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Munch & German Expressionism Opens at David Tunick in New York
Released: May 5, 2013In association with the prestigious Munich gallery, Galerie Thomas, New York prints and drawings dealer David Tunick will stage an important show “MUNCH & GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM” at David Tunick, Inc. at 19 East 66th Street from May 6th through May 20th. David Tunick says, “Edvard Munch (Norwegian 1863-1944) developed his highly personal style during his formative years in Kristiana (Oslo). By the 1890s and in the next two decades he created the iconic images that have become so widely known for his evocatively powerful interpretations of psychological themes stemming from late ...
ART MIAMI AND CONTEXT ART MIAMI ANNOUNCE MIAMI ART MUSEUM AS BENEFICIARY FOR THIS YEAR’S OPENING NIGHT VIP PREVIEW
Released: October 30, 2012Anchor art fair to the city of Miami, Art Miami (www.art-miami.com), the premiere international modern and contemporary art fair, and the inaugural CONTEXT Art Miami, Miami's newest international emerging and cutting-edge art fair, will kick off Miami Art Week with the season's most eagerly anticipated cultural event, their highly acclaimed Opening Night VIP Preview on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, from 5:30 to 10 p.m. which this year will benefit the Miami Art Museum. World-famous for its stylish gallery-like decor, its outstanding quality and extraordinary variety, Art Miami showcases t...
Modern & Contemporary Art Shines in Gray’s Stellar Two-Day Fall Auction
Released: October 26, 2012In a stellar two-day auction event taking place Wednesday, October 31 and Thursday, November 1, Gray's Auctioneers in Cleveland, OH will feature an exciting selection of fine and decorative art objects -- with a number of spectacular modern and contemporary artworks headlining the show. Among the most notable of these works is Lot 35, a piece entitled The Girl and The Doll by the Spanish Realist painter Xavier Bueno. Art historians count Bueno among a talented group of Modern Realist artists flourishing throughout Europe in the mid-twentieth century. Often featuring women and children i...
A Stunning Greg Furie Oil Like Nothing You've Ever Seen
Released: September 11, 2012Greg Furie, who was first discovered by Christophe Van De Weghe, has created a highly unusual oil Symbol Painting. "I thought that Greg was finished with the painting when I had seen it yesterday afternoon, but while I was in his living room, he decided to add these interesting symbols on top of the already finished oil painting. I asked him why he added the symbols and he replied that the painting just wasn't complete without the symbols," says Jack Poll, Furie's new art dealer. The Symbols have a primitive look to them, and Furie says he didn't copy them from any sou...
"Soft Intervention" by Julian Stanczak
Released: December 9, 2011Through the art of Julian Stanczak, Cleveland has a strong and time-honored connection to one of the often controversial movements of the mid-twentieth century – Op Art. Optical paintings, or Op Art as they were nicknamed by Donald Judd when he reviewed an exhibition of Stanczak’s work for Arts Magazine, and later used again in an article about the movement for Time Magazine entitled: “Op Art: Pictures that Attack the Eye.” As with all new art movements, it faced derision and negative interpretations when the public first encountered it, but to Stanczak’s credit...
Christophe Van De Weghe Purchases a Greg Furie Drawing
Released: December 7, 2011Christophe Van De Weghe, high profile art dealer and owner of Van De Weghe Fine Art recently purchased a Greg Furie Drawing. The drawing is entitled Symphony #1 and is done on thick watercolor paper using a calligraphy pen and black ink. The drawing is 18" x 24." Symphony #1 is the first drawing Furie has done in his breakthrough drawings. Furie's breakthrough drawings are all drawn with a calligraphy pen, very fine point nib, and black ink on thick watercolor paper. What makes the drawings desirable is that they are extremely detailed with fine lines that create an...
Work by John Marin On View this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art
Released: February 15, 2011Although John Marin (1870-1953) was regarded as one of America’s most important painters at the time of his death, scholarship and museum exhibitions to date have focused on his early work coloring popular understanding of his life’s work. Featuring approximately 60 paintings, drawings, and watercolors, John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, on view June 23 through October 10, 2011 at the Portland Museum of Art, will concentrate on the late period of John Marin’s career between 1933 and 1953. This exhibition, the first in-depth examination of the artist since 1990, will explore his late caree...
50’s and 60’s Abstract Artists; “50’s & 60’s Prices?”
Released: February 7, 2011There has been a spontaneous revival of exhibitions of Abstract Expressionism since the MOMA show began in November. My suggestion would be to list all the galleries and invite the public to see as much of the work of these wonderful artists as possible. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the younger generations to see the art that made America the Mecca of a great art scene that has lasted almost 100 years and is still going strong. Viewers can discover, rediscover or simply re evaluate this art which I have been exhibiting since 1982. This exhibition is a prime example of th...
Black and White and Painted Over: The Katonah Museum of Art Presents Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper January 23 through May 1, 2011
Released: January 3, 2011It’s time to draw the line on your preconceptions about abstract art. Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, the newest exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art, features modern and contemporary works on paper from the Kramarsky Collection. On view from January 23 through May 1, 2011, Drawn/Taped/Burned showcases artists’ ingenuity in using unconventional materials and inventive drawing techniques to create their geometric and process-driven abstractions. On its dedicated website, www.aboutdrawing.org/drawntapedburned (website launch to be announced), the exhibition also provides a ...
Ketterer Kunst achieves its best annual results ever in 2010
Released: December 14, 2010A total result of € 26 million* is the excellent final figure for Ketterer Kunst‘s 2010 business year. “This time we even exceeded the top result of 2007, which was the record year in our company’s history,“ said Robert Ketterer, owner of the Munich-based auction firm founded in 1954. "And what is particularly impressive is that this result was achieved with 27 percent less objects than in 2007." Robert Ketterer continues: “It once more comes to show that quality and a certain newness on the market are the decisive criteria. This year we made our selection even more discerning. Even thoug...
Kirchner painting soars above $2 million at auction
Released: December 6, 2010Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s (1880-1938) “Kinderköpfchen“ was sold for a mere 450 German Marks at the Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett in the early 1950s. It had not been offered on the market since then, until today, when it achieved the sensational result of € 1.740.000 (USD$2,317,327) at Ketterer Kunst in Germany. Made in 1906, the impressive oil painting, which takes after models by such artists as Vincent van Gogh, marks an important step in the development of the “Brücke” style towards Expressionism. A Northern German private collector seemed to be quite aware of this as well. With a result of €...
Modernist Works from a California Collection
Released: December 2, 2010From November 15 through January 3, 2011, Hollis Taggart Galleries is pleased to offer an important group of paintings and sculptures from a prominent California collection. Combining art historical significance with tremendous visual appeal, these artworks exemplify the key movements of the early twentieth century. The paintings and sculptures from this collection display the broad range of stylistic idioms that modernists explored. Max Weber’s Three Figures and Still Life demonstrate the reach of Cubism in the United States. Artist and Model by Hans Burkhardt and Frederick Kann’s Sympati...
Jack Levine (1915 - 2010), artist, remembered
Released: November 11, 2010One of the most important American artists of the twentieth century, Jack Levine imparted a wry and penetrating social commentary to his work that deftly skewers the rich and powerful, as well as all those whom he encountered who were inflated by pretension or hypocrisy. He developed a highly individualized modernist approach, an expressive mode of painting that he used to critique injustice and dishonesty in American society. He also explored classical and biblical themes with an updated sensibility that demonstrated his lifelong study of art history and his mastery of Western painting tra...
Modern Works by Artist Joan Miró Displayed at Metropolitan Museum with Dutch Old Master Paintings That Inspired Them
Released: September 14, 2010During a trip to the Netherlands in spring 1928, the Catalan painter Joan Miró (1893-1983)purchased postcards from the museums he visited. Two 17th-century Dutch genre scenes particularly caught his attention and served as the inspiration for a series of paintings he created that summer. The traveling exhibition Miró: The Dutch Interiors, which opens at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning October 5, features Miró's three "Dutch Interiors" and the two Old Master paintings on which they are based. The New York venue will also sh...
“Picasso Looks at Degas, Renoir, Ingres...and Mantegna” lecture at the Clark
Released: August 22, 2010The ways in which Pablo Picasso studied, stole from, and outdid the masters of earlier eras is the subject of “Picasso Looks at Degas, Renoir, Ingres…and Mantegna,” a free lecture by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Gary Tinterow. The lecture takes place at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Sunday, August 29 at 3:00 pm, and is open to the public. Gary Tinterow, the Metropolitan’s chairman of the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, recently curated a critically acclaimed survey of the works by Picasso in the Metropolitan’s collection. H...
"Henry Moore – The Drawings: Works on Paper from the Henry Moore Family Collection" at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Released: August 4, 2010The Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents Henry Moore - The Drawings: Works on Paper from the Henry Moore Family Collection, an international exhibition organized by Hauser & Wirth New York, London, Zürich in collaboration with the Moore Family. This exhibition also features two significant drawings on loan from the Yale University Art Gallery, and one sculpture from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art collection. Henry Moore - The Drawings will be on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from July 22 through October 3, 2010. By the 1930s, British sculptor Henry Moore (1898-19...
Picasso Looks at Degas Opening Lecture June 13 at the Clark
Released: May 27, 2010Named one of 2010’s hot exhibitions by Harper’s Bazaar, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s groundbreaking exhibition Picasso Looks at Degas explores Pablo Picasso’s lifelong fascination with the work and life of Edgar Degas. Co-curators Elizabeth Cowling, professor emeritus of art history at the University of Edinburgh, and Richard Kendall, curator-at-large at the Clark, will discuss their experience of organizing the exhibition and address some of the intriguing questions it raised during an in-depth examination of both artists’ works in the lecture, “Homage, Mockery o...
Expressionism and ZERO art on the upswing
Released: May 19, 2010"About a year ago anxious prospects made for uncertainty, but the art market has not only proven stability in challenging times, it even reached new heights", said Robert Ketterer, owner of Ketterer Kunst. "Its the quality that counts", he continues in view of his main auction on 12 June 2010, which has its focal points on: 1. Modern Art2. Post War/Contemporary Arton 1. Modern ArtThis section will be headed by several works by Gabriele Münter: Besides the lucent red portrait "Beim Malen" (presumably Marianne von Werefkin) (estimate: € 270 000-380 000), the "Landschaft mit Sonnen...
Two Significant Exhibitions at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: PATRICK GRAHAM - fact of the matter & ARSHILE GORKY: sketchbook drawings
Released: April 22, 2010Jack Rutberg Fine Arts will present two timely and concurrent exhibitions in Los Angeles opening May 22. Monumental paintings and drawings by Patrick Graham, widely regarded as Ireland’s most important contemporary artist, will be featured in a major exhibition of Graham’s most recent works as well as a number of the artist’s most iconic, large-scale paintings of the last 25 years. Also shown will be a rare exhibition of drawings by Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), the Armenian-born artist; one of the 20th century’s most important painters and seminal forces of American modern and contemporary ...
‘Adam & Eve’ Engraving Opens Bonhams & Butterfields Spring Prints Auction on May 4th
Released: April 22, 2010Fine arts auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields will offer American and European prints on May 4, 2010, a simulcast auction to be held in its San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms. As many as 340 lots will be offered, including rare and desirable etchings, lithographs, woodcuts and screenprints -- and featuring an Albrecht Dürer 1504 engraving Adam and Eve, one of the most celebrated works of the artist's career. Public previews of the Spring prints sale will be held at Bonhams & Butterfields’ Sunset Blvd. gallery in Los Angeles on April 24-25 and the San Francisco previews open M...
Fine Art Auction including Art Glass, Ceramics and Decorative Arts
Released: April 22, 2010Fuller's Fine Art Auctions will POP onto the art market this Spring with paintings, prints and sculpture by American icons Andy Warhol, Alex Katz, Tom Wesselmann, Alexander Calder and Robert Indiana. Among Fuller's top lots are a numbered and signed Warhol screenprint, Northwest Coast Mask from "Cowboys and Indians"($8,000-10,000), a 2006 Alex Katz oil on board titled Study for Corinne ($10,000-$15,000), Katz's color screenprint on aluminum, Anne ($12,000-18,000), and a Wesselmann Maquette for Dropped Bra ($12,000-18,000). On May 8, 2010 collectors will have the opportunity to acquire an o...
EXCEEDINGLY RARE 1890s MUNCH MASTERPIECE TO HIGHLIGHT MAY 4 EVENING SALE AT CHRISTIE'S NEW YORK
Released: April 8, 2010NEVER BEFORE OFFERED AT AUCTION, "FERTILITY" IS ONE OF ONLY A FEW MASTER WORKS BY MUNCH LEFT IN PRIVATE HANDS. Christie's is delighted to announce it will offer Edvard Munch's Fertility (estimate: $25-35 million) - one of the most important works by the artist remaining in private hands - as the cover lot of its upcoming Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on May 4. Painted in the late 1890s, Fertility was originally purchased in 1902 by Dr. Max Linde, the German patron responsible for helping Munch establish his career in Germany. Since 1918, the large-format painting has remaine...
300 Picasso Works in Metropolitan Museum's Collection Featured in Landmark Exhibition Opening April 27
Released: April 5, 2010Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a landmark exhibition of 300 works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), will provide an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the most important collections in the world of the artist's work. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 27 through August 1, 2010, this is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the remarkable array of works by Picasso in the Met's collection. The exhibition will reveal the Museum's complete holdings of the artist's paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics—never before seen in their enti...
Amon Carter Museum features North and South American abstract art in groundbreaking exhibition
Released: April 5, 2010On June 26, the Amon Carter Museum presents Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to bring together South American and U.S. geometric abstraction and includes a range of paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings and films. Constructive Spirit will be on view through September 5; admission is free. Featuring 85 works by more than 65 abstract artists from Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela, this special exhibition organized by the Newark Museum (Newark, N.J.) provides...
Miró & Jan Steen together for the first time
Released: March 30, 2010From June 15 to September 13, 2010, the series Dutch interiors by Joan Miró (1893-1983) will make its debut at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Miró travelled to the Netherlands in 1928 and included the Rijksmuseum in his itinerary. Two interior scenes by 17th-century Dutch masters Hendrick Sorgh and Jan Steen inspired him to create a series of three paintings, which represent one of the highlights of Miró's early surrealistic work. The Dutch Interiors, including sketches and drawings by Miró, have never before been displayed alongside these 17th-century works, which were the original ...
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