May 14th, 2024 - A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon of his great love sold for $27.7 million at Sotheby's spring sales in New York (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP) A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon of his great love sold for $27.7 million at Sotheby's spring sales in New York on Monday, topping the first night of contemporary art auctions that grossed $234.6 million. The work fell short of the $30 million to $50 million range the house had estimated for the portrait -- the first in a series of 10 the ...

May 14th, 2024 - Exhibition at Gagosian aims to show the "correspondence or unity of material among the three of them," says its curator Gagosian is due to present in London an exhibition of sculptures by three titans of post-war and contemporary art with distinctive practices: Picasso, Giacometti and Bruce Nauman. It is the first time the trio's sculptures have been shown together. There have been numerous exhibitions and publications that consider Picasso and Giacometti together and one show, in Frankfurt in ...

May 14th, 2024 - The world's most anonymous street artist is the subject of a New York City-based museum experience opening this month. Located at 227 Canal St. at Broadway in Lower Manhattan, The Banksy Museum will mark its debut to the public on Wednesday, May 15. In honoring this elusive English icon, whose works have also been spotted on various surfaces throughout NYC, the Canal Street exhibition will showcase the world's largest collection of Banksy's life-sized murals and artwork. More than 160 pieces ...

May 14th, 2024 - The sale's hammer total fell short of its estimate, but also represented an increase of 24% over the equivalent auction in 2023 Phillips sold $72.3m worth of art ($86.2m with fees) during the auction house's evening sale of Modern and contemporary art in New York on Tuesday evening (14 May). The sale's total fell short of the auction house's $75.9m to $110.3m estimate. That range also didn't include the estimates for two works that were withdrawn before the auction began: Milton Avery's Sunset ...

May 11th, 2024 - New York's major auction houses were preparing for the start of their all-important Spring sales on Monday even as Christie's came under a cyberattack that affected its website. After a drop in sales in 2023, there is hope among the hammer-wielders that good results in Europe so far this year will be repeated stateside.  David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Leonora Carrington, Joan Mitchell, Brice Marden, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alberto Giacometti, Georgia O'Keeffe are among the ...

May 11th, 2024 - Ensconced in a 15th-century Swiss manor house, he became an expert on the old masters and later tangled with heirs of a collector killed by the Nazis. For more than a half-century, Eberhard Kornfeld, a renowned art auctioneer, dealer, collector and scholar, presided over an annual June auction under a tent adjoining his Galerie Kornfeld, which made its home in a grand 19th-century mansion in Bern, Switzerland. A two-day event, the auction was a high point of the Swiss social season, at which ...

May 10th, 2024 - The movement was named for a seascape Monet painted in this often-overlooked city, France's largest seaport. But it has a museum full of Impressionist canvases, intriguing architecture and a new energy. Sign up for the Travel Dispatch newsletter. Essential news on the changing travel landscape, expert tips and inspiration for your future trips. As the fog of dawn lifted one morning in mid-November 1872, Claude Monet looked out the window of his hotel room in the French city of Le Havre and ...

May 10th, 2024 - Three weeks before a planned London gallery show of his paintings of Waterloo Bridge, Charing Cross Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, the "perfectionist" Impressionist pulled out, dissatisfied with the state of his canvases Claude Monet wanted to hold a London exhibition of his Thames paintings in 1905, but it was cancelled at the very last moment. This story will be told in the Courtauld Gallery's show Monet and London: Views of the Thames (27 September-19 January 2025). Although not all ...

May 10th, 2024 - The minimalist London home of the late financial trader Ralph Goldenberg was always intended to house art. Originally designed by architect John Pawson for Doris Saatchi , first wife of mega art collector Charles Saatchi , the white walls of its cubic rooms were for decades adorned with Goldberg's vast holdings of works by artists like Alexander Calder , Lucio Fontana and Jackson Pollock . This summer, the spirit of the iconic three-story house will be recreated by Sotheby's as it gears up to ...

May 10th, 2024 - The fair's blend of historical and contemporary works drew many admirers and solid sales, though lower price points were conspicuous Entering the second consecutive multi-fair week in the New York art trade's May diary, it was reasonable to wonder whether the abundance (if not overabundance) of supply might undo any sense that the market has perhaps at least begun to stabilise. But the Thursday preview of The European Fine Art Foundation's (Tefaf) expo in the Empire City provided a jolt of ...

Apr 25th, 2024 - This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, the 19th-century art style defined by strong brushstrokes and ordinary subjects in open-air settings. To mark the occasion, Sotheby's is auctioning one of Claude Monet 's atmospheric haystacks—a favored motif of the artist and an iconic image in the art movement. Painted in 1893, Monet's Meules à Giverny will be sold next month with an estimate above $30 million. "With his haystacks, the revolutionary ideas and techniques that ...

Apr 25th, 2024 - Picture: liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has been allocated two paintings by Monet and Degas as part of the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. The Epte in Giverny (1884), by Claude Monet (pictured), and Modiste Decorating a Hat  (1891-1895), a pastel by Edgar Degas, will be on display in the gallery from this weekend onwards. According to the museum's press release: Kate O'Donoghue, Curator of International Fine Art at National Museums ...

Apr 19th, 2024 - From pieces that played an influential role in the male-dominated New York School to nature-imbued paintings created in the French countryside, the abstract artwork of Joan Mitchell took on new lives and iterations over a career that spanned more than four decades. Now, four significant works from the American artist's oeuvre will be offered up next month by Sotheby's in its Contemporary Evening Auction. The quartet of paintings dating from 1955 to 1989 come from the same private collection and ...

Apr 11th, 2024 - On April 15, 1874 – 150 years ago – the first Impressionist exhibition opened on Rue du Capucines in Paris, featuring works by 30 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Hosted by the "Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, etc.," it was founded in response to the Paris Salon, the annual, government-sponsored exhibition that would frequently reject the works of the rising artists. The show, ...

Mar 19th, 2024 - One structured and austere, the other sensual and joyous — Paul Cezanne and Auguste Renoir were two founding fathers of Impressionism, but a new Milan exhibition explores their sharply different styles. Marking 150 years since the founding of the art movement, 52 masterpieces by the two Frenchmen are on loan from Paris for an unprecedented show at the Palazzo Reale — alongside two by Picasso, whom they inspired. The paintings date from the 1870s to the early 20th century. Renoir and ...

Mar 6th, 2024 - Like other shows that have sought to shed new light on artists known to a wide public, such as the Met's " Van Gogh's Cypresses ," "Matisse and the Sea" at the Saint Louis Art Museum illuminates the permanence of the ocean in Matisse's works and how they evolved . Through more than seventy paintings, ceramics and sculptures plus his famous paper cut-outs, Henri Matisse is revealed as not only a visionary but also a disciple and a collector. The exhibition, which considers how Matisse's stays ...

Jan 30th, 2024 - Founded in 1956, Brafa is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious annual art fairs, showing ancient and modern painting, textiles, sculpture, jewelry, silverware and furniture. This year's fair, at the iconic 1930s Brussels Expo buildings (until 4 February) features 132 international galleries from 14 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. There's plenty ...

Jan 10th, 2024 - MADRID and PARIS — Last year marked 50 years since Picasso's death, and more than 50 major exhibitions around the world have observed the occasion. But the Spaniard's life was long, and it's worth remembering that it's 116 years since he painted "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," which (along with "Guernica" ) is usually cited as his masterpiece. That might make the revelations in a new exhibition in Madrid seem like ancient history. But "Picasso 1906: The Turning Point," at the Reina Sofia ...

Jan 4th, 2024 - Institution in Washington, D.C. is 'both a museum and a megaphone' Museums seldom get the opportunity to reintroduce themselves, show how they've grown or illustrate fresh perspectives. The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., is doing just that since its recent reopening after a two-year closure for renovation and expansion.  "This major renovation has allowed us to reimagine all of our spaces," said director Susan Fisher Sterling, 68. "We've added a Learning ...

Dec 22nd, 2023 - Other highlights include the dramatic recovery of a stolen painting and an astonishing donation This has been the best year for Van Gogh exhibitions for decades, with a series of shows which break fresh ground. If I had to single out the most important, it would be V an Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: His Final Months , which opened in Amsterdam and still has a month to run in Paris, at the Musée d'Orsay (until 4 February 2024). Presenting 47 of the 74 paintings done during this short period, ...