Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 days ago
*The Frick* *February 21 through June 2, 2019* Moroni, Giovanni *Gerolamo Grumelli, called The Man in Pink*, dated 1560, oil on canvas, Fondazione Museo di Palazzo Moroni, Bergamo–Lucretia Moroni Collection; photo: Mauro Magliani In Renaissance Italy, one of the aims of portraiture was to make the absent seem present through naturalistic representation of the sitter. This notion—that art can capture an individual exactly as he or she appears—is exemplified in the work of Giovanni Battista Moroni. The artist spent his entire career in and around his native Bergamo, a region in Lom... more »
Christie's in New York: Old Master Prints 29 January, and Old Master & British Drawings 31 January.
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago
Over 500 years of European art history will be presented in two sales at Christie's in New York this January: Old Master Prints on Tuesday, 29 January, and Old Master & British Drawings on Thursday, 31 January. Together, the sales offer an overview of the graphic arts from 1466 to 1880, ranging from Albrecht Dürer's bold woodcuts to the diaphanous watercolours of J.M.W. Turner, from late gothic engravings by the Master E.S. and Martin Schongauer to the virtuoso, mannerist draftsmanship of Polidoro da Caravaggio and Niccolò dell'Abate, from meticulous 16th century studies of flowers... more »
Charles White : Monumental Practice
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*David Zwirner* *2nd Floor New York* *January 8—February 16, 2019* David Zwirner is presenting a significant group of works by American artist Charles White (1918–1979) on the second floor of the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York. On view for the first time since the 1970s will be four monumentally scaled ink and charcoal drawings made by the artist as studies for the figures in ] his mural *Mary McLeod Bethune*, completed in 1978 for the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, as well as related preparatory works and ephemera d... more »
Edvard Munch: love and angst
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago
*The British Museum * *April 11 to July 21, 2019* This April, the British Museum will present a major new exhibition on the work of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944).* Edvard Munch: love and angst *will focus on Munch’s remarkable and experimental prints – an art form which made his name and at which he excelled throughout his life – and will examine his unparalleled ability to depict raw human emotion. It will be the largest exhibition of Munch’s prints in the UK for 45 years. *Self-portrait with skeleton arm*, Edvard Munch The exhibition is a collaboration with Norway... more »
Turner in January
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J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), Bell Rock Lighthouse, 1819. Watercolour and gouache with scratching out on paper, 30.60 x 45.50 cm. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland. Purchased by Private Treaty Sale 1989 with the aid of funds from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Pilgrim Trust. A dramatic depiction of Robert Stevenson’s engineering marvel, the Bell Rock Lighthouse, by Britain’s most celebrated artist *Joseph Mallord William Turner *(1775-1851), will shine its light on the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS)’s seasonal exhibition *Turner in January*, which o... more »
Rembrandt and the Jewish Experience: The Berger Print Collection
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*Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center in Savannah, Georgia.* *March 15- June 30, 2019.* This spring, an exhibition of etchings by the Dutch seventeenth-century master, Rembrandt van Rijn, will be on view at Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center in Savannah, Georgia. The impact of Judaism on the life and work of Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669) is a remarkable and multifaceted story. Rembrandt lived and worked in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. During his lifetime, he saw the city quadruple in both population and in geographical size, becoming one of Europe’s weal... more »
From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space
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*Palmer Museum of Art* at Penn State *Feb. 3 to May 12, 2019* * Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York* * June 16 through Sept. 15, 2019* [image: John Sloan, "Red Kimono on the Roof," 1912, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, James E. Roberts Fund, 54.55.] John Sloan, *"Red Kimono on the Roof," *1912, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, James E. Roberts Fund, 54.55. inShare The* Palmer Museum of Art* at Penn State is organizing a major loan exhibition on American artist John Sloan. "From the Rooftops: Jo... more »
More on Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Sale 26 February: Egon Schiele:
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), Triestiner Fischerboot (Trieste Fishing Boat), oil and pencil on canvas, 75 by 75cm. 29½ by 29½in. Painted in 1912. Estimate £6,000,000-8,000,000. Courtesy Sotheby's. Painted in 1912, Triestiner Fischerboot (Trieste Fishing Boat) holds a unique position in Schiele’s oeuvre and was created in the aftermath of what was arguably the most tumultuous and life-changing experience for the artist. Recently released from a brief period of incarceration in Neulengbach in Austria, and rejected by the local community there, Schiele’s visit to Trieste in 1912 was p... more »
Joan Miró: Birth of the World
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago
* February 24 through July 6, 2019* The Museum of Modern Art presents *Joan Miró: Birth of the World*, an exhibition that explores the development of Miró’s pictorial universe, with particular emphasis on his intense engagement with poetry, the creative process, material experimentation, and the seen and unseen world. This focused exhibition, drawn from MoMA’s unrivalled Miró collection and augmented by several key loans, situates his monumental painting, *The Birth of the World* (1925), in relation to other key works by the artist, which are rarely shown together. Joan Miró *... more »
Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 26 February 2018
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[image: Image result] Claude Monet, *Le Palais Ducal*, oil on canvas, 1908 (est. £20,000,000-30,000,000) Helena Newman, Worldwide Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Department & Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, said: ‘This spellbinding painting is a true masterpiece and among the very greatest Monet painted during his first and only encounter with Venice. Having remained in the same family collection since 1925, it presents a rare opportunity for collectors from all over the world to acquire a painting of this quality that is completely fresh to the market.’ Claude Mone... more »
Manet from the Norton Simon Museum
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago
*The Frick Collection* *October 16, 2019, through January 5, 2020 * Considered the father of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and, by some, twentieth-century abstraction, Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was a revolutionary in his own time and a legend thereafter. Beyond his pivotal role in art history as the creator of such iconic masterworks as [image: File:Edouard Manet - Olympia - Google Art Project 3.jpg] *Olympia* (1862–63) [image: Edouard Manet - Luncheon on the Grass - Google Art Project.jpg] and *Luncheon on the Grass* (1863), Manet’s vision has come to define how we unders... more »
Princely Painters
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Bundeskunsthalle, *BONN* 28 September 2018 to 27 January 2019 At the height of their meteoric careers, Frederic Lord Leighton, Hans Makart, Jan Matejko, Mihály von Munkácsy, Franz von Lenbach, Friedrich August von Kaulbach and Franz von Stuck were celebrated as princely painters (Malerfürsten, literally ‘painter-princes’) and enjoyed all the privileges of Europe’s high society. They were wealthy, respected and moved in the same elite circles as the rich and famous. Their homes and studios were notable for their splendour, and people thronged to have their portraits painted and to s... more »
Watercolor: An American Medium.
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The* Chrysler Museum of Art *will explore the heights of the American watercolor movement in *Watercolor: An American Medium*. On view F*eb. 21–June 23, 2019,* the exhibition features spectacular works by the leading watercolor artists of the 19th century as well as modern artists. [image: Charles Ephraim Burchfield Watering Time] Charles Ephraim Burchfield (American, 1893−1967) *Watering Time*, 1921 Watercolor and gouache on paper, mounted on board Chrysler Museum of Art, gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 71.626 The exhibition includes selections from the Chrysler Museum of Art’s c... more »
Feb-May 2018
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Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist in Paris Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago * Musée Jacquemart-Andréfrom 09 March 2018 to 23 July 2018 158 boulevard Haussmann - 75008 Paris * Culturespaces and the Musée Jacquemart-André are presenting a major retrospective devoted to Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) in Paris through July 23. Considered during her lifetime as the greatest American artist, Cassatt lived in France for more than sixty years. She was the only American painter to have exhibited her work with the Impressionists in Paris. [image: Mary Cassatt, Petite fi... more »
May-June 2018
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Fauvism to Fascism Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 7 months ago - *Santa Barbara Museum of Art* - *July 8, 2018 - September 18, 2018* - https://www.sbma.net/exhibitions/fauvismtofascism The tumultuous period between the two World Wars is the backdrop for this intimately scaled and timely exhibition, which explores the little known relationship between modern art and totalitarianism in the work of the French Fauves, Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) and André Derain (1880-1954). [image: Image result for Fauvism to Fascism] Maurice de Vlaminck, *The Bridge (Le Pont) *(detail)... more »
In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago
*Exhibition Dates:* October 16, 2018–October 4, 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 67 works drawn... more »
Collections Privées: un Voyage des Impressionnistes aux Fauves’
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago
*The Musée Marmottan Monet* *until 10 February 2019* Claude Monet, Villas à Bordighera, 1884 (detail). Huile sur toile, 60 x 73 cm. Collection particulière © Collection particulière - Droits réservés. . *PARIS**.-* The Musée Marmottan Monet is presenting—until 10 February 2019—an exhibition entitled ‘Collections Privées: un Voyage des Impressionnistes aux Fauves’ (‘Private Collections: From the Impressionists to the Fauves’). The exhibition includes sixty-two paintings, drawings, and sculptures held in private collections (in Europe, the United States, and Latin America)—mos... more »
Salvador Dalí - A Love Story
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago
xxx [image: Salvador Dalí, Argus in Color, 1963] Salvador Dalí, *Argus in Color,* 1963 (ACA Galleries) *ACA Galleries* in New York will present *Salvador Dalí*, a solo exhibition featuring selected etchings, Aubusson tapestries and drawings from the Argillet Collection, from* January 10 to March 9, 2019.* Dalí and Pierre Argillet began working together in 1959 and produced nearly 200 etchings over a 15 year period. They are noted for their attention to detail with wide-ranging themes such as mythology, Faust, bullfights, as well as the writings of Apollinaire, Chairman Mao, and... more »
POLITICS AND PAINT: BARBARA BODICHON AND THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD
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[image: A hooded Procession, not dated. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827–1891). Watercolor on paper, 10 1/16 × 14 9/16 inches. Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library.] *A hooded Procession, not dated. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827–1891). Watercolor on paper, 10 1/16 × 14 9/16 inches. Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library.* inSharw through *February 3, 2019 at Delaware Art Museum.* Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827–1891) was an early female painter in the Pre-Raphaelite movement and ardent women’s rights campaigner. ... more »
More on Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Master Paintings on 30 January
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 weeks ago
– Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Master Paintings on 30 January will offer one of the most important work s by 18 th -century French artist Elisabeth -Louise Vigée Le Brun ever to appear at auction. [image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Mohammed_Dervish_Khan_by_Elizabeth_Vigee_Lebrun.jpg] Offered with an estimate of $4/6 million, her life -sized Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan will headline The Female Triumphant – a group of masterworks by trailblazing female artists of the Pre -Modern era, being offered across Sotheby’s Masters Week auctions this January in N... more »
Egon Schiele: In Search of the Perfect Line
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 weeks ago
*Galerie St. Etienne* *November 1, 2018, through March 2, 2019* *Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Brown Background, 1912. Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper. Signed and dated, lower left. 12 3/8" x 10" (31.4 x 25.4 cm). Kallir D. 1177. Kallir Family Foundation. * *Egon Schiele died on October 31, 1918, of the Spanish flu. He was twenty-eight years old and only just beginning to enjoy professional success. One hundred years later, museums in Boston, Linz, Liverpool, London, New York, Paris and, of course, Vienna have presented exhibitions celebrating the artist’s remarkable... more »
Modern American Realism
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[image: Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, 1950.] Edward Hopper, *Cape Cod Morning*, 1950. Oil on canvas, 34 1/8 x 40 1/4 inches. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation. OCT 20, 2018 – APR 28, 2019 A selection of treasured artworks from the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, *Modern American Realism* encompasses the range of what can broadly be called modern realism—from sociopolitical to psychological, from satirical to surrealist. Drawn from works collected by the Sara Roby Foundation, the exhibition includes 44 paintings an... more »
FLYING HIGH Women Artists of Art Brut
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*Bank Austria Kunstforum VIENNA, AUSTRIA 15 FEBRUARY - 23 JUNE 2019* *F**FLYING HIGH” is the first exhibition that is devoted “globally” to female positions in Art Brut produced from 1860 until the present. The exhibition “flies high” in every sense: it has gathered together 316 works by 93 women artists from 21 countries, which in many aspects of content and aesthetics challenge our idea of what art is. * Aloïse Corbaz *Brevario Grimani ,* 1950 ca ( Detail ) crayon on paper abcd / Bruno Decharme collection Photo © César Decharme The exhibition adopts the term Art Brut – *ra... more »
Pin-Ups | Toulouse-Lautrec and the Art of Celebrity
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*Scottish National Gallery * *6 October 2018 – 20 January 2019Royal Scottish AcademyPrinces St, Edinburgh, * The vibrant, bohemian atmosphere of Paris at the end of the 19th century takes centre stage in a spectacular new exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) , which focuses on extraordinary posters that heralded a revolution in design and the birth of modern celebrity culture. *Pin-Ups: Toulouse Lautrec and The Art of Celebrity* is the first NGS exhibition to explore the work of one of the most innovative and popular French artists of the era known as the ‘Belle ... more »
*Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 6 March 2019 at Christie’s in London.
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 weeks ago
David Hockney’s double portrait of Geldzahler, a curator at The Met, and his partner, painter Christopher Scott, helped to secure his reputation. In March this masterpiece from the Barney A. Ebsworth Collection will be offered in London. David Hockney (b. 1937), Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott, 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 120 in (214 x 305 cm). Estimate on request. Offered in Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 6 March 2019 at Christie’s in London. Artwork © David Hockney In 1968, the 30-year-old painter David Hockney began a series of seven monumental canvases,... more »
Claude Monet: A Floating World
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
*ALBERTINA Museum* * 21 September 2018–6 January 2019* This autumn, the ALBERTINA Museum is mounting Austria’s first broad-based presentation of works by Claude Monet (1840–1926) in over 20 years.The 100 paintings to be shown include important loan works from over 40 international museums and private collections such as the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the National Gallery London, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo,and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. This retrospective presentation, realized with generous support from the Musée Mar... more »
American Moderns in Watercolor: Edward Hopper and His Contemporaries
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtDecember 22, 2018 to March 17, 2019 inShare The *Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art*, in Hartford, Conn., will present *American Moderns in Watercolor: Edward Hopper and His Contemporaries* December 22, 2018 to March 17, 2019. *American Moderns in Watercolor* brings together sixteen works of art from the 1920s and 1930s that depict urban and rural subjects. Edward Hopper and contemporaries such as Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, Preston Dickinson, Arthur Dove, John Marin, and Abraham Walkowitz were increasingly on the move, either by car... more »
Master Paintings Evening Sale At Sotheby’s New York January 30
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
Sotheby’s will offer works by some of the most celebrated names in European art history in its Master Paintings Evening Sale on 30 January 2019. Headlined by an impressive group of 17th-century Dutch masterpieces from a distinguished private collection, the auction also features standout works by masters including Orazio Gentileschi, Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder. Open to the public on 25 January, the sale will be presented alongside Sotheby’s Masters Week exhibitions of Master Paintings & Sculpture Day Sale,... more »
