Source: Artnews.com Sex, Money, Glamour, Tractors - Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov are charting new terrain by using the language of Socialist Realism to comment on contemporary Russia by Nora FitzGerald Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov sit and smoke in their penthouse studio, not far from Moscow's Sheremetev Airport. Source: ArtDaily www.artdaily.org Christie's To Hold Inaugural evening Sale of Asian Contemporary Art - HONG KONG - Christie's, the world's leading art business, announced today that its first ever Evening Sale of Asian Contemporary Art and Chinese 20th Century Art will be held in Hong Kong on May 24, 2008.
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from The artnewspaper Berlin auction house finds rare early Beckmann BERLIN. Irene Lehr, director of Irene Lehr Kunstauktionen in Berlin and an expert in the art of the former German Democratic Republic, astonished the German market with a sensational discovery of a very rare early work by Max Beckmann. from Daily Campello Art News Sunday, December 16, 2007 - Major International Fine Arts Glass Show Coming to DC in 2008 You saw it here first... and it needs a little background first... First and foremost: There's an important International Fine Arts Glass Show coming to DC. This event's start is a bit complex, so pay attention! from The New York Times A Lawsuit Will Determine the Fate of 2 Picassos- You might begin by picturing a spring day in Berlin, two months after the rise of Adolf Hitler . It is late March 1933, and a man has called upon an art transporter, Gustav Knauer, to hire him for a job. from in Indepth Arts News: "Roger Cummiskey: Painter" Gallery Sigvardson Rodby, , DK Denmark
Gallery Sigvardson in Rodby, Denmark presents Roger Cummiskey's Paintings in an exhibition that runs from December Source: ArtDaily www.artdaily.org Francis Bacon's Study of Nude with Figure in a Mirror Sells For $39.7 Million at Sotheby's LONDON - Sotheby's Evening Sale of Contemporary Art tonight achieved ?95,030,000 ($189,424,299), the highest total ever for any sale of Contemporary Art held in Europe, against a pre-sale estimate of ?72,025,000-?102,855,000. Records were set for six artists. Source: ArtDaily www.artdaily.org Two Impressive Works From Watts Gallery Lead Christie's Victorian And Traditionalist Sale LONDON - Christie's announce that they will offer two impressive works at the auction of Victorian and Traditionalist Art on 5 June 2008 in London; Jasmine by Albert Joseph Moore (estimate: ?600,000-800,000) and The Triumph of Love, a painting on 4 canvases framed as one by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (estimate: ?400,000-600,000). Both works are offered from the non-core collection of Watts Gallery, Surrey, in order to raise money for the collection endowment fund at the Gallery to safeguard the future of its core collection. Source: The New York Times www.nytimes.com by Allan Ggerson Russian Art Show In London Sets Bad Precedent LONDON'S Royal Academy of Arts is drawing excited crowds with its exhibition From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 From Moscow and St. Petersburg. These 120 Impressionist and Modernist masterpieces couldn't be shown, however, until Britain acceded to a very unusual condition: that Parliament enact special legislation providing complete immunity to Russia from anyone claiming ownership of these paintings, some of which were seized by the Communists during the Bolshevik Revolution. Source: ArtDaily www.artdaily.org A Thoroughly Modern Monet Bridges The Old and The New at Christie's New York NEW YORK - Christie's International is delighted to announce the sale of Claude Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer ? Argenteuil, one of the greatest Impressionist pictures left in private hands. Painted in 1873, Le Pont du chemin de fer ? Argenteuil is a rare and luminous masterpiece of high Impressionist style and a hugely significant work in Monet's oeuvre. The work will be sold during Christie's New York Impressionist and Modern Art Evening sale on May 6. The picture may break the world auction record for the most well-known and sought-after Impressionist painter Source: ArtDaily www.artdaily.org Sotheby's Spring Sale of Indian Art, To Be Held in New York on March 19 NEW YORK - Sotheby's spring sale of Indian Art in New York will be held on March 19, 2008, and will include important Modern paintings by M.F. Husain, J. Swaminathan, Rameshwar Broota, F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, Ganesha Pyne and Arpita Singh, among others. The offering of 89 lots, which is estimated to bring $4.8/6.8 million, will be on public exhibition beginning March 13th. Source: ArtDaily www.artdaily.org Sotheby's To Hold Second London Sale of Rusian Contemporary Art LONDON - Following Sotheby's hugely successful pioneering London sale of Russian Contemporary Art in February, 2007 the Company's best-ever year for sales of Russian Art on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Sotheby's will hold its second ever sale in this category in London. Source: ArtDaily www.artdaily.org Impressionist and Modern Art Mid-Season Sale at Christie's NEW YORK - The Impressionist and Modern Art mid-season sale at Christie's Rockefeller realised $3,686,500 and was 97% sold by value, 91% by lot. The final total soared way about the highest pre-sale expectations, which stood at $2.43 million. |