Koller's December 6 Modern Art Sale
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 day ago
Works by the most celebrated artists of the Modern era will be offered in the 6 December auction: Picasso, Matisse, Chagall and Cézanne and Renoir are among the modern masters represented. "Nymphs" by Henri Matisse is an entrancing charcoal drawing from circa 1945 (lot 3241, CHF 120,000/180,000). Here the artist takes up a theme that permeated his work throughout his career, and his creative process is visible in the partially effaced traces of the underlying charcoal strokes. In "Bol, boîte à lait et bouteille" (lot 3225, CHF 300,000/500,000), Paul Cézanne experiments with the s...
Questroyal Fine Arts New Acquisitions
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 day ago
[image: Childe Hassam, Top of Fort George, 1920] [image: Sanford Robinson Gifford, October on the Bronx River, A Study from Nature, 1876] [image: Hayley Lever, Fishing Boats Returning to Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1914] [image: Winslow Homer, Elizabeth Loring Grant, 1866] [image: Charles Caryl Colman, Seascape, Capri, 1890] [image: Charles Burchfield, Barren Trees, 1914] [image: Charles Henry Gifford, Frenchmans Bay, Mount Desert] [image: Max Kuehne, Gloucester Harbor] [image: Max Kuehne, Waterfront, Gloucester, 1911] [image: Guy C. Wiggins, Fifth Avenue in the Snow] Visit *...
Goya. Drawings. "Only my Strength of Will Remains"
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 5 days ago
* Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid * *11/20/2019 - 2/16/2020* This major exhibition, which opens on the day the Museo Nacional del Prado celebrates its 200th anniversary, is the result of the work undertaken for the creation of a new catalogue raisonné of Goya’s drawings, made possible through the collaborative agreement signed by the Fundación Botín and the Museo del Prado in 2014. For the first time and in a unique and unrepeatable occasion, the exhibition brings together more than 300 of Goya’s drawings from both the Prado’s own holdings and from private and public collecti...
Mary Cassatt’s Women
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 5 days ago
*McNay Museum* *October 31, 2019 to February 9, 2020* Image: Mary Cassatt, *The Cup of Tea*, ca. 1880-81. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922 (22.16.17). ©️The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image Source: Art Resource, NY This fall, McNay visitors will have a special opportunity to view Mary Cassatt’s Impressionist masterpiece *The Cup of Tea* in *Mary Cassatt’s Women.* Joined by the McNay’s own suite of Cassatt’s well-known and beloved aquatints and other works on paper, *The Cup of Tea* is on...
*Genealogies of Art, or the History of Art as Visual Art
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*Museo Picasso Málaga**27th February - 31st May 2020* This exhibition brings together a broad selection of artists and auteurs associated with *visual thinking*, including highly diverse representations of genealogical trees, tables, allegories and diagrams, created from the 15th century until today. *Genealogies of Art, or the History of Art as Visual Art* is far from being either a group or a thematic exhibition: it is instead an exhibition that looks at forms of visual narration, aiming to offer a range of representations broad enough to complement the standard discursive presen... more »
Great Realism & Great Abstraction
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago
*Städel Museum* *13 November 2019 to 16 February 2020* "Great realism, great abstraction" – the approximately 1,800, twentieth-century German drawings in the collection of the Städel Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings occupy a realm between these two poles. In the winter of 2019/2020, the museum will show a representative selection of some 100 works mirroring the emphases of the collection that have taken shape over the course of its long history. The exhibition opens with masterful drawings by Max Beckmann (1884–1950) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), which also prov...
*Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
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*Whitney Museum of American Art * *February 17 through May 17, 2020 * * McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas* *June 25 through October 4, 2020 * ------------------------------ The cultural renaissance that emerged in Mexico in 1920 at the end of that country’s revolution dramatically changed art not just in Mexico but also in the United States. *Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945* will explore the profound influence Mexican artists had on the direction American art would take. With approximately 200 works by sixty American and Mexic...
Midnight in Paris: Surrealism at the Crossroads, 1929
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 1 week ago
*The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida* *Nov. 23, 2019, through April 9, 2020* Paris, a timeless city both intellectual and sensuous, was vibrating with the spirit of liberation in 1929. Among those pulsing with the energy and excitement of the era were groundbreaking artists, galvanized to forge vital new creative paths with cultural and political meaning. *Midnight in Paris: Surrealism at the Crossroads, 1929,* profiles the work, friendship and clashes of more than 20 avant-garde artists of the era, from the painters Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, to sculptors Hans Arp and A...
Bouguereau & America
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 weeks ago
The San Diego Museum of Art presents the traveling exhibition *Bouguereau & America*, featuring nearly 40 paintings by the popular French academic artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). On view now through March 15, 2020, this exhibition reexamines the work of this long-neglected artist and allows a view unencumbered by a modernist bias. [image: Bouguereau & America] William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Art and Literature, 1867. Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 × 42 1/2 in. Collection of the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York USA William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Young Shepherdess, 1885....
Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 weeks ago
The first exhibition to explore the contributions of women artists during the Dutch Golden Age will be on view at the *National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) from Oct. 11, 2019, to Jan. 5, 2020*. *Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age* presents approximately 20 paintings and prints dating from 1610 through 1719 by eight successful artists in the Netherlands during the 17th and early 18th centuries. [image: A dark still life oil painting that shows a bowl of dead fish and a plate of shrimp and clams, along with a cat with his paws on one of the dead fish.] Clara Peeters, *Still ...
Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 weeks ago
*Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts * *September 21, 2019–January 6, 2020* Bringing together nearly seventy works spanning the entirety of the artist’s career, this exhibition presents a fresh and eye-opening examination of Hans Hofmann’s prolific and innovative artistic practice. Featuring paintings and works on paper from 1930 through the end of Hofmann’s life in 1966, the exhibition includes numerous masterworks from BAMPFA’s distinguished collection as well as many seldom-seen works from both public and private collections across North America and Europe. *The Nature of...
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 2 weeks ago
The cultural renaissance that emerged in Mexico in 1920 at the end of that country’s revolution dramatically changed art not just in Mexico but also in the United States. *Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945* will explore the profound influence Mexican artists had on the direction American art would take. With approximately 200 works by sixty American and Mexican artists, *Vida Americana* reorients art history, acknowledging the wide-ranging and profound influence of Mexico’s three leading muralists—José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Si...
Christie’s Latin American Art November Sales NOVEMBER 20, 21
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago
Christie’s announces the fall season of *Latin American Art *with the live auction taking place November 20 and 21 and an online auction running November 16-26. As the only major auction house with dedicated sales in the category, this season offers a comprehensive selection from 17th and 18th-century Spanish colonial painting through modern and contemporary masterpieces. Together the sales expect to realize in excess of $25 million. Featured are works from private collections including* The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, The Collection ...
Freeman’s American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists auction December 8
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago
On December 8, Freeman’s will hold its highly anticipated biannual American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists auction. As ever, the sale will feature works by distinguished American artists including illustrators N.C. Wyethand Norman Rockwell, Hudson River School painters Jasper Cropsey and Louis Rémy Mignot, as well as Philadelphians Mary Cassattand William Glackens. Also on offer will be works by famed Pennsylvania Impressionists Daniel Garber, Fern Coppedge and Edward Redfield. Sale Highlights An undeniable frontrunner of the auction will be N.C. Wyeth’s *Rebel Jerry and Ya...
Sotheby’s American Art auction 19 November 2019
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago
This season’s American Art auction features two important works by Milton Avery from the collection, led by [image: Image result for Milton Avery Porch Sitters] Porch Sitters from 1952 (estimate $2/3 million). Belonging to a remarkably innovative period in Avery’s career, the work depicts Avery’s daughter, March, reading alongside a female companion, likely painted in Woodstock, New York, where the Avery family often spent the summers. Porch Sitters exemplifies the evolution in treatment of color that Avery’s work underwent in the early 1950s, and illustrates the artist’s innovati...
Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art November 11
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago
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Complete results Prices realized: [image: Image result for René Magritte, Le Seize Septembre, $19,570,000] René Magritte, *Le Seize Septembre, *$19,570,000 [image: Image result for Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, $16,165,000] Umberto Boccioni, *Unique Forms of Continuity in Space*, $16,165,000 [image: Image result for Pablo Picasso, Femme dans un fauteuil (Françoise), $13,327,500] Pablo Picasso, *Femme dans un fauteuil (Françoise)*, $13,327,500 [image: Image result for Camille Pissarro, Jardin et poulailler chez Octave Mirbeau, Les Damps, $10,263,000] ...
Bonhams American Art sale Tuesday, November 19
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago
A selection of significant modernist works deaccessioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York and sold to benefit the acquisitions fund, will lead Bonhams American Art sale in New York on Tuesday, November 19. Highlights from The Museum of Modern Art include Birch Grove, Autumn by Marsden Hartley, estimated at $300,000-500,000, and Ordnance Island, Bermuda by Niles Spencer, estimated at $150,000-250,000. Additional highlights in the sale span the 19th and 20th century genres of American Art, including works by John Frederick Kensett, William Glackens, Albert Bierstadt, James But...
The American Art Fair November 16-19
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago
*The American Art Fair* celebrates its twelfth year from *November 16-19, 2019* at *Bohemian National Hall*, 321 East 73rd Street, New York City. The Fair opens American Art Week in New York. Inaugurated in 2008, The American Art Fair is the now the only one that focuses on American 19th and 20th century works and features more than 400 landscapes, portraits, still lifes, studies, and sculpture exhibited by 17 premier specialists. Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) New England Sea View- Fish House, 1934. Oil on academy board, 18 x 24 inches. *Meredith Ward Fine Art*Frank H. Tompkins (1847...
Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 12 November
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago
Sotheby’s unveiled highlights from their Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on 12 November in New York. Distinguished by a diverse range of works on offer from private collections and with exceptional provenance exhibited throughout, the 53 lots on offer are on public view in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries. Paul Signac, La Corne d'Or (Constantinople), 1907 (detail). Estimate $14/18 million. Courtesy Sotheby's. Likely the greatest post-1900 work by Paul Signac ever to come on the market, La Corne d'Or (Constantinople) from 1907 is the largest and most striking canv...
MAKING VAN GOGH
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago
*From 23 October 2019 to 16 February 2020, the Städel Museum* is devoting an extensive exhibition to the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). It focuses on the creation of the “legend of Van Gogh” around 1900 as well as his significance to modern art in Germany. Featuring 50 of his key works, it is the most comprehensive presentation in Germany to include works by the painter for nearly 20 years. MAKING VAN GOGH addresses the special role that gallery owners, museums, private collectors and art critics played in Germany in the early twentieth century for the posthumous reception...
Young Rembrandt 1624-1634
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 3 weeks ago
- *Museum De Lakenhal, Oude Singel 32, Leiden, the Netherlands* *2 November 2019 – 9 February 2020* - *Ashmolean Museum in Oxford* *27 February - 7 June 2020* From November 2019 to February 2020 Museum De Lakenhal will present the exhibition Young Rembrandt.1624-1634. This will be the first major exhibition exclusively devoted to the early work of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669). *Young Rembrandt 1624-1634* will allow visitors to look over the young painter’s shoulder and see how his talent developed and flourished. Almost 400 years after their creation wor.
Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
*The Jewish Museum, New York (October 18, 2019–February 9, 2020) * New York's Jewish Museum now presents *Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art*, the first exhibition to explore the remarkable career of Edith Gregor Halpert (1900-1970), the influential American art dealer and founder of the Downtown Gallery in New York City. A pioneer in the field and one of New York’s first female art dealers, Halpert propelled American art to the fore at a time when the European avant-garde still enthralled the world. The artists she supported — Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe.
Renewing the American Spirit: The Art of the Great Depression
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
*Oklahoma City Museum of Art* * November 2, 2019 - April 26, 2020* *Renewing the American Spirit: The Art of the Great Depression* explores the physical and social landscape of the United States during the Great Depression through paintings, prints, photographs, and other media. The original exhibition includes a selection of works from the Museum’s excellent collection of WPA art, a recently acquired monumental mural by Gardner Hale, which has not been exhibited publicly since the First President’s bicentennial exhibition in 1932, and several loans from regional institutions. The...
Peggy Guggenheim. The Last Dogaressa
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
*21 September 2019 – 27 January 2020* *Peggy Guggenheim Collection * “It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.” Peggy Guggenheim, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict Peggy Guggenheim. The Last Dogaressa, curated by Karole P . B . Vail , Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection , with Gražina Subelytė, Assistant Curator, will be on view at the museum from 21 September 20...
Christie’s American Art Sale November 20
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
Christie’s has announced its the fall sale of American Art. The sale is highlighted by several distinguished private collections that offer rare and fresh to the market works, including Andrew Wyeth’s Oliver’s Cap (estimate: $3,000,000 – 5,000,000) from the Collection of Ron and Diane Disney Miller, Norman Rockwell’s Harvest Moon (estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000) from The Collection of Richard L. Weisman, and Georgia O'Keeffe's Pink Spotted Lillies (estimate: $1,200,000-1,800,000) from The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. The American Art sale on November 20 is comprised of 9...
Jean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern Art
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
* Van Gogh Museum* *4 October 2019 – 12 January 2020* Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí *Saint Louis Art Museum* *February 16–May 17, 2020* The exhibition *Jean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern Art* illustrates just how progressive the work of Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was for his time. With his radical painting technique, modern style and inspirational portrayal of peasant life, Millet undoubtedly sowed the seeds of modern art. This is the first exhibition to explore how Millet’s work inspired the art of numerous well-known artists, such as Vincent...
Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
[image: Image result for Peter Paul Rubens. A Sheet of Anatomical Studies, 1600/10. The Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Acquisition Fund.] *Peter Paul Rubens. A Sheet of Anatomical Studies, 1600/10. The Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Acquisition Fund.* The Art Institute of Chicago presents *Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age**, *on view from* September 28, 2019 *to *January 5, 2020. *This exhibition reflects a unique and comprehensive effort by the Art Institute to study and interpret its holdings of Dutch and Flemish drawings. The project is a culmination o...
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
detail, Night and Sleep by Evelyn De Morgan. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery Fanny Eaton by Joanna Wells. Photograph: Richard Caspole/National Portrait Gallery *170 years after the first pictures were exhibited by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1849, "Pre-Raphaelite Sisters" at London's National Portrait Gallery, explores the overlooked contribution of twelve women to this iconic artistic movement. Featuring new discoveries and unseen works from public and private collections across the world, this show reveals the women behind the pictures and their creative roles in Pre-
Raphael & the Pope's Librarian
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
*Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston* *October 31, 2019 - January 30, 2020* Nearly five centuries after his death, Raphael’s fame remains undiminished. In 1898, Isabella Stewart Gardner brought the first Raphael to America, a portrait of the pope’s librarian Tommaso Inghirami. Celebrated by Erasmus as “the Cicero of our era,” Inghirami was a high Renaissance celebrity esteemed for his profound erudition, theatrical abilities, and powerful friends, including Raphael himself. Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the painter’s death in 1520, this exhibition brings together for
Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life – The Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant
Jonathan KantrowitzatArt History News - 4 weeks ago
*The Phillips Collection* *October 26, 2019 – January 26, 2020* The Phillips Collection has opened Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life – The Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant. This presentation, planned in conjunction with a major promised gift of art from Vicki and Roger Sant, features over 40 rarely - seen paintings and works on paper as well as two major print portfolios from one of the finest private collections of Nabi art in the United States. Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life sheds new light on the decade of the 1890s t... more »
