| Kunsthaus Zürich presents first exhibition in Switzerland dedicated to the work by Adrian Zingg | | Sotheby's launches gallery in Hong Kong with Modern Masters series, Corot to Monet exhibition | | Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park opens exclusive Beverly Pepper retrospective | 
Anton Graff, Adrian Zingg, 1796/99. Oil on canvas, 160 x 98 cm. Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.
ZURICH.- From 25 May to 12 August 2012 the Kunsthaus Zürich presents Switzerland’s first museum exhibition devoted to the work of Adrian Zingg (1734-1816). Zingg is one of the most important representatives of landscape between the European Enlightenment and Pre-Romanticism in Dresden. He explored the countryside around Dresden and produced numerous views of what has since become known as the Saxon and Bohemian Switzerland. His large-format sepia plates influenced an entire generation of artists, right through to Caspar David Friedrich, while his choice of motifs and interpretation of landscape left its mark on souvenir production in the early days of tourism. Born in St. Gallen, Adrian Zingg served his apprenticeship with Johann Rudolph Holzhalb in Zurich and Johann Ludwig Aberli in Berne. After spending seven years as collaborator of Johann Georg Wille in Paris he moved to Dresden, where he remained active for five de ... More | | 
The exhibition will run until 31 May in Hong Kong and also be on view in Beijing Park Hyatt from 22 to 25 June. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s announced that its newly-constructed 15,000-square-foot gallery space in Hong Kong was opened last Saturday, 19 May, 2012. Celebrating the opening of the gallery, the second edition of the Modern Masters series, Corot to Monet – French Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, is hosted after its successful launch in 2010, offering once again a great opportunity to acquire museumquality works by modern masters. The exhibition will run until 31 May in Hong Kong and also be on view in Beijing Park Hyatt from 22 to 25 June. The exhibition of masterpieces from the late 19th to the early 20th century focuses on the importance of landscape painting for the pioneers of modernism. Works by masters such as Gustave Courbet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet highlight the progression from the Barbizon school to Impressionism through their definitive sub ... More | | 
Beverly Pepper. Longo (tabletop), 2008. Steel, 10.75 x 4.5 x 3 inches. © Beverly Pepper. Photo courtesy of Marlborough Gallery, New York City.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is the exclusive venue for the landmark exhibition “Beverly Pepper: Palingenesis 1962-2012,” which opens to the public May 25. This retrospective traces Pepper’s work in metal throughout her prolific five-decade career. The exhibition will be on display until August 26. Born in Brooklyn in 1922, Pepper studied at Pratt Institute and the Arts Student League in New York. She painted from 1949-1960, then turned to sculpture. In 1962, Pepper emerged on the arts scene when she, along with legendary figures Alexander Calder and David Smith, was invited to create outdoor sculptures for the famed exhibition “Festival of Two Worlds” in Spoleto. She was the only woman invited. She is among America’s greatest living sculptors. The exhibition features more than 20 works in a variety of metals including steel, aluminum, iron, stainless steel ... More |
| Sotheby's to sell masterpiece by Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin: Odysseus and Polyphemus | | South African president Jacob Zuma opens case in High Court against artist Brett Murray | | Architect Wang Shu's Pritzker Architecture Prize has another winner in China: Hyatt Hotels | 
Arnold Böcklin, Odysseus and Polyphemus (detail). Oil on panel, 66 by 150cm., 26 by 59in. Estimate: 800,000-1,200,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A masterpiece by Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin depicting a dramatic retelling of a story from Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ is to headline Sotheby’s sale of European Paintings in London on Monday, 11 June 2012. Odysseus and Polyphemus, painted in 1896, is redolent of the fin-de-siècle spirit that enveloped Europe as a new century dawned. Estimated at £800,000-1,200,000 (€970,000-1,460,000), the oil on panel comes to the market from a European Private Collection and is being offered for sale at auction for the first time. The provenance of the work can be traced back directly to the artist, and the painting has featured in numerous exhibitions and monographs on Böcklin. Odysseus and Polyphemus depicts the climax of the story of Odysseus and Polyphemus as recounted by Homer in Book 9 of his ‘Odyssey’, when Odysseus and his men flee the enraged Cyclops they have just blinded. Böcklin’s compos ... More | | 
A visitor to the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg holds his hands over what could be a codpiece accentuating the genitals. AP Photo/Denis Farrell.
By: Donna Bryson, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP).- A lawyer for South Africa's president broke down in tears Thursday as he tried to convince three judges that the display of a portrait that depicts the president's genitals is unlawful. The three South Gauteng High Court judges called a recess after the emotional display. President Jacob Zuma is asking the High Court to issue an order that display of the now-defaced painting violates his constitutional right to dignity. The gallery and the artist counter that freedom of expression, also protected by the constitution, is at stake. Two men had walked into the Goodman Gallery Tuesday and defaced the portrait with paint, saying later they were acting to defend Zuma. The gallery then removed the painting and closed indefinitely. Still, the case is being closely watched because it raises important constitutional issues in a new ... More | | 
Chinese architect Wang Shu. AP Photo.
By: Joe McDonald, AP Business Writer
BEIJING (AP).- When architect Wang Shu accepts his field's richest prize in a ceremony Friday at the seat of China's legislature, a symbolic second winner will be waiting in the background — Hyatt Hotels. The Pritzker Architecture Prize has special resonance for communist leaders who want to promote China as a global cultural power. Receiving it made Wang a celebrity in China. Until now, the 49-year-old had been little known outside architecture circles. The $100,000 prize is sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation, a separate entity from the business, Hyatt Hotels, which has no role in picking the winner. Still, the company's link to promoting Chinese culture abroad is a marketer's dream and could give the Hyatt name a boost with status-conscious government officials and some of the public. "It's bound to have a positive impact for them," said Alistair Nicholas, a specialist in corporate image who is executive vice president for Asia of public relations firm Weber Shandwick. "Ju ... More |
| Rare and exceptional masterpieces to be offered at MacDougall's Russian Art Sales | | Important and rare Bauhaus works lead Bonhams Print Sale in London on 11 July | | Spectacular time-eater by Dr. John C Taylor goes on view at National Museum of Scotland | 
Alexej von Jawlensky, Stillleben mit Heiligenbild und Blumentopf, 350,000-500,000 GBP.
LONDON.- On 27th and 30th of May MacDougall’s will offer an exceptional selection of rare Russian masterpieces, many of which have never before appeared at auction. The evening sale of Important Russian Art, which will take place on Sunday the 27th, will be led by the museum-quality painting, Still Life. Apples and Eggs, by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, estimated at £2,000,000-3,000,000. Oil paintings by Petrov-Vodkin are exceedingly rare to appear on the market and few works of such significance as Still Life. Apples and Eggs remain in private hands. The work was previously owned by Abram Chudnovsky, one of the most important Soviet collectors of early 20th century Russian avant-garde painting. The work was widely exhibited after Chudnovsky’s death in 1985, and is now offered at auction for the first time. Mikhail Larionov’s Flowers on a Veranda is an important early oil by this preeminent ... More | | 
The set to be sold is numbered 45 and each print is signed by its artist. (Kandinsky). Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- One of the classic works of the Bauhaus school – currently the subject of an exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre – is to be auctioned at Bonhams Prints Sale in London on 11 July. It is estimated at £70,000- 100,000 - a reflection both of its importance and rarity. ‘Meistermappe des Staatlichen Bauhauses’ (Masters' Portfolio of the Staatliches Bauhaus) consists of eight works by masters or assistant teachers at the school including Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Lionel Feininger. Issued in 1923, it was published in an edition of 100 and sold to raise money at a time when rampant inflation in Germany had badly eroded the value of the school’s funding. Bauhaus was established in Weimar after the First World War with the express aim of using art and design to transform modern life in the post-war, post Imperial era in Germany. It is now synonymous with a particular style and look but ... More | | 
Dr. John C Taylor with the Chronophage. Photo: Ian Jacobs.
EDINBURGH.- A spectacular timepiece designed by Dr John C Taylor OBE is going on display in the Discoveries Gallery at the National Museum of Scotland. The 3.3 metre Midsummer Chronophage, which has no hands or numbers and is inspired by the idea that everyone experiences time differently, will be on display from Thursday 24 May 2012 until Sunday 13 January 2013. Dr Taylor’s clock is controlled by a Chronophage, which is a mythical beast that eats time. It slowly opens its jaws for 59 seconds and then snaps shut on the 60th – chews the minute - swallows it. Then, you can never get it back… Dr Taylor explains: ‘It takes a dyslexic inventor to produce a clock without hands that that also plays games with you. Once you have seen the Chronophage all other clocks will seem rather boring - all they do is tell the time. This one surprises you, sometimes stopping, running fast or backwards as it tells relative t ... More |
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| Original London Underground posters offered for sale at Christie's South Kensington in October | | Sotheby's Latin American Art Evening Sale totals $21.8 million; highest-ever at Sotheby's | | New Jersey's Sterling Associates announces June 9 Major Fine Art & Estate Auction | 
All lots to be offered at Christie’s are duplicate copies from the Collection. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
SOUTH KENSINGTON.- Christie’s announced an unrivalled and never-to-be-repeated opportunity to acquire iconic London Underground posters direct from the archives of London Transport Museum (LTM). The auction, featuring over 300 original advertising posters dating from 1913 to 1955, will be held at Christie’s South Kensington saleroom on 4th October 2012. Fifty highlights from the Collection will be on public preview at Christie’s saleroom on 8 King Street, St. James’ during the Olympic period, from Monday, 16 July to Friday, 24 August 2012. Estimates for individual lots range from £800 to £15,000, with the Collection as a whole expected to realise in excess of £500,000. All lots to be offered at Christie’s are duplicate copies from the Collection, and all monies raised from the auction will be held in trust by LTM for dedicated use in connection with future acquisition, conservation and restoration. S ... More | | 
Wifredo Lam, Ídolo (Oya/Divinité de l'air et de la mort), signed and dated 1944 lower left, oil on canvas, 63 by 50 in. Est. $2/3 million. Sold for $4,562,500.
NEW YORK, NY.- Last night’s Evening Sale of Latin American Art at Sotheby’s in New York brought a total of $21,754,375 – the highest-ever for a Latin American Art Evening Sale at Sotheby’s, and above the pre-sale low estimate of $20.3 million. The sale was 82% sold-by-lot, with auction records set for Wifredo Lam, Jesús Rafael Soto, Armando Reverón and six others. Axel Stein, Head of Latin American Art at Sotheby’s commented: “We are very pleased to have achieved a total of $21.8 million tonight, marking our highest-ever result for an evening of Latin American Art. We were thrilled with the new record price achieved for Wifredo Lam, which was one of nine new artist records set during the auction. Ídolo is a work we have known for over 35 years, and we always felt that it had the potential to reach new heights. The demand for Abstract, Geometric, and Constructivist art from Latin America was parti ... More | | 
Pair of circa-1750 Qianlong Chinese famille rose covered vases in the Mandarin pattern, est. $20,000-$30,000. Sterling Associates image.
CLOSTER, NJ.- With two highly successful auctions already to their credit since launching operations in December, New Jersey estate specialists Sterling Associates will go for a trifecta on June 9 with a Major Fine Art & Estate Auction featuring quality consignments from the tri-state area. Like the previous sales, the June event will be a “hybrid” auction, which combines a gallery and online preview with absentee, phone and Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers.com. The 500-lot auction will feature paintings, furniture, porcelain, sculptures, rugs, sports art and an extensive array of lighting, candelabra and accessories. There are numerous highlights in all categories, but the lot that company owner Stephen D’Atri predicts might be “the star of the sale” is the pair of circa-1750 Qianlong famille rose Chinese covered vases in the Mandarin pattern. “These vases are truly stunning. The decoration is so heavily applied, they almost look like ... More |
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 Colombian artist Doris Salcedo presents two new, large-scale works at White Cube Mason's Yard LONDON.- For her exhibition at White Cube Mason's Yard, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo will present two new, large-scale works. 'Plegaria Muda' (2008-10), situated in the lower ground floor gallery, is a major installation consisting of a number of individual sculptures that evoke a mass memorial or collective burial site. In the ground floor gallery Salcedo will show an intensely fragile sculpture entitled 'A Flor de Piel' (2012); a shroud composed of sutured rose petals. Salcedo is well known for her politically engaged work that attempts to bear witness to specific acts of violence. Work on 'Plegaria Muda', loosely translated as 'mute prayer', began in 2004 in Los Angeles when Salcedo started researching the violent life of young people in the ghettoes of the city. Three years later, the installation took more direct shape after the bodies of 1,500 young men were found in Colombia. ... More Highly anticipated first volume of the complete catalogue of works by John Baldessari out now NEW YORK, NY.- The pioneering conceptual artist John Baldessari (b. 1931) began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the subsequent decades he expanded his practice in a new and groundbreaking direction by juxtaposing texts with found photography or appropriated images. These texts questioned the nature of art and the art-viewing experience, suggesting new meanings for the images they accompanied. This interaction of words and images remained a critical aspect of Baldessari’s work, even as he branched into other media, such as site- specific installations, drawings, video, sculpture, prints, and multiples. The first of a projected four-volume set, this lavishly illustrated book features about 500 works and chronicles an important shift in Baldessari’s thinking during these formative years. Included are such landmark works as the Cremation Project ... More A masterpiece by Romanino and a rediscovered Rubens lead Christie's Old Master Paintings Sale NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced its summer sale in New York of Old Master Paintings on June 6, 2012, at 5 pm, which primarily consists of works from private collections and institutions that are fresh to the market. The star lot is the 16th-century masterpiece of the Italian High Renaissance, Christ Carrying the Cross (estimate: $2,500,000-3,500,000) by Girolamo Romanino. With nearly 100 works by great French, Italian, Flemish, Dutch and British masters of the 15th through the 19th centuries, the sale includes works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Hubert Robert, Jan Breughel I, and his brother Pieter Brueghel II, among others. The auction is expected to achieve in excess of $10 million. The sale is highlighted by several important paintings long hidden away in private collections, such as an oil-on-panel sketch for The Adoration of the Magi (estimate: $500,000 -$1,000,000), ... More Exhibition of works by Saul Fletcher opens at Alison Jacques Gallery LONDON.- For his second exhibition with Alison Jacques Gallery, in advance of his works being presented at the 30th Sao Paulo Biennale this autumn, Saul Fletcher has created a body of photographs that offer a glimpse into his psychological landscape. Fragments from the artist's life are pieced together through intimate images of installations meticulously constructed directly onto his studio wall. Fletcher transforms everyday objects into melancholic sculptures and integrates them within layers of flaking paint, as tender, almost hermetic compositions emerge through a surface that serves as both his canvas and stage. The fragile and ephemeral state of Fletcher's subjects relay a sense of intimacy akin with that of a lost relic, whilst the modest scale of his photographs entice the viewer to peer into these extended metaphors. Remnants from previous arrangements are ... More Warhol drawings, Harland Miller paintings, Lichtenstein prints are highlights of Swann Galleries' auction NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, June 14 Swann Galleries will conduct a two-part sale of American Art and Contemporary Art that features drawings, paintings, sculpture and prints by notable American artists and artists working in the late 20th century through the present day. Among the big names in the Contemporary Art portion of the auction are several works by Andy Warhol, including a pen and ink drawing of Charles Lisanby with Heart, circa 1956 (estimate: $15,000 to $20,000); and an Untitled pen and ink drawing of a reclining male figure’s pants ($8,000 to $12,000). Other unique pieces by Warhol are a double-sided color screenprint of Flowers, 1970 ($8,000 to $12,000); Grapes (Special Edition), screenprint with diamond dust, 1979 ($25,000 to $35,000); and Mimosas, color screenprint and acrylic paper collage on canvas, circa 1976 ($30,000 to $50,000). Rounding ... More Frieze London: Details of its tenth edition announced LONDON.- Frieze has announced today the details of their tenth London fair. Frieze London will take place 11–14 October 2012 in Regent’s Park, London and is sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the ninth consecutive year. Frieze London is one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs and brings an international focus to the dynamic contemporary art scene in the UK capital every October. Frieze London is a carefully selected presentation of the most forward-thinking contemporary galleries from around the globe and takes place in a bespoke temporary structure, designed this year, once again, by architects Carmody Groarke. The tenth edition features a new section. Focus is for galleries established after 2001, showing up to three artists. Focus was first introduced at Frieze New York, which took place 4–7 May in Randall’s Island Park, Manhattan. This year, coinciding ... More |
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