May 12th, 2025 - The energy on opening night was palpable, according to TEFAF New York director Leanne Jagtiani . "No matter how consistent it is year after year, I'm always dazzled by the quality of work our exhibitors bring to the Armory," she told Observer. "Walking through the booths, you could sense the enthusiasm—exhibitors clearly felt the vibrant energy of the crowd and were engaged in meaningful conversation." Indeed, some dealers reported near-immediate sales, and others quickly found themselves ...
May 12th, 2025 - Plus, Andy Warhol's "Big Electric Chair" and a Fernando Botero nude Gerhard Richter, Mann mit zwei Kindern (1966) Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, Phillips, New York, 13 May Estimate: $4m to $6m This work, appearing at auction for the first time,connects three of Germany's most celebrated painters. In Mann mit zwei Kindern , Gerhard Richter painted his close friend Sigmar Polke as a young child on an outing with his family, an early and foundational example of Richter's photo-like ...
May 12th, 2025 - As the spring auction season kicks off, her 21st Century Evening Sale brings a tightly curated lineup led by Basquiat's 'Baby Boom' and key works by women artists. It's the week of the big spring auctions in New York , and art collectors with a little left over in their pockets from the fair weekend now turn their attention to the big three houses. Last May Christie's , Sotheby's and Phillips sold $1.4 billion during this season , a 22 percent decrease from 2023. Will we see a return to form ...
May 9th, 2025 - The two-year remodelling of the Sainsbury Wing as the National Gallery's main entrance has allowed for new restorations and fresh curation of the museum's unrivalled collection of early Renaissance pictures. The effect is revelatory I was bereft when the National Gallery closed the Sainsbury Wing to facilitate the creation of "a more welcoming entrance", led by the architect Annabelle Selldorf. For me, it has always been a home from home: a place to experience the serene beauty of a ...
May 9th, 2025 - Picture: English Heritage Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: Kenwood House, which is currently undergoing renovation in a few areas, has loaned a selection of their masterpieces to Gainsborough's House in Sudbury . According to the Suffolk gallery's website: This exhibition represents a unique opportunity to see masterpieces from Kenwood House featuring six by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88), including two of his most iconic paintings, Mary, Countess Howe (c. 1764) and Lady Brisco (c. 1776). This ...
May 7th, 2025 - Henri Matisse painted many subjects throughout his lifetime, but one he returned to again and again was his daughter, Marguerite. "Matisse and Marguerite Through Her Father's Eyes" at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris brings together more than 100 works (paintings along with drawings, prints, sculptures and ceramics) that capture the essence of Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse . The museum calls her "little known," but, as exhibition co-curator Charlotte Barat-Mabille tells Observer, "Matisse ...
May 7th, 2025 - Beth Rudin DeWoody has, over the years, amassed what is arguably one of the most extensive and eclectic collections of contemporary art, both in scale and scope. Known for her discerning eye and steadfast support of emerging talent, DeWoody has long embraced new aesthetics, experimental media and the evolving ways art mirrors the world around us. Her trove spans contemporary art, iconic design and esoteric curios—much of it made accessible to the public since 2017 through a private ...
May 6th, 2025 - If the new show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, " Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits ," were only what the title indicated — an exhibit of the paintings and drawings Van Gogh did in Arles in the last two years of his life of his friend, the postman Joseph Roulin, and his family — it would be a significant event. It would be the first show ever devoted to these intimate portraits, and would tell us some new things about an artist we all think we know through his most popular ...
May 5th, 2025 - 'Miss January' comes to market from the holdings of the influential collectors Mera and Don Rubell A painting by Marlene Dumas going up for auction this month at Christie's New York will likely break the record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a living woman artist. Miss January (1997) by Marlene Dumas will be included in Christie's 21st century evening sale on 14 May. The painting, which shows a woman nude from the waist down except for a single pink sock, is estimated ...
Apr 11th, 2025 - Eugène Boudin at the Musée Marmottan Monet Video: Musée Marmottan Monet Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: have just this week opened a new exhibition dedicated to Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) drawn in-part from a single private collection. According to their website: Collector Yann Guyonwarc'h has assembled a collection of works by Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898) that is unrivalled in any museum in the world. Every facet of the artist's career is ...
Mar 11th, 2025 - France's landscapes and cityscapes provided the perfect backdrop for the revolutionary Impressionist movement. These artists captured fleeting moments of light, color, and atmosphere, forever immortalizing locations that you can still visit today. From Monet's enchanting gardens to Renoir's lively riverside haunts, these places that inspired Impressionist artists offer a chance to step into the paintings that changed the course of art history. 1. Monet's House and Gardens in Giverny Claude ...
Jan 20th, 2025 - Exclusive: William Blake-inspired artwork to feature alongside new paintings in artist's biggest exhibition A previously unseen painting by David Hockney has been revealed for the first time before its unveiling in the biggest exhibition to be devoted to one of Britain's foremost living artists. Titled After Blake: Less is Known than People Think, the work will be among hundreds of previously unknown Hockneys that are to be displayed alongside his famous masterpieces at the Fondation Louis ...
Nov 28th, 2024 - The artist organizes a show of seldom-seen paintings at Gagosian to cast a fresh eye on Balthus's enigmatic 1933 tableau, "The Street." Parisians, most of them children with strangely adult faces, stand transfixed or walk past each other, engaged in what the urban theorist Jane Jacobs called "an intricate sidewalk ballet." That is the subject of Balthus's 1933 painting, "The Street," which has inspired the artist Peter Doig to organize an exhibition by that name at Gagosian, one that is as ...
Nov 14th, 2024 - To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BRITISH MUSEUM RECEIVES MOST VALUABLE GIFT . The British Museum has received its highest-value donation to date, as the BBC reports,in the form of 1,700 rare Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion. They were donated by the Sir Percival David Foundation , which had previously loaned the precious, thousand-year-old treasures to the museum. British ...
