| Archaeologial find debunks "Maya collapse" theory, Dzibanché inhabited until 13th century | | Major exhibition of large-scale sculptures by Henry Moore opens at Gagosian in New York | | Tel Aviv Museum hides art to protect it from rockets, moved nearly 200 works Friday | 
Dzibanche is a city that is located south of Quintana Roo, in the municipality of Othon P. Blanco, settled 40 square kilometers within the jungle. Photo: DMC INAH. M. MARAT.
Translated by: Cristina Perez Ayala
MEXICO CITY.- A stucco mural embossed with polychrome and several stucco fragments which belong to one of the most ancient and important Mayan dynasties of the old city of Dzibanche, Quintana Roo, were part of the latest discoveries registered in the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH – Conaculta). They reveal that said place was inhabited until the XIII century, two centuries after the “Mayan Collapse” which was believed to be the moment when the metropolis in the Lowlands became completely abandoned. The findings came to light a few months ago, after specialists resumed archaeologist Enrique Nalda’s (1936 – 2010) investigations on a Mayan metropolis. He found, during his last explorations, human remains and several objects used for offerings. Dzibanche ... More | | 
Henry Moore, Large Two Forms,1966. Reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation. Photo: Mike Bruce. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery, in collaboration with The Henry Moore Foundation, presents a major exhibition of large-scale sculptures by Henry Moore, which opened at Larry Gagosian’s Britannia Street location in London earlier this year. A pioneer of modern British sculpture, Moore engaged the abstract, the surreal, the primitive and the classical in vigorous corporeal forms that are as accessible and familiar as they are avant-garde. His monumental sculptures celebrated the power of organic forms at a time when traditional representation was largely eschewed by the vanguard art establishment. The overwhelming physicality of their scale and forceful presence promotes a charged relation between sculpture, site and viewer. Reclining Figure: Hand (1979) is immediately identifiable as a human form despite its modulated stylization. The rounded, cloud-like body, which contrasts with a “knife-edge” head ... More | | 
Dr. Doron J. Lurie senior curator and chief conservator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art adjusts his gloves before taking Abraham Breughel's Still Life of Fruit with a Bird, left, and Jan Breughel's Adoration of the Kings paintings into the museum's vault. AP Photo/Dan Balilty.
By: Dan Balilty and Daniel Estrin, Associated Press
TEL AVIV (AP).- The wine-red walls of the Brueghel exhibition hall at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art are now bare, like the crime scene of a daring art heist. Tel Aviv's leading art museum, spooked by rocket attacks on Israel's cultural capital, moved nearly 200 works Friday into a rocket-proof safe the size of an auditorium — including some 100 works painted by relatives of Flemish Renaissance master Pieter Brueghel the Elder. "Even if there's a very small possibility (of damage), we don't play around. We don't take chances," said Doron J. Lurie, the senior curator and chief conservator. "We've guarded them like our own kids." One other Israeli art museum followed suit, hauling some of its most prized artworks ... More |
| Sotheby's Latin American Art Sale totals $19.3 million, six artist records set | | Stay tuned to Bonhams for the sale of the Richard Balsbaugh Collection of vintage radios | | Sotheby's 19th Century European Paintings Sale in London totals $13.2 million | 
"Angelis" by artist Claudio Bravo is on display during a press preview for Latin American Art sales at Sotheby's in New York. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel DUNAND.
NEW YORK, NY.- Yesterday’s evening session of Latin American Art at Sotheby’s brought a strong total of $19,275,250, nearly reaching the high estimate (est. $16.2/19.8 million*) and with 89% of lots sold. The sale was led by Matta’s Nada, which sold for $1,818,500, well within estimate (est. $1.5/2 million). Six new artist records were achieved tonight for Claudio Bravo, Dr. Atl, Jesús Rafael Soto, Gego, Guiseppe Leone Righini, and Pietro Gualdi in addition to a the highest price for a piece of Latin American colonial art at auction. The auction continues tomorrow morning at 10 am. Axel Stein, Director of Latin American Art at Sotheby’s commented: “Our strong sell through rate in this evening’s sale demonstrates the demand for Latin American art across all periods and mediums. We set six artist records ranging from a 17th century colonial portrait, to mid-century Venezuelan Jesús Rafael Soto t ... More | | 
A Detrola 281 Split Grille, 1939. Marbleized yellow case and emerald green split grille and matching knobs, with remnant of paper label. height 5 1/4in (13.5cm); length 9 1/4in (23.5cm); depth 3 7/8in (10cm). Est: $8,000-12,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On December 11, Bonhams will conduct an auction of The Richard Balsbaugh Collection of Vintage Radios, an event that will serve as yet another benchmark in the collecting history of the popular collecting field of vintage radios. The auction will begin at 11:00 am at the Bonhams New York flagship gallery located at 580 Madison Avenue at 56th Street. This important private collection consists of 133 radios designed in America during the 1930s and 1940s. Richard Balsbaugh lived and breathed radios since he was a young man. Starting in the radio business as a salesman in 1972, he quickly rose to sales manager and then manager. He went on to form Pyramid Communications and was extremely successful in acquiring ... More | | 
Joaquín Sorolla, Pescadores valencianos (detail). Est. £1,000,000-1,500,000. Sold for £3,737,250 ($5,945,591 / €4,644,666). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Today’s sale of 19th Century European Paintings at Sotheby’s London brought a strong total of £8,286,900 / $13,183,629 / €10,298,986, within the pre-sale estimate of £6.7/9.8 million. The sale was led by Joaquín Sorolla’s Pescadores valencianos (Valencian Fishermen), which sold to a European Foundation for £3,737,250 ($5,945,591 / €4,644,666), establishing a record for the artist at auction in sterling. The work is one of the finest oils by Sorolla ever to appear at auction. A landmark painting, its subject matter and style would go on to influence Sorolla for the next quarter century. In I896, Sorolla presented Pescadores valencianos at the Internationale Kunstausstellung in Berlin where the jury unanimously awarded it a gold medal. It was subsequently acquired by Nationalgalerie in Berlin; the museum de-accessioned ... More |
| Qatar Museums Authority's Orientalist Museum opens "The Art of Travel" exhibition | | Exquisite works of art from the ancient world, antiquities on offer at Christie's Sale of Antiquities | | Saatchi Gallery in London opens its first exhibition of contemporary Russian art | 
Turkish Horseman in the Rain, from the Travel Album of Bartholomäus Schachman (16r), 1590. Watercolour, pencil on paper, 19.8 x 13.1 cm. Inscription in iron gall ink. Orientalist Museum, Doha, OM.749.
DOHA.- Under the patronage of HE Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Al Thani, Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) Chairperson, QMA’s Qatar Orientalist Museum opened on November 15th “The Art of Travel: Bartholomäus Schachman (1559-1614)”. The exhibition will run until February 11, 2013, at the ALRIWAQ DOHA exhibition space, located next to the Museum of Islamic Art. Curated by Dr Olga Nefedova, Collections Director of the Orientalist Museum, The Art of Travel is an exhibition of Orientalist art and history, illustrating the importance of European-Ottoman relations throughout the 16th century. Speaking about the significance of this historic exhibition, HE Sheikha Al Mayassa Al Thani said: “The Art of Travel brings together some of the finest paintings by 16th century Danzig masters from the Orientalist Museum collection, as ... More | | 
A Roman Marble Head Of Apollo Lyceus Circa 2nd Century A.D. Estimate: $200,000 - 300,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the sale of Antiquities on December 5, which will feature over 200 superb works of art that embrace the cultures of Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Near East. With estimates ranging from $1,500 to $5 million, the sale highlights include a pair of important Roman bronze girls pursuing partridges, a Roman marble portrait bust of Marcus Aurelius, and a Roman marble head of Apollo Lyceus. The sale is expected to realize in excess of $8 million and will be followed by the 14th annual sale of Ancient Jewelry. A set of two important Roman bronze genre statues, circa late 1st century B.C.- early 1st century A.D., each depict a young girl pursuing a partridge (estimate: $3,000,000-5,000,000). The exquisitely detailed toddlers are positioned similarly, sitting on the base, leaning forward with open arms and splayed fingers, stretching toward a bird that is just out of reach. The partridges are ... More | | 
Liudmila Konstantinova, Icicle, 2012. Acrylic and gold leaf on plywood, 100 x 35 x 35 cm©Liudmila Konstantinova, 2012. Image courtesy of the Saatchi Gallery, London.
LONDON.- 'Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union: Art from Russia' is the first exhibition of contemporary Russian art at the Saatchi Gallery. This large survey show features 18 artists working in diverse ways across the mediums of painting, photography, sculpture and installation. Most of the artists in the exhibition, which takes its title from a speech delivered by Joseph Stalin in 1935, are young and emerging, and have rarely shown their work internationally; the exhibition will also present Boris Mikhailov’s highly acclaimed photographic project, Case History, which documents his hometown of Kharkov following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Witnesses to the break-up of the Soviet Union and the perestroika years, the artists in this exhibition have absorbed the complexities of life in Russia and created a wide variety of works in response. Some of them ... More |
| Ancient rock carvings stolen in Sierra Nevada, at least four petroglyphs hacked | | Charlie Chaplin hat and cane net more than $62,000 at Bonhams this past weekend | | Glasgow Boys masterpiece by Sir James Guthrie acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland | 
Raymond Andrews, tribal historic preservation officer of the Bishop Paiute Tribe visits the North Bishop area that hosts petroglyphs etched by ancient people. AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Don Kelsen.
BISHOP, CA (AP).- Rock carvings that graced a sacred American Indian site in California's Sierra Nevada for thousands of years have fallen prey to modern thieves armed with power saws. At least four petroglyphs — some 2 feet wide and located 15 feet above the ground — were hacked from lava cliffs in the Eastern Sierra, the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/Q3YdXQ ) reported Sunday. Visitors to the area, known as Volcanic Tableland, discovered the theft and reported it to the federal Bureau of Land Management on Oct. 31. "This was the worst act of vandalism ever seen" on the 750,000 acres of public land administered by the BLM field office in Bishop, BLM archaeologist Greg Haverstock told the newspaper. The thieves must have used ladders, electric generators and power saws. In addition to the four carvings that were stolen, one was defaced with deep saw cuts on three sides, and another was removed but ... More | | 
The hat and cane, trademark of Chaplin's Little Tramp character, were in "remarkable condition" and had been estimated to go for between $40,000 and $60,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Charlie Chaplin's iconic bowler hat and cane were auctioned off for $62,500 this weekend, as part of an auction which also includes a John Lennon nude drawing of himself and Yoko Ono. The hat and cane, trademark of Chaplin's Little Tramp character, were in "remarkable condition" and had been estimated to go for between $40,000 and $60,000 at the sale by auction house Bonhams on Sunday. But when it went under the hammer, the sale price hit $62,500 the auctioneers said. Legend has it that Chaplin came up with the tramp persona and wardrobe spontaneously one rainy afternoon in February 1914, seizing various wardrobe items in a communal male dressing room at a Hollywood studio. These included baggy trousers from actor Fatty Arbuckle, size 14 shoes which he had to wear on the wrong feet to keep them from falling off, the hat belonging to Arbuckle's father-in-law, and a mustache intended ... More | | 
Sir James Guthrie (1859-1930), In the Orchard, 1885-86. Purchased by the National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow Museums with the assistance of NHMF and the Art Fund, 2012.
EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow City Council announced their first ever joint acquisition, In the Orchard, a major work of art by Sir James Guthrie (1859-1930). This seminal work was secured for £637,500 with the help of £423,358 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) and £62,983 from the Art Fund when it was auctioned at Sotheby’s on 13 November 2012. John Leighton, Director-General, National Galleries of Scotland commented: “Guthrie’s In the Orchard is a key masterpiece in the story of Scottish art and, at a time when funding is obviously very scarce, it is entirely fitting that NGS and Glasgow City Council should join forces to acquire this iconic work for the public. We are immensely grateful to the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund for their rapid and very generous support which has allowed us to move quickly to secure this extremely important wor ... More |
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 First major exhibition devoted to Peter Blake in the UK since 2007 opens at Waddington Custot Galleries LONDON.- Waddington Custot Galleries presents Rock, Paper, Scissors, the first major retrospective exhibition devoted to Peter Blake in the UK since 2007. The show features almost 50 new and previously unseen works from the past six decades. The exhibition title takes the idea from the children’s game, and provides a framework for the sections sculpture, works on paper and collage. In his sculpture, Blake continues to assemble found objects, with surreal scenes and narratives. ‘A Parade for Saul Steinberg’, started in 2007, resembles a New York street parade, where famous cartoon characters and other fantasy figures march in recognition of the cartoonist Steinberg; one of Blake’s artistic heroes. Popular characters from Blake’s earlier works reappear; Snow White is seen showing-off her garden of underwater debris to René Magritte, whilst elsewhere 30 of her dwarf ... More Sarah Morris' Mechanical Ballet on view at Musée national Fernand Léger, Biot BIOT.- Sarah Morris’ exhibition Mechanical Ballet opens the Fernand Léger National Museum’s 2012-2013 programme, which aims to highlight the relationship between painting and architecture. Born in 1967 and known worldwide, the American artist lives between New York and London. In line with the aesthetic approach favoured by Fernand Léger, the roots of Sarah Morris’ multidisciplinary work are to be found in modern-day urban reality. Leading a double life as a painter and film-maker since the late 1990s, she has carried on a visual and psychological exploration of our city environment. Her films such as Midtown [New York] in 1998, AM/PM [Las Vegas] in 1999, Capital [Washington D.C.] in 2000, Miami in 2002, Los Angeles in 2004, Beijing in 2008 and Chicago in 2011, are produced alongside pictorial cycles of a high formal and semiotic content. Taken from the heart of these bustling ... More France bans access to 'end of world' refuge CARCASSONNE (AFP).- France on Friday dashed the hopes of those who had planned to take refuge in one of the few places on Earth some believe will be spared when the world ends on December 21. Local officials banned access to the Pic de Bugarach, a mountain in the southwest where rumour has it the hilltop will open on the last day and aliens will emerge with spaceships to save nearby humans. Eric Freysselinard, the state's top representative in the area, said he was blocking access to the mountain for public safety reasons to avoid a rush of New Age fanatics, sightseers and media crews. Believers say the world will end on December 21, 2012, the end date of the ancient Mayan calendar, and they see Bugarach as one of a few sacred mountains sheltered from the cataclysm. Freysselinard said the 100 police and firefighters he plans to deploy will also control ... More Strong selection of fine writing instruments on the block at Bonhams this December SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams announced its sale of Fine Writing Instruments, December 19 in San Francisco, led by several Montblanc America's Signatures for Freedom Series Limited Edition 50 Fountain Pens, in honor of former US presidents James Madison (est. $20,000-30,000), George Washington (est. $20,000-25,000) and John Adams (est. $18,000-22,000). Montblanc highlights continue in the sale with a rare Antoni Gaudi Limited Edition Fountain Pen (est. $15,000-25,000), The Fortune Number 88 Limited Edition Fountain Pen (est. $15,000-20,000) and a Helmut Newton 75th Anniversary Limited Edition 75 Fountain Pen & Chronograph Automatic White Gold Watch, created in honor of master photographer Helmut Newton (est. $15,000-20,000). Additionally on offer will be such Montblancs as an Art of Porcelain Limited Edition Ballpoint Pen, hand-painted with ... More TEFAF Maastricht debut for six galleries HELVOIRT.- The six exhibitors for TEFAF Showcase, which gives younger dealers a one-off chance to take part in TEFAF Maastricht, the Fair that defines excellence in art, have been selected for 2013. The successful candidates have galleries in London, Paris and New York and represent a wide range of disciplines ranging from Chinese snuff bottles to contemporary art. They will exhibit in a special section when the 2013 edition of The European Fine Art Fair opens at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from 15-24 March 2013. TEFAF Showcase gives recently established galleries the opportunity to participate in TEFAF Maastricht for one year and to gain experience of being part of an international fine art event. The pre-eminence of TEFAF among international art fairs has led to a long waiting list for potential exhibitors ... More Revised statue of John Paul II inaugurated in Rome ROME (AP).- The city of Rome unveiled a revamped statue of Pope John Paul II on Monday after the first one was pilloried by the public and the Vatican. Artist Oliviero Rainaldi said he was pleased with the final product, saying it matched his original vision. He blamed workers for a botched assemblage the first time around. When the larger-than-life statue was first unveiled in May 2011, it was widely criticized by passers-by as looking more like Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini than the beloved Polish pope. The Vatican's own art critic wrote that it looked like a "bomb" had landed. That few could recognize it as honoring John Paul was a "sin," critic Sandro Barbagallo declared. Rome's mayor quickly assembled a committee of art experts, culture officials and scholars to work with Rainaldi to make the sculpture match what had been approved in his sketches. Rainaldi said the work ... More Flea market find: $200 sculpture sells for $22,500 at Freeman's PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Found at a Flea Market in Philadelphia for $200, this unique treasure commissioned by Tiffany & Co. from one of the world's foremost living silversmiths floored a standing-room only auction Tuesday at Freeman's by climbing to an astounding $22,500. The seller who first found it hiding inconspicuously amidst a pile junk on a flea market table was in shock. Initially, he'd had no idea what it was. Nor could anyone tell him. He'd just liked it for what it was--a beautiful abstract composition of swirling bands. Even so, at the time, $200 seemed a lot to pony up. What emerged after polishing was a thing of beauty. And, more importantly, the faint impression of the initials "UV" emerged, in what he suspected--and indeed proved to be--a maker's mark. It was a clue, but still all his efforts to identify it came to naught. That's when he decided to bring it in to Freeman's Auction ... More |
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