Alfred Sisley, La Seine à Argenteuil, 1870. (est. $1.5/2 million, £900,000/1.2 million, €1/1.5 million) Sotheby’s 4 November 2009 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York will feature seven paintings from the Durand-Ruel Collection, encompassing works by a number of the Impressionist masters that legendary art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel represented — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, [...]
With their first public artwork in Manhattan, which went up at the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery on July 17, the Brazilian brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who call themselves Os Gêmeos, bring graffiti art to its Rococo phase. Which is to say that their fantastic, epic mural, on a concrete wall [...]
Annie Leibovitz sued by Art Capital Group. American photographer Annie Leibovitz, one of the most respected in the world, will have to return a $24 million loan she received in 2008 as a result of a lawsuit filed after she did not comply with the terms of an agreement. Art Capital Group has filed a [...]
Salvador Dalí, Gala, 1931. Oil and collage on cardboard, 13,9 x 9,2 cm Antoni Pitxot, director of the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres, and Montse Aguer, director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies, have presented today the latest acquisition made by the Dalí Foundation: an oil titled Gala. This painting could be the first [...]
The Ego and the Id by Franz West. Outdoor art isn’t what it used to be. Once it honored heroic individuals and upheld values that whole populations could embrace. Today, excepting memorials like the Vietnam veterans wall, outdoor art serves rather to divert, amuse and comfort. A striking illustration of that old-new dichotomy straddles East [...]
Claude Monet, Canotiers à Argenteuil. This autumn Helly Nahmad Gallery presents a retrospective exhibition by the acknowledged principal of the French Impressionist school, Claude Monet. Taking in his diverse styles from the 1870s as he explored a wide range of subjects in all seasons and all types of weather in his commitment to painting in [...]
Artist Vladimir Zunuzin Presents Painting Process «The Parable of the Blind»