| Christie's London Autumn Russian Art Week Sales achieve a combined $26.7 million | | Sotheby's London November 2012 Russian Art Sales Series concludes realising $33 million | | Napoleon's letter in which he vows to 'blow up Kremlin' for sale in Fontainebleau | 
An important badge and star of the order of Saint Andrew which achieved £481,250 (estimate: £120,000-180,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
LONDON.- Christies concluded its autumn sales of Russian Art in London achieving a combined total of £16.7million/US$26.7 million/€20,6 million. The sale of Important Russian Art on 26 November was highlighted by Boris Kustodiev's "The Coachman‟, which achieved a world record price at auction for the artist realising £4.4 million (estimate: 1,500,000-2,000,000). A further highlight was an important badge and star of the order of Saint Andrew which achieved £481,250 (estimate: £120,000-180,000). Top lots in the auction of An Important Collection of Russian Books and Manuscripts with Imperial Provenance on 29 November included Heraldry, an illuminated manuscript drawn by Assessor Andrei Grekov, which realized £205,250 (estimate: £50,000-200,000). Sven Becker, Director of Books and Manuscripts, London, says: “We are very pleased that, on the eve of the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the Romanov dynasty, ... More | | 
Vasily Vasilievich Vereshchagin (1842-1904), Transportation of the Wounded bearing American Art Association stamp on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 101.5 by 352cm, 40 by 138 1/2 in. Estimate: 800,000-1,200,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London November 2012 Russian Art Sales Series concluded on Tuesday, realising the within pre-sale expectations total of £20,553,775/$32,959,940 (est. £16,972,400-£24,363,000). This sum brings Sotheby’s 2012 global total for auctions of Russian Art to $63,828,414, reconfirming Sotheby’s dominance as global leader in the market for Russian Art, for the tenth consecutive year. “In a year in which Sotheby’s has exceeded the $1 billion benchmark for Russian Art sold by the company in the past 10 years through auction sales, we are absolutely delighted with the results we have achieved this week, which further reinforces the company’s dominance in this field” commented Jo Vickery, Senior Director and Head of the Russian Art department in London on the results of Sotheby’s Russian Art ... More | | 
Jean-Christophe Chataigniera holds up a letter dictated and signed by Napoleon in secret code that declares his intentions "to blow up the Kremlin". AP Photo/Christophe Ena.
PARIS (AFP).- A coded letter in which Napoleon Bonaparte vows to blow up the Kremlin goes under the hammer near Paris in December, 200 years after the French invasion of Russia. "I will blow up the Kremlin on the 22nd at three am," reads the missive written in numbers and signed "Nap", expected to fetch between 10,000 and 15,000 euros (13,000 to 20,000 dollars) at the sale in Fontainebleau. Dated October 20, 1812, the day after Napoleon retreated from the centre of Moscow, it is addressed to his external relations minister Hugues-Bernard Maret. Napoleon's order was carried out by Marshal Mortier, who destroyed several towers and sections of wall at the Kremlin, at the time both an imperial palace and military fortress. The towers were later rebuilt identically. "Letters written by Napoleon from Russia are rare," said Alain Nicolas, expert for the ... More |
| Mandala for Crusoe: New works by Francesco Clemente at Blain/Southern in London | | Jimi Hendrix owned and worn 'gypsy style' vest leads Heritage Auctions entertainment and music event | | Sotheby's Paris announces sale of Art Nouveau masterpieces formerly in the Garden Museum, Nagoya | 
Francesco Clemente, Newspaper mandala, 2012. Oil and pigments on linen, 182.9 x 182.9 cm / (72 x 72 in). Photo: Eric Vigil. Courtesy of the artist and Blain|southern.
LONDON.- Blain|Southern announced an exhibition of new works by Francesco Clemente, Mandala for Crusoe, the artist’s first London show in seven years. This recent series brings together 14 paintings which continue Clemente’s singular pictorial language, gathering together myriad cultural references and merging timeless symbols, iconic imagery and philosophies. Inspired by the symbolism of the originally Buddhist and Hindu Mandala, this form, combined with allusions to more classical and mythological tropes, becomes apertinent description of the world as a whole, now and throughout history. Eastern spiritual traditions identify the mandala as a conduit to a deeper level of consciousness, allowing the meditator a sense of oneness with the cosmos. Conversely, at the centre of Clemente’s mandala is the empty, mundane life: a man smokes as he reads a newspaper, while another busies ... More | | 
Jimi Hendrix owned and worn gypsy-style vest from the Collection of Stevens Weiss, Hendrix's Lawyer. Estimate: $10,000 - up.
DALLAS, TX.- A stunning Jimi Hendrix owned and worn gypsy-style vest, a gift to Stevens Weiss, Hendrix’s attorney and good friend, is expected to bring more than $15,000 as the lead music memorabilia lot in Heritage Auctions’ Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature® Auction on Dec. 14. The heavyweight brown velvet and gold silk brocade vest with two hook and loop-style closures, several pockets and numerous tiny mirror appliqués among detailed and decorative stitching was worn by Hendrix in February 1969 (and almost certainly previous to that) and is expected to bring $15,000+. “Weiss was in London for Hendrix’s Royal Albert Hall concerts,” said Garry Shrum, Consignment Director at Heritage Auctions, “and, backstage before one of the two shows, he mentioned to Hendrix how much he liked this vest. Hendrix immediately took it off and handed to him as a gift.” Rock and Roll history continues with ... More | | 
René Lalique (1860-1945), Balustrade Femme ailée, vers 1900. Bronze patiné, fonte à la cire perdue. Hauteur : 99,5 cm (39 ¼ in.) ; Largeur : 81 cm (31 7/8 in.) ; Profondeur : 41 cm (16 in.). Photo: Sotheby's.
PARIS.- Sotheby’s announced the auction in Paris of an exceptional collection of 130 Art Nouveau items formerly in the Garden Museum, Nagoya (Japan). The sale will be held on Saturday 16 February 2013. This exceptional collection was assembled by Takeo Horiuchi, a real estate magnate and prominent collector with a passionate interest in the Japanese influence on Western art around 1900. Horiuchi teamed up with the decorative arts specialist Alastair Duncan to track down magnificent works and build up the world’s most important Art Nouveau collection: the Louis C. Tiffany Garden Museum Collection. The museum was popular for many years but, following the tsunami and Fukushima catastrophe in 2011, Takeo Horiuchi decided to sell his collection to an American amateur who, in turn, has asked Sotheby’s France to offer the French and European items at auction. This sale offers the rare opportunity to acquire market-f ... More |
| Exhibition in Los Angeles explores maps and monuments through diverse works | | Survey of American artist Gary Simmons's career opens at Metro Pictures in New York | | Exhibition of new paintings by Carroll Dunham opens at Gladstone Gallery in New York | 
Ingrid Calame, ffwsptffwsptffwspt, 2000. Enamel paint on aluminum, 72 x 72 x 1 in. ©Ingrid Calame. ©Photo 2012 Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, featuring more than seventy-five artworks that consider notions of mapping, topography and monumentality as central themes. On view in BCAM November 25, 2012-February 24, 2013, the exhibition includes large-scale sculpture and painting installations, film, photography, and works on paper by a range of artists, architects, and scientists. Lost Line is the second large-scale exhibition of works from LACMA’s contemporary holdings in the last two years, following Human Nature in the spring of 2011. The thirty-nine artists comprising Lost Line span various disciplines, generations, artistic movements, and geographies with works by Uta Barth, Lecia Dole-Recio, Shannon Ebner, Harold Edgerton, Buckminster Fuller, Barbara Kasten, Jim Lambie, Steve McQueen, Yunhee Min, Gabriel Orozco, Ed Ruscha, ... More | | 
Gary Simmons, Bonham Marquee, 2009. Pigment and charcoal on paper, 41 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Metro Pictures presents a survey of Gary Simmons’s career that brings together a range of works produced over the last 20 years. The exhibition includes Simmons’s first chalk drawings on blackboards done in the artist’s “erasure” technique along with sculptures, paintings, photographs and a 1992 wall drawing not seen since it's first presentation at the Drawing Center. From the row of shoeshine stands in Fuck Hollywood (1991) that are draped with towels embroidered with images of Elvis or the crows from Disney’s cartoon “Dumbo,” to his most recent multi-panel plywood sculpture mounted with drawings of 1930s posters for the historic boxing matches between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, Simmons has thoughtfully mined the signs and symbols of race and class in American culture. In her essay for Simmons’s new monograph Gary Simmons: Paradise, Gwen Allen writes ... More | | 
Carroll Dunham, Next Bathers, one (picking flowers), 2012. Mixed media on linen, 78 1/4 x 61 1/4 inches (198.8 x 155.6 cm). Copyright Carroll Dunham. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Carroll Dunham. Featuring nine works that draw on the motifs of nude bathers and pastoral landscapes familiar from Dunham’s earlier paintings, the exhibition highlights the artist’s continuing interest in these themes. Expanding upon the visual language that characterized his previous works, Dunham demonstrates a shift in his formal decision making, adhering less strictly to the subject’s formal vocabulary and iconography, and instead allowing each work to evolve as a singular painting rather than as a work in a series. For the works included in this exhibition, Dunham replaces the rosy female figure present in his earlier series with a stark, white, nude. Depicting the classic art-historical motif of the bather made famous by artists from Cézanne to Bonnard, Dunham inverts the familiar scene ... More |
| Toledo Museum of Art acquires sculpture by noted Spanish artist Jaume Plensa | | New mixed media paintings by American artist Greg Miller at Scream Gallery in London | | 'World's largest horse-drawn hearse: 19th-century carriage is a Czech museum hit | 
Jaume Plensa (Spain, born 1955), Spiegel, 2010. Painted stainless steel. Toledo Museum of Art. Partial gift by an anonymous donor and Museum purchase, 2012. Photos by Andrew Weber.
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired Spiegel, a monumental, two-part stainless steel sculpture by the acclaimed Spanish sculptor Jaume (juh-MAY) Plensa. Its acquisition was made possible by a generous local donor who wishes to remain anonymous. Showcased last year in an exhibition of the artist’s work at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, Wakefield, UK, the work is being installed in the Georgia and David K. Welles Sculpture Garden which surrounds the Museum. Composed of two figures, each measuring just over 12 feet high and lit from within, the sculpture will be located in front of a small ridge near the intersection of Monroe Street and Collingwood Boulevard. The word spiegel means mirror in German. Plensa’s Spiegel features two identical figures ... More | | 
Greg Miller, Hot Rods, 2012. Acrylic, collage and resin on panel, 152.4 x 121.9 cm (60 x 48").
LONDON.- Scream presents an exhibition of new mixed media paintings by American artist Greg Miller. Drawing from the diverse cultural and geographic make-up of his American roots, Greg Miller explores his relationship with the space he inhabits to communicate a particular urban experience. Working with both paint and collage, he constructs and deconstructs, exploring the contradiction, ambiguity and truth between urban streetscape and history. Miller comments, “In the ‘50s I would drive with my dad from Northern California through the San Joaquin Valley because he did a lot of business in Los Angeles,” Miller says. “We would drive along the old Highway 99. And the billboards along the way were all ripped and torn. They were old. There was nothing fresh about them. When I would see these posters I would get a sense of history and time. I could see that we’re kind of visitors because we’re no ... More | | 
Vaclav Obr, a 45-year-old trained plumber, poses beside a hearse that is believed to be the world's largest funeral carriage. AFP PHOTO / MICHAL CIZEK.
CECHY POD KOSIREM (AFP).- A regal 19th-century horse-drawn hearse believed to be the world's largest has become a crowd magnet for a Czech museum built single-handedly by a plumber with a passion for historic vehicles. Czech master craftsman Vaclav Brozik built the massive eight-horse hearse around 1895. It is over four metres (yards) high, 6.5 metres long and weighs in at almost three tonnes. Vaclav Obr, a 45-year-old Czech plumber, recently spent two years restoring the hearse for his museum, featuring 60 historic carriages and built with European Union funding to the tune of 174,000 euros ($225,000). He opened the museum in 2009 in Cechy pod Kosirem, a town of about 1,000 people some 220 kilometres (140 miles) southeast of the Czech capital, Prague. This year, the hefty hearse became the museum's star attraction. Obr ... More |
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 Entire collection of decorative arts recently acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia goes on display ADELAIDE.- The first entire exhibition of decorative arts works to be acquired into the Art Gallery of South Australia’s collection has gone on display from 30 November 2012. Collec+ors, acquired in June this year, features works of art by acclaimed Adelaide designer Khai Liew in conjunction with six pre-eminent Australian artists. One of Australia’s most respected furniture designers, Liew has raised the profile of South Australian design in a global context with his creations. For Collec+ors, he worked collaboratively with Julie Blyfield, Kirsten Coelho, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Jessica Loughlin, Bruce Nuske and Prue Venables, all respected leaders in their fields, to create one-off pieces of furniture that incorporate elements of their own practices – glass, ceramics and metalware. The result has been a stunning range of six unique items of furniture. Art Gallery of South Australia Curator of European an ... More Sotheby's Milan sells a small canvas by Giorgio Morandi for 420,750 Euro MILAN.- The highlight of the sale was a small canvas (cm 30x20) by Giorgio Morandi, Fiori, 1952, which duplicated its estimate (190,000 -250,000) and sold at 420.750 Euro, after a brilliant competition from collectors. The magical work, Interno metafisico con stabilimento, by Giorgio De Chirico, a “painting within a painting”, a fine example of the series of metaphysical interiors, achieved 216.750 Euro. Also by de Chirico was the 1933 canvas, La Danse - when the painter worked as set and costume designer for “I Puritani” by Bellini for the 1933 edition of the Maggio Fiorentino - was bought by a private Italian collector. The Alberto Burri works in the sale were particularly successful, demonstrating the good reaction by the market; the 1954 Sacco fetched 300,750 Euro and the 1954 Combustione sold at 276.750 Euro. Bonalumi and Castellani, included in the catalogue with works dated from ... More Survey of the work by contemporary photographer Jeff Wall opens at the National Gallery of Victoria MELBOURNE.- This summer the National Gallery of Victoria presents a survey of the work of contemporary photographer Jeff Wall. Jeff Wall Photographs brings together twenty-six of the artist’s works from the 1970s to the present day. NGV Director Tony Ellwood said Jeff Wall is widely recognised as one of the most innovative artists working today. “We are very pleased to have worked with the Art Gallery of Western Australia to bring Jeff Wall’s extraordinary photographs to the Southern Hemisphere for the first time,” said Mr Ellwood. “Jeff Wall Photographs is part of our exciting NGV Summer program. It will be on display at the same time as the Thomas Demand exhibition at NGV International and we are offering a two-for-one deal, so visitors can experience the work of two major artists of international contemporary artists for one ticket price,” said Mr Ellwood. Dr Isobel Crombie, Coordinating Cur ... More Tick, Tack, Tick, Tack, Tick: Stuart Whipps exhibits at David Dale Gallery in Glasgow GLASGOW.- David Dale Gallery presents Tick, Tack, Tick, Tack, Tick, the first solo exhibition in Scotland by artist Stuart Whipps. Using a combination of projections, prints and structural installation, Whipps presents photographs created over the last year in Las Pozas, Mexico; a surrealist sculpture garden in the Mexican rainforest. Built by British poet and patron Edward James between 1962 and 1979, Las Pozas is a collection of 36 large concrete structures with titles such as The House with Three Stories That Could Be Five, and The Temple of The Ducks. James’ formative desire to fix beauty, colour and form dominated his activities as an early patron of the Surrealists. However, it was in his later years, through the use of the most unlikely of materials, concrete, that he would create Las Pozas; his most dramatic and enduring monument to whimsy and folly. Casting the gallery into a half ... More Crusader sword captured from Mamluk Arsena in Alexandria gives £163,250 edge to Bonhams sale LONDON.- A rare medieval sword taken from the Mamluk Arsenal at Alexandria was the top item in Bonhams sale of Antique Arms and Armour on November 28th in London. The sword, estimated to sell for £40,000 to £60,000, was eventually bought for £163,250 after stiff competition in a sale that made a total of £1m with 90% sold. The medieval Crusader Italian-made sword was given as a gift to the Mamluk rulers of Alexandria by the Christian ruler of Cyprus and Jerusalem, King Peter I as part of a gift sealing a treaty. King Peter I, the King of Cyprus and Jerusalem, launched the last Crusade in 1362 against the Muslim Mamluk Empire in the region. A fleet set out from Cyprus and proved victorious, taking the city of Alexandria with immense amounts of plunder returned to Cyprus, including this sword. Such was the treasure and weapons taken from the captured city that many of the ... More "Bubbles and bankruptcy: Financial crises in Britain since 1700" opens at the British Museum LONDON.- In 1890 Punch magazine published a cartoon entitled Same Old Game! in which employees of Barings Bank were depicted as errant schoolboys, having gambled away the bank’s capital through poor investment decisions. In the image they are sheepishly asking the ‘Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’, an allegory for the Bank of England, for a bailout. The Old Lady reluctantly agrees, ‘for this once!!’ Her statement is intentionally ironic - this was not the first financial crisis to affect Britain and it was certainly not going to be the last. This Coins and Medals display Bubbles and Bankruptcy: financial crises in Britain since 1700, traces the history of financial crisis from the first stock bubbles of the 18th Century through to the current banking crisis. Featuring prospectuses and original share certificates for companies that collapsed, notes from failed banks, and reports about ... More New series of Photorealist oil paintings by Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri on view at Mike Weiss Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents Territory, a new series of Photorealist oil paintings by Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri. Featuring his largest portraits to date, the series depicts a young, female Israeli soldier, whether in full military regalia or in contemporary dress, set against a rugged ocean landscape. Ozeri imbues each work with emotional insight into the young woman's psyche, resulting in a duality likewise reflected in Ozeri's own life—the emotional boundary where the artist reconciles his sentimentality for the homeland he left behind with the country he now calls home. Throughout Territory, Ozeri combines his meticulously rendered details with spontaneous and loose brushstrokes. Wispy flyaway hairs, minute droplets of water, glimmering reflections of light, and crisp folds of wrinkled clothing stand out against a somewhat hazy background. Drawn in by ... More |
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