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Centre Pompidou in Paris exhibits works by a master figure of abstraction: Simon Hantaï |
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A person looks at paintings, part of the Tabula serie, by Hungarian-born French artist Simon Hantai at the Georges Pompidou centre on May 21, 2013 in Paris. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET.
PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou brings together for the first time the work of one of the greatest painters of the second half of the 20th century, a master figure of abstraction: Simon Hantaï. Five years after the death of the artist, the Centre Pompidou dedicates an original exhibition to Hantaï’s work - the first in over thirty-five years. Through more than 130 paintings created from 1949 to the 1990s, this exhibition, unprecedented in its scale and retrospective character, bears witness to the importance and abundant richness of a body of work that has today gained international recognition. The last retrospective dedicated to Hantaï’s work took place in 1976 at the National Museum of Modern Art a few months before its transfer to the Centre Pompidou. Since then, Hantaï had been invited to numerous museums in France, Germany and to the Venice Biennale in the French ... More |
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| Sensational final prices for unique memorabilia of European ruling houses at Hermann Historica |
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Christie's to present a dedicated sale of important French furniture from a private collection |
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Bonhams Chinese Works of Art Auction reflects the long history and rich diversity of Chinese art |
The oil portrait of Alexandre Feodorovitch d'Andrault Compte de Langeron (1763 - 1831) was acquired by a Moscow private collection for an impressive sum of 84,000 euros.
MUNICH.- All specialist areas represented by Hermann Historica – antiquities, arms and armour, works of art, hunting antiques, orders and collectibles from military history – reported excellent results, with numerous lots fetching many times their estimated price. A total of approximately 5,500 collectors' items came under the hammer at the Spring Auction 2013, which has just come to an end. Once again, this auction offered a rich and truly diverse variety of objects from all ancient eras and regions in the antiquities catalogue. Particularly impressive was a Chalcidian bronze helmet with the characteristically curved cheek pieces and skull emblazoned with palmettes, which was offered as a set with the matching, naturalistically modelled greaves by a long-established private collection in Southern Germany. Dating from the 5th/4th century BC and with exquisitely fine workmanship, the beautiful green/reddish-brown patina and ... More |
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A Pair of Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted Meissen (Augustus Rex) Porcelain Vases, The Porcelain circa 1730, Blue AR Monogram Marks, the Mounts circa 1740-50 Estimate: $300,000 – 500,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2013.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 6 June, Christie’s will hold a sale of Important French Furniture from a Private Collection in New York. Comprised of 46 lots, this distinguished collection encompasses the whole range of the golden age of French decorative arts, from a spectacular Louis XIV marquetry table top attributed to André-Charles Boulle, to richly carved examples of Louis XV seat furniture by makers such as Mathieu Bauve and Claude-Louis Burgat, a pair of Louis XV marquetry tables which once belonged to the famous American heiress Anna Thomson Dodge. The sale will also encompass two unusual automaton clocks, a section of silver, and Flora Danica porcelain. Leading the sale is a pair of Louis XV ormolu-mounted Meissen (Augustus Rex) porcelain vases (estimate: $300,000-500,000), almost certainly from a garniture made at Meissen in the early years of the factory, possibly to decorate ... More |
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A magnificent and brilliantly enamelled wucai 'fish' jar. Jiajing six-character mark and of the period, 40.8cm diam. (2). HK$14,000,000-16,000,000. Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- The Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art auction, offering 452 lots, is the largest sale in the Bonhams Hong Kong 2013 Spring Auctions series. A carefully curated collection of Chinese works of art sourced from around the world, the sale includes all the major categories that reflect the long history and rich diversity of Chinese art. In addition to a strong group of Ming and Qing Imperial porcelain, white jade carvings, scholar’s objects, there are several collections consigned by international clients. This is arguably the finest quality archaic bronze zun vessel from the Shang period ever offered for sale in a Hong Kong auction. It was purchased from the world leading bronze specialist, Gisèle Croës in Brussels in 2001. Originally cast as a spectacular ritual wine vessel for a high ranking member of the Shang dynasty aristocracy, it is outstanding for its size (36.5cm diameter), the quality of its decoration, and the rich ... More |
| Sale features Newmarket Race paintings owned by former CEO of the Ritz, the late Lord Matthews |
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Museum of the Moving Image in New York to open new gallery devoted to Jim Henson |
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German art smuggling suspect Nils Jennrich leaves China after more than 100 days in prison |
Lionel Edwards, Newmarket, The Start – 2000 Guineas. Estimate: £4,000 – 6,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2013.
LONDON.- Christie’s Sporting & Wildlife Art auction on 5 June 2013 will feature over 50 paintings of horses, which show a shift in the naturalistic representation of animals throughout the ages. The auction includes 113 lots with works from the 18th to the 20th centuries, ranging from £1,000 to £80,000. Among the highlights of the sale are four paintings by John Frederick Herring Senior, a successful and prolific 19th Century painter who counted Queen Victoria among his patrons. John Frederick Herring’s pair of oil paintings, The Duke of Grafton’s Oxygen, winner of the Oaks; and Colonel J. Peel’s Lochinvar are among the top lots in the sale and are estimated to fetch between £30,000 and 50,000. They form part of an important collection of paintings once owned by the late Lord Matthews, former CEO of the company which ran the Ritz Hotel in London. Also featuring in this collection are 12 watercolours depicting the Newmark ... More |
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Muppet character Miss Piggy speaks during the Museum of the Moving Image and the Jim Henson Legacy collaboration press conference at the Museum of the Moving Image on May 21, 2013 in New York City. D Dipasupil/Getty Images/AFP.
ASTORIA, NY ( ).- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Museum of the Moving Image, The Jim Henson Legacy, and other officials today announced that the family of Jim Henson has donated nearly 400 puppets, costumes, props, and other objects to the Museum, which will build a new gallery devoted to Henson’s important and lasting creative achievements. The project, which has a fundraising goal of $5 million, is anchored by $2.75 million in funding from the City of New York for the construction of the new gallery, which is expected to open to the public in winter 2014–2015. “It’s only fitting that this extraordinary collection of puppets, costumes, props, and more should find a home in New York, where imagination and free expression are part of the fabric of our City, and where anyone who’s watched an episode of Sesame Street sees the inspiration provided by the vibrant neighborhoods and ... More |
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Nils Jennrich (L), employee of a German art-handling company, and his fiancee Jenny Dam arrive at the airport in Hamburg. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTIAN CHARISIUS.
BERLIN (AFP).- A German man held in a Beijing prison for more than 100 days last year on suspicion of art smuggling has left China, Germany's foreign minister said Tuesday. Guido Westerwelle said in a statement that Nils Jennrich had departed China on Tuesday and voiced relief that "many months of uncertainty and concern" for his family was "over for the present". The foreign ministry declined to give information about his current whereabouts. Westerwelle said the proceedings in China against Jennrich were still under way. Jennrich was taken into custody on March 29 last year and formally detained on May 7 for allegedly under-reporting the value of imported art to evade 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) in taxes, his lawyer said in July. He was released on bail in August. German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has in the past called Jennrich's detention conditions "unacceptable" and "not in ... More |
| Chapman Brothers unveil diabolical art installation at White Cube in Hong Kong |
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Willis Henry Auctions, Inc. to hold American Indian & Ethnographic Art Auction May 26th |
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China’s most influential portrait artist, Mao Yan exhibits at Pace Gallery in Beijing |
British artist Jake Chapman looks on during a media preview of his and his brother Dinos Chapman's piece "The Sum of all Evil" at Hong Kong's White Cube gallery. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE.
HONG KONG (AFP).- The Chapman brothers presented their latest epic installation featuring thousands of little figures in violent conflict Tuesday at the sidelines of Art Basel in Hong Kong, but dismissed the renowned fair as a "shop". "The Sum of all Evil" by Jake and Dinos Chapman builds on previous works "Hell" (1999), and "Fucking Hell" (2008), which showcased innumerous miniature Nazis soldiers in various states of diabolical torment. Their ambitions to use themes of war, genocide, the apocalypse and the evils of mass consumerism come in the form of tiny, tortured Nazi soldiers, skeletons and bloody corpses, and crucified Ronald McDonalds, the mascot of the fast food giant. "I don't want to think that making art or works of art are the pioneering objects of capitalistic markets, which ultimately they are, but I don't really want to think about ... More |
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Strike-A-Light Beaded Pouch, 6" long, with an estimate of $700/900.
ROCKLAND, MASS.- Willis Henry Auctions, Inc. will present Tribal Art material at auction featuring four major collections: the John P. Richardson Collection of Hingham, Massachusetts including Southwestern paintings from the Henry Beston family (from artists Willard Page, David Swing and Vernon Jay Morse). Prehistoric stone artifacts from the late Roland E. Engstrom Collection, some found on the South Shore and other from Mid-West mounds, some first discovered and authenticated mid 19th c., stone and effigy pipes, early tools, axes, weapons and arrowheads. Other prehistoric items acquired from a Florida collector include a birdstone, a boatstone and pottery. The Manhattan Estate of Stefan Brecht, son of playwright Bertolt Brecht, includes four pieces of Mimbres pottery originally purchased at Sotheby’s in the 1970’s. A Connecticut family consigned a collection of baskets (Southwest and Northwest ... More |
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Posie 珀西, 2012. Oil on canvas, 36 x 27.8 cm ©Mao Yan, courtesy of Pace Beijing.
BEIJING.- Pace Beijing is presenting the solo exhibition of China’s most influential portrait artist, Mao Yan. This exhibition is also the first exhibition of Mao Yan since his representation by Pace Beijing. Mao Yan is well known by his portrait art. His artworks reveal the momentary glory of peace and attract audience into his artworks through the very straight expression without any metaphor. Mao Yan insists the spiritual dominance in his paintings and depicts the same object though years, in which he has controlled the arbitrary sorrows and the flow of emotions and showed the tension of strokes in a slow but calming way. Through the unique image he created and the motion he captured, Mao Yan expresses the light atmosphere that is attracted by a certain moment in memory and weakens the characteristics of a certain figure. Therefore he focuses solely on the language of art and shows the theme that is both magnificent and decadent. W ... More |
| Even more rediscovered masterpieces to be unveiled during Master Paintings Week 2013 |
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British artist Jonathan Monk's new exhibition "Senza Titolo" opens at Lisson Gallery in Milan |
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Major outdoor exhibition of Mark di Suvero's sculptures near Golden Gate Bridge |
Giovan (Giovanni) Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), known as Guercino or Il Guercino, The Expulsion of the money-changers from the temple, 1634. Oil on canvas, 245 x 259 cm. Coll & Cortés Fine Art.
LONDON.- Master Paintings Week, now in its fifth year and already an important event in the London art calendar, takes place from 28 June to 5 July 2013 and, for the first time, will have the support of The Crown Estate. The successful collaboration between twenty leading dealers and three international auction houses highlights the extraordinarily wide selection of European paintings dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries available in London . A number of newly rediscovered works will be displayed during Master Paintings Week including The Expulsion of the moneychangers from the temple, an important work by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), known as Guercino, to be shown by newcomers Coll & Cortés Fine Art. The unveiling of this painting, lost until now, sheds new light not only on Emilian painting but also Italian ... More |
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Jonathan Monk, Senza Titolo VI, 2012. Jesmonite bust with nose broken by Gilberto Zorio. Bust: 45.5 x 21 x 26 cm© the artist; Courtesy, Lisson Gallery, London.
MILAN.- Monk often makes work about other work: an art of appropriation, adaptation, reworking and revisiting. Often referencing Conceptual, Pop and Minimalist art, Monk confronts the contemporary dilemma of how to make art in the face of art history: how to be original when seemingly all questions have been posed. However, in this act of examination, modification and re-presenting, Monk succeeds in creating something new. His originality lies in the space between the idea inherent in the new object and its actual objecthood. As Monk confirms, “…the idea of an original and a copy of an original are two very different things.” For his Lisson Gallery Milan exhibition, Monk turns his gaze to Graeco-Roman art. Inspired by the Italian setting for the show, he has had his own head painstakingly sculpted and cast in Jesmonite polished to resemble marble. Five ... More |
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Installation view, Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field, May 22, 2013–May 26, 2014; photo: Matthew Millman.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From May 22, 2013, to May 26, 2014, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS) and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy presents a major outdoor exhibition of sculptor Mark di Suvero’s works near the Golden Gate Bridge: eight large-scale steel sculptures installed at historic Crissy Field, a former airfield and military base that is now one of the most-visited national park sites within the Golden Gate National Parks. Curated by SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra, Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field surveys five decades of the artist’s work, including a recent sculpture that has never before been on public view. The temporary exhibition is the largest display of di Suvero’s work ever shown on the West Coast, and is free for all visitors, extending the programs celebrating the Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th anniversary. Coinciding with di Suvero’s 80th birthday, the exhibition ... More |
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 Exhibition presents a South African curator/artist-run organization currently in residence at New Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, the Museum as Hub will present “After-after Tears,” a project exploring the operational strategies of Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR), a Johannesburg-based platform founded in 2010, currently in residence at the New Museum. Over the course of two years, CHR gained local and international recognition through diverse projects that mobilized around historical events and sites in order to explore how officially obsolete systems and ideologies continue to condition contemporary life. The exhibition is on view from May 22–July 7, 2013, in the New Museum’s Fifth Floor gallery. “After-after Tears”—a reference to “after tears” parties held in the wake of funerals in black South African townships—is a fitting frame for a project that follows CHR’s decision to commit an institutional “death” in December 2012. This act ended the collective’s previous ac ... More International bidding drives California works to new highs
VAN NUYS, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions set multiple world records for works of art and design in its May 19, 2013 auction, selling major works by California artists to American, European, and Asian buyers. The auction broke world records for a work by Vija Celmins, the highest price achieved at auction for a work on canvas by the artist, and a work by Joe Goode, which set a new world auction record for any work by the artist. LAMA achieved a new company record for total sales, realizing $3.46 million and selling 120% of the 469 lots by value. Sunday’s auction firmly establishes LAMA’s position as an international marketplace for Modern Art & Design. Vija Celmins’, Untitled (Knife and Dish) from 1964 (Lot 160 est. $300,000 – 500,000), set a world auction record for a work on canvas by the artist, achieving $587,500, and set a new company record for a single ... More 2014 Adelaide Biennial and Adelaide International Curators announced
ADELAIDE.- In a joint announcement Art Gallery of South Australia, Director, Nick Mitzevich has been revealed as the Curator of the 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and Richard Grayson has been chosen to curate Adelaide International 2014, both events will run during the Adelaide Festival 2014. Art Gallery of South Australia Chairman, Michael Abbott AO QC said, “The 2014 Adelaide Biennial aims to build upon the successes of Parallel Collisions: 12th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art which achieved record attendance figures. The choice of Nick Mitzevich as curator demonstrates the Art Gallery’s commitment to both excellence and raising the bar on the nation’s foremost statement on contemporary Australian art.” Established in 1990, the Adelaide Biennial is the country’s longest running survey of contemporary Australian art. It is the flagship visual arts event of the Adelaide ... More SFMOMA salutes motion picture pioneer George Lucas with Lifetime Achievement Award and dinner
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has named filmmaker George Lucas the recipient of its 2013 Bay Area Treasure Award. The annual lifetime achievement award, organized by the Modern Art Council (MAC), SFMOMA’s premier fund-raising auxiliary, recognizes artists and creative leaders in the region who continually redefine the field of visual art. “George Lucas’s visionary work with the moving image—particularly as a pioneer of visual effects and an inventor of new forms of storytelling—is genre-crossing and has redefined the language of cinema in our age,” says SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra. “Film has a long history as part of the museum’s program, and we are thrilled to celebrate Lucas’s extraordinary achievements.” The award will be given at a presentation and dinner on Thursday, October 24, 2013 (venue to be announced). Proceeds ... More Bonhams Hong Kong shines the spotlight on exquisite Chinese literati objects at its 2013 spring auctions
HONG KONG.- Bonhams Hong Kong will be offering Objects of Refined Virtue: A Private Collection of Scholar’s Objects, a single-owner collection of 45 fine and rare Chinese works of arts originally commissioned for the Imperial court and literati elite. The collection maintains a high level of craftsmanship, including a diverse range of materials and subject matter, including fans painted by famous modern Chinese artists. This fine large bamboo sculpture depicts Hehe Erxian, also known as the 'Two Immortals of Harmony and Union', who are traditionally believed to be associated with a long, happy marriage. The two Daoist Immortals originated from famous poet-monks of the Tang dynasty (618-906), Hanshan and Shide. In the late Ming dynasty they began to be depicted holding a lotus and a box. The typical iconography of the boys holding a lotus and a box forms the same ... More Hong Kong hails the return of the duck
HONG KONG (AFP).- Hong Kong on Tuesday joyfully welcomed the return of a giant inflatable rubber duck, which drew tens of thousands of visitors before it was abruptly deflated for maintenance for almost a week. The southern Chinese city has taken the 16.5-metre-tall (54-feet) yellow inflatable duck, conceived by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, to its heart since it was towed into the harbour on May 2 to cheering crowds. Duck mania has gripped the city ever since, with locals and tourists packing the streets near where it is moored to catch a glimpse of it. Stalls and shops throughout the city sold replicas and restaurants created special duck dishes. So many were disconsolate when the cheerful giant-sized bath toy was transformed into a deflated disc resembling a floating fried egg last Wednesday. "It went for a body check and for maintenance, now all the work is finished and ... More Record price for any J.K. Rowling printed book achieved at Sotheby's London: $228,600
LONDON.- Tonight at Sotheby’s, London: First Editions, Second Thoughts, a ground-breaking auction in which 50 of the UK and Commonwealth’s outstanding contemporary writers annotated and in some instances illustrated a first edition copy of one of their best-known works, raised a combined total of £439,200/ $669,341/ €519,574 in support of English PEN, the writers’ charity which campaigns for freedom of expression. The top lot of the evening was a 1997 first edition of Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone personally annotated by J.K. Rowling, containing revealing commentary and 22 of her own original illustrations. The sale room fell silent as two determined bidders vied for the prized edition. Bidding leapt in increments of up to £25,000 and the hammer finally fell, to a round of applause, on a £150,000 telephone bid – a new record for a printed book by Rowling. The second-highest ... More Museum of the City of New York opens "A Beautiful Way to Go: New York's Green-Wood Cemetery"
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of the City of New York opened A Beautiful Way to Go: New York’s Green-Wood Cemetery to mark the 175th anniversary of this National Historic Landmark located in Brooklyn. The exhibition features more than 200 objects, ranging from original artifacts, sculptures, architectural drawings, and paintings to historic documents and vintage and newly commissioned photographs, in an installation that lays the cemetery’s landscape plan beneath visitors’ feet. Predating both Central Park and Prospect Park, Green-Wood was a pioneering example of the “rural cemetery movement” and one of the most important public green spaces in 19th-century America. As the exhibition demonstrates, the story of Green-Wood Cemetery is multi-faceted, comprising equal parts architectural, art, social, and cultural histories. It has become an increasingly important ... More |
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Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived
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Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often
created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular
emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. In this
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