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| | Clyfford Still masterpieces soar in Sotheby's contemporary art evening sale in New York
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A woman looks at '1949-A-No.1' (L) and '1947-Y-No.2' by Clyfford Still on display at Sotheby's. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid.
NEW YORK, NY.- A group of four paintings by the celebrated American Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still have just sold for a combined total of $114.1 million (est. $51/71.5 million) in Sotheby’s sale of Contemporary Art in New York. The group was led by the exquisite and profoundly important 1949-A-No. 1 - one of the greatest examples of 20th century American painting - which was sought after by five bidders before fetching $61,682,500, more than double the previous record for the artist at auction (est. $25/35 million). This was immediately followed by 1947-Y-No. 2, which sold for $31,442,500, well above the pre-sale estimate of $15/20 million, and (PH-1033), from 1976, which brought $19,682,500 (est. $10/15 million). The group ended with the early work from 1940, (PH-351), that sold for $1,258,500 (est. $1/1.5 million). All of the works came from the Estate of Patricia Still and were being ... More |
| J. Paul Getty Museum acquires seventy-two photographs by Andreas Feininger | | Christie's New York, Post War and Contemporary art evening sale realizes $247,597,000 | | A centennial celebration of Roberto Matta's work opens at The Pace Gallery | 
Andreas Feininger, David Smith, sculptor, 1940. Gelatin silver print. 24.5 x 19 cm. © Estate of Gertrud E. Feininger. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of the Estate of Gertrud E. Feininger.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of 72 photographs by 20th century photographer Andreas Feininger (American, born Paris, 1906–1999). Son of the Expressionist painter, printmaker, caricaturist, and Bauhaus instructor Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871–1956), Andreas Feininger is best known for his work for LIFE magazine, which spanned 20 years, and his considerable work in nature photography. The gift from the Andreas Feininger Estate represents a range of subjects from Feininger’s long photographic career, which spanned seven decades, and includes work made in Germany and Stockholm in the late 1920s and early 1930s, most notably several nude studies and experiments with printing techniques. The donation also includes examples from Feininger’s 1942 documentation of weapons factories for the U.S. Office of War Information, his views of New York in the 1940s and 1950s, a ... More | | 
The top lot of the sale was Roy Lichtenstein’s, I Can See the Whole Room…and There's Nobody in It!, which set a new auction record of $43,202,500. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, including the first part of the Peter Norton Collection, achieved $247,597,000 (£153,510,140/ €178,269,840) demonstrating the continuing appeal of this category among collectors worldwide. Thirty-three works sold for over the $1 million mark and 16 new world auction records were established for artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Paul McCarthy, Charles Ray, Louise Bourgeois, among others. In total, sell-through percentages were very strong, with 90% sold by lot and 87% by value. The top lot of the sale was Roy Lichtenstein’s, I Can See the Whole Room…and There's Nobody in It!, which set a new auction record of $43,202,500 (₤26,785,550/ €31,105,800). Painted in 1961, it is one of the earliest and most important of Lichtenstein's Pop Art pictures, formerly in the collection of the pioneering collectors Emily and Burton Trem ... More | | 
Matta, L'homme descend du signe, 1975 (detail). Oil on canvas, 13' 5-3/4" x 27' 4" (410.8 cm x 833.1 cm). Artwork by Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Christian Baraja / Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- On the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of Matta’s birth, The Pace Gallery presents Matta: A Centennial Celebration, on view at 534 West 25th Street through January 28, 2012. The exhibition focuses on the later years of the artist’s life, featuring 14 paintings, with the largest measuring 13 by 27 feet and many of which have never before been on public view outside Europe. The show follows Matta 1911–2011, a major museum show at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern and Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao and precedes Centenario Matta: 11.11.11 at the Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda in Santiago, Chile (November 11, 2011–February 26, 2012), celebrating the special occasion on both sides of the Atlantic. The exhibition has been organized in close collaboration with the artist’s ... More |
| Paul Noble: 15 year drawing series presented in London for first time in 7 years | | Modern masterpieces from Brazil and Mexico lead the Autumn Latin American sale at Christie's New York | | Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum at the de Young Museum | 
Paul Noble, Welcome to Nobson, 2010. (detail). Photo: Mike Bruce. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
LONDON.- Gagosian Britannia Street presents leading British artist, Paul Noble’s first exhibition in London for seven years. The exhibition marks the culmination of his monumental fifteen year project – the meticulous depiction of a fictional city called Nobson Newtown. The artist is a master draughtsman who makes virtuoso pencil drawings on an epic scale. These wall-sized drawings offer aerial perspectives over a fantastical cityscape that echoes the utopian ethos of projects such as the Garden City Movement and New Towns such as Milton Keynes. Dominating the exhibition is the artist’s monumental drawing Welcome to Nobson, measuring nearly 15 feet high and over 23 feet wide, and made up of twenty separate panels. It is by far the largest drawing of the Nobson series and has never been exhibited before. The exhibition includes other large drawings, all of them closely related to particular elements and areas o ... More | | 
Emiliano di Cavalcanti (1897-1976), O Homem a e Máquina, 1966. Estimate: $200,000 – 300,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s New York announces details of its major fall Latin American Sale on November 15, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. and November 16, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. This two-session sale of more than 370 lots total is led by significant works from the best-known painters and sculptors of 20th century Central and South America and the Caribbean. The Evening Sale features 79 of the sale’s most important works, with an exceptional line-up of paintings and sculpture from celebrated Brazilian and Mexican artists, amongst many others. The following Day Sale presents 290 additional works of art, including photography, drawings, prints and sculpture from the Spanish colonial era to the present. The combined sales are expected to realize in excess of $18 million. Virgilio Garza, Head of International Latin American Paintings at Christie’s, commented: "The very rich ... More | | 
Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian. Portrait of Johann Frederich, Elector of Saxony. 1548-1551. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The de Young Museum in San Francisco is showing a global exclusive exhibition, Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power From the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, which opened on October 29, 2011 and runs through February 12, 2012. The exhibition features 50 magnificent paintings by artists such as Titian, Giorgione, Veronese, Mantegna, and Tintoretto, representing the height of Venetian Renassaince painting. Loaned by the Gemäldegalerie (Picture Gallery) of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, these works are among the museum’s most celebrated holdings from art collections built over centuries by the emperors and archdukes of the royal house of Habsburg. “When the Fine Arts Museums learned that the collection of Venetian paintings would ... More |
| Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 winners announced in London | | Sundaram Tagore New York presents "Written Images: Contemporary Calligraphy from the Middle East" | | McNay Art Museum announces "Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune" to open in February 2012 | 
Harriet and Gentleman Jack, 2010 by Jooney Woodward. © Jooney Woodward.
LONDON.- The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 has been won by Jooney Woodward, 32, for her portrait, Harriet and Gentleman Jack. The portrait of 13-year-old Harriet Power was taken in the guinea pig judging area at the Royal Welsh Show. Woodward says: ‘I found her image immediately striking with her long, red hair and white stewarding coat. She is holding her own guinea pig called Gentleman Jack, named after the Jack Daniel’s whisky box in which he was given to her. Using natural light from a skylight above, I took just three frames and this image was the first.’ The £12,000 award was presented to Woodward at the National Portrait Gallery, London, on Tuesday 8 November 2011. She found her sitter whilst scouting for potential subject matter amongst the sheepdog trials, livestock competitions and regimental bands at the agricultural show in Builth Wells, Powys. The portrait was shot on film with a M ... More | | 
Hassan Massoudy, Untitled, 2011. Ink and pigment on paper, 29.5 x 21.7 inches.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The work of more than a dozen influential artists from the Middle East offers a rare glimpse into the contemporary Arab and Iranian art worlds. Written Images: Contemporary Calligraphy from the Middle East, curated by noted art historian Karin von Roques, explores the role of traditional Islamic calligraphy and symbols in the contemporary Middle Eastern consciousness. Arabic calligraphy in all its aesthetic and linguistic complexity is little understood in the West and often regarded as an art form belonging to the classic Islamic arts and, therefore, to the past. In fact, it plays an important role in contemporary Arab and Iranian art. For centuries, the written word has been at the center of Islamic visual culture— a legacy that persists even today. Artists including Iraqi Hassan Massoudy, and Tunisian Nja Mahdaoui were among the first to look at writing from an entirely new perspective and reposition calligraphy in the contemporary context. They have deft ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Statue of Liberty, 1998. © 2011 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Drawn from the rich collections of the Andy Warhol Museum in the artist’s hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune assembles over 150 objects in all media. Organized by the McNay’s Chief Curator and Curator of Art after 1945, René Paul Barilleaux, this exhibition looks simultaneously at Warhol’s lifelong obsession with both celebrity and disaster. Works included in this survey juxtapose icons of popular culture, legendary entertainers, art world luminaries, and world leaders, with images of suicides, automobile accidents, skulls, and an electric chair. Beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing through 1986, the year prior to Warhol’s death, the paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and films span the three prolific decades of the artist’s career. Source images for Warhol’s most notable works deepen appreciation of what inspired the artist ... More |
| New report shows Chinese contemporary art market confidence higher than US & Europe | | Bonhams breaks world records for Inro and Netsuke sold at auction in Japanese sale | | Yale University Press announces publishing of new book on American folk art | 
Eko Nugroho, It's All About Coalitian 2, 2008. Two bronze sculptures. 195 x 80 x 80 cm. Estimate: HK$160,000-240,000/US$20,500-30,800. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
LONDON.- ArtTactic released its latest Chinese Contemporary Art Market Confidence Survey, which, like its last survey in April, shows that confidence in the Chinese contemporary art market remains high despite an overall drop in global confidence. Buoyed by mainland China’s new collectors, who have emerged as some of the world’s most voracious buyers of art, gold and jewelry, and fine wine since 2008, ArtTactic’s confidence indicator “remains strongly positive,” though the differences between domestic Chinese and international auction houses are becoming increasingly stark. While the sustainability of the current growth rates remains suspect, a majority of respondents continue to believe the Chinese contemporary art market will grow in the next six months. What all this boils down to is the same thing Jing ... More | | 
An ivory netsuke of a shishi Kyoto, late 18th century. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The world records for inro (traditional Japanese case consisting of nested boxes) and netsuke (miniature carving) sold at auction have both been broken during the sale of the Harriet Szechenyi Collection of Japanese Art that took place at Bonhams, New Bond Street on November 8th. The sale realised £4.6 million with 87% sold by lot and 96% by value. Suzannah Yip, Head the Japanese Department at Bonhams comments "Today's auction at Bonhams is the most important and highest value sale of Japanese art ever held in Europe." Recognised as one of the finest collections formed during the latter half of the 20th century, the Harriet Szechenyi Collection of Japanese Art revealed an amazing inventiveness and plethora of subjects, which caught the attention of an International audience at Bonhams. As an animal-lover Harriet had a preference for animal models of netsuke; the sale was full of domestic and wild beasts, birds, aquat ... More | | 
Containing nearly 100 recent acquisitions, Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence, Volume II, offers a fascinating array of 18th- and 19th-century Americana, folk art and decorative arts created in New England, New York and Pennsylvania.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- When Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence was published in 2006, one of the country’s most important collections of American folk art and Americana was brought to the public’s attention for the first time and met with an unprecedented level of interest and approval. This praise inspired the continued research and study of the Jane Katcher Collection and led to Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume II, edited by Jane Katcher, David A. Schorsch and Ruth Wolfe (Marquand Books/Yale University Press, $95.00), which will be published on November 15, 2011. Containing nearly 100 recent acquisitions, Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence, Volume II, offers ... More |
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 Art Dealers Association of America announces 2012 Art Show NEW YORK, N.Y.- The 24th edition of The Art Show, the nation's foremost and longest running fine art fair, takes place March 7 through March 11, 2012 in New York City. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America to benefit Henry Street Settlement, the fair presents the nation’s leading art dealers and galleries showcasing a variety of museum quality exhibits ranging from cutting-edge, 21st century works, to masterpieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. Expanding its roster for the first time in 24 years, the 2012 Art Show will include 72 of the best galleries from across the country. ADAA also welcomes five first time exhibiting galleries: Alexander and Bonin, New York City; Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA; Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City; Anton Kern Gallery, New York City; and Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York City. “ADAA dealers represent the very best authorities on fine art in th ... More Journey through memories and fantasies at Vizcaya with Jungle Sweat, Roseate by Naomi Fisher MIAMI, FL.- Naomi Fisher's Jungle Sweat, Roseate is the fall/winter exhibition of Vizcaya Museum and Gardens' Contemporary Arts Project (CAP), a commission program that invites artists to develop site-specific projects inspired by the historic house museum and National Historic Landmark. Jungle Sweat, Roseate will be on view through January 16, 2012 at Vizcaya. South Florida native Naomi Fisher weaves her lifelong memories of Vizcaya within a fictional narrative to create Jungle Sweat, Roseate, a video piece and installation on view throughout the Main House. Fisher's ongoing exploration of nature and our desire to tame it comes into focus at Vizcaya, where the imposition of formal architecture on a native landscape presents striking contrasts. The work features a female character who stumbles upon Vizcaya from the depths of the mangroves, covered in the residue of nature. Fisher tells ... More Exhibition deals with socialization and the current state of people and behavior DUBAI.- THE STATE presents a group exhibition opening on November 10th at Traffic, which takes its title from the book ‘The Coming Insurrection’ (2007) by The Invisible Committee. The show is a continuation of ‘THE STATE’, a socio- historical journal & forum, and a symbolic transition from the last exhibition ‘Social/Antisocial?’, which dealt with socialization and the current state of people and behavior. The exhibition is a response to the causes of discontent, namely mass injustice, corruption and greed in our societies and world at large. It calls for a paradigm shift of human expression, to prevent an emerging social condition. It is not a call to arms but an attempt to get people thinking about the global transmutation that surrounds them. The Invisible Committee is the collective pen-name for a small group of French post- Situationist intellectuals and academics, who in 2007 authored The C ... More Solo shows by Allan Sekula and Dan Perjovschi at Galerie Michel Rein in Paris PARIS.- Galerie Michel Rein presents the exhibition Polonia and… by Allan Sekula. This is the fifth solo exhibition by Allan Sekula at the gallery over a 15 years collaboration (previous exhibitions in 2008, 2004, 2001 & 1998). The exhibition shows works from the series Polonia and other Fables which, over the past two years, has been exhibited at the Renaissance Society (Chicago), Zacheta Gallery (Warsaw), Ludwig Museum (Budapest), Media City Seoul and Belfast Exposed. Since the early 1970s Allan Sekula's work has bridged the gap between conceptual art and documentary practices, focusing on economic and social themes ranging from family life, work and unemployment, to schooling and the military industrial complex. While calling many of the conventions of documentary into question, he continues to see photography as a social practice, answerable to the world and its problems. In the series Polonia and other ... More W.R. Leigh's Home, Sweet Home (1932) sets record with $1.195 million price at Heritage Auctions DALLAS, TX.- W.R. Leigh's Home, Sweet Home soared to nearly double its pre-auction estimate selling for $1.195 million and setting a new world record price for the artist in Heritage Auctions' $2.27 million Art of the American West Signature® Auction, Saturday, Nov. 5. The painting came to auction from The Property of Philip Jonsson, son of former Dallas Mayor and Texas Instruments Co-Founder Eric Jonsson. Overall, the auction saw 262 bidders vying for just 74 total lots, translating into a 95% sell-through by value. All prices include 19.5% Buyer's Premium. "We knew this was an exceptional and historically important painting from the start," said Kirsty Buchanan, Consignment Director for Western Art at Heritage. "Collectors obviously thought so, too, pushing it to a new record price for one of Leigh's works. It led what proved to be a strong auction; we're all thrilled with the response." "It's just a masterfully depict ... More Royal Academy of Arts presents new environmental sculpture installation by John Maine RA LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents After Cosmati, a new environmental sculpture installation by John Maine RA. Maine is best known for making large outdoor sculptures in stone which form relationships with and are inspired by the surrounding landscape. Maine’s extensive travels have informed his sculpture and he has created monumental installations over the world. Maine’s new work for this exhibition highlights his current interest in creating a sense of an expansive space within a contained area. Maine’s work utilises simple forms such as rings, columns and cones. Physical weight and texture also characterise his work which encourages contemplation and a celebration of the elements. This piece can be viewed as a departure from his usual work in the landscape and is the first time that he has ‘brought the outside, inside’, on such a grand scale. The motivations behind After Cosmati v ... More Studio Museum invites one hundred artists to create new works of art inspired by Romare Bearden NEW YORK, N.Y.- September 2, 2011, marked the centennial of the birth of Romare Bearden, and the beginning of a year of international celebration of this significant and singular artist. In tribute to Bearden, who was deeply involved with the founding of The Studio Museum in Harlem, and whose work remains at the core of its collection, the Studio Museum is inviting one hundred artists to create new works of art inspired, influenced, or informed by the life, work, and legacy of one of the most important artists of the twentieth Century. The Museum will share these works with the public through The Bearden Project, a dynamic exhibition initiative that will grow and change throughout the centennial year. The Bearden Project will open to the public on November 10, 2011, but will evolve over the subsequent year as new work arrives at the Museum and works are rearranged in dialogue with Bearden’s work, each ... More |
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