography, painting, and sculpture ... More
Exhibition offers a chronological overview of André Kertész' 70-year artistic oeuvre
AMSTERDAM.- André Kertész (1894-1985) is renowned for the exceptional contribution he made to the visual language of 20th-century photography with his poetic work. Foam presents a retrospective of his oeuvre, examining his early work created in his homeland of Hungary, his time in Paris where between 1925 and 1936, he was a leading figure in avant-garde photography through to New York, where he lived for nearly fifty years. In an interview, Kertész once said: Everybody can look, but they dont necessarily see. Mirroring Life explores his creative capacity, using unusual compositions to create a new perspective of reality. It is an homage to the photographer whom Henri Cartier-Bresson viewed as one of his mentors. At a very early age André Kertész was drawn to the photography he saw in illustrated magazines as a child. In 1912, after his study in Business ... More
Exhibition aims to shed light on systemic barriers to quality healthcare
CHICAGO, IL.- Take Care is organized in partnership with the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force and aims to shed light on systemic barriers to quality healthcare through the lens of breast cancer. Featuring work by Indira Allegra, Laura Berger, Joan Giroux, and The Think Tank that has yet to be named, this group exhibition explores themes of care, community, vulnerability, and support by way of painting, photography, immersive sound, and text. The works in Take Care coalesce around the questions: Who takes care? And who receives it? The very concept of care in our culture is gendered women nurture, women foster, women tend to, women care. What happens, then, when women are in need of care themselves? In particular, how do women of color, poor women, and women without access to premium healthcare fare when illness occurs? And how do the ... More
Mounir Fatmi's third solo exhibition with Jane Lombard Gallery on view in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting Survival Signs, Mounir Fatmis third solo exhibition with the gallery. His work directly addresses the current events in our world and speaks to those whose lives are affected by restrictive political climates. Survival signs can also be seen as cultural signs, images, objects, experiences, and their connections and relationships to our everyday life. Is our society fluid, open and accepting, or the opposite? Several of the works in the exhibition teeter along a fine line of interpretation; are they revealing moments of construction or destruction, lightness or darkness? The artist presents his works as signs of survival; elements that allow him to resist and understand the world and its changes. The focal point of the exhibition, Inside the Fire Circle, 2017, is a large, interactive floor installation consisting of jumper cables, obsolete typewriters, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Alsatian sculptor and painter Jean Arp was born September 16, 1886. Jean Arp / Hans Arp (16 September 1886 - 7 June 1966) was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. In this image: Visitors look at Jean Arp's painting "Femme" (woman), right, exhibited at Drouot Gallery in Paris, France Tuesday, April 1, 2003. The painting is one among hundreds of art pieces from French surrealist writer Andre Breton's art collection which is being auctioned.
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