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 fille dans un fauteuil bleu, vers 1877-1878,
Inv. 1983.1.18, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collec... more »
Swann Old Master Through Modern Prints May 8
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
At Auction May 8
Old Master Through Modern PrintsThe highlight of this wide-ranging event
from our Prints & Drawings department is* Tête de femme, de profil*, 1905,
an extremely early work by Pablo Picasso, executed when he was just 24
years old. Works by visionaries who shaped the trajectory of twentieth
century art will also be offered, including Jean Arp, Marc Chagall, Salvador
Dalí and László Moholy-Nagy. Iconic works by Thomas Hart Benton, Martin
Lewis represent American art movements from the same period.
[image: Pablo Picasso, Tête de femme, de profil]
Lot 398: Pablo Picasso,... more »
Chrsitie's FINE ART, DAY SALE Thursday 10 May, 10am
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
View catalogue
The Day Sale features a broad span of genres and eras, beginning with
Impressionist and Modern Art, including works by Odilon Redon, Paul Klee,
Kees Van Dongen, and Édouard Vuillard. The 19th Century European art
section is highlighted by works from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot,
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Édouard Manet. A fine selection of
Post-War and Contemporary artists include Alexander Calder, Lucien Freud,
Jasper Johns and Bridget Riley, underscoring the full breadth of David
Rockefeller’s collecting, well into his later years.
[image: Image result]
D... more »
Christie’s Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art May 15
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
[image: Image result]
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1916, oil on canvas. ©
Christie’s Images Limited 2018.
Kazimir Malevich’s* Suprematist Composition,* 1916, will lead Christie’s
Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art (estimate upon request).
Suprematist Composition is among the groundbreaking abstract paintings
executed by Malevich that would forever change the course of art history.
The present canvas was last sold at auction in November 2008, when it
established the world auction record for the artist, which it continues to
hold today.* One decade later, S... more »
Christie's ART OF THE AMERICAS, EVENING SALE Wednesday 9 May, 7pm
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*ART OF THE AMERICAS, EVENING SALE*
*Wednesday 9 May, 7pm*
Browse sale
View catalogue
[image: Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Rich’s House, 1930. Watercolour and
charcoal on paper. 16 x 25 in (40.6 x 63.5 cm). Estimate:
$2,000,000-3,000,000. This lot is offered in The Collection of David and
Peggy Rockefeller: Art of the Americas, Evening Sale on 9 May at Christie’s
in New York.]
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), *Rich’s House,* 1930. Watercolour and charcoal
on paper. 16 x 25 in (40.6 x 63.5 cm). Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000.
The Collection of David and Peggy Rockefeller: Art of the Amer... more »
Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale May 17
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
Francis Bacon, *Study for Portrait, *1977, oil and dry transfer lettering
on canvas
78 x 58⅛ in. (198.2 x 147.7 cm.). Estimate on Request. © Christie’s Images
Limited 2018. [image: Image result] Francis Bacon*Two Studies for a
Portrait of George Dyer *(Sara Hildén Art Museum, Finland), Francis
Bacon’s Study for Portrait (1977, estimate on request) will star in
Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction, which will take
place on 17 May 2018. The powerful large-scale eulogy to his great muse and
lover George Dyer was painted in Paris in 1977 and was last ... more »
More on Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 16 May 2018
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*Number 32, 1949* by Jackson Pollock will be featured in the Contemporary
Art Evening Auction on 16 May 2018 in New York. The production of the
artist’s drip paintings of 1948-9 stands as one of the most radical events
in 20th-century art, in which the boundaries of painting were pushed and a
new aesthetic established. Number 32, 1949 comes from a critical year for
the artist and epitomizes the chaotic vibrancy, heroic drama and thrilling
vigor that have come to define Pollock’s prodigious legacy.
Jackson Pollock executed his first drip painting in 1947.
Over the next two yea... more »
Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 14 May 2018
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*[image: Image result] *
Pablo Picasso, *Le Repos*, oil on canvas, 1932
Photo: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York / Courtesy of Sotheby’s
The centerpiece of the Sotheby’s May 14 Impressionist and Modern Art
Evening Sale in New York will be *Le Repos*.
Pablo Picasso’s “*Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse
Walter)*” from 1937 was the prize piece in the Sotheby’s sale. 2018 Estate
of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Sotheby's
Like *Femme au Béret*, this stunning masterwork from 1932—estimated to s... more »
Thomas Gainsborough: Experiments in Drawing
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM*
*May 11 to August 19, 2018 *
Renowned for hisportraiture and depictions of rural landscapes, the
eighteenth-century British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) is best
known as a painter. However, he was also a draftsman of rare ability who
extended the traditional boundaries of drawing technique, inspiring an
entire generation of British artists such as John Constable (1776–1837) and
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851).
Beginning May 11, the Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition solely
focused on Gainsborough’s works on paper, bringing together t... more »
Rubens. Painter of Sketches
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid *
*4/10/2018 - 8/5/2018*
*Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum *
*September.*
The Museo del Prado and the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum are presenting
the exhibition *Rubens. Painter of Sketches*. Sponsored by Fundación AXA
and with the collaboration of the Government of Flanders, it offers an
analysis of Rubens as the most important painter of oil sketches in the
history of European art.
Of the nearly 500 oil sketches executed by Rubens over the course of his
career, this exhibition includes 73 loaned from leading institutions
world-wide, includ... more »
Life in Motion: Egon Schiele / Francesca Woodman
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*24 May – 23 September 2018 Tate Liverpool | Liverpool, UK*
*Life in Motion* combines the work of radical Austrian expressionist Egon
Schiele (1890 – 1918) and American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958 –
1981), exploring the remarkable ability of these artists to capture and
suggest movement in order to create dynamic, extraordinary compositions
that highlight the expressive nature of the human body.
The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see a large number of Schiele's
drawings in the North of England, bringing attention to the artist's
technical virtuosity, distinctive vi... more »
More on Christie's Old Masters | April 19
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
[image: Image result]
The Old Masters sale features a very rare signed and dated painting by the
Le Nain Brothers representing Saint Jerome, recently included in a major
retrospective of the artists’ work.
[image: Image result]
Another recently discovered work is Vigée Le Brun’s *Portrait of Tatyana
Borisovna Potemkina,* which has never been on the market, and it was
included in the monographic exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York and the Grand Palais, Paris.
[image: Image result]
The top lot of the sale is Ruben’s *A satyr holding a basket of grapes and
qui... more »
Vatican Micromosaic of Saints Valeria and Martial, Rediscovered Masterpiece
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*Vatican Micromosaic of Saints Valeria and Martial *
Everyone loves a good story. In the realm of fine art and antiques, a good
story, or what we call “provenance”, has the power to take a work of art
from exceptional to awe-inspiring.
In terms of workmanship, subject matter and sheer size,
this incredible micromosaic detailing the Biblical story of Saints Valeria
and Martial has it all. Measuring over 10 feet tall, the precision and
detail required to execute such a piece is baffling. Combined with the high
cost of materials, micromosaics of this immense size and artistry are ... more »
Delacroix (1798–1863) at the Louvre
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
Musée du Louvre, Paris
*March 29, 2018 to July 23, 2018 *
This exhibition is organized by the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
http://presse.louvre.fr/delacroix-1798-1863-2-en/
*Eugène Delacroix was one of the giants of French painting, but his last
full retrospective exhibition in Paris dates back to 1963, the centenary
year of his death. In collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York, the Louvre is holding a historic exhibition featuring some 180
works—mostly paintings—as a tribute to his entire career. From the young
arti... more »
Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
Whitney Museum of American ArtMar 2–Jun 10, 2018
Grant Wood's *American Gothic*—the double portrait of a pitchfork-wielding
farmer and a woman commonly presumed to be his wife—is perhaps the most
recognizable painting in 20th century American art, an indelible icon of
Americana, and certainly Wood's most famous art work. But Wood's career
consists of far more than one single painting. *Grant Wood: American Gothic
and Other Fables* brings together the full range of his art, from his early
Arts and Crafts decorative objects and Impressionist oils through his
mature paintings, mural... more »
COLOURS OF IMPRESSIONISM MASTERPIECES FROM THE MUSÉE D'ORSAY
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide *
* 29 March-29 July 2018 *
More than 65 Impressionist masterpieces from the renowned collection of the
Musée d’Orsay in Paris feature in a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of
South Australia.
*Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay* charts the
revolution of colour that lies at the very heart of Impressionism and
includes master works by Monet, Renoir, Manet, Morisot, Pissarro and
Cézanne, among many others.
From the dark tones of Manet's Spanish-influenced paintings, to the rich
green and blue hues of the Fre... more »
Christie’s Prints & Multiple sale April 19-20
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
Christie’s two-day sale of Prints & Multiples includes nearly 200 lots
spanning the 20th to 21st centuries and features modern works by Henri
Matisse, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso—and Post-War and Contemporary
editions by Keith Haring, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and
Andy Warhol, among others.
[image: Image result][image: Image result] He Disappeared into Complete
Silence, Plate 91947engraving in black on wove paperplate: 22.54 x 10 cm (8
7/8 x 3 15/16 in.)sheet: 25.4 x 17.78 cm (10 x 7 in.)Wye/Smith 1994, 37,
VI/VIPurchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner2010.132.... more »
Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston*
*March 11 through June 10, 2018*
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents *Michelangelo and the Vatican:
Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples*, an
exhibition highlighting the artistic legacy of Pope Paul III (1468–1549)
and the vital role that drawing played in artistic production throughout
Europe in the late 15th and 16th centuries. Largely drawn from the renowned
collection of the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, Italy, *Michelangelo and
the Vatican *features drawings, cartoons, paintings, sculpture and prints
by Renaiss... more »
PANORAMA: A NEW PERSPECTIVE Picasso-Sotheby’s Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary ar
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*Sotheby’s Hong Kong*
*9th March to 3rd April*
Panorama: A New Perspective – a selling exhibition featuring over 40
paintings and sculptures by the foremost names in Impressionist, Modern
and Contemporary art – will open to the public from 29th March to 3rd
April , alongside Sotheby’s Spring 2018 Hong Kong Sale Series.
The show will be led by four powerful works by Pablo Picasso,
spanning 50 years of the artist’s extraordinary career and all coming
direct from the collection of the artist’s grand - daughter, Marina
Picasso. These will ... more »
Sotheby’s EVENING SALE 16 May 2018
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
The sale of 26 masterworks from the collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel
will take place in a dedicated auction on the evening of 16 May 2018 in
New York. A pioneering entrepreneur and philanthropist, Morton Mandel,
together with his wife Barbara, amassed an enviable collection over several
decades, which spans many of the most important artistic movements of the
20th century: from Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism; to Minimalism and
Pop, with an equal emphasis on paintings, works-on-paper and sculpture.
Joan Miró, *Femme, oiseau*, 1969-74
Estimate: $10,000,000-15,000,0... more »
Christie’s Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art Picasso, Van Gogh, Léger, Chagall May 15, 2018
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*This spring, Christie’s will offer*
*Pablo Picasso’s Le Marin, 28 October 1943 (estimate upon request), in the
May 15 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art. Executed at the height
of Occupation, Le Marin, widely recognized as Picasso himself, clad in his
iconic striped fisherman’s jersey, offers one of the most profound and
revealing views into the artist’s wartime psyche.*
*Adrien Meyer, Co-Chairman, Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie’s New
York, remarked: “From the depth and power of expression to his striped
Breton shirt, Le Marin is an extraordinarily vivid por... more »
Christie’s Old Masters auction on April 19, 2018
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
Christie’s is honored to present for sale Lucas Cranach the Elder’s *Portrait
of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, *called John Frederick the
Magnanimous, once part of Fritz Gutmann’s renowned art collection in the
pre-war Netherlands. Missing for nearly 80 years before its recent
rediscovery in America, Christie’s is privileged to have facilitated the
return of this important work to the Gutmann family. Cranach’s *Portrait of
John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony *will be presented in public
exhibitions in Hong Kong (March 30 – April 4) and New York leading up to
the Old Masters... more »
Robert Frank prints
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*Hamiltons Gallery*
*28 March - 11 May 2018*
Hamiltons presents a selection of exceptional and rarely seen Robert Frank
prints, including pictures from Frank’s seminal visit in 1953 to a
coal-mining village in Wales, along with a selection of prints from his
sojourns in London, Paris and America taken during the 1950s and early 60s.
Frank’s endeavour to establish a new form of poetic, narrative photography
is a common thread throughout these images.
Read "Robert Frank: The Man Who Saw America" published in the New York
Times in Summer 2015, written by Nicholas Dawidoff:
https://www... more »
Drawing The Line Realism and Abstraction in Expressionist Art: Beckmann,Dix,Grosz,Kirchner.Nolde,Schiele
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*Galerie St. Etienne*
*March 20, 2018 - July 6, 2018 *
ARTISTSBeckmann, Max
Dix, Otto
Feininger, Lyonel
Gerstl, Richard
Grosz, George
Heckel, Erich
Kandinsky, Wassily
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig
Klee, Paul
Kokoschka, Oskar
Kubin, Alfred
Macke, August
Marc, Franz
Mueller, Otto
Nolde, Emil
Pechstein, Hermann Max
Schiele, Egon
Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl
*Galerie St. Etienne exhibition *essayRealism and abstraction are
frequently cast as opposing forces in modernism’s developmental narrative.
For reasons that had to do less with art-historical inevitably than with
geopolitics, abstraction was decla... more »
Online Story and Forthcoming Picture Book: 19th-Century Artist Thomas Cole to a New Generation
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
[image: Inside "Picturing America: Thomas Cole and The Birth of American
Art" by Hudson Talbott.]
Children’s book author and illustrator Hudson Talbott has teamed up with
the Thomas Cole National Historic Site to present Thomas Cole’s story online
for free to children of all ages.
The story introduces the 19th-century artist and founder of America’s first
major art movement to a new generation of young readers in conjunction with
the Bicentennial of Cole’s arrival in America in 1818. Thomas Cole was an
economic migrant displaced by the Industrial Revolution in England who fell
in ... more »
Masters of Spain: Goya and Picasso
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College*
*March 17 - June 17*
The exhibition includes more than 50 works of art and features the iconic
[image: Image result]
[image: Image result]
[image: Image result]
[image: Image result]
[image: Image result]
[image: Image result]
“Tauromaquia” (Bullfighting) series of etchings by Francisco de Goya y
Lucientes,
as well as rare late-career works by Pablo Picasso in multiple media from
ceramic to cardboard.
[image: Goya, Picasso Exhibition Set to Open at the Polk Museum of Art]
*Francisco Goya, 'Termeridad de martincho en ... more »
Giorgio de Chirico. Major Works from the Collection of Francesco Federico Cerruti
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*5 March – 27 May 2018*
Castello di Rivoli is presenting an important group of Giorgio de Chirico’s
paintings from the Francesco Federico Cerruti Collection for the very first
time. The exhibition will feature eight early paintings by the Metaphysical
artist, which until now have remained hidden in Villa Cerruti in Rivoli,
the home built by the Turin industrialist in the 1960s exclusively to house
his private collection.
In keeping with the spirit that characterizes the Cerruti Collection and
its encyclopaedic vision, which ranges from medieval paintings with gold
leaf background... more »
Diane Arbus: American Portraits
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
Heide Museum of Modern Art *21 March 17 June 2018 *
*Art Gallery of South Australia, SA 16 July – 30 September 2018 *
The National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition, *Diane Arbus:
American Portraits*.
Diane Arbus, Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade,
N.Y.C., 1967 1967. Gelatin silver photograph. National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra. Purchased 1980.
The photographs of Diane Arbus (1923–71) are among the most widely
recognised in the history of photography. Her images stand as powerful
allegories of post-war America, and once seen are rarely fo... more »
Spirited: Prohibition in America
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
Lyman Allyn Art Museum *April 5 through May 25, 2018*
*West Baton Rouge Museum**June 25th - * d manufacture, sell, or transport
intoxicating beverages from 1920 until 1933. *Spirited: Prohibition in
America*, a new exhibition opening at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum explores
this tumultuous time in American history, when flappers and suffragists,
bootleggers and temperance lobbyists, and legends, such as Al Capone and
Carry Nation, took sides in this battle against the bottle.
[image: Image result]
Organized by the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA, in
partnership with M... more »
Klimt and Schiele: Drawn
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 9 months ago
*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston*
* February 25 through May 28, 2018*
Marking the centenary of the deaths of Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) and Egon
Schiele (1890–1918), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents a
special exhibition of drawings on loan from the Albertina Museum in Vienna. *Klimt
and Schiele: Drawn*, on view from February 25 through May 28, 2018 in the
Lois B. and Michael K. Torf Gallery, examines the separate, yet parallel
experiences of the acclaimed Austrian modernists, as well as the compelling
ways in which their work relates—particularly in their provocative
depic... more »
Mary Cassatt, an American Impressionist in Paris
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
Musée Jacquemart-André9 March to 23 July 2018
In the spring of 2018, Culturespaces and the Musée Jacquemart-André will be
holding a major retrospective devoted to Mary Cassatt (1844–1926).
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.
The female representative of ImpressionismThe exhibition focuses on the
only American female artist in the Impressionist movement; she was spotted
by Degas in the 1874 Salon, and subsequentl... more »
Magritte, Dietrich, Rousseau. Visionary Objectivity
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*Kunsthaus Zürich *
*9 March to 8 July 2018 *
The Kunsthaus Zürich showcases 56 works of representational painting
spanning the years 1890 to 1965. Common to all of them is an objectivity
that is also visionary: emerging on the cusp of modernity, it runs through
Böcklin and Vallotton, the ‘ naïve artists ’ and painters of New
Objectivity, to the Surrealism of Dalí and Magritte.
This new exhibition at the Kunsthaus revisits a form that, like
abstraction, was crucial to Classical Modernism: representational art.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN PAINTING
By the mid -19th century, a... more »
Eye on Nature: Andrew Wyeth and John Ruskin
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
* Delaware Art Museum*
*March 10 – May 27, 2018*
“Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is
exhilarating,” wrote British critic and artist John Ruskin. Nearly one
hundred years later, Brandywine Valley artist Andrew Wyeth advised artists
to simply, “hold a mirror up to nature. Don’t overdo it, don’t underdo it.”
Even though Ruskin came of age during the Industrial Revolution, and Wyeth
after the World Wars, the two artists shared a life-long obsession with the
close observation of nature. The exhibition *Eye on Nature: Andrew Wyeth
and John Ruskin*, on view Ma... more »
San Diego Museum of Art Acquires Masterworks by Cranach and Sargent
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
inShare
The San Diego Museum of Art announced last month the acquisition of two
outstanding paintings,* Nymph of the Spring *(ca. 1540) by Lucas Cranach
the Younger and *Portrait of John Alfred Parsons Millet *(1892) by John
Singer Sargent.
Both works fill important gaps in the Museum’s holdings, with the Sargent
strengthening the already expansive collection of portraits, and the
Cranach being the most important Northern Renaissance painting in the
collection.
*Nymph of the Spring* is currently on display in *Genre and Myth*, and *Portrait
of John Alfred Parsons Millet* is ... more »
Pequeños tesoros de la Frick Collection (Small Treasures from The Frick Collection).
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*Museo de Arte de Ponce*
*March 17 through August 6, 2018*
This spring, The Frick Collection is pleased to collaborate with Puerto
Rico's Museo de Arte de Ponce on an upcoming exhibition. Starting March 17
and running through August 6, 2018, Museo de Arte de Ponce presents *Pequeños
tesoros de la Frick Collection (Small Treasures from The Frick Collection)*. The intimate
show of ten works, mostly on paper, includes an engraving, a watercolor,
four drawings and four oil sketches. They cover four centuries of artistic
production, from Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving, *Melencolia I,*... more »
Van Gogh & Japan
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam*
*03/23/18–06/24/18*
Beginning on 23 March, the Van Gogh Museum will present *Van Gogh & Japan*
– a major international exhibition on the influence of Japanese art on the
work of Vincent van Gogh. The show, which comprises around 60 paintings and
drawings by Van Gogh and a rich selection of Japanese prints, highlights
Vincent’s all-embracing admiration for this art and how fundamentally his
work changed in response to it.
Famous paintings and drawings by Van Gogh from collections all over the
world have been brought to Amsterdam for *Van Gogh & Japan*, ... more »
Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center*
* March 13 –June 24, 2018 *
Among the most surprising aspects of Rembrandt’s prodigious output are
twenty-three surviving drawings closely based on portraits made by artists
working in Mughal India. These drawings mark a striking diversion for this
quintessentially Dutch “Golden Age” artist, the only time he made a careful
and extensive study of art from a dramatically different culture.
*Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India* explores for the first time the
artist’s Mughal drawings, exhibiting them alongside the Mughal miniature
painti... more »
Untitled
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center*
* March 13 –June 24, 2018 *
Among the most surprising aspects of Rembrandt’s prodigious output are
twenty-three surviving drawings closely based on portraits made by artists
working in Mughal India. These drawings mark a striking diversion for this
quintessentially Dutch “Golden Age” artist, the only time he made a careful
and extensive study of art from a dramatically different culture.
*Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India* explores for the first time the
artist’s Mughal drawings, exhibiting them alongside the Mughal miniature
painti... more »
A Cultivating Journey: The Herman Levy Legacy
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*The Vancouver Art Gallery*
*March 3 to May 21, 2018*
Representing one of the most important donations ever made to a university
gallery in Canada, *A Cultivating Journey* presents five centuries of
magnificent art from the McMaster Museum of Art’s Levy Collection and
Bequest from Herman Herzog Levy. This exhibition reflects the remarkable
acumen of Levy as a collector and explores new scholarship and perspectives
on the objects and the collector himself, demonstrating the continuing
impact of one man ’s passion for art.
Works by renowned artists such as Gustave Courbet, Camille Pi... more »
Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*Denver **Art Museum*
*Oct 22, 2017–Jan 15, 2018*
*Speed Art Museum Louisville, Kentucky*
*February 17 – May 13, 2018*
*Clark Art Institute Williamstown, Massachusetts *
*June 6–September 3, 2018*
The groundbreaking exhibition *Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism*
broadly surveys a key chapter in art history in which an international
group of female artists overcame gender-based restrictions to make
remarkable creative strides. Featuring more than eighty paintings by
thirty-seven artists from thirteen countries, drawn from prominent
collections across the United States and ... more »
Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*Bowdoin College Museum of Art (245 Maine Street, Brunswick, Maine) *
*through October 1*
Spanning a century from the introduction of electric light to the dawn of
the Space Age, this first major survey of American night scenes by artists
such as Winslow Homer, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, and Joseph Cornell
proposes the central importance of nocturnal images in the development of
modern art.
Retooling their palette and reconsidering their techniques,
artists cherished the night as a time of heightened alertness
and active imagination. Mysterious and provocative, the
darkness was... more »
Museum receives gift of four significant works by John Sloan, three paintings by George Wesley Bellows, two paintings by George Luks
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
The Mennello Museum of American Art ,*Orlando, FL.* has received its
largest gift in the museum’s history from museum founder Michael A.
Mennello, Winter Park collector, businessman, and philanthropist. Michael
A. Mennello has promised extraordinary gifts of art from his private
collection to the museum. This generous gift of 14 paintings and 5
sculptures includes work by world-renowned American artists that greatly
enhance the permanent collection of the museum with examples of the finest
work by critical American artists associated with the Ashcan School of Art,
the prestigious... more »
Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
Worcester Art Museum
(11/11/17–02/04/18)
Milwaukee Art Museum
(03/02/18–05/20/18)
The 19th-century painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is one of the most
beloved figures in American art, perhaps most associated with the pastoral
beauty of rural America and his dramatic Maine seascapes. The new
exhibition *Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England*, opened March 1 and on
view through May 20, 2018 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, explores how English
artists and Homer’s nearly two-year stay in the seaside village of
Cullercoats, England, impacted the style and subjects of the artist’s work
fo... more »
Living, Building, Thinking: art and expressionism
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*The Vancouver Art Gallery*
*March 3 to May 21, 2018*
*Living, Building, Thinking: art and expressionism* uses the German
Expressionist collection from the McMaster Museum of Art to explore the
development of Expressionism in art from the early nineteenth century to
the present day.
The term Expressionism is invariably associated with the period of art and
social activism in Germany between 1905 and 1937, encompassing visual art,
literature, philosophy, theatre, film, photography and architecture. In the
context of an expanded view on the subject, Expressionism offers a rich and
... more »
Book: Geometry and Art - How Mathematics transformed Art during the Renaissance
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
By David Wade
[image:
https://ms-newsouthbooks-com-au.s3.amazonaws.com/WorkImage/WorkEdition/9781627951050.jpg]
This fascinating and authoritative look at how geometry changed the world
of art forever. Geometry & Art follows the artists of the Renaissance,
whose search for perspective and visual depth led them to the study of
geometry. Influencing the work of artists such as Paolo Uccello, Piero
della Francesco, and Leonardo da Vinci, this incredible artistic
breakthrough quickly spread to Germany, where a passion for polyhedral-
based geometrical designs flourished as a d... more »
Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*LACMA *
*November 19, 2017-March, 18, 2018*
*The Metropolitan Museum of Art*
*April 24–July 22, 2018*
The vitality and inventiveness of artists in 18th-century New Spain
(Mexico) is the focus of the exhibition *Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790:
Pinxit Mexici*, opening April 24 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through
some 112 works of art (primarily paintings), many of which are unpublished
and newly restored, the exhibition will survey the most important artists
and stylistic developments of the period and highlight the emergence of new
pictorial genres and subjects. *P... more »
Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*de Young *
*March 24 through August 12, 2018*
*Dallas Museum of Art*
*September 9, 2018, through January 6, 2019*
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) is set to premiere *Cult of
the Machine: Precisionism and American Art*, the first large-scale
exhibition in over 20 years to survey this characteristically American
style of early twentieth-century Modernism. Organized by FAMSF and on view
at the de Young, the exhibition addresses the aesthetic and intellectual
concerns that fueled the development of this artistic style during the
1920s and 1930s.
More than 100 Precisi... more »
Velázquez and the Celebration of Painting: the Golden Age in the Museo del Prado
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
* The National Museum of Western Art / The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
Tokio / Kobe 2/24/2018 - 5/27/2018*
Comprising 61 thematically organised paintings, the exhibition aims to
offer Japanese visitors an exceptional opportunity to appreciate the art of
Velázquez and to understand it in relation to the art of his Spanish and
European contemporaries, in addition to coming closer to the Spanish court
and Spanish society of the Golden Age through some of the finest works
created in this context, including paintings by Velázquez himself and
others by Titian, Rubens, Luca Giord... more »
Thomas Hart Benton and the Navy
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
* Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens**February 16 through June 3, 2018*
[image: Click to enlarge]
*Thomas Hart Benton, Cut the Line*, oil on canvas, 1944.
[image: Cut the Line (1944), Thomas Hart Benton. Image courtesy of the Navy
Art Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C.]
*Cut the Line* (1944), Thomas Hart Benton. Image courtesy of the Navy Art
Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C.
This exhibition presents an important series of works from the peak years
of the artist’s fame and influence. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl
Har... more »
Diego Rivera's Mural 'Pan American Unity'
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
[image: Diego Rivera, The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North
and of the South on this Continent (Pan American Unity), 1940. © Banco de
Mexico Diego Rivera & Frieda Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico D.F. / Artist
Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image: courtesy City College of San
Francisco.]
Diego Rivera, *The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and of
the South on this Continent (Pan American Unity),* 1940. © Banco de Mexico
Diego Rivera & Frieda Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico D.F. / Artist Rights
Society (ARS), New York. Image: courtesy City College of San Fra... more »
Fra Angelico Heaven on Earth
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
*February 22 - May 20, 2018*
About the Exhibition
Renaissance master Fra Angelico (about 1395–1455) transformed Western art
with pioneering images, rethinking popular compositions and investing
traditional Christian subjects with new meaning. His altarpieces and
frescoes set new standards for quality and ingenuity, securing his place in
history. With the intellect of a Dominican theologian, the technical
facility of Florence’s finest craftsmen and the business acumen of its
shrewdest merchants, he forged the future of painting in Italy and beyon... more »
Spanish still life paintings
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*Centre for Fine Arts Brussels*
23 February ’18 — 27 May ’18
*Musei Reali di Torino *
*Still life* occupies a prominent place amongst the pictorial genres of
Western visual art, but is too often seen as an academic exercise in
imitation. This ambitious, original exhibition turns this perception upside
down with an overview of *400 years* of Spanish still lives.
Spanish still lives occupy a unique place within the European context, and
have an unmistakeable relationship with Flemish and Italian models, but
resolutely unique imagery, developed by *Sanchez Cotán* and his
contemporarie... more »
Two Iconic 19th Century American Masterpieces
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*William Merritt Chase’s (1849-1916) Sunlight and Shadow*
[image: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916), Sunlight and Shadow,
1884, oil on canvas, Collection of Joslyn Art Museum, Gift of the Friends
of Art, 1932.4]
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916),* Sunlight and Shadow,* 1884,
oil on canvas, Collection of Joslyn Art Museum, Gift of the Friends of Art,
1932.4
A brief exchange, perhaps heated, executed quickly to capture a moment.
Sounds like a Twitter tweetstorm, but the subject here is a 19th-century
painting once titled *The Tiff*, painted *en plein air*, a ... more »
Two Exhibitions of German Expressionist prints in Maine
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
*The Robbers: German Art in a Time of Crisis *
The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) opened *The Robbers: German Art in a Time
of Crisis *February 23. The exhibition of 21 German prints executed between
the World Wars highlights George Grosz’s 1922 lithographic suite *The
Robbers:* *Nine Lithographs on Maxims from Schiller’s “The Robbers*" as
well as artworks by other printmakers of the era, including Max Beckmann,
Otto Dix, and Käthe Kollvitz. The works on display powerfully blend issues
of history, politics, art, and national identity, provoking questions about
who we are and what ... more »
Swann Galleries 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings March 13
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
On *Tuesday, March 13, *Swann Galleries will offer a superlative auction of *19th
& 20th Century Prints & Drawings*, featuring original artworks and scarce
multiples by some of the most influential artists of the last 200 years.
Following the house’s record-breaking autumn sale of
[image: The Lonely House, Edward Hopper (American, Nyack, New York
1882–1967 New York), Etching]
*Edward Hopper*’s 1923 print *The Lonely House* for $317,000,
Swann will offer an even more scarce etching by the master:
*House by a River,* 1919, an early example of his theme of isolation... more »
Christie’s’ Art of the Surreal 27 February 2018
Jonathan Kantrowitz at Art History News - 10 months ago
The Art of the Surreal sale will follow the Impressionist & Modern Art
Evening Sale on 27 February 2018.
[image: Image result]
René Magritte , Le groupe silencieux , oil on canvas, 1926, estimate:
£6,5 00,000 - 9,500,000
Magritte’s large *Le groupe silencieux *of 1926, one of a handful of large
and important early works by the artist, is the highlight of the sale .
[image: Pablo Picasso. Figure, 1930]
Pablo Picasso , Figure , oil and charcoal on panel, 1930, estimate:
£3,000,000 - 5,000,000
Picasso’s *Figure *of 1930, not seen at auction for half a century, is a
powe... more »
