Thursday, November 22, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
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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Saturday, November 3, 2007
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