Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin painting to highlight Sotheby’s auction of important Russian art

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s auction of Important Russian Art on 1 November 2011 will be led by Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin’s Pearl Mosque at Delhi, the most accomplished painting from the artist’s famed Indian series and his most significant canvas to appear at auction in over a century (est. $3/5 million*). The monumental work – measuring approximately 13 by 16 feet – is on offer from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), along with seven works in the Impressionist & Modern Art [...]

The Peredvizhniki: Pioneers of Russian painting exhibition opens at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM.- This autumn’s major exhibition at Nationalmuseum, The Peredvizhniki – Pioneers of Russian Painting, opens on 29 September. Sweden’s first ever exhibition dedicated to this group of artists features over 100 pieces on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg. Works by the Peredvizhniki have long enjoyed huge popularity in Russia but remain little known abroad. Exhibition visitors now have the opportunity to discover Russian art from the era of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky. [...]

Sotheby’s New York announces a varied range of photographs for sale this October

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s fall Photographs auction on 5 October 2011 in New York will offer a varied range of material from the 19th to the 21st centuries — from an early copy of Gardner’s Sketch Book of the War to Contemporary photographs by Peter Beard, Robert Rauschenberg, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Of particular note are masterpieces of 20th-century photography by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Pierre Dubreuil, Paul Outerbridge, Imogen Cunningham, Richard Avedon, and Irving Penn, among many others. The pre-sale [...]

From the heart of the Cold War, advertising for a Communist future that never arrived

CHICAGO, IL.- The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents Vision and Communism, the first major museum exhibition to focus on the aggressive, emotionally charged work of Soviet artist and designer Viktor Koretsky (1909–1998). Featuring more than ninety posters, photographs, and maquettes—the majority of which date from the heart of the Cold War—the exhibition reveals a Communist vision of the world that is utterly unlike that of conventional propaganda. “Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Koretsky and his art [...]

“Max Liebermann: Trailblazer of Modernism” exhibition at Hamburger Kunsthalle

HAMBURG.- Max Liebermann (1847-1935) is credited with introducing Modernism to German painting. For the first time, a new exhibition at theHamburger Kunsthalle presents a comprehensive retrospective revealing how this process took place and the impressive oeuvre Liebermann was executing at the time. Disillusioned by German academia, the young Berliner turned to France and Holland where he immersed himself in the progressive trends of the day. Liebermann studied outdoor painting in Barbizon, the cradle of naturalism; in Paris he came into contact with [...]

Exhibition of painting and sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg at Gagosian Gallery in Paris

PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery Paris presents an exhibition of painting and sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg stands as one of the most inventive artists in American art, arguably the first of his generation to chart a viable course out of Abstract Expressionism towards the formal integration of art and the mess of life. His approach to making art using discarded materials, everyday objects and appropriated images eviscerated the distinctions between medium and genre, abstraction and representation, while his “flatbed picture plane” created an [...]

Major exhibition that concentrates on early works by Barry Flanagan at Tate Britain

LONDON.- Barry Flanagan (1941-2009) was one of Britain’s most original and inventive artists. This autumn Tate Britain presents a major exhibition which concentrates on his early works and positions him as a key figure in the development of British and international sculpture. Although Flanagan is well known for bronze hare sculptures which can be seen in prominent public spaces around the world, the success of these works relatively late in his career has somewhat obscured the achievements that characterised his early period. This [...]

Vancouver Art Gallery presents the work of three notable contemporary artists

VANCOUVER.- The Distance Between You and Me presents the work of three notable contemporary artists from Vancouver, Los Angeles and Guadalajara . Thematically, the exhibition revolves around the ideas of location and dislocation, not only in the geographical sense, but also in terms of psychological location. The artists – Isabelle Pauwels, Kerry Tribe and Gonzalo Lebrija – are loosely united by the geographical configuration of their locations, which form a line extending along the west coast of North America from Vancouver [...]

Lanskoy: A Russian painter in Paris exhibition at Lille Métropole Museum

VILLENEUVE D’ ASCQ- For the first time in a French museum, the exhibition Lanskoy, un peintre russe à Paris (Lanskoy, a Russian painter in Paris) presents a large-scale retrospective of the work of André Lanskoy. The museum owns a unique and exceptional collection of the artist’s works (some sixty figurative paintings and about ten abstract works), built up by Roger Dutilleul and Jean Masurel, who donated the modern art collection to LaM and who championed Lanskoy from the 1920s onwards. Through [...]

Eight works by the world-famous artist Damien Hirst donated to ARKEN Museum of Modern Art

SKOVVEJ.-Thanks to an exceptionally generous donation by the Merla Art Foundation, London, of eight works by the world-famous artist Damien Hirst, ARKEN will now be home to a significant permanent collection of works by the British artist. The donation includes the artist’s largest “spot painting” to date. This is a donation that will benefit all Danes, since the works will now become part of the national heritage. “Its amazing that my work has been so generously donated to ARKEN. It [...]

New paintings by Philadelphia-born artist Lisa Yuskavage on view at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Lisa Yuskavage, on view at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space. This will be the artist’s third solo show since her first exhibition at the gallery in 2006. Over the past two decades, Yuskavage has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young women cast within fantastical landscapes or dramatically lit interiors. They appear to occupy their own realm while narcissistically contemplating themselves [...]

Doyle New York to auction the Arthur Rothstein photograph collection in October

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Doyle New York to auction the Arthur Rothstein Photograph Collection on Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 10am. The auction offers almost two thousand prints, vintage through 1980s, from the collection of his wife, Grace Rothstein. The images span Rothstein’s long career as an award-winning photojournalist, and feature iconic Depression-era images including his iconic Dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma; as well as photographs of African-Americans in the rural South, England after the Blitz, Jewish refugees in Shangai, and stark images [...]

Sotheby’s London presents its strongest ever sale of 20th century Italian art

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announces that its forthcoming 20th Century Italian Art Sale on Thursday, October 13, 2011 will be the company’s strongest ever, both in number of lots offered and the quality of works featured. Expected to realise between £15,872,000 and £21,718,000, it is also the highest estimated sale in this collecting category ever staged by an auction house. The sale, which is highlighted by two important private collections ‘Italian Identity’ and Property from an Important New York Collection, features works by Alberto [...]

Museo de Arte de Ponce appoints Pablo Pérez d’Ors as Assistant Curator of European Art

PONCE, PR.- Museo de Arte de Ponce announces the appointment of a new member to its curatorial staff, Pablo Pérez d’Ors, whose title is Assistant Curator of European Art. Pérez d’Ors, an art historian, was born in Pamplona, Spain. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Navarra and his Ph.D. at Oxford University in England, where he specialized in Spanish Baroque painting. His doctoral thesis was titled “Devotional Painting and Preaching in 17th-Century Spain.” In 2003, Pérez d’Ors joined the [...]

Fra Angelico and the Masters of the Light at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris

PARIS.- The exhibition, which brings together nearly 60 works from major international institutions, traces the career of this major figure from the first Florentine Renaissance. The exhibition is also showing some other important artists from the Italian Primitive School who were his contemporaries. Some of them, including Ghiberti, Monaco and Masaccio, had a significant influence on the art of Fra Angelico, while others, such as Gozzoli and Lippi, drew their inspiration from his work. Thanks to the depth of his religious [...]