Christie’s London will auction works from the Nicolette Wernick Collection. It will be offered for sale on the morning of Wednesday 16 June, followed by the strong various owner sale of Victorian and British Impressionist Pictures including Drawings and Watercolours. Comprising 91 [Read More]
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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco welcomes the United States debut of Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay on view at the de Young Museum May 22 to September 6, 2010. The exhibition includes approximately 100 paintings from the [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that four permanent collection galleries at the Getty Center reopened with an innovative reinstallation of sculpture and decorative arts. “We have utilized recent advances in technology, design, and—most importantly—significant additions to the collection, to reconfigure [Read More]
On May 27 at 1pm Gray’s 19th Century, Modern and Contemporary Fine Art auction will be offering a rare Shimon Okshteyn, oil painting and serigraph on paper mounted on canvas. It is estimated very conservatively at $8,000 – $10,000. The painting is [Read More]
The Austin Art Space artists-in-residence roster continues to evolve with collage artist Mike Ragusa taking studio space in the cooperative. The ten resident artists represent a wide range of mediums including sculpture, pastels, oils, acrylic, photography, mixed media, and now, collage. Mike [Read More]
Sotheby’s London will offer an exceptional Private European Collection of Prints, on 16 September 2010. The collection consists of masterworks by Pablo Picasso, the most important and innovative printmaker of the Modern Period who has been credited with the creation of some [Read More]
Flowers presents the New York City debut of British artist Claerwen James with an exhibition of her new paintings that will run through June 26th, 2010. A catalog with a foreword by New Yorker critic Anthony Lane will accompany the exhibition. “It [Read More]
One of the last century’s most influential artists, Yves Klein (French, b. Nice, 1928; d. Paris, 1962) took the European art scene by storm in a prolific career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962, when he suffered a heart attack at [Read More]
Montserrat College of Art’s (www.montserrat.edu) annual Artrageous24! benefit art auction raised more than $225,000.00 for student scholarship — a 12% increase in the financial aid the college can offer to students from the annual benefit event. according to Auction Co-chairs Linda Harvey [Read More]
Causey Contemporary will present the mixed media paintings of Korean artist Hyun Ju Park in Out of Darkness…Light and Consequential Tea, a group exhibition of tea inspired stoneware. Consequential Tea will feature the stoneware of Joe Campbell, Dick Lehman, Kristin Muller, Takao [Read More]
The work of L.S. Lowry (1887-1976) holds a special place in the heart of the British public and Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century British Art on Wednesday, 26 May 2010, will present four exceptional works by the much celebrated British master. The [Read More]
A pair of oil on canvas paintings by the prolific and gifted Korean artist Kim Heung Sou (b. 1919) sold for a combined $52,500 in an Internet and catalog auction held Apr. 14-28 by Litchfield County Auctions (www.LitchfieldCountyAuctions.com). One work was the [Read More]
An exhibition presenting artworks recently acquired for IMMA’s Collection, marking the first occasion that these works have been shown at the Museum as part of that Collection, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 19 May [Read More]
The Ashmolean is one of five museums to win a share of £75,000 to buy their selected object thanks to Art Fund Collect, an initiative aimed at championing contemporary craft and increasing its presence in UK collections. Art Fund Collect is run [Read More]