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| | Impressionist masters from the Clark Collection on view at CaixaForum in Barcelona
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A woman observes the paiting 'Chatou's Bridge', by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), at an exhibition presented at the CaixaForum cultural center in Barcelona, north-eastern Spain, 16 November 2011. The exhibition, entitled 'Impressionists. French Masters' includes works of art of Manet, Monet, Pisarro, Sisley, Degas and Renoir and is the only stop in Spain of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute's world tour. It runs until February 2012. EPA/ANDREU DALMAU.
BARCELONA.- In April 1874 the first exhibition was held in the studio of the photogra-pher Nadar, in the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, of a group of painters who had been rejected in the Official Salon: the Impressionists. European art entered into a new stage, marked by a series of very rapid changes that, in just a few years, dispensed with appearance, natural colours, the subject and perspective: the elements that, since the Renaissance, had characterised pictorial representation. When Sterling Clark moved to Paris in 1910, some of the leading artists of this pictorial revolution were still alive. In 1916 Clark bought the painting Girl crocheting by Auguste Renoir, attracted by the colour and sensuality of the feminine image. It was the culminant point of a passion that led him to bring together an extraordinary collection of works of French painting that crossed over from the 19th to the 20th century. Clark did not share the iconoclastic spirit so common in many of the ... More |
| Modigliani, Picasso and Chagall to feature in Bonhams' Impressionist & Modern art auction | | Christie's Latin American evening sale achieves $15,333,750, Botero sculpture is top lot | | MOCA Gala raises $2.5 million with Marina Abramovic's "An Artist's Life Manifesto" | 
Amedeo Modigliani, Jeune fille aux cheveux noirs. Estimate: £700,000-1,000,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The current highlight of the sale is Jeune fille aux cheveux noirs by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. This follows on from Bonhams’ successful sale of another Modigliani portrait – Portrait de Femme, which fetched £1,812,000 on 21st June 2011. Modigliani is renowned for his enigmatic portraits of women with their elongated features and deep gazes. They have been described as ‘the works by which the artist has earned his place in the history of art’ and this fine example, estimated at £700,000-1,000,000, is no exception. It comes to the market from the Laurence S. Rockefeller Fund and is expected to attract bidders from around the globe. Another exciting lot on offer is a work in charcoal and crayons on paper by Picasso, Personnages, which is a particularly interesting early example of his work and is estimated at £25,000-35,000. Also included in the sale are two Cavello e cavaliere works ... More | | 
Antonio Bandeira's 1955 painting "Blue Streets" sold for $482,500 at Christie's Latin American sale. REUTERS/Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s Latin American Evening Sale on November 15 achieved $15,333,750/ £9,660,263/ € 11,346,975 and was 83% sold by value and 76% sold by lot. The Head of the Latin American Art department, comments: “Brazilian art shines tonight. Record prices were achieved for iconic works by Antonio Bandeira, Hércules Barsotti, José Pancetti, Alfredo Volpi, and Franz Weissmann, proving the tremendous interest in Brazilian art and for works that are fresh to the market and competitively estimated. Across the board, Mexican paintings and sculpture performed well, and we are thrilled with the auction record for Francisco Toledo’s masterpiece Vaca roja, who is in my view, the most important living Mexican painter. Worth noting is the great success of Fernando Botero, highlighted by the record for a sculpture with the monumental bronze Dancers, which was the top lot of the evening at $1.76 million. We ... More | | 
Performance artist Marina Abramovic attends the 2011 Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Gala in Los Angeles November 12, 2011. REUTERS/Phil McCarten.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, celebrated its 32-year history as one of the world's leading contemporary art institutions on Saturday, November 12, 2011, with An Artist's Life Manifesto, a special gala envisioned by renowned performance artist Marina Abramović who served as this year's gala artistic director. Music and popular culture icon Deborah Harry performed hit songs "One Way or Another" and "Heart of Glass," as well as tracks from her new album, Panic of Girls, as part of Abramović's vision for the evening. The gala, attended by more than 750 guests, raised $2.5 million for the museum, and began at MOCA Grand Avenue with red carpet arrivals of Hollywood celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Ellen Barkin, Minnie Driver, Kirsten Dunst, Lisa Edelstein, Will Ferrell, Miranda July, Jaime King, Jonny Lee Miller, Rose McGowan, Nicole Richie, Gwen Stefani, Tilda ... More |
| Vienna's Kunsthaus exhibition takes us on a journey into Cartier-Bresson's photographic cosmos | | Exhibition of selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection Part II opens | | MoMA presents new acquisitions from artists such as Rirkrit Tiravanija, Senga Nengudi, and Albert Oehlen | 
Soviet Union. Leningrad. 9 May 1973. Commemorating the victory over the Nazis. © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos.
VIENNA.- The photographer, artist and film director Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was a widely travelled, cosmopolitan observer of world events. Even during his lifetime, Henri CartierBresson, more than any other 20th-century photographer, was regarded as the personification of modern photography. He always emphasised that his passion was not for photography per se, but for life, and that he saw himself not as a traveller but as an observer of events, who sojourned in various different cultures. Henri Cartier-Bresson studied painting with the cubist André Lhote, was influenced by the surrealists around André Breton and took inspiration from the philosophy of Zen Buddhism. He influenced generations of photographers through the aesthetic of his prolific photographic oeuvre and his penetrating thoughts on the theory and practice of photography. His book “Images à la Sauvette” (English title: “The Decisive ... More | | 
A visitor strolls near the sculpture 'Untitled' by Greek artist Jannis Kounellis on the wall, and 'Circulo de Bilbao', by artist Richard Long. EPA/ALFREDO ALDAI.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection II , the second exhibition in a series that began in 2009 and will continue until 2012. This series aims to show the public selected works from the Bilbao collection, put them in context and thus offer a detailed overview of the collection’s focus and orientation. The show, curated by Petra Joos, Deputy Director for Museum Activities at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, explores the work of a series of influential European artists who, with their diverse forms of creative expression, burst onto the ideological, economic, social, and political scene of the 1970s and 80s and instigated a fascinating artistic debate. The presentation begins in Gallery 103 with a suite of sixteen large-format paintings by Georg Baselitz (Deutschbaselitz, Germany, 1938), which together form the work entitled Mrs. Lenin and the Nighting ... More | | 
Martin Kippenberger. Untitled from the series Dear Painter, Paint for Me. c. 1981. Synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 7′ 10 1/2″ x 9′ 9 3/4″ (240 x 299.1 cm). Promised gift of Steven and Alexandra Cohen. © 2011 Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Museum of Modern Art opens a new installation in the Contemporary Galleries, a chronological presentation of works from the collection made during the past 30 years, on November 17, 2011. Furthering the historical sequence found on MoMA’s fifth (1880–1940) and fourth (1940–1980) floors, the installation interweaves works from all of MoMA’s curatorial departments to present a wide spectrum of contemporary art of the period. Within the overall chronological flow, individual galleries address particular topics, ranging from specific locales that nourished influential groups of artists to preoccupations shared by figures of the same generation. Other galleries focus on one artist or a single significant installation. The Contemporary Galleries will undergo ... More |
| Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Siegen presents Antoni Tapies's Image, Body, Pathos | | Sotheby's London sales of Modern & Post-War British art conclude with a combined total of $13.5 million | | Stadel Museum inaugurates an entirely new presentation of the modern art collection | 
Antoni Tapies, Body of Matter and Orange Marks, 1968.
SIEGEN.- The exhibition Image, Body, Pathos shows 48 paintings from more than seven decades of the impressive creative oeuvre of Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies, many of them are being presented in Germany for the first time ever. Antoni Tàpies, born in Barcelona in 1923, had a decisive influence on European painting in the second half of the 20th century. The early presentation of the 4th Rubens Prize to Tàpies by the city of Siegen in 1972 was more than justified. The exhibition Image, Body, Pathos permits us to take an up-to-date view of the artist's astounding, lifelong productivity. While the early work is still characterised by self-portraits, in the 1950s Tàpies developed an understanding of painting that presented a completely new pictorial corporeality. He began to produce pictures using sand, clay, marble dust and lime, which resemble impenetrable walls. Depictions of the human body appear repeatedly in the material paintings, whether in imprints, symbolic suggestions, ... More | | 
Nat Tate’s (1928-1960) Bridge No.114, sold for £7,250 (Estimate: £3,000-5,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- The Evening and Day Sales of Modern and Post-War British Art concluded today with a combined total of £8.5/$13.5 million. The top lot of the Evening Sale was L.S. Lowry’s Railway Platform of 1953 which sold for £1.1/$1.8 million (est. £1-1.5 million, further details on the painting below). A highlight of the Day Sale was a cast of Lawrence Holofcener’s iconic bench The Allies - the life-size cast (number 3 of the edition of 7) of the landmark on Bond Street which depicts Churchill seated on a bench with Roosevelt. A heated bidding battle between bidders both in the saleroom and on the telephone ensued, resulting in the work finally fetching £253,250 – almost four times pre-sale expectations (est. £50,000-£70,000) – setting a new record at auction for Holofcener. The sale of the first painting by abstract expressionist post-war artist Nat Tate ever to appear at auction, Bridge no.114, sold for the above-estimate sum of £7,250 (est. £3,500-£5,000). One ... More | | 
Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Flowers and China, 1913. Oil on canvas, 93,5 x 82,5 cm. Photo: Städel Museum - ARTOTHEK © Succession H. Matisse / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011. Repurchased with funds provided by the Frankfurter Sparkasse AG and the Kuratorium Kulturelles Frankfurt.
FRANKFURT.- The reopening of the garden wing with its presentation “Modern Art (1800–1945)” on November 17, 2011 will be the first of three major collection openings at the Städel Museum. At the first opening, visitors will not only find the museum rooms of the garden wing refurbished and redesigned as well as a museum shop with a bookshop and a café extending the former range of services, but also “an entirely new presentation of the modern art collection which, besides familiar and popular works, includes a number of important new additions and surprising positions,” as Max Hollein, Director of the Städel Museum, notes. The “Modern Art” presentation at the Städel Museum offers a concentrated survey of the development of European art and sculpture in the ... More |
| Paris Photo 2011: Strong sales and a unanimous success for the 1st edition at the Grand Palais | | Christie's Hong Kong announces sales of important Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art | | Auction house Ketterer Kunst in Munich announces sale of Modern and Post-War Art | 
A woman reads a book in front of photographs by Nigerian photographer Okhai Ojeikere displayed during Paris Photo Fair at the Grand Palais. EPA/CRISTINA VAZQUEZ.
PARIS.- This 15th edition was a landmark in the evolution of Paris Photo with a move to the Grand Palais, offering the artists and their works, the galleries, the editors and the public an exceptional setting and thereby strengthening the position of the fair on an international level and the Parisian cultural scene. Under the leadership of Julien Frydman, named Director of the fair in February 2011, Paris Photo was centred on new initiatives for the cultural programme: the exhibition « Recent Acquisitions » by three international museums, the « Private Collection » exhibition, the Paris Photobook Prize, and the Platform of live events. Which other city in the world prides itself on having two such important international fairs?» Thomas Zander met important collectors from the United States (San Francisco, New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston…) as well as the rest of the world and made sales ranging from &# ... More | | 
A rare 14th century octagonal Longquan celadon meiping from the Yuan dynasty. Estimate: HK$4,000,000-7,000,000/US$520,000-900,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
HONG KONG.- Christie’s Hong Kong 2011 Fall Sales will present Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on Wednesday, 30 November at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. The sale, estimated in excess of HK$600 million /US$80 million, brings together over 400 works of exceptional quality and with excellent provenance, as well as special collection 15 exceptional jade, ivory and rhinoceros horn carvings from an renowned European connoisseur put together over the past 50 years. Among the leading lots in the season, and highlighting the sale‟s superb selection of Ming and Qing ceramics, is an important early Ming blue and white bianhu moonflask from the Yongle period (1403-1424) that showcases an elegant blending of Chinese and Central Asia style (Lot 2977, estimate: HK$28,000,000-35,000,000/ US$3,700,000-4,500,000). While its sophisticated decoration was the invention of Chinese potters ... More | | 
Hermann Max Pechstein. Painted on both sides - recto: “Weib mit Inder auf Teppich”, 1910 and verso: “Früchte II”, 1910. Oil on canvas. 71,5 x 82,5cm (28.1 x 32.4 in) Estimate: € 800.000-1.200.000.
MUNICH.- “It is a real sensation for the German art market. Works of such a remarkable nature are usually auctioned in London and New York”, said Robert Ketterer about Hermann Max Pechstein’s masterpiece with painting on both sides, which will be called up in the Munich auction on 10 December. In general, the range of offerings from Expressionism to Contemporary art is equally impressive. This section is led by Hermann Max Pechstein’s work “Weib mit Inder auf Teppich” and “Früchte II” respectively, as it is painted on both sides. The estimate is at € 800.000-1.200.000. While the signed side with the still life references Cézanne and Matisse - indicating the artist’s mastery in terms of composition and a stringent color expression - the nude captivates the observer with a sensual eroticism; an effect that is amplified by the expressive color value and the coarse painting technique. The primal directness of indigenous peoples by wh ... More |
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 Exhibition in Strasbourg celebrates Tomi Ungerer's 80th anniversary STRASBOURG.- The exhibit entitled “Tomi Ungerer and the Masters. Inspiration and Dialogue” held at the Tomi Ungerer Museum represents a high point in celebration of the artist’s 80th birthday. Approximately 300 works will be shown throughout the museum, a display that has been assembled from both private and public collections and the museum’s permanent collection treating the innovative theme of the illustrator’s work and its ties to the history of art. Indeed, specially selected pieces of his work take on numerous graphic, plastic and cinematographic references. A rich iconographic repertory of artists representing all styles and periods is therefore on view: the German Masters of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance [Baldung-Grien, Dürer, Grünewald, Holbein], Doré and German artists of the 19th century [Caspar David Friedrich, Ludwig Richter, Moritz von Schwind, Carl Spitzweg], Alsatian arti ... More Lee Maelzer's fascination for the mediated image on view at Poppy Sebire LONDON.- Lee Maelzer makes paintings about the human need to record events and places and the visual languages and signifiers that connect the evidence. For her first solo exhibition at Poppy Sebire, Maelzer will show new works that further develop her fascination for the mediated image; whether that held in the mind, the camera, or the physical archive. The London-based artist is known for her odd, beautiful and technically adept means of describing facets of the everyday in paint. And, while Maelzer remains interested in the wider influence of history, pop culture and technology on the collective memory, this body of work brings one back down to the prosaic/profound experience of flipping through a pile of photographs. Photography has become an increasingly important part of Maelzer's working process. Similarly to Peter Doig or Wilhelm Sasnal, she is not interested in rendering the real exactly, rather ... More First solo exhibition by Japanese artist Kaoruko opens at the Mike Weiss Gallery NEW YORK, N.Y.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents its first solo exhibition by Japanese artist KAORUKO. Aromako, a play on words combining the artist’s name and visual theme of the work, explores the complexity of the modern Japanese woman in terms of her relationship with herself and tradition. Using acrylic paint, traditional sumi calligraphy techniques and silk screened kimono patterns, KAORUKO creates large-scale paintings which depict women in their private domestic spaces. Drawing upon both the rich cultural history of her homeland as well as her experiences as a former Japanese pop star, KAORUKO’s female figures are set against highly codified motifs sourced from traditional woodblock prints and Japanese textiles. The luscious hues, and flattened planes of KAORUKO’s paintings are frequently inspired by the Ukiyo-e ‘floating world’ prints of the Edo period, and her inclusion of ... More Thomas Del Mar Ltd to auction antique arms, armour and militaria in London LONDON.- A fine and rare Scottish Backsword, dating from the mid 18th century is among the highlights of the auction of Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria in London on Wednesday, December 7, 2011. The sale will be held at midday by Thomas Del Mar Ltd (in association with Sotheby’s) at their saleroom at 25 Blythe Road, W14. Estimated to fetch £30,000-40,000, the extremely rare sword has a silver basket hilt and is almost certainly by Walter Allan of Stirling. While another rare Scottish Broadsword with a finesigned basket hilt by John Simpson the Elder of Glasgow, dating from 1700-1716 is estimated at £12,000-18,000 and a rare early 16th century two-hand sword, probably from Lowland Scotland or England carries an estimate of £16,000-20,000. 15 pikes from the Strathspey Fencibles, dating from the 19th century is estimated at £1,200-1,800. The Strathspey Fencibles were raised by Sir James Grant ... More Conversations in Clay: West Meets East: A Collector's Perspective at Joan B. Mirviss Ltd. NEW YORK, N.Y.- For the first time since Joan B. Mirviss Ltd. began representing Japanese ceramics in the mid '80s, Western artists will be presented together with their Japanese counterparts in this intimate exhibit entitled Conversations in Clay – West Meets East: A Collector's Perspective. The show, curated by Steven Korff in collaboration with Joan Mirviss, finds its inspiration in Korff's integrated collection of ceramic art that includes important artists from both backgrounds, from Hamada Shôji to Hans Coper, Carlo Zauli to Akiyama Yô. Korff's interest in ceramic art started when as a young man, he began acquiring the work of Western ceramist, particularly those in the abstract expressionist tradition. As his exposure to ceramic art expanded, he became intrigued by the simplicity, duality and spirit of Japanese ceramics. The work of Kamoda Shôji in particular drew his eye more than a decade ago, and it was this ... More Nocturnal angels take flight with heavenly messages from the divine at G Fine Art WASHINGTON, DC.- G Fine Art presents iona rozeal brown open.ed harmonious diatribes l works in progress from the stage November 4, 2011 through December 31, 2011. Nocturnal angels take flight with heavenly messages from the divine. The constant expansion of time and space challenges the western thought that time itself is a linear progression. iona rozeal brown moves objects, materials, and ideologies from discourses of history that reference the underground culture of eighties New York to Neo-Classicism. brown has created her own ode to graffiti, incorporating illuminated manuscript inspired texts as well as abstracted figurative forms on wood panels and paper. Using acrylic polymer, pencil, ink and 'painter-makers", browns imagery are reflections of the musical notes of Dubstep, an electronic music with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals. Her ... More Baltimore Museum of Art exhibits contemporary images by acclaimed German photographer Candida Höfer BALTIMORE, MD.- In September 2010, internationally acclaimed contemporary German photographer Candida Höfer focused her camera on two of Baltimore’s most venerable cultural institutions: The Johns Hopkins University’s George Peabody Library and the Walters Art Museum. A selection of the resulting images will make their Baltimore debut in Candida Höfer: Interior Worlds. On view at the BMA from November 16, 2011 through February 26, 2012, the exhibition features 13 breathtaking images of European and American interiors that demonstrate how the artist goes beyond documenting architecture to capture moments of contemplative beauty. Höfer’s images of the Peabody Library and Walters Art Museum contrast the exciting cast iron decoration in the library’s late 19th-century reading room with the refined Italian Renaissance-inspired space of the early 20th-century museum interior. These enormous ... More |
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