Picture Bought for Its Frame in Devon Sells for $78,000 at Bonhams Canadian Art Sale

TORONTO.- A stunning watercolour of Canadian Indian totems sold at Bonhams in Toronto last night (29.11.10)for $78,000 (Canadian dollars), completing a huge roundtrip that took the picture painted in Western Canada to the West Country in England, and then back to Canada. Charles Lanning, Bonhams Regional Director in Devon, says: “The picture was brought to us after it was purchased for its frame at a local Devon auction. When the buyer took it home he researched the artist and felt it [...]

Miami’s Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Presents Exhibition of Renowned Franch Artists

MIAMI, FL.- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden presents the U.S.’s largest outdoor exhibition of works by French sculptors Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne as part of its renowned, annual visual art program this year. The exhibition, Les Lalanne at Fairchild, features more than thirty sculptures, including works never before publicly exhibited in the U.S.,and one multi-piece work comprised of more than a dozen individual sculptures, installed throughout the Garden’s 83-acres of lush, tropical landscape designed by William Lyman Phillips, a key member [...]

Impressionist & Modern Art Sale at Sotheby’s in Paris Includes an André Masson Masterpiece

PARIS.- Not since Sotheby’s began staging sales of Impressionist & Modern Art in Paris has an auction had such a Surrealist feel. On December 8 Sotheby’s Paris will offer one of the finest-ever Surrealist paintings: a key work by André Masson, his 1939 Gradiva, which encapsulates the friendship and artistic co-operation between Masson and the André Breton group that started in November 1936 and lasted until 1942. The spectacular format, and the attraction of the Gradiva myth to the Surrealist psyche, [...]

Drawings and Sketches that Reflect Mexico’s Independence Period Published

MEXICO CITY.- The artistic collection of the colonel and draughtsman Theubet de Beauchamp that shows costumbrista scenes of Mexican society between 1810 and 1827, as well as important moments of the Independence, such as the coronation of Iturbide as the first emperor of Mexico, was recovered by historian Sonia Lombardo de Ruiz and published in the book Trajes y vistas de México en la mirada de Theubet de Beauchamp (Garments and Views of Mexico as seen by Theubet de Beauchamp). [...]

David Bomberg Drawings Acquired by Ben Uri Gallery with Help from the Art Fund

LONDON.- Three captivating drawings by acclaimed British artist David Bomberg are to go on display on Wednesday 8 December at the Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art. The three drawings are entitled The Family, Ghetto Theatre; Ghetto Theatre and Sappers under Hill 60. They were bought by the Ben Uri Gallery at Christie’s in July this summer with help from the Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for works of art. The works cost a total of £7,115 and [...]