Pierre Le Guyennec, a retired electrician, speaks to journalists outside his home in Mouans Sartoux, Southern France, 29 November 2010. Mr. Le Guyennec, who worked for Pablo Picasso, claims he has hundreds of previously unknown works by the artist. The treasure trove of 271 pieces includes lithographs, cubist paintings, notebooks and a watercolor, and is [...]
“Robert Rauschenberg,” a survey at Gagosian Gallery, includes “Palladian Xmas” (1980), with acrylic, fabric and collage on wood. Robert Rauschenberg, the subject of a chock-a-block time capsule of a show at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, was an optimist and a doer. He not only did what artists normally do: make paintings, sculptures, prints and photographs. [...]
The cover page of the auction book for U.S photographer Richard Avedon art sale is presented at Christie’s auction house in Paris, Thursday Nov.18, 2010. More than 60 photographs for the Avedon Foundation will be auctioned next Saturday. AP Photo A model in a silk Dior gown, posing with elephants. The psychedelically colored faces of [...]
The campaign to raise £2.7million so save The Procession to Calvary by Pieter Brueghel the Younger has reached just under £900,000 as the painting returns to Yorkshire to go on display at York Art Gallery on 17 November 2010. The painting, the star attraction at the National Trust’s Nostell Priory & Parkland, has been on [...]
People stand near the Alexei Bogoliubov painting “On the Eve of the Celebration, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice”. Sotheby’s autumn 2010 auctions of Russian Art in New York brought a total of $14,397,064. The day began with an inaugural sale of Important Russian Paintings that achieved $10.6 million and set several new auction records. The [...]
A painting by celebrated master Edgar Degas has been found at a New York auction nearly 40 years after being stolen from a French museum, France’s culture ministry said Wednesday. Sotheby’s removed “Blanchisseuses souffrant des dents” (“Laundry Women with Toothache”) from its impressionist art sale after France alerted the auction house that it belonged to [...]
Black Grape by Dick Evans at Newspeak 2, Saatchi Gallery The British Art Show isn’t just any old art exhibition; it’s an event of seismic significance for the visual arts in this country. Well, that’s what the organisers hope, anyway. Staged at five-year intervals, it is supposed to present an overview of how art has [...]