| Argentine experts from the Natural Sciences Museum of La Plata find giant penguin fossils in Antarctica | | Study delivers new insights into Rembrandt's etching techniques, many printed after his death | | Former secretary to Imelda Marcos charged in New York with art conspiracy | 
Researcher Carolina Acosta poses with a model of the penguin. Photo: Natural Sciences Museum of La Plata.
BUENOS AIRES (AFP).- Argentine experts have discovered the fossils of a two-meter (6.5 foot) tall penguin that lived in Antarctica 34 million years ago. Paleontologists with the Natural Sciences Museum of La Plata province, where the capital Buenos Aires is located, said the remains were found on the icy southern continent. "This is the largest penguin known to date in terms of height and body mass," said researcher Carolina Acosta, who noted that the record had been held by emperor penguins, which reach heights of 1.2 meters (4 feet) tall. Lead researcher Marcelo Reguero added that the find, announced Tuesday, will "allow for a more intensive and complex study of the ancestors of modern penguins." In its next expedition to Antarctica, during the region's summer, the team will seek additional fossils of the newly discovered species, as well as information about its anatomy and how the giant penguin might have moved.Previous finds from prehistoric penguins indicated they ... More | | 
Zelfportret met hoed met slappe rand en geborduurde mantel, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1631.
AMSTERDAM.- In January, seven new volumes will be published, showcasing the work of the most influential etcher of all time, Rembrandt van Rijn. Erik Hinterding (a curator at the Rijksmuseum) and Jaco Rutgers travelled the world to examine more than 18,000 impressions made from all 315 etchings produced by the artist between 1625 and 1665. In the course of their research, they made some unexpected discoveries about the etching techniques used by Rembrandt. As a result, we now have a much better appreciation of the master’s printing techniques, and we can determine, for example, whether an etching was made by Rembrandt himself, or in another studio much later. To mark the publication of the new Hollstein volumes, the Rijksmuseum is exhibiting 36 etchings by Rembrandt. These works offer an excellent sense of Rembrandt's etching techniques, while also helping to clarify the results of Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers& ... More | | 
A detail of an 1881 painting by Impressionist master Claude Monet entitled “L’Eglise et La Seine a Vetheuil.” AP Photo/United States Attorney’s Office.
By: Karen Matthews, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- A former secretary to Imelda Marcos was charged Tuesday in New York with conspiracy to sell valuable artworks that disappeared during the collapse of Marcos' husband's regime in the Philippines. Vilma Bautista, 74, was indicted on charges of conspiracy, tax fraud and offering a false instrument for filing. Two of her nephews, Chaiyot Jansen Navalaksana and Pongsak Navalaksana, also were charged. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said Bautista used false paperwork to sell a work from Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" series for $32 million in September 2010. "The integrity of the international art market must be protected," Vance said in a statement. "This indictment sheds light on what happened to major works of art missing for more than 25 years." Her attorney, Fran Hoffinger, said Bautista ... More |
| "John Bellany: A Passion for Life" retrospective opens at the Scottish National Gallery | | Chinese Abstract painter Zao Wou-ki's twilight clouded by family feud over works | | Researchers from Brigham Young University unlock ancient Maya secrets with modern soil science | 
John Bellany, Woman and Dog, 1997. Oil on canvas© John Bellany.
EDINBURGH.- The largest, most comprehensive exhibition of work by one of Scotland’s greatest living artists opened at the Scottish National Gallery last week. Marking his seventieth birthday, and celebrating his astonishing contribution to British painting, John Bellany: A Passion for Life brings together around 75 paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints from all the key periods of the artist’s remarkable fifty-year career. This is the first retrospective of this scale in almost three decades; it includes many works that have rarely, if ever, been exhibited before. The exhibition is funded by players of People’s Postcode Lottery, who have raised over £21m for charities and good causes to date. People's Postcode Lottery Head of Charities Clara Govier commented: “This exhibition – a celebration of John Bellany’s 70th birthday – is a wonderful way to show the longstanding influe ... More | | 
File photo of painter Zao Wou-ki posing in his Paris studio. Paris. AFP PHOTO FRANCOIS GUILLOT.
PARIS (AFP).- Zao Wou-ki, the abstract painter who has been described as China's greatest living artist, is at the centre of a bitter legal feud between his third wife and his son from a previous marriage. At the heart of a battle ripping the family apart lies the contested ownership of eight works worth millions of dollars. The son, Jia-Ling Zhao, also believes that Zao, who is 91 and has suffered from Alzheimer's disease since at least 2005, was moved to Switzerland in 2011 against his will. The Beijing-born artist left China for Paris before the Communist Party took over the country and has been a French citizen since 1964. "Zao had been in France since 1948, he is very attached to the country and never expressed any desire to leave it," said his son's lawyer, Jean-Philippe Hugot. His wife, Francoise Marquet, a former curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, stands to inherit a greater part of the artist's estate than she would have done ... More | | 
Zach Larsen and a local worker collect soil cores in ancient maize fields near Tikal.
PROVO, UT.- After emerging sometime before 1000 BC, the Maya rose to become the most advanced Pre-Columbian society in the Americas, thriving in jungle cities of tens of thousands of people, such as the one in Guatemala's Tikal National Park. But after reaching its peak between 250 and 900 AD, the Maya civilization began to wane and exactly why has been an enduring mystery to scientists. Writing in the Nov.-Dec. issue of the Soil Science of America Journal (SSSA-J), an interdisciplinary team led by Richard Terry, a Brigham Young University soil scientist, now describes its analysis of maize agriculture in the soils of Tikal. Not surprisingly, the study uncovered evidence for major maize production in lowland areas, where erosion is less likely and agriculture was presumably more sustainable for this community of an estimated 60,000 people. But the team also discovered evidence of erosion ... More |
| Brooklyn Museum acquires Neoclassical portrait by Colonial Puerto Rican master José Campeche | | Auction of rare books at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg yields 540,000% return on Die Brücke artist catalog | | Local collectors donate work by acclaimed sculptor David Smith to Columbus Museum of Art | 
José Campeche (Puerto Rican, 1751-1809). Doña María de los Dolores Gutiérrez del Mazo y Pérez, circa 1796. Oil on canvas, 34 x 25 in. (86 x 64 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Lilla Brown in memory of her husband, John W. Brown, by exchange, 2012.45.
BROOKLYN, NY.- An extremely rare Neoclassical portrait by the mixed-race Puerto Rican painter José Campeche has been purchased by the Brooklyn Museum. Campeche painted Doña María de los Dolores Gutiérrez del Mazo y Pérez in the island's capital of San Juan about 1796 to commemorate Doña María's marriage to Don Benito Pérez, a lieutenant in the Spanish royal navy. The painting, which has never been published or publicly exhibited, remained with the sitter's descendants until 2012, when it was officially accessioned by the Museum's Board of Trustees on October 18. The work was acquired with funds from the proceeds of the sale of Vasily Vereshchagin's Crucifixion by the Romans (1887), which was sold last November at auction to benefit the Brooklyn Museum's Acquisitions Fund. Doña María de los Dolores was born in 1775 in Alicante, Spain. ... More | | 
Die Brücke, Artist catalog with 10 original woodcuts by Max Pechstein, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Otto Mueller, Berlin, 1912. Starting price: € 14.000. Result: € 27.000*.
HAMBURG.- 5 €, that was the price a book lover from Germany paid on a flee market for a little booklet with the writing “Brücke“ (see press release from 2 October, 2012) on it. It turns out more than a bargain, because in the Rare Books auction the small exhibition catalog for the second travelling exhibition of the world-famous artist group was sold for € 27.000*. Accordingly, the return is at an enormous 540000 %. The two-day auction grossed more than € 1,5 million*, in the evening auction alone more than 72 % of the lots were sold. Additionally, the unusual flea market finding was just one out of many lots that made for remarkable increases. E.T.A. Hoffmann‘s “Prinzessin Brambilla. Ein Capriccio nach Jakob Callot“ soared from a starting price of € 1.800 to the fantastic result of € 31.200*. The important humorous narration with a signed autographed dedication by Hoffman went to a bidder from Switzerland in the auction ro ... More | | 
This early welded work adds immeasurably to CMA’s collection of early to mid-20th century American modernist sculpture, an area previously not well represented.
COLUMBUS, OH.- Last week, the Columbus Museum of Art received its first work by acclaimed sculptor David Smith from the William E. Arthur Trust in Memory of Mary Ann Grossman Arthur. Ardent supporters of the Museum, Bill and Mary Ann developed an interest in modern art that was fostered by their connection to CMA, which began some forty years ago. Over several decades they collected works by many twentieth-century artists. Through the generosity of the Arthur family, the Museum acquired its first Jackson Pollock painting, Composition with Flames, in 2011. “I am always amazed and touched by the extraordinary generosity of our donors,” said Nannette V. Maciejunes, CMA’s Executive Director. “These works are invaluable additions to our collection and allow us to tell a broader story of American art.” David Smith is acknowledged as one of if not the greatest and most influential American sculptor o ... More |
| Lincoln document on sale in Philly for $900,000 | | Rare Beatles autographs given during a late night card game to be sold at Campbells in December | | German Santa car leads the parade of highlights at Bertoia's $2.1M Toybox Treasures auction | 
A document signed by President Abraham Lincoln. AP Photo/The Raab Collection.
By: Joann Loviglio, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- A document signed by President Abraham Lincoln ordering Union blockades of Confederate ports, marking the official start of the Civil War, is for sale. The Raab Collection in Philadelphia said Tuesday it is selling the document, which it calls one of the most important in American history. The asking price is $900,000. Lincoln's proclamation is dated April 19, 1861 — a week after the first shots of the conflict were fired at South Carolina's Fort Sumter. After the Civil War ended in 1865, the U.S. Supreme Court in an opinion ascribed Lincoln's April 19 blockade order as the official beginning of the war. "This action was bold and with great risk," said Nathan Raab, vice president of The Raab Collection. "Lincoln was aware that the blockading of ports was an act of war." Some of the president's cabinet objected ... More | | 
The Gold Label pressing of Please, Please Me, which was being used as a large coaster, during a card game.
LONDON.- A rare set of Beatles autographs, signed on one of the first Gold Label pressings of Please, Please Me, which was being used as a large coaster, during a card game with Freddie and the Dreamers will be sold by Worthing-based auctioneers Campbells at their saleroom at 44-46 High Street on Tuesday, December 11, 2012. The sale will commence at 10am. The Beatles were staying, along with the Freddie and the Dreamers at the Normandie House Hotel (96 Sussex Gardens, Paddington, London) in roughly July 1963 and the album was given to Arthur Collins, the owner of the hotel, who was playing cards too. They are being sold by his Son and Daughter, Chris Collins and Liz Chambers, who now live in Worthing and are expected to fetch in the region of £15,000. As Liz Chambers explains: “late one evening while my Father was drinking and playing cards with Freddie and the Dreamers. The Beatles returned to the Hotel in th ... More | | 
Circa-1928 Tippco tinplate Santa car with revolving Christmas feather tree, $28,910. Bertoia Auctions image.
VINELAND, NJ.- Santa made an early appearance this year, arriving behind the wheel of a Tippco clockwork roadster that finished as top lot in Bertoia Auctions’ Sept. 21-23 Toybox Treasures sale. The jaunty circa-1928 tin convertible, profusely decorated with images of toys, teddies and colorful balloons, even toted a revolving Christmas feather tree on its trunk. In his “fur”-trimmed crimson robe and cap, Tippco’s Santa was the perfect grand marshal for the 2,246-lot parade of toys, banks and doorstops to follow, leading prices realized at $28,910. All prices quoted include buyer’s premium. The much-anticipated event drew a full house of bidders who were kept on their toes by Internet and phone competitors during all three sessions. As the hammer fell on the last lot, the sale total was confirmed at $2,082,000. Finishing in the second-place slot behind the Tippco ... More |
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 India Art Fair announces its 5th Edition NEW DELHI.- India Art Fair, India’s premier modern and contemporary art fair, is pleased to announce its 5th edition from 1-3 February 2013 (with a VIP Preview by invitation on 31 January). At a time when the global economy, and the art market in particular, faces a challenging business environment, India Art Fair continues to focus on providing a bridge building platform to spread deeper awareness, and create wider access to art in India. The art fair will include 106 exhibitors from 24 countries in the
general exhibition area and solo projects. It will also include a video lounge, an art bookstore, art projects and a Speakers’ Forum with over 40 eminent speakers. India Art Fair brings together a diverse and dynamic set of galleries and artists, showcasing a breadth of modern and contemporary art practices by established and emerging artists including painting, sculpture, ... More Jonathan Prince installs major sculpture at new Broad Art Museum NEW YORK, NY.- Cynthia-Reeves announced the permanent installation of Jonathan Prince’s Vestigial Block at the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The monumentally sized sculpture is one of three currently on display as part of the museum’s Sculpture Garden, surrounding the Zaha Hadid designed museum in East Lansing. The Sculpture Garden also features works by Roxy Paine and Steve Miller. The bequeath represents a six figure gift from the donors Julie and Edward J. Minskoff, whose acclaimed collection of 20th and 21st century art includes works by Jeff Koons, Jackson Pollack, Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning. Mr. Minskoff is the President and founder of Edward J. Minskoff Equities, a New York-based real estate acquisition and development company headquartered at 1325 Avenue of the Americas in New York City. Part ... More Captain Speedy goes to Ethiopia: Travel and Photography Sale at Bonhams includes rare images of empire LONDON.- An exceptionally rare photographic album of Ethiopian images is to be auctioned in the Travel & Photography including India and Beyond sale at Bonhams in London on 4th December. It is just one of many such rare albums by the leading photographers of the day including Woodbury, Page and Beato ranging in price from £600 to £15,000. This particular album, estimated to sell for £600-800 covers upwards of 180 views and portraits taken in Ethiopia including a number of self portraits of the intriguing character Captain Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy(1836-1910) known by his Amharic name 'Báshá Félíka' meaning 'speedy'. This enterprising officer learned to speak Amharic and adopted native dress. Captain Speedy, a six foot five red-haired bearded giant, had a long association with Ethiopia, first travelling there at the end of 1860 to assist King Tewodros ... More New sequence of Adam Silverman's highly acclaimed pots on view at Edward Cella Art + Architecture LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art + Architecture is presenting New Pots and Sculptures by Los Angeles based Adam Silverman. This exhibition features a new sequence of Silverman’s highly acclaimed pots, alongside small to medium scale sculptures. New to this body of work are a series of large format sculptural pieces intended to extend the fundamental tenets of the artist’s practice as a potter towards their plastic realization as freestanding, large scale, three dimensional works. Silverman’s experimental practice as a potter is driven by his interest in the catalytic and elemental nature of his medium. The artist seeks an unlikely marriage of the formal and the primordial, transforming raw materials through a practice that invokes both the discipline of design and the exploratory investigations of organic risk. New Pots and Sculptures represents a new chapter of material ... More Ayyam Gallery to expand into London and Jeddah LONDON.- Ayyam Gallery announced the expansion of its international activities with the launch of two new galleries in London and Jeddah in early 2013. The curatorial programme of both galleries will reflect that of Ayyam Gallery’s existing locations in Damascus, Beirut and Dubai, showcasing established and emerging Middle Eastern artists with the aim of bringing the art of this significant region to a wider audience. The decision to open in London reflects Ayyam Gallery’s mission to challenge the popular perception of Middle Eastern art, with an exhibition program that eschews traditional Middle Eastern tropes and new Islamic art in favour of an aesthetic with global resonance. Says Khaled Samawi: “Our presence in London will allow us to better represent our artists, repositioning us from a regional gallery representing regional artists to a global gallery representing artists with a ... More Government Auction brings out the luxury goods for Black Friday TEHACHAPI, CA.- Government Auction's Nov. 23, 2012 Black Friday auction will launch the holiday season with a sizable cache of luxury goods that includes designer watches, precious gems and gold coins. More than 1,300 lots will be offered in the one-day auction, with bids opening at only $2 on most lots. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide the Internet live bidding for the sale. An exceptional Patek Philippe Geneve watch is an elite auction highlight in the timepiece category. The Patek Phillipe Company was founded in 1839 and has remained a family-owned business through four generations of Sterns since 1932. The company is, in fact, Geneva's oldest independent family-owned watch manufacturer. Patek Phillippe watches are quite exclusive, with roughly 200 models created in intentionally small production series, thereby ensuring their rarity. The pre-owned Patek Phillippe ... More El Anatsui sculptural tapestry hung in Bloch Lobby at Nelson-Atkins Museum KANSAS CITY, MO.- One of the largest and most complex tapestry-like sculptures ever created by Ghanian artist El Anatsui has been hung in Bloch Lobby at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The 350-pound, 39-foot-wide, 26-foot-high Dusasa I debuted at the 2007 Venice Biennale and entered the museum’s collection in early 2008. The title comes from two Ewe words, du and sasa, meaning a fusion of disparate elements on a monumental scale. “Dusasa I reminds us that for today’s African artists, the traditional and contemporary are not separate, but entwined, and that art creation cannot be dictated by the availability or lack of conventional mediums,” said Nii Quarcoopome, curator of African art. “El Anatsui’s creation epitomizes the boundless imagination and inventiveness of 21st-century Africa artists.” To construct Dusasa I, Anatsui collected thousands of recycled aluminum ... More |
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