Swann Galleries’ sets auction record for Jackson Pollock print which brought $102,000

NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ auction of Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & The New York School on Thursday, October 27 offered approximately 140 prints and other works by Stanley William Hayter and the artists he taught and inspired through his work at the Paris Atelier, and later in New York. Prints by Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning sold for record prices, and the sale’s top lot was a circa 1944-45 Untitled drypoint and engraving by Jackson Pollock, printed by Gabor [...]

Sotheby’s unveils a group of Modern British art from the Dartington Hall Trust Collection

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announces the sale of a remarkable group of works by British artists on behalf of The Dartington Hall Trust, to be sold as part of Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century British Art on Wednesday, 16th November 2011. The works, comprising paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and ceramics by artists including Ben Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Winifred Nicholson and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, have been carefully selected by The Dartington Hall Trust. The discrete selection of 40 works comes from a much larger and important [...]

Seattle Art Museum is the only U.S. venue for Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise

SEATTLE, WA.- Seattle Art Museum will present the only United States stop for Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise, a landmark show highlighting the complex relationship between Paul Gauguin’s work and the art and culture of Polynesia. The exhibition, on view February 9 through April 29, 2012, includes about 50 of Gauguin’s brilliantly hued paintings, sculptures and works on paper, which are displayed alongside 60 major examples of Polynesian sculpture that fueled his search for the exotic. Organized by the Art Centre [...]

Tel Aviv Museum of Art doubles size with $55 million addition by Preston Scott Cohen

TEL AVIV (AP).- Israel’s main modern art museum is unveiling a striking new wing Wednesday that provides a permanent home for hundreds of works by Israeli artists, a space lacking until now. The $55 million addition, which doubles the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s previous space, will present dozens of rotating exhibits every year but still will not suffice to permanently showcase one of the world’s largest collections of Israeli art, mostly held in storage. “Today Israeli artists are known around [...]

Phantasmagoric World of Jamie Baldridge

Jamie Baldridge was born to two hominids in 1975 in a very small town in the deep south. Much of his childhood was spent in tedium. After spending years studying Religion and Creative Writing at Louisiana State University, Jamie somehow got a BFA in Photography. After which he went on to work a string of odd, very odd, photographic gigs before receiving his MFA in Photography from the same fine institution. He is currently a professor of photography at the [...]

For the first time outside Germany: Sigmar Polke’s complete graphic works in Sao Paulo

SAO PAULO.- After organizing the special and prized exhibition German Contemporary Painting and inaugurating the international tour of Places, Strange and Quiet, a photo show by Wim Wenders, MASP creates and produces Sigmar Polke – Capitalist Realism and other illustrated histories, an exhibition with the complete series of graphic works (edition prints, 1963-2009) and other objects by the German visual artist, plus the series Day by Day (mixed media) which was a thrill in the 13th Art Biennial of São Paulo in 1975, [...]

Tate Britain announces Picasso and Modern British Art exhibition for February 2012

LONDON.- In February 2012 Tate Britain will stage the first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with Britain. Picasso and Modern British Art will examine Picasso’s evolving critical reputation here and British artists’ responses to his work. The exhibition will explore Picasso’s rise in Britain as a figure of both controversy and celebrity, tracing the ways in which his work was exhibited and collected here during his lifetime, and demonstrating that the British engagement with Picasso and his art was much deeper [...]

Fall prints auction at Bonhams a success with top lots from Frankenthaler and Warhol

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams October 25 Fine Prints sale in San Francisco, simulcast to Los Angeles, was a great success with results exceeding $1.7 million and with works from Helen Frankenthaler and Andy Warhol leading the auction. Frankenthaler’s Tales of Genji I, 1998, signed and woodcut in colors, was the top lot of the sale, taking in $40,000, exceeding its pre-sale estimate of $25,000-35,000. Frankenthaler created the woodcut print in homage to the novel The Tales of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, and [...]

Michael Schwartz: Exhibiting four centuries of top-quality European art from Rembrandt to Picasso

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- As the founder of Galerie Michael Inc., Michael Schwartz provides expertise from a lifelong career and love of art. His illustrious career as a fine art dealer spans a period of over thirty-five years. In 1978, he founded Galerie Michael in Los Angeles, a gallery dedicated to exhibiting four centuries of top-quality European art from Rembrandt to Picasso. The gallery reflects his founding philosophy of taking a long term view of working from posterity rather than prosperity bringing fine [...]

The Museo del Prado is increasing its activities by opening every day of the week

MADRID.- The Museo del Prado took the decision to increase its opening hours to every day of the week in order to improve and expand its cultural activities and thus guarantee its commitment to covering 60% of its budget through self-financing. This new initiative starts with the exhibition ‘The Hermitage in the Prado’, which will be open every day of the week, from Mondays to Sundays, from the day it opens on 8 November. The Museum’s Permanent Collection will also have new opening [...]

Phillips de Pury & Company announces the highlights from its New York Contemporary art sales

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s New York Fall 2011 Contemporary Art Part I Sale will take place on November 7 and will present 45 superb works with a pre-sale estimate of $66,560,000 – 97,970,000, representing major artistic movements across the category. Significant works by Post-War masters Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra and Cy Twombly will be offered alongside highly sought-after works by Contemporary artists such as Richard Prince, Christopher Wool, Anish Kapoor, Cindy Sherman and Jacob [...]

Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story at the Carnegie Museum of Art

PITTSBURGH, PA.- Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story, the first major retrospective exhibition of the work and legacy of African American artist Charles “Teenie” Harris, will be on view at Carnegie Museum of Art through April 7, 2012. The groundbreaking exhibition celebrates the artist/photographer whose work is considered one of the most complete portraits anywhere of 20th-century African American experience. Large-scale, themed photographic projections of nearly 1,000 of Teenie Harris’s greatest images accompanied by an original jazz soundtrack generate an immersive experience in [...]

Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay on view at the National Museum of Singapore

SINGAPORE.- Instead of travelling 12 long hours to Paris to appreciate the world’s finest collection of modern art, Singaporeans can now view over 140 Salon, Realist, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works from the greatest painters in the likes of Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas and many more at the National Museum of Singapore. Titled Dreams & Reality: Masterpieces of Painting, Drawing & Photography of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, the exhibition will enthrall visitors from 26 October 2011 to [...]