| Three highly important works on paper by Egon Schiele to be offered at Sotheby's London | | Special exhibition tells story of how African artifacts were first recognized as art in U.S. | | Sotheby's Evening Auction of Important Russian Art realises $18.3 million | 
Egon Schiele, Liebespaar (Selbstdarstellung mit Wally), 1914/15, est: £6.5-8.5 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On 5 February 2013, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale one of the most important groups of works on paper by Egon Schiele ever to come to the market. Carrying a combined estimate of £9-12 million, the three works span a critical period of the artist’s output (1914-1917), each of them demonstrating the impeccable draughtsmanship for which Schiele is renowned. Together they provide an exceptional overview of the breadth of style, technique and composition that characterises Schiele’s best work. The drawings come to sale from the Leopold Museum in Vienna which boasts the world’s most comprehensive collections of paintings and works on paper by Egon Schiele. Helena Newman, Chairman of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Department Europe, said: “Following the auction in 2011 of Schiele’s Häuser mit bunter Wäsche, Vorstadt II, which sold at Sotheby’s London for a record £24.7 mil ... More | | 
Sculptural Element from a Reliquary Ensemble, Unidentified Kota artist (Ndassa group); Gabon, before 1914. Wood, copper, brass, pigments. H:. 23.62 in (60 cm).Musée Dapper, Paris (0605)© Archives Musée Dapper. Photo Mario Carrieri.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a special exhibition highlighting the African works acquired by the New York avant-garde and its most influential patrons during the 1910s and 1920s. At the beginning of the 20th century, the appreciation of African artifacts in the West shifted dramatically from colonial trophies to modernist icons. Reflecting on New York's dynamism during the years that followed the 1913 Armory Show, African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde brings together African art from the collections of many key individuals of the period, now dispersed throughout private and institutional collections. Showcasing more than 60 works from Africa and the Western avant-garde, the exhibition evokes the original context in which they were first experienced simul- ... More | | 
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov, Portrait of Praskovia Anatolievna Mamontova. Estimate: £300,000-500,000. Sold for: £1,217,250/$1,951,008. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s Evening Auction of Important Russian Art brought £ 11,471,250/$18,386,120, comfortably within pre-sale expectations of £9,040,000-12,840,000. The sale achieved sell-through rates of 89.3% by lot and 84.3% by value, and established six new artist records. Sotheby’s Russian Art sales continue tomorrow with the Russian Paintings Day Sale and the Russian Works of Art, Fabergé & Icons Day Sale. The top-selling lot of this evening’s auction was Valentin Alexandrovich Serov’s exceptionally rare oil on canvas Portrait of Praskovia Anatolievna Mamontova, which sold for the well-above expectations sum of £1,217,250/$1,951,008 (est. £300,000-
500,000), setting a new record for the artist at auction. Three bidders competed for the work, which finally sold to an anonymous buyer in the saleroom. The painting was executed ... More |
| Fine art auction at Ketterer Kunst in Munich: New buyers of Old Master paintings | | Toi Moko leaves Montreal museum to return to its ancestral home of New Zealand | | First Survey of Max Weber in 20 years on view at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa | 
Edward T. Compton, Auftrieb am Matterhorn. Sold for: € 36.600.
MUNICH.- In this auction almost every second buyer was a new customer. Bids for Old Masters & Art of the 19th Century in Munich came from all over the world - from Europe over Brazil, Russia, China all the way to the U.S.A. “This led to a never seen before average increase of an incredible 130% per sold object”, said Robert Ketterer. Consigned as a Dutch study sheet of unknown authorship (lot 43), it turned out the auction’s most expensive lot, which thanks to the intensive research by experts of Ketterer Kunst could be ascribed to the Dutch artist Jacques de Gheyn II, the best drawer before Rembrandt, just in time before the auction. The heated bidding skirmish that broke out between renowned collectors and art dealers from France, Germany, England and Holland, was won by the acknowledged art dealer Bellinger, who offered the result of € 177.000* on behalf of an American museum. “I am extremel ... More | | 
In a moving ceremony, officials returned Toi Moko to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) in Wellington.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts returned a Toi Moko to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) in Wellington, in a moving ceremony with officials from both museums present. The return to New Zealand of this Māori head follows a request by the indigenous māori population of New Zealand that, for the past two decades, has been making efforts to repatriate about 500 tattooed and mummified remains or heads in public and private collections around the world. In 2011, at the urging of the Museum’s management, the MMFA’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously in favour of this request, which, it felt, “is not true restitution, and thus a transfer of property, because ownership of the human body is inalienable.” “In the context of the research done last year on the collections of world cultures at our Reinvented Museum, Te Papa’s request warranted atten- ... More | | 
Women and Trees, 1911, oil on burlap, 31 1//2 x 25 ½ inches, Copyright, Estate of Max Weber, Private Collection, New York.
TULSA, OK.- Philbrook Museum of Art opened Models & Muses: Max Weber and the Figure to the public Sunday, November 4, 2012. This, the first museum survey on Max Weber’s work in 20 years, amasses 50 works from more than 20 institutions and eight private collections, including the estate of Max Weber. Such a broad collection of works spanning 1907 through 1951 allowed Philbrook Chief Curator Catherine Whitney to present a retrospective analyzing Weber’s paintings through the lens of the figure. Exclusive to Philbrook, this show will run through February 3, 2013. This Philbrook-originated exhibition traces Max Weber’s trailblazing contributions to American modernism through the medium of figure painting. The exhibition follows a somewhat chronological path of the influences and subjects within Weber’s work. Featuring works that span Weber’s 50-year career, ... More |
| Auction at Villa Grisebach to establish Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitorship | | First show devoted exclusively to the works on paper of Kikuo Saito opens at Jill Newhouse Gallery | | Amy-Blue...portrait of Amy Winehouse acquired by National Portrait Gallery in London | 
Alice Neel, Dick Bagley, 1946. Courtesy of The Estate of Alice Neel, New York und Aurel Scheibler, Berlin.
BERLIN.- A German–American bridge: A pro bono auction of the Villa Grisebach to be held on November 30, 2012, sees celebrated contemporary artists from both countries pledge outstanding artworks to help fund the American Academy’s Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitorship. As a highlight of Villa Grisebach’s two-hundredth auction, works by artists including Georg Baselitz, Max Beckmann, Aaron Curry, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Jenny Holzer, Alex Katz, Julie Mehretu, Anselm Kiefer, Anselm Reyle, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Günther Uecker, and Xu Bing will be on offer to raise support for the Academy’s Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitorship. Works with the highest estimated value, at roughly €150,000, are Anselm Kiefer’s large-format “Emanation,” Julie Mehretu’s painting “Four Fold,” and Jenny Holzer’s marble base from her series “Selection from Survival,” ... More | | 
Saito has been exhibiting his paintings regularly since 1976 in the United States and in Europe.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jill Newhouse Gallery presents the first show devoted exclusively to the works on paper of Kikuo Saito. Kikuo Saito was born in Tokyo and moved to New York in 1966. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, Saito worked as a studio assistant for Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, and Larry Poons. At the same time, he began his long career in the theater, doing set design, and writing and directing original works which combined wordless drama in the poetic framework of light, costume, music and dance. In later years Saito collaborated with Jerome Robbins, Peter Brook and Robert Wilson in both set design and production. Saito has been exhibiting his paintings regularly since 1976 in the United States and in Europe. His paintings are in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. As in his paintings, Saito’s works on paper integrate the painterly with the ... More | | 
‘Amy—Blue’ (Amy Winehouse) by Marlene Dumas, 2011. Purchased with the support of the Art Fund 2012 © Marlene Dumas.
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery, London, has acquired a portrait of Amy Winehouse, it was announced today Monday 26 November 2012. The painting, which was made shortly after the singer’s death in July 2011, was bought by the Gallery, with support from the Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for art. It goes on display at the Gallery today. Painted by the internationally-renowned artist Marlene Dumas, Amy—Blue is a close-cropped oil-on-canvas head study, scarcely larger than a sheet of A4 paper. Using a striking palette of mainly blue and black with hints of pink and white, the artist has chosen to focus tightly on the singer’s head with her eyes looking downwards and her mouth slightly open. The viewer is drawn to the singer’s distinctive eyes and eye-liner at the top of the jewel-like portrait, while the slight decline in the angle of her face offers a glimpse of ... More |
| Tomás Saraceno is back to surprise us with his "suspended" art at HangarBicocca in Milan | | Drop Dead Gorgeous: The latest body of work by Marylyn Dintenfass at Driscoll Babcock Galleries | | Leo Villareal installation is tribute to the late Cornell astronomy professor Carl Sagan | 
The monumental work for HangarBicocca is composed of a transparent surface accessible to visitors, hanging at a height of 20 metres and covering 400 square metres on three layers.
MILAN.- HangarBicocca is presenting On Space Time Foam, a major exhibition project by Tomás Saraceno, the visionary artist known for his surprising structures that draw the public into extraordinary spatial and emotional experiences. The monumental work for HangarBicocca is composed of a transparent surface accessible to visitors, hanging at a height of 20 metres and covering 400 square metres on three layers, for a total of 1,200 square metres. This work of creativity and scientific research was made possible through the interaction of skills and experiences in a broad array of fields of knowledge, and thanks to Pirelli's support. On Space Time Foam is a structure composed of three levels of thin clear film raised and set on the walls of the “Cubo” at HangarBicocca covering an area of 400 square metres. The large soft and floating film welcomes visitors who will thus find themselves moving mid- ... More | | 
Marylyn Dintenfass, When the Sun Shone, the Poison Flower Breathed Cold, 2012, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches Courtesy of Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Driscoll Babcock Galleries present, Drop Dead Gorgeous, the latest body of work by Marylyn Dintenfass, whose brilliant chromatic abstractions evolve to evoke a representational narrative about nature’s fatally duplicitous markers. Dintenfass’ work has always embodied the unease of “nothing is ever what is seems” in life and her newest canvases draw their inspiration from some of nature’s most beautiful, but dangerous plants. A focus of the show is the Angel’s Trumpet flower, a ravishing and singular beauty whose exquisite deadliness is iconic. Dintenfass’ vibrant abstractions of the Angel Trumpet’s shapes and forms conjure the plant’s stunning looks, its siren-like allure, and its toxicity. “Dintenfass’ latest work reaffirms her position as a significant figure in the rich tradition of colorists who explore the potent and evocative union of repres ... More | | 
Leo Villareal, Cosmos, 2012. White LEDs, custom software, and electrical hardware; approx.. 45 x 68 ft. Acquired through the generosity of Lisa and Richard Baker, Class of 1988. Photo: James Ewing.
ITHACA, NY.- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Leo Villareal: Cosmos. An homage to the late Cornell astronomy professor Carl Sagan, Cosmos is the most recent site-specific installation by New York–based artist Leo Villareal (born 1967), a pioneer in the use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and computer-driven imagery. His signature pieces explore complex movement and dazzling patterns created by points of light using his own computer software. Planning for Cosmos began in November 2010, when Villareal—along with the project architect, Walter Smith AIA LEED AP, and donors Lisa and Richard Baker—worked with Johnson Museum staff to determine the optimal location for the installation. The 45 x 68 foot ceiling of the Sherry and Joel Mallin Sculpture Court was chosen for its high visibility not only ... More |
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 Bonhams to sell aeroplane that featured in Oscar-winning Hollywood blockbuster "Out of Africa" PARIS.- The aeroplane which featured in the 1985 Oscar-winning film ‘Out of Africa’ – starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford – will be among the lots on offer at the Bonhams sale at the Grand Palais in Paris in early 2013, during Rétromobile week. The 1929 American Moth Corporation De Havilland 60GMW Gipsy Moth is offered in excellent condition with a permit to fly. It still wears its yellow-and-black livery and registration G-AAMY (in homage to pioneering English aviatrix Amy Johnson) as seen in the Sydney Pollack-directed movie, which went on to win seven Oscars in the year of its release. In the film, the two-seater bi-plane is piloted by character Denys Finch Hatton (played by Redford) over the Kenyan savannah. The DH-60 Moth measures 24ft long by nearly 9ft high (7.3 metres by 2.7 metres), and has a 30ft (9m) wingspan. It is capable of a maximum speed of 105mph ... More Two crowns by famous artist stolen from Argentine church BUENOS AIRES.- Two crowns designed by famed Argentine silversmith Juan Carlos Pallarols and crafted with the help of some 600,000 people, including Pope Benedict XVI, were stolen Thursday, church sources said. The crowns, along with a rosary, were taken from a church sanctuary in San Nicolas, some 245 kilometers (150 miles) northeast of the Argentine capital. The theft was discovered by the church sexton, Carlos Perez, who told local media he found the glass display case broken and the objects missing early Thursday morning. Both crowns were made of silver with gold inlays, forged from donated medals, rings, and other jewelry, and blessed by the pope, the Catholic News Agency of Argentina reported. Some 600,000 Argentines, including President Cristina Kirchner, as well as the pope, took turns with metal hammers to help shape the crowns, the agency added. ... More New Work Miami 2013 exhibition celebrates the city's artists MIAMI, FL.- In celebration of the tremendous creative energy of the local artist community, Miami Art Museum presents recent and newly commissioned work by approximately a dozen Miami-based artists in New Work Miami 2013. On view from November 21, 2012 through May 12, 2013, the exhibition highlights the diverse and innovative practices of Miami’s artists, featuring site-specific installations, sculpture, painting and photography. The exhibition is among the last presentations in MAM’s current facility, marking the 12-month countdown to the Museum’s reopening in fall 2013 as Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in a new, Herzog & de Meuron-designed building in Museum Park. New Work Miami 2013 is the focus of MAM’s Miami Art Week activities, when Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Miami, Design Miami/ and other art fairs attract an estimated 50,000 members of the international ... More A purple beast, an aquarium, a dinosaur and more spring off the pages in Pop-Up! Illustration in 3D CHADDS FORD, PA.- Pop-Up! Illustration in 3-D, on view at Brandywine River Museum, presents the wondrous world of pop-up books-books. With pages that spring open to reveal pictures that self-construct into three dimensional illustrations, the pop-up form is used for an infinite variety of subjects for both children and adults, ranging from classic tales and elementary instruction to Bible stories and scientific topics. For centuries, illustrators and book designers have been intrigued with the notion of creating pages with pictures that move via hidden mechanisms. Revolving pieces, flaps, levers and pop-ups provide energy to move illustrations on the page, surprising readers with the unexpected action! The genre has attracted noted artists/illustrators like Edward Gorey, Maurice Sendak and Tomie dePaola. These artists worked with paper engineers-specialists who devise the ... More 5th Kinetica Art Fair returns in February 2013 at Ambika P3 LONDON.- The 5th Kinetica Art Fair returns February 28th – March 3rd 2013 at Ambika P3, as one of London's annual landmark art exhibitions and a permanent fixture in the Art Fair calendar, renowned as the UK's only art fair dedicated to kinetic, robotic, sound, light, time-based and new media art. Having built up a diverse and international audience of over 12,000 visitors, Kinetica is hosting the work of over 45 galleries and art organisations nationally and internationally, with representatives from UK, France, USA, Poland, Holland, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Indonesia and Japan, collectively showing over 400 works of art. Alongside the Fair, Kinetica will present a Feature exhibition, daily programme of talks, presentations and performances themed on Perception and Reality where eminent pioneers, experimental artists, performers and key figures in the field of kinetic and electronic ... More Exhibition from the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art to officially open the Luan Gallery, Athlone ATHLONE.- Borrowed Memories is the inaugural exhibition at the new contemporary art gallery in Athlone, Co Westmeath. The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Mr Jimmy Deenihan, TD, will officially open the Luan Gallery at 2.30pm on Thursday 29 November with an exhibition of works from the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art as part of IMMA’s National Programme. In its previous incarnations the building which now houses The Luan Gallery has been many things to many people and to the town of Athlone – a library, concert hall, cinema and town hall to name but a few. Commenting on the exhibition Miriam Mulrennan, Manager, the Luan Gallery said: “Rich and colourful memories are associated with the building. Respect for people’s connection to the building formed a centre point in curating Borrowed Memories.” Designed by Keith Williams ... More |
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