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| | Christie's art sale led by the masterly panorama Derby Day by William Powell Frith
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Alize Morand employee of Christies adjusts the 'Derby Day' painting by William Powell Frith at Christies in London, Friday Dec. 9, 2011. The artwork was recently discovered in an American beach hut in New England where it had been hanging for about 50-years and is estimated to be worth £300,000 - 500,000, (US 470-780,000 dlrs ) when it is offered for sale on upcoming December 15. AP Photo / Stefan Rousseau.
LONDON.- Christie’s Victorian & British Impressionist Art sale will offer 90 paintings and works on paper at auction on 15 December 2011, by a variety of artists ranging from the Pre-Raphaelites to the British Impressionists, including Millais, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Cowper, Munnings, Clausen and de Glehn, for an overall estimate in excess of £4.5 million. The sale is led by the masterly panorama Derby Day by William Powell Frith, RA (1819-1909), which is the first original working of the famous Derby Day painting, the masterpiece of the artist at Tate Britain. Fresh to the market, this significant picture has been recently rediscovered in New England, North America where it hung on the walls of an unlocked beach house for the past 50 years - it is estimated at £300,000 to £500,000. Based on photographic studies by Robert Howlett, the Tate picture was so popular that it had to be protected by a specially installed ra ... More |
| New horned dinosaur hidden for 90 years in London's Natural History Museum | | Sotheby's Antiquities sale totals $30.9 million, marble group of Leda and the Swan sells for $19.1 million | | Guggenheim announces retrospective devoted to the sixty-year career of John Chamberlain | 
Illustration of new horned dinosaur Spinops identified from skull bone fossils overlooked in the Natural History Museum collections for over 90 years. © Dmitry Bogdanov/Natural History Museum.
LONDON.- A new species of horned dinosaur has been discovered after being unnoticed in the Natural History Museum collections for more than 90 years, scientists report today. Spinops meaning ‘spine face’, was a bulky plant-eater and had a long frill at the back of its skull. It was in the same group as Triceratops and lived in the Late Cretaceous Period. The fossilised skull bones were uncovered from Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, in 1916 and then stored amongst thousands of other dinosaur specimens in the Museum collections. The Museum’s Keeper of Geology at the time thought the fossil bones were ‘rubbish’ and so they lay unstudied, until now. ‘Apart from recognising an entirely new type of dinosaur,’ says Barrett, ‘this work shows how valuable our historical collections are: many new dinosaurs are actually recognised by carefully comparing old material in museum ... More | | 
The sale was led by A Marble Group of Leda and the Swan, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D which sold for $19,122,500 (est. $2/3 million). Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s winter sale of Antiquities took place this evening bringing a total of $30,918,375, soaring past the $5/7.6 million estimate, with 84% of the lots sold.* The sale was led by A Marble Group of Leda and the Swan, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D which sold for $19,122,500 (est. $2/3 million). The sculpture was sought by four bidders before eventually selling to an anonymous purchaser bidding over the telephone. The competition included an online bidder who participated up to $16.5 million. Leda and the Swan was recently discovered in Aske Hall, North Yorkshire and had been in the collection of the Marques of Zetland since 1789. An Egyptian Basalt Head of a King, Early Ptolemaic Period, Reign of Ptolemy I/III, circa 304-200 B.C. from the Collection of Dodie Rosekrans, the late San Francisco philanthropist and collector, sold to an online bidder for $3,722,500 (est. $100/150,000). This ... More | | 
Lord Suckfist, 1989. Painted, chromium-plated, and stainless steel, 83 3/4 × 57 × 56 inches (212.7 × 144.8 × 142.2 cm). Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Sammlung Brandhorst© 2011 John Chamberlain / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- From February 24 to May 13, 2012, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents John Chamberlain: Choices, a major retrospective comprising approximately ninety-five works by the important American artist and the first U.S. museum presentation of his work since 1986. The exhibition examines Chamberlain’s development over his sixty-year career, exploring the shifts in scale, materials, and techniques informed by the assemblage, or collage, process that has been central to his working method. Taking as a point of departure his 1971 Guggenheim exhibition, the retrospective presents works from the artist’s earliest monochromatic iron sculptures and experiments in foam, Plexiglas, and paper to his latest large-scale foil pieces, which ... More |
| Dickens and London, a new exhibition exploring one of the world's most influential authors | | Exhibition of monochromatic paintings by Bosco Sodi at The Pace Gallery | | Sotheby's Paris sale of Impressionist & Modern Art realises a total of $19,332,204 | 
Charles Dickens in his study, 1859 by William Powell Frith, London, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
LONDON.- There has not been a major exhibition on Charles Dickens in the UK since 1970. Dickens and London will be the largest exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of his birth in 2012. It will reveal that Dickens was the first great novelist of the modern city and the age of mass culture. Original and rarely seen manuscripts of his most famous novels, including Bleak House and David Copperfield, will be on show. The display examines the central relationship between Dickens and London – the city that he described as his ‘magic lantern’. Often walking the streets at night, Dickens would build in his mind the settings, plots and characters of his novels. Evoking the atmosphere of the streets of Victorian London and the river Thames, visitors will follow in Dickens’ footsteps and be taken on a memorable and haunting journey, discovering the places and subjects which sparked his imagination. The great social questions of the 19th century will be investigated ... More | | 
Bosco Sodi, Untitled, 2011. Mixed media on wood panels, set of 9 bars, 10' 7-1/2" x 6' 2" (323.8 cm x 188 cm), overall 7-1/2" x 74" (19 cm x 188 cm), each © Bosco Sodi. Photo by: Kerry Ryan McFate / Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Pace Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Mexican-born artist Bosco Sodi, featuring twelve large-scale, monochromatic paintings created in 2011 in Sodi’s studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Bosco Sodi: Ubi sunt will be on view at 545 West 22nd Street from December 9, 2011 through February 4, 2012. A catalogue with an essay by art historian, critic, and curator Mark Gisbourne will accompany the exhibition. The twelve paintings on view in the exhibition—all created with Sodi’s signature use of pure pigment, sawdust, wood pulp, natural fibers, water, and glue—range in color and saturation from vivid pink, derived from sources in Mexico, India and Morocco, to deep blue, created with lapis lazuli or indigo from Mexico or India, to ink black, harvested from dyes or more immediate sources like ... More | | 
Max Ernst, La Carmagnole (detail), huile sur toile, 28 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. Peint en 1927. Sold : 2,528,750 €.
PARIS.- Sotheby's Paris Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art realised a total of €14,437,900 / $19,332,204 (Estimate €11,184,000-15,705,000 / $14,975,264-21,028,838). The sale established sell-through rates of 74% by lot and 85.7% by value. The sale was highlighted by strong prices achieved by surrealist works and an auction record was set for a watercolour by Man Ray. Commenting on the sale, Thomas Bompard, Director of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department in Paris, said : ̋Collectors were pleased with the quality works from private collections on offer and rewarded us with sale results which were solidly within our expectations. The prices achieved for Roberto Matta and Wifredo Lam fully justify our strategy of placing them within the Surrealist group in a Paris sale. Selling well-above its pre-sale estimate, Max Ernst’s La Carmagnole (1927), the most important Ernst paintin ... More |
| 1911 signed Thomas Alva Edison photo sells in New Hampshire's RR Auction for $31,554 | | Rare Cheyenne quilled shirt among successful highlights of fine native American art auction at Bonhams | | Coke secret formula gets first new home at World of Coca-Cola museum since 1925 | 
A 1911 photograph of Thomas Alva Edison with an early alkaline battery and his penned declaration about the invention's future. AP Photo/RR Auction.
By: Kathy McCormack, Associated Press
CONCORD, NH (AP).- A 1911 photograph of Thomas Edison holding an alkaline battery with his penned declaration about the invention's importance in transportation has sold for more than $31,000, believed to be a record for a signed Edison photo. RR Auction of Amherst, N.H., said the photograph was sold Wednesday night in an online auction for $31,554. Its estimated value was $5,000. "I believe time will prove that the Alkaline Storage battery will produce important changes in our present transportation systems," Edison wrote underneath the photo. Bobby Livingston, the company's vice president of sales and marketing, said the signature, the statement's content and the photo's excellent condition accounted for the high bid. "He has that famous signature with what we call the 'umbrella ... More | | 
A Sioux quilled war shirt. Length 30in. Sold for $50,000; Est. $40,000-60,000. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Native American Art auction, December 5 at Bonhams in San Francisco, exceeded expectations, taking in more than $2.012 million in sales and drawing in competitive bidders in the auction room, online and over the phones. Leading the auction was a rare Cheyenne quilled shirt, circa 1830-1840 from The Bones Collection, that is one of the earliest examples known to exist today. It sold for $338,500 against its pre-sale estimate of $300,000-500,000. The shirt, which was sold to benefit the Southern Oregon Historical Society, was in their collection since the 1950s, and is said to have been collected at Fort McPherson in Nebraska in 1868. It may be associated with Spotted Tail, a Sioux leader, according to the family history accompanying it. The rare Cheyenne quilled shirt was just one of many successful highlights from the Plains/Plateau/Woodlands category of the sale. A selection of others included a Sioux ... More | | 
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, left, are led into the exhibit by Coca Cola Chief Executive Officer Muhtar Kent, right, in Atlanta. AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bob Andres.
By: Harry R. Weber, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP).- The Coca-Cola Co. has made its secret formula the centerpiece of a new exhibit at its corporate museum, ditching the confines of the bank vault where the list of ingredients had been stored since 1925. The world's largest beverage maker said Thursday a new vault containing the formula will be on display for visitors to its World of Coca-Cola museum in downtown Atlanta. However, the formula itself, which dates back to 1886, will remain hidden from view. Atlanta-based Coca-Cola said the decision to move the formula from a vault at SunTrust Banks Inc. had nothing to with the bank's decision in 2007 to begin selling its long-held stake in Coca-Cola. The bank, which provided underwriting services to Coca-Cola when it went public in 1919 and ... More |
| ARTisARTisART: New selection from the collection of Moscow Museum of Modern Art | | Cain Schulte Contemporary Art in San Francisco presents "Director's Choice" exhibition | | After 39 years, Fitchburg Art Museum Director Peter Timms announces retirement | 
Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), Self-portrait. 1933. Oil on canvas. 55 x 45.4.
MOSCOW.- Conversation about paintings and sculptures is the foundation to comprehending art. Artworks are discussed by viewers, critics and art historians. Artworks are commented by artists, who quote paintings and sculptures of their predecessors in their own pieces of art. From the moment of its creation, every artwork includes a set of commentaries. Thoughtful watching and talking about art mean articulating opinions and ideas conveyed in the artworks. The process is endless, and, moreover, the start and the end of it are imperceptible, as the first commentaries are hardly to be restored, and the last ones will be expressed in the distant future. To comment art is the main practice to understand it. Twenty-five topics of the exhibition deal with diverse, sometimes incompatible ways of interpretation and commenting. Each theme demonstrates not only a new logic of communication with art, but ... More | | 
Gyongy Laky, Neo-Rupee, 2011. Nails, leather, wood, 39” x 18” x 3”. Photo: Courtesy Cain Schulte Contemporary Art.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA .- Cain Schulte Contemporary Art presents a group exhibition featuring works by gallery artists David Buckingham, Will Marino, Jessica Drenk, Shawn Smith, and introducing Gyöngy Laky and Ruby Wescoat. The art works present a span of media that ranges from sculpture and drawing to site-specific sculptural installation to conceptual works. All of the works are being shown for the first time in the gallery. David Buckingham will astonish and delight old and new collectors alike with his deceptively simple found metal sculptures, which reveal a humorous and semiotic ambiguity, and remark on modern American culture. His cohesive work often recalls the aesthetic principles of Pop Art, text-based Conceptual Art and the mischievous theories of the Situationist Inter- ... More | | 
Peter Timms has been Director of the Fitchburg Art Museum’ since 1973.
FITCHBURG, MA.- In a short announcement made during remarks at the Fitchburg Art Museum’s eighty-fifth Annual Meeting today, Peter Timms, Director since 1973, announced his retirement effective December 2012. “This is the 38th time I have addressed this Corporation, and it is with a bittersweet awareness of life’s changes that I announce I will report to you just once more and that after what will be 39 years, I will retire at the next Annual Meeting.” Timms said. “It’s a great sadness, but it’s time that another chapter in the Museum’s life begins.” “A search committee under the direction of trustees Lynne Benoit and Joe Sylvia has been formed and will report their activities to the Board.” Believed to be the longest serving museum director in New England, Timms came to Fitchburg when the Museum was but a single building with three galleries - the old “ ... More |
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 China's stone workshops silenced by European crisis By: Chris Buckley
DANGCHENG (REUTERS).- Mournful ancient Roman lovers, a boy Mozart and half a dozen angels lie in weeds behind the padlocked gates of an abandoned sculpture workshop in Dangcheng town, victims of economic waves rippling across the world to this corner of northern China. Dangcheng applied the traditional stone-carving skills of this rocky part of Hebei province to boom as an exporter of ornate statues, busts, reliefs and fountains to Europe and North America. Now the town is struggling with the deep slump in once vibrant markets, especially Italy and other euro zone countries. "The boss ran away, they say. He went broke a year or two ago. Don't know where he went," said Lu Jiguang, a brawny mason from a nearby workshop who stopped by the locked gate. "There ... More New York debut of Anne Morgan Spalter at Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery NEW YORK, N.Y.- Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery announces the inaugural New York City solo show of Anne Morgan Spalter, a new-media pioneer who initiated and taught the first fine arts new media courses at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1990 and Brown University in 1992. Spalter’s exhibition, Traffic Circle, is a milestone in her two-decade odyssey in integrating art and technology. Spalter draws on centuries of work in the landscape genre but brings a new perspective on the modern landscape. With works created exclusively for this exhibition, Spalter introduces geometrically patterned video works generated from footage she shoots in traffic, from aerial perches, at airports, and on the highway. Several pieces feature iconic New York City landmarks such as Rockefeller Center. The rhythmically structured compositions isolate or abstract features and motion in the landscape, highlighting the passage ... More Art Miami solidifies its role as collectors Fair of choice during Art Week Miami 2011 MIAMI, FL.- From the moment Art Miami opened with the VIP Private Preview on November 29th, high-profile collectors flooded the aisles to experience the greatly anticipated fair. This trend continued for six days with record-breaking sales, attendance, and a multitude of events from the fair’s premier sponsors. Art Miami, Miami’s longest running contemporary art fair and anchor fair to the City of Miami, concluded its 22nd edition reporting 55,000 collectors, museum professionals, curators, artists, celebrities, interior designers and art enthusiasts over the course of the week. Distinguished for its quality, depth and diversity, Art Miami presented an incredible showcase of renowned modern and contemporary art from the 20th and 21st centuries. The 22nd edition of Art Miami took place from November 29 – December 4 in a state-of-the-art 125,000 square foot pavilion in Midtown Miami’s burgeoning Wynwood A ... More World record achieved in the fine watches, wristwatches and clocks auction at Bonhams NEW YORK, NY.- At the Fine Watches, Wristwatches and Clocks auction at Bonhams on December 8, there was active and determined bidding from around the globe, possibly in preparation for the upcoming holiday season. The sale's 163 lots achieved a sale total of $1.58 million, which include a world record that was surpassed and achieved by a stunning Patek Philippe chronograph wristwatch ref:5020P. Jonathan Snellenburg, the Director of Watches at Bonhams, stated about the sale, "We were pleased to have such an enthusiastic presence in the auction room as well as from online bidders. A lot of interest was generated during our preview tour of highlights in Hong Kong which was reflected in our results." Taking the top honors of the sale was the world record-breaking Patek Philippe chronograph ref:5020P. The top lot of the sale, claiming $338,500 against a pre-sale estimate of $280,000-350,000, was a fine and very ... More Chicago-area shop has rare Spider-Man comic book LAGRANGE, ILL (AP).- A rare Spider-Man comic book worth about $12,000 has surfaced at a suburban Chicago store. The Chicago Sun-Times reports (http://bit.ly/uUSf7E ) that a customer took the copy of "Amazing Fantasy" into Chimera's Comics in LaGrange in a paper bag filled with old comic books. Spider-Man made his debut appearance in the 1962 comic book, then priced at 12 cents. Store co-owner Steve Brown says it's an original, first printing. The book sat in owner George Toman's attic for years. Brown says a copy of the edition of "Amazing Fantasy" sold for $1 million at auction, but that Toman's copy has wear and tear. That prices it at about $12,000. The comic book is on display, framed behind a shop counter. Brown says it will probably take some time to sell. ... More |
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