Sunday, October 10, 2021

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Property from The Stella Collection Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) *Femme accroupie en costume turc (Jacqueline)* oil on canvas 36 ¼ x 28 ¾ in. (92 x 73 cm.) Painted in 1955 Estimate: $20 million – $30 million \This November, Christie’s New York will offer Pablo Picasso’s *Femme accroupie en costume turc (Jacqueline)*, 1955 (estimate: $20 million - $30 million), a masterpiece that has remained in a private and important collection of a single family for three generations, since 1957 – just two years after its creation. The work was originally purchased by a collector who developed... read more


*From 8 October 2021 to 27 March 2022, the Drents Museum* is proudly presenting a world premiere with a major exhibition devoted to the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Two of the leading Kahlo collections will come together for the first time in Assen. *Viva la Frida! - Life and Art of Frida Kahlo* showcases an unparalleled combination of Kahlo's art and personal objects (such as clothes, painted corsets and jewellery). The Drents Museum collaborated with the Museo Dolores Olmedo and the Museo Frida Kahlo (formerly La Casa Azul, The Blue House) in Mexico City. This... read more



*Whitney Museum of American Art* *October 9, 2021 to March 2022* Lee Krasner (1908-1984), Still Life, 1938. Oil on paper, 19 × 24 3/4 in. (48.3 × 62.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase in honor of Charles Simon, with funds given by his friends from Salomon Brothers on the occasion of his 75th birthday, and with funds from an anonymous donor and the Drawing Committee 90.19. © 2021 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Alice Trumbull Mason (1904-1971), Labyrinth of Closed Forms, 1945. Etching, aquatint, and embossing: sheet, 14 1/... read more


*Dallas Museum of Art* *October 10, 2021, through January 9, 2022* Winslow Homer, The Sand Dune, 1871-1872, oil on canvas, The Collection of Eleanor and C. Thomas May, Jr. Gertrude Fiske, Contemplation, before 1916, oil on canvas, The Collection of Eleanor and C. Thomas May, Jr. The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is set to present* Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection*, an exhibition of the excellent Dallas-based collection of American art that was built over 60 years by Thomas and Eleanor May.* Pursuit of Beauty*features 28 19th- and 20th-century oil paintings, watercolors, ... read more



*Morse Museum of American Art* *November 9 -* View near Medfield , 1868. Oil on canvas; George Inness, American, 1825 – 94; 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.5 cm); gift of Theodore E. and Susan Cragg Stebbins. Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, FL.Long Island Sound View , c. 1827 – 35. Oil on wood panel; Thomas Birch, Amer ican, 1779 – 1851; 9 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (24.7 x 34.2 cm); gift of Theodore E. and Susan Cragg Stebbins. Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, FL.Grapevines & Chicory, c. 1870. Watercolor on pape... read more


Albertina24 August – 28 November 2021 The exhibition American Photography presents an overview of the development of US American photography between the 1930s and the 2000s. With works by 33 artists on display, it introduces the essential currents that once revolutionized the canon of classic motifs and photographic practices. The effects of this have reached far beyond the country’s borders to the present day. The main focus of the works is on offering a visual survey of the United States by depicting its people and their living environments. A microcosm frequently viewed through... read more


*Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, Conn* *September 30, 2021–January 9, 2022 * *Detroit Institute of Arts* *February 6–May 29, 2022* The first exhibition solely dedicated to Italian women artists at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800 explores how women succeeded in the maledominated art world of the time. From the group of eighteen artists presented, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1654 or later), takes center stage with outstanding portraits and images of heroines. This exhibition recognizes and celebrates the ... read more


Opening September 22, 2021, the Fondation Louis Vuitton will present *THE MOROZOV COLLECTION, *one of the world’s foremost collections of Impressionist and Modern art. On view through February 22th, 2022, this major international exhibition will bring together in Paris 200 masterpieces from the French and Russian modern art collection of the brothers Mikhaïl and Ivan Morozov. This will be the first time the collection has traveled outside of Russia since its creation at the turn of the 20th century. Valentin Serov, Portrait of the Collector of Modern Russian and French Painti... read more


*Albertina Museum * *17 September – 9 January 2022 * On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death, the ALBERTINA in Vienna pays tribute to the artist Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920). Not very successful throughout his life, Modigliani became one of the most important painters in history, whose paintings today fetch hundreds of millions. An impressive show of over 120 paintings, sculptures and drawings by the myth-enshrouded Italian takes you to Paris in the early 20th century: the birthplace of modern painting. This exceptional exhibition presents the painter's work in a... read more


*The Wallace Collection22 September 2021 - 30 January 2022* Frans Hals (c.1582/3–1666) is one of the greatest masters of the Dutch Golden Age, praised by his contemporaries for his capacity to paint lifelike portraits that seem ‘to live and breathe’. In autumn 2021, The Wallace Collection will celebrate Hals’s most famous and beloved, yet still enigmatic, painting The Laughing Cavalier (1624). The historic purchase of The Laughing Cavalier in 1865 by the 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800– 1870), the Wallace Collection’s principal founder, was instrumental in the revival of Frans Hal... read more


* Cleveland Museum of Art* *September 19, 2021, through January 23, 2022* Odilon Redon (1840–1916) was known as “the prince of mysterious dreams” for creating paintings, drawings and prints that blend fantasy, literature and the subconscious. *Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon* celebrates the Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) exceptional holdings of works by Redon, including a newly acquired charcoal drawing, *Quasimodo*, on view for the first time. The exhibition reveals Redon’s history in Cleveland and introduces the phases of his career and work. *Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon* ... read more


The Cleveland Museum of Art today announced that it has organized a special installation of four works by renowned artist Vincent van Gogh. On view are two paintings, both masterpieces from the last years of the artist’s life, and two works on paper, including the only etching Van Gogh created. The free installation is on view now in the Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Gallery (222). “With the public’s recent increased interest in Vincent van Gogh, we wanted to take this opportunity to showcase a selection of real masterworks by the artist,” said William M. Griswold, director of... read more



*The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, * *through August 1, 2021* *Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2021–2022)* *Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (2022)* *Alice Neel: Un regard engagé* *Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, (2022)* *Alice Neel: People Come First* is the first museum retrospective in New York of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) in twenty years. This ambitious survey positions Neel as one of the century’s most radical painters, a champion of social justice whose longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her life as well as her art, as demonstrated ... read more


*Fondation Beyele* *now through January 2 * MARY CASSATT, LYDIA AT A TAPESTRY FRAME, CA. 1881. Oil on canvas, 65.1 × 92.4 cm. Collection of the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan. Gift of The Whiting Foundation, 1967LOTTE LASERSTEIN, ICH UND MEIN MODELL (I AND MY MODEL), 1929–30. Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 69.5 cm. Private family collection © 2021, ProLitteris, ZurichCINDY SHERMAN, UNTITLED, 2008. Chromogenic color print. 148.6 x 146.7 cm. Collection of Carla Emil & Rich Silverstein © 2021 Cindy Sherman BERTHE MORISOT, GIRL ON A DIVAN, (JEUNE FEMME AU DIVAN), 1885. Oil on canva... read more







*Chazen Museum of Art,* University of Wisconsin–Madison *now through Nov. 28, 2021* Men Working in Granite Quarry, Cape Ann, by Abraham Frater Levinson (American, 1883 - 1946) ca. 1935. Watercolor with graphite on tan wove paper. Gift of Velma Mekeel Stauffe.*Chazen Museum of Art* A survey of American drawings from the 18th century to the early 20th century introduces audiences to a range of artists, from anonymous to well-known practitioners, who excelled in a variety of drawing media and subject matter. Organized by the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madi... read more


*UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive* *On View August 6 through November 28, 2021* One of the world’s leading private collections of European and American works on paper will go on view at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) this summer, highlighting a major new gift to the museum’s collection. *The Enduring Mark: Six Centuries of Drawing from the Gray Collection* illuminates the holdings of Richard and Mary L. Gray, who assembled a remarkable collection of works spanning multiple centuries of Western art history with a primary focus on represe... read more


*Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla* 7th October 2021 to 6th February 2022 *Museo Picasso Málaga* 21st February to 26th June 2022 - The exhibition *Face to Face. Picasso and the Old Masters* is an outstanding chance to see great works by Pablo Picasso side by side with others by El Greco, Francisco Pacheco, Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Francisco de Zurbarán, Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Bernardo Lorente Germán and Diego Bejarano. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). *Restaurant*. Paris, spring 1914 Oil on cut-out canvas pasted on glass, 42 × 34 cm Fundación Almine y B... read more

Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City

Frist Art Museum *November 5, 2021–January 30, 2022* NASHVILLE, Tenn. (September 8, 2021)—The Frist Art Museum presents *Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City*, the first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus on medieval art made in the prosperous northern Italian city of Bologna. Conceived and organized by Frist Art Museum senior curator Trinita Kennedy, the exhibition of illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculptures will be on view in the Frist’s Upper-Level Galleries from November 5, 2021, through January 30, 2022. The nearly 70 objects in the ex... read more


Mount Williamson, The Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1944, printed 1973–75, Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984), gelatin silver print. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund. Photograph by Ansel Adams © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984), Bridalveil Fall, ca. 1952, printed 1960 from Portfolio Three: Yosemite Valley, Gelatin silver print on Kodak Medalist F paper, Courtesy of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Sabaroff. Photograph by Ansel Adams, © The Ansel Adams Pu... read more


* Palm Springs Art Museum * *Oct. 14, 2021 and will run through February 27, 2022* Helen Frankenthaler, Janus, 1990. Acrylic on canvas, 57 x 94 3/4 in. (144.8 x 240.7 cm). Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York © 2021 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York This fall, Palm Springs Art Museum will present *Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990-2003, *the first museum exhibition dedicated to the late work of Helen Frankenthaler. The exhibition will feature 20 paintings on paper and 10 paintings on canvas on loan from the Helen Frankenthaler Fou... read more


The Frick Collection announces the largest and most significant gift of drawings and pastels in its history, thanks to the generosity of Elizabeth “Betty” and Jean-Marie Eveillard. Over the past forty-five years, the Eveillards have assembled an outstanding collection of European works on paper, ranging in date from the end of the fifteenth century to the twentieth century and representing artists working in France, Britain, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. The Eveillards have made a promised gift to the Frick of twenty-six of these works— eighteen drawings, five pastels, two p... read more


*Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern* *28.08.21 – 22.05.22* What is the meaning of community, and what forms does it take? What are authority and power based on? Paul Klee is often perceived as an apolitical artist. The exhibition Paul Klee. Humans Among Themselves contradicts this perception and shows that a social or political dimension is often hidden behind the facade of his works. From the artist’s ‘superterrestrial’ perspective, Klee observes the human community, analyses its tensions and conflicts and depicts it in an ironically detached way, reduced to its essence. The exhibition is ... read more

Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror

* Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art* *September 29, 2021-* "Untitled," 1972, by Jasper Johns. Oil, encaustic, and collage on canvas with objects (four panels), 72 × 192 1/4 in. (182.9 × 488.3 cm) overall. Museum Ludwig, Cologne; donation Ludwig, 1976. © 2021 Jasper Johns/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of Jasper Johns, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, will be presented simultaneously in New York and Philadelphia this fall. A sin... read more


Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 14 September 2021 to 30 January 2022. Barcelona, Caixaforum, 24 February to 5 June 2022. Curator: Guillermo Solana The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is holding the first retrospective in Madrid on the Belgian artist and leading Surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967) since the exhibition held at the Fundación Juan March in 1989. Its title, *The Magritte machine*, emphasises the repetitive and combinatorial element present in the work of this painter, whose obsessive themes constantly recur with innumerable variations. Magritte’s boundl... read more


A SELECTION OF PICASSO MASTERWORKS FROM THE MGM RESORTS COLLECTION © 2021 ESTATE OF PABLO PICASSO / ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK COURTESY SOTHEBY'S AND MGM RESORTS *LAS VEGAS and NEW YORK – August 11, 2021 *– Coinciding with Pablo Picasso’s 140th birthday this October, MGM Resorts and Sotheby’s will present a special, first-of-its-kind marquee Evening Sale of masterworks by the iconic artist from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection. The auction of works by Picasso, which will be conducted live from Bellagio on Saturday, October 23, marks the largest and most significan... read more


More than half of the remarkable print collection belonging to Dr. Jonathan Meakins and Dr. Jacqueline McClaran is entering the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) national collection. Lucas or Jan van Doetechum after Pieter Bruegel I, Soldiers at Rest (Milites Requiescentes), c. 1555–57, from the set of 12 Large Landscapes, etching and engraving, 32 × 42.5 cm. Collection of Dr. Jonathan Meakins and Dr. Jacqueline McClaran. Photo: Denis Farley. The two Montreal-based doctors are donating 258 Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts from the 16th and 17th centuries for ... read more


*National Gallery of Canada* *July 16 to September 6* *Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany* *fall of 2021* One of the most celebrated artists of the European tradition, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) was multi-talented: a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Known for emotional authenticity and lifelike character expressed in all his work, Rembrandt created art that is broadly relatable and engaging. The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) presents, from July 16 to September 6, 2021, the exhibition *Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Creativity and Competition*, which traces Rembra... read more


*Katonah Museum of Art * *October 3, 2021, to January 23, 2022* Michele Felice Cornè, The Landing of the Pilgrims , c. 1807. Oil on canvas, 36 9 /16 x 52 1/8 inches (92.9 x 132.4 cm). Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.Titus Kaphar, Columbus Day Painting, 2014. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 67 3/4 x 90 3/4 x 4 inches (172.1 x 230.5 x 10.2 cm). The Heiskell Family Collection ©Titus KapharDorothea Lange, I Am An American, 1942. Photograph, printed 2020. 34 x 44 inches (86.4 x 111.8 cm). Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, Nat... read more


*Cleveland Museum of Art * *through September 19, 2021* *Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon* *October, 2021* The Lie , 1898. F é lix Vallotton (Swiss, 1865 – 1925). Oil on artist’s board; 24 x 33.3 cm. The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland, BMA 19 5 0.298. Photo: Mitro Hood In 1889, a small group of avant-garde artists in Paris formed a brotherhood to promote a radical new direction in art. Adopting the name Nabis—Hebrew for “prophets”—they shifted away from the Impressionist style, which sought ... read more



* National Gallery of Victoria* *June 25 to October 3 * The world-exclusive exhibition Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum features more than 160 works on paper by Francisco Goya (1746 – 1828), celebrating the artist’s extraordinary draughtsmanship and imagination. Considered to be one of the first truly modern artists, Goya produced humorous and critical images of Spanish society that comment on gender relationships, social inequality and violence, as well as visions of fantastic creatures. Photograph: Images courtesy Museo Nacional del Prado and National Gallery of Victori... read more

A a new open-access journal dedicated to the panel paintings of Jacques Jordaens and Anthony Van Dyck

The Jordaens Van Dyck Panel Paintings Project has announced the publication of a new open-access journal dedicated to the panel paintings of the famous Flemish artists Jacques Jordaens (1593-1678) and Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641). The four-part series will publish the wide-ranging, scholarly findings of the international and multidisciplinary Jordaens Van Dyck Panel Paintings Project (JVDPPP). Anthony Van Dyck, Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), c.1640, oil on canvas, 116.8 by 91.4 cm, London, The National Portrait Gallery. © National Portrait Gallery, London / Illustration to the J... read more


*National Gallery, London* *9 October 2021 – 2 January 2022 * * J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles * *15 February – 8 May 2022* The National Gallery’s new exhibition Poussin and the Dance, co-organised with the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, will include wild, raucous and surprisingly joyous scenes, showing whirling, cavorting figures. It will cast the French Classical artist in a completely new light, showing how he grappled with the challenges of arresting movement and capturing the expressive potential of the body. For the first time in its 121-year history, the Wallace ... read more


Albrecht Dürer (Germany, 1471–1528). The Four Horsemen, Plate 4 from the Apocalypse, published 1498. Woodcut on paper, image: 15 5/8 x 11 3/16 in., sheet: 16 7/8 x 11 ¾ in. Collection of George Amos Poole, Jr., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art has announced the summer opening (Thursday, July 1, through Sunday, December 19, 2021,) of *Albrecht Dürer: * Apocalypse* and Other Masterworks from Indiana University Collections*, the first-ever exhibition to survey the university’s impressive holdings by this important and perenn... read more


The National Academy of Design has announced the launch of the virtual Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné on July 29, in recognition of the anniversary of the artist’s birthday. In this first phase, the catalogue raisonné is focused on American artist Eastman Johnson’s paintings. Subsequent phases will include the artist’s drawings and prints. Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), The Hatch Family, ca. 1870–71. Oil on canvas, 48 x 73 3/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Frederic H. Hatch, 1926 (26.97). Founded and directed by Dr. Patricia Hills, project managed by Abigael Mac... read more


*Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA * *July 4 to October 3, 2021)* *Oklahoma City Museum of Art * *November 6, 2021 to January 30, 2022* *For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design* is the first exhibition to highlight a pivotal aspect of the collection of the National Academy of Design—the joint presentation of an artist’s portrait with his or her diploma work. *For America* is the first exhibition to highlight the fundamental characteristic of the National Academy’s collection: the joint presentation of an artist’s portrait with her or his representative work. ... read more


*Clark Art Institute* *July 17 through October 3, 2021* Drawing from its extensive holdings of works by—and inspired by—Albrecht Dürer, the Clark presents *Dürer & After*, on view July 17 through October 3, 2021. Original prints appear alongside faithful imitations and freer interpretations by artists including Israhel van Meckenem the Younger, Marcantonio Raimondi, Hieronymus Hopfer, and Jan Wierix, offering a unique opportunity to assess Dürer’s centuries-long artistic legacy. “Albrecht Dürer’s mastery is unquestioned. While it’s a delight to study his exceptional prints, ... read more


Tate Liverpool 24 July 2021 – 16 January 2022 [image: Lucian Freud, Girl with a White Dog 1950-1 © Tate] Lucian Freud, *Girl with a White Dog* 1950-1 © Tate This summer, Tate Liverpool will stage a significant presentation of Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) artworks, the first in the North West in over thirty years. Widely considered a master of modern portraiture, Freud was an artist who continued to expand his exploration of paint throughout his career. This focused exhibition will feature some of the artist’s most iconic paintings and etchings as well as photographs that provide ... read more


*Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, N.C.* *July 20 - Dec 12 2021* Thomas Cole, Home in the Woods (1847), oil on canvas, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Gift of Barbara B. MillhouseCharles Willson Peale, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Robinson (1795), oil on canvas, Reynolda House Museum of American artEdward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch, (1826-30), oil on canvas, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Gift of Barbara B. MillhouseEastman Johnson, The Storyteller of the Camp (Maple Sugar Camp) (1861-66), oil on board, Reynolda House Museum of American Art... read more


Madame Lebasque et sa fille Marthe by Henri Lebasque. Circa 1898-1899.*M.S. Rau (New Orleans)* Jeune fille en jaune by Henri Lebasque. Circa 1915.*M.S. Rau (New Orleans)* Marinette Endormie by Henri Lebasque. Circa 1934-35.*M.S. Rau (New Orleans)* Both friends and art critics alike dubbed him the "painter of joy and light." Post-Impressionist Henri Lebasque was an unabashed original, dedicating his life to bringing joy to his canvases. A generation younger than the great Impressionists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Lebasque nevertheless pursued many of their same painte... read more



The first ever exhibition devoted to Vincent van Gogh’s self-portraits across his entire career will take place at *The Courtauld Gallery from 3 February – 8 May 2022.* Van Gogh Self-Portraits takes as its springboard Van Gogh’s iconic *Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear*, one of the most celebrated works in The Courtauld’s collection, and will bring together around half of the self-portraits Van Gogh created during his short years as a painter – an exciting opportunity, given that many of these works are rarely lent. This will be the first time that the full span of Van Gogh’s sel... read more 

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