Fine Art News

The Board of Directors and staff of the Kimbell Art Museum are mourning the tragic loss of former museum director and dear friend, Dr. Edmund (Ted) P. Pillsbury. Kay Fortson, Board president, Kimbell Art Foundation commented, “Ted was a brilliant director and [Read More]

Out of a total of 135 works by 42 artists 82% sold making a total of £2.6m (R28.5m) achieved by this sale, the seventh South African Art Sale in five years at Bonhams. Works by Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, Gerard Sekoto and Maggie [Read More]

The first major exhibition to reevaluate the last half of Salvador Dalí’s career will be presented exclusively at the High Museum of Art this August. Beginning in the late 1930s, Dalí went through a radical change in which he embraced Catholicism, developed [Read More]

A Modigliani pencil drawing of Beatrice Hastings, circa 1915, brought $84,000 at Swann Galleries March 9th 2010 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings. The portrait of the political activist and literary figure, which was once in the celebrated collection [Read More]

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to present New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, on view from July 17 to October 3, 2010. Comprised of close to 150 photographs, it is a restaging of a historically significant [Read More]

Upon first glance, Yang Yongliang’s photographs appear as dreamlike Chinese paintings, not unlike those he studied extensively as a student of traditional art at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. However, upon closer inspection, one finds that his works are cleverly crafted [Read More]

Christie’s New York has announced it will offer the most significant collection of paintings and illustrations by the beloved American artist Maxfield Parrish ever to be offered at auction. Major works from all periods of Parrish’s long career as an illustrator and [Read More]

“Vatican Splendors: A Journey through Faith and Art” will present unique objects illustrating the Vatican’s impact on history and culture through 2,000 years. The exhibition will only appear in three North American cities, after which the items must return to the Vatican, [Read More]

Christie’s announce that they will offer the first part of an extensive selection of exceptional medieval and renaissance masterpieces on 7 July 2010 in London. The Arcana Collection: Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula Part I is an outstanding private collection which has [Read More]

Christie’s Auctioneers has announced its three Photographs sales this spring season will be held in New York on April 14 and 15, 2010. The three separate sales include two single owner collections, Three Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the Collection of [Read More]

From Saturday 27th March to the 16th May 2010 Rosemary Abraham’s latest collection of paintings will be on display in the grand surroundings of Sewerby Hall, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, UK. There will be around 100 paintings included in the exhibition including abstract [Read More]

“Pictures about Pictures. Discursive Painting” s the title of the exhibition of the Daimler Art Collection in the MUMOK. Around 130 works will be presented ranging from classical modernity and post-war avantgarde through European Zero and minimalism to international contemporary art. In [Read More]

The National Gallery of Victoria today opened a major retrospective exhibition of the work of Rupert Bunny (1864–1947). Melbourne-born Bunny was one of the most successful artists of his generation. Living most of his life in France, no other Australian artist achieved [Read More]

‘TimeScale’ continues Ian Johnson’s enquiry into the conceptual and physical implications of man’s impact on the urban and natural landscape and ways that this can be configured intuitively. It consists of inter-related sculptures, drawings and assemblages that interlace attributes of the elemental [Read More]