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A close-up of Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep, painted by Pissarro in 1886. A Jewish family whose relatives had their artworks looted by the Nazis said on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, they were giving up their claim to a Pissarro painting and transferring ownership to the University of Oklahoma, where it had been on display until 2017. Musée dOrsay via The New York Times.
by Graham Bowley
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A Jewish family whose relatives had their artworks looted by the Nazis said on Tuesday they were giving up their claim to a Pissarro painting and transferring ownership to the University of Oklahoma, where it had been on display until 2017. Léone Meyer, whose familys collection was looted by the Nazis, said she was giving up her long-running efforts to donate the painting to the Musée dOrsay in Paris, where it has been exhibited in recent years. Title to the work, La Bergère, or Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep, would instead go to the University of Oklahoma under an agreement that would ensure the painting continues to be exhibited in both countries. I have now regained my freedom at a price that I fully accept, Meyer said in a statement about her plan for the painting, which she discovered in 2012 in the collection at the Oklahoma university, to which it had been donated in 2000. It was later transferred to the museum in Paris. The announc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Join Artemis Gallery on Thu, Jun 03, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-5 for a very special auction featuring art & artifacts from East to West, North to South, and everywhere in between - with one small thing in common - size! Everything in this auction is approximately 6 inches or less. In this image: 19th C. English Meerschaum Pipe w/ Nude Woman. Estimate $1,600 - $2,400.
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| Kafka letters, drawings made publicly available online | | Hindman's May Antiquities and Ancient Art Auction realizes over $1 million | | Rijksmuseum receives exceptional seascape by Ludolf Bakhuysen |
Dr. Stefan Litt of the National Library of Israel, shows original manuscripts written in German by Jewish German-speaking novelist and story writer Franz Kafka, at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, on May 31, 2021. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- An unpublished collection of letters, manuscripts and drawings by Franz Kafka are now available online via the Israel National Library, which recovered the documents after years of legal wrangling. Some 120 drawings and more than 200 letters to his friend Max Brod are among the archives now available for public viewing, the project's curator Stefan Litte told AFP. The documents exist thanks to Brod's decision to break a pact with his friend Kafka, the acclaimed Czech Jewish author of "The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis", who as he suffered from tuberculosis asked his writings be destroyed. But after the author died in 1924, Brod decided to keep the papers and in 1939 fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for Tel Aviv with them in tow. The Prague-born Brod, also ... More | |
A Roman Marble Eros Riding a Dolphin. Height 29 1/2 inches. Price realized: $137,500.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions realized over $1 million in its biannual Antiquities and Ancient Art auction on May 27. Outstanding Roman and Greek marble sculptures were among standout lots, including portrait heads and Egyptian bronzes. Property from a Midwest Private Collection, the Collection of Tina and Simon Beriro (Aspen, Colorado), the Estate of Lewis B. Cullman, and an Important Midwestern Collector saw fantastic engagement. This was the first auction under new Director and Specialist of Antiquities and Pre-Columbian Art Jacob Coley and the sale received strong interest across multiple channels, leading to a successful sale. We were delighted to see how buyers responded to the rare and exceptional selection we presented in this auction, shared Coley. As only the third sale for the department, we were thrilled to see the positive response, and are eager to continue to develop and expand our already ... More | |
Ludolf Bakhuysen, A Seascape with Figures by a Boat on a Shore, 1667, Donation Broere Charitable Foundation, 2021.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has received an exceptional seascape by Ludolf Bakhuysen as a gift from the Broere Charitable Foundation. A Seascape with Figures by a Boat on a Shore shows a serene view of the beach at Huisduinen, a village near Den Helder in the Netherlands. Ludolf Bakhuysen, who painted the panel in 1667, was one of the most prominent and prolific marine painters of the 17th century. The intention behind this generous gesture by the Broere Charitable Foundation is to offer moral and financial support to the Rijksmuseum and its employees during the difficult period of the Covid-19 pandemic. The painting will be on display in the Rijksmuseums Gallery of Honour from 9 June. Rijksmuseum General Director Taco Dibbits: We are very grateful to the Broere Charitable Foundation for this generous gesture in these difficult times. It is wonderful ... More |
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| Searching for Gertrude Bell, colonial 'mother' of modern Iraq | | First European physical art event after Covid lockdowns, now doubled in size | | A temporary export bar has been placed on a late 15th century bronze roundel valued at £17 million |
A picture taken on May 18, 2021 shows Ali Mansour, the caretaker of the cemetery of the Protestant Christians in Baghdad, where British archaeologist, writer, diplomat and spy Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) is buried. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP.
by Sammy Ketz
BAGHDAD (AFP).- For someone credited with being an architect of the nation, the grave of British archaeologist, writer, diplomat and spy Gertrude Bell in the Iraqi capital Baghdad is hard to find. Down an alley in the heart of the capital, through a heavy locked gate into the Protestant cemetery, and then amid a confusing maze of gravestones, caretaker Ali Mansour leads the way. "Miss Bell", as the Iraqis call her, played a key role in forging modern Iraq a century ago. She helped redraw the map of the Middle East as the Ottoman Empire was crumbling after defeat in World War I, based on intelligence she gathered during extensive travels with Bedouin tribes. The controversial role Britain and its rival France played in dividing the region ... More | |
Art Affair, The Summer Edition will take place from June 17th through 20th, opening daily from 11:00h through 19:00h.
AMSTERDAM.- After a successful first edition of Art Affair last September a short time before Covid prohibited physical cultural events to take place, the organizers seized the opportunity when te Dutch government announced an early easing of the regulations per June 5th. Of course we kept our options open and would have wanted to do another Art Affair in December and later in March of this year, but it couldnt be safely organized. Now with rapidly declining numbers and the easing of the regulations, we can host a physical event, says Robert Aronson, initiator and co-organizer of the event. Last year six world-class art dealers participated in this new boutique-style selling exhibition at the Amsterdam Hilton hotel, now two ballrooms will be transformed and twelve participants will exhibit. The visitors can safely enjoy the exhibits according to the latest regulations by the Dutch CDC, the RIVM. During the first ... More | |
Outstanding piece in exemplary condition depicts Venus Roman goddess of Love.
LONDON.- Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has deferred the export of an exceptionally rare Italian roundel created in Mantua more than 500 years ago. The richly decorated roundel, valued at £17 million, has been expertly crafted from bronze and is in exemplary condition despite its significant age with vibrant silvered features and mercury gilding. Although the artist is not known, experts reviewing the artefact believe it was created by at least two sculptors of significant talent. Venus, the Roman goddess of Love, is depicted on the roundel surrounded by her lover Mars, husband Vulcan and son Cupid. The mythological references in the design, and the quality of the relief, reveal the sophistication of the patron and the artists understanding of the classical past. The roundel is larger, more complex and more refined than other examples produced in Mantua at the same time which are currently in British collections. The decision ... More |
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| The Hepworth Wakefield opens an expansive exhibition of Barbara Hepworth's work | | Lines never felt so good: Crowds herald New York's reopening | | Doyle to auction Fine Art on June 9 |
Barbara Hepworth, Spring, 1966 © Bowness. Photograph: Jerry Hardman-Jones.
WAKEFIELD.- To mark The Hepworth Wakefields 10th anniversary, the Yorkshire-based gallery opened the most expansive exhibition of Barbara Hepworths work in the UK since the artists death in 1975. The exhibition presents an in-depth view of the Wakefield-born artists life, interests, work and legacy. It displays some of Hepworths most celebrated sculptures including the modern abstract carving that launched her career in the 1920s and 1930s, her iconic strung sculptures of the 1940s and 1950s, and large scale bronze and carved sculptures from later in her career. Key loans from national public collections are being shown alongside works from private collections that have not been on public display since the 1970s, as well as rarely seen drawings, paintings and fabric designs. It reveals how Hepworths wide sphere of interests comprising music, dance, science, space exploration, politics and religion, as ... More | |
Visitors wear masks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, May 30, 2021. Most New York museums are still requiring patrons to be masked. Lila Barth/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The line outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art trailed out the door, down the rain-swept stairs, around the trees and past the fountain and the hot-dog stands on Fifth Avenue as visitors waited under dripping umbrellas. They were among more than 10,000 people who had the same idea for how to fill a rainy Sunday in New York City, turning the holiday weekend into the museums busiest since the start of the pandemic. In Greenwich Village, jazz fans lined up to get into Smalls, a dimly lit basement club with a low ceiling where they could bop their heads and tap their feet to live music. All five limited capacity screenings of Fellinis 8 1/2 sold out on Monday at the Film Forum on Houston Street, and when the ... More | |
Richard Maury (1935-2020), Florence, 1968 (detail), Oil on canvas laid to panel, 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 inches. Est. $6,000-9,000. Lot 96.
NEW YORK.- Doyle's auction of Fine Art on Wednesday, June 9 at 11am will offer a wide range of affordable paintings, prints and sculpture by prominent artists spanning the late 19th through the 20th centuries. Exciting opportunities abound in this popular auction category for seasoned buyers and new collectors alike! The public is invited to the exhibition on view Saturday, June 5 through Monday, June 7 at Doyle, located at 175 East 87th Street in New York. View the catalogue and place bids at DOYLE.com An American artist living and working in Florence, Italy, Richard Maury (1935-2020) is renowned for his precise realistic images. A glowing depiction of Florence in the sale encapsulates Maurys transcendent rendering of natural light (est. $6,000-9,000). Bessarabian-born Realist painter Tully Filmus (1903-1998) was well-known for his fun paintings of ... More |
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| Charleston opens first Nina Hamnett retrospective | | Christie's Classic Week presents Isaac Newton's Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica | | Desde el Salón (From the Living Room): Sol Calero explores the Hiscox Collection |
Nina Hamnett (1890-1956), The Landlady, 1918. Oil on canvas 88 x 55. Private Collection. Photo © Bridgeman Images.
LEWES.- Charleston reopened with the first major retrospective of the work of British artist Nina Hamnett (1890 1956), a central figure in the London and Paris art scenes of the early 20th century. Featuring works that span three decades, the exhibition showcases Hamnetts incredible eye for portraiture and reveal key aspects of her practice which has, in recent times, remained little known and unseen. Born in Tenby, Wales, Hamnett was at the heart of the British-French exchange of art and ideas during the 1910s and 1920s and was a key point of connection between the Bloomsbury group, the Camden Town Group and the School of Paris. She became a celebrated artist in both London and Paris, exhibiting widely in solo and group shows, including those of The London Group and the New English Art Club frequently throughout the 1910s to 1950s, and at both the Royal Academy and the Salon dAutomne in 1948. Hamnetts talent ... More | |
Isaac Newton, Autograph manuscript, [Cambridge, c. May-July 1694], draft revisions to three sections of the first edition of the Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, a heavily corrected draft with three additional notes by the Scottish mathematician and astronomer David Gregory. Estimate: £600,000900,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- On 8 July 2021, Christies Classic Week Exceptional Sale will present Isaac Newtons (1642-1727) handwritten revisions to the Principia, arguably the most important single work in the history of science (estimate: £600,000900,000). This is an unpublished, working manuscript for Newtons projected and ultimately abandoned second edition, and includes additional notes by the Scottish mathematician and astronomer David Gregory (1659-1708). The manuscript was in the archive of Gregory until the 1860s, and was most recently in the notable collection of Maurice Car. Thomas Venning, Head of Christies Books & Manuscripts, London: Autograph scientific manuscripts by Newton are of the greatest rarity on ... More | |
John Baldessari, Brain/Cloud (With Seascape and Palm Tree), 2009. Inkjet on Hahnemühle photo rag 308 gsm paper using archival inks, 74 x 58 cm. Courtesy of CounterEditions.com
LONDON.- Significant works of art by Joan Miró (1893-1983), Annie Leibovitz (b.1949, USA), Sarrah Morris (b.1967, UK), John Baldessari (b.1931, USA) and more are on public display for the first time in the second of two artist-curated displays drawn from the Hiscox Collection. Berlin-based artist Sol Calero (b. 1982, Venezuela), whose own work takes the form of brightly coloured, immersive installations, transforms the gallery space into a densely-hung environment in celebration of the natural world. The consecutive exhibition series forms part of the Whitechapel Gallerys ongoing commitment to showing rarely seen public and private collections. Desde el Salón (From the Living Room) features 44 artists who share personal and poetic responses to nature and the domestic realm through their work. Within Caleros imagined world, Yto Barrada (b. 1971, France) examines the botanical ... More |
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Original Spider-Man comic art heads to Heritage Auctions in June
DALLAS, TX.- They called him The Amazing Spider-Steve, this man who spent decades amassing what The Hollywood Reporter described in February as "perhaps the most unique Spider-Man collection in existence." His secret identity was Steve Levine, a Los Angeles defense attorney whose clientele once included the famous. Levine was a luminary himself in the comic-collecting community, having devoted most of his life to collecting everything Spider-Man. And that meant everything. Every comic, of course; every toy and T-shirt, too. All the original art he could score. And every book and magazine and advertisement and product featuring the Web-Slinger. For starters. How this happened, Levine said not long ago, "I have no idea." He was only half-joking. "I mean, it's not like I didn't have a life," Levine said on a video recorded several ... More
Unique 1854 New Orleans gold coin returns home
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A unique, sunken treasure gold coin that made its way from New Orleans to the California Gold Rush and then to the Panama railroad before going down with a famous ship has now come home to The Big Easy for the public to see. It left the United States Mint branch in New Orleans 167 years ago, and for 157 of those years it was submerged on the floor of the Atlanta Ocean as part of Americas greatest lost treasure. This historic coin is an 1854 Liberty Head Quarter Eagle struck at the New Orleans Mint and was later counterstamped by California merchant J.L. Polhemus. It was among the sunken treasure recovered in 2014 from the fabled Ship of Gold, the S.S. Central America, that sank in a hurricane in 1857 while sailing to New York, explained Bruce Smith, Director of Numismatics ... More
Lord Nelson's protégé's rare gold naval medal estimated to fetch £60-80,000 at auction
LONDON.- Morton and Eden announced the forthcoming auction of the superb and exceptionally rare small naval gold medal for the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea in 1811, awarded to Captain Sir William Hoste K.C.B., Royal Navy, one of Admiral Lord Nelsons most highly regarded protégés. The medal is estimated to fetch £60,000 - 80,000 when it is included in the sale of Medals, Orders and Decorations on 13 July 2021. David Kirk, Morton and Edens medal specialist said: This is a superb group of awards to an extremely important naval figure who, not only served with but was also a great friend of Nelson. Just four naval gold medals were awarded for the Battle of Lissa, and this medal to Hoste, who led the victorious British squadron, is without doubt the finest of the four. For dedicated collectors of naval medals from this period, opportunities ... More
Ketterer Kunst announces results of Rare Books Auction in Hamburg
HAMBURG.- With total proceeds of more than 1.4 million, the Rare Books Auction at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg on May 31, 2021 yielded a very good result. The sales quota in the Evening Sale alone was at 85 % and many of the objects on offer changed owners with excellent price increases. The evenings undisputed star was a 13th century vellum manuscript with texts on logic by Aristotle. With the Logica vetus Aristotle did not only lay the foundations for higher education in all of medieval Europe, but also had an impact on methods and discussions in almost every other scientific discipline. In light of this it is little surprising that this extremely rare compilation of medieval texts was hotly contested by a number of proxy bids and online bidders, as well as by nearly half a dozen phone bidders from Denmark, Germany, England, France and ... More
Rag'n'Bone Man, Woodkid to top Montreux Jazz Festival
GENEVA (AFP).- British singer-songwriter Rag'n'Bone Man and French neofolk musician Woodkid are headlining this year's Montreux Jazz Festival, downsized and to be held mostly outdoors due to the pandemic, organisers said Tuesday. French-Lebanese trumpeter and composer Ibrahim Maalouf and British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks, who was named best breakthrough artist at this year's Brit Awards, are also in the line-up. "Small is beautiful," is the informal slogan for the 55th edition of the festival, which was cancelled last year due to the coronavirus crisis. The festival has been scheduled for July 2-17, coinciding with the planned loosening of anti-Covid measures in Switzerland. Around 20,000 spectators are expected to turn out -- more than 10 times fewer than in 2019, when some 250,000 took part, according to organisers. For more ... More
Cannes 'can't wait' for film fest after 'horrible' year
(AFP).- The five-star palace hotels are in full swing, the sound of music drifts across the beach and after a 'horrible' year blighted by the coronavirus crisis, the French resort of Cannes is finally buzzing again as it gears up for its film festival. "We can't wait," said Pierrick Cizeron, chief executive at the Majestic hotel that overlooks the Mediterranean and the festival venue. Last year the film festival, the world's biggest, was cancelled because of the pandemic. With France slowly emerging from a partial lockdown, the 2021 edition was delayed from the usual May date to July 6-17. The festival is to announce its lineup of Palme d'Or contenders on Thursday, with industry insiders speculating on a pick rich in big names. It is, however, still unclear how many stars will actually make the journey to Cannes, as France still requires non-EU arrivals to quarantine ... More
The new detectorists
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- People have been metal detecting since 1881, when Alexander Graham Bell invented a device to find the bullet lodged in President James Garfield. But it took several more decades for recreational metal detectors devices that resemble sort of a skillet on the end of a pole, as one newspaper put it in 1927 to develop a serious cult following. Now, that cult following is growing. Detector makers are reporting record sales. According to an annual report from one brand, Minelab, in 2020 the company sold 30% more detectors than the previous year, which had climbed 18% the year before that. And we are in a bit of a detectorist media moment. New York magazine is making listicles of the best metal detector models. Drew Barrymore is giving them away on her show. Teenage sketch comedian Parker ... More
Lance Loud was an early reality star. He was also a gay punk pioneer.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Feb. 20, 1973, Lance Loud earned a place in musical history that, at the time, nearly stopped his career cold. That night, he appeared with his band, Loud!, on The Dick Cavett Show as part of an evening devoted to An American Family, the PBS program credited as TVs first reality show. The cinéma vérité series, which featured the entire Loud clan, both riveted and appalled the nation with two revelations: the collapse of the parents marriage right on camera, and their eldest son, 20-year-old Lance, making his gay identity extravagantly clear. It was a profoundly rare declaration in that era of television, and by performing on Cavett, Lance led what was likely the first rock group with openly gay members to appear on a major commercial network. We never considered ourselves a gay ... More
Raimund Hoghe, choreographer of strength and frailty, dies at 72
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Raimund Hoghe, the German performer and choreographer who worked as a dramaturge for choreographer Pina Bausch before creating dance-theater pieces that deliberately made a subject of his own bodys limitations, died May 14 at his home in Duesseldorf. He was 72. His death was confirmed by his longtime collaborator, Luca Giacomo Schulte, who said he died in his sleep. Hoghe, born with a spinal deformity that inhibited his growth and left him with a prominent curve in his back, was working in Duesseldorf as a journalist for the newspaper Die Zeit when he was sent to interview Bausch. It was 1978, five years after she had transformed the local Wuppertal company into Tanztheater Wuppertal, inventing the form of dance drama that would make her work internationally famous. Bausch, ... More
Bonhams announces new modern and contemporary art leadership in Asia
HONG KONG.- Bonhams, the international auction house, announces today two senior appointments for its Modern and Contemporary Art team in Asia. Marcello Kwan joins Bonhams as Head of Modern and Contemporary Art, Asia. Cindy Lim joins as Senior Specialist and Head of Sale. Both will be based in Hong Kong. In his new role, Marcello will lead all Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Art business in Asia, furthering Bonhams relationships with clients, and expanding the business in this competitive area of the art market. He will lead a regional team of specialists, as well as working with the wider global team on all sales and projects. Marcello Kwan brings to Bonhams over 20 years of experience in the auction and gallery sectors. He was most recently Vice President, Senior Specialist and Head of Sale of Modern and Contemporary ... More
Bach's cello suites, now on violin, with a folksy feel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bargemusic was rocking last Friday evening as rain fell heavily outside, casting the view of lower Manhattan in gray. Inside, though, Bargemusic the tiny concert hall docked in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge was alight with the liveliness of belowdecks entertainment as a small audience rode out the storm to the fiddling sounds of Johnny Gandelsmans violin. At times the performance had the improvisatory feel of folk music, but it was in fact a survey of Bachs towering six cello suites transformed, with foot-tapping joy, for a smaller string instrument. Gandelsman isnt the only violinist to have tackled these classic works; Rachel Podger recorded them in 2019, a year before he released his own set. But his approach is singular: feather-light and rooted in dance and folk music. He treats the suites ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra was born June 02, 1959. Rineke Dijkstra (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and the 2017 Hasselblad Award. In this image: Rineke Dijkstra, I See a Woman Crying 2009 (videostill, detail), collection De Pont Museum. Photo: Peter Cox.
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