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NATURE'S GIFTS competition results

Released: May 21, 2013

Exhibitions Without Walls’ newest on-line exhibition, NATURE’S GIFTS, is now open for review. Submissions were received from 97 photographers and digital artists. These submissions came from 16 countries and 23 states. The top three finalist selected by the Jurors were Best In Competition awarded to “2 Pelicans” and taken by Paula Rucket with second and third place going to “Best Time of Year” taken by Tom Reiman and “Point of View” created by Christophe Kiciak. To view this on-line exhibition, go to http://www.exhibitionswithoutwalls.com/?page_id=5221. ...

Lot 136, Milton Dacosta, Figura, Sold for: $41,250

Rago’s May 18 Fine Art Auctions Realize $1.9 Million

Released: May 21, 2013

Rago’s May 18 Fine Art Auctions Realize $1.9 Million. Lambertville, NJ Rago Arts and Auction Center’s Fine Art auctions on May 18 brings an impressive $1.9 million. “Results for the Contemporary Art in the Joshua Smith Collection were strong and the collection exceeded the high estimate,” said Meredith Hilferty, who directs Rago's Fine Art department. The top price in Contemporary Art was for a Kenneth Noland painting entitled “Flown” from 1978 selling for $81,250. In the early 20th C. category, a small portrait by Milton Dacosta stole the sh...

Lot 9: Grueby Kendrick vase, ca. 1905, $15,000 – 20,000

Work by Paul Evans, George Nakashima, and George Ohr Among Highlights of Rago’s June 8th-9th Auctions

Released: May 20, 2013

Other top lots by Martin Brothers, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Felix Agostini, Grueby and Gustav Stickley Lambertville, NJ On Saturday June 8th and Sunday June 9th, the Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold its auctions of Early 20th Century Decorative Arts and Modern Design. “The June action Saturday session features 30 works by George Ohr from the Ellison collection plus some extraordinary Martin ware from the same source,” says David Rago. “Additionally there are strong examples of American decorative ceramics by Rhead, Redlands, Newcomb College, and Gr...

Tim White-Sobieski. Installation of stainless steel and light sculptures "Cold Forest"

Tim White-Sobieski: stainless steel and light sculptures in Palma de Mallorca

Released: May 14, 2013

Galeria Maior is pleased to present work of Tim White-Sobieski in Palma; in 2008 Galeria Maior has exhibited the artist's installation at its satellite location in Pollença. Current project consists of mirror polished stainless steel sculptures with projected video compositions, full-color light-emitting diodes panels, and fiver-optics light installations, wall video projections. Project includes series of 24 photographs. Artist employs various multimedia sources for establishing a sacred space within his glowing photo-video-sculptural installation. Lights and projected videos are filme...

William Morris (American, born 1957) Canopic Jar: Sable Antelope, 1995. Hand blown glass. Overall height 48in; diameter 12in. Est $80,000-120,000

BONHAMS NEW YORK TO OFFER IMPORTANT STUDIO GLASS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ANTHONY TERRANA

Released: May 13, 2013

NEW YORK — Bonhams will offer Important Studio Glass from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana in the June 14 20th Century Decorative Arts auction at the Madison Avenue salesroom. Comprised of 23 impressive works created by some of today’s most gifted, innovative and influential artists in this burgeoning collecting field, this notable group inspires the mind with its exploration of the modern-day treatment of glass. 2013 marks the 51st anniversary of the birth of the American Studio Glass movement – a phenomenon which has brought glassmaking from the domain of factory crafts...

To coincide with the 245th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, the celebrated artist El Anatsui will adorn the façade of Burlington House with one of the largest wallhanging sculptures he has ever created.

Celebrated Artist El Anatsui to Transform Facade of Royal Academy's Burlington House

Released: May 12, 2013

To coincide with the 245th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, the celebrated artist El Anatsui will adorn the façade of Burlington House with one of the largest wallhanging sculptures he has ever created. Throughout his career El Anatsui has worked with many different media, including wood, paint, clay, metal and found materials, and has garnered much international acclaim for a range of spectacular site-based installations. This large-scale bespoke piece, created for the Royal Academy, measures 15m x 23m and is entitled TSIATSIA - searching for connec...

AMY LASKIN - Garden Goddesses

Released: May 1, 2013

Amy Laskin comes all the way from Kingston, Jamaica to the Carl Hammer Gallery for her first one person exhibition here, but her roots are firmly established in the traditions and history of Chicago art. Having graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and being especially inspired by her master teachers Karl Wirsum, Phil Hanson and especially Christina Ramberg and Barbara Rossi, her work is very much imbued with those early influences. Upon graduation, Laskin signed up for a stint in The Peace Corps. The land/country in ...

Jody Pinto. Fingerspan Bridge, 1987 Drawing, sheet size 60 x 72 inches. Preparatory to the installation of the nine-ton, Corten steel bridge installed over the Wissahickon Creek in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, in 1987.

LAST FEW DAYS, Families/Cities SHIFT closes Saturday

Released: May 8, 2013

This exhibition concerns two families, the Gallagher-Leeches and the Pintos, whose histories converge over the decades, from the New Deal Era through today. Both began in Philadelphia, summered in New Jersey, and made the transition to New York. Besides the geographical parallels, the families support one another in the extreme, the artists all work collaboratively, and they teach or publish or build. The paintings, drawings, prints, and installations by the nine artists in this show date from 1924 to 2012. Michael J. ...

FOUR WORKS BY MARTIN WONG, THE HUMAN INSTAMATIC, SOAR AT GROGAN'S AUCTION

Released: May 8, 2013

Dedham, MA: Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers recently conducted a four day auction of the Elli Buk Collection, one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Scientific Instruments and Technological Achievements ever assembled. For eight days, collectors and historians flocked to Dedham for a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the famed collection of SoHo antique connoisseur, Elli Buk. It took Buk forty years to amass his impressive collection of over 2000 objects spanning two centuries and over 30 collecting categories. "This was the first time ...

Feel “Free” and “Easy” at Villa Oxygene

Released: May 7, 2013

Feel “Free” and “Easy” at Villa Oxygene Priska Medam at Artisan Festival International Cannes by Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund, Art Historian Artisan Festival International World Peace Initiative, Cannes 2013 Villa Oxygene Opening – Thursday, May 23, 6 - 10 PM Artisan Festival International World Peace Initiative is supporting cultural diversity and peace, represented by independent art...

Oil painting by Childe Hassam, titled The East Hampton Elms in May ($288,000).

Childe Hassam's The East Hampton Elms in May brings $288,000 at Shannon's

Released: May 7, 2013

(MILFORD, Conn.) – A large and important oil painting by the renowned American Impressionist Childe Hassam (1859-1935), titled The East Hampton Elms in May, sold for $288,000 at an auction held Apr. 25 by Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers in Milford, Conn. The painting was the top lot of 156 works offered. Many other paintings brought high prices in an auction that grossed $2.1 million. “What this sale showed was that not only is there interest at the high end of the art market, but strong interest, too, in the middle market – artworks in the $5,000-$50,000 arena,” said auction house...

Everett Shinn (American, 1876-1953), Curtain Call, 1933, Signed and dated 1933, Pastel on paper, Sheet 19 1/8 x 13 1/2 inches. Estimate: $90,000-110,000

Doyle New York to Auction European, American, Modern & Contemporary Art on May 8

Released: May 3, 2013

On Wednesday, May 8 at 11am, Doyle New York will hold an auction of European, American, Modern and European Art. The sale presents 363 lots of important works by prominent artists from the late 19th century through the present day. Highlighting the European Art section of the sale is a circa 1885 painting by Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856-1910) titled La Blouse Rouge (est. $150,000-350,000). This depiction of a young girl in a red blouse bathed in light from an open window exhibits Cross’s use of a colorful Impressionist pallet beginning in the mid 1880s. By Emil Nolde (German, ...

Lot 602, Sean Scully (American/Irish, b. 1945), Untitled, 1985, Oil, pastel and charcoal on paper (framed), $20,000-30,000

Rago’s to Offer Two Sessions of Fine Art At Auction on May 18, 2013 Featuring Important Property from the Collection of Joshua Smith

Released: May 2, 2013

On Saturday, May 18, 2013, Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold two fine art auctions. A sale of 19th/20th Century American and European Art opens the day at 10 a.m., followed by an auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Noon. The Post-War and Contemporary Art auction begins with a group of important works from the collection of Joshua Smith. Smith began collecting in the early 1980’s, building a body of works from forward thinking artists who challenged and changed what people would be willing to see as art. This is the second time Rago’s has sold work from the collection; a ...

Rago Auction's May 16 Open House Features Artist Peter Paone on Collecting Prints

Released: May 2, 2013

Rago Auction's May 16 Open House Features Artist Peter Paone on Collecting Prints. Lambertville, NJ: The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Thursday, May 16, featuring a talk by artist Peter Paone on “The Rewards and Pitfalls of Collecting Prints” at 6 p.m. The talk takes place during the preview week for Rago’s May 18 Fine Art auction. Peter Paone will share important information for the print collector, a step by step description of the printmaking processes, the language, symbols, terminology and conservation of the print, and the...

New Work by World-Renowned Photographer Annie Leibovitz to be Featured at SJMA This Summer

Released: May 1, 2013

Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage charts a new direction for one of America’s best-known living photographers. Unlike her staged and carefully lit portraits made on assignment for magazines and for advertising clients, the photographs in this exhibition were taken simply because Leibovitz was moved by the subject. The images speak in a commonplace language to the photographer’s curiosity about the world she inherited. Included are landscapes both dramatic and quiet, interiors of living rooms and bedrooms, and objects that are talismans of past lives. The exhibition, which includes approximately ...