Christie’s Latin American Sale in New York on May 28 and 29 will feature rare masterpieces spanning from 17th century Colonial art to Contemporary paintings. Important artists represented include Diego Rivera, Leonora Carrington, Mario Carreño, Cundo Bermúdez, Wifredo Lam, Rufino Tamayo and Matta. The two-day sale will offer 276 lots and expects to realize in [...]
The weakness of this year’s Turner Prize shortlist is a lack of balance: it has three good artists and one great one, says Richard Dorment.
William Bouguereau, Les Deux Soeurs, 1899, oil on canvas, 57 by 30 ¼ in., 143.8 by 76.8 cm. Est. $1.5/1.8 million. Polly Sartori, Director of 19th Century Paintings, said, “We achieved a strong sale total of $10.8 million today with a selective offering of important works. Collectors continue to be interested in high quality pictures, [...]
Don’t even think about a trip to the Clore Gallery to see Turner/Rothko – an even more meagre display, purporting to highlight the similarities between the English landscape painter and the American Abstract Expressionist. “Black on Maroon” by Mark Rothko The comparison is specious. Hanging Turner’s Three Seascapes of c1827 next to a typical Rothko [...]
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Mousquetaire à la pipe, oil on canvas, 57 5/8 x 35 1/8 in. (146.5 x 89.3 cm.) Christie’s announced details of its Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on May 6, 2009. Comprised of 50 works from the great masters of the era, the sale presents a unique opportunity to collect [...]
The High Museum of Art will present an exhibition of four masterpieces by Claude Monet from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, beginning June 6. The installation will feature MoMA’s renowned 42-foot-wide triptych, “Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond,” which is the largest “Water Lilies” painting in the U.S. [...]
Turner & Italy begins in 1802, when the Peace of Amiens made travel on the Continent possible for British artists, and J M W Turner crossed the Alps for his first, brief glimpse of the country that was to play such a crucial role in his art. J.M.W. Turner “Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by [...]
