Dürer. Munch. Miró. The Nice Masters of Printmaking
The ALBERTINA27.01. 2023 – 14.05. 2023 The ALBERTINA presents a retrospective of the historical past of printmaking over a interval of six centuries, from Albrecht Dürer and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiki Smith and Damien Hirst. The 2 exhibitions deliberate as a pas de deux – at each ALBERTINA areas – span from works of the late Center Ages to the prints of up to date artwork. The 2 exhibitions are joined by a 3rd, because it have been, devoted solely to crucial printmaker of the twentieth century: Picasso. The primary exhibit, ‘Dürer. Munch. Miró – The Nice Masters of Printmakin… learn extra
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Picasso On the fiftieth Anniversary of his Demise
*ALBERTINA * *17 March – 18 June 2023* Precisely half a century after his passing, the ALBERTINA Museum is commemorating the life and works of Pablo Picasso, that biggest and most influential artist of the twentieth century—a pioneer of its first half with cubism, a central protagonist of symbolism throughout his Blue Interval, a forerunner of the Nineteen Twenties’ neoclassicist tendencies, and in his late works a great to be emulated by the neoexpressionist actions of the Nineteen Eighties. His oeuvre, encompassing roughly 50,000 works, displays the momentous political transformations and dynamic ava… learn extra
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Bonhams Surrealist Sale in Paris
La Révolution Surréaliste 29 MARCH 2023 [image: MAX ERNST (1891-1976) & MARIE-BERTHE AURENCHE (1906-1960) Portrait d’André Breton] La Révolution Surréaliste 29 Mar 2023 Paris, Avenue Hoche *Paris* – *Portrait d’André Breton* by *Max Ernst (1891-1976)* and his then-wife *Marie-Berthe Aurenche (1906-1960)*, leads Bonhams *La Révolution Surréaliste* sale on *29 March in Paris*. The uncommon joint work by the pair has an* estimate of €400,000 – 600,000*. Following the excellent outcomes for Bonhams’ newest gross sales devoted to Surrealism in 2021 and 2022 in London, Bonhams is delighted … learn extra
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Joan Miró. Absolute Actuality. Paris, 1920–1945
* Guggenheim Museum Bilbao* *February 10 to Could 28, 2023* – – Within the 25 years of exercise lined by the exhibition, there’s a fixed move of recent concepts starting from his preliminary magic realism to his language of constellated indicators. On this interval, it turns into clear that prehistoric artwork held a particular curiosity for Miró, who proposed returning to the daybreak of artwork as a way to retrieve its unique non secular sense. Admired for his formal improvements developed within the context of the primary avant-garde actions, particularly Dadaism and Surrealism, Miró can also be thought of a prec… learn extra
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Artwork for the Folks: WPA Period Work from the Dijkstra Assortment
* Crocker Artwork Museum* *January 29 to Could 7, 2023 * *Oceanside Museum of Artwork* *June 24 to November 5, 2023* *Huntington Library, Artwork Museum, and Botanical Gardens* *December 2, 2023 to March 18, 2024* Harry Sternberg (American, 1904–2001), *Coal Miner and Household*, 1938. Oil on panel, 24 x 48 in. Assortment of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra. The Crocker Artwork Museum is happy to announce the exhibition* Artwork for the Folks: WPA Period Work from the **Dijkstra Assortment*, on view on the Museum January 29 – Could 7, 2023. Drawn from the Assortment of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra, *Artwork for the… learn extra
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Object Classes in American Artwork
*Georgia Museum of Artwork on the College of Georgia * *February 4 to Could 14, 2023* *Florence Griswold Museum, Previous Lyme, Connecticut* June 3–September 10, 2023 *Velocity Artwork Museum, Louisville, Kentucky* Because the Princeton College Artwork Museum constructs a brand new constructing (set to open in 2024), greater than 100 works of American artwork from its assortment are touring the nation. The exhibition “Object Classes in American Artwork” will premiere on the Georgia Museum of Artwork on the College of Georgia from February 4 to Could 14, 2023. John Singleton Copley (American, 1738 – 1815), “Elkanah … learn extra
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Graphic Artwork: German Expressionist Prints from the McNay Artwork Museum and the Bronston Assortment
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Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929
Berenice Abbott’s 1929 Photographic Album of New York Metropolis Opens at The Met March 2 Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork on March 2, 2023, *Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 *will current alternatives from a singular unbound album of images of New York Metropolis created by American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), shedding gentle on the artistic strategy of one of many nice artists of the twentieth century. Consisting of 266 small black-and-white prints organized on 32 pages, the album is a form of photographic sketchbook that gives a uncommon glimpse of an artist’s thoughts a… learn extra
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Love Tales from the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, London
*Artis—Naples*, *The Baker Museum* *February 4 – Could 7* Love Tales from the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, London is an exploration of the function of affection in among the biggest masterpieces of Western artwork. With round 100 masterpieces from the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, London—essentially the most intensive portraiture assortment on the earth—Love Tales traces the function of portraiture on the altering face of affection from sixteenth-century Renaissance-era portray to up to date images. —————————— [image: David Hockney (British, b. 1937). Sir George William Langham Chr… read more
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Vermeer at the Rijkmuseum
* Johannes Vermeer is famous around the world for his paintings of calm scenes in domestic settings, for the unrivalled quality of his luminous, vibrant light, and for his impressive use of illusionism. Never before have so many paintings by Vermeer been brought together in one place. This will be the biggest ever exhibition devoted exclusively to the master painter of Delft, with a total of 28 paintings from countries all over the world, including Japan and the US. In many cases, this will be the first time they are exhibited in the Netherlands. They include three works from the Fri… read more
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Vrel, Forerunner of Vermeer
*The Mauritshuis * *16 February – 29 May 2023* * Fondation Custodia, Paris17 June 2023 – 17 September 2023* Almost everyone knows Johannes Vermeer’s quiet interiors and that little street he painted, but few people know that artist Jacobus Vrel (active c. 1640-1660) was already producing scenes of this kind before the paint was dry on Vermeer’s first masterpiece. The Mauritshuis shares the story of this mysterious painter in *Vrel – Forerunner of Vermeer.* The exhibition will tell the story of how Vrel was rediscovered in the 19th and early 20th century using a selection of his … read more
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KLIMT. INSPIRED BY VAN GOGH, RODIN, MATISSE
*Lower Belvedere* *3 February to 29 May 2023 * Which works by Vincent van Gogh did Gustav Klimt actually know? How familiar was he with Henry Matisse’s oeuvre? Together with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Belvedere traces the demonstrable influence of those avant-garde artists on the great master of Viennese Modernism. The exhibition also includes works that do not usually go on loan due to their fragile condition. With Water Serpents II, last shown publicly in Austria in 1964, one of Klimt’s major works returns to Vienna. General Director Stella Rollig: “How could we sta… read more
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Christie’s 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 February 2023- Lucian Freud
Two rare and exquisite Lucian Freud paintings that trace the artist’s enduring fascination with the natural world throughout his distinguished career will highlight Christie’s 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 February 2023. Unseen in public since 1974, *Scillonian Beachscape* (1945-46, estimate: £3,500,000-5,500,000), is an early painting by the artist, and one of a handful of works inspired by a formative visit to the Isles of Scilly, accompanied by his close friend, the artist John Craxton. During the trip, Freud created a number of drawings and completed this canv… read more
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Sotheby’s Auctions on 7 October, November 14 2022: Picasso, Mondrian
*PABLO PICASSO, FEMME ASSISE À LA GALETTE DES ROIS, 1965, OIL ON CANVAS, 100 X 73 CM.* *EST. HK$60M – 80M/ US$7.7M – 10M* This Autumn in Hong Kong, for the fourth consecutive season[1], Sotheby’s will as soon as once more current an distinctive work by Pablo Picasso in Asia. Making its public sale debut, and unseen in public for greater than thirty years, *Femme assise à la galette des rois* – a loving portrait of the artist’s second spouse, Jacqueline Roque – will lead Sotheby’s Hong Kong Trendy Artwork Night Public sale on 7 October with an estimate of HK$60-80 million / US$7.7-10 million. Picasso fi… learn extra
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Sotheby’s Trendy & Up to date Public sale on 1 March: Picasso, Munch
*LONDON, 22 JANUARY 2023 –* The ladies in Picasso’s life have at all times been on the coronary heart of the artist’s oeuvre. On September 5, 1935, a brand new muse arrived within the type of his daughter Maya, named María de la Conceptión after Picasso’s beloved late sister, and born in secrecy whereas Picasso was nonetheless married to his first spouse, the previous ballerina Olga Khokhlova. The daughter of his biggest love Marie-Thérèse Walter, Maya was to show an immense supply of happiness for Picasso. Her well timed beginning coincided with a private disaster which Picasso later known as “the worst interval of hello… learn extra
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Freeman’s biannual European Artwork & Previous Masters
Freeman’s biannual *European Artwork & Previous Masters* public sale brings one of the best of the Continent, England, and Scotland to market, and this February 14 is led by *La Fleur Préférée *(Lot 58), a hanging life-size outside portrait of a farm woman by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Supplied with an estimate of *$400,000-600,000*, the portray was executed in 1895, on the peak of Bouguereau’s profession, and boasts an in depth provenance, having initially been purchased straight from the artist. The work involves Freeman’s straight from a personal assortment in North Carolina and has been in US … learn extra
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Theodoor Rombouts Virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism
On the event of the 225th anniversary of the MSK Ghent, the museum is presenting the primary ever monographic exhibition on Theodoor Rombouts (1597-1637), the virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism. Rombouts was a longtime determine within the Antwerp artwork world. However though his portray was appreciated throughout his quick life, the Antwerp Baroque gods Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Antony Van Dyck (1599-1641) pushed Rombouts’ creative legacy into relative obscurity after his early dying. The exhibition reveals Rombouts’ creative character and locations his work in a brand new perspective. Mo… learn extra
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American Artwork | Bonhams Skinner 25 JANUARY 2023 |Grandma Moses
The January twenty fifth stay American Artwork public sale presents an exquisite assortment of works in quite a lot of types and durations. Edward Henry Potthast (American, 1857-1927) Ring Across the Rosie 24 x 30 in. (61.0 x 76.2 cm) framed 34 x 40 x 1 1/2 in. AMERICAN ART BONHAMS SKINNER 25 January 2023, 12:00 EST Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts US$200,000 – US$300,000 A pleasant, massive summer time scene by Edward Potthast of kids having fun with a romping recreation of Ring Across the Rosie leads the public sale. Different numerous specific be aware are a big oil by realist determine painter John Koch titled Manu… learn extra
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Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Membership
* Chrysler Museum * *October 7, 2022, to January 8, 2023* *New Orleans Museum of Artwork * *February 10 to Could 7, 2023* *Toledo Museum of Artwork * *June 3 to September 3, 2023* The exhibition options greater than 125 objects, together with work, sculptures, reliefs and works on paper. Lawrence’s *Nigeria* sequence (1964-65) anchors the exhibition and seems alongside works by a number of Mbari Artists and Writers Membership members, together with Duro Ladipo, Twins Seven-Seven, Muraina Oyelami, Asiru Olatunde, Jacob Afolabi and Adebisi Akanji. The present additionally consists of letters Lawrence wrote to his f… learn extra
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Uncommon compound present in Rembrandt’s The Evening Watch
A world group of scientists from the Rijksmuseum, the CNRS, the ESRF the European Synchrotron, the College of Amsterdam and the College of Antwerp, have found a uncommon lead compound (named lead formate) in [image: The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642] CAPTION The Evening Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642 CREDIT Rijskmuseum Amsterdam Rembrandt’s masterpiece *The Evening Watch*. This discovery, which is a primary within the historical past of the scientific examine of work, supplies new perception into Seventeenth-century portray method and the conservation historical past of the portray. T… learn extra
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Picasso, Man Ray and Modernist Wonders on Show! One Evening Solely!
*“The Assembly” by Man Ray, from “Revolving Doorways,” 1926. Uncommon E-book and Particular Collections Division.* *This can be a visitor put up by Emily Moore, assistant curator of the Aramont Library.* What’s a ebook, precisely? Is it an object, product of paper and ink? Is it a portal to a distinct actuality, an embodiment of reminiscence or a way of speaking throughout area and time? Can it’s artwork? “Making the Trendy E-book: The Aramont Library,” a Jan. 19 symposium within the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium, will current a few of our treasures to ask simply that query. We’re thrilled to host this occasion and that i… learn extra
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Rembrandt at Public sale II
Additionally see Rembrandt at Public sale Sotheby’s has introduced that a rare and uncommon biblical scene by Dutch Golden Age grasp Rembrandt van Rijn might be a spotlight of itsannual New York Masters Week sale sequence in January 2021. Measuring simply 6 ½ by 8 ⅜ inches (16 x 21cm), Abraham and the Angels is a profoundly lovely, gem-like portray on panel from 1646 that stands among the many best works by Rembrandt ever to come back to public sale. The portray final appeared at public sale in London in 1848, when it bought for £64, and returns to the block this January with an estimate of $20/30 mill… learn extra
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FEMME FATALE Gaze – Energy – Gender
*Hamburger Kunsthalle* *09 Dec 2022 to 10 April 2023* With the epoch-spanning exhibition *FEMME FATALE: Gaze – Energy – Gender*, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is dedicating itself for the primary time to various creative treat-ments of the dazzling and clichéd picture of the *femme fatale*. The stereotype of the erotic and seductive lady who holds males in her thrall, in the end main them to their downfall, has lengthy been formed by the male gaze and by a binary understanding of gender. The present will concentrate on varied creative manifestations of this theme courting from the early nineteenth c… learn extra
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Odysseys of Artwork: Masterpieces Collected by the Princes of Liechtenstein
*Hong Kong Palace Museum* *9.11.2022 – 20.2.2023 * This exhibition is curated from the attitude of Liechtenstein’s princes, with eight distinct sections showcasing their great historical past of accumulating by princes. The main target of the exhibition would be the thought of a long-lasting legacy, on the one hand, and the private stamp that the person princely personalities have placed on their accumulating, on the opposite. The exhibition will function the historical past of the Princely Assortment, from Prince Karl I von Liechtenstein, who based the gathering, to Prince Johann Adam Andreas I, who amas… learn extra
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Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Youthful at Public sale
[image: Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) An Extensive Wooded Landscape, 1610. Oil on copper. 20¾ x 28½ in (52.7 x 72.4 cm). Estimate £3,00,000-5,000,000. Offered in The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection Old Masters Evening Sale on 6 December 2018 at Christie’s in London] Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) *An In depth Wooded Panorama*, 1610. Oil on copper. 20¾ x 28½ in (52.7 x 72.4 cm). Estimate: £3,00,000-5,000,000. Supplied in The Eric Albada Jelgersma Assortment Previous Masters Night Sale on 6 December 2018 at Christie’s in London Mr Albada Jelgersma’s assortment additionally embrace… learn extra
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The Collector Curt Glaser From Champion of Modernism to Refugee
Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau *October 22, 2022–February 12, 2023* Curators: Anita Haldemann and Judith Rauser Titel: Bildnis Curt Glaser Künstler & Beteiligte: Max Beckmann Entstehungszeit: 1929 Materials / Technik: Öl auf Leinwand Masse: 94 x 74.3 cm; Rahmen: 98.4 x 120.7 x 6.4 cm The Kunstmuseum Basel devotes an in depth exhibition at its Neubau venue to the Jewish artwork historian and collector Curt Glaser (1879–1943). Glaser was a central determine on the Berlin arts scene of the 1910s and Nineteen Twenties and director of the Berlin Artwork Library. Together with his spouse Elsa, he constructed an excellent ar… learn extra
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Manet, Cezanne, Matisse, Renoir, Bonnard at public sale
Additionally see *Manet at Public sale* *Cezanne at Public sale* *Renoir at Public sale* *Bonnard at Public sale* Sotheby’s Impressionist & Trendy Artwork Night Sale on twenty fourth June 2015 will function *Le Bar aux Folies-Bergèr*e of 1881 by Édouard Manet, estimated at £15-20 million/ $23-30.7 million / €21-28 million depicting one of many artist’s most celebrated and iconic topics. In his celebrated evocation of the Folies-Bergère scene Édouard Manet produced from an on a regular basis setting an iconic picture of contemporary Paris. That is one among solely two work by Manet of the Folies-Bergère – the opposite housed on the … learn extra
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Kahlo and Rivera at Public sale
Kahlo’s *Diego y yo* is likely one of the artist’s final and most vital self-portraits and options the long-lasting imagery for which she is greatest remembered. The sale presents Frida Kahlo’s (1907-1954)* Dos desnudos en el bosque (La tierra misma),* 1939, (illustrated left, estimate: $8,000,000-12,000,000). This small and beautiful surrealist portray depicts a dreamlike scene between two nude girls in a forest alluding to Kahlo’s sexuality and id. Gifted by the artist to Dolores del Río, the celebrated Mexican and American actress from the Nineteen Twenties, the portray was final seen… learn extra
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Banksy and Basquait at public sale
Property from the Non-public Assortment of Sir Paul Smith BANKSY Sunflowers from Petrol Station signed ‘Banksy’ (heart left); signed and dated ‘BANKSY OCTOBER 2005’ (on the stretcher) oil on canvas, in artist’s body 40 ⅝ x 34 ⅜ in. (102.6 x 87.5 cm.) Executed in 2005. Estimate: $12,000,000 – $18,000,0000 Banksy’s *Sunflowers from Petrol Station *(estimate: $12,000,000- $18,000,000) from the gathering of Sir Paul Smith will spotlight Christie’s twenty first Century Artwork Night Sale on Tuesday, 9 November 2021. The portray, executed in 2005, might be exhibited in Christie’s New York, the place… learn extra
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Bierstadt. Hassam, Chase, and Church at Public sale
*Additionally see* *Childe Hassam at Public sale I * *Childe Hassam at Aution II* *Willam Merritt Chase at Public sale **Frederic Church at Public sale* Christie’s will launch nineteenth Century American Artwork in the course of the January 2022 Americana Week. The curated sale of 69 tons is devoted to nineteenth Century American work, drawings and sculpture, and is anchored by by Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church and John Frederick Kensett. Main the sale is the resplendent *Within the Yosemite* by Albert Bierstadt which captures the awe of Cathedral Rocks on a crystalline day, and is among the many property from the Es… learn extra
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New Vermeer Biography
REVELATORY NEW INSIGHTS UNVEILED IN NEW VERMEER BIOGRAPHY *Within the lead as much as the opening of Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition on 10 February 2023, a brand new biography printed by Rijksmuseum reveals for the primary time the complete affect the Jesuit order of the Catholic church exerted on Johannes Vermeer who had been raised a Protestant. Johannes Vermeer. Religion, Gentle, and Reflection is written by Gregor J.M. Weber, Head of the Division of Wonderful Arts on the Rijksmuseum and one of many curators of the upcoming exhibition.* *The biography’s new findings overturn standard und… learn extra
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Joseph Wright of Derby at Public sale
[image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Joseph_Wright_of_Derby_-_Academy_by_Lamplight_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg] Testomony to the genius of Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 – 1797), *An Academy by Lampligh*t is likely one of the artist’s most vital candlelight photos, and one among his final main works remaining in non-public h ands. Painted in 1769, the work is a supreme instance of Wright’s dramatic rendering of sunshine and shade and his affiliation with the Enlightenment motion. It involves the market with an estimate of £2.5 – 3.5 million, the very best estimate for a… learn extra
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Glackens, Henri and Sargent at Public sale
* Additionally see* *Glackens at Public sale* *Robert Henri at public sale* *John Singer Sargent at public sale* [image: https://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/william-james-glackens/caf-lafayette-portrait-of-kay-laurel-1914.jpg] *William Glackens’ Café Lafayette (Portrait of Kay Laurel)**, *which was Ebsworth’s first acquisition of American Artwork in 1972 (estimate: $250,000-350,000). Sotheby’s will current a bunch of 4 works from the Property of Estelle Wolf are led by [image: https://uploads4.wikiart.org/images/robert-henri/at-far-rockaway-1902.jpg!Large.jpg] Robert Henri’s *At Far Rockaway* fro… learn extra
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El Greco at Public sale II
*Additionally see El Greco at Public sale* Doménikos Theotokópoulos, referred to as El Greco (Crete 1541–1614 Toledo) *Portrait of a Gentleman* Estimate: £800,000-1,200,000 An early masterpiece by El Greco leads a bunch of three distinctive Previous Grasp work restituted to the heirs to the Julius & Camilla Priester Assortment which might be provided on the market in Christie’s Previous Masters Night Sale on 7 December, as highlights of *Traditional Week *in London. One of many earliest surviving portraits by the artist and one of many final to stay in non-public fingers, El Greco’s *Portrait of a Gentleman*, 15… learn extra
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Rubens at Public sale II
*Additionally see* *Rubens at Public sale* Peter Paul Rubens and Workshop, (Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp) The Holy Household with Saint Anne, Saint John and a Dove, oil on panel, 66 x 51 cm, framed (EUR 350,000.- to EUR 500,000.- Lastly, a newly confirmed addition to the oeuvre of Peter Paul Rubens, arguably the best and most well-travelled of Flemish artists, The Holy Household with Saint Anne, Saint John and a dove, is likely one of the first works painted by the grasp and his Antwerp workshop following his return from Rome. The work is a showpiece of Rubens’s vibrant portray method, with daring… learn extra
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Thomas Hart Benton at Public sale V
* Additionally see * *Thomas Hart Benton at Public sale* *Thomas Hart Benson at Public sale II Swann* *THOMAS HART BENTON at Public sale III – Christie’s, Doyle, Bonhams* *THOMAS HART BENTON at AUCTION: SOTHEBY’S * THOMAS HART BENTON, NOON This June marks the return of stay auctions to Sotheby’s New York, following the state’s Keep-at-Dwelling order because of the unfold of COVID-19. Distant bidding might be out there prematurely and in the course of the public sale through sothebys.com and on Sotheby’s app, in addition to by telephone with Sotheby’s specialists within the salesroom. All works at the moment are on exhibition in our New York galleri… learn extra
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Edward Hopper at Public sale II
*Additionally see Edward Hopper at Public sale* Sotheby’s American Artwork public sale in New York on 21 Could 2019 is led by Edward Hopper’s Central Park scene, *Shakespeare at Nightfall *(estimate $7/10 million), in addition to important examples by American icons equivalent to Norman Rockwell, Grant Wooden, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Mary Cassatt. Highlights from the public sale at the moment are on view in Sotheby’s newly expanded and re-imagined New York galleries, with the complete exhibition of all works opening on the Seventeenth. EDWARD HOPPER’S *SHAKESPEARE AT DUSK * Edward Hopper,* Shakespeare at Nightfall*. Estimate: $7/10 Million. C… learn extra
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Wiggins and Marin at Public sale
* See additionally * *Man Wiggins at Public sale I* *Man Wiggins at Public sale II* *John Marin at Public sale* The sale additionally features a run of works by New York artist Man C. Wiggins. Recognized for his work depicting snowy road scenes in New York, the Wiggins works on this public sale embrace *Chicago Blizzard, *oil on canvas, Nineteen Twenties ($40,000 to $60,000); *Fifth Avenue Storm, *oil on canvas board ($30,000 to $50,000); and *Winter Alongside Central Park, *oil on canvas, Thirties ($30,000 to $50,000); amongst others. Different work within the sale that includes the town that by no means sleeps incl… learn extra
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Georgia O’Keeffe at Public sale II
* See additionally Georgia O’Keefe at Public sale* PROPERTY FROM THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (1887-1986) *A Sunflower from Maggie* oil on canvas 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.) Painted in 1937. $6,000,000-8,000,000 Christie’s has introduced Georgia O’Keeffe’s *A Sunflower from Maggie* (1937), might be a featured spotlight within the twentieth Century Artwork Night Sale happening this Could in New York. The portray was deaccessioned from the gathering of the Museum of Wonderful Arts, Boston (MFA); it is going to be bought to learn acquisitions for the Museum (estimate: $6 million – $8 million… learn extra
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Dove, Hartley, Bellows, Davis, Sheeler at Public sale II
*Additionally see* *Arthur Dove at Public sale* *Marsden Hartley at Public sale* *George Bellows at Public sale* *Stuart Davis at Public sale* *Arthur G. Dove’s **River Backside, Silver, Ochre, Carmine, Inexperienced*, *circa* 1923 (estimate: $3,000,000-5,000,000), is among the many most vital works by the artist to come back to the market and displays Dove’s deep connection to the American panorama and his fascination with water. On this view trying down onto a riverbed, Dove creates an amorphous exploration of colour, line and kind, pushing illustration of nature to the sting of abstraction. *Marsden Hartle… learn extra
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Norman Rockwell at Public sale II
*Additionally see* *Norman Rockwell at Public sale* The highest lot of the American Artwork sale is *Norman Rockwell’s* famed Saturday Night Publish cowl *The Homecoming*, which was printed for the Could 26, 1945 situation, simply eighteen days after the tip of World Conflict II (estimate: $4,500,000–6,500,000). The well timed and emotional picture tells the story of a younger soldier arriving residence, the place household, neighbors and even a love curiosity rush to greet him with ecstatic pleasure. The work was described by Publish editor Ben Hibbs as “the best cowl Norman has completed; in actual fact, I’ve at all times felt that it’s the greate… learn extra
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Pissarro at public sale II
* Additionally see Camille Pisaarro at public sale* Pissarro seized by Nazis to be bought at public sale after households settle In an undated picture supplied through Christie’s, “The Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre,” by Camille Pissarro, painted in 1903. A Pissarro portray that was on the heart of a dispute between the heirs of a Jewish couple whose artwork assortment was seized by the Nazis earlier than World Conflict II and a Jewish household who purchased it in 1994 might be bought at public sale after the 2 sides reached settlement. Through Christie’s through The New York Occasions. The small print of the settlement weren’t disclosed, however Chri… learn extra
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Grandma Moses at Public sale II
* Additionally see Grandma Moses at Public sale* *Swann Galleries* will open the autumn 2020 public sale season with a sale of *American Artwork* on *September 17*. The sale encompasses the visions of Impressionism, Regionalism and early Modernism, with seaside portraits showcasing varied coastal locations that includes prominently all through the sale. A prime spotlight of the public sale is a piece by *Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Mos**es*. Accomplished at 101 years of age, *Comfortable Days* is a 1961 oil-on-masonite portray depicting a typical scene of Moses’s, a rural household working fortunately on their farm. The… learn extra
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Picasso at Public sale II
Additionally see Picasso at Public sale Christie’s is happy has introduced Pablo Picasso’s *Buste d’homme dans un cadre* from the Property of Sir Sean Connery, as a number one spotlight of the 20 th and twenty first Century Artwork Night Sale to happen on 26 Could on the Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition Centre (estimate on request; within the area of HK$150 million/ US$19 million). Supplied recent to the market and extraordinary amongst Picasso’s late works for its orderly composition, swish, decisive strains, and depth of expression, this seminal canvas is likely one of the best and most hanging of the artwork… learn extra
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Monet at public sale IIA
* Additionally see Monet at Public sale and Monet at Public sale II* Claude Monet, *Meules. *Oil on canvas. Executed in 1890, signed and dated by the artist in 1891. Estimate in extra of $55 million. Sotheby’s introduced that an everlasting image of Impressionism from Claude Monet’s iconic Haystacks sequence will lead an vital non-public assortment of eight Impressionist masterworks on supply in our Night Sale of Impressionist & Trendy Artwork on 14 Could in New York. Of the 25 canvases that the artist created within the early Nineties, Meules from 1890 is one among solely 4 works from this sequence to come back t… learn extra
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Cy Twombly and Clyfford Nonetheless at Public sale
Cy Twombly Untitled, 2005 Estimate: $35,000,000 – 45,000,000 On 15 November, Phillips’ Night Sale of twentieth Century & Up to date Artwork in New York might be led by Cy Twombly’s monumental Untitled, 2005. With distinctive provenance and estimated at $35-45 million, Untitled is a masterpiece from one among Twombly’s final epic sequence that discovered its inception in his blackboards and crystallized within the three discrete suites of work collectively often called the Bacchus sequence. The Bacchus work started in 2003 amidst the US invasion of Iraq and culminated in 2008 when the ar… learn extra
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Masterworks | Portland: Botticelli
*Dec 21, 2022 – Could 14, 2023* *The Portland Artwork Museum* is happy to current Sandro Botticelli’s masterwork *Madonna of the Magnificat*, a tondo (spherical portray) of the Madonna and Baby with angels. This not often seen work is a variant of the artist’s celebrated portray within the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, thought of one of many best Madonna and Baby work of the Renaissance and a excessive level of Botticelli’s profession. [image: Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1445–1510), Madonna of the Magnificat, ca. 1483. Tempera, oil, and gold on wood panel. Private collection. Image courtesy of … read more
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Monet at Auction II
* Also see Monet at Auction* Claude Monet’s *Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume* will be a highlight of Christie’s 20/21 London to Paris sale series, offered in the 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 June. Depicting the Thames under an effervescent sunlit haze, *Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume* (1904, estimate: in the region of £24 million) comes from Monet’s monumental, landmark series entitled *Vues du Londres (Views of London), *which celebrates London’s unique character, architecture and ever-changing atmosphere*. *The artist focused on the play of light across t… read more
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Klimt, Kandinsky , Beckmann, and Schiele at Auction II
*Also see Klimt at Auction* *and Kandinsky at auction* *and Max Beckmann at Auction* *and Egon Schiele at Auction.* Gustav Klimt, *Bauerngarten (Blumengarten), *oil on canvas, painted in 1907 (Estimate upon request) Among the finest works by Gustav Klimt ever to come to auction, *Bauerngarten *was painted during the golden years of Klimt’s career and was a highlight of the critically acclaimed *Painting the Modern Garden *exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London last year. This profoundly beautiful work is to be offered at auction for the first time in over two dec… read more
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Chagall at Public sale II
* Additionally see Marc Chagall at Public sale* Phillips – Marc Chagall’s *Le Père* Marc Chagall Le Père, 1911 Estimate: $6-8 Million On 15 November, Phillips will supply Marc Chagall’s Le Père within the New York Night Sale of twentieth Century & Up to date Artwork. Executed in 1911, throughout a transformative interval within the artist’s profession, the portray is amongst fifteen artistic endeavors that the French Authorities have restituted earlier this 12 months — a part of an ongoing effort to return works in its museums that have been wrongfully seized by the Nazi Get together throughout World Conflict II. An extended-treasured a part of the… learn extra
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Vincent van Gogh at Public sale II
*Additionally see* *Van Gogh at Public sale* *Champs près des Alpilles* oil on canvas 17.3/4 x 21.5/8 in. (45 x 55 cm.) Painted in November 1889 Estimate on request Christie’s has introduced Vincent van Gogh’s *Champs près des Alpilles*, 1889 (estimate on request; area of $45,000,000) as a number one spotlight of the twentieth Century Artwork Night Sale happening this Could at Rockefeller Heart in New York Metropolis. This uncommon work was one among two canvases despatched from the artist whereas residing in an asylum in Saint-Rémy to his shut good friend Joseph Roulin in Marseille originally of 1890. A carefully… learn extra
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Magritte and Ernst at Public sale
Additionally see Magritte at Public sale Half II and Max Ernst (at Public sale) René Magritte’s* Le Droit chemin, *a compelling exemplar of the readability of thought, compositional purity and exact execution the artist reached in his mature works, amongst different vital highlights. René Magritte (1898 – 1967), Torse nu dans les nuages. Oil on canvas, signed ‘Magritte’ (decrease left), 28 1⁄2 x 24 in (71.4 x 61 cm). Painted circa 1937. Estimate: $6,000,000 – 9,000,000. Photograph: Bonhams. René Magritte’s Torse nu dans les nuages (circa. 1937) leads Bonhams sale of The Assortment of Amalia de Schult… learn extra
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Modigliani at Public sale
Additionally see Amedeo Modigliani at Public sale and on the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork The upcoming London Night sale of Impressionist & Trendy Artwork can also be led by a shocking portrait of a youth by Modigliani *Jeune homme assis, les mains croisees sur les genoux*, by Amedeo Modigliani painted while the artist was residing on the French Riviera. Amedeo Modigliani, Jeune homme assis , les mains croisées sur much less genoux , 1918, oil on canvas (est. £16,000,000 – 24,000,000 / $ 20, 400,000 – 30,600,000 ) James Mackie, Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Trendy Artwork Division in London , mentioned:… learn extra
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Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud at Public sale
*Additionally see Francis Bacon at Public sale* *and Lucien Freud at Public sale* This October throughout London’s Frieze Week, Christie’s will current the most important and most various collection of 12 works by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, two British masters of the twentieth century. The group is led by Francis Bacon’s *Determine in Motion *(1972, estimate on request), held for 41 years within the prestigious assortment of Magnus Konow. The work is a poignant meditation on human existence, expressed by means of the reminiscence of Bacon’s muse and lover George Dyer, whose tragic suicide befell lower than thirty-six… learn extra
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Dubuffet at Public sale II
*See additionally Dubuffet at Public sale* Christie’s will spotlight its November fifteenth Night Sale of Publish-Conflict and Up to date Artwork with Jean Dubuffet’s *Les Grandes Artères*, 1961 ($15-20million). *Les Grandes Artères* is a masterful canvas from Dubuffet’s celebrated *Paris Circus* sequence*, a physique of labor which is regarded by many Dubuffet students as marking the head of the artist’s profession. With its vibrant palette, sense of vitality and the individuality that Dubuffet instills in every of his characters, *Les Grandes Artères*, is likely one of the artist’s most completed compositions fr… learn extra
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Sargent and Spain Nationwide Gallery of Artwork, Washington, *October 2, 2022–January 2, 2023* *Wonderful Arts Museums of San Francisco, * *Legion of Honor, February 11–Could 14, 2023* John Singer Sargent’s (1856–1925) decades-long captivation with Spain yielded a outstanding physique of labor depicting the wealthy and various tradition he encountered. *Sargent and Spain* is the primary exhibition to disclose the depth of this engagement and the intentional method the artist adopted there. Presenting some 140 oils, watercolors, drawings, and never-before printed images, a number of nearly definitely tak… learn extra