| Archaeologists find burnt stucco floor related to astronomical event 1,350 years ago | | Museum of Modern Art opens six month exhibition of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" | | Guggenheim conservation of Pablo Picasso's "Woman Ironing" reveals underlying painting | 
Archaeologists from INAH found a burnt stucco floor, evidence of practices related to an astronomical event that happened approximately 1,350 years ago. Photo: DMC INAH M. Tapia.
TECOZAUTLA, MEXICO.- During the excavations in Pañhu, an archaeological zone which will soon open its doors to the public in the municipality of Tecozautla, Hidalgo, archaeologists registered a burn stucco floor, evidence that its main pyramid was desacralized approximately 1,350 years ago. This coincides with an astronomical event which was thought, by its inhabitants, to be a cataclysm. Archaeologist Fernando Lopez Aguilar, director of the site’s investigation project promoted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH – Conaculta), informed that there was a solar eclipse at sunrise the 3rd of August in the year 650 AD. “To these old societies, the eclipse must have represented a catastrophe which is why they made sacrifices in order to ‘keep the star alive’, since they believed the black sun or hell’s sun had imposed on their sun ‘a giver of life’. This event generate ... More | | 
Edvard Munch. The Scream. Pastel on board. 1895. © 2012 The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK (AFP).- "The Scream," Edvard Munch's eerie 1895 masterpiece which sold in May for $119.9 million, is on view for the first time since that record-breaking auction, at New York's Museum of Modern Art. A spokeswoman said the artwork has been put on display in one of MoMA's most secure areas. It is being shown along with two other Munch paintings, as well as lithographs by the Norwegian artist. "The installation is located in the fifth floor galleries for the museum's painting and sculpture collection, so it is in a location that already features considerable technology," Margaret Doyle, press officer for MoMA. "The only additional element for 'The Scream' is the addition of a Plexiglas cover for the work," she said. The work on display in New York, a crayon drawing on board, is one of four versions of "The Scream," and the only one currently not in Norway. The Munch Museum in Oslo owns a version in pastel as well as a painted version, while the National Gallery of ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Woman Ironing (La repasseuse), Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, spring 1904. Oil on canvas, 116.2 x 73 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, Gift, Justin K. Thannhauser© 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Kristopher McKay © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum recently completed extensive conservation work on Picasso’s Woman Ironing and is releasing the findings today. The marquee piece of the “Picasso Black and White” exhibition, currently on display at the Guggenheim, Woman Ironing is proving to be more than simply an evocative portrait of a Parisian laundress. In addition to unveiling a more accurate version of the painting, the conservation work has gleamed insight into the identity of the subject of the underlying painting. The conservation work was made possible through a grant from Bank of America, as part of their global Art Conservation Project, through which the company has helped to restore 70 unique works of significant ... More |
| Sotheby's Auction of 19th Century European Art features discoveries not seen in decades | | Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum art heist may be tied to Belgian cocaine bust security expert says | | LACMA presents the first major exhibition to spotlight Surrealist drawing | 
William Bouguereau, Jeunes filles de Fouesnant revenant du marché. Oil on canvas, 76.8 by 60.6 cm. Est. $500/700,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s bi-annual 19th Century European Art auction in New York will be held on 8 November 2012, featuring 105 exceptional works of art, including masterpieces by William Bouguereau, Giovanni Boldini, Jules Breton and others which have not been available on the market in more than 50 years. The preview exhibition will open in Sotheby’s New York headquarters beginning on 2 November. An important discovery in this sale is a group of six paintings formerly in the collection of self-made American businessman Obed J. Wilson, highlighted by William Bouguereau’s masterful La branche de cerisier (The Cherry Branch) from 1881 (est. $1.5/2 million). The painting was sold to Obed J. Wilson in 1881 within months of leaving the artist’s studio, and he later donated it to Twin Towers Senior Living Community in Cincinnati, Ohio, which he and his wife helped support and where it has remained on display si ... More | | 
Henri Matisse, Reading Girl in White and Yellow, 1919. AP Photo/Police Rotterdam.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Last week's heist of paintings including a Picasso and Monets from a Dutch museum could be linked to the seizure of eight tonnes of cocaine in Belgium days earlier, a security expert said Wednesday. The October 16 theft from Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum saw thieves disappear into the night with seven major artworks, the biggest such crime in 20 years, and is as yet unsolved, with police repeating appeals for witnesses. "A senior police officer called me with the theory that the theft was linked to drug trafficking," Ton Cremers, a former head of security at the world-famous Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, told AFP. The paintings, worth between 50 million and 200 million euros according to different estimates, may have been taken to repay an underworld debt resulting from the seizure of the massive amount of cocaine in Antwerp just four days earlier. "It's just a theory," said Cremers, now a museum security consultant, but "the possibility is great." "In 20 years of th ... More | | 
Louise Bourgeois, Femme Maison, 1947. Ink and gouache on paper. 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Promised gift to The Museum of Modern Art, New York. ©2012 Louise Bourgeois Trust/Licensed by VAGA, NY.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Drawing Surrealism, the first large-scale loan exhibition to focus on drawing as a prevailing form of expression for surrealist artists. Co-organized by LACMA and the Morgan Library & Museum, the show features 250 works by nearly 100 artists from fifteen countries. While institutional appreciation for surrealism typically fixates on painting and sculpture, surrealists found drawing to be the most innovative and immediate means of artistic expression. Drawing Surrealism highlights LACMA’s burgeoning collection of surrealist works on paper and is a testament to the museum’s ongoing recognition of surrealism’s vital role in art history, demonstrated by a wealth of relevant exhibitions in recent years, including Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Dalí: Painting & Film, and In ... More |
| One of the most significant private collections of Australian art for sale at Bonhams | | Picasso and Gentileschi: Exciting loan from Budapest arrives at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery | | Sotheby's to sell the finest single-owner collection of original book illustrations ever offered at auction | 
Sunfly Murtiyarru Tjampitjins, Mens Law at Artists Country at Murunpa, 1991, lent by the Laverty's to Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, a major exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art that travelled to Europe in 1993/94.
SYDNEY.- The private collection of Sydney’s Dr Colin and Mrs Elizabeth Laverty is one of Australia’s greatest, featuring museum-quality works that have been sought by and lent to major galleries around the world, including the Musée du quai Branly in Paris, the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The Laverty Collection auction is estimated to be worth between $4 million to $6 million, with about 300 lots to be sold, making it Australia’s most valuable sale of a single collection of indigenous and non-indigenous contemporary Australian art. It marks the first time an auction of Australian contemporary art will be previewed internationally, in London and New York ... More | | 
Mother and Child by Pablo Picasso © Szépmuvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest.
LIVERPOOL.- Fascinating works by two giants of art history have gone on display at the Walker Art Gallery from Wednesday 24 October until February 2013. Mother and Child (1905), a delicate and tender watercolour of his lover by a young Pablo Picasso and Jael and Sisera (1620), a dramatic and striking biblical scene by Artemisia Gentileschi, are both on loan to the gallery from the Museum of Fine Arts (Szépmüvészeti Múzeum), in Budapest. Sandra Penketh, Director of Art Galleries said: “This is an amazing opportunity to see art works rarely seen in Britain. The fact that we have been able to secure these two pictures on loan is evidence of the Walker Art Gallery's reputation as one of the best galleries in Europe. We are very grateful to the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest for loaning us these two treasures from their collection.” Picasso’s Mother and Child arrived in time for his birthday (25 Oct ... More | | 
"Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin." E.H. Shepard, ink drawing (195 by 145mm) Est: £70,000 -£100,000.
LONDON.- The finest single-owner collection of original book illustrations ever to appear at auction will be presented at Sotheby’s London on 12th December 2012. The unprecedented collection of over 100 ink and watercolour drawings, featuring illustrations by the finest artists and from the most loved books, comes from the private collection of the renowned film director Michael Winner. Alongside E.H. Shepard’s first depiction of Winnie-the-Pooh with Christopher Robin (from Winnie-the-Pooh), the sale will include illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Rackham, William Heath Robinson and John Tenniel. In total, the sale will comprise over 150 lots of illustrations and books, and is estimated to realise in excess of £1 million. Michael ... More |
| Lesley Heller Workspace opens solo show by Devin Powers and a group exhibition | | Glen Gentele appointed Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Orlando Museum of Art | | In Focus: Exhibition of works by Robert Mapplethorpe opens at the J. Paul Getty Museum | 
Devin Powers, Relation, 2011. Oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lesley Heller Workspace presents the paintings of Devin Powers in his first solo gallery exhibition in New York City. Powers explores forms drawn from unusual geometries. He follows the nature of these spaces as well as contradicts them, creating a vibrant dissonance within the order of the composition. Powers gives equal weight to the content embedded in the paintings and the structures that elicit them. In the painting Path, the space feels architectural, evoking the ribs of a vaulted cathedral. In other works, such as the recent painting Storm, the lines seem to be in motion; the dense, layered network manages to summon the drama of action painting. The color and the scraped traces present in the works add to this energy. Powers enjoys the “grit and smudge” of his handmade process. It is a metaphor for “how this Apollonian or Platonic mathematical world brushes against our messy reality.&# ... More | | 
Gentele brings over 21 years of museum and education experience to his new position.
ORLANDO, FL.- The Orlando Museum of Art announced today the appointment of Glen Gentele as Director & CEO after the vote of the Board of Trustees at its October meeting. Mr. Gentele will succeed long time Executive Director, Marena Grant Morrisey, who is retiring at the end of this year. Ted R. Brown, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, said "We are extremely pleased to have Glen Gentele join us with his impressive background and experience, and know that his vision, expertise, and perspective will provide the next generation of leadership needed for the Museum as we look to the future." Gentele brings over 21 years of museum and education experience to his new position, having previously served as President & Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and as Director of Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, where he held a joint appointment as the Aronson Endowed Professor for Modern and Contemporary Art at ... More | | 
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self-Portrait, negative 1980. Gelatin silver print. 35.6 x 35.6 cm. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946–1989) is one of the best-known and most controversial photographers of the second half of the 20th century. As a tastemaker and provocateur, his highly stylized explorations of gender, race, and sexuality became hallmarks of the period and exerted a powerful influence on his contemporaries. In recognition of the 2011 joint acquisition of Mapplethorpe’s art and archival materials with the Getty Research Institute and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Getty Museum presents In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe, on view October 23, 2012–March 24, 2013 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center. Containing 23 images that date from the early 1970s to the late 1980s, the Getty’s exhibition features key last of edition prints, rarely shown early unique mixed-media objects, and Polaroids™, as well as ... More |
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 Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases collages and constructions by Joseph Cornell PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting an installation of works by Joseph Cornell (American, 1903-1972), one of the pioneers of the art of assemblage who was widely admired for his exquisite collages and box constructions. Including rarely-shown objects, this installation brings together for the first time all works by the artist in the Museum’s collection. Among the highlights is Cornell’s fragile and rarely exhibited Untitled Book Object (Journal d’Agriculture Pratique et Journal de l’Agriculture) (1933–45). It is a turn-of-the-century French agricultural manual transformed by Cornell through intricate manipulations of its pages, ranging from foldings and cutouts to insertions of drawings and objects. These interventions turn the book into a unique artwork and an extraordinary example of Cornell’s particular working method. In addition to works ... More First exhibition in Israel of works by Friedrich Adler opens at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art TEL AVIV.- This is the first exhibition in Israel of works by Friedrich Adler (Laupheim, 1878 – Auschwitz, 1942), a member of the Deutscher Werkbund (German Craft Alliance) – an association of designers, architects and manufacturers who paved the way, in the first half of the twentieth century, from Historicism to Jugendstil, to Art Deco and budding Modernism in Germany. The group set out to instill "style and spirit" in the industrial world of capitalism and in the urban landscape (often depicted critically by George Grosz, see lithograph), believing in art's ability to effect a change in society and in the religious hegemony. Adler, considered one of the earliest modern industrial designers, was a contemporary of Walter Gropius (1883-1969), who founded the Bauhaus School in Weimar. Indeed, many in Adler's educational and professional environment – the Debschitz School in Munich and the ... More Government Auction offers superb Redmond painting, diamonds, gold coins on Oct. 28 TEHACHAPI, CA.- Government Auction's Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 auction is brimming with original art, precious gems and other treasures. Antique gold coins, diamond necklaces and a fine oil-on-canvas painting by renowned California Impressionist Granville Redmond (1871-1935) are among the top highlights in the sale. Most of the 1,300 lots have $2 starting bids and will be available to bidders worldwide through LiveAuctioneers.com. The Granville Redmond work, titled "Sunny Stubblefield," is a 9½ by 12½-inch landscape that features a slumbering ranch house surrounded by turquoise skies, old oak trees and blades of California sage grass. The label on verso reveals provenance from "Schussler Bros., Art Dealers, 285 Geary St., San Francisco. Redmond is regarded as one of the first tonalist painters of the California school. As a child, he was deaf due to a bout with scarlet ... More Terra Foundation announces 2013 Academic Award, fellowship & grant opportunities CHICAGO, IL.- Today, the Terra Foundation for American Art announced its 2013 fellowship & academic opportunities, including an international essay prize and visiting professorships in Berlin, London, and Paris, which enable scholars from countries across the globe to study the art of the United States. The foundation’s 2012 fellowship and award recipients represent countries such as Australia, China, Mexico, and Poland. “These fellowships and awards broaden the geographic boundaries of the study of American art and culture, as well as foster a collaborative network of engaged international scholars who will shape the future of American art history for years to come,” said Terra Foundation for American Art President & CEO Elizabeth Glassman. For example, a Terra Foundation research travel grant enabled Lisa Rossi, a doctoral candidate at the Université Paris Diderot examining ... More Clars to host major fine art sale: Important works from Old Masters through the 20th century OAKLAND, CA.- Clars Auction Gallery will offer an impressive array of important fine art in every major category on Sunday, November 11, 2012. In the 20th century European, Modern category, one of the highlights of the sale is an impressive pen and ink drawing by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881- 1973), titled, “Nue Accroupi” (1902 – Cat Ref. Zervos, Vol. VI, no. 459) for $50,000 to $70,000. In addition, Clars will be featuring a rare, Surrealist painting (that was purchased from the Atlantic Richfield Collection) titled, “Vagaries of War (1946),” by French artist, Henri Bernard Goetz (1909- 1989) for $20,000 to $40,000. Also, we are pleased to be offering a beautiful, Post-Expressionistic oil on canvas, “St. Tropez,” by Paul Augustin Aizpiri (French, b. 1919) for $20,000 to $25,000. The American, Modern and Contemporary categories will be equally as astounding. For the fourth time in less ... More Diebenkorn's "Green" tops Bonhams $1.7 million prints auction in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The fall Fine Prints auction at Bonhams, October 23 in San Francisco, brought an impressive $1.7 million, led by the $338,500 sale of Richard Diebenkorn’s “Green.” The largely-green etching surpassed its pre-sale estimate of $200,000-300,000 to top the auction’s highlights, and its sale marks the second-highest amount ever paid for the work at auction. Another work by Diebenkorn “Blue,” woodcut in colors, sold well, bringing $37,500 (est. $40,000-60,000). The auction also celebrated top lots by Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Childe Hassam and Salvador Dali. Of impressive note, falling perfectly within their pre-sale estimate ranges were Miró’s “André Breton, Constellations,” a lithograph and 21 pochoir reproductions, with text by André Breton, which brought $60,000 (est. $50,000-70,000) and a portrait by Picasso “La Dame à la Collerette (Portrait de ... More Texas-sized Charlie Thomas Collection brings $7.4 million at Dallas auction BLENHEIM, ON.- RM Auctions continued its strong track record for hosting successful single-vendor sales in Texas on the weekend (October 20), generating more than $7.4 million in sales, with 100 percent of lots sold at the Charlie Thomas Collection sale near Dallas, Texas. The result of more than two decades of dedicated acquisition by prominent Texas businessman and former owner of the Houston Rockets, Charlie Thomas, the single-day sale presented a total of 175 quality American collector cars without reserve to a global audience. Illustrating RM’s expertise in the cataloguing and marketing of private collections, the sale attracted bidders from eight countries around the world and 31 states across the United States, with 43 percent of bidders representing first-time clientele. “The Charlie Thomas Collection featured a wide array of pre- and post-war American convertibles” says ... More |
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