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| | Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern art brings nearly $200M, Klimt landscape sells for $404 M
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An art handler stands by "Litzlberg on the Attersee" a painting by artist Gustav Klimt at Sotheby's Auction house in New York. The landscape painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that had been stolen by the Nazis. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tonight at Sotheby’s New York, the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale achieved a strong $199,804,500, well within the overall pre-sale estimate of $167.6/229.9 million and eclipsing the total for the same sale in May 2011. The auction was 81.4% sold by lot, and saw a total of 39 works sell for over $1 million. Gustav Klimt’s Litzlberg am Attersee (Litzlberg on the Attersee) was the top lot of the sale, achieving $40,402,500 after a prolonged bidding battle (est. in excess of $25 million*), and auction records were set for Gustave Caillebotte, Tamara de Lempicka and Maxime Maufra.´”I have rarely felt a room as energetic as tonight” said Tobias Meyer, auctioneer of the evening sale. “The art market was alive and well at Sotheby’s tonight” said Simon Shaw, Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Department in New York. “We put the sale together with discipline ... More |
| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | COLOGNE.- A man browses with white gloves through a book of hours, dating back to 1451, at the Schnuetgen Museum in Cologne, Germany, 02 November 2011. An exhibition, entitled Splendour and Glory of the Middle Ages, that explores the heyday of the city of Cologne, will showcase mediaeval altars, pictures of saints, board games, mulled wine pichters and souvenirs. The exhibition runs from 04 November 2011 until 26 February 2012. EPA/OLIVER BERG. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Koller Auctions to offer a scintillating range of works in several events in Geneva and Zurich | | Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale in New York totals $140,773,500 | | Sotheby's London sale of European paintings estimated to bring in excess of £11 million | 
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), "Le repos.“ Circa 1900. Oil on canvas. 40x30 cm. CHF 700 000 / 1 000 000.
ZURICH.- In November Koller Auctions will host several events in Geneva. Between 12 and 14 November at the Hotel de La Paix, this, the largest auction house in Switzerland, will present the top lots for its December auction to take place in Zurich. On 18 November the Koller Geneva auction will take place at the Palais de l‘Athénée. “After the success of our Highlights exhibition at the Hotel de La Paix last May, from 12 to 14 November we are again pleased to receive our Genevan clientele at this exclusive venue”, says Cyril Koller. Thus Koller Auctions can promote its auction series which will take place in Zurich from 5 to 9 December. Works on show will include Magritte’s gouache “La Mémoire” with an estimate from CHF 600 000 to 800 000 (lot 3252), Renoir’s portrait of Gabrielle entitled “Le Repos” with an estimate of CHF 700 000 to 1 million (lot 3209) and M ... More | | 
Constantin Brancusi, Le premier cri, polished bronze, conceived in 1917. Estimate: 8,000,000-10,000,000. Sold for: $14,866,500 / £9,365,895. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale achieved $140,773,500 (£88,687,305/ €102,764,655), with three works of art selling above the $10 million mark. Despite spots of selective bidding throughout the sale, Surrealist works and modern sculpture performed well overall, and buyers competed aggressively for rare works and those offered fresh to the market from private and museum collections. Christie’s offered the three top private collections this season, including the Property From the Collection of Lew and Edie Wasserman, which totaled $8.5 million; The Collection of John W. Kluge, sold to benefit Columbia University, which achieved $4.9 million; and A Distinguished West Coast Collection, which realized $10.5 million. The top lot of the sale was Max Ernst’s The Stolen Mirror, a Surrealist tour-de-force ... More | | 
Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller (1793-1865), Das Veilchenmadchen (The Violet Girl). Oil on panel, 57.5 x 42.5cm., 22¾ x 16¾in. Estimate: 150,000-200,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's sale of European Paintings on Tuesday, 22 November, 2011 will bring together some 242 works comprising Spanish Painting, The Scandinavian Sale, The Greek Sale and German, Austrian and Central European Paintings, and encompasses prime works by Sorolla, Hammershøi, Peterssen, Egger-Lienz, Moralis, Ralli and Sykora. The auction is estimated to bring in excess of £11 million. The Scandinavian Sale will be headlined by three paintings by Vilhelm Hammershøi and a superb selection of works by leading Norwegian artists. Interior with Ida in a White Chair by Vilhelm Hammershøi Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), estimated at £500,000-700,000, is one of the most important works by the artist ever to be offered at auction and comes to the market from a Danish Private Collection. Painted ... More |
| Kimbell Art Museum's Malcolm Warner named Executive Director of Laguna Art Museum | | Asian Art in London hosted by leading UK dealers and auction houses goes international | | Two important Scottish and French acquisitions for the Scottish National Gallery's collection | 
Malcolm Warner was the deputy director at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Photo: Courtesy of the Kimbell Art Museum.
LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- The Board of Trustees of Laguna Art Museum announced today that Malcolm Warner, deputy director at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has been appointed executive director of Laguna Art Museum. Warner will assume his position January 3, 2012. “I am so pleased to have an executive director who is an internationally recognized scholar, arts leader, and an individual who is beloved by the local community he currently serves. Malcolm Warner is the ideal executive director to lead Laguna Art Museum due to his historical art background coupled with his desire to engage contemporary art and artists. He will continue the museum’s dedication to quality programming with a focused examination of California art while also broadening and deepening access and engaging the local community," said Robert Hayden III, president of the Board of Trustees. Warner joined the Kimbell Art Museum ten years ... More | | 
Head of Manasa, the serpent goddess, Eastern India, Gupta period, early 6th century, Terracotta. Height: 30cm. John Eskenazi Ltd.
LONDON.- Since its inception in 1998, Asian Art in London has become one of the world’s most important focal points for international collectors of Asian art, with its series of specialist gallery exhibitions and events hosted by leading UK dealers and auction houses. In a new move that further enhances its global appeal, Asian Art in London has for the first time invited overseas specialist dealers to join its ranks for the 2011 event, to be held from 3rd to 12th November. International dealers taking part in Asian Art in London for the first time are: Art of the Past from New York; Alexis Renard and Christophe Hioco both from Paris; Carlo Cristi from Italy; Carlos Cruañas from Barcelona. From the Netherlands dealers welcomed are Dries Blitz, Michael Meijering Art Books and Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art. All international dealers will be taking gallery spaces in central London. Also new to the event this y ... More | | 
Jean-Baptiste Baron Regnault, Jean-François Regnault, fils de l’artiste. Oil on panel: 77.00 x 62.00 cm. Scottish National Gallery.
EDINBURGH.- The Scottish National Gallery announces two important acquisitions to the national collection. Entrance to the Cuiraing, Skye (1873) by Waller Hugh Paton (1828-1895) has been purchased for the collection by the Patrons of the National Galleries of Scotland and Portrait of JeanFrançois Regnault (1815) by Jean-Baptiste, baron Regnault (1754-1829) has been acquired for the nation thanks to the generosity of a private donor. Michael Clarke, Director of the Scottish National Gallery, said; ‘It is vitally important that we continue to add significant works, both Scottish and European, to this wonderful and very distinctive collection. Paton’s landscape is our first Scottish landscape of the world-famous Isle of Skye,and Regnault’s portrait of his son is our first ‘Romantic’ French portrait. We are deeply grateful to our Patrons and to a private donor for their magnificent support.” ... More |
| Victoria's bloomers sell for £9,375 at Lyon & Turnbull, three times their estimate | | Nina Murdoch's "Shedding Light": New paintings at Marlborough Fine Art in London | | Sale of important Russian art at Sotheby's New York brings $17,636,500 | 
Kate Bain from Lyon and Turnbull auctioneers poses for photographers with a framed pair of silk bloomers that once belonged to Queen Victoria. REUTERS/David Moir.
LONDON.- A large pair of silk bloomers belonging to Queen Victoria, sold for £9,375, at Lyon & Turnbull’s auction of the antique treasures from Old Battersea House, the London home of the Forbes family, the US publishing dynasty. The sale made a total of over £3 million and included an oil painting of Queen Victoria and her faithful servant, John Brown, which made £145,250. Nick Curnow Managing Director and Painting Specialist at Lyon & Turnbull said “The twenty inches by twenty four inches painting by Charles Burton Barber is particularly valuable because it was a personal gift from the Queen to Brown and shows the pair on August 26, 1876, the year Brown celebrated his fiftieth birthday.” Charles Burton Barber was born at Great Yarmouth in 1845. Barber was a particular favourite of Queen Victoria and he produced a number of pictures for her. When Barber died in 1894, at the age of forty nine, the Queen ... More | | 
Nina Murdoch, Pedder’s Chase, 2011. Egg tempera on gesso panel, 122 x 152.5 cm / 48 x 60 in. Photo: Courtesy Marlborough Fine Art.
LONDON.- The Directors of Marlborough Fine Art announced their forthcoming exhibition of new work by Nina Murdoch. This is her first exhibition since joining the gallery last year. “Corridors, steps, wedges of light and otherworldly colour, Nina Murdoch’s paintings evoke an uninhabited but haunting world in which the sun and moon seem to rise and set in chambers indoors.” In this new series of paintings, the artist continues to explore her preoccupation with light, space and architecture. The paintings evolve out of an intense process of painting, varnishing and sanding. She works through many complex layers of egg and pigment until she achieves a patina which evokes the time worn surfaces of the areas from which she finds her inspiration. For this show as well as her urban haunts, she has for the first time been attracted outside London to the rural settings of South Devon, albeit a secret world ... More | | 
Still Life in a Tavern in a Minor Key by Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov exceeded its high estimate of $900,000 in selling for $1,538,500. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s auction of Important Russian Art brought $17,636,500 in New York, with five works selling for more than $1 million and three works exceeding $3 million. The auction was led by Natalia Goncharova’s Street in Moscow, which sparked an intense competition between bidders both in the room and on the phone that propelled the work to achieve $6,354,500 – more than four times its high estimate of $1.5 million, and the new highest price for a painting in any Russian Art sale at Sotheby’s worldwide. The sale was also highlighted by works from two American institutions: Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin’s monumental Pearl Mosque at Delhi, on offer from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), brought $3,106,500 (est. $3/5 million), while a group of three works by Nicolai Fechin, on offer from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma, sold for $3,983,500 in ... More |
| Solo exhibition by artist Hadi Tabatabai at Brian Gross Fine Art in San Francisco | | Fall Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts sale at Bonhams takes in more than $2.48 Million | | New Delhi-based artist Gauri Gill wins $50,000 Grange Prize 2011 for photography | 
Hadi Tabatabai, Thread Painting #31, 2009. Photo: Courtesy of Brian Gross Fine Art.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- San Francisco artist Hadi Tabatabai opens a solo exhibition entitled Portals at Brian Gross Fine Art on Thursday, November 3rd, with a reception for the artist from 5:30-7:30pm. The works included represent a continuation of Tabatabai's exploration of the line as a physical space. The artist's trademark thread paintings, a combination of drawing, painting, and sculpture, investigate perception of space and invite self-reflection. The exhibition is on view through December 23, 2011. Hadi Tabatabai's "paintings" function as portals into the physical space of the work as well as gateways for self-contemplation. Space for Tabatabai, is defined as "empty space. It's not this or that." At first glance, the work appears two dimensional, however upon closer inspection, the sculptural quality of the work is revealed through the play of positive and negative space. Art historian Peter Lodermeyer remarks, " ... More | | 
An Italian white marble figure: The Discus Thrower after the antique Ferdinando Vichi (Italian, 1875-1945), late 19th century. Est. $8,000-12,000. Sold for $21,250. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts auction at Bonhams, October 31-November 1, saw fantastic results of more than $2.48 million in sales, accompanied by strong interest and activity in the San Francisco auction room and from afar. The auction, that featured many historical San Francisco highlights, was led by the $338,500 purchase of a magnificent and monumental pair of Louis XVI style gilt and patinated bronze figural nineteen light candelabra, circa 1865 (pre-sale est. $25,000-35,000). The candelabra, made by famous 19th century furniture maker and designer Louis-Auguste-Alfred Beurdeley, 1808-1882, are emblematic of "War" and "Peace," and were sold to benefit the California Historical Society. They once stood in the lobby of the famous Fox Theatre in San Francisco ... More | | 
Gauri Gill (Indian), Hanuman Nath with his daughter and Hem Nath, Lunkaransar, from the series Notes from the Desert, 1999–2010, silver gelatin print, 61 x 76 cm. Courtesy of the artist. © 2011 Gauri Gill.
TORONTO, ON.- After an eight-week public vote, the Art Gallery of Ontario and Aeroplan announces that Delhi-based artist Gauri Gill is the winner of The Grange Prize 2011. The $50,000 prize is Canada’s largest photography prize, also granting $5,000 and an international residency to each of the runners-up, and is the only major Canadian art prize to have its winner chosen by the public. Gill is an Indian photographer born in 1970 and based in Delhi, India, whose body of work includes a decade-long study of people living in marginalized communities in Rajasthan, India. Her photographs “often address ordinary heroism within challenging environments,” says a statement on behalf of the nominating jury, “depicting the artist’s often-intimate relationships with her subjects with a documentary ... More |
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 Michelle White promoted to Curator at the Menil Collection in Houston HOUSTON, TX.- Menil Director Josef Helfenstein has promoted Michelle White to the role of Curator. White arrived at the Menil in 2006 (via the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she was curatorial assistant) as assistant curator and was promoted three years later to associate curator. Said Helfenstein: “In a very short time, Michelle distinguished herself at the Menil by organizing splendid exhibitions, presenting lectures and participating in other programs, and making important contributions to our scholarly publications.” Notable exhibitions White has organized for the Menil include Imaginary Spaces: Selections from the Menil Collection, Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance, and the recently opened Seeing Stars: Visionary Drawing from the Collection. She has recently commissioned a new film installation by Leslie Hewitt and Bradford Young. Working with Menil colleagues Bernice Rose ... More Exhibition of paintings by Romain de Plas on view at the Museum of the City of New York NEW YORK, N.Y.- A series of eight expressionist paintings by French-American artist Romain de Plas, 1971-2002, is now on view at the Museum of the City of New York through December 4, 2011. The highly-charged works portray the Towers in a range of modes from calm to agitated, suggesting rather than graphically depicting the chaos of the attacks. Shown in conjunction with photographs by Camilo Jose Vergara, who documented the World Trade Center for forty years, Romain de Plas’s paintings commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11 in this exhibition which has been on view since September 2, 2011. Romain De Plas was born January 4, 1971, in Paris , France , and moved to New York City when still a child. He attended Brown University and went on to earn a degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston , in 1998. De Plas worked and for a time lived in a studio on Rivington Street in downtown ... More Ted Williams' salacious 1950s love letters to his mistress to cross the auction block at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- Six handwritten love letters penned by Boston Red Sox legend, and the greatest hitter the game has ever known, Ted Williams, written in the early 1950s to his mistress, Norma Williamson, are expected to bring more than $4,000 as part of Heritage Auction's Nov. 11 Vintage Sports Collectibles event. "Now when I got your letter I also got one from Doris (Williams) 'quoting' a letter that was sent to me from you but got back to Miami someway & she got it," reads a letter in the trove from Williams to Williamson. "Now isn't that dandy? I really don't care to (sic) much but don't ever put your return address on them..." So reads just one of the many juicy selections from this collection of a half dozen letters, purchased by the consignor from Williams' former mistress, Norma Williamson, providing an intensely personal and private insight into the game's greatest hitter. "Collectors know that handwritten letters fr ... More Sotheby’s to hold a sale dedicated to Furniture & Decorative Arts from The Collection of Dodie Rosekrans NEW YORK, N.Y.- On 8 & 9 December 2011, Sotheby’s New York will hold a sale dedicated to furniture and decorative arts from the collection of Dodie Rosekrans, a figure who was known internationally for her considerable charitable work, trendsetting style and patronage of the arts. Property from the Collection of Dodie Rosekrans will offer pieces from Mrs. Rosekrans’s residences in San Francisco, Paris and Venice. The auction will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 3 December, and follows the May 2011 sale of Modern and Contemporary art from Mrs. Rosekrans’s collection – highlighted by works from Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. A celebrated philanthropist, style icon and collector, Dodie Rosekrans was known internationally both for her sense of adventure and unfailingly generous spirit. A trailblazer and trendsetter in fashion, the arts and society, she made a name for ... More Matthew Barton Ltd's largest sale so far includes section devoted to ceramics LONDON.- A fascinating collection of Judaica Silver from The Manchester Great, New & Central Synagogue will be among the highlights of Matthew Barton Ltd’s auction of Silver, Works of Art, Jewellery, Ceramics and Objects of Vertu. The sale, which is the largest that Matthew Barton Ltd has had since forming two years ago, will take place on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 in West Kensington at 25 Blythe Road, W14. The collection of more than 40 pieces includes Russian and Polish Torah shields and finials as well as London-made Victorian and 20th century Judaica. Many of these pieces have presentation inscriptions, which reveal some the stories behind the objects. One particular is a pair of George V silver Torah Finials, otherwise known as Rimmonim, by Moses Salkind of London (1921). Estimated at £600-900, the finials are chased with bands of flowerheads below eagle finials, the bells are missing and ... More Bamboo building bonanza in Bali BALI (AP).- Off Bali's beaten track, past a towering banyan tree and next to an ancient Hindu temple, the world's largest bamboo commercial structure is slowly taking shape: a chocolate factory. The three-story, 23,000-square-foot building — made from more than 3,000 long, flexible poles — is crowned with a graceful, sloped ceiling nearly 50 feet high. Frederick Schilling, co-owner of the Big Tree Farms factory, calls it his "bamboo cathedral." The tropical plant, favored in the West for flooring, furniture and household accessories, is increasingly being touted as the construction material of choice by green advocates from South America to Africa. Bali is leading the charge, attracting carpenters, architects and designers from across the globe to use bamboo in building everything from a school and luxury villas to exclusive resorts. The plant, found in almost every equatorial nation, can grow up to 4 feet in a single day ... More Pawel Althamer's Almech at Deutsche Guggenheim BERLIN.- Since the early 1990s Paweł Althamer has developed a singularly participatory mode of art making, generating distinct bodies of work as well as diverse and unique social experiences for his collaborators and audiences alike. Throughout his career he has pursued the transformative potential of art, helping people reflect on their own creativity and awaken new understandings of their everyday lives. For instance, he has led the Nowolipie Group, a weekly sculpture workshop since 1994 for sufferers of multiple sclerosis; orchestrated a massive group performance using his neighbor's apartments in Bródno 2000 (2000); organized trips with his family and friends to Belgium, Brazil, and Mali for Common Task (2008–); and turned over his exhibition at the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel to the city's schoolchildren in Frühling (2009). At the same time Althamer has established a rich sculptural oeuvre, foc ... More |
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