ArtfixDailytm News Feed - Wednesday, May 23 2012
Chihuly Garden and Glass provides a look at the career of artist Dale Chihuly.  Located at Seattle Center, the exhibition features an Exhibition Hall offering visitors a comprehensive look at Chihuly’s significant series of work.  Visitors will also enjoy the centerpiece Glasshouse - a dramatic structure housing a suspended 1,340-piece, 100-foot-long glass sculpture -- and the Garden, which is a backdrop for a number of monumental sculptures and other installations.

Chihuly Garden and Glass Opens in Seattle

At the base of Seattle's famous Space Needle, the 45,000-square-foot Chihuly Garden and Glass opened on Monday transforming 1.5 acres of city asphalt into a glass garden oasis. Controversy has swirled around...
This Babe Ruth jersey sold for a record $4.4 million at SCP Auctions.

Babe Ruth Jersey Hits $4.4 Million at Auction

A 1920s road jersey—the earliest existing New York Yankees jersey known to have belonged to the legendary slugger Babe Ruth—soared to $4.4 million to become the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold at auction.
Matta (Chilean 1911-2002) La révolte des contraires inscribed 'Revolte des contraires' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 38 x 50 in.  (96.5 x 127 cm.) Painted in 1944.  Estimate: $1,800,000 - $2,500,000

Rivera, Matta Could Continue the 'May Madness' at Auctions

In the wake of record-breaking sales that took place earlier this month, both Christie’s and Sotheby’s will be conducting auctions of Latin American art this week. Leading the Sotheby’s line up is...
Charles Sheeler, Criss-Crossed Conveyors - Ford Plant, Negative date: 1927.  Photograph, gelatin silver print.  The Lane Collection.  Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts Receives Transformative Gift

A treasure trove of art collected by Saundra and the late William Lane has been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. On Saturday, the museum announced the extraordinary gift of 6,000 photographs, 100 works on paper, and 25 paintings, potentially valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Pioneer collectors in American modernist painting and photography...
Henri Matisse, Le bonheur de vivre, 1905-6, Oil on canvas.  175 x 241 cm.  In the collection of the Barnes Foundation.

Barnes Foundation Shows Art in a New Light

A long, contentious battle over the relocation of the multi-billion-dollar Barnes Foundation's art collection has subsided. This week, the new Barnes opens in Philadelphia after its hotly-contested uprooting from the city's suburbs.
Frederick Carl Frieseke's Foxgloves from ca.  1912-13 brought $2.2 million at Christie's.

Stand-outs in the American Art Auctions

Following the record prices achieved for post-war and contemporary art last week, sales of historic American art this week have started off with several high-flying lots. Highlights include a vibrant...
"Untitled" of 1981 by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for $16 million at Phillips de Pury.

Basquiat Record Rounds Out Blockbuster Auction Series

May has so-far ushered in a record-smashing season of auctions. Nearly $1.5 billion of art was sold in 2 weeks at three New York auction houses: Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips de Pury. The latest headliner is Jean Michel Basquiat's ‘Untitled”...
Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic "Sleeping Girl" from 1964 will be offered by Sotheby's in May 2012.

Lichtenstein Retrospective Opening Delayed Due to Members' Demands

A retrospective of the work of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, whose “Sleeping Girl” set an auction record of $45 million last week, will open May 22 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Proving the artist's current popularity, on onslaught of...
A Leica O series camera from 1923.

Leica Brings Record Price for Camera at Auction

A prototype Leica camera from 1923 brought an auction record of 2.16m euros ($2.8 million) in Vienna, Austria. One of only 12 Leica A prototypes known to survive, the camera went to...
Artnet Auctions sold an edition of Robert Indiana's American love, 1972 prints, serigraph / screenprint, for $4,025 in March 2011.

Artist Robert Indiana Sued over Sculptures

A Monaco-based art dealer is suing renowned Pop artist Robert Indiana, who is celebrated worldwide for his LOVE sculptures. The dealer bringing the suit...
Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic "Sleeping Girl" from 1964 will be offered by Sotheby's in May 2012.

Lichtenstein, Bacon Boost Sotheby's $266.6 million Sale

Led by $44.9 million final bids for Francis Bacon and Roy Lichtenstein, Sotheby's took in a grand total of $266.6 million with its Contemporary art evening sale on Wednesday. Nearly half of the offered lots went above estimates with 46 of 57 lots selling. Lichtenstein's "Sleeping Girl"...
Frieze New York 2012.  Photograph by Linda Nylind.  Courtesy of Linda Nylind/ Frieze

Sales Highlights from New York's First Frieze

An overall success, the first annual Frieze Art Fair in New York wrapped up this Monday. Held on Randall's Island in Manhattan, the fair featured 180 galleries from 30 countries, representing the crème de la crème of the contemporary art scene. There were several major standouts...
Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow brought an auction record $86,882,500 at Christie's.

Christie's Sale Shatters Records for Post-war Masters

Works by modern art giants from Rothko and Pollock to Calder and Klein sparked furious bidding at Christie's on Tuesday. A number of record-breaking prices sent the Post-war and contemporary art sale to $388.5 million, the highest total ever for the category, with 59 offered lots. From the estate of David Pincus, Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow of 1961 blazed to $86.9 million...
Art dealer Frank Faryab thinks he has rediscovered a JMW Turner.

Experts Examine a Possible Rediscovered Turner

Art and antiques dealer Frank Faryab believes he is the owner of a lost J.M.W. Turner masterpiece, and so far he has spent over $3 million to prove it. Faryab purchased the painting, a mid-size oil on panel depicting a seascape, through...

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When he wasn’t painting, Hudson River School artist David Johnson loved to draw, with confident lines on big sheets. Every once in a while his pencil traced the figure of a woman. For example, in an 1886 drawing (above), a woman in full dress looks out over a pond in the Adirondacks. In lieu of ...
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