Art Gallery of Ontario Acquires Record Ten Works by Four Canadian Artists at Art Toronto 2010

TORONTO.- Ten works by four contemporary Canadian artists will be joining the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario after an evening of important acquisitions at the annual art fair’s Opening Night Preview. Four works by Kingston-based artist Mike Bayne, four works by Montreal-based artist Adad Hannah, and a work each from Toronto-based An Te Liu and Vancouver-based Ron Terada were purchased with funds raised at the preview, a benefit for the AGO.  “We were thrilled with the number of outstanding works by [...]

Fair Weather at The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show

NEW YORK, NY.- Sixty-five of the world’s most influential art and antique dealers converged on the Park Avenue Armory, October 22-28, 2010 to participate in the 22nd annual International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show, a greatly anticipated event of the New York fall season. The prestigious “International Show” – which is the flagship fair organized by Anna and Brian Haughton – has retained its position as the premier showcase in America for top dealers from Europe and the United States for [...]

Tronies: Dialogue Between Marlene Dumas and the Old Masters at Haus der Kunst in Munich

MUNICH.- The dialogue-exhibition contrasts works by Marlene Dumas with historical examples of the Tronie art form. Tronies are portrait paintings that are characterized by a particularly virtuosic handling of the artistic means, intense expressiveness and individual physiognomy. It was only recently that Tronies were discovered to be an independent form of painting through art historical research.  Marlene Dumas, Naomi, 1995. Öl auf Leinwand, 150 x 110 cm. Private Sammlung © Marlene Dumas Tronies  The word Tronies comes from 16th and 17th [...]

1970 Masterpiece by Wifredo Lam to Lead Sotheby’s November Latin American Art Sale

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announced that the highlight of the 16 and 17 November sales of Latin American Art will be Wifredo Lam’s 1970 masterpiece Les Abalochas Dansent Pour Dhambala, dieu de l’unité (est. $1.75/2.25 million). The painting was one of Lam’s favorite works and graced the salon of his Italian home in Albissola. It leads a group of Masterworks from a Private Collection, Aspen; select paintings from which fetched $4.3 million and were 100% sold at the Latin American Art auction [...]

Edward Hopper and His Time at The Whitney Museum of American Art

NEW YORK, NY.- As American artists rebelled against the academic art and aristocratic portraiture that predominated at the turn of the twentieth century, they began looking to modern life for their subject matter. One of central figures in this dramatic shift was Edward Hopper, whose work is exhibited in relation to his most important contemporaries in Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time, opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on October 28, 2010.  Placing Hopper beside such artists as Robert Henri, [...]

Sotheby’s to Offer one of the Most Important Work by Titian to Appear at Auction in Nearly Twenty Years

NEW YORK, NY.- A monumental work by the Renaissance master Titian will be offered early next year in Sotheby’s sale of Important Old Master Paintings in New York on 27 January 2011. A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria is one of only a handful of multi-figured compositions by the 16th century artist remaining in private hands and the most important to appear at auction since 1991. It will be shown the public for the first [...]

19th Century Dutch and Belgian Paintings from the Rademakers Collection at the Hermitage

ST. PETERSBURG.- The exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum showcases 70 works from the collection of Jef Rademakers, one of the largest private collections of nineteenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings in Europe. Today it includes over 100 pictures by Romanticists, the earliest dating from 1806 and the latest from the 1870s. The paintings on display deal with the entire range of subjects that attracted Romantic artists from the Low Countries: summer and winter landscapes, seascapes and townscapes, a variety of still-lifes, night scenes, [...]

Exhibition of New Work by Photographer Abelardo Morell at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.-Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by photographer Abelardo Morell.  The exhibition at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery features the most recent additions to Morell’s celebrated series of camera obscura works. Using this centuries old optical principle in combination with digital camera work, Morell blacks out windows in rooms while leaving a small hole open, the aperture, which, in effect, transforms the space into a camera, thus overlaying the world outside inside.  Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura: View of [...]

Sotheby’s Sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics to Be Highlighted by a Blue And White “Peony” Jar

LONDON.- In the wake of Sotheby’s record-breaking Autumn sales series in Hong Kong, which totalled over HK$3 billion, Sotheby’s biannual sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art in London will take place on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 and presents for sale over 350 lots. The auction, estimated to realise approximately £5.76 million, will be headlined by a Magnificent Blue and White ‘Peony’ Jar, Guan, Yuan Dynasty, mid 14th century.  A magnificent Blue and White ‘Peony’ Jar, Guan, Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) comes [...]

Damián Ortega Finds Inspiration in a Newspaper to Create Barbican Art Gallery’s Latest Exhibition

LONDON.- Over the period of a month leading up to the exhibition opening, acclaimed Mexican artist Damián Ortega worked in The Curve creating new works on a regular basis in response to aspects of the daily news. Each day he took inspiration from a newspaper. This could be a news item, a photographic story or graphics selected from local, national or international press which he translated into a physical interpretation be it a sculpture, installation, proposition or prototype for a future [...]

Swann Galleries Sets World Record Price For Any Print by James A. M. Whistler Sold at Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ auction of Whistler and His Influence on Wednesday, October 27 offered approximately 150 prints by James A. M. Whistler and his followers. Nearly 20 of these set world auction records, including the sale’s top lot, a very early impression of Nocturne, etching and drypoint on Japan paper, 1879-80, which became the most expensive Whistler print ever sold at auction when it brought $282,000.  James A. M. Whistler, Nocturne, etching and drypoint, 1879-80. Sold for $282,000. Image: [...]

Landmark Exhibition of German Artist Hans Hartung’s Late Paintings Opens at Cheim & Read

NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read presents a landmark exhibition of Hans Hartung’s late paintings, dating from 1987–1989. This is the first showing of Hartung’s works in New York since his controversial 1975 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and focuses on the artistic output of his last years of life. The show will be accompanied by a full color catalogue with an essay by Joe Fyfe.  Hans Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1904, but is often identified by [...]

Städel Museum Opens “In Chronological Order: Städel Works of the 14th to 21st Centuries”

FRANKFURT.- The holdings of the Städel Museum comprise masterpieces of European art from the late Middle Ages to the present. The temporary closure of its galleries in the course of the redevelopment measures carried out in the old building as part of the Städel’s extension and of making the new building accessible via the old building offers the unique opportunity to show the museum’s familiar treasures in an entirely new context. The temporary presentation of the Städel’s collection under the title “In Chronological [...]

Sotheby’s Presents Highlights from 19th Century European Art Auction in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- On 4 November, Sotheby’s 19th Century European Art auction will feature select works by important and popular artists, schools and styles of the genre. The curated sale, consisting of 82 lots with a pre-sale estimate of $20/30 million, contains eight works with high estimates at or above $1 million*, and will be exhibited in Sotheby’s New York galleries 29 October – 3 November, timed to coincide with Sotheby’s auctions of Impressionist & Modern Art. This exciting week at Sotheby’s promises [...]

Oakland Museum of California Acquires Historic “All of Us or None” Poster Collection

OAKLAND, CA.- The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) announced the acquisition of the renowned All Of Us Or None poster collection. Representing one of the most significant social movement collections in existence today, the acquisition of 23,500 posters documenting all streams of progressive activity—covering the 1960s poster renaissance that began in San Francisco, and including almost every political movement in the U.S. between the 1960s and the1990s—reinforces OMCA’s dedication to telling the dynamic, multi-perspective story of California. All Of Us [...]