Impressionism & Modern Art
PARIS — Under the watchful eye of auctioneer François de Ricqlès, Christie's totaled €12.9 million ($16.5 million) during two sales in Paris this week: The Moch collection and another, unnamed private collection were auctioned off on Tuesday, while Wednesday saw the auction house's Impressionist and Modern sale. Works by Giacometti, Miró...
PARIS — It may seem risqué to put on a show of nudes at the Arab World Institute, especially considering the prevalence of fundamentalism in Arab countries today, but once preconceived notions are set aside it makes perfect sense. "The Uncovered Body" is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art, but the works shown are anchored in a...
NEW YORK — Edvard Munch’s angst-filled masterpiece "The Scream" rocketed to a record $119,922,500 at Sotheby’s Wednesday evening. The 1895 pastel, expected to fetch in excess of $80 million, became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and the first to break the $100 million mark.It is one of four versions and the only one...
Melbourne, Australia born artist Ethel Spowers (1890-1947) is the new queen of the Grosvenor school print market after one of her works set a new record for a Grosvenor school print at a Bonhams auction held in London on the 17th of April.A copy of Spowers’ The Gust of Wind, sold as part of Bonhams ‘The Grosvenor School and Avant-Garde...
Italian painter Domenico Gnoli was just 36 when he died in New York in 1970, but at that point the artist had already been famous for 17 years. The son of art historian Umberto Gnoli and ceramicist Annie de Garon, Gnoli was first noticed for his talent as a printmaker as a teenager. Deriving inspiration from...
WHAT: "André Masson, The Mythology of Desire: Masterworks From 1925 to 1945"WHEN: April 27-June 5, 10am-6pmWHERE: Blain|Di Donna, 981 Madison Avenue (in the Carlyle Hotel), New YorkWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: Surrealism is having a moment in the market right now, so it is the perfect time for industry veterans and...
Picasso once ruffled a lot of aesthetic feathers by using Cubism to break up the traditional picture plane into a mess of fractured pieces, rearranging facial features, and painting people who didn’t look like people. The shock value the work once had, though, has largely faded — unless you are a member of the Russian Orthodox...
“Animal Beauty,” on view at Paris’s Grand Palais through July 16, is a menagerie of 120 animal-themed artworks from the Renaissance to the contemporary era. With a crowd-pleasing focus, the show aims to bring together lesser-known artists alongside big names such as Rembrandt and Picasso, and also makes a point of considering animals in...
He was Salvador Dali's secretary, advisor, accountant, driver, bodyguard, confidant, and best friend. Enrique Sabater's duties could range from negotiating the artist's payments to running out to buy moustache wax, and he has called the time he spent in Dali's employ, from 1968 to 1981, "some of the best years of my life." Dali was at...
It could be the plot of an Indiana Jones movie: A Viennese art historian believes he has discovered a looted art collection buried in the mountains of Germany — one that includes masterpieces by Monet, Cezanne, and Manet. This May, Burkhart List, 62, will lead an expedition into an old silver mine in the Erzgebirge Mountains, near the...
