May 20th, 2024 - Catalogue Raisonné of the Louvre's Van Dycks Picture: Louvre Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: I don't believe AHN spotted this story last year, however, the Louvre in Paris published a fascinating catalogue raisonné of Van Dyck's paintings in the museum. The volume was written by the museum's curator Blaise Ducos. Amazingly, the catalogue also has an free online version which is filled with interesting catalogue notes (in French). Well recommended browsing, if you don't mind ...
May 20th, 2024 - "There is evidently something about Holbein that resonates strongly with modern audiences" Judging by the queues I saw stretching outside the King's Gallery (formerly the Queen's Gallery), in London, I think we can declare the Royal Collection's recent Holbein exhibition a blockbuster. Certainly, Holbein at the Tudor Court was excellent, as all Royal Collection shows are, and the Tudors are always popular. But there is evidently something about Holbein that resonates strongly with modern ...
May 20th, 2024 - Infinity , a never publicly seen painting by Yayoi Kusama is coming to auction at Bonhams ' Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong next week. The red-and-black painting from 1995 comes with an estimate of over $5 million. The painting is a rare example of Kusama combining two of her most well-known motifs, dots and the infinity nets. Compositionally the work is split in two, with black dots on a red background on the right side and a black and red net on ...
May 17th, 2024 - Annina Nosei , an Italian gallerist who for decades represented notable artists like Ghada Amer , Robert Longo and Richard Prince and was the first dealer to represent Jean-Michel Basquiat , is donating the catalogue archives of her eponymous gallery to Magazzino Italian Art. Located in Cold Spring, New York, the museum is dedicated to promoting postwar and contemporary Italian art in the U.S. Nosei selected the institution because of her gallery's early emphasis on Italian artists like Nunzio ...
May 16th, 2024 - Video: Museum Barberini Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Museum Barberini in Potsdam opened a new exhibition at the end of last month dedicated to the subject of Modigliani: Modern Gazes . According to the blurb on the museum's website: Almond-shaped, sightless eyes are an unmistakable feature of Modigliani's style. With their stoic noblesse, his portraits and nudes have become icons of modern art. Like Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani provoked both hostility and admiration, and ...
May 16th, 2024 - Late British painter's Les Distractions de Dagobert, 'the apotheosis of Carrington's oeuvre', was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch The auction record for British surrealist Leonora Carrington was smashed at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday night, marking a new high point for the artist, who lived in Mexico for most of her life and was until her death in 2011 one of the last surviving participants of the surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington's 1945 painting Les Distractions de Dagobert was ...
May 16th, 2024 - The results were led by Monet's 'Meules à Giverny' and Leonora Carrington's record-breaking 'Les Distractions de Dagobert' Breaking through the gloom and doom of a softening market, Sotheby's Modern evening sale delivered a robust $198.1m ($235.1m with fees) on Wednesday (15 May). The tally landed the auction midway between its pre-sale expectations of $180.2m to $250.7m (calculated without fees). Only two of the 50 lots offered went unsold, for a muscular sell-through rate of ...
May 16th, 2024 - A David Hockney painting bought by famed US screenwriter and producer Norman Lear for $64,000 is expected to fetch up to $35 million at auction. "A Lawn Being Sprinkled" is going under the hammer as part of a sale of the collection of Norman Lear and Lyn Davis Lear that is estimated to bring in more than $50 million, according to a statement from auction house Christie's. Lear paid what was a record-breaking price for a Hockney work when he acquired the painting in 1978, according to the ...
May 15th, 2024 - In the reopened galleries, rotating exhibits highlight collection gems—including seven newly conserved Buddha statues—and technology add-ons expand learning Visitors to the newly renovated Japanese art galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) will be anchored in the familiar but drawn to deeper exploration. The renovation, which opened last weekend, features important climate, technological and aesthetic upgrades to highlight and safeguard the largest and most diverse ...
May 14th, 2024 - Exhibition at Gagosian aims to show the "correspondence or unity of material among the three of them," says its curator Gagosian is due to present in London an exhibition of sculptures by three titans of post-war and contemporary art with distinctive practices: Picasso, Giacometti and Bruce Nauman. It is the first time the trio's sculptures have been shown together. There have been numerous exhibitions and publications that consider Picasso and Giacometti together and one show, in Frankfurt in ...
May 10th, 2024 - The minimalist London home of the late financial trader Ralph Goldenberg was always intended to house art. Originally designed by architect John Pawson for Doris Saatchi , first wife of mega art collector Charles Saatchi , the white walls of its cubic rooms were for decades adorned with Goldberg's vast holdings of works by artists like Alexander Calder , Lucio Fontana and Jackson Pollock . This summer, the spirit of the iconic three-story house will be recreated by Sotheby's as it gears up to ...
Apr 25th, 2024 - This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, the 19th-century art style defined by strong brushstrokes and ordinary subjects in open-air settings. To mark the occasion, Sotheby's is auctioning one of Claude Monet 's atmospheric haystacks—a favored motif of the artist and an iconic image in the art movement. Painted in 1893, Monet's Meules à Giverny will be sold next month with an estimate above $30 million. "With his haystacks, the revolutionary ideas and techniques that ...
Apr 25th, 2024 - Picture: liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has been allocated two paintings by Monet and Degas as part of the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. The Epte in Giverny (1884), by Claude Monet (pictured), and Modiste Decorating a Hat (1891-1895), a pastel by Edgar Degas, will be on display in the gallery from this weekend onwards. According to the museum's press release: Kate O'Donoghue, Curator of International Fine Art at National Museums ...
Apr 19th, 2024 - From pieces that played an influential role in the male-dominated New York School to nature-imbued paintings created in the French countryside, the abstract artwork of Joan Mitchell took on new lives and iterations over a career that spanned more than four decades. Now, four significant works from the American artist's oeuvre will be offered up next month by Sotheby's in its Contemporary Evening Auction. The quartet of paintings dating from 1955 to 1989 come from the same private collection and ...
Apr 11th, 2024 - On April 15, 1874 – 150 years ago – the first Impressionist exhibition opened on Rue du Capucines in Paris, featuring works by 30 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Hosted by the "Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, etc.," it was founded in response to the Paris Salon, the annual, government-sponsored exhibition that would frequently reject the works of the rising artists. The show, ...
Mar 19th, 2024 - One structured and austere, the other sensual and joyous — Paul Cezanne and Auguste Renoir were two founding fathers of Impressionism, but a new Milan exhibition explores their sharply different styles. Marking 150 years since the founding of the art movement, 52 masterpieces by the two Frenchmen are on loan from Paris for an unprecedented show at the Palazzo Reale — alongside two by Picasso, whom they inspired. The paintings date from the 1870s to the early 20th century. Renoir and ...
Mar 6th, 2024 - Like other shows that have sought to shed new light on artists known to a wide public, such as the Met's " Van Gogh's Cypresses ," "Matisse and the Sea" at the Saint Louis Art Museum illuminates the permanence of the ocean in Matisse's works and how they evolved . Through more than seventy paintings, ceramics and sculptures plus his famous paper cut-outs, Henri Matisse is revealed as not only a visionary but also a disciple and a collector. The exhibition, which considers how Matisse's stays ...
Jan 30th, 2024 - Founded in 1956, Brafa is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious annual art fairs, showing ancient and modern painting, textiles, sculpture, jewelry, silverware and furniture. This year's fair, at the iconic 1930s Brussels Expo buildings (until 4 February) features 132 international galleries from 14 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. There's plenty ...
Jan 10th, 2024 - MADRID and PARIS — Last year marked 50 years since Picasso's death, and more than 50 major exhibitions around the world have observed the occasion. But the Spaniard's life was long, and it's worth remembering that it's 116 years since he painted "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," which (along with "Guernica" ) is usually cited as his masterpiece. That might make the revelations in a new exhibition in Madrid seem like ancient history. But "Picasso 1906: The Turning Point," at the Reina Sofia ...
Jan 4th, 2024 - Institution in Washington, D.C. is 'both a museum and a megaphone' Museums seldom get the opportunity to reintroduce themselves, show how they've grown or illustrate fresh perspectives. The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., is doing just that since its recent reopening after a two-year closure for renovation and expansion. "This major renovation has allowed us to reimagine all of our spaces," said director Susan Fisher Sterling, 68. "We've added a Learning ...
