East Ayrshire Council has successfully raised the £85,100 needed to buy a nationally significant set of watercolours which will go on display at Dean Castle, Kilmarnock, early next year. The Eglinton Watercolours by James Henry Nixon are considered to be of outstanding [Read More]
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Since his startling emergence on the art scene in the 1950s as a wild young Tachist, Rolf Iseli (b. 1934) has remained one of the best known Swiss artists. This retrospective exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern surveys the artist’s fifty-year-career by means [Read More]
Sotheby’s has announced that it will offer for sale 163 works from the former Peter Stuyvesant Collection, property of British American Tobacco Netherlands (BAT), on Monday, March 8, 2010 at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam. The works from the collection to be offered for [Read More]
Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a landmark exhibition of 150 works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), will present an unprecedented opportunity to view the Met’s extensive collection of the artist’s work. Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on April [Read More]
Led by the sale of New Hope impressionist Daniel Garber’s “Quarries at Byram,” which realized $229,000 (estimate $200,000-300,000), Freeman’s December 6th Fine American & European Painting and Sculpture sale was a great success, with 91 percent of the lots finding buyers (95 [Read More]
The Canadian architect and philanthropist David J. Azrieli is exhibiting his private collection at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The Azrieli collection started out in the 1970s as David Azrieli’s private art collection, but was mostly collected as the Azrieli Group [Read More]
400 Works from the Collection and Rare Archival Materials Reveal Behind-the-Scenes Stories of SFMOMA’s Evolution and Impact Celebrating the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)’s impact on modern and contemporary art, the exhibition The Anniversary Show traces the art and individuals [Read More]
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis announced a new season of The Front Room. Running alongside the Main Galleries, The Front Room operates at a different rhythm, with exhibitions lasting anywhere from a day to a few weeks. These reactive, nimble, provisional, [Read More]
The Butler Institute of American Art, has acquired a painting by mid-twentieth century master artist, Jackson Pollock. The work, titled “Silver and Black”, measures 21.25 x 15.75 inches and was painted with oil and metallic paint in 1950. The painting, which is [Read More]
One of only four original plaster models of renowned western artist Frederick Remington’s bronze sculpture The Bronco Buster will be sold at a three-day weekend estate sale slated for Jan. 22-24 by Philip Weiss Auctions. The piece was hand-carved and cast by [Read More]
Christie’s London will present a superb array of Victorian & British Impressionist Art Including Drawings & Watercolours to the international market on Wednesday 16 December 2009. The sale is led by Eve, a magnificent and monumental painting by Solomon J. Solomon, R.A., [Read More]
Led by the sale of New Hope impressionist Daniel Garber’s “Quarries at Byram,” which realized $229,000 (estimate $200,000-300,000), Freeman’s December 6th Fine American & European Painting and Sculpture sale was a great success, with 91 percent of the lots finding buyers (95 [Read More]
Big issues are covered in small-scale artworks in Post Abolition, which opens at Museum of London Docklands on 18 January 2010. The display features stamp designs from the 1930s onwards commemorating the abolition of slavery and it inaugurates the year-long London Festival [Read More]
There was some keen Christmas shopping being done at Bonhams Prints auction on December 15 with top names commanding top prices in a sale that made a total of £462,792 with 83 per cent sold by value. Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Marc [Read More]