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| | Two trial proofs for Andy Warhol's iconic image of a dollar sign for sale at Bonhams
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A Bonham's auction house staff hangs an iconic 'single dollar' print by Andy Warhol at Bonham's in London, Britain, 25 November 2011. The signed prints are estimated to fetch between 20,000 - 25,000 Euros at an auction in London that will take place on 29 November 2011. EPA/ANDY RAIN.
LONDON.- Two trial proofs for Andy Warhol’s iconic image of a dollar sign are for sale at Bonhams Print sale on 29 November in London. The signed prints, estimated at between £15,000- 20,000, date from 1982 - just five years before the artist untimely death - and are based on paintings executed the year before. They are among the most obvious representations of the link he often drew between art and money, underlined by the high prices paid for them by collectors at the time and ever since. Other works by Warhol in the sale include a fine “Campbell’s Soup 1: Pepper Pot” (est £7,000-10,000); ‘Mao’ at £15,000-20,000 and ‘Skull’ at £10,000-15,000. Bonhams Director of Prints, Robert Kennan, said, ““Warhol continues to cast a spell over the contemporary art world and he is regularly voted the most influential artist of the 20th century. The very collectable single dollar si ... More |
| Libya's state antiquities department recovers and displays looted Roman antiquities | | National Institute of Anthropology and History acknowledges 2nd Mayan reference to 2012 | | Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opens new galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia | 
Recovered stone heads, ancient Roman artifacts, are seen on display in Tripoli, Libya. AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany.
By: Vanessa Gera, Associated Press
TRIPOLI (AP).- Moammar Gadhafi's forces tried to flee Tripoli with a sack of ancient Roman artifacts in hopes of selling them abroad to help fund their doomed fight, Libya's new leaders said Saturday as they displayed the recovered objects for the first time. The director of the state antiquities department, Saleh Algabe, hailed the find of 17 pieces, mostly small stone heads, as an important recovery of national treasures. The pieces included a female figurine evocative of ancient fertility symmbols, several small stone human heads and two ornate terracotta fragments. Algabe said the figurines were likely used in pagan worship and dated back to the second and third centuries A.D., when a swathe of North Africa belonged to the Roman Empire. Algabe said the pieces were seized ... More | | 
Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site. Photo: INAH.
By: Mark Stevenson, Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP).- Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site. Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement that there is in fact another apparent reference to the date at the nearby Comalcalco ruin. The inscription is on the carved or molded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual among Mayan temples in that it was constructed of bricks. Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the ... More | | 
Coffin lid of Djeddjehutyiuefankh. Photo: Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford.
OXFORD.- On Saturday 26 November 2011, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opened six new galleries for the collections of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (present day Sudan). Building on the success of the Museum’s extension, which opened in 2009, this second phase of major redevelopment redisplays the world-renowned Egyptian collections to exhibit objects that have been in storage for decades, more than doubling the number of mummies and coffins on display. The galleries take visitors on a chronological journey covering more than 5000 years of human occupation of the Nile Valley. The £5 million project has received lead support from Lord Sainsbury’s Linbury Trust, along with the Selz Foundation and other trusts, foundations and individuals. Rick Mather Architects have led the redesign and redisplay of the pre-existing Egypt galleries and the extension into the restored Ruskin Gallery, previously occupied by the Museum Shop. T ... More |
| Frederik Meijer, billionaire founder of Meijer Inc. retail chain and arts patron, dead at 91 | | Archaeological discovery provides evidence of a celestial procession at Stonehenge | | "The Art of Collecting" exhibition opens at the Flint Institute of Arts in Michigan | 
Fred Meijer talks to a reporter at Frederik Meijer Gardens in this April 1998 photo. AP Photo/Anna Moore - Grand Rapids Press.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH (AP).- Frederik Meijer, who built the regional retail powerhouse Meijer Inc. while nurturing his lifelong love of the arts, died late Friday at a hospital in western Michigan. He was 91. The billionaire passed away at the Spectrum Health System in Grand Rapids after suffering a stroke in his home early Friday morning, according to a statement issued by the company. Meijer was credited with starting the supercenter store format in the 1960s that made Meijer a successful Midwest retailer. By 2009, Meijer had 180 of the giant stores throughout Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio with annual sales of $15 billion. He and his wife also gave millions of dollars to causes in the Grand Rapids area, and arts projects were major benefactors. "The Meijer family thanks everyone for their thoughts and prayers and requests their privacy be respected at this difficult time," the company's statement said. Meijer was 14 when his Dutch immigrant father, Hendrik, open ... More | | 
Stonehenge in Amesbury, Britain. EPA/ROY KILCULLEN.
BIRMINGHAM.- Archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection have discovered evidence of two huge pits positioned on celestial alignment at Stonehenge. Shedding new light on the significant association of the monument with the sun, these pits may have contained tall stones, wooden posts or even fires to mark its rising and setting and could have defined a processional route used by agriculturalists to celebrate the passage of the sun across the sky at the summer solstice. Positioned within the Cursus pathway, the pits are on alignment towards midsummer sunrise and sunset when viewed from the Heel Stone, the enigmatic stone standing just outside the entrance to Stonehenge. For the first time, this discovery may directly link the rituals and celestial phenomena at Stonehenge to activities within the Cursus. The international archaeological surv ... More | | 
Edmund Lewandowski, Industry. Gouache on board, 1972, 16 x 12 x inches. Courtesy of Franklin Riehlman Fine Art, New York
FLINT, MI.- The Art of Collecting, organized by the Flint Institute of Arts, opened on November 25 and continue through January 8. This exhibition of more than 100 paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures are on consignment from galleries in New York, Chicago and Detroit and have been selected based on comparisons of price and quality. All of the artworks are available for purchase and represent an outstanding value in the art market and an excellent opportunity for seasoned, as well as novice collectors to purchase high quality artwork with confidence. FIA Director, John Henry, and Coordinator of Collections and Exhibition, Michael Martin will conduct a preview tour of the exhibition on Wednesday, November 30 at 5:30 and again on Thursday, December 1. They will discuss trends in the art market and the special characteristics of individual works. Reservations are not necessary to attend these informative tours. “ Th ... More |
| Exhibition at Moderna Museet focuses on non-commercial gallery Ynglingagatan 1 | | Visionary Canadian Jack Chambers Celebrated at the Art Gallery of Ontario | | Sotheby's previews highlights from impressionist & modern and contemporary art sales in Hong Kong | 
Jim Isermann, Cubeweave. Installation view from Galleri Ynglingagatan 1, 1997 © Jim Isermann.
STOCKHOLM.- Following this spring’s events and magazine projects on the 1980s, Moderna Museet moves on in Swedish art history to the 1990s, with the exhibition Moment – Ynglingagatan 1. The non-commercial gallery Ynglingagatan 1 was a vital forum for Swedish contemporary art in the 1990s, featuring international artists such as Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Takashi Murakami and M/M (Paris), decades before their works were recognised by critics and major institutions all over the world. With modest means and fuelled by a feeling of exasperation with the existing art scene, Ynglingagatan 1 took matters in their own hands in autumn 1993. Their first exhibition was Bjarne Melgaard. The focus on relational aesthetics, cross-disciplinary art, design and fashion, and a distinctly international profile helped to set Ynglagatan 1 apart from other galleries and art institutions in Stockholm. Ynglingagata ... More | | 
Jack Chambers, Untitled [view through trees - numbered 6], 1977. Chalk and graphite on newsprint, 25.3 x 20.4 cm. Gift of the Estate of Jack Chambers, 1997 (97/2096) © 2011 Estate of Jack Chambers.
TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) opens an exhibition of Canadian artist Jack Chambers’ work on Nov. 26, 2011. Entitled Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life, the collection surveys the varying styles and media used by the artist to create an incredible range of work. Curated by renowned Canadian art scholar Dennis Reid with art critic Sarah Milroy, the exhibition is based largely on holdings from the AGO’s permanent collection and remains on view until May 13, 2012. Situated in the Signy Eaton gallery, the exhibition is presented within four central themes, each anchored by a representative keystone piece in rooms themed “Light,” “Spirit,” “Time,” and “Place”. More than 100 works in various media make up the exhibition, including 40 paintings, 58 drawings, five films, four prints, as ... More | | 
Gustav Klimt, Seeufer mit Birken (Lakeshore with Birches), 1901. Oil on canvas, 90 x 90 cm, est. £6-8 million / HK$74-98 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s is exhibiting selected highlights of the London Sale Series of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art at Grand Hyatt Hong Kong from 25 to 27 November (Friday to Sunday) 2011. The exhibition offers an early viewing of important highlights from the major London sales of Impressionist & Modern Art which take place on 8 and 9 February 2012, and the Contemporary Art auctions on 15 and 16 February 2012. Prominent works by Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Delvaux, Francis Bacon and Gerhard Richter, among others, are featured. Following Sotheby’s recent sale of Gustav Klimt’s Litzlberg am Attersee (Litzlberg on the Attersee) for the remarkable sum of US$40.4 / HK$315 million (est. in excess of US$25 / HK$195 million) in the November Impressionist & Modern Art Evening ... More |
| Abbey House joins forces with the famous Polish art collector Wojciech Fibak | | The photographs of Brett Weston opens at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | | The most important pair of Russian vases to appear on the market this Autumn | 
Left: Mr Wojciech Fibak, on the right Mr Pawel Makowski.
WARSAW.- On the one hand many years of experience and a well-known name, one the other – innovativeness and a strategy for development which is highly esteemed by foreign institutions operating in the mature art markets. This is a short description of the cooperation between the Abbey House Auction House and Wojciech Fibak, which gives the national art market a chance for the dynamic development worldwide. Joining forces with the famous Polish art collector belongs to the activity model of Dom Aukcyjny Abbey House S.A., which model since the very beginning involved strategic partnerships both in Poland and abroad – which guarantee ample opportunities for the promotion of the contemporary Polish art in the global markets. In May this year, the company was introduced into the prestigious Skate’s Art Index, as one of the biggest global companies operating in the art market. Furthermore, it started the cooperation ... More | | 
Brett Weston, American, 1911-1993. Water Reflection, Logging, Alaska, 1973. Gelatin silver print.
Unframed: 11 x 14 inches (27.94 x 35.56 cm). Gift from the Christian K. Keesee Collection. © The Brett Weston Archive.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Over his long and prolific career, photographer Brett Weston (1911-1993) exemplified the modernist aesthetic. The son of famed photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958), Brett Weston was a “natural” with the camera: he was still a teenager when he first received high-level, international recognition as a creative artist. The Photographs of Brett Weston, Nov. 23, 2011, through April 1, 2012, at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, presents a condensed 40-print survey of his long and prolific career. While rare works from the Museum’s Hallmark Photographic Collection are also included, this exhibition celebrates a gift of 260 Weston prints from Christian K. Keesee, owner of the Brett Weston Archive in Oklahoma City. “This generous gift from Mr. ... More | | 
A Christie's auction house staff walks past one of a pair of Russian porcelain vases at Christie's in London. EPA/ANDY RAIN.
LONDON.- A magnificent and important pair of porcelain vases by the Imperial Porcelain Factory will highlight this autumn’s Russian Art Week in London (estimate: £1,700,000-2,200,000). In their 28 November Russian Art Sale, Christie's will offer perhaps the finest and grandest pair of Russian porcelain vases to appear at auction in recent memory. Over the years, Christie's have been entrusted with the sale of numerous important pairs of Russian vases and have achieved the highest price ever paid at auction for a pair of Russian porcelain vases in 2006. These magnificent vases were presented by Emperor Nicholas I to Karl Ludwig Graf von Ficquelmont (1777-1857), who served as the Austrian Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Russian court from 1829-1839. Graf von Ficquelmont was ... More |
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 First major exhibition of works by Cathy Wilkes outside the UK at GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst BREMEN.- The GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst presents the first major institutional solo exhibition of works by Cathy Wilkes to be staged outside the UK. The show is a cooperation with the Kunstverein Munich. The exhibitions in Munich and Bremen will feature two specially commissioned installations as well as selections of previously unseen archive material compiled individually for each institution by the Northern Irish artist. Wilkes’ installations at both sites will be accompanied by varying selections of works highlighting different aspects of her artistic production. While the exhibition staged in Munich in spring 2011 featured older, large-scale installations alongside works which will be shown at both sites, Wilkes’ exhibition in Bremen will feature smaller spatial ensembles of recent origin and include some of her paintings. These small format and predominantly abstract canvases stand in stark ... More Indian links with British military history for sale at Bonhams in London LONDON.- Bonhams sale of Modern Sporting Guns on December 13 in Knightsbridge features a number of items with fascinating and historic Indian links - a cartridge-magazine, a shotgun case, a pair of Purdey shotguns and a Colt revolver, all with histories linking them to the period of the Raj. A fascinating item thanks to its Indian ownership and history is Lot 18, a brass-mounted oak and leather cartridge-magazine. Formerly the property of His Highness The Maharajah of Patiala estimated to sell for £350 - £550. The magazine lid bears the impression: H.H. The Maharajah Sir Bhupindra Singh Of Patiala G.C.I.E. G.C.B. His Highness The Maharajah Sir Bhupindra Singh of Patiala GCSI GCIE GCVO GBE (1891-1938) was educated at Aitchison College, Lahore, he succeeded to the throne at the age of 9 upon the death of his father, a Council of Regency governing in his place until he reached his majority in 1909, being ... More Museum celebrates the spirit of the season with "Norman Rockwell and the Ghost of Dickens" STOCKBRIDGE, MA.- Norman Rockwell is well known for his enduring illustrations of the holidays, which brought good cheer to millions of Americans. In his autobiography, “My Adventures as an Illustrator,” the artist described important memories from his youth that were seminal to his later work. Of particular importance were Rockwell’s recollections focused on his father reading Charles Dickens stories aloud to his sons in the evening after they finished their homework. Throughout his life, Rockwell would cite the significance of those nightly readings and the influence of Dickens on his art. This holiday season Norman Rockwell Museum celebrates the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, with a spirited new exhibition that explores the literary giant’s influence on the artist’s work—”Norman Rockwell and the Ghost of Dickens” is on view at the Museum from November 19, 2011 through ... More Unique 'Great Escape' Motorcycle for sale at Bonhams WEYBRIDGE.- A unique motorcycle created for the 2011 Great Escape 2 – a charity motorcycle ride across Europe to commemorate the 50 RAF officers who met their demise after the so-called ‘Great Escape’ from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III in March 1944 – is to be sold in Bonhams auction of Collectors’ Motorcars and Motorcycles on Thursday 1st December at Mercedes Benz World, Weybridge, Surrey. The 2011 Triumph Bonneville T100 ‘Great Escape’ on offer is a modern version of the one ridden by Steve McQueen in epic 1963 film The Great Escape which immortalised the heroic exploits of these prisoners of war and starred Richard Attenborough, James Garner and McQueen. It is being sold with the registration ‘WW11 POW’ and is estimated to fetch £9,000-12,000. The ‘Great Escape 2’ charity ride was held in June 2011. The 3,200-mile journey took in 12 European countri ... More 1945 Bric a Bac Santa Anita Racing Trophy, jockey silks and archive to cross the block at H.A. DALLAS, TX.- A Shreve & Co. 14K Gold Santa Anita Racing Trophy, presented to the legendary sprint horse Bric a Bac after his dramatic win in the 1945 San Juan Capistrano Handicap, the first race run at the famed racetrack after World War II, is expected to bring $30,000+ as part of Heritage Auctions' Dec. 7 Silver & Vertu Signature(r) Auction at the company's Dallas Design District Annex. "Bric a Bac was one of the great race horses in the history of the sport, tracing his blood line through his sire, the renowned War Admiral to his grandsire, Man-O-War, considered by many to be the greatest horse to ever run," said Karen Rigdon, Consignment Director for Silver & Vertu at Heritage. "After winning the San Juan Capistrano Handicap and another $60,000 in winnings earlier that year, Bric a Bac was sold by his owner, Sam Freeman, for $50,000, the highest price at that time ever paid for a race ... More Czech architect Karel Hubacek dies at 87 PRAGUE (AP).- Architect Karel Hubacek, whose bold hyperboloid design for an elegant mountain-top hotel was named the most significant Czech building of the 20th century, has died. He was 87 Liberec City Hall in the Czech Republic's north — where Hubacek lived and designed his famed tower building — said in a statement Wednesday that he had died. No more details were given. Hubacek moved from his native Prague to Liberec in 1951. His famed tower hotel, that also serves as a television transmitter, is situated on the nearby Jested mountain. The building, whose silhouette has become the symbol of the city, was completed in 1973. Hubacek was awarded the prestigious Auguste Perret Prize by the International Union of Architects in 1969 for the design. ... More |
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