The exhibition, “Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings” displays around 100 works by Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Mantegna, Michelangelo and Titian. Explains how drawings were used to prepare for major paintings and frescoes and, later in the 15th century, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
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Sotheby’s New York spring sale of African, Oceanic and Pre Columbian Art will be held on 14 May 2010 and will offer collectors a selection of tribal arts from important American and international private collections. The auction comprises an especially rich offering [Read More]
Port Huron, MI – A Federal Court jury decided completely in favor of Phoenix based Fine Art Registry® and three individual defendants in a defamation and business interference case brought by Southfield Michigan company, Park West Gallery, and also awarded $500,000 in [Read More]
A very rare and unusual screen-print by Ben Nicholson is one of the star lots in Bonhams Prints from the St Ives School sale on 25 May in London. The image, George and Rufus (£2,500 – 3,500), is printed in colour on [Read More]
A new auction record for an artwork by a Scottish Colourist was set today at Sotheby’s in London when Samuel John Peploe’s Tulips sold for £623,650 / $964,224 / €717,632. The painting eclipsed the pre-sale high estimate (the painting had an estimate [Read More]
The biggest work ever to appear at auction by the major Greek expressionist painter Georgios Bouzianis entitled Frau mit Tisch und Stuhl, measuring 138 x 105 cm, is expected to sell for £200,000 – 300,000 at Bonhams 16th Greek Sale at New [Read More]
Fresh Art Live, an auction event featuring live and silent auctions of contemporary fine art, will be held at the Muskegon Museum of Art on May 1, 2010. Patrons and supporters of the Muskegon Museum of Art will have the opportunity to [Read More]
Bonhams inaugural bi-coastal auction of Modern, Contemporary Art and Latin American Art is to be held in New York and simulcast to the Los Angeles saleroom on May 11, 2010. This season’s sale includes three notable firsts: the first trans-American simulcast auction [Read More]
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will be the first U.S. venue for the important international exhibition “Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection,” which will be on view in the MaryLou and George Boone [Read More]
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) announced its Spring 2010 line-up for L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA. Highlights include a musical performance by the father of funk art William T. Wiley, a sneak peek at a [Read More]
More than 100 floral designers will transform famous works of art from The San Diego Museum of Art’s permanent collection into exquisite floral interpretations for the Museum’s 29th annual Art Alive exhibition. As the Museum’s signature fundraiser and a San Diego tradition, [Read More]
Montserrat College of Art’s (www.montserrat.edu) annual Artrageous!24 benefit art auction will be held Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. at 72 Cherry Hill Drive, Beverly, MA. http://www.montserrat.edu/ Alumnus Eric Hopkins http://www.montserrat.edu/ of North Haven Island, Maine, will be this year’s Honorary [Read More]
Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is receiving accreditation by the largest accrediting body for public and private schools in New England and the oldest regional accrediting association in the nation, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). At a [Read More]
A photographic commission for Vivienne Westwood’s On Liberty collection 1994-5, Donut, Kym, for Vivienne Westwood, 1994, by Dutch duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, which was used in a calendar and advertising campaign, is to be sold for £12,000 – 15,000 [Read More]