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Roof Garden installation by Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi opens at Metropolitan Museum
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Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi poses on his creation, painted on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, during a preview of the annual Met's Roof Garden commission, in New York on May 13, 2013. Qureshi, who uses the nearly 8,000-square-foot open-air space as his canvas, depicts hi emotional response to violence occurring in Pakistan and across the globe, by working areas with blood-like spilled and splattered red acrylic paint into patterns of lush ornamental leaves that evoke the luxuriant walled gardens that are ubiquitous in miniatures of the Mughal court and also echo the foliage of Central Park surrounding the Roof Garden. Qureshi is the first artist to create a work that is painted directly onto the roof’s surface of the museum, encouraging visitors to walk on it as they view it. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand.
NEW YORK, NY.- A large-scale site-specific work of art by Imran Qureshi (b. 1972, Hyderabad, Pakistan)—an artist known for his unique style of combining the motifs, symbolism, and ornamental techniques of Islamic art with modern conceptual approaches—is the 2013 installation on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Entitled The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi, the project represents the artist’s emotional response to violence occurring across the globe in recent decades and his earnest hope for regeneration and lasting peace in the aftermath of man-made disasters. Using the nearly 8,000-square-foot open-air space as his canvas, Qureshi has worked areas of his spilled and splattered red acrylic paint into patterns of lush ornamental leaves that evoke the luxuriant walled gardens that are ubiquitous in ... More |
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Christie's to offer a spectacular selection of paintings and works of art in its Russian Art sale
Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955), Portrait of Kate, 1926. Oil on canvas, 29 7/8 x 25 in. Estimate: £250,000-350,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2013.
LONDON.- Confirming its position as the auction house specialising in Russian masterpieces, Christie’s will offer a spectacular selection of paintings and works of art in its Russian Art sale, which will be held in London on 3 June 2013. This summer auction will present an impressive array of paintings, ranging from avant-garde masterpieces to unique works, offered directly from the families of the artists, including Chekhonin, Iakunchikova, Indenbaum and Masterkova. With the majority of lots from private sources and many with prestigious provenance, the sale comprises works that will undoubtedly excite the discerning collector. This season features a particularly strong selection of Russian works of art, including an extremely rare and beautiful majolica sculpture by Mikhail Vrubel, which exemplifies the artist’s sophisticated interpretation of the Russian Arts & Crafts movement (estimate: £150,000-200,000); a monumental bronze g ... More |
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Morgan Library opens a rare display of items related to founder Pierpont Morgan's life
Cookery Scroll, in Middle English. England, mid-fifteenth century. The Morgan Library & Museum, MS B.36, recipes lx-lxv, clxl. Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985. Photo: Graham S. Haber.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum continues its popular Treasures from the Vault exhibition series this spring with the presentation of thirty diverse works in its iconic 1906 McKim building. The great library was commissioned by museum founder Pierpont Morgan and completed in 1906, just seven years prior to his death in 1913. To commemorate Morgan’s life as one of America’s best known financiers and philanthropists, a selection of items are being exhibited in the library’s marbled rotunda. Included in the display are Morgan’s high school essay on Napoleon Bonaparte (he considered Bonaparte’s tragic flaw to be placing “personal ambition” ahead of “the future welfare of his country”); a stock certificate from the United States Steel Corporation—an enormous undertaking which gave Morgan control of almost half the nation’s steelmaking capacity—signed by ... More |
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Records fall at Sotheby's contemporary art auction; Barnett Newman painting sells for $43.84M
Barnett Newman, Onement VI, 1953 (detail)© 2013 Barnett Newman Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A painting by Barnett Newman that Sotheby's described as an icon of Abstract Expressionism sold Tuesday in New York for a record $43.84 million at an auction peppered with stunningly expensive works. "Onement VI" consists of two vibrant blue rectangles neatly divided by a single, light blue line, an arrangement that Sotheby's called "a portal to the sublime." The simplicity of the design "was the core of Newman's ambition to create paintings free of objects, dogma, precedence or referential subject matter," Sotheby's said. "Along with other heroic artists of the Twentieth Century, Newman wanted to regenerate art and society through the invention of new forms of expression that could capture the ineffable essence of existence." Estimated at $30 million to $40 million, "Onement VI" led the charge at an uneven spring auction of contemporary art, following on last week's healthy sales of Impressionist and Modern art at Sotheby's and ... More |
Leonardo DiCaprio environmental art auction at Christie's New York tops $38 million
Actress Salma Hayek attends at the 11th Hour auction at Christie's in New York. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Duand.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Leonardo DiCaprio urged wealthy art collectors Monday to bid at an environmental charity auction in New York as if the planet's fate "depends on us" -- and they responded by splashing out $38.8 million. The "11th Hour" auction at Christie's featured 33 works of mostly contemporary art, much of it created for the event and addressing environmental themes. The strong result doubled pre-sale estimates, with nine of the works selling for more than $1 million. Among the main sellers, Mark Grotjahn's "Untitled" went for $6.5 million and Zeng Fanzhi's "The Tiger" fetched $5 million, both of them doubling their estimates in enthusiastic bidding from around the world. Most of the proceeds went to environmental protection causes championed by the Hollywood actor's Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. Even after the sale, the haul shot up when an anonymous collector donated $5 million to match the prices realized ... More |
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Frick announces several important loans on view from collector Horace Wood Brock
Potpourri Vase and Cover, c. 1763–70, Royal Manufactory of Sèvres, painted and gilded soft-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mounts, c. 1785; Horace Wood Brock Collection; photo: Michael Bodycomb.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection announced the extended loan of several important decorative arts objects from Horace Wood Brock, one of America’s most remarkable collectors. Over the last three decades, he has assembled an enviable collection of French and English decorative arts dating from 1675 to 1820, as well as paintings and Old Master drawings. Dr. Brock has also been a generous lender of works of art, loaning objects to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and now to the Frick. Five French clocks from his collection are featured in the current special exhibition Precision and Splendor: Clocks and Watches at The Frick Collection, which opened in the Portico Gallery in January and will remain on view until February 2014. In addition to Dr. Brock’s clocks, four important pieces of French eighteenth-century decorative arts ... More |
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International screen legend Gina Lollobrigida's jewels steal the show at Sotheby's Geneva
A model holds an emerald and diamond brooch next to a picture of Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI.
GENEVA.- Tonight in an electric atmosphere at Sotheby’s Geneva, outstanding pieces from the collection of international screen legend Gina Lollobrigida sold for a combined total of CHF 4,741,500 ($4,962,122) (est. CHF 1.8-3.1 million/ $1.9-3.2 million). An exceptional pair of natural pearl and diamond pendant earrings - said to have belonged to the historic collection of the House of Habsburg – which the actress wore on numerous landmark occasions in her career, sold for CHF 2,285,000 ($2,391,321) – an auction record for a pair of natural pearl ear pendants, beating the figure set by Elizabeth Taylor’s pearl earrings in 2011. Buyers from around the world also clamoured for seminal pieces from the 1950s and 1960s by Bulgari. Ms Lollobrigida’s collection was the centrepiece of an epic auction of Magnificent and Noble Jewels which saw nearly 650 lots selling for a combined total of CHF 74,751,375 ($78,229,556) (est. CH ... More |
Lost Masterpiece: Wright to offer an important armchair by Walter von Nessen
Wright estimates that this masterpiece of the Art Deco era by Walter von Nessen will fetch $200,000-300,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- This important chair by Walter von Nessen is among the most visually arresting and memorable designs of the 20th century. A lost masterpiece of the Art Deco era, this superb design has resided within a private collection for the past forty years. There is little documentation on this chair design by Walter von Nessen, but what does exist is very compelling. In 1928, this work was included in the International Exposition of Art in Industry at Macy’s, New York; it is one of two chairs listed in the exhibition checklist alongside designs by K.E.M. Weber, and Paul Frankl and others representing American design. It is assumed that the chairs were a matching pair; however the whereabouts of another example is unknown. A period photograph from the exhibition, illustrated in At Home in Manhattan: Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression, shows this chair installed beneath a pyramid charged with lightning bolts. The International Exposition of Art in ... More |
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Antiquities-Saleroom.com showcases Asian Art from every period in May 17 Auction
Rare Chinese Blue / White Moonflask, Bianhu, End 18th / Beginning 19th centuries CE. Estimate $20,000-$35,000.
BOULDER COUNTY, CO.- Antiquities-Saleroom.com unveiled its May 17 auction this week as the fourth in a series of specialized auctions planned for 2013. Asian Art through the Ages features art pieces from across Asia and showcases examples from every period in the continent’s illustrious history. “Even if you do not specialize in Asian art, you can’t help but be taken by the beauty of the art of this enigmatic and complex region,” says Teresa Dodge, Executive Director and co-founder of Antiquities Saleroom. Running at more than 415 lots, Asian Art through the Ages will appeal to a wide variety of tastes and interests, Dodge says. The auction begins with exquisite ancient Asian art pieces, created long before the immense and powerful Chinese dynasties took the world stage. The first 12 lots include Neolithic stone and pottery objects, dating back more than 4500 years. Each piece has been carefully curated by private coll ... More |
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New and permanent galleries dedicated to the work of Henry Moore open at Tate Britain
A member of the gallery staff poses for a picture beside a work by British sculptor Henry Moore named "Draped seated figure". AFP PHOTO / ANDREW COWIE.
LONDON.- The first permanent galleries in London dedicated to the work of Henry Moore opened at Tate Britain on 14 May 2013. Two gallery spaces present around 30 works and focus on the story behind the Henry Moore collection at Tate and his large public commissions. The display includes film, photographs, maquettes, drawings and large-scale sculptures such as Recumbent Figure, 1938, the first to enter Tate’s collection in 1939. The opening of the Henry Moore galleries coincides with the new chronological hang of Tate Britain’s collection displays. The Moore room sits alongside the new BP walk through British Art, and celebrates one of the most significant British artists of the 20th century. It is one of three displays offset by the chronological circuit that present a new focus on the legacy of three artists who have a special historic relationship with Tate ... More |
"New Harmony: Abstraction between the Wars, 1919-1939" on view at the Guggenheim
Kurt Schwitters, Merzbild 5 B (Picture Red Heart-Church) (Merzbild 5 B [Bild rot Herz-Kirche]), April 26, 1919. Tempera, crayon, and paper on cardboard, 83.5 x 60.2 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York© 2013 Artist's Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
NEW YORK, NY.- This summer the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum explores a particularly rich facet of its twentieth-century collection with an exhibition celebrating the spirited trends in abstraction embraced among international artists working in Europe between the world wars. Taken from the title of a 1936 painting by Paul Klee—an optimistic work of utopian geometry reflecting the artist’s interest in color theory and musical composition—New Harmony: Abstraction between the Wars, 1919–1939 features approximately 40 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some 20 artists, including Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia, and Joaquín Torres-García. Displaying rarely viewed objects and iconic works from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection, ... More |
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New York prints and drawings dealer David Tunick opens important Munch & German Expressionism show
Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) Instruction Unterweisung, 1932. 21 and 1 8 x 16 and 1 8. Watercolor and pencil on paper.
NEW YORK, NY.- In association with the prestigious Munich gallery, Galerie Thomas, New York prints and drawings dealer David Tunick is staging an important show “Munch & German Expressionism” at David Tunick Inc. at 19 East 66th Street from May 6th through May 20th. David Tunick says, “Edvard Munch (Norwegian 1863-1944) developed his highly personal style during his formative years in Kristiana (Oslo). By the 1890’s and in the next two decades he created the iconic images that have become so widely known for his evocatively powerful interpretations of psychological themes stemming from late 19th century Symbolism.” Munch’s childhood had been traumatic with both his mother and a sister dying of tuberculosis. He was said to have inherited his painting talent from his mother’s family and “the seeds of madness” from his father’s. The father was described as “morbidly pious” and had enter ... More |
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Old Master paintings at Sotheby's led by a previously unpublished picture by Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Michel Garnier, Young Girl Listening to a Conversation Between Two Lovers, signed and dated lower left: Mchel. Garnier 1789. Oil on canvas, 18 1/2 by 15 1/4 in.; 46.7 by 38.5 cm. Est. $100/150,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- The 6 June 2013 sale of Old Master Paintings in New York will feature works from a range of schools throughout Europe from Early Northern and Italian paintings to masterpieces from the 18th century. Among the highlights of the sale is a group of works consigned from a West Coast Estate, led by a previously unpublished picture by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Spring (est. $700/900,000). A number of versions of this subject by the artist are recorded, however, this appears to be one of the finest to reemerge onto the market in years. A further highlight from the same collection is a rare composition, also by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, The Whitsun Bride (est. $400/600,000). This is an original composition by the artist, and depicts the Flemish celebration of Whitsuntide, which took place the week following Pente- ... More |
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 Christie's London to offer a newly discovered copy of Virgil's OperaLONDON.- On 12 June 2013, Christie’s London will offer a newly discovered, deluxe copy of Opera by Virgil (70-19 B.C.) in the sale of Valuable Printed Books & Manuscripts (estimate: £500,000 – 800,000). The Aeneid is accepted as the foundation stone of western literature, and this copy is the earliest edition a collector could ever aspire to own. Printed in 1470, within a year of the beginning of printing in Venice, it is the second edition, acknowledged to be textually superior. Its rarity is indicated in the fact that the last copy to come on the market was sold almost a century ago, in 1920. This newly discovered copy is complete and printed on costly vellum for a wealthy patron; the elegance of its page and the hand-painted decoration add to its resemblance to a Renaissance manuscript, and indeed, an earlier owner may have regarded it as a manuscript, perhaps contributing ... More Eight or Ten, Six or Seven Wolves by Arrieta/Vázquez opens at Fundació Joan MiróBARCELONA.- Arrieta/Vázquez bring their view on the construction of collectivity to Espai 13. The exhibition explores the way landscape is transformed by mass events related to sports or leisure. Eight or Ten, Six or Seven Wolves, by Usue Arrieta and Vicente Vázquez, is the fourth exhibition in the cycle Perplexity, curated by David Armengol. It is being held at Espai 13 and the Auditorium of the Fundació Joan Miró from 10 May to 30 June 2013. Arrieta/Vázquez’s artistic practice explores the geographic and social contexts of mass events. On this occasion, the artists base their analysis on two major events that share and transform the same space: the Tour de France on its way through the Atlantic Pyrenees and the Festival Pirineos Sur, held annually at the Lanuza Reservoir, Huesca. Their occupation of the territory and temporary settlement are the starting points for ... More Bonhams sell 100% of netsuke in 'white glove' Japanese saleLONDON.- A collection of fifty-eight tiny Japanese netsuke figurines made a rather large £611,213 at Bonhams 13 May sale in London. In auction parlance, it was a ‘white glove sale’ with 100% of the Adrienne Barbanson Collection sold. With throngs of bidders spilling out of the saleroom, each and every lot was snapped up by the keen crowd. Lot highlights included a fine wood netsuke of three monkeys by Toyomasa which sold for £63,650 and a fine wood netsuke of a female hare also by Toyomasa, sold for £43,250. Also amongst the troop was a rare and an intricately carved ivory netsuke of a hatching turtle by Mitshuiro which made £39,650. The Japanese are known as masters of miniaturisation, and netsuke, like haiku, bonsai and Zen gardens, allow us to “see the world in a grain of sand.” Netsuke are tiny sculpted toggles that were used to anchor dangling medicine containers ... More New paintings on stainless steel by Beverly Fishman featured at David Richard GallerySANTA FE, NM.- David Richard Gallery presents Wavelength, the gallery’s second solo exhibition for artist Beverly Fishman. Brightly colored and optically active, the new paintings on stainless steel challenge both the viewer’s visual perception and susceptibility to the seduction of contemporary advertising. The exhibition is being presented from May 10-June 15, 2013 with an artist reception on Friday, May 17 from 5:00-7:00 PM at the gallery located on 544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, phone 505-983-9555 in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District. Fishman’s latest work focuses on wavelengths that are used in medicine, such as EKGs and EEG and other diagnostic tests. While these wavelengths are a physical representation of specific bodily functions, in Fishman’s work she uses them to comment on how medical data becomes a more important ... More Morphy's Fine Art & General Antiques Auction features broad selection of pottery, art glass, antiques, coinsDENVER, PA.- There’s nothing like a long-held, well-seasoned collection to jump-start a collecting niche that has gone quiet. Dan Morphy, CEO of Morphy Auctions, said he saw the positive effect for himself at two previous Morphy sales that included rare pieces of Amphora pottery from the renowned Les Cohen collection. He expects similar interest and continued strong results at his May 25, 2013 event. The Amphora selection set to open the company’s 750-lot Fine Art & General Antiques sale could very well make it a lucrative trifecta for consignors, Morphy said. More than 150 pieces of Amphora – including several prized examples from the Cohen collection – lead the May 25 proceedings. Animal forms include a vase with opalescent frits and four cats’ heads in relief, est. $5,000-$8,000, and a dragon vase with realistic reptilian scaling on its convoluted tale, $7,000-$9,000. A ... More Buoyant mood & high quality work equal strong sales at Frieze New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- The second edition of Frieze New York closed on Monday 13 May with galleries reporting high collector attendance and robust sales across all levels of the market. Many exhibitors also remarked on the fair’s maturity in its second year and expressed further admiration for the overall conception of the fair, its structure and setting. With 186 galleries from 32 countries, the second edition of Frieze New York, confirmed the fair’s place in the contemporary art calendar. With visitor numbers in the region of 45,000, a number comparable with last year, the fair attracted international artists, collectors, curators and journalists, all of whom remarked upon the quality of the material brought by the galleries and the buoyant mood at the fair. Tickets sold out on the Sunday of the fair. Institutions throughout New York hosted numerous events to mark this year’s edition, ... More Rare Beatles' guitar goes to New York auctionNEW YORK (AFP).- This guitar may not quite gently weep, but it could at least make a well-heeled Beatles fan cry with happiness. The VOX guitar played both by John Lennon and George Harrison is expected to sell for between $200,000 and $300,000 at auction in New York's Hard Rock Cafe on Saturday. The custom-made instrument is the main lot in the Julien's Auctions sale. Harrison used it while practicing "I am the Walrus" and Lennon while recording a video session for "Hello, Goodbye." It was given by Lennon to Apple Records electronics engineer Yanni "Magic Alex" Mardas in 1967, Julien's said. It's a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own one of the rarest pieces of Beatles memorabilia ever to be offered," the auction house said. ... More |
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