Tamara de Lempicka. Reina del Art Déco
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 day ago
*MADRID, PALACIO DE GAVIRIA* *5 October
2018 – 24 February 2019* This coming 5 October Arthemisia opens a new
exhibition to the public at Palacio de Gaviria. On view through 24
February 2019, the first survey show in Madrid dedicated to Tamara de
Lempicka includes a selection of around 200 works coming from over 40
private collections, museums and lenders worldwide. [image:
Cover_Mostra_TDL MADRID] The exhibition in Madrid contextualises
Lempicka’s art practice within a carefully designed and immersive mise
en scène, in which the artworks are arranged in spaces decorated with… more »
VAN DYCK. Pittore di Corte
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 day ago
*TURIN, MUSEI REALI* *Sale Palatine della
Galleria Sabauda* *16 November 2018 – 17 March 2019* A unique
exhibition on Anthony van Dyck, the great Flemish painter who
revolutionized 17th-century portraiture, opens in Turin. [image:
Cover_VD] Marchesa Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo; On 16 November 2018 an
extraordinary show devoted to Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp, 1599–London,
1641) opened to the public, in the Sale Palatine of the Galleria Sabauda
at the Musei Reali in Turin. Van Dyck was Rubens’ star pupil and one of
the greatest exponents of 17th-century European art, revolutionizing… more »
Invention and Design: Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 day ago
* February 15 , 2019 to May 19 , 2019 * A
new exhibition celebrates the Morgan Library & Museum’s
extensive collection of Italian Drawings , exploring how the concept of
disegno ( a w ord that means both “drawing” and “design ” ) emphasized
the artist’s creative power and fundamentally changed Italian
Renaissance art. Giovanni Agostino da Lodi (active ca. 1467 – ca. 1524),
Head of a Youth Facing Left, ca. 1500, red chalk on paper. The Morgan
Library & Museum, 1973.35:2, Gift of János Scholz. Photography
by Steven H. Crossot, 2014. Opening February 15, Invention and Design :
Ea… more »
Reckoning with “The Incident”: John Wilson’s Studies for a Lynching Mural
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 days ago
– *January 25, 2019–April 7, 2019*
*Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa* – *June 3, 2019–August 9,
2019* *David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park* –
*October 6, 2019–December 6, 2019* *Clark Atlanta University Art
Museum* – *January 17, 2020–May 10, 2020* *Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven, Conn* John Wilson, Compositional study for *The Incident*,
1952. Opaque and transparent watercolor, ink, and graphite, squared for
transfer. Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund.
Art © Estate of John Wilson/… more »
Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio’s Studio
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 days ago
*Yale Art Gallery* *June 29, 2018–October
7, 2018* Leonardo da Vinci, *The Annunciation* (detail), ca. 1475–79.
Oil on panel. Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. no. M.I. 598. Photo: Centre
de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF), Jean-Louis
Bellec Leonardo da Vinci, *The Annunciation*, ca. 1475–79. Oil on
panel. Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. no. M.I. 598. Photo: Centre de
Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF), Jean-Louis
Bellec This landmark exhibition investigates a virtually unknown period
in the career of Leonardo da Vinci, one of the most famou… more »
Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 days ago
* Strawberry Hill house* *20 October 2018
through 24 February 2019. * Good review with images For the first time
in 176 years, pieces from Horace Walpole’s collection return to
Strawberry Hill house in Twickenham, along the banks of the Thames west
of London, England. The Lewis Walpole Library, 154 Main Street
Farmington, Connecticut 06032 has hosted curators from Strawberry Hill
as Fellows in Farmington to research Walpole’s collection and pick up
where Lewis and LWL curators have left off on tracking down the lost and
not-so-lost treasures with which Walpole filled his “l… more »
An American View Revisited: The Hosek Collection of American Art
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 days ago
*Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston* *through Feb. 6, 2019. * * An American View Revisited: The
Hosek Collection of American Art* is the second time the museum has
showcased the extensive collection of Howard (Chip) Hosek, Jr.
Originally exhibited at the Pearl during the fall of 2009, the Hosek
Collection has continued to expand as the Texan collector has pursued
his passion to collect works of art that hold a special interest to him
and present the American story. [image: Image result] The Hosek
Collection, which initially concentrated on American Art from 1850-1950,
… more »
CHAGALL Colore e magia
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 days ago
*ASTI, PALAZZO MAZZETTI* *27 September
2018 – 3 February 2019* Marc Chagall: his expressive and colourful
style, his life and his traditions, in a major exhibition bringing over
one hundred and fifty works to Asti’s Palazzo Mazzetti opening 27
September. [image: Cover_Mostra_Chagall] From 27 September 2018 to 3
February 2019, Asti will welcome the elegant and utopian world of Marc
Chagall, with paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings. It is a
world full of wonder and amazement; artworks in which childhood
memories, fairy tales, poetry, religion and war coexist; a univers… more »
Bosch, Brueghel, Arcimboldo
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 week ago
ARSENALI REPUBBLICANI, PISA 14 November 2018 –
26 May 2019 For the first time ever in Italy, a digital art spectacular
devoted to great artists of the 16th century. A new format that reveals
the powerful impact, exuberance and majesty of works by Bosch, the
Brueghel dynasty and Arcimboldo, as never before. The great spectacular
show Bosch, Brueghel, Arcimboldo has arrived in Pisa, with its magical
and dream-like atmospheres that envelop the public and fully immerse
them in the artworks through a combination of images, music and
technology. A 30-minute spectacular with over 2,000 im… more »
Chiaroscuro Printmaking Cranach, Raphael, Rubens…
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 week ago
*Louvre* *October 18, 2018–January 14,
2019* *In a pioneering miscellany of 120 prints preserved in the most
significant Parisian collections (Edmond de Rothschild collection, Musée
du Louvre; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Fondation Custodia; École
Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts), as well as loans from French
museums (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon) and institutions abroad
(British Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Rijksmuseum), this exhibition
retraces one particular technique and aesthetic approach in the realm of
printmaking: chiaroscuro printmaking, also known as color woo… more »
Spectacular Mysteries: Renaissance Drawings Revealed
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 week ago
* J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center*
*December 11, 2018 – April 28, 2019* *The Head of a Young Man*, about
1539 – 1540, Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) (Italian, 1503 – 1540).
Pen and brown ink. 16 × 10.5 cm (6 5/16 × 4 1/8 in.). The J. Paul Getty
Museum, Los Angeles During the Italian Renaissance—the period from about
1475 to 1600 that is often seen as the foundation of later European
art—drawing became increasingly vital to the artistic process just as it
grew dramatically more sophisticated in technique and conception.
Today, Italian Renaissance drawings are considered some… more »
The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 week ago
Next March, Tate Britain will open a
major exhibition about Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). *The EY Exhibition:
Van Gogh and Britain* will be the first exhibition to take a new look
at the artist through his relationship with Britain. It will explore how
Van Gogh was inspired by British art, literature and culture throughout
his career and how he in turn inspired British artists, from Walter
Sickert to Francis Bacon. Bringing together the largest group of Van
Gogh paintings shown in the UK for nearly a decade, *The EY Exhibition:
Van Gogh and Britain *will include over 45 works by th… more »
From Bosch’s Stable. Hieronymus Bosch and The Adoration of the Magi
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 week ago
xx Jheronimus Bosch, De Aanbidding der
Koningen, ca. 1475. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York *On 1
December 2018, Het Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch will open the
exhibition From Bosch’s Stable. Hieronymus Bosch and The Adoration of
the Magi. Just two years after the successful exhibition Hieronymus
Bosch – Visions of a Genius in the spring of 2016, the museum is once
again bringing work by the world-famous Den Bosch master himself back to
the city where he lived, worked and then died in 1516. The loan is
exceptional: throughout the world, there remain only about 25 or… more »
Oskar Kokoschka – A Retroprective
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 week ago
*Kunsthaus Zürich **14 December 2018 – 10
March 2019* The Kunsthaus Zürich presents Oskar Kokoschka –
Expressionist, migrant and pacifist – in the first retrospective of his
work in Switzerland for 30 years. The highlight among the more than 200
exhibits is the monumental ‘Prometheus Triptych’, which has never before
been seen in Switzerland. Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) is, along with
Francis Picabia and Pablo Picasso, one of a generation of artists who
retained their allegiance to figurative painting after the Second World
War, even as abstract art was consolidating its predomina… more »
Turner and Constable: The Inhabited landscape
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 weeks ago
Clark Art Institute December 15,
2018–March 10, 2019 Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
and John Constable (English, 1776–1837) rose to prominence as landscape
artists in early nineteenth-century Britain. Their inspired subjects,
their distinctive compositions, and their innovative brushwork combined
to elevate a genre traditionally considered less important than history
painting and portraiture. *Turner and Constable: The Inhabited
Landscape*, on view at the Clark Art Institute December 15, 2018–March
10, 2019, explores the significance of human figures and the built… more »
Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 weeks ago
*Palazzo Ducale, Venice, September
7–January 6, 2019National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 10–July 7,
2019* *Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice*, the first
retrospective of the artist in North America, features nearly 50
paintings and more than a dozen works on paper spanning the artist’s
entire career. Included in the rich selection of domestic and
international loans are works ranging from regal portraits of Venetian
aristocracy to religious and mythological narrative scenes. In addition,
*Tintoretto *will explore the artist’s working methods. The exhibition
curators … more »
Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 weeks ago
*Exhibition Dates:* October 16,
2018–January 27, 2019 *Exhibition Location:* The Met Fifth Avenue, Floor
1, Gallery 955 Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/19–1594) was one of the
preeminent Venetian painters of the 16th century and was renowned for
his dynamic narrative scenes and insightful portraits. In celebration of
the 500th anniversary of the artist’s birth, The Met will present
*Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings*. This
focused exhibition will unite 21 works from European and American
museums and private collections, bringing them into a larger discussio… more »
Thomas Gainsborough: Drawings at the Clark
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 weeks ago
*Clark Art Institute * *December 1, 2018 –
March 17, 2019* inSharAlthough Thomas Gainsborough English, 1727–1788)
is widely recognized as one of the most fashionable portrait painters of
the eighteenth century, a new installation at the *Clark Art Institute*
provides an opportunity to study the artist’s landscape drawings,
working methods and imaginative approach to representing nature. *Thomas
Gainsborough: Drawings at the Clark, on view from December 1, 2018 –
March 17, 2019,* marks the first time that the Clark’s entire collection
of rarely exhibited Gainsborough drawings will be… more »
The young Tintoretto
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 weeks ago
*Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice* *September 7
2018 – January 6 2019 * Through some 60 works, the show The Young
Tintoretto, curated by Roberta Battaglia, Paola Marini, and Vittoria
Romani, will range over the first decade of the Venetian painter’s
activity, from 1538 (the year in which there was first documented an
independent activity by Jacopo Robusti, in San Geremia) to 1548, the
date of the clamorous success of his first public work, the Miracolo
dello schiavo, for the Scuola Grande di San Marco, today the pride of
the Gallerie dell’Accademia: an exciting itinerary that recons… more »
Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 weeks ago
*Dallas Museum of Art* *November 18, 2018
to February 24, 2019* Image: Ida O’Keeffe, *Variation on a Lighthouse
Theme II*, c. 1933, Private Collection The Dallas Museum of Art
announced today the presentation of *Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s
Shadow*, an exhibition that will premiere at the DMA as the first venue
of a national tour. The exhibition will showcase for the first time
approximately 40 paintings, watercolors, prints and drawings, to be
supplemented with photographs of the artist taken by Alfred Stieglitz in
the 1920s. Although she was an artist recognized as art… more »
Art, faith and medicine in TINTORETTO’s Venice
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 weeks ago
Venice is celebrating one of her most
famous sons, the great painter Jacopo Tintoretto, born 500 years ago,
with a series of outstanding exhibitions: at the Doges’ Palace, at the
Academia Galleries, at *Scuola Grande San Rocco* and at *Scuola Grande
San Marco-September 6th 2018 until January 6th, 2019.* Scuola Grande San
Marco used to be the seat of a powerful benevolent lay organization,
that during the centuries accumulated a striking art collection. Today
this magnificent early Renaissance building, a 10 minutes’ walk from St
Mark’s Square, is the seat of Venice’s major hospi… more »
FLORENCE AND ITS PAINTERS: FROM GIOTTO TO LEONARDO DA VINCI
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 weeks ago
*Alte Pinakothek * * 18.10.2018 ‐
27.01.2019* With some 120 masterpieces, the show presents the
groundbreaking artistic innovations at the birthplace of the
Renaissance. A comprehensive selection of exquisite panel paintings,
sculptures and drawings transports visitors back to the time of the
Medici and traces the development of the art in the modern age, from its
beginnings with Giotto’s work to Leonardo da Vinci’s creations. [image:
Image result] Filippino Lippi Bildnis eines jungen Mannes, um 1485 ©
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon
Collectio… more »
Hopper to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 weeks ago
*Reynolda House Museum of American Art,
Wniston-Salem, NC* *Feb. 15 – May 13* [image: Edward Hopper, The Camel’s
Hump, 1931, oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 50 1/4 in., Edward W. Root Bequest,
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY,
57.160. Photographer: John Bigelow Taylor and Diane Dubler] Edward
Hopper, *The Camel’s Hump,* 1931, oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 50 1/4 in.,
Edward W. Root Bequest, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of
Art, Utica, NY, 57.160. Photographer: John Bigelow Taylor and Diane
Dubler inShare Works of art from nearly every major Ameri… more »
Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 weeks ago
*Cleveland Museum of Art* *November 18,
2018, to January 21, 2019* This unique set of eight hangings was almost
certainly commissioned in the 1570s by Catherine de’ Medici, the
indomitable queen mother of France, to celebrate the future of the
Valois dynasty as continuing rulers of France. Juxtaposing the hangings
with paintings, drawings and exquisite art objects of the period, the
exhibition explores the tapestries’ role as an artistic and political
statement involving two of the most powerful European dynasties of the
Renaissance—the Valois and the Medici—and their respective p… more »
Mary Cassatt: Modernizing the Mother and Child Trope
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 weeks ago
inShare [image: Image result] *Baby Lying on
his Mother’s Lap *by Mary Cassatt. Circa 1914. M.S. Rau Antiques (New
Orleans) In a nondescript room, a young mother cradles her infant son in
her arms. Smiling, he attempts to grasp the vibrant orange scarf that
she dangles in front of him. The intimate tableau reflects Mary
Cassatt’s vision of modern motherhood and domesticity. Painted in
pastel, the work was completed in 1914, which was the year that she
retired from painting due to her failing eyesight. Thus, it represents
the complete culmination of this famed painters’ oeuvre, … more »
Freeman’s American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists Sunday, December 9,
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 weeks ago
—————————— Freeman’s winter American Art
& Pennsylvania Impressionists auction features works of art by
distinguished American artists including Martin Lewis (1881-1962),
Milton Avery (1885-1965), Joseph Stella (1877-1946) and William Glackens
(1870-1938), as well as Pennsylvania Impressionists Fern Coppedge
(1883-1951), Edward Redfield (1869-1965) and Daniel Garber (1880-1958).
Anchored by two quintessential works by two generations of Wyeths
(Newell Convers, 1882-1945, and Andrew, 1917-2009), the sale also
includes several fine groupings of paintings, such as … more »
Oskar Kokoschka. The Printed Oeuvre in the Context of Its Time
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 weeks ago
*Museum der Moderne Salzburg * *10
November 2018―17 February 2019* The prints of Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn,
AT, 1886―Montreux, CH, 1980) occupy a prominent position in his output.
He first explored the technique while studying art in
turn-of-the-century Vienna; over the years, and especially in the final
decades of his long life, he built a sizable graphic oeuvre. The Museum
der Moderne Salzburg possesses an exceptionally comprehensive collection
of Kokoschka’s prints and has repeatedly mounted presentations of
selections from this treasure since it was established. *Oskar Kok… more »
Max Weber: Becoming Modern
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 weeks ago
Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to
announce the upcoming exhibition *Max Weber: Becoming Modern*. Spanning
the years 1905-1930, the paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures
that make up the exhibition will explore Weber’s transformation from art
student to arbiter of the avant-garde. *Two Sisters*, ca. 1910,
watercolor on paper, 12 1/2 x 8 inches Weber arrived in Paris in 1905
and enrolled at the Academie Colarossi, pursuing a traditinoal, academic
course of study. He left Paris four years later an avant-garde artist,
an acolyte of Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne, and Rousseau… more »
Christie’s The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, 27 February 2019
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 weeks ago
[image: Image result] René Magritte’s
masterpiece *Le Lieu Commun*, 1964 (estimate: £15,000,000-25,000,000),
one of the finest and largest examples of his iconic bowler-hatted men,
will lead Christie’s *The Art of the Surreal *Evening Sale on 27
February 2019. Never before offered at auction, and poised to set a new
world auction record for the artist, the work offers a unique vision of
the wandering icon in that it offers a view of the figure both full-face
and hidden behind a column in an ambiguous landscape of either
impossible or multiple reality. The large scale (39 3/8 x 3… more »
Beckmann. Exile Figures – Expanded version
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 weeks ago
*Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza * *25
October 2018 to 27 January 2019 * *CaixaForum’s exhibition space in
Barcelona, * *21 February to 26 May 2019.* The Museo Nacional
Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting Beckmann. Exile figures, the first
exhibition in Spain in twenty years to be devoted to the a rtist, one of
the most important of the 20 th century. While close to New Objectivity
at the outset o f his career, Max Beckmann (Leipzig, 1884 – New York,
1950) created a unique and independent ty pe of painting, realist in
style but filled with symbolic resonances, which came to consti… more »
Mantegna and Bellini
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 weeks ago
This exhibition is the first ever devoted
to the relationship between two of the greatest artists of the Italian
Renaissance: Giovanni Bellini (active about 1459–1516) and Andrea
Mantegna (1430/1–1506). Through exceptionally rare loans of paintings,
drawings, and sculpture, travelling to London from across the world,
‘Mantegna and Bellini’ offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to
compare the work of these two important artists who also happened to be
brothers-in-law – a family connection from which both drew strength and
brilliance throughout their careers. Neither’s career or … more »
Irving Penn: Centennial, Part II
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
*The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 199 *
*April 24–July 30, 2017 * The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a
major retrospective of the photographs of Irving Penn to mark the
centennial of the artist’s birth. Over the course of his nearly 70-year
career, Irving Penn (1917–2009) mastered a pared-down aesthetic of
studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous attention to
composition, nuance, detail, and printmaking. *Irving Penn:
Centennial*, opening April 24, 2017, will be the most comprehensive
exhibition of the great American photographer’s work to date and… more »
Sotheby’s American Art Auction in New York on 16 November
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
[image: Two Comedians, 1965 – Edward
Hopper] Sotheby’s has announced that Edward Hopper’s *Two Comedians*
will lead the American Art Auction in New York on 16 November 2018
(estimate $12/18 million). Painted in 1966, *Two Comedians* ranks among
the most poignant and personal works in Hopper’s celebrated oeuvre.
Evocative of many of the most important themes in Hopper’s body of
2work, this seminal painting is distinguished further by its notable
provenance: it was acquired by Frank and Barbara Sinatra in 1972, and
remained in their collection until it was purchased by the current o… more »
12 December in London, Sotheby’s = Caspar David Friedrich
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
Today more perhaps than at any time since
Caspar David Friedrich’s death almost 180 years ago, his sublime and
timeless landscapes are being appreciated by artists and public
alike.The artistic embodiment of landscape painting of the Romantic era,
Friedrich strove to express mood and meaning through nature, his
aesthetic informed by his Protestant upbringing and the idea of divine
creation manifesting itself in the natural world. On 12 December in
London, Sotheby’s will offer two landscapes by Friedrich, each work a
distillation ofthe artist’s search for deeper meaning within the … more »
Frans Hals and the Moderns
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
*Frans Hals Museum*13th October 2018 –
24th February 2019Hals meets Manet, Singer, Sargent, Van Gogh Frans Hals
was rediscovered as a modern idol two hundred years after his death. He
was admired, even adored by late 19th-century artists such as Édouard
Manet, Max Liebermann and Vincent van Gogh. They were all impressed by
his loose touch and rough painting style, which came across as
‘Impressionist’. This exhibition shows Frans Hals’s immense impact on
these modern painters. For the first time, paintings by the famous
17th-century portrait painter are being shown alongside reactio… more »
Lorenzo Lotto Portraits
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
*National Gallery London * *5 November
2018 – 10 February 2019 * “Lotto was the first Italian painter who was
sensitive to the varying status of the human soul. Never before or since
has anyone brought out on the face more of the inner life….” Bernard
Berenson, art historian, 1895 In autumn 2018 the National Gallery will
stage the first-ever exhibition of portraits by the Italian Renaissance
artist Lorenzo Lotto. Lorenzo Lotto Portraits will bring together many
of Lotto’s best portraits spanning his entire career from collections
around the world. [image: Lorenzo Lotto, ‘Portrait o… more »
Fernand Léger: New Times, New Pleasures
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
*Tate Liverpool* *3 NOVEMBER 2018 – 17
MARCH 2019* *VAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern * *2 May to 15
September 2019.* Tate Liverpool presents the first major UK exhibition
in 30 years of renowned modern artist Fernand Léger (1881–1955).
*Fernand Léger: New Times, New Pleasures* brings together more than 50
paintings from across Europe, including many never before seen in the
UK. Featuring abstract and figurative paintings, drawings, a large-scale
mural, films, graphic design, books and textiles, the exhibition
explores how Léger redefined the value of art to 20th century … more »
Mohamad Hafez Collateral Damage
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
*Fairfield University – Walsh Gallery,
Quick Center for the Arts * * October 26 – December 15, 2018 * Born in
Damascus, raised in Saudi Arabia, and educated in the Midwestern U.S.,
artist and architect Mohamad Hafez explores the impact of the political
turmoil of the Middle East through hyper-realistic streetscapes crafted
from found objects, paint, and scrap metal. Architectural in appearance
yet politically charged in content, his miniaturized tableaus are
alternately nostalgic, charming, and deeply painful. Mohamad Hafez:
Collateral Damage features a selection of work across m… more »
Bouguereau & America
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
*Milwaukee Art Museum * *February 15
through May 12, 2019* *Memphis Brooks Museum of Art * *June 22 to
September 22, 2019* *San Diego Museum of Art,* * November 9, 2019, to
March 15, 2020* [image: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905)
Admiration, 1897. Oil on canvas, 58 × 78 in. San Antonio Museum of Art,
bequest of Mort D. Goldberg,] William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French,
1825–1905) *Admiration,* 1897. Oil on canvas, 58 × 78 in. San Antonio
Museum of Art, bequest of Mort D. Goldberg, (Photography by Roger Fry)
inShare The work of French academic painter *William-Adolphe… more »
Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
* National Portrait Gallery* *November 2, 2018
– August 18, 2019* Drawing primarily from the National Portrait
Gallery’s vast collection of self-portraits, this exhibition will
explore how American artists have chosen to portray themselves since the
beginning of the last century. As people are confronted each day with
“selfies” via social media and as they continue to examine the fluidity
of contemporary identity, this is an opportune time to reassess the
significance of self-portraiture in relation to the country’s history
and culture. The exhibition will feature more than 75… more »
Beyond Klimt New Horizons in Central Europe 1914-1938
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
*Lower Belvedere, Vienna: * *23.03 –
26.08.2018* *BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels: * *21.09.2018 –
20.01.2019* Exactly one hundred years on from their deaths, the Austrian
artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele are still big names on the
international art scene. The exhibition Beyond Klimt doesn’t just
present the late work of these great masters, it gives visitors the
chance to familiarise themselves with the international avant- garde
movements – surrealism, expressionism, new realism, constructivism,
Bauhaus etc. – which flourished after WWI in the young national states… more »
From Magritte to Duchamp. 1929: Great Works of Surrealism from the Centre Pompidou
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
11.10.18 – 17.02.19 On display at Palazzo
Blu in Pisa the most important surrealist works by great artists as
Salvador Dalì, René Magritte and Marchel Duchamp*From 11 October 2018 to
17 February 2019* Great expectations for the next exhibition scheduled
at *Palazzo Blu in Pisa* which, from 11th October 2018 to 17th February
2019, will host *’From Magritte to Duchamp. 1929: the great surrealism
from the Centre Pompidou’*. On display, for the first time in Italy,
more than 90 works including paintings, collages, installations,
sculptures and photographs by the famous National Center f… more »
FASCINATION JAPAN: MONET. VAN GOGH. KLIMT.
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 weeks ago
*Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien * *10
October 2018 – 20 January 2019 * The autumn exhibition of the Bank
Austria Kunstforum Wien 2018 is devoted to “Japomanie” – the passion of
the West for the aesthetics and world of images of the Far East. It
traces how the fascination for the exotic and the new developed, from
its beginnings in the 1860s until long after the turn of the century,
and includes both its amalgamation into the vocabulary of forms of
Western painting as well as the influence of its aesthetics on the
development of Modernism around 1900. As early as the 1860s the elegant… more »
Christie’ American Art sales November 13 and 20 in New York
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 month ago
Christie’s announced a prestigious
collection of Hudson River School paintings from the Collection of Kevin
and Barrie Landry will be offered in the American Art sale on November
20 in New York. One of the finest groupings of Hudson River School
artists to appear on the market in decades, all sale proceeds will
benefit philanthropies that support the global refugee crisis, UNICEF
USA, RefugePoint, and The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.
Inspired by their love for America the couple were drawn to the Hudson
River School artists who celebrated nature, discovery, exp… more »
Bartolomé Bermejo
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* Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid *
*10/9/2018 – 1/27/2019* Bartolomé Bermejo was one of the most
fascinating figures within Spanish art of the second half of the 15th
century. Bringing together a remarkable group of paintings from Spanish,
European and American museums, the Prado is able to present this survey
exhibition, which has been organized with the collaboration of the
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and, for the first time, allows for an
appreciation of the technical virtuosity and distinctive visual
universe of this Cordovan painter active in the Kingdom of Aragon. … more »
The Orléans Collection
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 month ago
* New Orleans Museum of Art * * October
26, 2018 through January 27, 2019* In celebration of the city of New
Orleans’ Tricentennial in 2018, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)
will present *The Orléans Collection*, an exhibition of selections from
the magnificent collection of the city’s namesake, Philippe II, Duke of
Orléans (1674-1723). Universally praised during his lifetime, the
exceptional collection was comprised of some of the most important works
in the history of art. On view from October 26, 2018 through January
27, 2019, *The Orléans Collection* will bring together, fo… more »
Gauguin & Laval in Martinique
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 month ago
*Van Gogh Museum * *5 October 2018 to 13
January 2019* *Gauguin & Laval in Martinique is the first ever
exhibition devoted to a crucial, but up until now neglected period in
the artistic career of Paul Gauguin: the four months that he spent in
Martinique in 1887, together with Charles Laval. The colourful,
innovative artworks that the two friends created on the island proved to
have a huge impact on their artistic development and future careers.*
*Gauguin & Laval in Martinique* unites a large number of the
paintings, drawings and sketches that the two French artists created on
the … more »
The Renaissance Nude
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 month ago
*J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center *
*October 30, 2018 – January 27, 2019* *Royal Academy of Art in London*
*March 3 through June 2, 2019.* Drawing inspiration from classical
sculpture and the study of the live model, Renaissance artists made the
nude central to their art, creating lifelike, vibrant, and varied
representations of the human body. This transformative moment is one
that would shape the course of European art history and resonate through
the present day. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum October 30, 2018
through January 27, 2019, *The Renaissance Nud… more »
Lotte Laserstein. Face to Face
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Städel Museum) *19 September 2018 to 17
March 2019* After its launch at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main,
the exhibition will travel to the Berlinische Galerie, where it will be
complemented with, among others, works created by Lotte Laserstein while
in exile. —————————— *From 19 September 2018 to 17 March 2019*, the
Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main presents a comprehensive solo
exhibition with works by the painter Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993).
Laserstein’s oeuvre is one of the great recent art historical
rediscoveries and features sensitive and com… more »
Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 month ago
*Princeton University Art Museum,
Princeton, New Jersey,* *Oct. 13, 2018-Jan. 6, 2019* * Peabody Essex
Museum, Salem, Massachusetts* *Feb. 2-May 5, 2019* *Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas * *May 25-Sept. 9, 2019*
*. * Charles Willson Peale. *The Artist in His Museum*.
1822.Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Gift of Mrs. Sarah Harrison
(The Joseph Harrison, Jr. Collection), 1878.1.2. *Significance: *The
story of our changing relationship with the natural world will be
comprehensively told through this groundbreaking exhibition encompassing
three c… more »
Ribera: Art of Violence,
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 month ago
Dulwich Picture Gallery In autumn 2018,
Dulwich Picture Gallery will present *Ribera: Art of Violence*, the
first UK show dedicated to the Spanish Baroque painter, draughtsman and
printmaker Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652), bringing together his most
sensational and shocking works. A selection of eight monumental canvases
will be displayed alongside exceptional drawings and prints exploring
the powerful theme of violence in Ribera’s art. Showcasing 45 works, the
exhibition will be arranged thematically, examining his arresting
depictions of saintly martyrdom and mythological violen… more »
80 Years’ War. The Birth of the Netherlands
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*Rijksmuseum* * 12 October 2018 to 20
January 201 * This year is the 450th anniversary of the outbreak of the
Eighty Years’ War, and to mark the event the Rijksmuseum is holding an
exhibition entitled ’80 Years’ War. The Birth of the Netherlands’. From
12 October 2018 to 20 January 2019, satirical cartoons, items of
clothing, weapons and paintings by Bruegel, Rubens and Ter Borch will be
our ‘eyewitnesses’, telling the story of how the Dutch nation was born.
*In a contemporary exhibition created by the Flemish stage designer
Roel van Berckelaer, the Rijksmuseum will show how th… more »
Picasso’s South. Andalusian References
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Museo Picasso Málaga’ 9 Oct. 2018 – 3
Feb. 2019 Museo Picasso Málaga’s exhibition *Picasso’s South. Andalusian
References* takes a look at the history of Spanish art by displaying
works by Picasso alongside valuable archaeological artefacts and
paintings by great masters such as Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo, Goya,
María Blanchard and Juan Gris, amongst others. This ambitious show moves
from Iberian art through Classical Antiquity, and ends with the modern
art of Picasso’s own contemporaries. *Picasso’s South. Andalusian
References* provides a synthesis of *Spanish art history*,… more »
Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 month ago
* Oklahoma City Museum of Art* *October
13, 2018 – January 6, 2019* *Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL *
*February 9–May 5, 2019* *Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA* *June
13–September 8, 2019* *San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX*
*October 10, 2019 – January 5, 2020* *Yale Center for British Art, New
Haven, CT* *February 13–May 10, 2020* *Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV*
*June 20–September 13, 2020* *The Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA*
*October 29, 2020–January 24, 2021* Kate Elizabeth Bunce, *Musica*, ca.
1895–97, Oil on canvas, 40 3/16 x 30 3/16 x 1 3/4 in… more »
American Beauty & Bounty: The Judith G. and Steaven K. Jones Collection of Nineteenth-Century Painting
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 month ago
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento,
CaliforniaOct 28, 2018 – Jan 27, 2019 Above: George Forster, *Still Life
with Fruit and Nest, *1869. Oil on panel, 16 ½ × 12 ½ in., Crocker Art
Museum, Judith G. and Steaven K. Jones Collection. The Crocker Art
Museum has announced the October 28 opening of “American Beauty and
Bounty,” an exhibition of 19th-century American paintings that are as
treasured for their aesthetic as for their national importance. The
exhibition features 27 works from an iconic, private collection of
pastoral landscapes, masterfully painted still lifes, and narrative
genr… more »
Alice Neel in New Jersey and Vermont
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* Xavier Hufkens * *6 rue St-Georges |
St-Jorisstraat, Brussels,* *26 October—8 December 2018* Three years
after the gallery’s first exhibition of portraits by the American
painter Alice Neel (1900—1984), Xavier Hufkens is delighted to present a
different facet of her oeuvre: the landscapes, still lifes and
portraits that she made in the rural surroundings of Spring Lake and
Vermont. The paintings provide an intimate insight into the artist’s
personal world and reveal the delight she took in the simple pleasures
of life, away from the daily grind of New York. Alice Neel is con… more »
Becoming John Marin: Modernist at Work
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*Arkansas Arts Center * *January 26 – April
22, 2018* *San Antonio Museum of Art* *October 27, 2018 –January 20,
2019* This exhibition was organized by the Arkansas Arts Center John
Marin, American (Rutherford, New Jersey, 1870 – 1953, Cape Split,
Maine), *Ramapo Mountains,* 1945, watercolor and graphite on textured
watercolor paper, 15 1/4 x 19 3/4 in., Arkansas Arts Center Foundation
Collection: Gift of Norma B. Marin. 2013.018.243 —————————— Featuring
never-before-exhibited drawings and watercolors from the Arkansas Arts
Center Collection, *Becoming Joh… more »
Modern Times at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 month ago
50 masterpieces from the world-renowned
collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, following their
presentation at Palazzo Reale in Milan. Claude Monet,* Japanese
Footbridge, Giverny*, 1895, oil on canvas, 78.7×97.8 Gift of F. Otto
Haas, and partial gift of the reserved life interest of Carole Haas
Gravagno, 1993-151-2. The exhibition spans a period of 90 years of
artistic development, from the late 19th to the 20th century, including
canonical artists of European art such as Pierre Bonnard, Constantin
Brancusi, Georges Braque, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí,
Edgar… more »
Picasso: Christie’s Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on 11 November in New York.
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 month ago
*The Lamp implies that although Olga was
chatelaine of Boisgeloup, Marie-Thé**rè**se, wreathed in tendrils of
philodendron, was queen of the sculpture studio**’* —John Richardson
[image: Image result] PABLO PICASSO, *La Lampe*, oil on canvas, Painted
in Boisgeloup, 21 January-8 June 1931, $25,000,000-35,000,000.
Christie’s will offer Pablo Picasso’s *La Lampe, *1931 ($25-35 million)
as a central highlight of its Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern
Art on 11 November in New York. The golden light from the lamp’s scarlet
flame bares a closely guarded secret, known in early 1931 t… more »
PAINTER. MENTOR. MAGICIAN. Otto Mueller and his Network in Wrocław
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 1 month ago
– *Hamburger Bahnhof * – *12 Oct 2018 – 3
Mar 20**19* Exhibition Overview —————————— [image: Image result] *Otto
Mueller, Self Portrait with Pentagram, around 1924 * From Berlin to
Wrocław: for the first time an exhibition addresses the huge artistic
influence of Die Brücke painter and German expressionist Otto Mueller
(1874–1930). As a mentor for a younger generation, he taught for more
than 10 years at the State Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts in Wrocław,
which in the 1920s was regarded as one of Europe’s most progressive art
schools. Here, the … more »
Sotheby’s Old Master Evening Sale, London: 5 December 2018
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
Two portraits of Charles I’s eldest
children – the eleven year- old Prince of Wales, (later King Charles
II), and his nine year- old sister Mary, the Princess Royal, (later, the
mother of the future king, William III) will be among the highlight s
of Sotheby’s London Old Master Evening sale on 5 December. [image: Image
result] Sir Anthony Van Dyck, *Portrait of Mary, Princess Royal and
Princess of Orange*, 1641 Oil on canvas Estimate: £ 600,000 – 800,000
[image: Image result] Sir Anthony Van Dyck, *Portrait of Charles II,
when Prince of Wales *, 1641 Oil on canvas Estimate: … more »
November 15, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
[image: Image result] Francis Bacon,* Study of
Henrietta Moraes Laughing,* oil on canvas, 14 x 12 in., painted in
1969. Estimate: $14-18 million. © Christie’s Images Limited 2018. On
November 15, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will
be highlighted by Francis Bacon’s *Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing*
(estimate: $14-18 million). This coveted painting comes from the
Collection of S.I. Newhouse, one of the greatest connoisseur art
collectors of the 20th Century revered for his innate ability to
recognize and acquire only pinnacle works: those that most full… more »
Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale on 6 December, 2018
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
‘Astonishing for its overarching quality’
— The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection On the 6 and 7 of December in
London, Christie’s will offer almost 400 lots from the celebrated Dutch
collection of Eric Albada Jelgersma, including a pair of portraits by
Frans Hals which are considered to be the finest left in private hands
The top lot of the sale is a pair of portraits by the Dutch Golden Age
painter Frans Hals (1580/5-1666). Dating from 1637, when the artist was
at the pinnacle of his fame and fortune, the works depict an
unidentified couple thought to be a prosperous Dutch merc… more »
Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art this November
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
Sotheby’s announced a few more works in
its World War I-themed sale within a sale, The Beautiful and Damned.
Today’s announcement includes an Oskar Kokoschka and Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner work. Each work is being restituted and will be sold with an
estimate of between $15 and $20m. Sotheby’s is honored to announce that
two Modern masterworks recently restituted to the heirs of art-world
luminary Alfred Flechtheim will highlight *theirImpressionist &
Modern Art Evening Sale* in New York on 12 November 2018. Among the
finest examples by their respective artists ever to appear at auction… more »
Christie’s November 11 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, Including Property from the Collection of Herbert and Adele Klapper.
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
Working with prominent gallerists and
auction house specialists, the Klappers steadily acquired important
examples of Old Master paintings, Impressionist, and Modern art. The
couple carefully curated their assemblage to focus on the very best by
artists such as Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Jean Arp, Claude Monet,
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and
Edgar Degas. [image: Image result] Leading the collection is Claude
Monet’s *L’escalier à Vétheuil, *1881 ($12-18 million) – *pictured
left*. With its extraordinary profusion of flowers and foliage, th… more »
Sotheby’s: 14 November, Contemporary Art Evening Auction, American Art Auction on 16 November
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
David Hockney’s large-scale painting
Montcalm Interior with 2 Dogs from 1988, a highly regarded period within
the artist’s career, will highlight their Contemporary Art Evening
Auction in New York on 14 November 2018. The work comes to auction from
the collection of legendary television producer and writer Steven
Bochco, who acquired it in 1997, and appears at auction for the first
time this fall with an estimate of $9/12 million. Jacqueline Wachter,
Sotheby’s Vice President of Private Sales, Contemporary Art, said: “We
are thrilled to present this dynamic Los Angeles interio… more »
Pieter Bruegel: Comprehensive exhibition – Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna*
*October 2, 2018 to January 13, 2019* [image: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
(c. 1525/30 Breugel or Antwerp? – 1569 Brussels) View of the Bay of
Naples c. 1563?, panel, 42.2 × 71.2 cm Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphilj ©
Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphilj] Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30
Breugel or Antwerp? – 1569 Brussels*) View of the Bay of Naples *c.
1563?, panel, 42.2 × 71.2 cm Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphilj © Rome,
Galleria Doria Pamphilj inShare From October 2 to January 13, 2019, the
Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna presents the first-ever majo… more »
FRANZ MARC AND AUGUST MACKE: 1909–1914
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
Neue Galerie New YorkUntil January 21,
2019 Musée de l’Orangerie March 6 to June 17, 2019 “Franz Marc and
August Macke: 1909-1914” is an exhibition that explores the life and
work of two German artists and the power of their friendship. In the
four years prior to Macke’s death in 1914 (Marc himself died in 1916),
they wrote each other scores of letters, visited each other’s homes,
traveled together, and often discussed the development of their work.
They shared ideas about art, and through their innovations helped create
the movement known as Expressionism in early twentieth-century… more »
GRANDE DECORAZIONE. Italian Monumental Painting in Graphic Art
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Pinakothek der Moderne Staatliche
Graphische Sammlung München * * 13.10.2018 ‐ 06.01.2019* It was in
monumental painting that Italian art reached its apogee. Michelangelo’s
Sistine Chapel ceiling and ‘Last Judgement’, the frescoes of Raphael,
Pietro da Cortona and Tiepolo are among the most memorable creations of
the human imagination. One of the earliest exponents of Italian
monumental art was Andrea Mantegna, among whose major works is the
‘Triumph of Caesar’, made up of ten, large-scale panels which were
originally mounted on one wall. [image: Image result] Mantegna … more »
Gainsborough and the Theatre
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
The Holburne Museum*October 5, 2018 –
January 20, 2019 * Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Linley the elder, c.
1770, oil on canvas, 76.5 x 63.5, DPG140. By Permission of Dulwich
Picture Gallery, London. By bringing together some of Thomas
Gainsborough’s finest portraits of his friends in the theatre, this
exhibition will create a conversation between the leading actors,
managers, musicians, playwrights, designers, dancers and critics of the
1760s-80s. Gainsborough & the Theatre explores themes of
celebrity, naturalism, performance and friendship through some of the
most touching… more »
Unexpected O’Keeffe: The Virginia Watercolors and Later Paintings
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*The Fralin Museum of Art at the
University of Virginia* * Oct. 19, 2018-Jan. 27, 2019* [image: Untitled
(University of Virginia), 1912-1914, Georgia O’Keeffe, Watercolor on
paper 11 7/8 x 9 (30.16 x 22.86), Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Gift of The
Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation (2006.05.614), © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum]
This rare exhibition explores Georgia O’Keeffe’s watercolor studies
produced during her time at the University of Virginia (UVA) and will
include several key sketches and paintings as well as other works
demonstrating her developing style. While in Charlottesville in th… more »
Impressionist & Modern Art evening Sale on 11 November at Christie’s
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
On 11 November, *Le bassin aux nymphéas*
will be offered in the *Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale*
at Christie’s in New York. [image: Le bassin aux nymphéas – Claude
Monet.jpg] Claude Monet's (1840-1926), *Le bassin aux nymphéas*,
1917-19. Oil on canvas. 39 3/4 x 79 in (100.7 x 200.8 cm) Estimate:
$30,000,000-50,000,000. On 24 June 2008 *Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas*, sold
for almost £41 million at Christie's in London, almost double
the estimate of £18 to £24 million.I do not have long to live, and I
must dedicate all my time to painting,’ wrote Claude Monet in a 1918
letter… more »
Still more on 11 November Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale at Christie’s
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
‘*Between the winter of 1886 and the
summer of 1887 Van Gogh effectively crossed the divide into contemporary
art*.’ – *Richard Kendall, art historian* *and **curator at large at
the Clark Art Institute* *[image: Image result] * Vincent Van Gogh,*
Coin de jardin avec papillons*, oil on canvas, 1887 New York – On 11
November Christie’s will offer the painting that marked the moment
Vincent Van Gogh ‘crossed the divide into contemporary art,’ *Coin de
jardin avec papillons*, 1887 (estimate on request). Presented at auction
for the first time, *Coin de jardin avec papillons* possesses … more »
Miro
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Grand Palais, Paris* *3 October 2018 – 4
February 2019* His homeland, Catalonia, offered him inspiration, Paris
his first springboard, and Palma de Mallorca the great studio he had
always dreamed of. Between these places, Joan Miró created an oeuvre
that is devoid of anecdotes, mannerisms, or any complacency towards
modes of expression. To achieve this, he constantly questioned his
pictorial language, even if it broke his momentum. Although he was
interested in the twentieth century avant-garde, he did not adhere to
any school or any group, being wary of artistic chimeras. From t… more »
Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), *
*March 10, to June27, 2019* Few artists have left behind as complete an
account of their life and work as Vincent van Gogh(1853–1890). In March
2019, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents* Vincent van Gogh: His
Life in Ar*t, an exhibition showcasing key passages in the artist’s
life, fromhisearly sketchesto his final paintings, and chronicling his
pursuit of becoming an artist. His Life in Art presents more than 50
portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, the exhibition will be on view
at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston(MFAH), from … more »
The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Worcester Art Museum * *September 8
through November 25 July 26, 2018* *A stunning array of over 40
paintings from the New – York Historical Society’s collection by
renowned Hudson River School artists, including Thomas Cole, Asher B.
Durand, Albert Bierstadt, Jasper Cropsey, John F. Kensett, and William
T. Richards, will be on view at the Worcester Art Museum from September 8
through November 25, 2018. Painted between 1818 and 1886, the works
illustrate America’s scenic splendor as seen through the eyes of some of
the country’s most important painters. * *In the first decad… more »
Ansel Adams: Early Works
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
Longmont Museum, COJanuary 2019 – May
2019 William D. Cannon Art Gallery, CASeptember – November, 2019 *“I
knew little of these basic problems [of environmental conservation] when
I first made snapshots in and around Yosemite. I was casually making a
visual diary – recording where I had been and what I had seen – and
becoming intimate with the spirit of wild places. Gradually my
photographs began to mean something in themselves; they became records
of experiences as well as of places. People responded to them, and my
interest in the creative potential of photography grew apace. My… more »
Van Gogh to Picasso: The Thannhauser Legacy
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
– *The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao September
21, 2018–March 24, 2019* Drawn from the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation’s Thannhauser Collection, *Van Gogh to Picasso: The
Thannhauser Legacy *features nearly fifty works by Impressionist,
Post-Impressionist, and early modern masters, including Paul Cézanne,
Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh. The
exhibition marks the first occasion that a significant portion of the
renowned Thannhauser Collection has been exhibited outside of New York
since its arrival at the Guggenheim in New York in 1965—over fifty ye… more »
Extreme Nature!
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Clark Art Institute * *November 10,
2018–February 3, 2019* – [image: Currier & Ives (American,
1834–1907) after Artist Unknown (American, 19th Century), The Great Fire
at Boston, Nov. 9 & 10, 1872, 1872. Hand-colored lithograph on
paper, 7 15/16 x 12 11/16 in. Clark Art Institute, Gift of J. Thomas
Wilson, 1981.23] Currier & Ives (American, 1834–1907) after
Artist Unknown (American, 19th Century), *The Great Fire at Boston, Nov.
9 & 10, 1872*, 1872. Hand-colored lithograph on paper, 7 15/16 x
12 11/16 in. Clark Art Institute, Gift of J. Thomas Wilson, 1981.23
inShare … more »
Egon Schiele – The Making of a Collection
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Orangery, Lower Belvedere* *19 October
2018 to 17 February 2019* *“[…] I think it may be time for at least one
painting to be hanging at the St.-G. [Staatsgalerie].”* Egon Schiele to
his friend and patron Arthur Roessler, 21 June 1916 His wish would be
fulfilled as there are now a total of twenty works by Egon Schiele in
the Belvedere’s collection, including two permanent loans. 2018 is the
centenary of his death. Marking this occasion, an in-depth exhibition
considers all of the artist’s works that are – or were – in the
Belvedere’s collection. It traces the genesis of a collecti… more »
Edward Burne-Jones
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Tate Britain * * 24 October 2018 – 24
February 2019 * This autumn, Tate Britain will present the first major
Burne-Jones retrospective to be held in London for over 40 years.
Renowned for otherworldly depictions of beauty inspired by myth, legend
and the Bible, Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) was a pioneer of the
symbolist movement and the only Pre-Raphaelite to achieve world-wide
recognition in his lifetime. This ambitious and wide-ranging exhibition
will bring together over 150 works in different media including
painting, stained glass and tapestry, reasserting him as one of the … more »
PICASSO. MASTERPIECES!
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Musée national Picasso-Paris * *From 4
September 2018 to 13 January 2019* What does ‘masterpiece’ mean to Pablo
Picasso? The exhibition “Picasso. Masterpieces !” seeks to answer this
question by assembling many of Picasso’s great works from around the
world, some of which are being exhibited in Paris for the very first
time. Thanks to exceptional loans, masterpieces from all over the world
will dialogue with those from the collection of the Musée national
Picasso-Paris to offer a new interpretation of Picasso’s creations, with
particular attention to the critical reception of … more »
Goya in Black and White
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
Kimbell Art Museum *October 7, 2018 to
January 6, 2019* Francisco de Goya y Lucientes is among the best-known
figures in the history of Spanish art and renowned as one of the
greatest painters of all time. He is also revered as one of history’s
greatest draftsmen and printmakers. This exhibition will showcase more
than seventy-five of his paramount works on paper from the unparalleled
collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. *Goya in Black and White
*will explore the evolution of the artist’s graphic work in all media.
The importance of black and white will be shown throughou… more »
Arbus, Frank, Penn: Masterworks of Post-War American Photography
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, *
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & MuseumHamilton, Ohio
*OH**October- November, 2018* Drawn from a single private collection,
*Arbus, Frank, Penn: Masterworks of Post-War American Photography
*comprises 38 glorious vintage gelatin silver prints of many of the
icons of the era, including Diane Arbus’s [image: Image result]
“Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J.,” [image: Image result] “Boy with a Toy
Hand Grenade in Central Park,” [image: Image result] and “Jewish Giant
at Home with his Parents in the Bronx”; Robert Frank’s [image: Robert
Fr… more »
Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston* * October
7, 2018–January 27, 2019* *Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits
from Holbein to Warhol* sheds new light on changing ideas of monarchy
and nationhood in Britain. The exhibition features portraits of British
royalty spanning 500 years, by artists from Hans Holbein and Sir Joshua
Reynolds to Annie Leibovitz and Andy Warhol. [image: MFAH Tudors to
Windsors, Cecil Beaton, Queen Elizabeth II] Cecil Beaton, *Queen
Elizabeth II*, 2 June 1953, semi-matte cibachrome print, National
Portrait Gallery, London. *Photo Courtesy of Cecil … more »
JMW Turner: Watercolours from Tate
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
[image: J. M. W. Turner, Venice: Looking
Across the Lagoon at Sunset 1840, Watercolour on paper, 244 x 304mm,
Tate] J. M. W. Turner, *Venice: Looking Across the Lagoon at Sunset
*1840, Watercolour on paper, 244 x 304mm, Tate *JMW Turner: Watercolours
from Tate* will be the first major exhibition of the work of Turner in
Latin America, and the first Tate exhibition to be shown in Argentina.
It opens today, 26 September 2018, at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
in Buenos Aires. J.M.W. Turner is undisputed as the greatest exponent
of English watercolour in its golden age. This ex… more »
French Twist: Masterworks of photography from Atget to Man Ray
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*THE FRICK PITTSBURGH * * February- May
2019* In the early 20th century , between the two world wars, Paris saw a
fervor of change. From 1910 to 1940, the city became a creative
epicenter for artistic exploration, attracting international avant-garde
artists —including photographers experimenting with Surrealism,
Modernism, and the new reportage. *French Twist: Masterworks of
Photography from Atget to Man Ray*, features 100 vintage prints from
this golden age of French photography and explores the variety and
inventiveness of native and immigrant photographer s working … more »
Dorothea Lange’s America
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Sept. 14 through Dec. 30, 2018*
*Reynolda House Museum of American Art * *January – April, 2019Suzanne
H. Arnold Art Gallery, PASeptember– December, 2019Gilcrease Museum,
OKSeptember – December, 2020Pulaski Tech, AR* The exhibition, “Dorothea
Lange’s America,” presents Lange’s haunting photographs of 1930s and
1940s America and features some of the most iconic images of the 20th
century. “Lange’s documentary photographs appeared in local newspapers,
reaching both the masses across middle America and the lawmakers in our
nation’s capital, becoming poignant catalysts for so… more »
Picasso. Blue and Rose
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Musée d’Orsay* *18 September 2018 – 6
January 2019* *Fondation Beyeler, Basel * *3 February to 26 May, 2019*
The Musée d’Orsay, associated with the Musée Picasso-Paris, presents the
first exhibition on the blue and pink period of Pablo Picasso in
France. This exhibition offers an unprecedented gathering of
masterpieces, some never presented in France, and a new analysis of the
years 1900-1906, an essential phase in the artist’s career. The album
shows the evolution of Picasso’s painting year by year and comments on
the central works of the exhibition, giving the reader an overview… more »
Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*The Morgan Library & Museum*
*October 12, 2018 through January 6, 2019* *National Gallery of Art,
Washington, * *Early 2019.* The dramatic canvases of Jacopo Tintoretto
(1518/1519 – 1594) , with their muscular, expressive bodies, are some of
the most distinctive of the Italian Renaissance. His drawings ,
however, have received less atte ntion as a distinctive category in his
oeuvre . Opening October 12, *Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice *will be
the first exhibition since 1956 to focus on the drawing practice of this
major artist . It will offer a new perspective on Tintoretto’s… more »
Hodler//Parallelism
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*Kunstmuseum Bern * [image: Ferdinand
Hodler, Thunersee mit Niesen, 1910, Öl auf Leinwand, 105,5 x 83 cm.
Privatsammlung Schweiz – © Peter Schälchli, Zürich] Ferdinand Hodler,
*Thunersee mit Niesen*, 1910, Öl auf Leinwand, 105,5 x 83 cm.
Privatsammlung Schweiz © Peter Schälchli, Zürich To commemorate the
centenary of the death of Ferdinand Hodler, the Kunstmuseum Bern is –
jointly with the Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève – mounting a large
special exhibition. The show presents the work of this famous Swiss
artist from a new perspective: from that of his theory of parallelism. … more »
Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929–1936
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
*The Meadows Museum, **Southern Methodist
University, Dallas * *September 9, 2018 –January 13, 2019* This fall,
the Meadows Museum, SMU, will present a major exhibition of works by
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), exploring an overlooked or lesser-known
aspect of the artist’s oeuvre. With *Dalí: Poetics of the Small,
1929–1936*, the Meadows is organizing the first in-depth exploration of
the artist’s small-scale paintings—some measuring just over a foot, and
others as small as 3 by 2 inches. A major part of the artist’s output
during the early part of his Surrealist period (1929–1936), t… more »
Winslow Homer: Photography and the Art of Painting
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
[image: Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Eight
Bells, 1886, oil on canvas, 25 3/16 x 30 3/16 in. Addison Gallery of
American Art, Andover. Gift of an anonymous donor. Credit: Addison
Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA / Art Resource,
NY] Winslow Homer (1836–1910), *Eight Bells,* 1886, oil on canvas, 25
3/16 x 30 3/16 in. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover. Gift of an
anonymous donor. Credit: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips
Academy, Andover, MA / Art Resource, NY This fall the Brandywine River
Museum of Art, in Chadds Ford, Penn., will present *Winsl… more »
More on November 11 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie’s
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
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In its November 11 Evening Sale of
Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie’s will offer Property from the
Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection, comprising a suite of four works
by Pablo Picasso representing the artist’s muses, Marie-Thérèse Walter,
Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque. Together, the
collection is expected to exceed $28 million. Conor Jordan, Deputy
Chairman, Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie’s, remarked: “As a
noted Picasso connoisseur, Sam Rose spent many years assembling these
compelling portraits with his wife, Julie Walters. It is Christie’s pr… more »
Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 2 months ago
Denver Art Museum is the sole venue for
*Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker*, opening Sept. 16. Coinciding with
the 350th anniversary of the Dutch artist’s death (1606–1669), the
exhibition will offer fresh insight into the life and career of the
masterful printmaker. About 100 prints from Rembrandt van Rijn’s career
spanning from 1625 to 1665 will be showcased, including biblical,
portrait, allegory, still life, landscape and genre artworks that
demonstrate the mastery that cemented Rembrandt as one of the greatest
artists in history. The exhibition will show how Rembrandt used his … more »
A Passion for Collecting: Modern Works from the Pérez Simón Collection
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*Di Donna Galleries * *September 13 –
October 12, 2018Monday – Friday, 10AM to 6PMSaturday, 12PM to 6PM
September 15 and 29* Edvard Munch, Sommernacht im Studentenhain (Summer
Night in Studenterlunden), 1899. Pérez Simón Collection. © 2018 The
Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS),
New York. Di Donna Galleries announces a rare glimpse into the renowned
private art collection of Juan Antonio Pérez Simón with the exhibition
*A Passion for Collecting: Modern Works from the Pérez Simón
Collection*, to be held from September 13 to October 12, 2… more »
Dalí’s Aliyah: A Moment in Jewish History
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*The Meadows Museum, **Southern Methodist
University, Dallas * *September 9, 2018 –January 13, 2019 * In 1966,
the publisher Samuel Shore of New York commissioned Salvador Dalíto
produce a series of works by 1968, when their completion would celebrate
the 20th anniversaryof the founding of the State of Israel. Inspired by
the historic challenges and post-World War II renewal of the Jewish
people, Dalí created a series of 25 mixed-media paintings on paper that
loosely trace major moments in Jewish history—both the tragic and the
joyous—culminating in the creation of Israel in 19… more »
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 12 November at Sotheby's
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
The Beautiful and Damned: Radical Art of
the Great War This November, as the world pauses to remember the events
of the First World War on the centenary of the Armistice of 11 November
1918 that drew it to its close, Sotheby’s will bring together a group of
works that illustrates the tremendous and varied impact of the War on
the artistic production of those whose lives it transformed.
Incorporated into the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in
New York on 12 November, the offering will assemble works that capture
the period from immediately prior to the outbreak of the war th… more »
Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 15 November 2018 at Christie’s
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
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Christie’s *Post**-**War and Contemporary
Art Evening Auction* will present work by some of the great artists of
the 20th Century alongside those currently at the forefront of their
artistic practice. The season will be led by Francis Bacon’s *Figure in
Movement *(1972, estimate: £15,000,000-20,000,000), a seminal work which
creates a vivid sense of the transition from life to death, and Gerhard
Richter’s *Schädel (Skull)* (1983, estimate on request), unveiled for
the first time in 30 years. Alongside these are masterpieces by American
Contemporary artists Jeff Koons and Mark Grot… more »
Christie’s 12 works by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, October
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
This October during London’s Frieze Week,
Christie’s will present the largest and most diverse selection of 12
works by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, two British masters of the 20th
century. The group is led by Francis Bacon’s *Figure in Movement
*(1972, estimate on request), held for 41 years in the prestigious
collection of Magnus Konow. The work is a poignant meditation on human
existence, expressed through the memory of Bacon’s muse and lover George
Dyer, whose tragic suicide took place less than thirty-six hours before
the opening of Bacon’s career-defining retrospective at… more »
Christie’s: An American Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
Christie’s has announced *An American
Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection,* will be offered in a
dedicated evening and day sale in November as a highlight of its
flagship *20th Century Week* in New York. The collection of Barney A.
Ebsworth represents an extraordinary achievement in the history of
collecting — a singular assemblage of over 85 artworks that illuminates
the rise of American art across the 20th century. Highlights of the
collection include *Edward Hopper’s* *Chop Suey, *1929, the most
important work by the artist still in private hands (estimate in the
region of… more »
Gauguin: A Spiritual Journey
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*De Young Museum * *November 17, 2018
through April 7, 2019 * [image: Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) “Woman
with Mango Fruits,” ca. 1889 Painted oak, 11 3/4 x 19 1/4 in. (30 x 49
cm) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1781 Photograph by Ole Haupt ©
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen] Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
“*Woman with Mango Fruits,*” ca. 1889 Painted oak, 11 3/4 x 19 1/4 in.
(30 x 49 cm) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1781 Photograph by Ole
Haupt © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (Image courtesy of the Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco) inShare The Fine Ar… more »
The Color of the Moon
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NYFebruary
9-May 12, 2019* *James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PAJune
1-September 8, 2019* [image: Oscar Florianus Bluemner (American, born in
Germany, 1867-1938). Moon Radiance, 1927. Watercolor with gum coating
on hot pressed off-white wove paper laid down by the artist to thick
wood panel. Collection of Karen and Kevin Kennedy.] Oscar Florianus
Bluemner (American, born in Germany, 1867-1938). *Moon Radiance, *1927.
Watercolor with gum coating on hot pressed off-white wove paper laid
down by the artist to thick wood panel. Collection of … more »
Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*Princeton University Art Museum * *Oct.
13, 2018-Jan. 6, 2019* *Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts *
*Feb. 2-May 5, 2019* *Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in
Bentonville, Arkansas* *May 25–Sept. 9, 2019* [image: Albert Bierstadt,
American, 1830–1902, Mount Adams, Washington, 1875. Oil on canvas. Gift
of Mrs. Jacob N. Beam.] Albert Bierstadt, American, 1830–1902, *Mount
Adams, Washington,* 1875. Oil on canvas. Gift of Mrs. Jacob N.
Beam.(Princeton University Art Museum) inShare This fall, the story of
our changing relationship with the natural world will be… more »
ReTooled: Highlights from the Hechinger Collection
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*ReTooled: Highlights from the Hechinger
Collection*, an engaging and thought-provoking look at the unexpected
subject of tools, will be on view at the* Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT,
from September 22 through December 30, 2018*. Featuring more than 40
richly imaginative, quirky, and thought-provoking paintings, sculptures,
photographs, and sketches, ReTooled celebrates the prevalence of tools
in our lives with art that magically transforms utilitarian objects into
fanciful works that speak of beauty, insight, and wit. The museum’s
signature fall exhibition, ReTooled profiles 28 v… more »
VAN GOGH at ARKEN
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
* ARKEN* *1 September 2018 to 20 January
2019* [image: VAN GOGH] Vincent van Gogh, *Self-portrait, *April-June
1887. Detail. Coll. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo For the first time in
50 yearsIt is more than 50 years since the Danish public has been able
to experience a large exhibition devoted exclusively to van Gogh’s
paintings and drawings. In a unique collaboration with the
Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands, ARKEN now open its doors for a
wide-ranging exhibition of van Gogh’s works with a focus on the
relations among art, humanity, nature and religion. ’The guy with th… more »
Robert Delaunay and The City of Lights
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
Kunsthaus Zürich From 31 August to 18
November 2018 Robert Delaunay, *The Runners,* 1924–1925. Oil on canvas,
153 x 203 cm. Private collection. This most comprehensive exhibition in
Switzerland to date on Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) pays homage to the
artist’s devotion to his native city, Paris. As a passionate advocate
and practitioner of abstract art, Delaunay became a central figure
within the Parisian avant-garde in the first decades of the 20th
century. [image: Image result] “*Air, Iron, and Water. Study for a
mural*,” 1936–1937, Robert Delaunay, Gouache on paper… more »
All that Glitters: Life at the Renaissance Court
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*At the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty
Center* *August 28–December 2, 2018* Courtiers feasting at elaborately
set tables, knights in gleaming armor, a richly clad monarch presiding
over elegant festivities—these are the images often associated with the
medieval and Renaissance courts of Europe. For rulers and members of the
nobility at the center of these privileged spaces, the visual
arts—illuminated manuscripts, paintings, drawings, enamels, and
textiles—were central aspects of their political and cultural
identities. *All that Glitters: Life at the Renaissance Court*, on view
fr… more »
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art
Gallery at Columbia University* *October 24, 2018 – February 10, 2019*
*[image: Image result] * Frédéric Bazille, *Young Woman with Peonie*s,
1870. Oil on canvas, 23-5/8 × 29-9/16 in. (60 × 75 cm). National Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. Image
courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [image: Image
result] Frédéric Bazille, *Young Woman with Peonies,* 1870 The Miriam
and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in New York City
will present the exhibition *Posing Modernity: The … more »
“Object Lessons: American Still-Life Painting in the Nineteenth Century.”
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State*
*[image: Image result] * Martin Johnson Heade, “*The White Rose,*” c.
1874–80, oil on artist’s board, 11 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches. Promised gift of
Barbara Palmer. Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State “Object Lessons:
American Still-Life Painting in the Nineteenth Century” opens Sept. 4 in
the first-floor special exhibitions gallery. The show highlights the
rich tradition of still-life painting in the United States with an
emphasis on Pennsylvania’s influential role in that history. The 22
works featured in “Object Lessons” explore a variety … more »
Balthus
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel* *2
September 2018 to 1 January 2019* *Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza*
*From 19 February to 26 May 2019* In 2019 the museum will be presenting
an exhibition on the legendary artist Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
(1908-2001), known as Balthus. The exhibition is jointly organised with
the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel, where it will be seen from
September 2018 to January 2019. [image: Image result] Balthus (Balthazar
Klossowski de Rola) *The Card Game*, 1948-50 Museo Nacional
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Considered one of the great maste… more »
Beckmann. Exile Figures
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza* *
From 23 October 2018 to 27 January 2019* *CaixaForum, Barcelona* *From
20 February to 28 May 2019* Max Beckmann (Leipzig, 1884 – New York,
1950) was one of Germany’s leading 20th-century artists. Initially close
to Expressionism and New Objectivity, Beckmann developed a unique and
independent pictorial style of a realistic type but one filled with
symbolic resonances, offering a powerful account of society of his day.
[image: Image result] MAX BECKMANN “*Autorretrato con vaso de
champagne*” —————————— ——————-… more »
Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America and Gilded Chicago: Portraits of an Era
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*Richard H. Driehaus Museum* *September
8, 2018 – January 6, 2018 * [image: George Peter Alexander Healy
(American, 1813 –1894). Jeannette Ovington, 1887. Oil on canvas. New-
York Historical Society, Gift of the Estate of Ina Love Thursby, through
Walter M. Brown, 1944.18] George Peter Alexander Healy (American, 1813
–1894). *Jeannette Ovington, *1887. Oil on canvas. New- York Historical
Society, Gift of the Estate of Ina Love Thursby, through Walter M.
Brown, 1944.18 Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits inAmerica,
organized by the New-York Historical Society, looks at the popula… more »
History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
[image: Jacob Lawrence Forward Together]
Jacob Lawrence; “*Forward Together,*” 1997; silkscreen on paper; 25.5 x
40.125 inches. Copyright 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence
Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Experience a
comprehensive overview of printmaking works by the influential American
artist Jacob Lawrence (b.1917, d. 2000) in the exhibition “History,
Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence” on view at the Moss Arts
Center this fall. Jacob Lawrence, “*New York in Transit I,*” 1998,
silkscreen, edition of 50 with 5 AP, © 2015 The Ja… more »
Hot Sun, Late Sun: Van Gogh and Picasso
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
Since its inauguration in 2014, the Fondation
Vincent van Gogh Arles has presented works by the great masters of
painting—foremost among them being Vincent van Gogh, whose work
underpins the direction of our program. However, while Vincent will be
present once again, this upcoming exhibition is driven by the work of
another great painter in modern art, Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso and
Vincent van Gogh: an extraordinary dialogue delving into the major
influence of the Dutch painter on Picasso, who considered him the
“greatest of all”; just this would have sufficed. But Hot Sun, La… more »
Adolph Gottlieb in Provincetown
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
From Aug. 31 to Oct. 21, 2018, the
Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, Mass., will
present *Adolph Gottlieb in Provincetown*, curated by Sanford Hirsch,
Executive Director of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. [image:
Adolph Gottlieb, Sea and Tide, 1952, oil on canvas, 60 x 72”, ©Adolph
and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY] Adolph
Gottlieb, *Sea and Tide, *1952, oil on canvas, 60 x 72”, ©Adolph and
Esther Gottlieb Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY One of the
original Abstract Expressionist artists, Adolph Gottlieb was … more »
Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
*Frist Museum* *March 15–May 27, 2019*
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) is recognized as one of the most important
photographers of the twentieth century, and her insightful and
compassionate work has exerted a profound influence on the development
of modern documentary photography. With hardship and human suffering as a
consistent theme throughout her career, Lange created arresting
portraits with the aim of sparking reform. This is the first exhibition
to examine her work through the lens of social and political activism,
presenting iconic photographs from the Great Depression, the g… more »
Exhibit dedicated to Louis Comfort Tiffany
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 3 months ago
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum will open a
new permanent exhibit this October, dedicated to life and works of
American artist and designer, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 – 1933), who
was best known for his innovative work with stained glass. The
installation will feature three newly conserved stained glass windows
which were commissioned in the early 1900s to memorialize loved ones in
New London. The collection, which will showcase never before exhibited
objects (many of which came from the artist’s descendants), will
illustrate Tiffany’s early career as a painter, then show his work as … more »
THE CHARTERHOUSE OF BRUGES:JAN VAN EYCK,PETRUS CHRISTUS,AND JAN VOS
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
*The Frick Collection* *September 18,
2018, through January 13, 2019 * For the first time in twenty-four years
and only the second timein their history, two masterpieces of early
Netherlandish painting commissioned by the Carthusian monk Jan Vos will
be reunited in a special exhibition at The Frick Collection. These
works—the Jan van Eyck and Workshop The Virgin and Child with St.
Barbara, St. Elizabeth, and Jan Vos , ca. 1441–43 Oil on panel 18 5/8 ×
24 1/8 inches The Frick Collection, New York Photo: Michael Bodycomb
Frick’s *Virgin and Child with St. Barbara, St. Elizabeth*, *… more »
Book: Jan Baptist Weenix & Jan Weenix: the paintings
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
Dutch paintings from the 17th Century
*Jan Baptist Weenix & Jan Weenix: the paintings**, *by Anke A.
Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven, is the result of art historical research on
the work of the 17th-century Dutch artist Jan Baptist Weenix (1621-1659)
and his son Jan Weenix (1641-1719). Works by both these artists can be
seen in all major museums with holdings of Dutch and Flemish paintings.
[image: File:Jan Baptist Weenix – The Ford in the River – WGA25522.jpg]
Jan Baptist Weenix – *The Ford in the River* This book fills a gap in
art history and throws new light on the appreciation o… more »
Americans Abroad, 1860-1915
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
On August 17, 2018, the Portland Museum
of Art (PMA) in Maine opened *Americans Abroad, 1860-1915*, an
exhibition of watercolors, prints, and paintings by American artists who
travelled to Europe for training and inspiration in the late 19th
century. The exhibition of 24 works by artists such as Mary Cassatt,
Winslow Homer, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, draws from the PMA
collection and special loans, and includes rarely seen watercolors by
John Singer Sargent, Maurice Prendergast, and more. [image: File:Winslow
Homer – Looking out to Sea, Cullercoats (1882).jpg] Winslow Home… more »
Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
*Denver Art Museum (DAM) * *Oct. 20, 2019
through Feb. 2, 2020.* *Museum Barberini* *Spring of 2020* The Denver
Art Museum (DAM) will be home to the most comprehensive U.S. exhibition
of Monet paintings in more than two decades when it presents *Claude
Monet: The Truth of Nature*, in the fall of 2019. The exhibition will
feature more than 100 paintings spanning Monet’s entire career and will
focus on the celebrated French impressionist artist’s enduring
relationship with nature and his response to the varied and distinct
places in which he worked. [image: Claude Monet, Water Lili… more »
Nature Unleashed: The Image of Catastrophe since 1600
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
Hamburger Kunsthalle In a large-scale
exhibition spanning several epochs, the Hamburger Kunsthalle traces
based on important works how artists working in different media picture
natural catastrophes while also shedding light on humanity’s failure to
come to terms with nature due, among other things, of our faith in
technology. *Nature Unleashed: The Image of Catastrophe since 1600
*features approximately 200 exhibits, including paintings, drawings,
prints, sculptures, photographs, films and videos. As viewers make their
way past blazing fires, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruption… more »
Book: Pieter Bruegel. The Complete Works
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
[image: Pieter Bruegel. The Complete
Works] Pieter Bruegel. The Complete WorksJürgen Müller, Thomas Schauerte
Hardcover, 11.4 x 15.6 in., 492 pages TASCHEN ISBN 978-3-8365-5689-7
Edition: English The life and times of *Pieter Bruegel the Elder* (*c*.
1526/30–1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed
religious wars, the Duke of Alba’s brutal rule as governor of the
Netherlands, and the palpable effects of the Inquisition. To this day,
*the Flemish artist remains shrouded in mystery*. We know neither where
nor exactly when he was born. But while early scholarshi… more »
Paris 1900: City of Entertainment
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
The Frist Art Museum presents *Paris 1900:
City of Entertainment*, an exhibition that revives the splendor of the
French capital at the turn of the twentieth century, when millions
visited the site of the International Exposition. Organized by the Petit
Palais Museum of Fine Arts in Paris with additional loans from other
Parisian museums, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Ingram
Gallery from October 12, 2018, through January 6, 2019. The Frist is the
first of three venues in the United States to present this iteration of
an exhibition that was originally on view at the … more »
Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
*Tate Modern* *23 January 2019 – 6 May
2019* In January 2019 Tate Modern will stage the UK’s first major Pierre
Bonnard exhibition in 20 years, showing the work of this innovative and
much-loved French painter in a new light. The exhibition will bring
together around 100 of his greatest works from museums and private
collections around the world. It will reveal how Bonnard’s intense
colours and modern compositions transformed painting in the first half
of the 20th century, and will celebrate his unparalleled ability to
capture fleeting moments, memories and emotions on canvas. Spa… more »
Egon Schiele – Fondation Louis Vuitton
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
* Fondation Louis Vuitton* *October 3,
2018–January 14, 2019* A solo exhibition of work by 19th century
Austrian painter Egon Schiele will be on view on the first floor of the
Fondation Louis Vuitton. The first exhibition in Paris dedicated to the
artist in 25 years, *Egon Schiele *will feature approximately 120
works—drawings, gouaches, and paintings—including masterpieces such as
[image: Image result] *Self-Portrait with a Chinese Lantern Plant
*(1912, Leopold Museum, Vienna), [image: Image result] *Pregnant Woman
and Death *(1911, Národní Galerie, Prague), [image: Egon Schiele… more »
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera
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Opening November 28, 2018 *Exhibition
Location:* The Met Breuer, Floor 2 *Press Preview:* Monday, November 26,
10 am–noon Opening November 28 at The Met Breuer, *Epic Abstraction:
Pollock to Herrera* begins in the 1940s and extends into the 21st
century to explore large-scale abstract painting, sculpture, and
assemblage through more than 40 works from The Met collection, a
selection of loans, and never-before-seen promised gifts and new
acquisitions. Enhanced in the setting of Marcel Breuer’s 1966 modernist
architectural masterpiece, icons of Abstract Expressionism, such as
Jackso… more »
Impressionist Treasures: The Ordrupgaard Collection
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
*National Gallery of Canada* *May 16,
2018 – September 9, 2018* A landmark show has opened at the National
Gallery of Canada: the first and only presentation in North America of
paintings from the world-renowned Ordrupgaard collection. *Impressionist
Treasures: The Ordrupgaard Collection*, on view until September 9,
2018, offers a survey of leading artistic movements in French painting
from the beginning of the nineteenth century through to Impressionism
and Post-impressionism, as well as works from the Danish Golden Age. In
one compelling presentation, the luminous landscapes of C… more »
Frans Hals Portraits: A Family Reunion
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
* Toledo Museum of Art * *Oct. 13,
2018-Jan. 6, 2019* * Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium * *Feb.
2-April 28, 2019* *Collection Frits Lugt in Paris * *(dates are to be
determined)* In 2011 the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) added a remarkable
Old Master painting to its magnificent collection – Frans Hals (Dutch,
1582/83–1666), *The Van Campen Family in a Landscape (fragment)*, ca.
1623–25, oil on canvas. 151 x 163.6 cm. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo,
Ohio, inv. 2011.80 *Van Campen Family Portrait in a Landscape *(circa
1623-25) by Frans Hals. [image: Image result] [image: … more »
OLGA PICASSO
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MUSEO PICASSO MÁLAGA 26th February.- 2nd
June 2019 This exhibition examines the relationship between Picasso and
his first wife, Olga Khokhlova. It puts into perspective the creation of
some of Picasso’s major works and reconstructs his body of work within
the context of a personal story that developed alongside a different
political and social one. Throughout the artist’s classical period, Olga
was the Picasso model *par excellence.* [image: Image result] During
the upheaval of Europe between the wars, his depictions of her were to
undergo a metamorphosis, as their relationship… more »
Highlights Of German Art – Neue Galerie New York
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
*Neue Galerie New York * *June 28–September 3,
2018* The German collection spans the period from 1890 to 1940, and
emphasizes the key movements of that era, including Expressionism, with
canvases by members of the Brücke (Bridge), including Erich Heckel,
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and
also artists affiliated with the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), such as
Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, August Macke, and Gabriele Münter. The Neue
Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement is also addressed, with
important selections by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz,… more »
Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele: 1918 Centenary
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
*Neue Galerie New York* *June
28–September 3, 2018 * Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and Egon Schiele
(1890-1918) are two of the greatest artists Austria produced in the
early twentieth century. Although born nearly thirty years apart, both
tragically died in 1918—the same year that the Austro-Hungarian Empire
ceased to exist following its defeat in World War I. Over the
intervening century, the works of Klimt and Schiele have come to define
the fertile creativity that marked the so-called “joyous apocalypse,” an
apt term used to connote the waning days of Habsburg rule. This show
pays t… more »
Kirchner and the Artists’ Group Brücke
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*Graphik Kabinett * *June 8 – September
16, 2018* *[image: Image result] * Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, *Brücke signet
*(In: Exhibition of the artists’ group ‘Brücke’ (Bridge) at Galerie
Commeter Hamburg, 1912), 1912, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Department of
Print, Drawings and Photographs Exhibition Complementing the exhibition
»Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Unknown Collection«, the Graphik Kabinett
is showing a display of drawings and prints by the other members of the
»Brücke« group, which Kirchner had co-founded in 1905. The cabinet
exhibition draws on the rich holdings of the Staatsgaler… more »
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Unknown Collection
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
*Staatsgalerie Stuttgart* *June
29-0ctober 21, 2018* Among the great treasures of the Staatsgalerie
Stuttgart’s Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs is a group of
82 drawings and 84 prints as well as a few illustrated books by Ernst
Ludwig Kirchner (1880 – 1938), the co-founder of the artists’ group
Brücke. This remarkable body of work encompasses all periods of the
artist’s work and many of the subjects that were important to him:
metropolitan life, dance as well as landscapes on the island of Fehmarn
and in the Alps. Kirchner’s prints are almost as rare as his drawings.
M… more »
Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
*The Met Breuer, * *July 3–October 7,
2018* At The Met Breuer this summer, the exhibition *Obsession: Nudes by
Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection *will
present a selection from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Scofield
Thayer Collection of some 50 erotic and evocative watercolors, drawings,
and prints by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso, whose
subjects, except for a handful, are nudes. The exhibition will provide a
focused look at this important collection and mark the first time this
brilliant group of works are being shown toget… more »
Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix
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*The Met Fifth Avenue* *July 17–November
12, 2018* [image:
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Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863). *Göetz von Berlichingen Being
Dressed in Armor by His Page George*, 1826–27. Watercolor and bodycolor
with gum arabic. 8 3/8 x 5 5/8 in. (21.3 x 14.3 cm). The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eu… more »
Masterful Likeness: Dutch Drawings of the Golden Age
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
*J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center*
*July 24–October 28, 2018* During the seventeenth century, Dutch
political and religious freedom as well as maritime trade and military
strength ushered in an era of economic prosperity. In this golden age,
artists inspired by the everyday made vast numbers of highly finished
drawings. *Masterful Likeness: Dutch Drawings of the Golden Age*, on
view July 24–October 28, 2018, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, brings
together landscapes, topographical views, portraits, and scenes of daily
life, underscoring Dutch artists’ masterful descri… more »
Rembrandt: Britain’s Discovery of the Master
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
*Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh* *7
July – 14 October 2018* Britain’s love affair with one of history’s
greatest artists will be explored in the major Festival exhibition at
the Scottish National Gallery this summer. *Rembrandt: Britain’s
Discovery of the Master* is the first exhibition to tell the
exceptionally rich story of how *Rembrandt’s *work in Britain has
enraptured and inspired collectors, artists and writers over the past
400 years. This major new exhibition, which will only be shown in
Edinburgh, will bring together key works by Rembrandt which remain in
British coll… more »
Picasso – Donner à voir exhibition
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*From 15 June to 23 September 2018, the
Musée Fabre de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole will be presenting the
Picasso – Donner à voir exhibition, in association with
‘Picasso-Méditerranée’, an international cultural event launched by the
Musée National Picasso-Paris. Montpellier – a Mediterranean metropolis
located halfway between Catalonia and Provence – is involved in this
programme. * *The Musée Fabre is presenting a major exhibition
encompassing the artist’s entire career and offering an overview of the
creation of a prodigious oeuvre with a particular focus in the … more »
Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 4 months ago
*Colby College Museum of Art* *July 11,
2015 – October 18, 2015 * *Cleveland Museum of Art * *04/30/2017 –
08/06/2017* *Neuberger Museum of Art* *July 01, 2018 – October 14, 2018*
*Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s* is the largest
museum exhibition to showcase Alex Katz’s (b. 1927) innovative
portraits, landscapes and still lifes from this pioneering period.
Organized by the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, in
close collaboration with Katz, this presentation explores the first
decade of the artist’s career, a period characterized by fierce
experimentati… more »
Corot: Women
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 months ago
*Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris* *February
8–July 22, 2018* *National Gallery of Art * *September 9 through
December 31, 2018* [image: 29.100.193] *Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot*
*The Muse: History*, c. 1865 oil on canvas overall: 46 × 35.2 cm (18 1/8
× 13 7/8 in.) framed: 73.7 × 61 × 11.5 cm (29 × 24 × 4 1/2 in.) Lent by
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of
Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 Dressed in rustic Italian costume or nude on a
grassy plain, rendered with a sophisticated use of color and a deft,
delicate touch, Corot’s women convey a mysterious… more »
Charles Demuth: Definitively Modern
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 months ago
*Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA* *June 2
through September 2, 2018* [image: Charles Demuth, Marine, n.d.,
watercolor on paper, collection of the Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA]
Charles Demuth, *Marine*, n.d., watercolor on paper, collection of the
Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA inShare The exhibition *Charles Demuth:
Definitively Modern* and accompanying catalog focus on the Demuth
Museum’s collection of original art by Charles Demuth. The collection is
now the largest in the world with 52 works of art as well as it is the
largest repository of original archival material on the art… more »
In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 months ago
*Exhibition Dates:* October 16,
2018–October 1, 2020 *Exhibition Location:* The Met Fifth Avenue, Lower
Level, Robert Lehman Wing, Galleries 964–965 Dutch paintings of the 17th
century—the Golden Age of Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer—have been a
highlight of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection since the
Museum’s founding purchase in 1871. Opening October 16, the exhibition
*In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met *will bring
together some of the Museum’s greatest paintings to present this
remarkable chapter of art history in a new light. Through roughly 65
wor… more »
GALA SALVADOR DALÍ
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*Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya ,
Barcelona* *July 5th to October 14th, 2018* CURATOR : Estrella de Diego,
professor of Art History (UCM) With this exhibition, the Museu Nacional
d’Art de Catalunya and Fundació Gala – Salvador Dalí intend to reveal
Gala: muse, artist and a key figure in twentieth – century art.
Companion to Dalí and before that, to the poet Paul Éluard, admired
sometimes, sometimes ignored or slighted, Gala is undoubtedly a key
figure of the vanguards. Without her, the surrealist playing board is
missing a piece. Paintings by Max Ernst, photographs by Man … more »
Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio’s Studio
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 months ago
*Yale University Art Gallery * *June
29–October 7, 2018* *A landmark exhibition investigating Leonardo da
Vinci’s early years as an artist, featuring paintings newly attributed
to the Renaissance master* On view at the from June 29 through October
7, *Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio’s Studio* investigates a
virtually unknown period in the career of perhaps the most famous artist
of the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). Leonardo da
Vinci and Lorenzo di Credi, *A Miracle of Saint Donatus of Arezzo*
(detail), ca. 1475–85. Oil on panel. Worcester Art Museu… more »
Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 months ago
*Exhibition Dates:* October 16,
2018–October 1, 2020 *Exhibition Location:* The Met Fifth Avenue
*Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings *will
focus on the small-scale, informal portraiture of Venetian painter
Jacopo Tintoretto in celebration of the 500th anniversary of his birth.
Jacopo Tintoretto was one of the preeminent Venetian painters of the
sixteenth century, renowned for his monumental narrative scenes and his
insightful portraits of patricians and citizens. In celebration of the
five hundredth anniversary of the artist’s birth, this exhibition
explor… more »
John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age
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John Singer Sargent. *Mrs. George Swinton
(Elizabeth Ebsworth)*, 1897. Wirt D. Walker Collection. From *July 1*
through *September 30, 2018*, the *Art Institute of Chicago* will
present an exhibition of American portraitist *John Singer Sargent* with
a focus on his numerous Chicago connections. Featuring nearly 100
objects from the Art Institute’s collection, private collections, and
public institutions, *John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age*
examines Sargent’s impressive breadth of artistic practice and the
network of associations among the artist, his patrons, his creat… more »
Gustav Klimt. Artist of the Century – Leopold Museum
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 months ago
Comprehensive exhibition divided into
eight thematic emphases highlights periods in the artist’s oeuvreMarking
the transition from historicism to Jugendstil, Gustav Klimt’s oeuvre
shaped the beginning of modern art in Vienna. 100 years after his death,
the Leopold Museum pays tribute to the leading figure in Vienna around
1900 with a comprehensive exhibition divided into eight thematic
emphases and illustrating all the periods of the artist’s oeuvre by
means of some 35 paintings, 90 drawings, 30 photographs and approx. 150
archival documents. Along with exhibits from the Leopold M… more »
EDWARD BURNE-JONES
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*TATE BRITAIN * *24 October 2018 – 24
February 2019 * This autumn, Tate Britain will present the first major
Burne-Jones retrospective to be held in London for over 40 years.
Renowned for otherworldly depictions of beauty inspired by myth, legend
and the Bible, Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) was a pioneer of the
symbolist movement and the only Pre-Raphaelite to achieve world-wide
recognition in his lifetime. This ambitious and wide-ranging exhibition
will bring together over 150 works in different media including
painting, stained glass and tapestry, reasserting him as one of the m… more »
Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One
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Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries 5 June –
23 September 2018 [image: George Grosz Grey Day 1921.] George Grosz
*Grey Day *1921. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie. Acquired
by the Federal State of Berlin © Estate of George Grosz, Princeton, N.J.
2018. Marking 100 years since the end of the First World War, this
exhibition explores the immediate impact of the conflict on British,
German and French art. As the first exhibition to examine the culture of
memorials alongside new developments in post-war art it will consider
how artists responded to the physical and psycholo… more »
Matisse et Picasso, la comédie du modèle
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Musée Matisse *Du 23 juin 2018 au 29
sept. 2018* [image: Image result for
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Henri Matisse, *Marguerite,* 1907. Huile sur toile Musée national
Picasso-‐Paris. Donation en 1973 © Succession H. Matisse. Photo: ©
RMN-‐Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-‐Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau.
[image: Henri Matisse] Henri Matiss… more »
Classic Beauties. Artists, Italy and the Esthetic Ideals of the 18th Century
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 months ago
Hermitage Amsterdam’s new exhibition
(through Jan. 18), *Classic Beauties. Artists, Italy and the Esthetic
Ideals of the 18th Century*, is a summer art highlight on the Continent.
[image: amsterdam_hermitage_beauties_003.jpg] —————————— The show tells
how artists and tourists flocked to Italy, and more especially Rome, in
the second half of the eighteenth century. From all over Europe they
travelled to the Eternal City in search of inspiration and to see for
themselves the newly excavated classical Greco-Roman sculptures and
buildings. Their experiences promp… more »
1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA
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*The Baltimore Museum of Art,* *June
13–October 28, 2018 * [image: Dox Thrash. Griffin Hills, c. 1940. The
Baltimore Museum of Art, BMA 1942.35] Dox Thrash. *Griffin Hills,* c.
1940. The Baltimore Museum of Art, BMA 1942.3 inShare In 1939, The
Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presented one of the first major
exhibitions in the U.S. to feature African American artists.
*Contemporary Negro Art* served “as a declaration of principles as to
what art should be in a democracy and as a gauge of how far in this
particular province we have gone and may need to go,” wrote renowned
phi… more »
Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment French Art from The Horvitz Collection
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 months ago
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*Hart Museum* October 6 – December 31,
2017 Ackland Art Museum *26 January 2018 – 8 April 2018* Crocker Art
Museum *May 13, 2018 — August 19, 2018* Jean-Baptiste Oudry, *Seated
Lady in a Garden * n.d. Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 35 7/16 in. The Horvitz
Collection. This exhibition examines the many paths and stages of
women’s lives through the art of 18th-century France. Works by
Fragonard, Boucher, Watteau, Greuze, and others, all drawn from the
finest private collection of French art in the United States, show a
variety of women, from court ladies to washerwomen, in their many soci… more »
Spain: 500 Years of Spanish Painting from the Museums of Madrid
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*San Antonio Museum of Art* *June
23–September 16, 2018* *[image: Image result for
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Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664), *Saint Isabel of Portugal*, ca.
1635, Oil on canvas, h. 72 7/16 in. (184 cm); w. 38 9/16 in. (98 cm),
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid P01239 © Museo Nacional del Prado,
Madrid. EL GRECO. VEL… more »
Constable at auction
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 months ago
Sotheby’s Old Masters Evening Sale on 6
December 2017 John Constable ( 1776 – 1837 ) is one of Britain’s best –
loved and most significant landscape painters. A key figure in the
British Romantic movement of the early 19th century, Constable, together
with J.M.W. Turner, changed the course of European landscape painting
forever. This winter, Sotheby’s London will present a recently
rediscovered landscape by the British artist which is without question
one of the most exciting and important additions to Constable’s oeuvre
to have emerged in the last fifty years. Painted between… more »
Canaletto at Auction
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 months ago
Sotheby’s Sale of Master Paintings on 1
February 2018 The February auction offers an impressive pair of Venetian
views by Canaletto, whose inimitable success in capturing the
architecture of 18th -century Venice has made him the undisputed leader
of the genre (estimate $3/4 million). Most likely completed in England
in the 1740s, the pair offers waterfront views of two of the most
recognizable façade in La Serenissima: [image:
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the Church of the Redentore [image:
http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/st… more »
“Delacroix” opens on September 17 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News – 5 months ago
*Delacroix **to Open September 17*
*Exhibition Dates:* September 17, 2018–January 6, 2019 *Exhibition
Location:* The Met Fifth Avenue, The Tisch Galleries, Gallery 899, 2nd
Floor *Press Preview:* Wednesday, September 12, 10 am–noon French
painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was one of the greatest creative
figures of the 19th century. Through his choice of daring subjects and
compositions, a vibrant palette, and bold brushwork, he set into motion a
cascade of innovations that changed the course of art. As Van Gogh
wrote in 1885: “What I find so fine about Delacroix is precisely… more »
French Pastels: Treasures from the Vault – Updated
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