| Beatles for sale: Tape Decca rejected resurfaces and is being auctioned by the Fame Bureau | | Sotheby's Paris announces Impressionist & Modern Art Sale including two masterpieces by Picasso | | After four years in the making, first major Francis Bacon exhibition in Australia opens | 
A motorcyclist drives past a double decker bus set up as a pop-up store to buy the reissue of the Beatles’ original albums on vinyl. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel DUNAND
LONDON (AFP).- The Beatles demo tape that record label Decca overlooked -- a decision branded the biggest mistake in music history -- has resurfaced and is up for auction, newspapers reported Friday. Recorded on New Year's Day 1961, Decca artists and repertoire man Dick Rowe passed over the Liverpool group and signed The Tremeloes instead. The Beatles went on to sign for EMI and became world stars. Bootleg copies exist but few have heard the original "pristine" master tape, containing 10 cover versions. It is being auctioned in London on Tuesday by the Fame Bureau, with an asking price of £30,000 ($48,000, 37,000 euros). It does not, however, come with the rights to the tracks. "Apple, the company set up by The Beatles, holds the copyright to their voices and if anyone tried to release the material without their permission they would certainly be sued," said ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, La Famille, 1956 (detail). Est. €2,800,000-3,500,000 / $3,570,000-4,460,000. Photo: Sotheby’s/ArtDigital Studio.
PARIS.- Sotheby’s announced a highly selective sale of Impressionist & Modern Art to be held in Paris on 5th December 2012. This prestigious auction will pay tribute to two great 20th-Century Masters: Picasso and Matisse. Wifredo Lam will also be honoured with a monumental and emblematic masterpiece, from the Joyce & Samir Mansour Collection. The sale also features Surrealism and top-quality works from the 1920s-1940s by Matta, Masson, Duchamp, Magritte, Man Ray, Tanguy and Picabia. Sotheby’s is will present for auction two magnificent examples of the power and virtuosity of Picasso’s late work. Femme et Jeune Garçon Nus (1969) is one of his most grandiose drawings from this period. Picasso’s supreme skill and the complex use of different techniques yielded a dazzlingly powerful image, reflecting the glorious finale to his career. Femme et Jeune Garçons Nus, shown at the legendary Picasso exhibition at th ... More | | 
Francis Bacon, Portrait of Michel Leiris, 1976. Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 30.5. Louise and Michel Leiris Collection. Pompidou Centre, Paris. ©The Estate of Francis Bacon, DACS/Licensed by Viscopy.
SYDNEY.- Surveying Francis Bacon’s life and work, this is the first major exhibition in Australia of rare works by the master of post-war British art. With over 50 paintings as well as archival material from his studio, films and photographs, the exhibition covers every decade of his career, from the pensive and shocking works of the 1940s to the exuberantly coloured and visceral large paintings of the 1970s and 80s. Organised by the Art Gallery of NSW, the exhibition has been four years in the making, with works drawn from private collections and Australian and international institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Tate Britain in London, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and the Francis Bacon Estate. Michael Brand, director, Art Gallery of NSW: 'Francis Bacon: five decades presents a dazzling picture of a complex and conflicted ... More |
| Internment camp letters, where 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry lived, found in Denver building | | Christie's shares remarkable family insights into Djahanguir Riahi, an impassioned collector | | Bonhams sets world record of £603,837 for an exceptional Leica Lexus 1 camera from 1930 | 
Alissa Williams holds a letter addressed to T.K. Pharmacy at her home in Denver. AP Photo/Ed Andrieski.
By: Colleen Slevin, Associated Press
DENVER (AP).- Some letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath powder, cold cream or cough drops — but only the red ones. Others were just desperate for anything from the outside world. "Please don't send back my check. Send me anything," one letter said from a California camp on April 19, 1943. The letters, discovered recently during renovations at a former Denver pharmacy owned by Japanese-Americans, provide a glimpse into life in some of the 10 camps where 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry, including U.S. citizens, from the West Coast were forced to live during the war. They were written in English and in Japanese, expressing the kinds of mundane needs and wants of everyday life, such as medicine as well as condoms, cosmetics and candy. About 250 ... More | | 
Bernard II van Risenburgh (BVRB), A magnificent ormolu-mounted Japanese lacquer secretaire-à-abattant, circa 1755. Estimate: £3,000,000–5,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
LONDON.- Ahead of the sale of Masterpieces Formerly in the Collection of Monsieur and Madame Riahi in London on Thursday 6 December, Christie’s shares remarkable family insights into Djahanguir Riahi, an impassioned collector whose focused commitment over 50 years to collect world class 18th century furniture and works of art provides inspiration for connoisseurs around the globe. From placing adverts in the hunt for key missing examples to going in to battle at auction with other leading names in the field of collecting, the tale of Djahanguir Riahi’s collecting epitomizes the lengths that “Passion for the Love of Art” can drive the true collector. “Collections are alive. They are neither an amalgamation of objects, nor an addition of dates; they are not even a sum of monetary amounts. A collection lives as it is first and foremost the history of a man, of a woman, of a family, of a collector - its ... More | | 
An Exceptional Leica Luxus I, circa 1930, No. 48048, with a 50mm f3.5 Elmar lens, and a faux lizard skin body covering. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams unique sale of Leica cameras in Hong Kong today. November 23, the first such auction sale of its kind, produced strong results with more than 85 per cent sold and the top item in the sale going for a staggering £603,837 (HK$7,460,000) - a world record for this particular rare Leica model. This item, lot 2104, an Exceptional Leica Luxus I, circa 1930, No. 48048, with a 50mm f3.5 Elmar lens, and a faux lizard skin body covering had been estimated to sell for HK$1,200,000-1,800,000. In the end it was knocked down for almost seven times that amount. Jon Baddley, Head of Collectables at Bonhams, said after the sale: “This was the first Leica sale in Hong Kong and the results more than justify our belief in the idea of bringing these wonderful cameras to China which has a rapidly emerging market for vintage cameras. We took a bit of a gamble but it has paid off handsomely Already we can see that this market is ... More |
| Oklahoma Art League donates Nellie Shepherd's Lottie to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art | | A century of St. Ives art, from 1840 to 1940, goes on show at the Royal Cornwall Museum | | Che Guevara: Images of the Revolution - Photographs from the Skrein Photo Collection opens at MdM Rupertinum | 
Nellie Shepherd, Lottie, ca. 1910.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- The Oklahoma Art League has raised funds to complete the purchase of Nellie Shepherd's painting Lottie (ca. 1910) for the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. They formally presented the painting to the Museum at their meeting in the Museum's Noble Theater on Monday, Nov. 12. "Lottie is a significant painting for the early artistic heritage of the state. Its inclusion in the Paris Grand Salon of 1910 represents a great achievement for an Oklahoma artist and is possibly the only painting in the state to claim such a distinction," said Alison Amick, Oklahoma City Museum of Art's curator of collections. "We appreciate the generosity of the Oklahoma Art League, who provided funds for this purchase, and look forward to installing the work in the second floor galleries in the coming months." Joyce Stewart, Oklahoma Art League project chairman added, "We are proud to be able to bring Lottie to the Oklahoma City Museum of ... More | | 
Alberto Ludovici Jnr, Fish Sale, St Ives (Lane), 1883.
TRURO.- A new exhibition has opened at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro that showcases the evolution of St Ives art from 1840 to 1940. Curated by leading St Ives art expert and collector David Tovey, who has written eight books on the subject, the paintings on display include a number of rarely seen early works that give a glimpse of the mining, fishing and shipbuilding industries that brought the town prosperity in the first half of the nineteenth century. Of considerable interest is one of the harbour beach at St Ives swarming with townsfolk busy unloading pilchards from seine boats after a massive catch. From the pre-colony period, artists featured include the Royal Academicians, Edward William Cooke, who visited the town in 1848, and James Clarke Hook, who was one of the first to take advantage of the completed rail link in 1860. There is also much of topographical interest in these early works - Joh ... More | | 
Alberto Korda, Che Guevara, 1960, s/w-Fotografie aus der Skrein Photo Collection© VBK, Wien, 2012.
SALZBURG.- Austrian photographer Christian Skrein (* Vienna, 1945) began his career as an art, commercial and fashion photographer. He later became an enthusiastic and expert collector of photography and compiled comprehensive archives of snapshot photography and international press and art photography. For over 15 years now, he has focused on photographs of the Cuban Revolution and its protagonists. Today, his collection comprises more than 4,500 items, including several icons of the history of photography as well as numerous less spectacular photographs which document the political situation and social life in Cuba from the 1950s to the 1970s. In 2011 the Getty Museum in Los Angeles selected a set of 60 photographs from the Skrein Collection for its first exhibition on the Cuban Revolution: the onslaught of visitors testified to the ... More |
| Humphrey Ocean: A handbook of modern life opens at the National Portrait Gallery in London | | New images of important ancient sites in the Mediterranean by Domingo Milella on view at Brancolini Grimaldi | | Record bids for orders and memorabilia from the Tsarist Empire at Hermann Historica oHG | 
Tim by Humphrey Ocean, 2010. ©Humphrey Ocean.
LONDON.- On 23rd November, a display of works by British artist Humphrey Ocean opened at the National Portrait Gallery. The display contains 40 works painted in gouache on paper comprising colourful portraits of visitors to his south London studio, produced since 2006. The sitters include family members and friends. Humphrey Ocean RA has a long association with the National Portrait Gallery, which began in 1982 when he won the Gallery’s annual Portrait Prize with the painting Lord Volvo and his Estate. Ocean has undertaken several commissions for the Gallery including portraits of Paul McCartney (1982), the poet Philip Larkin (1984) and Tony Benn (1996). In The Painter’s Eye at the National Portrait Gallery in 1999, Humphrey Ocean and film-maker John Tchalenko, with whom he has often collaborated, exhibited work from their Wellcome Trust Art and Science project. For the final room of the exhibition Ocean borrowed port ... More | | 
Domingo Milella, Myra, 2012. C-print, 180 x 225 cm, Edition of 5. Photo: Courtesy Brancolini Grimaldi.
LONDON.- Domingo Milella's solo exhibition at Brancolini Grimaldi, his first in the UK, features new images of important ancient sites in the Mediterranean, where remnants of power, culture, life and death are captured. Over the last ten years, Milella's subjects have been cities and their borders, cemeteries and villages, caves and homes, tombs and hieroglyphs - in short, signs of man's presence on earth. His interest lies in the overlap between civilization and nature and how landscape and architecture are invested with individual and collective memory. In the ancient Turkish city, Myra, Milella has photographed the spectacular tombs that are carved into stone cliffs, as if they are part of the mountain. The carved facades appear almost like a cluster of homes, the design reflecting how the wooden houses of the period would have looked. In another image, Milella has ... More | | 
Two extraordinarily beautiful chamfrons originate from Eastern Anatolia or West Iran, early 17th century. HP: 35,000 + 25,000 Euros.
MUNICH.- All specialist areas represented by Hermann Historica – antiquities, arms and armour, arts and crafts, hunting collectibles and objects from history and military history – reported excellent results, with some lots multiplying their estimated price several times over. A total of approximately 5,370 collectors' items came under the hammer at the autumn auction 2012. First-class artefacts from the Tsarist Empire caused a flurry of excitement at the autumn auction. No sooner was one of the main showpieces of this section called than an exchange of bids flared up in the room, online and by telephone, lasting several minutes. Prior to the auction, the flintlock shotgun from Tula, dated 1741, that had belonged to Tsarina Elizabeth Petrovna (1709 – 1762), had been the subject of lengthy discussion among experts. With a starting price of 60, ... More |
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 New paintings by Bodil Nielsen on view at Galleri Lars Olsen in Copenhagen COPENHAGEN.- The exhibition ”Late Afternoon” at Galleri Lars Olsen presents a range of new paintings by Bodil Nielsen. The new works vary in size from 65 x 45 cm to 20 x 25 cm and exhibit a rich variety in composition, colour and material. They challenge our view of the idea of scale in the way that the works can be experienced as a kind of model and maybe in that way appear both as monumental and spacious. For Bodil Nielsen, painting provides the opportunity to creating spacial manifestations and open associative thoughts for the viewer. They touch our collective memories and play on the veil through which we see things. Well-known dualities are being set free and we are offered a new visual field of our own. The paintings’ geometrical and ornamental formations can be experienced simultaneously as being both too large and too small. They interact with each other and ... More 9.26 Carat GIA D/IF Type IIa diamond highlights Heritage Auctions jewelry event DALLAS, TX.- A magnificent 9.26 carat GIA D/IF Type IIa unmounted diamond is expected to bring at least $1 million to lead Heritage Auction’s Dec. 3 Jewelry Signature® Auction. It joins more than 1,500 lots in an auction expected to break $7.9 million. “The exceptionally rare Type IIa diamond is about as perfect as a diamond can get. In fact, less than 2% of the world’s diamonds meet the Type IIa criteria,” said Jill Burgum, Director of Fine Jewelry at Heritage. “It appears on the heels of the spectacular 8.99 carat Kashmir Sapphire ring which brought $527,500 in our April event. Our clients depend on us to find unique statement pieces that define a collection or a portfolio and we are proud to again present them with a prime selection.” The first session is highlighted by a 10.75 carat diamond platinum ring (estimate $300,000+), a 6.29 carat pear-shaped diamond platinum ring (estimate ... More The Royal Academy of Arts wins the Walpole Award for British Cultural Excellence 2012 LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts has won the annual award for British Cultural Excellence at the Walpole Awards 2012. Walpole is a not-for-profit organisation that represents the British luxury industry. The other winners of this year’s awards, sponsored by Coutts, were Mulberry, Burberry, Ferrari, Jaguar, Land Rover, Theo Fennell, Brown’s Hotel, Orlebar Brown and IWC Schaffhausen. The award for British Cultural Excellence, sponsored by The Admirable Crichton, was given to the best British cultural achievement from a range of disciplines, including music, dance, theatre, art and film, both traditional and contemporary, in front of and behind the scenes in 2012. The nominees included Glyndebourne, Goodwood, National Portrait Gallery, The Cultural Olympiad and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The panel of judges comprised Dr Frederick Mostert, Walpole/ ... More Argentina exhibit combats violence against women BUENOS AIRES (AFP).- An art installation in Buenos Aires called attention Friday to the physical abuse of women, ahead of a date set aside by the United Nations to raise awareness of the problem. Sunday marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women designated by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1999. The UN each year invites governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities designed to encourage the public to fight such wrongdoing. The Argentine capital displayed 14 works of art, some created by female sex abuse victims, meant to be graphic reminders about the date. One work showed a female mannequin plastered with newspaper clippings about attacks on women. Another displayed a mannequin covered with bruises and anti-female epithets. The November 25 date was chosen ... More Mead Carney announces a solo exhibition of work by Italian artist Brigitte Niedermair LONDON.- Mead Carney presents the solo exhibition Brigitte Niedermair - The Present, curated by Elena Re. What is the present? It may be an iPhone that turns into a rising sun or a primeval fire, or even the light of the contemporary world. The curatorial concept at the heart of this exhibition is to shed light on the innovative aspects of the artistic research of Brigitte Niedermair, an Italian artist who uses photography to communicate the foundation of her own existential world. Through a selection of works that illustrate her most recent developments, this exhibition examines not so much the differences or changes of direction in relation to her previous work, as what she is focusing on now. In other words, it explores her current level of awareness; the freedom and clarity of her vision that appears more precisely and proficiently within her practice today. Brigitte Niedermair is an ... More Valencian Institute for Modern Art opens retrospective 'The Muses of Juan Ripollés' VALENCIA.- This exhibition is focused on Juan Ripollés' career since 1957 until today; 67 years of expression. However, although at the beginning Ripollés follows and obeys the rules, he soon transgresses them growing more and more complex throughout his career as he embraces innovations in every field. Without rejecting his most obscure periods, especially in the seventies, we focus on the aspect of fullness present in his whole work, and especially on his muses, expression of a colourful and vigorous poetic. This essence reveals a permanent dichotomy between what is monumental and fragile, which has an exact correspondence to the artist's appearance: apparently slim but very resistant as well as delicate. A significant example of the monumentality of his work are his sculptures; Señora con sombrero (Lady with Hat), 1998, and Las gemelas (The Twins), 1998. From 1996, the ... More |
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