| Sotheby's to sell re-discovered oil study for Peder Severin Krøyer masterpiece | | Van Dongen works lead sale of a European corporate collection at Christie's Amsterdam | | Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale to be held on 5 November 2012 in New York | 
Marie Krøyer and Anna Ancher on the Beach at Skagen (detail) by Peder Severin Krøyer, Estimate: £150,000-250,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On 20 November 2012 Sotheby’s London will offer the recently re-discovered oil study Marie Krøyer and Anna Ancher on the Beach at Skagen by Danish artist Peder Severin Krøyer (1851 – 1909) in a sale of 19th Century European Paintings, together with a group of important works by Scandinavian artists. The study, estimated at £150,000-250,000, is one of four recorded preparatory oil paintings that relate to Krøyer’s large-scale ‘blue period’ masterpiece Summer Evening on Skagen’s South Beach in the Skagen Museum, Denmark. Painted in 1893, the motif is arguably the high point of the artist’s exploration of mood painting. The finished work in the Skagen Museum and the related four oils capture the carefree existence and cosmopolitan elegance that defined the isolated painting community that flourished in Skagen at the tip of Jutland at the end of the nineteenth century. Compellingly evoc ... More | | 
Kees van Dongen, Cannes sous la pluie. Oil on painters board, 36 x 27.5 cm. Estimate: € 100.000-150.000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
AMSTERDAM.- Christie’s Amsterdam announced the auction of a European Corporate Collection on 4 December 2012, which will include a beautiful array of Impressionist and Modern paintings, watercolours and sculptures. Comprising approximately 100 works, this corporate collection was carefully and passionately construed over 25 years and provides a rich understanding of Dutch art history from 1880 to 1950. The entire collection is expected to realize in excess of € 1 million. The Dutch Impressionists of the collection are exemplified by Isaac Israels, George Hendrik Breitner and Hendrik Jan Wolter. Further highlights include works by orientalist painter Marius Bauer, a museum piece from the Magic Realism period: Het Signaal (The Signal) by Pyke Koch (€150,000-200,000), two works by Wim Schuhmacher including a portrait of the Amsterdam canal House with the ... More | | 
Claude Monet, Iris. Oil on canvas. Painted 1914-17. Est. $4/6 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s annual fall Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York will be held on 5 November 2012, featuring a significant group of works by Pablo Picasso that includes two examples of his acclaimed and sought-after portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter. The auction is further distinguished by works from both prominent estates and important American museum collections, including works by Paul Cézanne, Henry Moore, Claude Monet and more. Select pieces from the sale have traveled to Hong Kong, London and Moscow, and will return for exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 1 November. Painted in March 1932, the year that is recognized as the pinnacle of Pablo Picasso’s near-century long production, Nature morte aux tulipes is one of the artist’s most powerful representations of his iconic muse (est. $35/50 million*). The work is a synthesis of the two main media – pai ... More |
| Scarce works by Rembrandt, van Gogh, Beckmann among highlights from Swann Galleries sale | | Jeu de Paume offers a bold contemporary view of Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo | | Court orders Franz Kafka scripts moved to Israel library, put on display and later online | 
Vincent van Gogh, Homme à la Pipe: Portrait du Docteur Gachet, etching, 1890. Estimate: $60,000 to $90,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Print connoisseurs and collectors of Salvador Dalí’s work will have a treat this Halloween, when Swann Galleries offers an outstanding assortment of Old Master Through Modern Prints, followed by a collection of Prints, Drawings & Livres d’Artiste by Salvador Dalí. There are more than 280 old master prints offered in the sale, which include a section of 50 exceptional etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn. Among these are Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print), circa 1643-49, considered the artist’s most ambitious, complex and highly worked composition as a printmaker, which was known in the 17th century for being valued at a hundred guilders or more, now estimated at $150,000 to $200,000. There is also one of the artist’s largest and most complex prints, Christ Before Pilate: Large Plate, 1635-36 ($50,000 to $80,000); a crisp impression of the extremely scarce Self Portrait Lean ... More | | 
Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Retrato desagradable (Portrait désagréable), 1945. Épreuve gélatino-argentique tardive. Collection Colette Urbajtel /Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo, s.c.
PARIS.- Getting away from the stereotypes about exotic Surrealism and the folkloric vision of Mexican culture, this exhibition of work by Manuel Álvarez Bravo at Jeu de Paume offers a boldly contemporary view of this Mexican photographer. The photographic work done by Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Mexico City, 1902-2002) over his eight decades of activity represent an essential contribution to Mexican culture in the 20th century. His strange and fascinating images have often been seen as the product of an exotic imagination or an eccentric version of the Surrealist avant-garde. This exhibition will go beyond such readings. While not denying the links with Surrealism and the clichés relating to Mexican culture, the selection of 150 photographs is designed to bring out a specific set of iconographic themes running through Álvarez Bravo’s practice: reflections and trompe-l’œil effects ... More | | 
File photo of author Franz Kafka. AP Photo/HO, File.
By: Lauren E. Bohn
JERUSALEM (AP).- After a long, tangled journey that Franz Kafka could have written about himself, an unseen treasure of writings by the surrealist author will be put on display and later online, an Israeli court ruled in documents released Sunday. Ownership of the papers had been in dispute after the Israeli National Library claimed them, over the wishes of two sisters who had inherited the vast collection of rare documents from their mother and insisted on keeping them. Friday's ruling by the Tel Aviv District Family Court ordered the collection to be transferred to the library in Jerusalem, which had argued that Max Brod, Kafka's close friend, had bequeathed the manuscripts to the library in his will. The two sisters, Eva Hoffe and Ruth Wiesler, had inherited the documents from their mother, Brod's secretary, and had been storing them in a Tel Aviv apartment and bank vaults. Kafka, a Jewish Prague native who wrote in German, is known for his dark tales of ... More |
| Sotheby's announces first offering of European decorative arts in Asia this November | | Guangzhou International Finance Centre in China wins 2012 RIBA Lubetkin Prize | | Rare marble figure of a Buddhist disciple from the Tang Dynasty dated 718 for sale at Bonhams | 
Detail of The Concert Interval by Arturo Ricci, Italian, 1854-1919, signed Arturo Ricci lower left, oil on canvas, 69.2 x 93 cm.
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong is to present Age of Elegance, a selling exhibition of European Paintings, Furniture and Works of Art from nineteenth-century Europe, from 8 to 16 November 2012 at the company’s Hong Kong Gallery on the 5th Floor of One Pacific Place, Admiralty. The exhibition marks the first occasion Sotheby’s has offered decorative arts for sale in Asia. Comprising twenty-six items of furniture, eighteen paintings, six pieces of silver and four sculptures, each work has been selected to showcase the artistic and technical excellence that flourished in the European decorative arts in the nineteenth century. The group represents the pinnacle of European achievements in their era. Prices range from US$30,000 to US$1 million / HK$234,000 to 7.8 million. Patti Wong, Chairman of Sotheby’s Asia, commented: ‘‘Sotheby’s has created this unique opportunity for our clients to experienc ... More | | 
The Guangzhou International Finance Centre in China is a 440m tower and the tallest building in the world by a UK architect. Photo: Christian Richters.
LONDON.- Guangzhou International Finance Centre in China by Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) 2012 Lubetkin Prize for the best new international building. Now in its sixth year, the RIBA Lubetkin Prize is awarded to the architects of the best new building outside the European Union. The presentation of the RIBA Lubetkin Prize trophy took place at a special ceremony this Saturday 13 October in Manchester. The Guangzhou International Finance Centre in China is a 440m tower and the tallest building in the world by a UK architect. It has a mixture of uses including office space, a luxury hotel and a top floor sightseeing area. At ground level, the tower connects with a substantial podium complex containing a retail mall, conference centre and high quality serviced apartments. The successful plan responds to the ... More | | 
A fascinating sculpture of a Buddhist disciple. Estimate: £200,000 to £300,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams will offer this fascinating sculpture of a Buddhist disciple for £200,000 to £300,000 in its sale of Fine Chinese Art on November 8 in London. The interest in the piece itself is enhanced by its connection to the great French collector, Léonce Filatriau. Born in Pondichéry, India, in 1875, he went on to a political career that took him from India to Dahomey in French West Africa and then Indochina (Viet Nam). During his 35 years spent in the Far East, Léonce Filatriau patiently built up an imposing collection of Chinese art objects, including this rare Tang Dynasty marble figure, which was the highlight of his collection. The marble figure of the Buddhist disciple, probably Ananda, is remarkable for its documentary inscription incised on the reverse of the pedestal, which may be translated as 'Made respectfully on the 12th day of the 4th month of the 5th year of the Kaiyuan era in the Great Tang' corresponding ... More |
| Bonhams to sell one of Australia's great unknown antique collections from Graham and Elizabeth Cocks | | Auctions Neapolitan presents Collectors' Delight fine and decorative art auction | | Daguerreotype of photographer brings $15,000 at Kaminski Fall Photography Sale | 
Top item in the sale is an important Australian cedar and casuarina longcase clock, by James Oatley, circa 1822, estimated to sell for $250,000 -350,000. Photo: Bonhams.
SYDNEY.- Bonhams announced the sale of the late Graham and Elizabeth Cocks Collection which will be sold in two parts, Part I on the 18th November at the Byron Kennedy Hall in Sydney and Part II the following weekend at Unit 14, 888 Bourke Street Waterloo, Sydney. The collection offers buyers a unique opportunity to purchase items from one of Australia’s great collections. The collection itself includes more than 1300 items and spans English, European, Asian and Australian Decorative Arts and was formed over a period of 50 years. Many of the pieces offered for sale have not been seen on the market since the 1970s. The collection includes, Australian Furniture, Australian, English and Chinese Silver, Australian Jewellery, Australian Pottery and Ceramics, Australiana, English and European Ceramics, Chinese Porcelain, Japanese ... More | | 
Hendrick P. Koekkoek (Dutch, 1843-circa 1890) and Albert Roosenboom (Belgian, 1845-1873) landscape with figures, oil on canvas, est. $3,000-$5,000. Auctions Neapolitan image.
NAPLES, FL.- At this year’s fall edition of their popular Collectors’ Delight auction, Auctions Neapolitan will offer 640 lots of excellent-quality fine and decorative art from several local consignors. The Oct. 20 auction features two headliners: the personal art collection of the late Margaret “Peg” Longstreath-Goldberg, who owned a respected contemporary art gallery in Naples; and hand-picked selections from a local residence in elite Port Royal. An overview of the auction reveals an abundance of 19th- and 20th-century fine and decorative art, contemporary paintings, American, English and Continental silver; Tiffany glass, Meissen and Sevres; Asian ivories, French clocks and furniture. An oil-on-canvas forest scene with figures – regarded as one of the top paintings in the sale – was a collaboration between two accomplished Continental painters: Hendrick Pieter Koekkoek (Dutch, 1843-circa 18 ... More | | 
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, occupational of a young photographer sitting beside his camera, full leather case, 4 1/2"h x 3/5"w. Resealed.
BEVERLY, MASS.- On October 3rd and 4th Kaminski Auctions of Beverly, Massachusetts held a two evening photography sale with over 200 daguerreotypes from a single 30-year collection from Rochester, New York. The evening got off to an encouraging start as a 1/4 plate, occupational daguerreotype, with full leather case of a young photographer sitting beside his camera sold for $17,550, against a pre-auction estimate of $5000-$7000. The daguerreotype was the cover lot of the sale catalog, and had multiple collectable themes things going for it. It was a great image, an occupational, and a self –portrait, in addition to being an exceedingly handsome young photographer shown with his camera. The second top lot of the sale was surprisingly, a 1/4 plate daguerreotype, an image of an outdoor scene, an old mill possibly located in Herkimer, NY, contained in a fancy thermoplastic wall frame which sold ... More |
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 Historic mosque burned in ancient Syrian city By: Barbara Surk, Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP).- A landmark mosque in Aleppo was burned, scarred by bullets and trashed — the latest casualty of Syria's civil war — and President Bashar Assad on Monday ordered immediate repairs to try to stem Muslim outrage at the desecration of the 12th century site. The Umayyad Mosque suffered extensive damage, as has the nearby medieval covered market, or souk, which was gutted by a fire that was sparked by fighting two weeks ago. The market and the mosque are centerpieces of Aleppo's walled Old City, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Government troops had been holed up in the mosque for months before rebels launched a push this week to drive them out. Activists and Syrian government officials blamed each other for the ... More Chinese scientist says prehistoric man ate pandas BEIJING (AP).- China's beloved national symbol — the panda — may have been seen quite differently by ancient humans: as food. Scientist Wei Guangbiao says prehistoric man ate pandas in an area that is now part of the city of Chongqing in southwest China. Wei, head of the Institute of Three Gorges Paleoanthropology at a Chongqing museum, says many excavated panda fossils "showed that pandas were once slashed to death by man." The Chongqing Morning Post quoted him Friday as saying: "In primitive times, people wouldn't kill animals that were useless to them" and therefore the pandas must have been used as food. But he says pandas were much smaller then. Wei says wild pandas lived in Chongqing's high mountains 10,000 to 1 million years ago. The Chinese government invests greatly in studying the native species and trying to ensure its survival. Pandas number ... More Modern Art Oxford appoints Interim Director OXFORD.- Modern Art Oxford announced the appointment of David Thorp as Interim Director. Currently Associate Director for Artes Mundi, David is a well-respected curator and director who held directorial positions at South London Gallery, The Showroom and Chisenhale Gallery, he was Curator of Contemporary Projects at The Henry Moore Foundation and has curated shows at the Royal Academy and PS1 MoMA New York among many others. David has been appointed following the death of Modern Art Oxford’s Director, Michael Stanley in late September. Chair of the Trustees, David Isaac said today, “David has the experience to lead the gallery as Interim Director during this difficult time and to support the staff to deliver Modern Art Oxford’s programme of exhibitions and strategic projects. Recruitment for a new Director will commence in late 2012”. David will work with ... More MoMA commissions six international choreographers to present dance performances at the museum NEW YORK, NY.- Artist and choreographer Ralph Lemon has co-organized a three-week program of dance performances by six internationally renowned choreographers for The Museum of Modern Art. Commissioned by MoMA, Some sweet day is being presented in the Museum’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium from October 15 to November 4, 2012. The series showcases three pairings of six internationally renowned choreographers—Steve Paxton and Jérôme Bel, Faustin Linyekula and Dean Moss, Deborah Hay and Sarah Michelson—each engaged in an aesthetic, generational, and historical dialogue about dance. In bringing together choreographers from different backgrounds and eras, Some sweet day demonstrates how the current state of dance can engage with a variety of subjects such as aesthetics, gender, race, and history. Concurrently—by putting ... More Historic Treme in New Orleans celebrates 200 years By: Chevel Johnson and Stacey Plaisance, Associated Press
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