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This file photo taken on June 3, 2014 shows two hauliers installing the Gustave Courbet's canvas "L'origine du monde" (The origin of the world) at the Courbet museum in Ornans, eastern France. The young woman who served as a model for Gustave Courbet to paint "The Origin of the World" was called Constance Queniaux, reveals French writer Claude Schopp in a book "The origin of the world, life of the model" (L'Origine du monde, vie du modele) to be released on October 4, 2018. SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP.
by Alain Jean-Robert / Fiachra Gibbons
PARIS (AFP).- One of the greatest mysteries in art history appears to have been solved. The identity of the model who posed for the most scandalous painting of the 19th century, Gustave Courbet's "L'Origine du monde" (The Origin of the world), has finally been revealed. Experts say they are "99 percent sure" the painting's notoriously naked nether regions belong to the Parisian ballet dancer Constance Queniaux. The canvas has never lost its power to shock -- bringing out the prude in Facebook, which censored profiles using it as late as 2011. For decades art historians have been convinced that the naked torso and genitalia it depicts belonged to Courbet's lover, the Irish model Joanna Hiffernan. In a typically Parisian love triangle, she was also romantically linked with his friend, the American artist James Whistler. But doubts persisted -- mainly because the dark pubic hair in the painting did not correspond with Hiffernan's mane of flam ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an auction of Antiquities, Asian and Ethnographic art on Sep 27, 2018 9:00 AM CDT. The sale features classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. In this image:Chinese Han Dynasty Terracotta Pig w/ TL. Est: $1,200 - $1,800
| The largest Fancy Vivid Pink diamond ever offered at Christie's to lead Geneva Magnificent Jewels Auction | | Phillips to offer landmark Joan Miró painting | | Marilyn Monroe's 1956 raven black Ford Thunderbird heads to the auction block |
The Pink Legacy has been awarded the highest diamond color grading of VIVID by the Gemological Institute of America.
GENEVA.- On 13 November 2018, Christies Geneva will present The Pink Legacy, the largest and finest Fancy Vivid Pink diamond ever offered at auction by the company. Weighing just under 19 carats (18.96 carats), this exceptional rectangular-cut gem will lead Christies Magnificent Jewels auction, held at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues in Geneva. This incomparable pink diamond, has descended from the Oppenheimer Family and is estimated at US $30 to $50 million. Rahul Kadakia, International Head of Jewellery commented: The discovery of this previously un-recorded and remarkable diamond will cause immense excitement with collectors and connoisseurs of diamonds around the world. The Pink Legacy will be exhibited on a global tour prior to being auctioned on 13 November at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues. Its exceptional provenance will no doubt propel it into a class of its own as one ... More | |
Joan Miró (1893-1983), Femme dans la nuit, 22 March 1945 (detail), 130 x 162 cm. Estimate: $12-18 million. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 15 November, Phillips will offer Joan Mirós Femme dans la nuit among the star lots of the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale. Painted in 1945, the work is an important example of Mirós output created during the Second World War and was included in the important 1962 retrospective of the artists work at the Musée National dArt Moderne in Paris. The painting was originally acquired from the artist by Mirós most important art dealer in the United States, Pierre Matisse, very shortly after his much acclaimed show of the Constellations. Estimated at $12-18 million, Femme dans la nuit will be unveiled at Phillips Berkeley Square on 28 September, prior to being offered for sale in New York in November. Hugues Joffre, Phillips Senior Advisor to the CEO, said, Joan Mirós Femme dans la nuit is one of the finest examples from his celebrated series of paintings created in the first fi ... More | |
The Marilyn Monroe Thunderbird was traced and purchased by the current owner.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- This stunning Ford Thunderbird owned by Marilyn Monroe from 1955 to 1962 will be sold by Juliens Auctions as part of their annual blockbuster event Icons & Idols: Hollywood to take place on November 17, 2018 live in Los Angeles and online at juliensauctions.com. It is estimated that it will sell for $250,000-$500,000. One of the most desired women in the world, Monroes life was deeply troubled, but during the time that she owned this car she was enjoying some of the happiest days of her life. Soon after buying the Thunderbird, Monroe married the celebrated playwright Arthur Miller. A published report at the time suggests that Monroe and Miller drove this vehicle to their civil wedding ceremony on June 28, 1956 and likely their private wedding on June 30, 1956. The Marilyn Monroe Thunderbird was purchased on December 20, 1955, from Westport Motors, Westport, Connecticut in the name of her corporation, Marilyn Monro ... More |
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| Sotheby's to offer property from the Collection of Nelson and Happy Rockefeller this fall | | New 3D scan reveals intricate detail of iconic locomotive | | Scottish art takes centre stage as plans to transform Scottish National Gallery are revealed |
Andy Warhol, Nelson Rockefeller. Executed in 1967. Estimate: $1/1.5 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that we will offer property from the Collection of Nelson & Happy Rockefeller across a series of auctions beginning this November in New York. Passionately assembled with wide-ranging interests and an unwavering eye for quality, this remarkable group is not only tied to one of Americas most storied families, but is also a significant and pioneering collection in and of itself. Spanning important design, fine art, exquisite jewels, rare porcelain, Chinese art, furniture and European decorative arts, Nelson and Happys collection expresses, as Nelson himself once stated, the spirit of the time in which they lived. On 13 November, Sothebys will hold an auction dedicated to an important group of 20th Century Design, Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art originally housed in Nelson and Happys celebrated 5th Avenue apartment in New York. Titled A Modernist Vision, this exc ... More | |
Image taken from the 3D scan of Stephensons Rocket © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum.
LONDON.- The Science Museum Group has today published a high-resolution 3D model of Stephensons Rocket, enabling audiences across the globe to examine this iconic locomotive in unprecedented detail for the very first time. Rocket measures over four meters in length and weighs three tonnes, making it the most complex and largest item from the Science Museum Group Collection ever to be 3D scanned. The intricate model was published as Rocket went on public display at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, returning to the Liverpool Road station it served almost two centuries ago. Rocket secured its place in history after winning the 1829 Rainhill trials, reaching a top speed of 30mph. Manufactured earlier that year by Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle, Rocket brought together several efficiency and performance innovations highlighted on the 3D model and its ground-breaking design ... More | |
Scottish National Gallery Project: Gallery view. Graphic interpretation: Metaphor.
EDINBURGH.- Ambitious plans to create an internationally significant new setting for the worlds greatest collection of Scottish art were revealed today, as work to transform the Scottish National Gallery gets underway. This major project will completely transform the way Scottish art is shown at the Gallery, which stands in the heart of Edinburghs World Heritage Site. The £22m scheme will create a new suite of galleries that will be directly accessible from the adjoining Princes St Gardens, and provide a light-filled, new home for the Gallerys unrivalled collection of Scottish art, raising its profile for visitors from all over the world. The vision for the project has been driven by the National Galleries ambition to ensure that the widest number of people can enjoy our art and activities. The displays in the new galleries will be directly informed by extensive research into the needs of existing and potential ... More |
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| Exhibition of recent works by David Hockney on view at Richard Gray Gallery | | "Rediscovered Aphrodite" in Italy's National Archeology Museum restored thanks to Friends of Florence | | Hayward Gallery opens 'Space Shifters', a sculpture exhibition that reorients viewers' perception of their surroundings |
David Hockney, Los Angeles, 9th March 2016 © David Hockney. Photo: Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima.
CHICAGO, IL.- Richard Gray Gallery is presenting Time and More, Space and More , an exhibition of recent works by David Hockney, on view at the gallery's Gray Warehouse location from September 13 through November 21, 2018. Time and More, Space and More is the artists tenth solo exhibition with Richard Gray Gallery and first exhibition at Gray Warehouse. Time and More, Space and More presents Hockneys recent video and photographic works in tandem. Making its gallery debut at the center of the exhibition is Hockneys multi-part video installation The Four Seasons, Woldgate Woods, 2010-2011, which was exhibited in 2017 at Centre Georges Pompidou and Tate Britain. The work is composed of four 9-channel video walls and arranged within the space like the cardinal directions of a compass rose. Depicting the same view down a tree-lined country ... More | |
Aphrodite, (first century A.D.). White marble. During restoration. Photo courtesy of Friends of Florence.
FLORENCE.- The recently restored statue of Aphrodite housed in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (National Archeological Museum/the Museum) in Florence, Italy, was unveiled in a public celebration on September 11, 2018. Funded by Friends of Florence with a donation by Michael and Sandy Collins, the cleaning and restoration process revealed a surprising development. Long thought to be a representation of the Spartan queen Leda that had been marred with dirt and grime over centuries, it was discovered to be the Greek goddess Aphrodite sculpted in now immaculately white marble. It is a great pleasure to present this Rediscovered Aphrodite, said Simonetta Brandolini dAdda, President of Friends of Florence. In addition to the restoration, the projectoriginally a candidate in the first edition of the Friends of Florence Award Grant at the Florence Art and Restoration Fair in 2012provided ... More | |
Installation view of Fred Eversley's Untitled (Parabolic Lens), 1971, at Space Shifters, © the artist, courtesy Hayward Gallery 2018. Photo: Mark Blower.
LONDON.- Opening 26 September, Hayward Gallerys new major exhibition Space Shifters features artworks spanning a period of roughly 50 years by 20 leading international artists that alter or disrupt the visitors sense of space. The works in the exhibition focus the attention of the viewer on the act of perception whilst transforming their experience of the Gallerys distinctive architecture. Often constructed from reflective or translucent materials like glass, resin and mirror, the artworks in the show aim to elicit responses that are both physiological and psychological. They also comprise an alternative history of minimalism: not a geometric, austere, serial minimalism, but one with a more alluring, elegant and playful sensibility. Space Shifters presents a range of historical and contemporary sculptures, as well as immersive, site-specific installations. It also premieres several major new ... More |
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| New Museum opens the first major survey exhibition of Sarah Lucas | | Early Americana: Finest example of USA's first official coin sold for record price | | Exhibition explores the formal and conceptual potential of physics and motion in sculpture |
Sarah Lucas, Nature Abhors a Vacuum, 1998. Toilet and cigarettes, 16 7/8 x 15 x 20 7/8 in (43 x 38 x 53 cm). © Sarah Lucas. Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum presents Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel, on view from September 26, 2018 to January 20, 2019. The first major survey in the United States of the work of British artist Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London, UK), the exhibition spans Lucass entire career, bringing together some of her most iconic works and series from the late 1980s to today. Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, and Margot Norton, Curator. Over the past thirty years, Lucas has created a distinctive and provocative body of work that subverts traditional notions of gender, sexuality, and identity. Since the late 1980s, Lucas has transformed found objects and everyday materials such as cigarettes, vegetables, and stockings into absurd and confrontational tableaux that boldly challenge social norms. The human body and ... More | |
Rittenhouse 1792 Half Disme.
BRIDGEWATER, NJ.- The finest known example of the first official United States coin, a 1792 silver Half Disme (an early spelling of dime), has been sold for a record $1,985,000. About the size of a modern dime, it once was in the possession of then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and personally owned by the first United States Mint Director David Rittenhouse. The Rittenhouse 1792 Half Disme is a small coin with huge historical significance, said Brian Hendelson, President of Classic Coin Company of Bridgewater, New Jersey, who sold the coin after owning and exhibiting it for five years. The new owner wants to remain anonymous while hes assembling an amazing collection of the most famous and wonderful United States rare coins that he calls The Dazzling Rarities Collection. The rainbow-toned coin, graded by Professional Coin Grading Service as Mint State 68 on a 1 to 70 scale, was recently a featured exhibit at th ... More | |
Installation view, Jorge Palacios at The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NY, September 26, 2018January 20, 2019.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- The Noguchi Museum presents the work of Spanish sculptor Jorge Palacios with an exhibition of works that explore the formal and conceptual potential of physics and motion in sculpture. In so doing, they shed light on what R. Buckminster Fuller called Isamu Noguchis intuitive grasp of the underlying structures of nature and his habit of incorporating those insights into his conception of sculpture. Jorge Palacios at The Noguchi Museum includes nine works in the Museums ground-floor galleries and garden. A large-scale public monument has also been installed on Manhattans Flatiron Plaza North. Noguchi Museum Senior Curator Dakin Hart says, Jorge Palacioss beautifully engineered abstractions are a terrific prism through which to view Noguchis way of playing with nature in the cause of strengthening the connections between the planet we have and ... More |
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Architectural splendor shines at Swann Galleries
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Auction Galleries opened the fall season with a marathon sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, earning more than $2.4M. The September 20 auction offered 600 examples of fine and museum-quality works to a flurry of online and phone bidders. The top lot of the sale was a brown and black linoleum cut by Pablo Picasso titled Grand nu Dansant, 1962, which sold for $70,000, an auction record for the print. Two other works by Picasso were top lots, including the etching Taureau ailé contemplé par Quatre Enfants, 1934, which sold for $35,000, and a second color linoleum cut, titled Mère, Danseur et Musicien, 1959-60, which sold for $30,000. Additionally, La Folie, 1958, a lithograph after the artist, sold for $11,250, more than double the original estimate. Other notable lots included Dante Gabriel Rossettis The Embrace, ... More
'Ka pai': New Zealand's Maori language back from brink
WELLINGTON (AFP).- Beneath the carved timber roof of a traditional "marae" meeting house at Wellington High School, dozens of students watch entranced as a play performed entirely in the Maori language unfolds. Many only understand a smattering of the indigenous language, but pick up emotional cues from the performers. Some audience members are close to tears as the production in the New Zealand capital ends. It is a scene that actor Eds Eramiha says would have been difficult to imagine as recently as two decades ago, when te reo Maori was widely regarded as a dying language not worth teaching. "Attitudes have changed immensely," he said. "When I was at school, te reo Maori wasn't held in high value, it wasn't spoken, it wasn't as freely available as it is to our kids today." Te reo was banned in schools for much of the 20th century ... More
Toledo Museum of Art showcases 20th-century modernist masterwork on loan from Musée d'Orsay in Paris
TOLEDO, OH.- A masterpiece of the early 20th-century international avant-garde that rarely travels outside its museums walls in Paris will be installed at the Toledo Museum of Art this fall. The Snake Charmer (1907), considered one of the most significant paintings by legendary French artist Henri Rousseau, will be featured alongside related works of art from TMAs renowned collection by artists profoundly impacted by Rousseaus visionary style and concerns. The focused exhibition, entitled The Snake Charmer and the French Avant-Garde and organized by Robin Reisenfeld, Ph.D., TMAs works on paper curator, will be on view at the Museum Sept. 25 through Dec. 31, 2018. Admission is free. The Toledo Museum of Art frequently loans works of art from its collection to advance scholarship around the world, said Brian Kennedy, TMAs Edward ... More
Parasites: A solo exhibition of paintings by Martin Eder opens at Newport Street Gallery
LONDON.- Newport Street Gallery presents Parasites a solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Martin Eder (b.1968, Augsburg), featuring major new paintings alongside work spanning over a decade of Eders career. Eders paintings examine beauty and ugliness, depicting kittens and wide-eyed puppies alongside uncompromising nudes and more sinister and surreal encounters. Featuring over forty works, the exhibition will take place from 26 September to 13 January at Newport Street Gallery, London, and is Eders largest solo show to date. I look for beauty in filth. You find the most interesting colours at motorway service areas and in the bushes. A mixture of crisp packets, trainers, vomit and tufts of hair. These are colour combinations that artists seldom look at. Poetry lies hidden beneath the kitchen sink. The world is raging under my fingernails. (Eder ... More
Hurvin Anderson announced as first Government Art Collection commission
LONDON.- Minister for the Arts, Michael Ellis MP, today announced that Turner Prize shortlisted artist, Hurvin Anderson, has been awarded the first commission by the Government Art Collection (GAC), as part of a new ten-year initiative, TenTen. The TenTen Commission is being produced jointly by the Government Art Collection with Outset Contemporary Art Fund. The project is sponsored by leading philanthropists Sybil Robson Orr and Matthew Orr. Every year over the next decade, a British artist will be commissioned by GAC to create a unique, limited edition print which will be shown in diplomatic buildings across the world. A small number will be available for purchase through a collaboration with the pioneering philanthropic arts organisation Outset to raise funds for the GAC acquisition fund. Hurvin Andersons print Still Life with Artificial Flowers ... More
Getty Foundation director Deborah Marrow to retire at end of 2018
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today that Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Foundation, will retire at the end of December 2018 after more than three decades of leadership roles at the J. Paul Getty Trust, including leading the Gettys grantmaking programs since 1989. As Foundation director, Marrow oversees all the grantmaking activity in the areas of art history, conservation, museums, and professional development, as well as grants administration for all of the programs and departments of the J. Paul Getty Trust. No one has contributed more to the life and mission of the Getty than Deborah, said James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. She has provided inspiring leadership in almost every aspect of the Getty, in roles including as director of the Getty Foundation, acting director of the Getty Research ... More
Whitechapel Gallery presents a new commission by artist Ulla von Brandenburg
LONDON.- Hundreds of children have devoured a Whitechapel Gallery exhibition for the second time in the institutions history. In 1973 an enticing exhibition featuring hundreds of types of sweets was staged to celebrate the UKs entry to the European Common Market. It was brought to an abrupt end when it was unexpectedly eaten by local schoolchildren. This year the extraordinary event is recreated against a background of Britains impending departure from the European Union in 2019. Whitechapel Gallery is presenting Sweet Feast, a new commission by artist Ulla von Brandenburg (b. 1974, Germany) in partnership with Le Prix Marcel Duchamp, following her nomination in 2016 for this prestigious annual award. Sweet Feast features a new film screened for six months in the ground floor gallery. Visitors of all ages are invited to take a seat and watch ... More
Exhibition of works from the Olbricht Collection opens at me Collectors Room Berlin
BERLIN.- The Moment is Eternity shines the spotlight on the photographic works in the Olbricht Collection, showing them in dialogue with other artworks from the collection, as well as artefacts from the Wunderkammer. Transience is one of the key themes of the Olbricht Collection. And what artistic medium other than photography could be better suited to addressing the questions of time and history that this theme throws up? Lending duration to the moment is inscribed into the very medium itself. In this property, art and philosophy come together. Ever since Antiquity, eternity has been described as timeless, and it is in this sense that Goethe equates the moment with eternity in his poem Vermächtnis (Legacy, 1830). For humanity, the moment is the only perceptible slice of eternity. Goethes legacy is to shape the world through sensuous and reasoned ... More
Works by Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu lead Bonhams Africa Now sale
LONDON.- Key works by the Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu lead Bonhams Africa Now Sale in London on Thursday 4 October. Rhapsody in Blue (1988) is one of 25 lots by the artist in the 121-lot sale. It has an estimate of £60,000-90,000. Rhapsody in Blue depicts the silhouette of a female nude, reclining against a vibrant blue and yellow background. Enwonwu expresses his solidarity with the Negritude movement though his striking portrayal of the central female form. Another leading work by Enwonwu is Ogolo (1989), a monumental, dark painting of a male masquerade figure, with an estimate of £200,000-300,000. Ogolo was executed by Enwonwu two years after the death of his elder brother, Ike Francis Enwonwu. Enwonwu had a preoccupation with the striking tribal figure, which reappeared in many of his works between the years of 1988-1994, after witnessing ... More
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art displays works from the Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection
LONDON.- Since the early 1990s, Milanese lawyer Giuseppe Iannaccone has been amassing one of the most outstanding private collections of Italian art from the inter-war years. For the first time, the collection has come to the UK and is being shown at Londons Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art. A New Figurative Art 1920 - 1945: Works from the Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection runs from 26 September until 23 December 2018. Having become fascinated with figurative painting of the 1930s, Iannaccone set about building a collection that has brought together works by some of the most significant artists belonging to such influential schools and tendencies as the Scuola di Via Cavour (Mario Mafai, Antonietta Raphaël and Scipione), the Sei di Torino (Gigi Chessa, Nicola Galante, Carlo Levi and Francesco Menzio) and Corrente (Arnaldo ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Théodore Géricault was born September 26, 1791. Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. In this image: Gericault, A Dappled Grey Horse Led by a Groom, c. 1820-21. Sepia wash over graphite on paper, 13 x 16 cm.
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