Fine Art News

Paul Kasmin Gallery presents the exhibition A Venomous Bloom by Kent Henricksen. Open through june 5 2010 at 511 W. 27th Street, this will be the artist’s first show with the gallery. In Henricksen’s canvases, gods and thieves, ladies and marauders, angels [Read More]

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but for Vincent van Gogh, it was a means of self education for the artist in the 1880s, who copied numerous works by Jean-François Millet to teach himself how to draw and paint. The [Read More]

Sotheby’s auction on Monday, 28 June, 2010 will offer a remarkable Yves Klein work, “RE 49, Relief Eponge Bleu”, which comes to auction from the collection HypoVereinsbank. This work is one of exceptionally few large-scale blue “Relief Eponge” works remaining in private [Read More]

Gagosian Gallery presents “Roy Lichtenstein: Still Lifes,” the first exhibition devoted solely to Lichtenstein’s still life paintings, sculptures and drawings, which span from 1972 through the early 1980s. Open through July 30th 2010. Although Lichtenstein will always be synonymous with Pop Art, [Read More]

Bonhams will present a highly anticipated sale of Fine African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art at its New York galleries, on May 13th. Comprised of nearly 200 lots, the sale includes works of art from a number of distinguished collections as well exceptional [Read More]

Ico Gallery is honored to announce “Eternal Guests,” an exhibition of the works of Federico Cuesta, running through the month of May. “Guests” is a surrealist show that focuses on Cuesta’s interest in the natural state of the environment and its eventual [Read More]

Christie’s has announced a sale of works of art selected from the Estate of Francis Newton Souza to take place on 9 June 2010 as part of the South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art auction. Comprising over 150 lots created throughout the [Read More]

Forty years on from John Latham’s first solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery in 1970, the gallery revisits works and actions from that seminal show in the wider context of the artist’s work through the 1970s, a period of extraordinary innovation, productivity and [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields will offer American and European prints on May 4, 2010, a simulcast auction to be held in its San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms. As many as 340 lots will be offered, including rare and desirable etchings, lithographs, woodcuts [Read More]

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to announce it is the recipient of a $300,000 matching grant from The Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation. This gift will create a strong foundation for the Everson 2010 general operating budget, and encourage [Read More]

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, on May 1st, officially kicked off the public phase of its Campaign for the Gardner with a goal of raising the final $45 million in order to complete the total $180 million initiative. The Campaign [Read More]

A Pablo Picasso painting, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust had belonged to the late Los Angeles collectors Frances and Sidney Brody. Painted in 1932, it set a new record for the most expensive art work sold at auction, fetching $106.5m, at Christie’s [Read More]

The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) has acquired a spectacular Monet Masterpiece thanks to the generosity of Montreal fine arts’ connoisseur, philanthropist and National Gallery of Canada Foundation patron Marjorie Bronfman. Claude Monet, “Rock Needle Seen through the Porte d’Aval, Étretat”, 1886. [Read More]

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology presents a significant collection of Huichol art from the early part of the last century in Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World. The exhibition runs through March 13, 2011. Huichol Art and [Read More]