Sotheby's Sales Rise 46% to $5.33 Billion on Contemporary Art
By Linda Sandler
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sotheby's, the world's
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
Contemporary Art
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Nativity-Josefa de Óbidos (Seville, 1630- Óbidos, 1684)
Josefa de Óbidos (Seville, 1630- Óbidos, 1684) was a Spanish-born, Portuguese painter from the seventeenth century. Her birth name was Josefa de Ayala Figueira, but she signed her work as, "Josefa em Óbidos" or, "Josefa de Ayalla". She is one of the relatively few female European painters known to have been active in the Baroque era. All of her work was executed in Portugal, her father's native country, where she lived from the age of four.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Reubens Adoration- 17th Century- Baroque
The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.[citation needed] The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance sequence of courts, anterooms, grand staircases, and reception rooms of sequentially increasing magnificence. In similar profusions of detail, art, music, architecture, and literature inspired each other in the Baroque cultural movement[citation needed] as artists explored what they could create from repeated and varied patterns. Some traits and aspects of Baroque paintings that differentiate this style from others are the abundant amount of details, often bright polychromy, less realistic faces of subjects, and an overall sense of awe, which was one of the goals in Baroque art. Read more...Source:
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
stainless steel heart
A Jeff Koons sculpture of a stainless steel heart hanging from a golden bow sold Wednesday for $23.6 million (¤16.05 million), setting an auction record for a work by a living artist, a Sotheby's spokeswoman said.read more here...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
...nuance gives way to shock
The other enormous prices paid in that same Sotheby's sale show that for the moment, demand is as strong as ever. But should the auction houses persist in their deadly competition for supremacy, by hiking estimates indefinitely, they might cause the entire market to tumble like a house of cards.More...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/09/arts/melik10.4-168490.php
Friday, November 9, 2007
Matisse sold at auction was $22 million.
November 07, 2007A painting by a impressionist master fetched a record price at Christie's auction house in Midtown yesterday.
An oil on canvas work by Henri Matisse sold at Christie's for $33.6 million – the highest price ever paid for a Matisse.
Painted in 1937, the work was purchased by an unidentified buyer. The previous record for a Matisse sold at auction was $22 million.
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This is horrible! Russians are ignorant about impressionists like Renoir, Matisse & Picasso? How dreadsful?
- bloomberg.com Picasso, Renoir, Matisse Paintings Impounded at Moscow Airport
By: John Varoli
Sotheby's in New York
A major sale of impressionist and modern art at Sotheby's in New York late on Wednesday fell far short of expectations, with works by several major artists failing to find buyers.
Read more...‘I have now spent a week working hard in the wheatfields, under the blazing sun,’ Van Gogh wrote to Theo on 21 June 1888. That summer he devoted many paintings to the same subject. The waving grain gave him an opportunity to experiment with color and technique. Here he juxtaposed the golden yellow of the ripe wheat with a colorful swirl of yellow, green, red, brown and black in the foreground. The very high placing of the horizon means that nearly the whole canvas is covered with the colors of the growing crops. Visible in the distance are the low mountains of the Alpilles range. VanGogh
Read more...‘I have now spent a week working hard in the wheatfields, under the blazing sun,’ Van Gogh wrote to Theo on 21 June 1888. That summer he devoted many paintings to the same subject. The waving grain gave him an opportunity to experiment with color and technique. Here he juxtaposed the golden yellow of the ripe wheat with a colorful swirl of yellow, green, red, brown and black in the foreground. The very high placing of the horizon means that nearly the whole canvas is covered with the colors of the growing crops. Visible in the distance are the low mountains of the Alpilles range. VanGogh
Monday, November 5, 2007
Art Institute of Texas
RENOVATION LOAN 92 paintings -- by Monet, Cezanne, Renoir, van Gogh -- will spend months in Ft. Worth
Pierre Auguste Renoir, French, 1841-1919; Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881, Oil on canvas, 39 9/16 x 37 7/8 in. (100.5 x 81 cm); The Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection. (Courtesy)
Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903; Why Are You Angry? (No Te Aha Oe Riri), 1896, Oil on canvas, 37 1/2 x 51 3/8 in. (95.3 x 130.55 cm); The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection.
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853-1890; The Bedroom, 1889, Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 5/8 in. (73.6 x 92.3 cm); The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
Pierre Auguste Renoir, French, 1841-1919; Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881, Oil on canvas, 39 9/16 x 37 7/8 in. (100.5 x 81 cm); The Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection. (Courtesy)
Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903; Why Are You Angry? (No Te Aha Oe Riri), 1896, Oil on canvas, 37 1/2 x 51 3/8 in. (95.3 x 130.55 cm); The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection.Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853-1890; The Bedroom, 1889, Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 5/8 in. (73.6 x 92.3 cm); The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
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Vincent letters to Emile Bernard [manuscript]
“Painted With Words: Vincent van Gogh’s Letters to Émile Bernard” at the Morgan Library & Museum, a display of manuscripts, also includes nearly two dozen paintings and drawings, half of them by van Gogh, including a splendid self-portrait.
It was done before he moved south. With his red hair and beard, taciturn lips and untrusting eyes, you already know him on sight. And you will come to know him in some depth in a show that is itself a self-portrait in many parts.
— Holland Cotter
Vincent van Gogh wrote some 800 letters in his lifetime. This letter was written on March 18, 1888 to Emile Bernard, whom he treated as a younger brother and mentee.
It was done before he moved south. With his red hair and beard, taciturn lips and untrusting eyes, you already know him on sight. And you will come to know him in some depth in a show that is itself a self-portrait in many parts.
— Holland Cotter
Vincent van Gogh wrote some 800 letters in his lifetime. This letter was written on March 18, 1888 to Emile Bernard, whom he treated as a younger brother and mentee.
Link to: Lady Lever Art Gallery
Vase and lid
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911), c. 1780 – 1830
Jade (nephrite), 35.6 x 23 x 8.5cm
Accession Number LL70
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/chinaart.asp
Friday, September 28, 2007
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