Yearly Archives: 2009

Contemporary Art collectors are eagerly awaiting the November 10th sale set to take place at Bonhams New York. The concise and meticulously assembled sale includes key work by legendary Contemporary and Modern figures such as Willem de Kooning, James Rosenquist, Henry Matisse, [Read More]

Opening reception: November 12, 2009, 6-8PM It is with great pleasure that Tyler Rollins Fine Art presents Sopheap Pich’s first New York solo exhibition. Pich has been very active on the international stage in recent years, and he is now considered to [Read More]

The Hirshhorn Museum’s “Directions” series features recent work by Vienna and Dublin-based Irish artist John Gerrard (b. Dublin, 1974), who uses digital technology to re-imagine landscape art. The exhibition, organized by associate curator Kelly Gordon, opens Nov. 5 and is on view [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields offered Fine Prints on November 3, 2009. Simulcast between the San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms, the auction featured a diverse selection of old master, modern, contemporary prints and multiples ranging from the Renaissance to the Present. The highly [Read More]

A new exhibition of the drawings by one of the most significant British artists of the 20th century is to be shown at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery this December. The exhibition will include close to 40 drawings by the artist [Read More]

The marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475- Rome 1564), is now on view in the Vélez Blanco Patio in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The fragmentary marble figure of a nude youth, which is missing arms and lower [Read More]

Morono Kiang Gallery announces the closing reception for Traces of Being, Iran in the Passage of Memories. The reception will be held on Sunday November 15, 2009 at 5:00 pm following the screening of Pearls on the Ocean Floor. Traces of Being: [Read More]

The sale of furniture, works of art and sculpture to be staged at Sotheby’s Paris on November 10 reflects the diversity and richness of the decorative arts in 18th century France. Among the 300 lots to be offered for auction is a [Read More]

Prices on American Illustration Art at Heritage Auctions – particularly those pieces with the Charles Martignette provenance – continued their meteoric climb on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at Heritage Auctions’ October Signature Illustration Art Auction, with a jaw-dropping, record-setting $3.48 million total, shattering [Read More]

Morono Kiang Gallery presents a special preview screening of Pearls on the Ocean Floor, a new documentary (in progress) by Robert Adanto, about the lives and work of Iranian female artists living in and outside the Islamic Republic. The segment being presented [Read More]

Ron Cannan, Member of Parliament (Kelowna-Lake Country), today announced funding for the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society’s 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 Rotary Centre for the Arts Spotlight Series. This year’s program will feature 12 acts representing a wide range of musical [Read More]

The best of 20th Century British Art comes to Bonhams New Bond Street on 18th November, showcasing an impressive array of paintings and sculptures, including The Art of Newlyn and St Ives. The upcoming 20th Century British Art sale encapsulates a range [Read More]

The work of nine artists will be featured in the exhibition Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection. Landscape is often thought of as a pristine wilderness, uninhabited and unmarred by human presence, despite the fact that for many decades now [Read More]

Christie’s sale of Old Master Prints on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 in London will offer outstanding examples of printmaking, dating from the 15th to the 18th-century. Consisting of around ninety lots, the sale showcases rare and iconic prints from continental Europe by [Read More]