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| | Villa Grisebach celebrates 25th anniversary with biggest sale of works of art to date
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A visitor looks at an oil painting (L), entitled Sunflowers in Evening Light (1943), by German artist Emil Nolde, and an artwork (R), entitled Landscape with Farmer, Boy and Goat, by German artist August Macke, at the Villa Grisebach auction house in Berlin,Germany, 22 November 2011. For the 25th birthday of the auction house, almost 1,500 paintings, drawings and photos with a total estimated price of 22.6 million Euros are going under the hammer. The Nolde painting is valued at 1.2 to 1.5 million Euros; the Macke artwork is estimated to fetch up to 1 million Euros. EPA/HERBERT KNOSOWSKI.
BERLIN.- To coincide with the auction house’s 25-year anniversary, Villa Grisebach was entrusted with the largest number of works of art to date. 1,463 paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and photographs will be auctioned in Berlin in six sales during four days for the first time (from November 23 to 26). Major works by the most important German Expressionists adorn the broad offerings: Emil Nolde’s “Sonnenblumen im Abendlicht” (estimate EUR 1,2-1,5 million), August Macke’s paradise version of “Landschaft mit Bauer, Junge und Ziege” (EUR 700,000-1,000,000), created in 1914 only a few weeks before the artist’s death, Max Beckmann’s “Elefant und Clown im Stall” (EUR 700,000-900,000), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s “Die Violinistin” (EUR 500,000-700,000), and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s “Stilleben mit Aepfeln und Flasche” (EUR 400,000-600,000). The medium pre-sale estimate of all works amounts ... More |
| Christie's to offer American masterworks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art | | Gagosian Gallery exhibition introduces two new series of work by Richard Serra | | Sotheby's Old Master & British paintings sales to be highlighted by Jan Steen and Johann Zoffany | 
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) Portrait of a Lady (Mrs. Eldridge Reeves Johnson), circa 1915 Estimate: $250,000-350,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd. 2011.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s will offer a group of paintings formerly in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture auction at its New York saleroom on November 30, at 10 am. The five works—by Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, George Inness and Severin Roesen—are expected to realize upwards of $500,000, collectively. The museum will use these funds to strengthen its collection through the acquisition of a uniquely significant painting by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (painted 1819), purchased in a private sale that was brokered by Christie’s. The November 30 sale features a total of 136 lots, including outstanding works from diverse movements across the 19th and 20th centuries, including Hudson River School, American Impressionism, Modernism, and Western Art. Marc Porter, Chairman ... More | | 
Richard Serra, Rift #1, 2011. Paintstick on handmade paper, 110 x 160 in. Photo: Robert McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Drawings,” an exhibition introducing two new series of work by Richard Serra, July and Rifts. This is his first major drawing exhibition in Paris since 1995. Richard Serra was born in San Francisco in 1938. His groundbreaking bodies of work in both sculpture and drawing have been celebrated with major retrospectives at The Museum of Modern Art, “Richard Serra Sculpture Forty Years,” (2007) and “Richard Serra/Sculpture,” (1986). “Richard Serra Drawings: Work Comes Out of Work” was presented at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2008. He has produced large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban and landscape settings spanning the globe, from Iceland to New Zealand. In addition to the eight-part permanent installation « The Matter of Time », conceived for the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2005, Serra presented Promenade for MONUMENTA at the Grand Palais i ... More | | 
Sir Anthony Van Dyck’s Portrait of William Russell, 5th Earl and later 1st Duke of Bedford, is estimated at £150,000-200,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London, 22nd November 2011, announces that the Old Master and British Paintings Evening and Day Sales on 7th and 8th December 2011 will offer a selection of important works of exceptional quality and rarity, many of which have remained in private collections for decades, including the masterpiece by Jan Steen Card Players in an Interior (est. £4.5-6 million*). The sales, which comprise 237 lots, are estimated to fetch a combined total in excess of £21 million. Alex Bell, Sotheby’s Co-Chairman, Old Master Paintings, Worldwide, said: “We are extremely pleased to continue Sotheby’s eleventh successive year of leading in Old Master Paintings auction sales with a carefully curated offering which responds to the market demand for a wide variety of works of exceptional quality from a broad array of schools. The sale highlights demonstrate the mastery of some of the most important artists in the fiel ... More |
| Friends of Nationalmuseum purchase a painting by Flemish artist Nicolas Régnier | | Renoir's Le Bouquet, 1910, brings $657,250 in Heritage Auctions fine art sale | | The Frick updates its historic enamels room cases and conserves a remarkable collection | 
Nicolas Régnier, Fortune Telling Scene (detail), oil on canvas, 97 x 131 cm (38" x 52").
STOCKHOLM.- A centenary appeal launched earlier this year to mark the 100th anniversary of the Friends of Nationalmuseum has raised a total of SEK 10.66 million. The donations have funded the purchase of a painting by Flemish artist Nicolas Régnier, which was handed over to Nationalmuseum at a gala evening on 21 November. The goal of the Friends of Nationalmuseum centenary appeal, launched earlier in 2011, was to make a significant gift to the museum before year-end. The appeal itself raised SEK 5.33 million from donors, but the total raised was SEK 10.66 million, thanks to a decision by the association’s board to match all donations. The centenary celebrations wrapped up at a gala evening on 21 November, at which the gift was handed over: a painting entitled Fortune Telling Scene by Flemish artist Nicolas Régnier (c. 1591–1667). The work is significant because it complements and enriches Nationalmuseum’s ... More | | 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Bouquet, 1910. Oil on canvas, 17 x 12-1/2 in.
DALLAS, TX.- Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Le Bouquet, 1910, brought $657,250 as the top lot in Heritage Auctions' American & European Signature® Art Auction, Nov. 8, at Heritage's Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. Le Bouquet came to Heritage from the family of renowned Texas artist Lucien Abrams, who acquired it from Renoir's dealer, Durand-Ruel in New York during September 1933. Durand-Ruel originally obtained the painting from Renoir's family. "This wonderful still life has been with the Abrams family for nearly 80 years and has been kept in outstanding condition," said Ed Beardsley, Managing Director of Heritage Auctions' Department of Fine Arts. "Collector interest was high and bidding was spirited, proving that Abrams' heirs made the right decision to bring the painting to market now." The auction's cover lot, Daniel Ridgway Knight's Young Woman Knitting, hailing from a private collection in San Diego, CA, took ... More | | 
Mantuan (?), Nude Female Figure, early sixteenth century. Bronze, 10 ½ inches high. The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Michael Bodycomb.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- New York’s Frick Collection is home to one of the most important groups of Renaissance enamels in the world, ranking alongside those of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, The Wallace Collection and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The forty-two enamels in The Frick Collection were produced in the city of Limoges, in central France, from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. A selection of the Frick’s enamels returned to view this month after a year’s absence. During this period, many objects were examined and treated for the first time since they entered the Collection. This project was inspired by advances in the last decade in the understanding of Renaissance enamel production and composition. It has also benefited from a major international enamel conservation conference held at the ... More |
| Quinn's Fine Art auction spans Old Masters to Modern, with a premier of French paintings as its centerpiece | | Hôtel des Ventes Winter sales: 300 original photographs of the Russian imperial family | | Important works by the father of Brit Pop-Art Richard Hamilton lead Bonhams print sale | 
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), ‘Tete de Femme,’ 1930 aquatinted lithograph, 2/125, est. $8,000-$12,000. Quinn’s Auction Galleries image.
FALLS CHURCH, VA.- Some of Washington DC’s most elegant homes were the sources for Quinn’s Auction Galleries’ upcoming sale of international fine and decorative art, with an afternoon session dedicated to Asian art and antiquities. The Dec. 10 event includes 750 lots led by a selection of French paintings whose overall quality surpasses that of any seen in previous Quinn’s auctions. “We’re particularly excited about the French paintings in this sale, especially the oil-on-canvas harvest scene by Leon Augustin L’hermitte, which is expected to make $100,000 to $150,000,” said Quinn’s Executive Vice President Matthew Quinn. According to the consignor’s family records, the 32 by 38-inch artwork by L’hermitte (French, 1844-1925) was purchased from New York art dealers in the 1930s for a mere $200. “Only recently, a L’hermitte of similar size and subject matte ... More | | 
9 photographs of the Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960) wife and children, some alongside her husband Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovtch and one with his brother Emperor Nicolas II, many are signed "Xenia" CHF 400-600.
GENEVA.- On Monday 12th December, Geneva ’s Hôtel des ventes will once again spend an evening reliving the splendour of the Russian Tsars by auctioning without reserve prices over 300 original photographs, many of which signed, of the Russian Imperial family. Estimated at an approximate total of 30,000 Swiss francs, this ensemble comes directly from the private Swiss collection of Ferdinand Thormeyer, tutor for the Russian court. Discreetly guarded by the same family until the present day, these images of Emperor Alexander III, Empress Maria Feodorovna, their heir Tsar Nicholas II and his siblings afford the public a closer look at the history surrounding the family of the last Tsars from a more intimate viewpoint. Hôtel des Ventes’ Director and Principal ... More | | 
Richard Hamilton (British, 1922-2011), Release (Lullin 83; Cristea 81) detail. Screenprint in colours with silver foil collage, 1972. Estimate: £15,000-20,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Important works by the printmaker and Father of British Pop-Art, Richard Hamilton, who died earlier this year, lead Bonhams Print sale on 29 November in London. They include ‘Release’ his famous depiction of the arrest of Mick Jagger and art dealer, Robert Fraser, for possession of drugs at a notorious party at the country house of Bill Whyman. Jagger’s subsequent conviction provoked an outcry and an editorial in the Times under the heading, “Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?” questioning the sentence. Based on a photograph printed in the Daily Sketch on 29 June 1967, ‘Release’ was created in 1972 to raise money for a prisoners’ charity and became one of Hamilton’s best known images. It is estimated at £15,000-20,000. Hamilton often used photographs or film stills in his ... More |
| Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh receives six architectural design awards | | The Woodstock story told through paintings, photography, sculpture, and ceramics at D. Wigmore Fine Art | | Miami Art Museum names Emily Mello Director of education & public programs | 
The Depot District contains Raleigh’s only significant collection of buildings related to the heyday of railroad transportation and shipping in the Capital City.
RALEIGH, N.C.- CAM Raleigh announces that it has received six architectural design awards since opening in April 2011. A partnership between the community and North Carolina State University’s (N.C. State) College of Design, to date CAM Raleigh has received a 2011 AIA Design Award (Merit), an AIA Tower Award, the 2011 Carraway Honor Award of Merit from Preservation North Carolina, the 2011 Sir Raleigh Walter Award for Community Appearance, and a Downtown Raleigh Alliance Imprint Award. Located in an early twentieth-century structure in the Depot National Register Historic District, the museum’s 25,000 square-foot home inside a downtown warehouse was designed and renovated by the architectural team of Clearscapes and Brooks + Scarpa. Celebrated highlights of the building’s new design include a dramatic deconstructed roofline, new lobby, and state-of-the ... More | | 
Leon Kroll (1884-1974), After The Concert, 1922, 46 1/4 x 52 1/8 inches. Oil on canvas.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. announces its current exhibition, The Woodstock Story: Told Through Paintings, Photography, Sculpture, and Ceramics, on view through January 28. Woodstock, America’s second oldest and most successful art colony, began with the founding of the Arts and Crafts colony Byrdcliffe in 1902. Examples of White Pines pottery, photography, and furniture renderings from Byrdcliffe are on view. The Art Students League in New York City expanded the colony when it began to bring 200 students each year for its summer program in 1906. The focus of the exhibition is on works created after the New York Armory Show of 1913 which caused both traditionalists and modernists in Woodstock and across America to reevaluate their approaches to artmaking. The Armory Show moved art in Woodstock beyond Impressionism and Tonalism into a period of great diversity as artists appropriated ideas from Cubism and E ... More | | 
Prior to joining MAM, Emily served as curator of education at the Neuberger Museum of Purchase College.
MIAMI, FL.- In preparation for its move to a new, expanded facility, Miami Art Museum, a leading modern and contemporary art museum located in Miami, FL, has named Emily Mello director of education and public programs. In this role, Mello will oversee MAM’s diverse educational programming that today reaches nearly 35,000 people, and will plan for the greatly expanded educational offerings that will be available when the Museum’s new facility in downtown Miami’s Museum Park opens to the public in 2013. Now under construction, the new MAM will be more than three times the size of its current facility, and will feature an educational complex with a library, auditorium, classrooms, media lab and workshop space. Through The Knight School Education Program, an initiative made possible by a $10 million grant from the Knight Foundation, MAM will be able to serve more than twice as many school children every ... More |
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 Jail for woman who stole $1M from Mark Twain House BRIDGEPORT, CT (AP).- A woman has been sentenced to 3½ years in prison for embezzling more than $1 million from the Mark Twain House and Museum, a crime that added to the financial woes of the Hartford landmark that had been struggling to pay its bills. Donna Gregor, a 58-year-old longtime museum employee, stole the money between 2002 and 2010. She faced up to 23 years in prison after pleading guilty in August to wire fraud and filing a false tax return. The officials who run the gingerbread Gothic home on Farmington Avenue said they were happy to put the case behind them. "We are grateful that the case involving the theft of funds from the Mark Twain House and Museum has been resolved and justice has been served," the museum said on its website. "We want to assure our friends that stringent controls are in place and our financial condition is sound and we thank them for their continued interest and ... More Ingenious remodelling of 1960s London house wins 2011 RIBA Manser Medal LONDON.- The ingenious re-design and renovation of a 1960s house in Highgate, north London, by Duggan Morris Architects has scooped the Royal Institute of British Architects' prestigious Manser Medal 2011 for the best newly designed house or major extension in the UK, in association with HSBC Private Bank. The presentation of the award took place at a ceremony at the RIBA in London hosted by broadcaster Kirsty Wark, where the winner received a prize of £10,000 and a specially commissioned trophy designed by artist Petr Wiegl. Originally built in 1968 by an architect couple who lived and worked there until 1992, this Brutalist-style house had undergone unsympathetic renovation and faced demolition until it was spotted by the current owners, another architect couple, who saw the potential of the house and commissioned Duggan Morris Architects to entirely redesign the interior of the house, the garden and roof ... More Carl Barks' the Sport of Tycoons realizes a record $262,900 price to lead $5.375+ million auction BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Carl Barks' the Sport of Tycoons (1974), a classic image of Scrooge McDuck taking a dip in his money bin, finished the auction of The Kerby Confer Collection of original Disney art, comics and memorabilia with a world-record-setting $262,900 price realized. The painting was the top lot in Heritage Auctions' $5.375+ million Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature(r) Auction, Nov. 15-17. All prices include 19.5% Buyer's Premium. Even more impressive than the $5.375+ million auction total was the 99% sell-through rate by both total value and lot totals. More than 2,500 bidders vied for 1,740 lots. "This is one of the top five auctions in the history of this category," said Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President of Heritage Auctions. "The combination of rarity and quality is an irresistible mix to the world's top collectors, and they were out in force for this one." The Kerby Confer Collection finished its six-auc ... More Walk-in light sculpture designed to treat winter blues installed at Parasol Unit LONDON.- American artist James Yamada will create a dramatic installation entitled The summer shelter retreats darkly among the trees, the first artwork in Parasolstice – Winter Light; a series of outdoor projects at Parasol Unit. During the darkest months of the year, visitors will be encouraged to enjoy the health benefits of exposure to bright light by sitting inside the sculpture. The aluminium structure of the installation shelters visitors from bad weather. Integrated into its roof are light elements at 10,000 lux, the light intensity commonly used in light therapy to treat the symptoms of SAD (seasonal affective disorder). James Yamada, born 1967 in North Carolina, USA, now lives and works in New York. His recent solo exhibitions include Unless I dream of one tonight, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy, 2010; Our Starry Night, Tramway, The Hidden Garden, Glasgow, UK, 2009; and Our Starry Night, The Public ... More Original Rolling Stones album artwork for Let it Bleed on sale at Bonhams LONDON.- The original cover artwork for Let it Bleed, the Rolling Stones album which has been described as one of the greatest covers of all times, is a highlight of Bonhams next Entertainment Memorabilia auction on Thursday 15th December 2011 at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London. It is estimated to sell for £30,000-40,000. December 2011 is the 42nd anniversary of the release of 'Let It Bleed'. Recorded at Olympic Studios in London over a period of some months, it was released in the UK on 5th December 1969 and went to No.1 in the album chart and No. 3 in the US. It was the last album that Brian Jones worked on and the first to feature his replacement, Mick Taylor. In 1969, Keith Richards commissioned his close friend Robert Brownjohn to design the now-iconic cover for 'Let It Bleed'. It displays a surreal sculpture made by Brownjohn, and in the background is a cake with garish icing and the band itself in the f ... More Rodel Tapaya receives Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011 SINGAPORE.- The Singapore Art Museum and Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) Foundation announce that artist Rodel Tapaya from the Philippines has been awarded the Grand Prize (SGD 45,000) of the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011, for his artwork Baston ni Kabunian, Bilang Pero di Mabilang (Cane of Kabunian, numbered but cannot be counted). The APB Foundation Signature Art Prize recognises artists for outstanding artwork created in the preceding three years and encourages the development of contemporary art across the Asia Pacific region. The award series is the result of a 15-year partnership announced in October 2007 between SAM and APB Foundation to develop and promote contemporary visual art in the Asia Pacific region. Tapaya's artwork was selected as the Prize winning entry from 15 artworks shortlisted from the 130 nominations received from 24 countries and territories across Asia ... More Arizona museum displays bolo ties, symbol of west By: Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press
FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AP).- The sometimes plain, sometimes heavily decorated neckties are a symbol of the West, worn with everything from blue jeans to tuxedos. Texas links the bolo to the romanticism of the pioneer era and suggests that anyone who wears one refuses to be bound by convention. New Mexico says they reflect the state's tri-cultural heritage — a mix of Hispanic, American Indian and Anglo influences. In Arizona, where the bolo tie was declared the official state neckwear in 1971, an exhibit honoring the ubiquitous western neck adornment opened Saturday at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. The braided leather cord with an ornament on a sliding clasp has decorated the necks of cowboys, politicians and runway models, reflecting the bolo tie's versatility. "I just like it because ... More |
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