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From left to right: Miguel Falomir, Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado; Christina Simmons, Executive Director of American Friends; Almudena Sánchez, Restorer of the Museo del Prado and Simonetta Brandolini dÂAdda, President of Friends of Florence, next to The Annunciation by Fra Angelico. Photo © Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- The generous collaboration of Friends of Florence and American Friends of the Prado Museum, which made matching contributions to reach a total of €150,000 euros, with the Prado Museum has facilitated the restoration of The Annunciation and other works not held at the Prado Museum and to be included in the major exhibition opening on May 28th: Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance. The extensive exhibit, with almost 80 pieces, is curated by Carl Brandon Strehlke, curator emeritus at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The centerpiece of the exhibition, The Annunciation, was painted by Fra Angelico in the mid-1420s, and is considered the first Florentine altarpiece in the Renaissance style, using perspective to organize space and forsaking Gothic archways in favor of more rectangular shapes, in line with the aesthetic implemented by the architect Brunelleschi in his innovative approach to the churches of San Lor ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Armenian artist Narine Arakelian poses within the presentation of her artwork "The Pharos Flower" on May 7, 2019 ahead of the 58th Internatinal Venice Biennale art exhibition on May 8, 2019 in Venice. Tiziana FABI / AFP
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| | | Milton Avery's Girl by Harbour makes waves at Rago's $3.6 million fine art auction | | Hidden secrets and new revelations revealed by archaeologists studying Prittlewell Anglo-Saxon princely burial | | The 79th Auction of Hermann Historica GmbH showcases a Schlüsselgerät 41 cipher machine |
Milton Avery, Girl by Harbour (detail). Sold for: $564,500.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago Auctions May Fine Art sales realized $3,631,406 on Saturday, May 4 2019. Lot 31, an oil on canvas by Milton Avery titled Girl by Harbour achieved the highest price of the day, and the highest price ever for a piece of flat art sold at Rago Auctions, selling for $564,500 against an estimate of $300,000 - $500,000. Lot 31 was offered in the American + European Art sale, which realized a total of $ $1,392,562 in sales across 223 lots. Other highlights from the American + European Art sale include several works by regional artists including lot 103, a painting by Pennsylvania Impressionist Fern Isabel Coppedge titled Lambertville Looking into New Hope which sold for $40,625; lot 84, a painting by Henry Martin Gasser titled Newark Street Scene which sold for $30,000; and lot 101, a local landscape titled Lambertville Quarry by Alfred Nunamaker, the youngest of the New Hope School artists, which sold for $10,625. Strong results ... More | |
Gold belt buckle believed to have been made specially for the Prittlewell princely burial in the period between the death and the funeral. © MOLA.
LONDON.- Previously hidden secrets and insights into the Prittlewell princely burial and the man buried have been painstakingly reconstructed by a team of over 40 archaeological experts. The new research published today by archaeologists from MOLA, and funded by Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and Historic England, explores the internationally significant collection, including hitherto unidentified artefacts from the Anglo-Saxon princely burial chamber. In 2003 archaeologists from MOLA excavated a small plot of land in Prittlewell, Essex. The discovery of a well-preserved burial chamber adorned with rare and precious objects astounded archaeologists but many of the burial chambers secrets lay concealed beneath centuries of earth and corrosion, only to be revealed as conservators and archaeological specialists began their meticulous work. Sophie Jackson, MOLAS Director of ... More | |
In recent years no sample of this ultra rare machine in an anywhere near as good condition has surfaced on the market! Condition: II +
MUNICH.- The device is so rare that even the world's largest science and technology museum, the Deutsches Museum in Munich, was thrilled to receive one recently that had been excavated, heavily corroded and clearly not functional, as an archaeological find. Thus, the sale of the Schlüsselgerät 41 cipher machine is one of the highlights of the Spring Auction, which takes place from 20 to 24 May. Dubbed the "Hitler Mill" owing to its crank mechanism, only a handful of functional devices still exist throughout the world. Bids are now invited from 75,000 euros for lot number 4401, a perfectly preserved specimen, which is to come under the hammer on 24 May. Those in the know are one step ahead; but victory comes to those who know more at an early stage. Working on this assumption, the British secret service had assembled the country's most outstanding analysts in Bletchley Park, people from a wide range of ... More |
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| | | Getty Museum acquires collection of ancient engraved gems | | Yun Hyong-keun's first international retrospective opens at Palazzo Fortuny | | Fondazione Giorgio Cini opens a landmark survey show dedicated to Alberto Burri |
Portrait of Demosthenes - A Roman Amethyst Ringstone with a Portrait of Demosthenes signed by Dioskourides, circa late 1st century B.C. © 2019 Christies Image Ltd.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum acquired at auction last week a group of seventeen ancient engraved gems from the collection of Roman art dealer Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965). The great majority of the Sangiorgi gems were acquired before World War II, and many derive from notable earlier collections amassed by Lelio Pasqualini, the Boncompagni-Ludovisi family, the Duke of Marlborough, and Paul Arndt in Munich. Comprising some of the finest classical gems still in private hands, the Sangiorgi gems were brought to Switzerland in the 1950s and have remained there with his heirs until now. The group acquired by the Getty includes Greek gems of the Minoan, Archaic and Classical periods, as well as Etruscan and Roman gems, some of which are in their original gold rings. They have never been on public ... More | |
Yun Hyong-keun, Umber-Blue, 1976, Oil on linen, 180 x 175 cm. Courtesy: Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art. Image Copyright: Laziz Hamani.
VENICE.- On the occasion of the 58th edition of the Venice Art Biennale, a major retrospective of Korean artist Yun Hyong-keun (1928 2007) is being presented at Palazzo Fortuny by the MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea) and MUVE (Civic Museums of Venice). One of the most significant Korean artists of the twentieth century, Yun became associated with the influential Dansaekhwa movement: a monochromatic style of painting that appeared in Korea in the 1960s and 70s. The exhibition is the first international retrospective show of the artist since his death in 2007 and follows a critically-acclaimed exhibition of his work at MMCA Seoul. The show focuses on Yuns extraordinary life and work and presents over 60 works that span his entire career. One of the highlights of the exhibition is a meticulous reproduction of Yuns atelier which ... More | |
Combustione Sacco, Sacco, 1956, Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini. Collezione Burri.
VENICE.- The Fondazione Giorgio Cini presents a landmark survey show dedicated to Alberto Burri (1915 - 1995). This exhibition constitutes the final chapter of a series of international exhibitions and events staged to celebrate the avant-garde Italian artist over the course of the past year. Curated by Bruno Corà , President of the Fondazione Alberto Burri, and organised with the Fondazione Burri and in collaboration with Tornabuoni Art and Paola Sapone MCIA, in partnership with Intesa Sanpaolo, the exhibition chronologically covers the many important facets of Burris artistic output and includes a number of masterpieces belonging to each phase of the artists career from the incredibly rare Catrami series, starting in 1948, to the final Cellotex works from 1994. The show presents around 50 masterpieces on loan from important museums in Italy and abroad, from the Fondazione Burri and from prestigious private collections. Si ... More |
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| | | Whyte's Important Irish Art auction will include some of the most sought-after names in Irish art | | Sotheby's to offer almost every Supreme accessory ever produced | | Rare, museum-quality Grateful Dead concert poster to be auctioned online |
Jack Butler Yeats RHA,The Quay Worker's Home, 1927 (detail). Oil on slateboard, 8.75 by 14 in. Estimate: 60,000-80,000 (£51,720-£68,970 approx.)
DUBLIN.- On the back of a very successful opening sale of 2019 in March with 90% of lots sold totalling a hammer price in excess of 1m, and the most desired works fetching two and three times in excess of their estimates now Whytes presents yet another robust offering to collectors. By value, two of the top lots in the sale are by the most enduring names on the market: Jack Butler Yeats and Paul Henry. The former is represented with The Quay Worker's Home, 1927 [lot 39, 60,000 to 80,000] and the latter, Western Landscape, c. 1935-40 [lot 16, 100,000-150,000]. The instant familiarity lovers of Irish art feel when they view a Paul Henry painting is part of the enduring charm of this mainstay in Irish art auctions. Owing to the wide dissemination of his work in the form of tourist posters, both nationally and internationally, Henry has become a household name. His prized original works in oil def ... More | |
Supreme x Stern Pinball Machine. Est: HK$ 400,000-600,000/ US$ 50,000-80,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys will offer a prodigious privately-owned collection of almost every Supreme accessory ever produced in The Supreme Vault: 1998 - 2018. This online-only sale features a landmark archive interweaving luxury, art, and skate culture assembled by U.S. based collector Yukio Takahashi over 20 years. Established in 1994, Supreme began as a skateboarding and fashion shop in downtown NYC and quickly grew into a global brand. This exceptional collection acts as a timeline, charting how the brand has successfully maneuvered into every facet of culture, including sports, music and design. This collection represents twenty years of accessories produced by Supreme, including the rare Stern Pinball machine, Everlast boxing series (including the heavy bag), Coleman Motorbike, and over one thousand other items ranging in price and rarity - all offered without reserve. The archive is being ... More | |
This museum quality specimen of the legendary Grateful Dead Skeleton and Roses FD-26 concert poster is the expected star lot in an online auction hosted by Psychedelic Art Exchange.
BALTIMORE, MD.- A museum quality specimen of the legendary Grateful Dead Skeleton and Roses FD-26 concert poster is the expected star lot in an online auction hosted by Psychedelic Art Exchange. The poster has been independently authenticated and graded 9.8 by CGC, the finest quality CGC graded example ever to cross the auction block. Bidding is now open and ends Thursday, May 16th, at 9 pm Eastern time. The poster is widely expected to exceed the world record price of $50,600 realized for a CGC graded 9.4 specimen that was also auctioned off by Psychedelic Art Exchange in a prior auction, on August 9th, 2018. This poster is universally recognized as one of the Holy Grails of the entire genre, said Glen Trosch, president of Psychedelic Art Exchange. Thats because the poster has history, rarity, quality and one of the most famous counterculture images, ... More |
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| | | Eighth edition of Frieze New York marked by strong sales across price points | | Nationalmuseum Sweden acquires a glass installation by Ingalena Klenell | | Jean Shin responds to an ongoing revitalization project at Storm King to present a site-specific installation |
Jhaveri Contemporary, Frieze New York 2019. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy: Mark Blower/Frieze.
NEW YORK, NY.- Frieze New York closed its eighth edition on Sunday, May 5, having brought together leading galleries from 26 countries, and driven significant sales and acquisitions by major institutions and collectors across a wide range of price points and on every day of the fair. From a strong opening day and throughout the week, the 2019 edition convened collectors, curators, museum groups, and art enthusiasts from around the world, who responded enthusiastically to the energetic atmosphere and the depth and breadth of the presentations. The 2019 edition offered an unparalleled opportunity to discover emerging, under-recognized, and influential artists of the 20th century, alongside todays most celebrated contemporary artists. Reflecting New Yorks role as a nexus and catalyst for innovation and ideas in the art world, Frieze New York expanded its commitment to dynamic curated programming with new ... More | |
Ingalena Klenell, There is a thread. Photo: Daniel Milton.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has recently acquired an object by artist Ingalena Klenell in kiln-cast glass called There is a thread. Ingalena Klenells production in recent years has been characterised by suggestive, spatial installations based on impressions from the forested Nordic landscape. Much of her art relates to existential questions and often consist of several separate and frail parts, as a reminder of the fragility of nature and the vulnerability of human beings. Ingalena Klenell, born 1949, has a solid education from KV konstskola in Gothenburg, Hantverkets Folkhögskola in Leksand and the National School of Glass in Orrefors. She started out as a ceramist, but has been working with glass for four decades, now operating her own glassworks outside of Sunne in Värmland together with her husband Ragnar Klenell. She has worked with artistic décor in several public spaces, which is perhaps one ... More | |
Jean Shin, Process documentation for Allée Gathering, 2019. Recycled maple wood and steel. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY.- Storm King Art Center presents Outlooks: Jean Shin, on view from May 4 to November 24, 2019. Artist Jean Shin responds to an ongoing revitalization project along Storm Kings historic Maple Allée, working with salvaged maple trees to create a monumental, communal picnic table, approximately fifty feet in length. She will also tap trees for sap and make maple syrup, which will be offered at tastings throughout the season. The exhibition marks the seventh iteration of Storm Kings ongoing Outlooks exhibition series, which invites an emerging or mid-career artist to create a new, site-specific work to be installed on-site for a single season. Outlooks: Jean Shin is organized by Storm Kings Senior Curator Nora Lawrence. Storm King has a long history of environmental stewardship and continues to invest in initiatives that support biodiversity ... More |
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The 'Lightness of Being' Artist Chris Levine
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Pavel Zoubok Fine Art presents an intimate exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Sari Dienes
NEW YORK, NY.- Pavel Zoubok Fine Art is presenting Sari Dienes: Atmospheric Changes, an intimate exhibition of paintings and works on paper from the late 1940s and early 1950s by this pioneering American artist. While best known for her signature frottages, or rubbings of the 1950s and 1960s, the broader trajectory of Sari Dienes (1898-1992) oeuvre tells a more expansive story about her relationship to modernist styles and strategies during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Like many artists of her generation, Dienes explored the aesthetic terrain of the unconscious mind vis-a-vis Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s, employing strategies such as decalcomania, automatic drawing, hybrid imagery, and chance operations in her work. But by the mid-40s, she too felt the gravitational pull of gestural abstraction with the advent of Abstract ... More
Sotheby's to offer a one of a kind Rolls Royce Phantom this fall
NEW YORK, NY.- May 4th 2019 marked the 115th anniversary of the historic first meeting between the Honourable Charles Rolls and Sir Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, UK. This first gathering lead to the birth of what has become the most influential luxury brand in history, Rolls-Royce. To mark this occasion Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrated the evening with an exclusive dinner at Sothebys in their newly expanded and re-imagined 90,000+ square foot galleries in New York City. The event was a gathering of two historic brands who combined possess nearly four centuries of experience in providing the words elite with luxury client service. During the immersive, interactive dinner, Rolls-Royce showcased its family of motor cars and announced an online-only auction of a custom Rolls Royce Phantom to be offered this fall. The House ... More
Collection of classical sculptures reassembled in its original setting after four centuries
VENICE.- Daniele Ferrara, director of the Polo museale del Veneto, and Toto Bergamo Rossi, director of Venetian Heritage, are the curators of DOMUS GRIMANI 1594 2019, the exceptional exhibition celebrating the return to Palazzo Grimani of the collection of classical statuary that once belonged to the Patriarch of Aquileia, Giovanni Grimani. Housed in the family palazzo in the parish of Santa Maria Formosa until the end of the sixteenth centurywhen the Patriarch donated it to the Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia on his deaththis collection now returns home after more than four centuries. The exhibition opened to the public on May 7th, 2019 during the preview of the Venice Art Biennale and will remain open until May 30th, 2021. Produced by Civita Tre Venezie, the exhibitionunder the patronage of the Veneto Region and in collaboration with UNESCO ... More
Whitechapel Gallery opens "la Caixa" Collection of Contemporary Art selected by Maria Fusco
LONDON.- What happens when artworks are given a voice? Experimental art writer Maria Fusco (b. 1972) explores an imaginative world between language, silence and space in this display of nine masterworks from Spains leading collection of contemporary art. Invited by Whitechapel Gallery to select works from la Caixa Collection of Contemporary Art and write an accompanying work of fiction, Fusco presents film, photography and sculpture by influential British painter Alan Charlton (b. 1948, UK), pioneering Spanish performance artist Esther Ferrer (b. 1937, Spain) and internationally-renowned artist Cindy Sherman (b. 1954, US). Her new short story NINE QWERTY BELLS. Fiction for Live Voice (2019) imagines the artworks speaking at a conference in distinctive voices. It is published in the exhibition catalogue and available to read in the gallery or to purchase. ... More
Exhibition questions the legacy of Surrealism's male-centric view of the unconscious
NEW YORK, NY.- Piercing through the male gaze, more than 30 paintings, sculpture, photographs, mixed media, and collages by leading female Surrealist artists are on view at Heather James Fine Art, New York, from May 8 to July 31, 2019. The Female Gaze: Women Surrealists in the Americas and Europe reframes the history of the movement by focusing exclusively on the pivotal role played by female artists as independent from their male counterparts. Exhibition highlights include a mystical portrait of an animal-human goddess, Untitled, by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) from the late 1960s; a Mannerist-inspired painting mourning infertility, L'envers d'une geographie, by Leonor Fini (1907-1996) from the early 1960s; and a dreamlike nocturne, Sulky Lion, 1943, by Stella Snead (1910-2006). Also on view are works by Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017), Gertrude ... More
Gray's announces Modern Ceramics & Art Glass Auction
CLEVELAND, OH.- Gray Modern Ceramics and Art Glass Auction on Wednesday, May 22nd, will feature the work of the admired Ohio potter, sculptor and teacher George Roby (including works from Robys personal collection), plus a single-owner art glass collection from an Ohio collector, at 11 am Eastern time. The sale will be held online and in Grays gallery at 10717 Detroit Avenue in Cleveland. In all, 267 lots totaling over 1,000 pieces will cross the auction block. The full catalog is up now and pre-bidding is open at www.GraysAuctioneers.com. Bidding is also available on LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Telephone and absentee bids will be accepted. Previews will be held Monday through Friday, May 13-17, from 10 am to 5 pm, and on Saturday, May 18, from 12 noon to 4 pm. All lots will be available for in-person examination during ... More
Galleria P420 opens an exhibition of works by Guy Mees and Adelaide Cioni
BOLOGNA.- Galleria P420 is presenting for the first time in a double exhibit the work of the Belgian artist Guy Mees (Mechelen, 1935 Antwerp 2003) and the research of the Italian artist Adelaide Cioni (Bologna, 1976). Separated by geography and generation, different in their use of materials, the works of the two artists are presented in individual spaces in the gallery in two distinct exhibits carrying the same name: Shape, color, taste, sound and smell. The first room contains recent pieces by Adelaide Cioni in wool, flannel and cloth; acrylic on paper. The subjects are simple, direct, taken from a collective imaginary that crosses vernacular culture and modernist language. Iconic images that defy interpretation and narration: the pattern of a cloth is a checkerboard, a sea, a compositional grid. A circle is a sun or a black hole. A stain ... More
A major exhibition of the work of sculptor and land artist David Nash opens at National Museum Cardiff
CARDIFF.- David Nash Sculpture through the Seasons is the largest and most ambitious exhibition of Nash's work ever presented in Wales. The exhibition marks the fiftieth anniversary of the artist living and working in Capel Rhiw a former Methodist chapel in Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales. A major publication David Nash: 200 Seasons at Capel Rhiw accompanies the exhibition providing a unique exploration of how Nash has transformed a Capel Rhiw into a working studio, family home and one of the most inspirational, evolving art spaces in the world. A process that unfolded over 50 years - or 200 seasons. Capel Rhiw has been at the centre of Nash's life and work for over half a century doubling as home and studio Nash has developed the space into an extraordinary sculptural installation in which he gathers and arranges his 'congregation' ... More
Tiancheng International announces highlights included in the Jewellery and Jadeite Spring Auction 2019
HONG KONG.- Tiancheng International Jewellery and Jadeite Spring Auction will take place on 29 May, offering over 240 lots of iridescent pieces. Leading the auction is a very fine Jadeite Necklace with 43 sumptuous, translucent beads of rich emerald green colour. In addition to a vast array of natural coloured gemstones, including a pair of 5.12 and 5.03-Carat Burmese Pigeons Blood Ruby Earrings and a 20.35-Carat Burmese Mogok Royal Blue Sapphire Ring, Tiancheng International also offers a refined selection of irresistible design pieces, presenting a dazzling jewel feast for esteemed collectors. Ms. Connie Huang, Head of Tiancheng Internationals Jewellery Department, remarks, We are thrilled to showcase treasures full of Chinese and Western charm and pieces by celebrated brands in this meticulously curated sale, such as the Diamond ... More
GRI appoints Pietro Rigolo as Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Collections
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute announced today the appointment of Pietro Rigolo as Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Collections. Rigolo has been at the GRI since 2013, when he was hired as the subject expert on a team of researchers processing the massive archive of famed curator Harald Szeemann. He is part of the curatorial team for the exhibition Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions which opened at the GRI in February 2018 and traveled internationally. Pietro Rigolo brings a wonderful breadth of knowledge, not only about the history of art in the 20th and 21st centuries, but also about the history of curating and the rich intellectual histories that so often surround major artistic movements, said Glenn Phillips, curator and head of modern and contemporary collections ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Victorian painter James Collinson was born May 09, 2019. James Collinson (9 May 1825 - 24 January 1881) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850. In this image: Mother and Child by a Stile, with Culver Cliff, Isle of Wight, in the Distance, 1849-50.
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