An album of important photographs taken during the controversial British Mission to Tibet in 1903-04 is for sale at Bonhams Travel and Exploration, India and Beyond sale in London on 5 October (£10,000-15,000). The album can be traced to a member of [Read More]
Daily Archives: September 15, 2010
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New scientific detective work has revealed that two renowned 16th century portraits of Queen Elizabeth I belonging to two different galleries were painted on wood panels from the same tree. The portraits were first associated with Hilliard in 1933, and the new [Read More]
The Kunsthaus Zürich has opened Switzerland’s first museum exhibition of work by eccentric landscape artist Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835). On view through 28 November . At the centre of the show are Kolbe’s landscape engravings featuring enormous vegetation and gargantuan trees eerily [Read More]
Sotheby’s auction of Scottish Pictures on Wednesday, 29 September, 2010, in London offers a selection of works spanning over a century, from the Glasgow Boys through the Scottish Colourists, to modern works by living artists. The 152 lots are expected to bring [Read More]
The Meadows Museum and the Prado Museum in Madrid announced in June the launch of a three-year partnership beginning September 10, 2010. The multifaceted collaboration encompasses the loan of three major paintings from the Prado, interdisciplinary research at SMU, an unprecedented fellowship [Read More]
Brian Gross Fine Art Presents Bay Area artist Nellie King Solomon in an exhibition of new paintings, open through October 30, 2010. Continuing the artist’s exploration of movement and chance through energetic, gestural abstractions on mylar, these dramatic new works reflect Solomon’s [Read More]
The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) joins the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico City, in presenting Siqueiros Paisajista / Siqueiros: Landscape Painter. Open through January 30, 2011. This exhibition reveals the renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros as a [Read More]