Fine Art News

Sotheby’s London announced that it will offer for sale a group of 14 outstanding and revealing Contemporary artworks from the Collection of Jerry Hall, the world-famous American supermodel and actress, in its forthcoming October 2010 Contemporary Art sales, which coincide with London’s [Read More]

n the early 1960s, after a successful career as a commercial artist, Andy Warhol decided to devote himself to the fine arts. Even so, consumerism and the media-oriented nature of mass production continued to be the main thrust of his work. The [Read More]

Gallery KH is pleased to present Floribunda a new collection of mixed media abstract paintings by artist Leslie Tejada, opening September 10 through November 2, 2010. An opening night cocktail reception is scheduled for Friday, September 10, 5-8PM. All gallery events are [Read More]

Tacoma Art Museum is sharing one of Japan’s most popular art forms with the Northwest in their new exhibition Edo to Tacoma: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection, which runs through February 13, 2011 (the exhibition will be closed the week of [Read More]

Drawn from the Norton Simon Museum’s extensive Japanese woodblock-print collection, Hiroshige: Visions of Japan features approximately 175 prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), one of the most celebrated and prolific artists of his time. Exhibition open January 17, 2011. Hiroshige was born Andō [Read More]

Jean-François Millet’s depiction of the arresting beauty of the natural world is the subject of Millet and Rural France, an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), that invites visitors to rediscover one of the most important artists of the [Read More]

The sector focus for young galleries which are no older than six years will be one of the highlights of the International Art Show at this year’s art forum berlin. The Selection Committee and the Show Management have decided to integrate the [Read More]

“Not Just Another Pretty Place: The Landscape of New York” open through Thursday, March 3, 2011, showcases the many different ways views of New York have been captured and used by artists, photographers, scientists and others during the past 200 years. This [Read More]

An album of paintings of Australia’s famed wine growing region, the Barossa Valley, by an English vicar sent as a parish priest to Lyndoch in 1877, will be sold at Bonhams Exploration & Travel Sale on September 15 in London. What makes [Read More]

Isolated by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate from the outside world, Japanese citizens were naturally curious about the Westerners who began to arrive on their shores following Commodore Matthew Perry’s historic voyages to Japan in 1853–1854. This growing fascination led to the flourishing [Read More]

Camilla Prini has been appointed by Bonhams, the international fine art and antiques auction house, as the company’s Agent for Northern Italy. She will be based in her hometown, Milan, but will cover the whole region, including Bologna, Genova, Verona, Bergamo and [Read More]

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will hold its biennial Art Auction on April 6, 2011. This renowned fundraising event hosted by the Modern Art Council (MAC) will feature more than 50 lots representing an extraordinary range of work by [Read More]

An exhibition of some 40 of the finest and most celebrated masterpieces by the Dutch 17th-century artist Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) was formally opened in the National Gallery of Ireland on Friday 3 September by Mary Hanafin, T.D., Minister for Tourism, Culture and [Read More]

A work by Ahmed Moustafa Egypt’s leading contemporary artist will be one of the star lots in Bonhams next sale of Middle Eastern Contemporary art in Dubai on October 11. ‘Man in a rocking chair’ was executed early on in the artist’s [Read More]