| A newly discovered painting of King Charles I's wife by Anthony Van Dyck on display for the first time to public | | Oslo's Astrup Fearnley Museet designed by Renzo Piano opens to the public | | First major UK retrospective of Federico Beltrán-Masses opens at Stair Sainty Gallery | 
Attributed to Van Dyck, Queen Henrietta Maria (1609 -69), as St Catherine. © Philip Mould Ltd.
LONDON.- Queen Henrietta Maria (1609 -69), as St Catherine is believed to be Sir Anthony Van Dyck’s final portrait of the Queen, lost for centuries and only recently re-discovered and the public will now be able to see Henrietta Maria as she returns to Banqueting House on Whitehall, a place that would have been very familiar to the French wife of King Charles I. Lent to Historic Royal Palaces the charity that looks after Banqueting House, by Philip Mould Ltd, and featured on last night’s BBC One's Fake or Fortune series, the small painting measuring only 76cm x 64cm is a half-length portrait of Henrietta Maria as St Catherine wearing the Imperial Crown. There is no early reference to this painting and up until now this image survived in a number of versions, none of them of high enough quality to be attributed with certainty to Van Dyck suggesting they were contemporary or later copies of a lost original by the artist. Van Dyck was the most important Flemish painter o ... More | | 
One building houses the museum’s permanent collection and the other houses temporary exhibitions. Photo: Nic Lehoux.
OSLO.- Norway’s most important contemporary art museum, Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, designed by Renzo Piano, opened to the public on 29 September 2012. The museum launched with To Be With Art Is All We Ask, an exhibition with works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection. The new museum is already being hailed as one of the outstanding new museums worldwide. Located on a landmark site on the edge of the fjord and divided into two halves separated by water, the museum is a spectacular architectural addition to the waterfront, constructed out of wood with a dramatic double curved glass roof. One building houses the museum’s permanent collection and the other houses temporary exhibitions, a café and shop. In addition, the museum has its own bathing beach and lies next to a sculpture park stretching along the shores of the fjord. The museum covers an area of 7,000 square metres on the ... More | | 
Federico Beltrán-Masses, Mr. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 1932. Oil on canvas, 196 x 130 cm (77 x 51.5 in). Photo: Courtesy Stair Sainty Gallery.
LONDON.- Stair Sainty Gallery present the first major UK retrospective of the late Cuban-born, Spanish artist Federico Beltrán-Masses. The exhibition will include his controversial nude Salome, which was painted in Paris in 1918 and exhibited at the XII Venice Biennale in 1920 in a pavilion dedicated solely to his paintings; there it earned the artist comparisons to the Venetian Masters. Critic Camille Mauclair waxed lyrical about the talents of Beltrán-Masses: ‘like Veronese, like Tiepolo, like Tintoretto…this Spaniard has all the chromatic delight of the Venetian masters…a picture is lyrical drama.’ Notwithstanding its artistic merits, Salome is an undeniably erotic painting and the artist removed it from an exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London, in 1929, when the painting’s overt sexuality caused outcry. Support from critics and the exhibitions’ patron - the Spanish Ambas ... More |
| An encounter with the 1930s at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia | | Period Art & Design Sale to feature fine paintings and large array of snuff bottles | | First exclusive Leica camera and accessory sale announced at Bonhams in Hong Kong | 
Ad Reinhardt, Collage, 1940. Printed paper, cut and pasted on wood. 39.8 x 33.6 cm. MoMA, New York. Gift of the artist, 1967.
MADRID.- Encounters with the 1930s, one of the most important exhibitions of the season, is the Museum’s contribution to the commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the creation of Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso’s emblematic art work. The show, jointly organized by the Museum’s departments of Collections and Exhibitions, will occupy a surface of more than 2,000 square meters divided into two areas. The first, on the second floor, will contain part of the permanent collection, with Guernica as the central point of the itinerary. The other section, on the first floor, will analyze the paths traced by artists in their interpersonal and international relationships while seeking to spur their creativity. The show is made up of more than four hundred exhibits from prestigious institutions around the world, both Spanish (IVAM, Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña, Filmoteca Nacional, Filmoteca de Cataluña, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Residencia de Estudiantes, the ... More | | 
Manner of François Hubert Drouais, A portrait of a young woman, bust length. Oil on canvas, oval, 24 x 19 1/2in. Est. $4,000 - 6,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams Period Art & Design auction, October 14, will present a strong selection of offerings from an artistically curated Private San Francisco Estate Collection, whose residuary beneficiaries include the California Pacific Medical Center Foundation. Special highlights from this estate will include an oil on board, Continental School of The lion hunt (est. $2,000-3,000) and an early 20th century, Vienna, cold painted erotic bronze of a metamorphic owl by Franz Bergman (est. $800-1,200). The owl is perched on a book and hinges open to reveal a female nude, depicted bathing. Also of note from the collection will come a pair of 20th century Burmese giltwood heraldic rampant lions (est. $600-800); as well as paintings, additional Continental items, dresser boxes, glasswear, stemware and porcelains. A broad selection of Fine Art will appear in the sale, including European paintings and works on paper, with such ... More | | 
The sale includes over 250 lots of Leica cameras and accessories from two major private collections. Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- Bonhams will hold a unique trail-blazing sale of Leica cameras in Hong Kong on November 23, the first such auction sale of its kind.
The sale will be on view at Bonhams Knightsbridge, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH from the 21st-24th October before being shipped to Hong Kong for sale. The sale includes over 250 lots of Leica cameras and accessories from two major private collections including items from the estate of the late Dr George Daniels who was undoubtedly the most famous and well-respected watchmaker this world has known. Since 1969, Dr Daniels worked hard to successfully continue and revive the world of hand made mechanical watches which were threatened by the emergence of the quartz watch. The proceeds from the Daniels collection will fund the George Daniels Educational Trust that furthers the higher education of pupils studying the disciplines of horology, engineering, medicine or building constructi ... More |
| "A Revolution in Painting: Barbizon to Impressionism" opens at Franklin Bowles Galleries | | Ketterer Kunst in Munich announces Modern & Post War/Contemporary Art Sale | | Distinguished private collections lead Christie's New York Sale of Important Silver and Objects of Vertu | 
Delphin Enjolras, Femme à son bureau, pastel on paper on canvas, 22.7 x 20.9 in. Photo: Courtesy Franklin Bowles Galleries.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Franklin Bowles Galleries announces the opening of a new collection of works “A Revolution in Painting: Barbizon to Impressionism.” Dr. Jean Audigier takes built a collection that explores the evolution of painting from the Barbizon period through Impressionism. In the Woody Allen movie, Midnight in Paris, we are transported to Paris at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th where we meet Lautrec, Degas, Gauguin, and Picasso. In the catalog that accompanies this exhibition, Dr. Jean Audigier will take you back to an earlier part of the 19th century when the school of Barbizon painters and their contemporaries started the revolution which led to the creation of Impressionism. Here you’ll meet Millet, Diaz, Dupré, and Bonheur. In the 19th century, Paris was a magical place which attracted artists from all over France, Europe and the world like a giant magnet. ... More | | 
Oskar Schlemmer, Umarmung II, 1942. Estimate: 18,000 EUR / $23,400.
MUNICH.- Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol, to name but a few big international names that will be called up at Ketterer Kunst’s first autumn auction on 19 and 20 October 2012: • Modern Art & Side lines of the German Avant-garde • Post War/Contemporary Art For an amount in the three-digit or lower four digit Euro realms, works by renowned artists such as Max Beckmann, Joseph Beuys, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Paul Cézanne, Otto Dix, Lucio Fontanta, Sam Francis, Keith Haring, Erich Heckel, David Hockney, Jörg Immendorff, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Roy Lichtenstein, Max Liebermann, Markus Lüpertz, August Macke, Jonathan Meese, Joan Miró, Otto Mueller, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Hermann Pechstein, Sigmar Polke, Neo Rauch, Gerhard Richter, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Pierre Soulages, Günther Uecker and Andy Warhol can be obtained. “This is the perfect ... More | | 
A magnificent Swiss gold, ruby, diamond, and enamel zarf, Geneva, circa 1840. Estimate- $150,000 - $200,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On October 19, Christie’s will present the sale of Important Silver and Objects of Vertu, which will offer 240 significant lots ranging from a magnificent bejeweled zarf, to classical and modern works by Paul Storr and Georg Jensen. Works of exceptional and royal provenance will be offered, as the sale features property from multiple private collections including Property from the Estate of Benjamin F. Edwards III and The Roger Yaseen Collection of Paul Storr Silver. The sale is expected to realize in excess of $4 million. Paul Storr is synonymous with the great age of English silver, the Regency, when George IV, known as the ‘engine of fashion’, led the taste for grand silver objects inspired by Roman antiquity. From 1807 to 1819, Storr ran the immense workshops of the Royal goldsmiths, Rundell Bridge and Rundell, where he translated the drawings and models of artists such as John Flaxman an ... More |
| Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art researchers hunt down history with few clues | | Roy Lichtenstein's 1964 Sunrise; Sunset leads Modern & Contemporary event at Heritage Auctions | | Milwaukee Art Museum has third-highest attendance year to date; over 395,000 visitors | 
Sol Wilson, Fishermen on a Wharf, n.d. (detail) Collection of the New York City Department of Education.
AUBURN, ALA.- Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University is exhibiting the politically charged collection “Advancing American Art” in the most complete grouping since 1948 in “Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy.” One hundred seven of the original 117 works that were part of the final sale are accounted for in the touring exhibition, and 106 are on display at Jule Collins Smith Museum through January 5, 2013; but, according to Dennis Harper, one of the principal curators, 10 paintings are still on the most wanted list. The hope is that through the exhibition and publications, someone out there might recognize a missing piece of history. For Harper and his colleagues, the effort involved in tracking down the artwork is similar to detective work. In addition to researching museum web sites and inventories, they questioned expert witnesses. “We talked to friends of ours in the field ... More | | 
Roy Lichtenstein’, Sunrise; Sunset, 1964. Ink and graphite on paper. Estimate: $400,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Roy Lichtenstein’s 1964 ink and graphite on paper masterpiece, Sunrise; Sunset, is expected to realize more than $400,000 when it comes across the auction block as the lead lot in Heritage Auctions’ Oct. 23 Modern & Contemporary Art Signature® Auction, taking place at the company’s Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. “In 1964 Fiddler On The Roof was the toast of Broadway, where it went on to win 9 Tony Awards, one of which was for Best Musical,” said Frank Hettig, Director of Modern & Contemporary Art at Heritage. “The Act 1 closer, ‘Sunrise, Sunset,’ was a pop culture phenomenon and one of the Broadway canon’s most memorable tunes. Certainly Lichtenstein was aware of this popular and infectious tune when he created this remarkable set of drawings with the same title.” By the time this wonderfully reductive painting emerged from Lichtenstein’s mind, three i ... More | | 
Jules Chéret, Pantomimes lumineuses, 1892. Color lithograph. Sheet: 48 3/4 x 34 3/4 in. Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milton F. Gutglass. M1998.160. Photo: John R. Glembin.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum today released its final attendance numbers for its fiscal year, which ended August 31, 2012. Over 395,000 visitors entered the Museum’s galleries in 2011-2012, making it the third-highest attended year ever, behind 2002 and 2003 when the Calatrava-designed addition opened. “We are pleased to see that the community and the region recognize what an extraordinary art museum and gathering place we have right here in Milwaukee,” said Daniel Keegan, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. “And it’s thrilling to know that visitors from all fifty states and more than a dozen countries around the world travel to our Midwestern city to experience the beauty and splendor of this great Museum, its architecture, and its art.” Keegan credits the boost in attendance to the feature exhibitions Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper, ... More |
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 China moves to close Ai Weiwei's design firm BEIJING (AP).- Chinese authorities are revoking the business license of a design company associated with famed dissident artist Ai Weiwei. A posting on the blog of legal consultant Liu Xiaoyuan said the district commercial affairs department had informed Ai on Sunday that it was pulling the license of Fake Cultural Development Ltd. for failing to re-register. A copy of the department's letter was posted to Liu's blog. That followed a court's ruling on Thursday denying Ai's appeal of a $2.4 million fine against the company for alleged tax evasion. Ai claims the charges were fabricated and won't pay the $1.1 million balance on the fine, although authorities have confiscated the company's legal documents. Ai was detained without explanation for three months last year, apparently as punishment for his political activism. ... More Bonhams to sell antiquities of a man who caught one of the last American ships out of Nazi Europe LONDON.- Bonhams’ sales of Antiquities in London on October 23 - 24 feature a collection of works belonging to a man who sailed on one the last American ships out of Nazi Europe before Pearl Harbor. Bonhams is delighted to bring the Joseph Klein Collection, which has been in storage for nearly thirty years, to a new generation of collectors. The Antiquities are estimated to sell for £225,000. Part I of The Joseph Klein Collection of Antiquities will be offered at our Knightsbridge saleroom, London on October 23. Part II of The Joseph Klein Collection of Antiquities will be offered at our New Bond Street saleroom, London on October 24. Part I of The Joseph Klein collection of Souvenirs of the Grand Tour will be offered through the Fine Furniture, Decorative Arts & Chinese Export Porcelain Sale, San Francisco on October 29. Part II will be offered through the Period Art & Design Sale, San ... More $2 million in gems, gold stolen from California museum SAN FRANCISCO (AP).- California investigators searched Monday for thieves who made off with an estimated $2 million in precious gems and gold from a mining museum in the Sierra Nevada foothills during a brazen daytime robbery. But they didn't get away with the biggest prize of all — the nearly 14-pound Fricot Nugget, a giant crystalline gold mass unearthed in the Gold Rush era. During their attempt to grab the massive nugget, the robbers triggered an alarm that alerted authorities who swarmed the museum but were unable to nab the thieves. At least two robbers wearing hoods and armed with pickaxes threatened workers during the heist Friday at the California Mining and Minerals Museum in Mariposa, the California Highway Patrol said. No suspects have been identified. The two museum employees who were onsite during the crime were not injured, but they remained shaken ... More Show on Jesus' wife papyrus delayed amid doubts BOSTON (AP).- The premiere of the Smithsonian Channel's documentary on a papyrus fragment that purports to show Jesus referring to his wife has been delayed until further tests can be done amid doubts about the fragment's authenticity. Research about the fourth-century papyrus fragment was released last month by Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King. She said it didn't prove Jesus was married, only that some early Christians believed he was. The text, written in Coptic, contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he identifies as Mary. He also says she can be his disciple. King has said the fragment, which she called the Gospel of Jesus' Wife, doesn't prove Jesus was married, only that some early Christians thought he was. Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was unmarried. Any evidence to the contrary would shake up debates about priestly ... More Yuri Gagarin to go to Royal Observatory Greenwich LONDON.- The British Council, Royal Museums Greenwich, and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) announced that the statue of Yuri Gagarin, currently sited on The Mall, has found a permanent home in Britain at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. The statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was originally unveiled on Thursday 14 July 2011 by HRH Prince Michael of Kent and the cosmonaut’s daughter, Elena Gagarina. It was a gift from Roscosmos to the British Council to mark the 50th Anniversary of Manned Space Flight. Westminster City Council granted permission for the statue to be sited on the Mall, opposite the statue of Captain Cook, for a period of 15 months. The British Council, Royal Observatory and Roscosmos have agreed that after the statue leaves the Mall, it will be installed permanently in Greenwich, subject to planning permission. The Royal Observatory, home ... More John Lennon drawings coming to NYC gallery NEW YORK (AP).- Fans can see another artistic side of John Lennon in New York City this week. An exhibition will feature 100 drawings and sketches by the late Beatle. It's called "The Artwork of John Lennon." The show runs Friday through Oct. 9 at 130 Prince St. in SoHo. It marks what would have been Lennon's 72nd birthday. The works cover the years 1964 to 1980, the year Lennon was fatally shot outside his Manhattan apartment building. The exhibition is being presented by his widow, Yoko Ono, as well as Bag One Arts and Legacy Productions. A $2 donation is suggested, and the funds will benefit Citymeals-on-Wheels. Lennon's art consists of quick sketches and the Oriental technique of sumi ink drawings. ... More |
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