Jan 14th, 2021 - Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist. Published every Friday, his stories will range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist to scholarly pieces based on his own meticulous investigations and discoveries. A lost Van Gogh self-portrait had the most extraordinary frame that included his much-loved sunflowers—here it is reconstructed The painting—which went missing in a German salt mine during the war—was given a gilded frame with swirling lines A few weeks ago we told the story of the Van Gogh ...
Jan 14th, 2021 - Hamburg’s Kunsthalle to publish photographs of 843 paintings for free research tool The first online catalogue raisonné devoted to the German artist Max Beckmann will go live tomorrow with photographs of 843 paintings. Beckmann died just over 70 years ago on 27 December 1950 meaning his work entered the public domain at the end of last year. The new platform , accessible from 3 pm on 15 January, is free to use and caters to the public and Beckmann scholars, according to a statement released by the Hamburg Kunsthalle. In addition to images, the site includes data on more than 5,000 ...
Jan 13th, 2021 - The provenance of some 1,000 artworks from the notorious collection still remain unknown. Germany has restituted the 14th and what is believed to be final work of art from the notorious trove of Cornelius Gurlitt, whose art-dealer father, Hildebrand, worked with the Nazis beginning in 1938 to acquire works under duress from Jewish collectors. The latest artwork to be returned to the heirs of its rightful owner is a circa 1840 drawing by German artist Carl Spitzweg titled Das Klavierspiel ( Piano Playing) . It originally belonged to Henri Hinrichsen, a Jewish music publisher. A German Lost Art ...
Jan 13th, 2021 - The museum says it had 5.5 million unique website visitors last year, and a 23 percent increase in the number of its social-media followers. Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum , which was closed for much of last year, had its lowest attendance in decades in 2020, with visitors dropping by more than 2 million to just 675,000. That’s the lowest total for the museum since 1964, when it had 686,553 guests. But one bright spot for the Rijksmuseum was its robust online presence, including a total website revamp Where foot traffic was lacking, the web was a different story. According to the museum, ...
Jan 12th, 2021 - Around 600 unseen drawings, collages, studies and writings will flood the museum's ground-floor galleries, providing a window into the American artist's work Kept under lock-and-key in her studio for 28 years, 600 drawings, collages, studies and writings from Kara Walker’s personal archives are due to go on show at the Kunstmuseum Basel this summer. The exhibition, devised by the museum's prints and drawings department (Kupferstichkabinett), is scheduled to take place in the Kunstmuseum's third venue known as the Neubau. It will be the American artist's first major solo exhibition in ...
Jan 11th, 2021 - Picture: The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden will be opening a new exhibition in June 2021 entitled Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection . This exhibition will focus on the recent conservation of the gallery's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window . The removal of old overpaint shows that Vermeer had intended the scene to include a painting of cupid in the background. This detail, which also features in Vermeer's Lady at the Virginals in London, was overpainted at some point. The show will also feature loans from the ...
Dec 31st, 2020 - In this intimate scene from Genesis, the artist depicts the moment that Abraham’s wife Sarah learns she will bear a son When Rembrandt van Rijn ’s Abraham and the Angels last appeared at auction, in 1848, it sold for £64 (around £7,670 , or $10,500 USD, today). Come January, when the petite painting returns to the auction block for the first time in 173 years, it’s expected to fetch a substantially higher price: a staggering $20 to $30 million. As Anny Shaw reports for the Art Newspaper , the Dutch Golden Age artist’s 1646 painting is a highlight of Sotheby’s Masters Week sale , ...
Dec 31st, 2020 - Rodin, Bacon and Eileen Agar will be big, but Abramovic’s art attack could eclipse them all. Plus Frank Gehry unleashes a tornado and Helen Levitt shows how street photography should be done by , , and Art Francis Bacon: Man and Beast Screaming apes, isolated in cages – and that’s just the people. Bacon was the most atheist of artists and his vision of humans and other animals is relentlessly Darwinian, so don’t look for cuteness or sentiment in his ruthless dissections of our nature. This is a sideways look at a modern master. JJ • Royal Academy, London, 30 January-18 April. Jean ...
Dec 30th, 2020 - ROME (AP) — Like elsewhere in Europe, museums and art galleries closed in Italy in the spring and again in the fall to contain the spread of COVID-19, leaving virtual tours as the best option for art lovers who wanted to see the treasures held by institutions such as the Uffizi Galleries in Florence and the Vatican Museums in Rome. But some exquisite pieces of Italy’s cultural heritage remain on display for in-person viewing inside the country’s churches, which stayed open during the autumn resurgence of the virus. Some churches hold collections of Renaissance art and iconography that ...
Dec 29th, 2020 - Impressionism changed the way that artists paint and paved the way for contemporary art. Here are 10 of the most famous Impressionist paintings that revolutionized the art world. Most Famous Impressionist Paintings So what exactly is Impressionism? This radical art movement started in the 19th century in France. Artists rejected traditional painting methods that used precise brush strokes and stylized portraiture. Instead, they took their easels outdoors and depicted the changing light and colors. Impressionism is all about capturing the moment and breaking away from imposed norms. In Paris, ...
Dec 29th, 2020 - Salvator Mundi was sold for a record $450m at auction in 2017 to an anonymous bidder. But the painting’s provenance as the work of Leonardo has been called into question How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know This week we are revisiting some of our favourite episodes from throughout 2020. This episode was first released on 22 May 2020 A long-lost painting authenticated as the work of Leonardo da Vinci was sold for a world record price of $450m in a dramatic auction in New York in 2017. The price stunned the art world and created a storm of attention for a painting that had ...
