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New Orleans Auction Galleries, Inc. is pleased to announce their Two-Day Estates Auction, taking place Saturday, May 19 and Sunday, May 20, 2012. This sale features over 1400 lots from a variety of private collections and estates. The first session begins at 10:00 A.M. CST on Saturday and includes lots 1-813. The Sunday session starts at 11:00 A.M. CST and includes lots 814-1444. Guests are welcome to preview daily from 9-5 for two weeks in advance of the auction, excluding Sundays. And a late evening preview party will be held on Thursday, May 17 from 5:30 – 8:00 P.M. The exhibition ...

Aspire's May 2012 online auction has 1495 lots with special categories pertaining to lifetime collections of Nautical Instruments, Snuff Bottles and Tobacciana. Another special category of thirty-five Clyde Singer paintings are being offered from a private Youngstown Ohio collection. Some highlights of the auction include five pieces of Wedgwood Fairyland luster, a pictorial frieze of sixteen Grueby tiles estimated $20,000/30,000, three sculptures by Arthur Putnam, a watch category including a Breguet 18k Chronograph, a circa 1920's rare Movado 41701 Jump Hour 14k gold ...

The “Father Of Pop Art”, Andy Warhol is undoubtedly best known for his iconic Campbell’s soup can illustrations of the 1960s; and for those now-legendary colorized photo images of Liz Taylor, Jackie Onassis, Marilyn Monroe and other social luminaries of the day. These and other works by Warhol consistently rank among the most highly-prized items on the worldwide art market. In recent years, serious collectors have also been gravitating toward a very different category of his work.   Beginning in 1949, and right up into the 1980s, Warhol designed many record album ...

Skinner, Inc. will auction prints, photographs, paintings and sculptures on Friday, May 18th in two sessions at its Boston gallery. The prints and photography portion of the sale will begin at 12 p.m.; paintings and sculptures at 4 p.m. Fine Prints Skinner continues to experience strong growth with multiples and works on paper. The upcoming sale will present an excellent assortment of prints and photography. A fine selection of modern & contemporary works will be offered, spearheaded by works of Roy Lichtenstein and Paul Klee. The cover lot is Roy Lichtenstein’s Imperfect ...

RAGO'S HOSTS AUCTION OPEN HOUSE ON MAY 8, FEATURING GUEST SPEAKER DR. ROBERT COZZOLINO.   Dr. Robert Cozzolino to speak on “Further Adventures of Pop in Chicago” at 6 pm.   Lambertville, NJ:  The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Tuesday, May 8, featuring a talk by Dr. Robert Cozzolino, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Senior Curator and Curator of Modern Art.      Dr. Cozzolino will discuss the distinctive character of Pop in Chicago during the 1960s. In exploring popular culture source material, artists trained in ...

Green Art Gallery is delighted to present the exhibition ‘Referencing History’, curated by London based curator Jane Neal. The exhibition will bring together artists Kamrooz Aram, Hale Tenger, and Ali Banisadr with a selection of some of the most internationally renowned Eastern European artists including Alexander Tinei, Daniel Pitin, Marius Bercea, Zsolt Bodoni, Ivan Grubanov, Ciprian Muresan, Mircea Suciu, and Serban Savu. The artists brought together in this exhibition share an active interest in history, be that a collective or personal one. In several cases the artists share the ...

    TABLESCAPES BY NEW TRAD DESIGNERS: ALLISON HENNESSY AND CHRISTINA MURPHY. During the Spring Show NYC from May 3 through May 6 at the Park Avenue Armory, fair-goers will encounter tablescapes created by two young, up-and-coming talents named to Traditional Home’s hot list of New Trad Designers for 2012: Allison Hennessy and Christina Murphy. Each brings her own distinctive look to tabletop decor, taking inspiration from works of art showcased in the Spring Show and reinterpreting them with a fresh modern twist.  Says Hennessy of her tablescape: “I've always ...

Weschler's May 18 Capital Collections Estate Auction will feature a wide selection of furnishings, decorations, jewelry and fine art from various local estates and private collections. Exhibition for the Friday spring sale begins Saturday, May 12th in Weschler's downtown gallery located at 909 E Street, NW Washington, DC. Highlights of the American and European fine art offerings include an oil on canvas by French artist Maximilien Luce (1858-1941) titled Baigneurs, which is estimated to bring between $80,000-$120,000; a vibrant oil on canvas, Le Pont Saint-Goustan à Auray: Morbihan ...

When artists pull at polarities, they activate the pictorial surface, reshaping the creative process. The push and pull between the polarizing optics of black and white, the dichotomy between active gesture and flat ground, and the explicit contrast between tactile surfaces and crystalline flatness are hallmarks of much postwar and contemporary art. The tension that arises from this interplay carries the work to new realms. Exemplified by the paintings and sculpture in this exhibition, these seemingly opposing aesthetic approaches, rather than working against each other, act in concert to ...

  Featuring the Reingold Collection of Sculpture and Reliefs, as well as the work of Richard Anuszkiewicz, Julian Stanczak, Roy Lichtenstein, Jules de Balincourt, Raymond Pettibon, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Frederick Judd Waugh, William Trost Richards, George Sotter, Fern Isabel Coppedge and Arthur Meltzer.   Lambertville, NJ:   On Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., the Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold three auctions of fine art: 19th/20th C. American and European Art, The Reingold Collection of Sculpture and Reliefs, and Post-War and ...

Dedham , MA-  Albers, Mapplethorpe, Avery, Picasso, Hundertwasser and Poons are just a few of the Modern masters to be offered at Grogan and Company’s upcoming May 20th auction.  The auction, which will include American and European Paintings, Prints and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th  century, will also include a large collection of Old Master Drawings from a Wellesley, Massachusetts estate, as well as Furniture, Decorative Works of Art, Jewelry, Silver and Oriental Rugs and Carpets.         The featured lot is Josef Alber’s ...

Chihuly Garden and Glass, a Seattle exhibition looking at the career of Northwest artist Dale Chihuly, today launched online ticket purchasing for its opening week of May 21, 2012. Located at Seattle Center in the shadow of the Space Needle, Chihuly Garden and Glass features interior galleries, lush outdoor gardens with large art installations and a dramatic Glasshouse, housing one of Chihuly’s largest suspended sculptures, creating an immersive art experience for all ages. “With the install of each work in the Exhibition Hall and Garden we move one step closer to presenting an ...

Spanierman Gallery is pleased to announce the opening on May 3, 2012 of Gallery Selections, presenting paintings from the 1950s to the present by Mary Abbott, Stanley Boxer, James Brooks, Dan Christensen, Willem de Kooning, Friedel Dzubas, John Ferren, Perle Fine, Balcomb Greene, Gertrude Greene, Carol Hunt, John Little, Lisa Nankivil, Stephen Pace, Charlotte Park, Katherine Parker, Jack Roth, Frank Wimberley, and Vidvuds Zviedris. The show consists of works by many artists associated with the New York School as well as artists who have carried on its tradition in vital ...

  [Washington, D.C.] Weschler's Capital Collections Estate Auction held Friday, March 30, showcased an impressive selection of American and European fine art and Asian Works of Art, enticing many determined bidders in the gallery and from around the world. The sale offered 384 lots, with over 81% of the property selling and totaling $995,022. The top lot of the day was a Chinese gilt-bronze enamel and celadon hardstone mounted cloisonné vase. The vase exceeded its estimate of $1,500-$2,500 amongst a sea of competitive phone and floor bidding and was hammered down at $81,850. ...

On Saturday, May 12, the Farnsworth Art Museum (www.farnsworthmuseum.org) in Rockland, Maine, will open a major exhibition in the museum's Wyeth Center, entitled Jamie Wyeth, Rockwell Kent and Monhegan. The show is scheduled to run through December 30, 2012. Jamie Wyeth's connection to Monhegan dates to the late 1950s, when he first went there with his father, and he has continued to paint there ever since. His connection to fellow artist Rockwell Kent goes back nearly as far. Early in his career Wyeth bought several pen and ink drawings by Kent used as the sources for his illustrations ...