| Auction of works from the Andy Warhol Foundation fetches over $17 million at Christie's New York | | Rule Britannia: Details of Christie's Modern British Art Evening Sale in December announced | | Tate takes a look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 to the present day | 
A woman walks by a poster advertising an auction sale of works by US artist Andy Warhol at Christie's in New York. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel DUNAND.
NEW YORK (AP).- The first in a series of live and online auctions to raise money for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York collected over $17 million Monday. The auction at Christie's featured 354 works by Warhol ranging from prints to photographs, some of which have not been seen by the public. Online auctions will begin in February. Leading the sale was "Endangered Species: San Francisco Silverspot," a print that fetched over $1.2 million, Christie's said. Other highlights included "Jackie," a screen print and paper collage of Jacqueline Kennedy that sold for over $626,000, more than double its high estimate of $300,000. Christie's said the auction saw a strong demand for unique photographs and prints with many exceeding high estimates, including "Self-Portrait in Fright Wig," estimated at $12,000 to $18,000, which sold for $50,000. The foundation said the money raised for its endowment from the sales would allow it to expand support of the visual arts, f ... More | | 
Ben Nicholson, O.M. (1894-1982), October 1949 (composition-Rangitane). Oil on curved panel. Painted in October 1949. Estimate: £1,000,000-1,500,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
LONDON.- Christie’s announces full details of the Modern British Art Evening Sale which will take place on the Wednesday, 12 December 2012. Comprising 65 lots, the sale will feature works by Britain’s most influential modern artists including Ben Nicholson, L.S. Lowry, Henry Moore, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Sean Scully and David Hockney, alongside a strong group of sculpture and works by the Scottish Colourists; London School; and Pop artists. The sale will also present eight works from legendary London restaurants Langan’s Brasserie and Odin’s. On Tuesday, 13 December 2012 the Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale will offer over 185 lots led by the most familiar names from this dynamic collecting category: Jack B. Yeats, David Bomberg, John Piper and Dame Elisabeth Frink. The sales feature works with estimates ranging from £3,000 to £1.8 million – providing wonderful opportunities for both new ... More | | 
David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 1967. Tate. Purchased 1981© David Hockney.
LONDON.- A Bigger Splash will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 to the present day. Taking its title from David Hockney’s iconic 1967 image of a Californian swimming pool and Jack Hazan’s film about Hockney’s life, it will bring together a range of key works by over 40 artists including Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock and Cindy Sherman. Moving through half a century of painting, video and photography, alongside archival and documentary material, this major group exhibition will show how the key period of post-war performance art has challenged and energised the medium of painting for successive generations. The show begins by exploring Hockney’s striking treatment of the splash in his major work A Bigger Splash 1967 against Jackson Pollock’s radical ‘action painting’ Summertime 1948, to examine the painted canvas as an arena in which performative gestures and experiments are acted out. It will go ... More |
| The Duc D'orléans Breguet Sympathique will lead Sotheby's Important Watches & Clocks Sale | | Four paintings stolen from the Pretoria Art Museum found in South Africa cemetery | | Christie's France to offer the Henri-Georges & Ines Clouzot Collection in December | 
This is a distinguished example of the exceptionally rare Sympathique clocks that helped cement the fame and renown of French watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Important Watches & Clocks auction in New York on 4 December 2012 will be led by The Duc d’Orléans Breguet Sympathique, a distinguished example of the exceptionally rare Sympathique clocks that helped cement the fame and renown of French watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet. No other horological invention has been as consistently associated with the palaces and grand houses of the European royalty and aristocracy as the Breguet Sympathiques. The present example, named The Duc d’Orléans after its patron and dated to 1835, has the most complex Sympathique mechanism of all known examples: it is the only one known to wind, set time and regulate its accompanying pocket watch, via the integrated cradle mounted onto the clock’s pediment. This magnificent clock is further distinguished by having been in the celebrated Time Museum collection assembled by Seth Atwood*, and its winding ... More | | 
Maggie Laubser, Cat and Petunias, 1936. Oil on canvas. AP Photo/The City of Tshwane.
By: Jon Gambrell, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP).- An informer's tip led South African police to a private cemetery Tuesday where they found four paintings hundreds of miles away from where they had been stolen from a museum in the capital, authorities said. The tip is the latest twist in a heist that saw $2 million worth of art stolen Sunday from the Pretoria Art Museum by pistol-wielding thieves posing as eager students with their teacher. One oil painting of a South African township streetscape by artist Gerard Sekoto remains missing. A canine officer received a tip from an informer Tuesday that led him to a private cemetery in Port Elizabeth, a city about 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) from Pretoria, said Brig. Marinda Mills of the South African Police Service. There, under a bench near a memorial wall with plaques naming the dead, officers found four of the missing five pieces of art, she said. Mills said police had started to verify that the paintings found, all in good condition, were the originals. "Fro ... More | | 
Jean Dubuffet, Femina dulce malum (Corps de dame taché de rouille et lilas). Huile sur toile, 116 x 89 cm. Peint en 1950. Estimate: €1.000.000-1.500.000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
PARIS.- Christie’s France will offer the Henri-Georges & Inès Clouzot collection for auction on 1 December this year. More than fifty works, including pieces by Picasso, Dubuffet, Tàpies, Bissière, Viera da Silva, Braque, Delaunay and Laurens, together with two African sculptures make up this collection, at a reasonable estimate of between 3 and 5 million euro. In accordance with Madame Inès Clouzot’s wishes, all proceeds of the sale will be donated to Secours Catholique*. Henri-Georges Clouzot was the director of some of French cinema’s greatest masterpieces, including Quai des Orfèvres, The Truth [La Vérité], Les Diaboliques and The Wages of Fear [Le salaire de la peur]. These films are still remembered for Suzy Delair singing her famous tra-la-la, Brigitte Bardot’s deeply moving performance standing in tears in the dock of an impassive court, Véra Clouzot’s neurotic reaction on seeing the husband ... More |
| Irish Museum of Modern Art announces donation of a set of fifty-two Mexican prints | | Auction of David Stickelber Estate at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers exceeds high estimate | | Louvre, High, Crystal Bridges, and Terra Foundation announce multi-year American Art collaboration | 
Arturo García Bustos, Campesinos Manifestando, 2010, Sheet size: 90 x 70 cm, Plate size: 65 x 57 cm, Woodcut.
DUBLIN.- A collection of 52 prints, by leading Mexican artists, recently acquired by the Irish Museum of Modern Art were unveiled today (Tuesday 13 November) at IMMA. The works, commissioned by the Mexican National Print Museum (MUNAE), have been donated to the Museum as a gesture to mark the historical ties between Mexico and Ireland. The donation has been coordinated by HE Carlos García de Alba, Ambassador of Mexico. In 2010 Mexico celebrated two anniversaries: the bicentenary of the country’s independence and the centenary of its Revolution. As part of the national commemorative cultural programme, MUNAE commissioned a limited edition collection of 52 prints by 52 artists. The intention was to assemble a representation of contemporary graphic art by Mexican and international artists which would reflect their vision of the processes which shaped Mexico’s history, as well as contributing and ... More | | 
An Egyptian Carved Limestone Tomb Fragment, sold for $57,500.
CHICAGO, IL.- Property from the Estate of prominent Kansas City arts patron David A. Stickelber exceeded its high estimate at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on Thursday, November 8. Mr. Stickelber is remembered as a stylish host and engaging philanthropist who took advantage of his social connections to bring many cultural events to the Midwest. The sale lasted six and a half hours and saw spirited participation throughout from a crowded saleroom and from buyers bidding from around the world. The auction’s top lot, an Egyptian carved limestone fragment from the Ptolemaic period, third century B.C., sold for $57,500 to an international buyer after several minutes of competition from eight telephone bidders. Mr. Stickelber purchased the object from Jean-Loup Despras in Paris. An eighteenth century lacquered commode from the workshop of Andre-Antoine Lardin and Claude-Charles Saunier sold for $56,250 to a Luxembourg buyer. ... More | | 
George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1877–78 (detail). Oil on canvas, 26 1/16 x 36 3/8 in. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.15.
CHICAGO, IL.- The musée du Louvre, the High Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Terra Foundation for American Art have announced the second installation in their four-year collaboration focusing on the history of American art. Opening at the Louvre on Jan. 17, 2013, "American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life" provides a close look at three major genre paintings, each of which offers a unique perspective on 19th-century America. Two additional works from the collections at the Louvre exemplify American genre painting’s European sources. Following its presentation at the Louvre (Jan. 17–Apr. 22, 2013), the installation will travel to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR (May 11–Aug. 12, 2013), and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA (Sept. 14, 2013–Jan.14, 2014). American genre ... More |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announces new Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Naomi Beckwith | | Viking hoard of swords form cutting edge of Bonhams Arms & Armour Sale in London | | Bonhams Hong Kong to offer The Paul Braga Collection of snuff bottles on 24 November | 
Naomi Beckwith.© MCA Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, has announced a $2 million gift from Marilyn and Larry Fields to endow the MCA Curator position currently held by Naomi Beckwith. In recognition of this significant gift, the MCA has established the "Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator" endowment, naming this curator's position. "This tremendous gift is a tribute to the Fields and their extraordinary support for the MCA and their long demonstrated passion for curators and their work," said King Harris, Chair of the MCA Board of Trustees. "What is most rewarding about this position being named by Marilyn and Larry Fields is that they both have had a significant history of supporting curatorial work," said Madeleine Grynsztejn. "Even prior to Larry's tenure as an MCA Trustee, he and Marilyn invested in our collection and in the work of our curators who are our thought leaders a ... More | | 
A rare Viking sword from the 9th Century, Lot 57, estimated to sell for £6,000 to £8,000 was found in 1887 in the mouth of the River Thieles, in Switzerland. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A stunning array of death-dealing swords from the Medieval period and earlier, including Viking weapons, form the main thrust of Bonhams sale of Antique Arms and Armour on November 28th in Knightsbridge. David Williams, Director of Arms and Armour at Bonhams, comments: “Many of these rare and remarkable weapons would have been used in battle. The scarring and damage goes some way to confirm this, though the years have also taken their toll.” He said that today the 24 Medieval and Viking swords were more likely to be used as decorative items thanks to the elegance of their archaic and sculptural forms.
Among the collection of swords in the sale from the distinguished Danish collector the late E.A. Christensen, there are some seven Viking swords dating from the 9th and tenth ... More | | 
A black and white double-overlay on turquoise ground glass 'Legend of the White Snake' snuff bottle, Qing dynasty, 1780-1820. Estimate: HK$100,000 - 150,000. Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- Bonhams, the leading international auction house for Chinese snuff bottles, announces the sale of the Paul Braga Collection of Snuff Bottles on 24 November 2012 at the Island Shangri-La Hotel. The Paul Braga Collection provides a window into old Hong Kong, a bygone age when snuff bottles were displayed in baskets in antique shops and could be bought for several dollars each. Paul Braga was a true connoisseur in an era when little of substance was published on the subject, and the holdings from the former Imperial collection in Beijing and Taipei had yet to be published. Using his own eye and experience, he built up his collection and popularised the subject, collaborating with fellow collectors to organise the first exhibition of snuff bottles in the Hong ... More |
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 The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan published by Thames & Hudson DUBLIN.- The Book of Kells is widely recognised as one of the world’s most beautiful decorated manuscripts and a masterpiece of European medieval art, with images that are staggering in their richness, intricacy and inventiveness. This handsome new volume, by Bernard Meehan, Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library, brims with fresh insights and interpretations and features the extraordinary imagery on a generous scale. The publication also marks the tercentenary of Trinity College Library, Dublin, one of great historic libraries of the world. The Book of Kells dates from around 800 AD and contains a Latin text of the four Gospels. There is great uncertainty about its origins. It is thought that the Book of Kells was first worked on at the monastery on the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland, and was continued, after Viking raids, at the monastery of Kells in Ireland. The Book ... More Locust Projects presents "Soul Manufacturing Corporation" by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, MIAMI, FL.- Now celebrating its 15th year of exhibiting experimental contemporary art, Locust Projects presents Soul Manufacturing Corporation by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, whose critically acclaimed installation 12 Ballads for Huguenot House was recently featured in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany. For the first gallery exhibition of this multi-disciplinary project, Gates createed a factory consisting of four pavilions, occupied by “skilled makers” who will work in Locust Projects’ main gallery. Beginning with an empty space, the "skilled makers" produces “things” through the duration of the exhibition. Concurrently, Soul Manufacturing Corporation will host programs by a yoga instructor, a DJ, and a reader, all there to care for the makers and the audience. Inspiration for this programming stems from the lectors who presented news, politics, and literature to illiterate workers in t ... More Ricardo Rendón's first solo exhibition in New York opens at Vicky David Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Ricardo Rendón (born 1970) is a Mexican artist who lives and works in México City. His conceptual and minimalist work, as well as its unique visual language, makes him an artist emblematic of the young Mexican generation. For his first solo exhibition in New York, the Vicky David Gallery is presenting a series of works in felt material entitled "Open Works" from November 8, 2012 to January 12, 2013. Since 2003, Rendón has developed a unique reflection on the roles of the artist and the creation process in contemporary times. Reconsidering the nature of the practice of art, he questions the process of artistic creation and production. Whereas an increasing number of artists delegate execution to specialized companies, Ricardo Rendón produces his works independently because "new ideas come through the act of making". He sees his work as the commemoration ... More Cantor Arts Center presents acclaimed Christian Marclay work Video Quartet STANFORD, CA.- Across a bank of four screens, Maria Callas, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe and scores of other musicians and actors make some kind of sound, seemingly in response to each other—much like players in a musical ensemble. This is Christian Marclay’s “Video Quartet,” a publically and critically acclaimed 14-minute DVD projection, on view November 14 through February 10 at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Christian Marclay, born in San Rafael, California, is a 57-year-old Swiss-American who has enthralled the art community for years with his musical, sculptural and video collage work. He has performed or recorded with Sonic Youth, Kronos Quartet and Merce Cunningham. His pieces are in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Centre ... More A record-breaking watch auction at Christie's Geneva GENEVA.- Christie's Geneva auction sale of Important Watches including A Gentleman’s Pursuit for Excellence, Part I fetched a total result of SFr.27,042,825/$28,557,223/€22,445,545, selling 96% by lot and 97% by value. The exceptionally rare platinum perpetual calendar chronograph wristwatch with moon phases, ref. 2499/100, manufactured by Patek Philippe in 1987 and offered from the collection of Eric Clapton, sold for SFr. 3,443,000 / $3,635,808 / €2,857,690, setting a world record price for this reference at auction. The top price of the sale was paid for the ‘J.B. Champion Platinum Observatory Chronometer’, a unique platinum chronometer wristwatch, ref. 2458, which was specially manufactured by Patek Philippe for J.B. Champion, the legendary American watch collector, in 1952. This historically important timepiece realized ... More A re-discovered monumental 1851 exhibition center piece Surtout de Table emerges from history at auction DALLAS, TX.- When a magnificent, massive silver and gilt bronze Surtout de table, fashioned by famed French silversmith Jean-Valentin Morel (1794-1860) in 1851 for the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in London, comes to auction on Dec. 5 (estimate: $600,000+), it will mark the re-discovery of a true masterpiece of silver craftsmanship. “Morel was obviously one of the greatest of his era and an artist of the highest caliber,” said Tim Rigdon, Director of Silver and Decorative Arts at Heritage, “but he was not the best of businessmen. His record is dotted with great work but also with failed partnerships and, ultimately, bankruptcy.” Morel was highly regarded in mid-19th Century Paris, with significant commissions for Pope Gregory III, the Kings of Sardinia and the Netherlands, as well as the Duc de Luynes, employing up to 80 craftsmen. He made his living off the ... More Laumeier Sculpture Park receives major work by Ernest Trova as gift from Estate of Grace Brod ST. LOUIS, MO.- Laumeier Sculpture Park announced the donation of Falling Man/Study (Wrapped Manscape Figure), 1984, a complex figurative work by American artist Ernest Trova (1927-2009). The life-size, stainless steel sculpture, which is based on graphic works from 1967, is a gift to Laumeier from the Estate of Grace Brod. Brod was a long-time docent and Board member, who passed away in March 2012. “We are grateful for Grace’s generosity in leaving this important artwork to Laumeier,” said Executive Director Marilu Knode. “It is one of the most significant sculptures created by Ernest Trova and represents the culmination of his life-long exploration of the human form. Through this gift, Laumeier Sculpture Park remains an important repository of the Trova legacy.” “Gracie was fortunate enough to be able to enjoy one of Ernest Trova's seminal pieces on the grounds of her ... More |
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