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Dürer. Munch. Miró. The Great Masters of Printmaking
The ALBERTINA27.01. 2023 – 14.05. 2023 The ALBERTINA presents a retrospective of the history of printmaking over a period of six centuries, from Albrecht Dürer and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiki Smith and Damien Hirst. The two exhibitions planned as a pas de deux - at both ALBERTINA locations - span from works of the late Middle Ages to the prints of contemporary art. The two exhibitions are joined by a third, as it were, dedicated solely to the most important printmaker of the 20th century: Picasso. The first exhibit, 'Dürer. Munch. Miró - The Great Masters of Printmakin... read more
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Picasso On the 50th Anniversary of his Death
*ALBERTINA * *17 March – 18 June 2023* Exactly half a century after his passing, the ALBERTINA Museum is commemorating the life and works of Pablo Picasso, that greatest and most influential artist of the 20th century—a pioneer of its first half with cubism, a central protagonist of symbolism during his Blue Period, a forerunner of the 1920s’ neoclassicist tendencies, and in his late works an ideal to be emulated by the neoexpressionist movements of the 1980s. His oeuvre, encompassing approximately 50,000 works, reflects the momentous political transformations and dynamic ava... read more
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Bonhams Surrealist Sale in ParisLa Révolution Surréaliste 29 MARCH 2023 [image: MAX ERNST (1891-1976) & MARIE-BERTHE AURENCHE (1906-1960) Portrait d'André Breton] La Révolution Surréaliste 29 Mar 2023 Paris, Avenue Hoche *Paris* – *Portrait d'André Breton* by *Max Ernst (1891-1976)* and his then-wife *Marie-Berthe Aurenche (1906-1960)*, leads Bonhams *La Révolution Surréaliste* sale on *29 March in Paris*. The rare joint work by the pair has an* estimate of €400,000 - 600,000*. Following the outstanding results for Bonhams' latest sales dedicated to Surrealism in 2021 and 2022 in London, Bonhams is delighted ... read more
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Joan Miró. Absolute Reality. Paris, 1920–1945
* Guggenheim Museum Bilbao* *February 10 to May 28, 2023* - - In the 25 years of activity covered by the exhibition, there is a constant flow of new ideas ranging from his initial magic realism to his language of constellated signs. In this period, it becomes clear that prehistoric art held a special interest for Miró, who proposed returning to the dawn of art in order to retrieve its original spiritual sense. Admired for his formal innovations developed in the context of the first avant-garde movements, especially Dadaism and Surrealism, Miró is also considered a prec... read more
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Art for the People: WPA Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection
* Crocker Art Museum* *January 29 to May 7, 2023 * *Oceanside Museum of Art* *June 24 to November 5, 2023* *Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens* *December 2, 2023 to March 18, 2024* Harry Sternberg (American, 1904–2001), *Coal Miner and Family*, 1938. Oil on panel, 24 x 48 in. Collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra. The Crocker Art Museum is pleased to announce the exhibition* Art for the People: WPA Era Paintings from the **Dijkstra Collection*, on view at the Museum January 29 – May 7, 2023. Drawn from the Collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra, *Art for the... read more
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Object Lessons in American Art
*Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia * *February 4 to May 14, 2023* *Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut* June 3–September 10, 2023 *Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky* As the Princeton University Art Museum constructs a new building (set to open in 2024), more than 100 works of American art from its collection are traveling the country. The exhibition “Object Lessons in American Art” will premiere at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from February 4 to May 14, 2023. John Singleton Copley (American, 1738 – 1815), “Elkanah ... read more
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Graphic Art: German Expressionist Prints from the McNay Art Museum and the Bronston Collection
*Crocker Art Museum* * February 5 through May 7, 2023* Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950), *Self-Portrait with Bowler*, 1921. Drypoint, 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Friends of the McNay, 1966.4 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. The Crocker Art Museum is pleased to announce *A Graphic Art: German Expressionist Prints from the McNay Art Museum and the Bronston Collection*, on view from February 5 through May 7, 2023. Consisting of prints by 15 artists, as well as watercolors, painting, and sculpture, *A Graphic Art* provides a view... read more
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Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929Berenice Abbott’s 1929 Photographic Album of New York City Opens at The Met March 2 Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 2, 2023, *Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 *will present selections from a unique unbound album of photographs of New York City created by American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), shedding light on the creative process of one of the great artists of the 20th century. Consisting of 266 small black-and-white prints arranged on 32 pages, the album is a kind of photographic sketchbook that offers a rare glimpse of an artist’s mind a... read more
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Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London
*Artis—Naples*, *The Baker Museum* *February 4 – May 7* Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London is an exploration of the role of love in some of the greatest masterpieces of Western art. With around 100 masterpieces from the National Portrait Gallery, London—the most extensive portraiture collection in the world—Love Stories traces the role of portraiture on the changing face of love from sixteenth-century Renaissance-era painting to contemporary photography. ------------------------------ [image: David Hockney (British, b. 1937). Sir George William Langham Chr... read more
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Vermeer at the Rijkmuseum
* Johannes Vermeer is famous around the world for his paintings of calm scenes in domestic settings, for the unrivalled quality of his luminous, vibrant light, and for his impressive use of illusionism. Never before have so many paintings by Vermeer been brought together in one place. This will be the biggest ever exhibition devoted exclusively to the master painter of Delft, with a total of 28 paintings from countries all over the world, including Japan and the US. In many cases, this will be the first time they are exhibited in the Netherlands. They include three works from the Fri... read more
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Vrel, Forerunner of Vermeer*The Mauritshuis * *16 February – 29 May 2023* * Fondation Custodia, Paris17 June 2023 – 17 September 2023* Almost everyone knows Johannes Vermeer’s quiet interiors and that little street he painted, but few people know that artist Jacobus Vrel (active c. 1640-1660) was already producing scenes of this kind before the paint was dry on Vermeer’s first masterpiece. The Mauritshuis shares the story of this mysterious painter in *Vrel – Forerunner of Vermeer.* The exhibition will tell the story of how Vrel was rediscovered in the 19th and early 20th century using a selection of his ... read more
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KLIMT. INSPIRED BY VAN GOGH, RODIN, MATISSE
*Lower Belvedere* *3 February to 29 May 2023 * Which works by Vincent van Gogh did Gustav Klimt actually know? How familiar was he with Henry Matisse’s oeuvre? Together with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Belvedere traces the demonstrable influence of those avant-garde artists on the great master of Viennese Modernism. The exhibition also includes works that do not usually go on loan due to their fragile condition. With Water Serpents II, last shown publicly in Austria in 1964, one of Klimt's major works returns to Vienna. General Director Stella Rollig: “How could we sta... read more
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Christie’s 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 February 2023- Lucian FreudTwo rare and exquisite Lucian Freud paintings that trace the artist’s enduring fascination with the natural world throughout his distinguished career will highlight Christie’s 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 February 2023. Unseen in public since 1974, *Scillonian Beachscape* (1945-46, estimate: £3,500,000-5,500,000), is an early painting by the artist, and one of a handful of works inspired by a formative visit to the Isles of Scilly, accompanied by his close friend, the artist John Craxton. During the trip, Freud created a number of drawings and completed this canv... read more
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Sotheby’s Auctions on 7 October, November 14 2022: Picasso, Mondrian
*PABLO PICASSO, FEMME ASSISE À LA GALETTE DES ROIS, 1965, OIL ON CANVAS, 100 X 73 CM.* *EST. HK$60M - 80M/ US$7.7M - 10M* This Autumn in Hong Kong, for the fourth consecutive season[1], Sotheby's will once again present an exceptional work by Pablo Picasso in Asia. Making its auction debut, and unseen in public for more than thirty years, *Femme assise à la galette des rois* - a loving portrait of the artist’s second wife, Jacqueline Roque - will lead Sotheby’s Hong Kong Modern Art Evening Auction on 7 October with an estimate of HK$60-80 million / US$7.7-10 million. Picasso fi... read more
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Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Auction on 1 March: Picasso, Munch
*LONDON, 22 JANUARY 2023 –* The women in Picasso’s life have always been at the heart of the artist’s oeuvre. On September 5, 1935, a new muse arrived in the form of his daughter Maya, named María de la Conceptión after Picasso’s beloved late sister, and born in secrecy while Picasso was still married to his first wife, the former ballerina Olga Khokhlova. The daughter of his greatest love Marie-Thérèse Walter, Maya was to prove an immense source of happiness for Picasso. Her timely birth coincided with a personal crisis which Picasso later referred to as “the worst period of hi... read more
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Freeman’s biannual European Art & Old Masters
Freeman’s biannual *European Art & Old Masters* auction brings the best of the Continent, England, and Scotland to market, and this February 14 is led by *La Fleur Préférée *(Lot 58), a striking life-size outdoor portrait of a farm girl by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Offered with an estimate of *$400,000-600,000*, the painting was executed in 1895, at the height of Bouguereau’s career, and boasts an extensive provenance, having originally been bought directly from the artist. The work comes to Freeman’s directly from a private collection in North Carolina and has been in US ... read more
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Theodoor Rombouts Virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism
On the occasion of the 225th anniversary of the MSK Ghent, the museum is presenting the first ever monographic exhibition on Theodoor Rombouts (1597-1637), the virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism. Rombouts was an established figure in the Antwerp art world. But although his painting was appreciated during his short life, the Antwerp Baroque gods Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Antony Van Dyck (1599-1641) pushed Rombouts' artistic legacy into relative obscurity after his early death. The exhibition reveals Rombouts' artistic personality and places his work in a new perspective. Mo... read more
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American Art | Bonhams Skinner 25 JANUARY 2023 |Grandma MosesThe January 25th live American Art auction presents a wonderful assortment of works in a variety of styles and periods. Edward Henry Potthast (American, 1857-1927) Ring Around the Rosie 24 x 30 in. (61.0 x 76.2 cm) framed 34 x 40 x 1 1/2 in. AMERICAN ART BONHAMS SKINNER 25 January 2023, 12:00 EST Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts US$200,000 - US$300,000 A delightful, large summer scene by Edward Potthast of children enjoying a romping game of Ring Around the Rosie leads the auction. Other lots of particular note are a large oil by realist figure painter John Koch titled Manu... read more
Art History News4 weeks ago
Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club
* Chrysler Museum * *October 7, 2022, to January 8, 2023* *New Orleans Museum of Art * *February 10 to May 7, 2023* *Toledo Museum of Art * *June 3 to September 3, 2023* The exhibition features more than 125 objects, including paintings, sculptures, reliefs and works on paper. Lawrence’s *Nigeria* series (1964-65) anchors the exhibition and appears alongside works by several Mbari Artists and Writers Club members, including Duro Ladipo, Twins Seven-Seven, Muraina Oyelami, Asiru Olatunde, Jacob Afolabi and Adebisi Akanji. The show also includes letters Lawrence wrote to his f... read more
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Unusual compound found in Rembrandt’s The Night WatchAn international team of scientists from the Rijksmuseum, the CNRS, the ESRF the European Synchrotron, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Antwerp, have discovered a rare lead compound (named lead formate) in [image: The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642] CAPTION The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642 CREDIT Rijskmuseum Amsterdam Rembrandt’s masterpiece *The Night Watch*. This discovery, which is a first in the history of the scientific study of paintings, provides new insight into 17th-century painting technique and the conservation history of the painting. T... read more
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Picasso, Man Ray and Modernist Wonders on Display! One Night Only!
*“The Meeting” by Man Ray, from “Revolving Doors,” 1926. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.* *This is a guest post by Emily Moore, assistant curator of the Aramont Library.* What is a book, exactly? Is it an object, made of paper and ink? Is it a portal to a different reality, an embodiment of memory or a method of communicating across space and time? Can it be art? “Making the Modern Book: The Aramont Library,” a Jan. 19 symposium in the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium, will present some of our treasures to ask just that question. We are thrilled to host this event and i... read more
Art History News5 weeks ago
Rembrandt at Auction II
Also see Rembrandt at Auction Sotheby’s has announced that an extraordinary and rare biblical scene by Dutch Golden Age master Rembrandt van Rijn will be a highlight of itsannual New York Masters Week sale series in January 2021. Measuring just 6 ½ by 8 ⅜ inches (16 x 21cm), Abraham and the Angels is a profoundly beautiful, gem-like painting on panel from 1646 that stands among the finest works by Rembrandt ever to come to auction. The painting last appeared at auction in London in 1848, when it sold for £64, and returns to the block this January with an estimate of $20/30 mill... read more
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FEMME FATALE Gaze – Power – Gender
*Hamburger Kunsthalle* *09 Dec 2022 to 10 April 2023* With the epoch-spanning exhibition *FEMME FATALE: Gaze – Power – Gender*, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is dedicating itself for the first time to diverse artistic treat-ments of the dazzling and clichéd image of the *femme fatale*. The stereotype of the erotic and seductive woman who holds men in her thrall, ultimately leading them to their downfall, has long been shaped by the male gaze and by a binary understanding of gender. The show will focus on various artistic manifestations of this theme dating from the early nineteenth c... read more
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Odysseys of Art: Masterpieces Collected by the Princes of Liechtenstein
*Hong Kong Palace Museum* *9.11.2022 – 20.2.2023 * This exhibition is curated from the perspective of Liechtenstein’s princes, with eight distinct sections showcasing their wonderful history of collecting by princes. The focus of the exhibition will be the idea of a lasting legacy, on the one hand, and the personal stamp that the individual princely personalities have put on their collecting, on the other. The exhibition will feature the history of the Princely Collection, from Prince Karl I von Liechtenstein, who founded the collection, to Prince Johann Adam Andreas I, who amas... read more
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Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger at Auction
[image: Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) An Extensive Wooded Landscape, 1610. Oil on copper. 20¾ x 28½ in (52.7 x 72.4 cm). Estimate £3,00,000-5,000,000. Offered in The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection Old Masters Evening Sale on 6 December 2018 at Christie’s in London] Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) *An Extensive Wooded Landscape*, 1610. Oil on copper. 20¾ x 28½ in (52.7 x 72.4 cm). Estimate: £3,00,000-5,000,000. Offered in The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection Old Masters Evening Sale on 6 December 2018 at Christie’s in London Mr Albada Jelgersma’s collection also include... read more
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The Collector Curt Glaser From Champion of Modernism to Refugee
Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau *October 22, 2022–February 12, 2023* Curators: Anita Haldemann and Judith Rauser Titel: Bildnis Curt Glaser Künstler & Beteiligte: Max Beckmann Entstehungszeit: 1929 Material / Technik: Öl auf Leinwand Masse: 94 x 74.3 cm; Rahmen: 98.4 x 120.7 x 6.4 cm The Kunstmuseum Basel devotes an extensive exhibition at its Neubau venue to the Jewish art historian and collector Curt Glaser (1879–1943). Glaser was a central figure on the Berlin arts scene of the 1910s and 1920s and director of the Berlin Art Library. With his wife Elsa, he built an outstanding ar... read more
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Manet, Cezanne, Matisse, Renoir, Bonnard at auction
Also see *Manet at Auction* *Cezanne at Auction* *Renoir at Auction* *Bonnard at Auction* Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 24th June 2015 will feature *Le Bar aux Folies-Bergèr*e of 1881 by Édouard Manet, estimated at £15-20 million/ $23-30.7 million / €21-28 million depicting one of the artist’s most celebrated and iconic subjects. In his celebrated evocation of the Folies-Bergère scene Édouard Manet produced from an everyday setting an iconic image of modern Paris. This is one of only two paintings by Manet of the Folies-Bergère - the other housed at the ... read more
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Kahlo and Rivera at Auction
Kahlo’s *Diego y yo* is one of the artist’s last and most important self-portraits and features the iconic imagery for which she is best remembered. The sale presents Frida Kahlo’s (1907-1954)* Dos desnudos en el bosque (La tierra misma),* 1939, (illustrated left, estimate: $8,000,000-12,000,000). This small and exquisite surrealist painting depicts a dreamlike scene between two nude women in a forest alluding to Kahlo’s sexuality and identity. Gifted by the artist to Dolores del Río, the celebrated Mexican and American actress from the 1920s, the painting was last seen... read more
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Banksy and Basquait at auction
Property from the Private Collection of Sir Paul Smith BANKSY Sunflowers from Petrol Station signed ‘Banksy’ (center left); signed and dated ‘BANKSY OCTOBER 2005’ (on the stretcher) oil on canvas, in artist's frame 40 ⅝ x 34 ⅜ in. (102.6 x 87.5 cm.) Executed in 2005. Estimate: $12,000,000 - $18,000,0000 Banksy’s *Sunflowers from Petrol Station *(estimate: $12,000,000- $18,000,000) from the collection of Sir Paul Smith will highlight Christie’s 21st Century Art Evening Sale on Tuesday, 9 November 2021. The painting, executed in 2005, will be exhibited in Christie’s New York, where... read more
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Bierstadt. Hassam, Chase, and Church at Auction
*Also see* *Childe Hassam at Auction I * *Childe Hassam at Aution II* *Willam Merritt Chase at Auction **Frederic Church at Auction* Christie’s will launch 19th Century American Art during the January 2022 Americana Week. The curated sale of 69 lots is dedicated to 19th Century American paintings, drawings and sculpture, and is anchored by by Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church and John Frederick Kensett. Leading the sale is the resplendent *In the Yosemite* by Albert Bierstadt which captures the awe of Cathedral Rocks on a crystalline day, and is among the property from the Es... read more
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New Vermeer Biography
REVELATORY NEW INSIGHTS UNVEILED IN NEW VERMEER BIOGRAPHY *In the lead up to the opening of Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition on 10 February 2023, a new biography published by Rijksmuseum reveals for the first time the full influence the Jesuit order of the Catholic church exerted on Johannes Vermeer who had been raised a Protestant. Johannes Vermeer. Faith, Light, and Reflection is written by Gregor J.M. Weber, Head of the Department of Fine Arts at the Rijksmuseum and one of the curators of the upcoming exhibition.* *The biography’s new findings overturn conventional und... read more
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Joseph Wright of Derby at Auction
[image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Joseph_Wright_of_Derby_-_Academy_by_Lamplight_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg] Testament to the genius of Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797), *An Academy by Lampligh*t is one of the artist’s most important candlelight pictures, and one of his last major works remaining in private h ands. Painted in 1769, the work is a supreme example of Wright’s dramatic rendering of light and shade and his association with the Enlightenment movement. It comes to the market with an estimate of £2.5 - 3.5 million, the highest estimate for a... read more
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Glackens, Henri and Sargent at Auction
* Also see* *Glackens at Auction* *Robert Henri at auction* *John Singer Sargent at auction* [image: https://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/william-james-glackens/caf-lafayette-portrait-of-kay-laurel-1914.jpg] *William Glackens’ Café Lafayette (Portrait of Kay Laurel)**, *which was Ebsworth’s first acquisition of American Art in 1972 (estimate: $250,000-350,000). Sotheby’s will present a group of four works from the Estate of Estelle Wolf are led by [image: https://uploads4.wikiart.org/images/robert-henri/at-far-rockaway-1902.jpg!Large.jpg] Robert Henri’s *At Far Rockaway* fro... read more
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El Greco at Auction II*Also see El Greco at Auction* Doménikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco (Crete 1541–1614 Toledo) *Portrait of a Gentleman* Estimate: £800,000-1,200,000 An early masterpiece by El Greco leads a group of three exceptional Old Master paintings restituted to the heirs to the Julius & Camilla Priester Collection which will be offered for sale in Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale on 7 December, as highlights of *Classic Week *in London. One of the earliest surviving portraits by the artist and one of the last to remain in private hands, El Greco’s *Portrait of a Gentleman*, 15... read more
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Rubens at Auction II
*Also see* *Rubens at Auction* Peter Paul Rubens and Workshop, (Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp) The Holy Family with Saint Anne, Saint John and a Dove, oil on panel, 66 x 51 cm, framed (EUR 350,000.- to EUR 500,000.- Finally, a newly confirmed addition to the oeuvre of Peter Paul Rubens, arguably the greatest and most well-travelled of Flemish artists, The Holy Family with Saint Anne, Saint John and a dove, is one of the first works painted by the master and his Antwerp workshop following his return from Rome. The work is a showpiece of Rubens’s vibrant painting technique, with bold... read more
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Thomas Hart Benton at Auction V
* Also see * *Thomas Hart Benton at Auction* *Thomas Hart Benson at Auction II Swann* *THOMAS HART BENTON at Auction III - Christie's, Doyle, Bonhams* *THOMAS HART BENTON at AUCTION: SOTHEBY'S * THOMAS HART BENTON, NOON This June marks the return of live auctions to Sotheby’s New York, following the state’s Stay-at-Home order due to the spread of COVID-19. Remote bidding will be available in advance and during the auction via sothebys.com and on Sotheby’s app, as well as by phone with Sotheby’s specialists in the salesroom. All works are now on exhibition in our New York galleri... read more
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Edward Hopper at Auction II
*Also see Edward Hopper at Auction* Sotheby’s American Art auction in New York on 21 May 2019 is led by Edward Hopper’s Central Park scene, *Shakespeare at Dusk *(estimate $7/10 million), as well as significant examples by American icons such as Norman Rockwell, Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Mary Cassatt. Highlights from the auction are now on view in Sotheby’s newly expanded and re-imagined New York galleries, with the full exhibition of all works opening on the 17th. EDWARD HOPPER’S *SHAKESPEARE AT DUSK * Edward Hopper,* Shakespeare at Dusk*. Estimate: $7/10 Million. C... read more
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Wiggins and Marin at Auction* See also * *Guy Wiggins at Auction I* *Guy Wiggins at Auction II* *John Marin at Auction* The sale also includes a run of works by New York artist Guy C. Wiggins. Known for his paintings depicting snowy street scenes in New York, the Wiggins works in this auction include *Chicago Blizzard, *oil on canvas, 1920s ($40,000 to $60,000); *Fifth Avenue Storm, *oil on canvas board ($30,000 to $50,000); and *Winter Along Central Park, *oil on canvas, 1930s ($30,000 to $50,000); among others. Other paintings in the sale featuring the city that never sleeps incl... read more
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Georgia O’Keeffe at Auction II
* See also Georgia O'Keefe at Auction* PROPERTY FROM THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (1887-1986) *A Sunflower from Maggie* oil on canvas 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.) Painted in 1937. $6,000,000-8,000,000 Christie's has announced Georgia O’Keeffe’s *A Sunflower from Maggie* (1937), will be a featured highlight in the 20th Century Art Evening Sale taking place this May in New York. The painting was deaccessioned from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA); it will be sold to benefit acquisitions for the Museum (estimate: $6 million - $8 million... read more
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Dove, Hartley, Bellows, Davis, Sheeler at Auction II
*Also see* *Arthur Dove at Auction* *Marsden Hartley at Auction* *George Bellows at Auction* *Stuart Davis at Auction* *Arthur G. Dove’s **River Bottom, Silver, Ochre, Carmine, Green*, *circa* 1923 (estimate: $3,000,000-5,000,000), is among the most important works by the artist to come to the market and reflects Dove’s deep connection to the American landscape and his fascination with water. In this view looking down onto a riverbed, Dove creates an amorphous exploration of color, line and form, pushing representation of nature to the edge of abstraction. *Marsden Hartle... read more
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Norman Rockwell at Auction II
*Also see* *Norman Rockwell at Auction* The top lot of the American Art sale is *Norman Rockwell’s* famed Saturday Evening Post cover *The Homecoming*, which was printed for the May 26, 1945 issue, just eighteen days after the end of World War II (estimate: $4,500,000–6,500,000). The timely and emotional image tells the story of a young soldier arriving home, where family, neighbors and even a love interest rush to greet him with ecstatic joy. The work was described by Post editor Ben Hibbs as “the finest cover Norman has done; in fact, I have always felt that it is the greate... read more
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Pissarro at auction II
* Also see Camille Pisaarro at auction* Pissarro seized by Nazis to be sold at auction after families settle In an undated image provided via Christie’s, “The Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre,” by Camille Pissarro, painted in 1903. A Pissarro painting that was at the center of a dispute between the heirs of a Jewish couple whose art collection was seized by the Nazis before World War II and a Jewish family who bought it in 1994 will be sold at auction after the two sides reached agreement. Via Christie’s via The New York Times. The details of the settlement were not disclosed, but Chri... read more
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Grandma Moses at Auction II
* Also see Grandma Moses at Auction* *Swann Galleries* will open the fall 2020 auction season with a sale of *American Art* on *September 17*. The sale encompasses the visions of Impressionism, Regionalism and early Modernism, with seaside portraits showcasing various coastal destinations featuring prominently throughout the sale. A top highlight of the auction is a work by *Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Mos**es*. Completed at 101 years of age, *Happy Days* is a 1961 oil-on-masonite painting depicting a typical scene of Moses’s, a rural family working happily on their farm. The... read more
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Picasso at Auction II
Also see Picasso at Auction Christie’s is pleased has announced Pablo Picasso’s *Buste d’homme dans un cadre* from the Estate of Sir Sean Connery, as a leading highlight of the 20 th and 21st Century Art Evening Sale to take place on 26 May at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (estimate on request; in the region of HK$150 million/ US$19 million). Offered fresh to the market and extraordinary among Picasso’s late works for its orderly composition, graceful, decisive lines, and intensity of expression, this seminal canvas is one of the finest and most striking of the art... read more
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Monet at auction IIA
* Also see Monet at Auction and Monet at Auction II* Claude Monet, *Meules. *Oil on canvas. Executed in 1890, signed and dated by the artist in 1891. Estimate in excess of $55 million. Sotheby’s announced that an enduring symbol of Impressionism from Claude Monet’s iconic Haystacks series will lead an important private collection of eight Impressionist masterworks on offer in our Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on 14 May in New York. Of the 25 canvases that the artist created in the early 1890s, Meules from 1890 is one of only four works from this series to come t... read more
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Cy Twombly and Clyfford Still at Auction
Cy Twombly Untitled, 2005 Estimate: $35,000,000 – 45,000,000 On 15 November, Phillips’ Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art in New York will be led by Cy Twombly’s monumental Untitled, 2005. With exceptional provenance and estimated at $35-45 million, Untitled is a masterpiece from one of Twombly’s last epic series that found its inception in his blackboards and crystallized in the three discrete suites of paintings collectively known as the Bacchus series. The Bacchus paintings began in 2003 amidst the US invasion of Iraq and culminated in 2008 when the ar... read more
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Masterworks | Portland: Botticelli
*Dec 21, 2022 – May 14, 2023* *The Portland Art Museum* is pleased to present Sandro Botticelli’s masterwork *Madonna of the Magnificat*, a tondo (round painting) of the Madonna and Child with angels. This rarely seen work is a variant of the artist’s celebrated painting in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, considered one of the finest Madonna and Child paintings of the Renaissance and a high point of Botticelli’s career. [image: Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1445–1510), Madonna of the Magnificat, ca. 1483. Tempera, oil, and gold on wood panel. Private collection. Image courtesy of ... read more
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Monet at Auction II
* Also see Monet at Auction* Claude Monet’s *Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume* will be a highlight of Christie’s 20/21 London to Paris sale series, offered in the 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 June. Depicting the Thames under an effervescent sunlit haze, *Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume* (1904, estimate: in the region of £24 million) comes from Monet’s monumental, landmark series entitled *Vues du Londres (Views of London), *which celebrates London’s unique character, architecture and ever-changing atmosphere*. *The artist focused on the play of light across t... read more
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Klimt, Kandinsky , Beckmann, and Schiele at Auction II
*Also see Klimt at Auction* *and Kandinsky at auction* *and Max Beckmann at Auction* *and Egon Schiele at Auction.* Gustav Klimt, *Bauerngarten (Blumengarten), *oil on canvas, painted in 1907 (Estimate upon request) Among the finest works by Gustav Klimt ever to come to auction, *Bauerngarten *was painted during the golden years of Klimt’s career and was a highlight of the critically acclaimed *Painting the Modern Garden *exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London last year. This profoundly beautiful work is to be offered at auction for the first time in over two dec... read more
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Malevich at auction II
For a good novel featuring Malevich's art read: *Hammer* by Reed, Joe Mungo, author. Publication Date 2022 Also see Malevich at Auction I [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... read more
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Chagall at Auction II
* Also see Marc Chagall at Auction* Phillips - Marc Chagall’s *Le Père* Marc Chagall Le Père, 1911 Estimate: $6-8 Million On 15 November, Phillips will offer Marc Chagall’s Le Père in the New York Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. Executed in 1911, during a transformative period in the artist’s career, the painting is among fifteen works of art that the French Government have restituted earlier this year — part of an ongoing effort to return works in its museums that were wrongfully seized by the Nazi Party during World War II. A long-treasured part of the... read more
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Vincent van Gogh at Auction II
*Also see* *Van Gogh at Auction* *Champs près des Alpilles* oil on canvas 17.3/4 x 21.5/8 in. (45 x 55 cm.) Painted in November 1889 Estimate on request Christie’s has announced Vincent van Gogh’s *Champs près des Alpilles*, 1889 (estimate on request; region of $45,000,000) as a leading highlight of the 20th Century Art Evening Sale taking place this May at Rockefeller Center in New York City. This rare work was one of two canvases sent from the artist while living in an asylum in Saint-Rémy to his close friend Joseph Roulin in Marseille at the beginning of 1890. A closely... read more
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Magritte and Ernst at Auction
Also see Magritte at Auction Part II and Max Ernst (at Auction) René Magritte’s* Le Droit chemin, *a compelling exemplar of the clarity of thought, compositional purity and precise execution the artist reached in his mature works, amongst other important highlights. René Magritte (1898 – 1967), Torse nu dans les nuages. Oil on canvas, signed ‘Magritte’ (lower left), 28 1⁄2 x 24 in (71.4 x 61 cm). Painted circa 1937. Estimate: $6,000,000 – 9,000,000. Photo: Bonhams. René Magritte’s Torse nu dans les nuages (circa. 1937) leads Bonhams sale of The Collection of Amalia de Schult... read more
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Modigliani at Auction
Also see Amedeo Modigliani at Auction and at the National Gallery of Art The upcoming London Evening sale of Impressionist & Modern Art is also led by a stunning portrait of a youth by Modigliani *Jeune homme assis, les mains croisees sur les genoux*, by Amedeo Modigliani painted whilst the artist was living on the French Riviera. Amedeo Modigliani, Jeune homme assis , les mains croisées sur less genoux , 1918, oil on canvas (est. £16,000,000 - 24,000,000 / $ 20, 400,000 - 30,600,000 ) James Mackie, Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Department in London , said:... read more
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Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud at Auction
*Also see Francis Bacon at Auction* *and Lucien Freud at Auction* This October during London’s Frieze Week, Christie’s will present the largest and most diverse selection of 12 works by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, two British masters of the 20th century. The group is led by Francis Bacon’s *Figure in Movement *(1972, estimate on request), held for 41 years in the prestigious collection of Magnus Konow. The work is a poignant meditation on human existence, expressed through the memory of Bacon’s muse and lover George Dyer, whose tragic suicide took place less than thirty-six... read more
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Dubuffet at Auction II*See also Dubuffet at Auction* Christie’s will highlight its November 15th Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art with Jean Dubuffet’s *Les Grandes Artères*, 1961 ($15-20million). *Les Grandes Artères* is a masterful canvas from Dubuffet’s celebrated *Paris Circus* series*, a body of work which is regarded by many Dubuffet scholars as marking the pinnacle of the artist’s career. With its vibrant palette, sense of energy and the individuality that Dubuffet instills in each of his characters, *Les Grandes Artères*, is one of the artist’s most accomplished compositions fr... read more
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Sargent and Spain National Gallery of Art, Washington, *October 2, 2022–January 2, 2023* *Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, * *Legion of Honor, February 11–May 14, 2023* John Singer Sargent's (1856–1925) decades-long captivation with Spain yielded a remarkable body of work depicting the rich and diverse culture he encountered. *Sargent and Spain* is the first exhibition to reveal the depth of this engagement and the intentional approach the artist adopted there. Presenting some 140 oils, watercolors, drawings, and never-before published photographs, several almost certainly tak... read more
