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Impressive Paintings Prevail at Gray’s May Auction
Released: May 3, 2013Gray’s Auctioneers is pleased to announce their Fine Art, Antiques and Decorative Arts Auction, which will take place in Cleveland on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The auction features an eclectic array of art objects from across the globe, including African masks, Chinese jade, Persian rugs and German bisque dolls, as well as an impressive collection of paintings spanning the breadth of art historical periods and styles. One of the most important artworks included in the auction is Lot 29, a painting by notable British painter, Montague Dawson. The subject of Dawson’s image is the fie...
JOSEPH GOLDYNE: WATERFALLS
Released: March 18, 2012Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery is proud to present JOSEPH GOLDYNE: WATERFALLS, the international debut of a breathtaking new body of paintings by critically acclaimed artist, Joseph Goldyne. For centuries, the waterfall has been an important symbol for innumerable cultures and religions. In Zen Buddhism, the waterfall represents changelessness vs impermanence--a constancy of form despite a perpetual change in content. In China, the falling water symbolizes femininity and the upward climbing rocks, masculinity--a yin and yang, if you will. Influenced as much by the abstr...
100 Unearthed Lots and Asian Art Headline Clarke Auction's March 18th Auction for Asia Week 2012
Released: March 13, 2012The last 100 lots of Clarke Auction’s March 18th sale include a variety of American and International oil paintings, drawings, and prints that the Auction had unearthed from a storage unit, earlier this week, but the discovery of the fine art is not the only conquest of Clarke Auction for the upcoming auction. The day’s auction, starts at 2:00pm, will include a worldly collection of art, furniture, and silver. Just as Mark Antony adored Cleopatra, so too does Clarke have a fondness for Egyptian beauty, as exemplified in the oil and sand on masonite painting, entitled “Le Menestral,” by...
Renoir, Matisse & Tiffany featured in Gray’s March 15 Auction.
Released: March 9, 2012Cleveland, OH - Gray's Auctioneers' Fine Furniture, Paintings and Decorations auction takes place on March 15 at 11am in Cleveland, Ohio. Live online bidding for this auction is provided by Live Auctioneers. Offering two sessions, the first for Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Arts at 11am and the second for Fine Books, Autographs and No Reserve Books starting at 3pm. With over 600 lots the auction highlights include lot 31, Tête de Femme, a charming, oil on canvas by Pierre-August Renoir which is catalogued in G.-P. and M. Dauberville's Renoir, Catalogue Raisonné des Tabl...
ASIA WEEK IS ON THE HORIZON AS CAROLE DAVENPORT READIES HER SHOW, PULSEPOINTS: OBJECTS FROM THE HISTORY OF JAPANESE ART
Released: February 28, 2012Artworks of beauty, serenity, and power dominate Carole Davenport's Asia week exhibition, her 16th consecutive outing. An elegant ceramic vessel from the 2nd millenium BC, the Jomon era, and a strong single character calligraphy by the famed artist Morita Shiryu, (1912-1999), bracket the date range of art works to be presented. The haunting image of a handsome, young nobleman in the form of a Noh mask carved in the 17th century by the master Deme Yukan Mitsuyasu provides a focal point of the exhibition. It exemplifies the expressive and sensitive nature of Japanese art. A cornucopia of Jap...
Gray's to Auction Renoir's Tête de Femme on November 17
Released: November 15, 2011Gray's to Auction Renoir's Tête de Femme. Cleveland, OH. On November 17, 11am EST, Gray's Auctioneers will hold their 53rd Auction: Fine Art, Decorations and Jewelry. This multifarious auction boasts fine art pieces from artists such as Renoir, Albert Bierdstadt and Ansel Adams, as well as Asian scrolls, sculpture and wardrobe; gorgeous diamonds, stunning silver and a rare 19 ft vintage cedar canoe. The focal point of this auction is centered on lot 33, Tête de Femme, an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919.) From extended loan at the Dallas Museum of Art, throug...
October Fine Art & Antiques Auction by Aspire Auctions, Inc.
Released: October 11, 2011The October online auction cataloge has been posted for viewing at www.aspireauctions.com. Bidding opens this Friday October 14th and lots close the following week, October 20th & 21st. It's a timed auction, so you can bid anytime from anywhere, up until the timer runs out for the lot. Lots close in 1 minute intervals, over a two day period. There are 982 lots, ranging from fine paintings, sculpture, Asian, sterling, fine watches & jewelry, pottery & glass, books, antique weapons, furniture and carpets. The first item up for auction is an attributed Justus Sustermans portrait of...
Robust Sales, Attendance at Japanese Art Exhibitions During Asia Week New York 2011
Released: May 2, 2011In a week that saw record prices in nearly every field of Asian art, sales of Japanese art were robust and attendance at the numerous gallery exhibitions held by local and out-of-state and foreign dealers was up significantly over Asia Week 2010, according to an informal survey conducted by the Japanese Art Dealers Association (JADA) and information gathered from published reports. Overall, JADA estimates sales totals of over $20 million, including $8.5 million in the Christie’s New York auction of Japanese art in its March 23 sale of Japanese and Korean art, over $4 million in sales at J...
The Sublime Art of Japanese Lacquer at Erik Thomsen Asian Art in Golden Treasures: Japanese Gold Lacquer Boxes
Released: March 16, 2011Erik Thomsen Asian Art will present a select collection of Japanese lacquer boxes in Golden Treasures: Japanese Gold Lacquer Boxes, an Asia Week exhibition held at its new, purpose-built gallery in New York City. The exhibition will run from March 16 – May 28, 2011 at Erik Thomsen Asian Art, 23 E. 67th Street. Thomsen’s exhibition focuses on small-scale boxes of the past two centuries, a period of exceptional artistry in Japan in the medium. During this period, Japanese artists mastered the technique of creating wafer-thin layers of lacquer that built up and, when infused with gold powd...
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