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Irma Stern Paintings for Bonhams South African Art Sale

FineArtPublicity.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:33:19 +0000

An arresting image from Irma Stern’s time in Zanzibar, where she was powerfully affected by the beauty of the local Indian women, features in Bonhams next sale of South African Art in London on October 26 and 27. There are no fewer than four images by Stern (1894 to 1966) in this sale estimated at between £1.5m to £2m for the quartet. The Zanzibari beauty which caught Stern’s eye, titled ‘Bahora girl’ is an enchanting image dating from 1945. An oil on canvas it comes with its original Zanzibar frame ...

Vincent van Gogh Self-Portrait Visits Norton Museum

FineArtPublicity.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:27:29 +0000

For the next several months the Norton Museum’s celebrated painting by Paul Gauguin, Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1889, will be featured in the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth at the Tate Modern, London, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In this work Gauguin portrayed himself in a tragic, iconic mode as Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night of his betrayal by Judas Iscariot. In a poignant reference to his attempted artistic liaison with Vincent van Gogh, which had recently ended in a debacle, ...

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Helen Denerley: Mechanimals – Scrap Metal Sculpture & Work On Paper

tdomf_698d0 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:23:02 +0000

The Harley Gallery has become a new home for a menagerie of scrap metal animals; from flocks of delicate birds to immense, powerful crocodiles. Exhibition open through17 October 2010. The exhibition has got off to a flying start, with visitors saying ‘Cannot believe how she can see the shapes in scrap metal. Wonderful’ ‘Wonderful exhibition, the best we have seen’ ‘Stunning and unforgettable’ Lisa Gee, Gallery Director, said ‘We are delighted by the reactions to this exhibition. We’ve had a huge amount of visitors since Mechanimals opened and it’s a real pleasure ...

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Works on Paper from the Henry Moore Family Collection at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

FineArtPublicity.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:33:07 +0000

The 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. Henry Moore, English, 1898-1986 , Reclining Figure, 1972, chinagraph pen, watercolor and felt-tipped pen, Henry Moore Family Collection, Â© The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York This exhibition also features two significant drawings on loan from the Yale University Art Gallery, and one sculpture from the ...

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RIBA announces shortlists for five Special Awards 2010

FineArtPublicity.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:14:08 +0000

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) today announces the shortlists for five special awards which honour the UK’s best new school buildings, conservation projects, public spaces and smaller projects; the shortlist for the RIBA Client of the Year has also been unveiled. Drawn from 102 RIBA Award-winning buildings presented earlier this year, the winners of the RIBA Special Awards will be announced at the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010 Dinner in association with The Architects’ Journal and Benchmark on Saturday 2 October 2010 at The Roundhouse, London. The shortlists follow: RIBA CABE Public ...

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Spruth Magers Opens Barbara Kruger Exhibition in Berlin

FineArtPublicity.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:35:08 +0000

Sprüth Magers Berlin is to present the first solo exhibition by American artist Barbara Kruger in Berlin. The exhibition features a new multi channel video installation, entitled The Globe Shrinks (2010) that continues the artist’s engagement with the kindness and brutality of the everyday, the duet of images and text and the resonance of direct address. Open SEPTEMBER 03 – OCTOBER 23 2010. Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945, Barbara Kruger began her career as an editorial designer, followed by a picture editor at Condé Nast Publications. She started ...

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Swann Galleries Sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

FineArtPublicity.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:15:03 +0000

Swann Galleries will offer a large selection of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings at auction, on September 21. The two-session sale is divided into sections devoted to 19th century prints and drawings, American works, and modern European prints and drawings. Two extraordinary drawings by renowned artists appear in the afternoon session. One of Pablo Picasso’s earliest drawings, Portrait de femme, pen and dark brown ink, circa 1900 ($30,000 to $50,000), begins a fine run of works by the artist. Another highlight is Henri Matisse’s Jeune femme assise (Monique), pen and ...

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art Shows American and European Paintings and Sculpture

FineArtPublicity.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:12:55 +0000

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents American and European Paintings and Sculpture – Selections, open through Oct 03, 2010. Rockwell Kent, American, 1882-1971, Calm (Tierra del Fuego), 1992-1925, oil on canvas, Gift of Ellin and Ron Delsener, 2010.22 The first part of this installation features some of the collection’s finest portraits and landscape paintings by artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, John Singer Sargent, and Winslow Homer. Upstairs, another gallery features work from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, including pieces by Marsden Hartley, Wassily Kandinsky, Joseph Stella, and Alexander Calder. ...

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Steven Holl to receive Jencks Award: Visions Built 2010 at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

FineArtPublicity.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:10:12 +0000

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is pleased to announce that American architect Steven Holl is to receive the 2010 Jencks Award: Visions Built. The Jencks Award is given annually to an individual (or practice) that has recently made a major contribution simultaneously to the theory and practice of architecture internationally. The presentation of the award will take place at the RIBA on 30 November 2010, followed by a public lecture by Steven Holl, chaired by Charles Jencks. Considered one of America’s most important architects, Steven Holl is recognised for ...

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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Presents Clare Twomey Installation

FineArtPublicity.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:49:08 +0000

A specially commissioned installation, Forever, by the acclaimed British artist Clare Twomey will focus on ceramics as an ephemeral and temporary medium. The exhibition at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will feature 1,345 vessels, authored by Twomey, interpretations of a noted 18th-century salt-glazed stoneware caudle cup from the Museum’s Burnap Collection of English Pottery. Forever which opens to the public Oct. 9 and runs through Jan. 2, 2011–is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. The exhibition adds an interactive dimension by allowing visitors to apply to be the owner ...

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