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Camille Pissarro, Boulevard Montmartre, afternoon sun, 1897. Oil on canvas, 74 x 92.8 cm. The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg Inv GE 9002 Photo: © The State Hermitage Museum 2018, Vladimir Terebenin, Leonard Kheifets and Yuri Mololkovets.
SYDNEY.- Capturing the ebullience, idealism and confidence of the European modern masters in the late 19th century and early years of the 20th century among them Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso and Gauguin, and their equally celebrated Russian contemporaries Kandinsky and Malevich are 65 paintings on view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Significant works in the exhibition include Monets Poppy field c1890; Cézannes Great pine near Aix, 1895/97; Picassos Table in a Cafe, 1912; Gauguins Month of Mary 1899; Matisses Nymph and Satyr 1908; Kandinskys Landscape near Dünaberg 1913 and Malevichs Black Square c.1932, all of which are from the Hermitages illustrious modern collection, now housed in the renovated General Staff Building across Palace Square from the Winter Palace, one of the most famous architectural monuments in St Pe ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A superb example of the rarest, most widely sought-after flora rug style of the 19th century, this small room size Motasham Kashan piece conveys both craftsmanship and delicate motif. Woven in glistening lamb's wool, the layering of concentric fluted medallions create a widening display of exquisite detail. No other Court style achieves such palpable animation within its visual symmetry. Stunning soft tones illumine its well-piled surface, contrasted with a mesmerizing, expertly captured midnight indigo coloration. On the Claremont Rug Company (www.claremontrug.com) proprietary Oriental Rug Pyramid, this piece resides in the Level 2 (High-Collectible) tier, which is the highest level of available Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving (ca. 1800 to ca. 1910) rugs. © Claremont Rug Company.
| Finnish couple jailed over 13 mn euro art forgery scam | | Rare Qing Dynasty jade washer emerges from English private collection | | Dia brings Andy Warhol's Shadows to New York City |
In total, investigators submitted over 220 canvases to experts at Finland's National Gallery for verification. Photo: State Art Museum Conservation.
HELSINKI (AFP).- The married owners of an art gallery in Finland were jailed on Thursday and ordered to pay 13 million euros for selling hundreds of forged artworks in a five-year scam. Helsinki district court found that buyers and auction houses had been duped into buying counterfeited paintings bearing the signatures of some of Europe's best known artists, including Matisse, Renoir, Monet and Kandinsky. Many other works purported to be by Russian artists from the romantic period, and the noted Finnish painters Helene Schjerfbeck and Albert Edelfeldt. Gallery owners Kati Marjatta Karkkiainen, 46, and Reijo Pollari, 75, were each found guilty of 30 charges of aggravated fraud, and sentenced to four and five years' imprisonment respectively. A further eight people were also found guilty and sentenced to up to three years in jail. In total, investigators submitted over 220 canvases to experts at Finland's National Gallery for verification. The majority ... More | |
A monumental spinach-green jade washer. Estimate: £600,000-800,000 / US$775,000-1,040,000 / HK$6,080,000-8,110,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- This November, Sothebys will offer a monumental spinach-green jade washer that ranks among the most impressive jade vessels remaining in a private collection, and appears to be the largest jade basin recorded. Emerging from an English private collection, the washer has been unseen in public since it was exhibited in the landmark International Exhibition of Chinese Art held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from November 1935 to March 1936. The majestic vessel leads Sothebys sale of Important Chinese Art in London on 7 November 2018, where it will be offered with an estimate of £600,000-800,000 / US$775,000-1,040,000 / HK$6,080,000-8,110,000. Carved with two large beast-head handles and four further smaller handles with freely-moving rings, the basin embodies the distinctive qualities of mid-Qing imperial jade. Measuring 50 cm in width at its widest point and 12.8 cm in height, the vessel is carved from Khotan jade, ... More | |
Andy Warhol, Shadows, 197879. Installation view, 205 West 39th Street, New York, 2018. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York, courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Andy Warhols Shadows (197879) returns to New York City marking a homecoming for the monumental work that was first presented by Dia in the city in 1979. A single painting in multiple parts, Shadows is one of Warhols most abstract works, yet one that cohesively synthesizes key elements of his practice, including film, painting, photography, and screenprinting. On view October 26 through December 15, 2018, at 205 West 39th Street, a street-front space in Calvin Klein, Inc.s headquarters, the installation surrounds the viewer with a series of canvases, presented edge-to-edge around the perimeter of the room in conformity with Warhols original vision. Following its New York presentation, the work will reopen as a long-term installation at Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York, in 2019. Exhibited concurrently with the ... More |
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| Kasmin opens exhibition of works from the collection of John Ashbery | | Seattle Art Museum Director and CEO Kimerly Rorschach to retire fall 2019 | | Hawking's signed thesis, wheelchair auctioned in London |
Joe Brainard, Untitled (The Avant-garde), 1968, ink on paper, 14 x 11 inches, 35.6 x 27.9 cm. © 2018 Estate of John Ashbery. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin is presenting an exhibition of selected works from the collection of the celebrated New York poet and art critic, John Ashbery (1927 2017). Bringing together paintings, drawings, and collages by artists such as Alex Katz, Jane Freilicher, Helen Frankenthaler, Fairfield Porter, Joe Brainard, and Larry Rivers, the presentation reflects the deep-rooted artistic and personal associations amongst a group of artists and poets who, between them, defined New Yorks downtown scene for almost two decades from the 1950s onwards. Acquired by Ashbery over the course of his life, the majority of the works in the poets collection were gifts from his artist friends, many of whom he wrote about in his capacity as an art critic. Having relinquished an early ambition to pursue painting, Ashbery went on to cover exhibitions journalistically for over twenty-five years, reshaping art criticism ... More | |
Rorschach joined SAM in November 2012. Photo: Scott Areman.
SEATTLE, WA.- Kimerly Rorschach, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), announced today that she will retire in fall 2019 after seven years leading the institution. Rorschach will step down following the opening of the museums newly renovated and expanded Seattle Asian Art Museum facility. The museums Board of Trustees will initiate an international search to find Rorschachs replacement. Winnie Stratton, President of SAMs Board of Trustees, noted, Kims retirement culminates an esteemed 25-year career leading museums. SAM and Seattle are stronger today thanks to her seven years of leadership. Over the years, it has been an honor to work with Kim and see how each of our three locations have matured to a new level and thrived with her guidance. She facilitated important art scholarship and brought to Seattle groundbreaking exhibitions. She worked to bring in more diverse ... More | |
A gallery assistant poses with a motorised wheelchair, c.1988, that belonged to late British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking with an estimated price of £10,000-£15,000 GBP during a photocall for the sale of personal items from Hawking's estate at Christie's auction house in London on October 30, 2018. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- A copy of Stephen Hawking's doctorate thesis signed in a shaky hand was unveiled Tuesday as the highlight of a new auction of the British physicist's personal items in London. One of Hawking's wheelchairs, an early edition of his bestselling book "A Brief History of Time" marked with a thumbprint, and a script from one of his appearances on the television series "The Simpsons" are also among the 22 lots on sale at Christie's auction house. The collection highlights the brilliance, determination and sense of humour of Hawking, who died in March aged 76 after a lifetime spent trying to unlock the secrets of the universe. Hawking published his thesis in 1965, two years after being diagnosed ... More |
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| New lease of life for Portugal's booming ceramics bastion | | With rose petals and guns, India inaugurates world's tallest statue | | Christie's achieves combined total of $7,520,137 for the African and Oceanic art sales in Paris |
A worker prepares ceramic pieces depicting lobsters to be fired in the kiln at Bordallo Pinheiro Factory in Caldas da Rainha on September 13, 2018. PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP.
CALDAS DA RAINHA (AFP).- Ignoring temporary walls which point to ongoing large-scale expansion, workers burn the midnight oil at Portugal's byword for ceramic creativity to meet orders from around the globe. For more than 130 years, Bordallo Pinheiro has been producing all manner of artistic glazed pottery, and business is booming again a decade after the company almost went to the wall. From traditional azulejos tiles, multi-coloured fruit-shaped tableware, animal-shaped vases and ceramic sardines, to Mick Jagger and Pope Francis figurines, the factory is a Portuguese porcelain fancier's paradise. That order books are crammed is a far cry from when the company, founded in 1884 in the western town of Caldas da Rainha an hour north of Lisbon, was bought out in 2009. In the ensuing decade, sales have tripled and production has raced ahead 60 percent -- hence the need to ramp up capacity at the site in the town, also renowned for its hot springs. ... More | |
The "Statue Of Unity", the world's tallest statue dedicated to Indian independence leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, stands overlooking the Sardar Sarovar Dam near Vadodara in India's western Gujarat state on October 30, 2018. SAM PANTHAKY / AFP.
SARDAR SAROVAR DAM (AFP).- India inaugurated the world's tallest statue on Wednesday with fireworks, folk dances and floral tributes, deploying tight security amid an outcry by local groups over the soaring cost of the 182-metre (600-feet) sculpture of an independence hero. Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially opened the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel describing the completion of his pet project as "a day that will be remembered in the history of India". Air force jets flew over the giant figure and clouds of rose petals were dropped from helicopters onto its head as Modi bent in front of the statue on the ground. Modi hailed Sardar Patel's "strategic thinking" in bringing together the disparate country after independence in 1947 and described the Statue of Unity as "a symbol of our engineering and technical prowess". More than 5,000 armed police guarded the huge site in a remote corner of ... More | |
The Yaka headrest from the Adolphe Stoclet collection was the star of the sale selling for 1,2M against a presale estimate of 300,000-500,000, setting a new world auction record for a Yaka work of art. © Karin Haas.
PARIS.- Christies totaled 6,607,875/£6,044,682/$7,520,137 for the African and Oceanic art sales including the Adolphe Stoclet which realised alone 1,4M. The Yaka headrest from the Adolphe Stoclet collection was the star of the sale selling for 1,2M against a presale estimate of 300,000-500,000, setting a new world auction record for a Yaka work of art. The various owner sale achieved strong results, especially for the works of art from the former Jacques and Denise Schwob collection such as the Fang Mask Ngil, which was exhibited at the Musée royal de lAfrique Centrale in Tervuren (Belgium) in 1963, which sold for 2,407,500. From the same collection, an important Songye statue was sold for 439,500. Yesterdays sales demonstrated that provenances are always an important criterion for collectors; the Dogon figure of a horse from the former collection of Tristan Tzara ... More |
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| Thomas Erben Gallery opens a solo exhibition of works by New York-based painter Harriet Korman | | The Block Museum's new graphic identity invites visitors to discover 'What's inside The Block' | | Strauss & Co to offer museum quality masterworks by South Africa's leading artists |
Ms. Harriet Korman, Untitled, 2016-18 (detail). Oil on canvas, 48 Ã 60 inches, (121.92 Ã 152.40 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Thomas Erben Gallery presents a solo exhibition with New York-based painter Harriet Korman. The artist previously participated in two of the gallery's group shows, Painting in due time (2017) and of certain instability (2011). Presenting a new body of work, Korman continues her celebrated engagement with color, geometry, the picture plane, paint, and her handling of it. With such interests, Korman has frequently been cited as a champion of geometric abstraction or cast as a colorist: roles she has subtly sidestepped for decades. Countering an understanding of her work that can often be too programmatic, this new series steers towards her works ability to surprise. Permeable/Resistant captures Korman where she often works: challenging and disrupting first impressions. Varying between loose, rapid (oilstick) drawings and slow deliberate (oil) paintings, ... More | |
The Block worked with a creative team at Northwestern Universitys Global Marketing and Communications Office, led by Andy Madorsky, assistant vice president and chief creative officer, to achieve this goal.
EVANSTON, ILL.- Over the past few years The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has consistently presented its audiences with surprising and innovative projects, rooted in original, interdisciplinary research. The museums bold exhibitions and engagement programs stretch across time, geography and fields of study, drawing national awards and media recognition as well as loyal audiences from across the Northwestern campus, the North Shore and Chicago. As the museum has continued to grow in scope, expanding the range of its free public offerings and the depth of its creative collaborations, The Block embraced the opportunity to reintroduce itself graphically to its visitors. Seeking to capture the museums active, ever-changing nature and spirit of inquiry, the museum refocused its image ... More | |
Mary by Irma Stern.
JOHANNESBURG.- Strauss & Co announced its largest-ever live auction by value, with combined estimates for its 12 November sale in Johannesburg exceeding R80 million. The sale has 26 lots with estimates of R1 million or more, and includes works of astonishing range and depth by notable modernist painters Maggie Laubser, JH Pierneef, Alexis Preller and Irma Stern. Based in Cape Town and Johannesburg, Strauss & Co is the global leader for South African art. It holds five live sales annually, including one sale that is solely devoted to contemporary art. Strauss & Co has sold nine of the ten most expensive paintings ever auctioned in South Africa. Irma Sterns 1941 portrait of a Mary Cramer, a sister of the artists confidante, Freda Feldman, carries the sales highest estimate (estimate R5 7 million). This extraordinary portrait, notes art historian Federico Freschi, was once displayed in Feldmans emerald-green dining ... More |
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WeGrow reimagines education with new school designed by BIG
NEW YORK, NY.- BIG and WeWorks collaboration and belief in creativity manifests through the first WeGrow school in New York City. The interactive learning landscape supports a conscious approach to education, nurturing the growth, spirit and mind of the 21st century child. The 10,000ft2 learning universe for children aged three to nine is located in WeWorks HQ in Manhattans Chelsea neighborhood. The school environment is designed to embed the values of a new conscious approach to education. The opening of WeGrow happens just as BIG completes Glasir College merging three individual schools in Faroe Islands, and plans for the opening of the Isenberg School of Management extension at the University of Massachusetts next Spring 2019. "WeGrow was created to unleash the creative potential of all generations through design. With this first location ... More
Chinese literary giant dies, aged 94
HONG KONG (AFP).- Renowned Hong Kong author Louis Cha, whose epic martial arts thrillers inspired numerous films and sold some 300 million copies worldwide, has died aged 94. Known by his pen name Jin Yong, Cha is a household name across the Chinese-speaking world -- while overseas his novels have drawn parallels to the "Lord of the Rings" series. Packed with hard-hitting kung fu masters and intricate plotlines, his books bring to life the different dynasties of ancient China. They have given rise to TV dramas and video games as well as dozens of movies. Cha died in Hong Kong on Tuesday after a long illness. Among his most famous works are "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", "Deer and the Cauldron", and "Legends of the Condor Heroes" -- published in English for the first time in February. Cha also founded Chinese-language newspaper Ming ... More
Marlborough Fine Art opens a solo exhibition by British artist Nina Murdoch
LONDON.- Collecting Colour is the first solo exhibition by British artist Nina Murdoch (b. 1970) in four years. During this time she has simplified her subject matter, concentrating on her technique to allow the paint to assume greater importance. She has produced monumental paintings with a depth and quality that resonate light and atmosphere in dramatic and hypnotic visions. The exhibition brings together 16 new large-scale egg tempera and gesso paintings alongside a group of pastel studies. Together they showcase Murdochs representation of architectural spaces from a close-up, more abstracted viewpoint. Nina Murdoch: Collecting Colour runs at Marlborough Fine Art in London from 31 October until 24 November 2018. Murdoch works with materials with meticulous finesse - some works take years to create. Every painting presents a time ... More
Frankfurter Kunstverein opens the exhibition 'Reconnecting with the World'
FRANKFURT.- From October 31, 2018 to January 13, 2019, the Frankfurter Kunstverein presents the exhibition Reconnecting with the World featuring works by Hicham Berrada (*1986, Casablanca, Marocco, lives and works in Paris, France), Lucy Dodd (*1981, New York, US, lives and works in Kensington, US) and Sam Falls (*1984, San Diego, US, lives and works in Los Angeles, US). The exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of works of the three international artists in a German institution. The artists in the exhibition Reconnecting with the World, Hicham Berrada, Lucy Dodd and Sam Falls seek out our basic existential parameters and thus try to demonstrate our connectedness with an all-embracing whole, showing new ways of reconnecting with nature and the world. They create their works embedded within a historical moment of a progressing ... More
Solo showcase of lacquer wares by Tohru Matsuzaki on view at Ippodo Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Ippodo Gallery opened its latest exhibition, Rinpa: Silver Waves, a solo showcase of lacquer wares by Tohru Matsuzaki (b. 1944) on view until November 21. His deep understanding of Japanese artistry has flourished through a lifelong journey of vitality and self-discovery, leading to unique and inventive works which remain useful and subtle in design. Tohru Matsuzaki lives and works in a beautiful gated residence in Motegi, just north of Tokyo. It is a stones throw from the renowned pottery center of Mashiko, where ceramic artist Shoji Hamada first cultivated the folk art movement Mingei in 1930. And so, past and future coexist in this quiet enclave, as our artist continues to create. Today, he is widely celebrated, and heads the Kougeibu (Craft Division) of the influential artists association Kokugakai. Matsuzakis appreciation of form ... More
Neil Armstrong's huge souvenir collection to be auctioned
NEW YORK (AFP).- Talk about a pack rat: thousands of things that Neil Armstrong saved over the course of a career that saw him become the first man to walk on the moon will be auctioned off this week. Nobody really knew the extent of the stuff Armstrong amassed during his 82 years on earth, not even the children of the man who made history with his feat on July 20, 1969. Some of the mementos are from his space missions. Armstong's offspring found the treasures after he died in 2012, tucked away at his house or that of their mother, his ex-wife. Some have historical value, such as flags or medallions he wore during the Apollo 11 lunar mission. Others do not -- like a boy scout cap or a pin from his high school football team. "He just kept everything. He didn't throw things away," his son Rick said. A lot of these objects have already been donated to the National ... More
Sci-Fi & horror typescripts in November 13 auction at Swann
NEW YORK, NY.- An exceptional auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature comes to Swann Galleries on Tuesday, November 13. The sale of nearly 300 lots includes first edition literary classics, scarcely seen dust jackets, deluxe sets and rare science fiction. Science fiction and imaginative literary works feature a robust selection of seldom-seen material by icons of the genre. A group of three signed and inscribed typescripts of chapters from Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451 holds an estimate of $800 to $1,200. A run of titles by Philip K. Dick is led by the scarce deluxe limited edition of The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, with five volumes present, (Estimate: $2,000-3,000); and one of only three special deluxe issue copies of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Los Angeles, 1987, with the authors signature tipped in, estimated at $1,200 to $2,000. An ... More
Sculptures by Segal, Haring, and Calder lead Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announces highlights of the Post-War & Contemporary Art sale on November 14, which will offer a total of 44 works featuring exceptional sculptures by George Segal, Keith Haring, and Alexander Calder. All works will be on view to the public at Bonhams New York galleries starting November 9. Leading the sale is George Segals The Dancers, circa 1971-1982, a defining work of both the artist's career and twentieth-century sculpture (estimate: $700,000-1,000,000). This life-size sculpture is a supreme example of Segal's practice, exemplifying his skills as a sculptor while also forging a poignant narrative. Other examples from the edition are housed within the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and The Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas leaving only three works from the limited edition in private hands. ... More
200 years of Philadelphia legal history to be auctioned at Freeman's
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans November 14 sale of American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts will bring to auction nearly 500 lots of important artwork and furnishings, across all collecting areas. Notably, the auction concludes with more than 60 portraits of prominent lawyers from the Library of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the oldest association of lawyers in the United States. In 1802, a group of 71 lawyers met and established the Law Library Company of the City of Philadelphia to share law books. The first location of the Law Library Company was a room in Independence Hall. Over the next two centuries, the Library grew in size and moved six times, including to locations such as the Athenæum and Philadelphia City Hall. The name of the organization evolved to the Law Association of Philadelphia and, ultimately, to the Philadelphia Bar Association. The ... More
Toronto Biennial of Art announces preliminary list of artists, partners, and sponsors
TORONTO.- The Toronto Biennial of Art today announced an initial selection of Canadian and international artists for the inaugural, city-wide event opening September 21, 2019 and running through December 2019. Commissioned artists and artist collectives creating site-specific projects include Shezad Dawood, Embassy of Imagination and PA System, Luis Jacob, Ange Loft, Caroline Monnet, New Mineral Collective, Naufus RamÃrez-Figueroa, Arin Rungjang, Susan Schuppli, Althea Thauberger, and Syrus Marcus Ware. The Biennial is curated by Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien. Additional artists, partners, and sponsors will be announced in the coming months. The Biennial commissions will take place in new and unexpected venues on Lake Ontario. The events trajectory along the waterfront traces the original shoreline boundaries of the so-called ... More
Helm Auction, Inc.'s online-only Holidaze! auction includes over 550 lots
EL CAJON, CA.- Helm Auction, Inc.s end-of-year Holidaze! auction on Saturday, December 1st, will be jam-packed with over 550 lots of Native American artifacts (such as Navajo weavings and Pueblo pottery), pre-Columbian artifacts, other pre-historic items (like arrowheads and stone tools), oil paintings and other fine artwork, Oceanic, African and Asian tribal artifacts and more. The catalog also includes Native American and Mexican jewelry from the 20th century. Many pre-Columbian artifacts are from a high-end Rancho Santa Fe, California estate, collected by a dentist and descended in the family. Items include fine Native American baskets, antique and decorative glass and ceramics, Japanese and Chinese antiques, plus Helms usual tribal offerings. The online-only auction will get underway promptly at 9:15 am Pacific time, with internet bidding provided ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter William Merritt Chase was born November 01, 1849. William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons School of Design. In this image: William Merritt Chase, Portrait of Dora Wheeler, 1882 - 83. Oil on canvas, 62 5/8 x 65 1/8 in. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Boudinot Keith in memory of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade.
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