A new world record was achieved when a rare work by the Italian artist Giuseppe de Nittis soared past its estimate of $200/300,000 and sold for an astounding $1,133,000 at Bonhams’ October 21st European Paintings auction in New York. Depicting a couple [Read More]
Sotheby’s London biannual sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, which will take place on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 will present over 250 lots, comprising an important range of sculpture, ceramics and works of art in the wide variety of [Read More]
The Red Gallery is to present the first ever solo exhibition by a Burmese artist in Dubai and the Middle East from Tuesday 27th October 2009. Aung Kyaw Htet is a talented artist from Myanmar [Burma] who has risen from a very [Read More]
New Brunswick’s Miller Brittain (1912-1968) burst upon the Canadian art scene with masterful emotion-filled drawings and paintings of the human form at a time when landscapes by the Group of Seven held sway. Today, the National Gallery of Canada presents Miller Brittain: [Read More]
The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is proud to present Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart, an exhibition examining the remarkable contributions of color block print artist, Frances Gearhart. Embedded in the time and place of the [Read More]
Through 2010 January 10. Lower East Gallery. Artists Iratxe Jaio ( Markina, 1976 ) and Klaas Gorkum ( Delft, 1975 ), Asier Mendizabal ( Ordizia, 1973 ) and Xabier Salaberria go ( Donostia / San Sebastián, 1969 ) were winners, in 2008, [Read More]
Merry Karnowsky Gallery Berlin presents “Supreme Beings”, a solo exhibition by award-winning artist Kill Pixie, through 19 December 2009. Kill Pixie (AKA Mark Whalen) began as a graffiti artist on the streets of his native Sydney, Australia. Once he transitioned to fine [Read More]
Babcock Galleries is pleased to present a much-anticipated exhibition in conjunction with the release of the first monograph of Alan Gussow’s work, Alan Gussow: A Painter’s Nature. As Holland Cotter noted, Gussow (1931 – 1997) had a skill for “…summing up the [Read More]
Collectors from around the world will have the rare chance to acquire exceptional works from the biggest names in Asian contemporary and Chinese 20th-century art in this season’s Asian Contemporary & Chinese 20th-Century Art Evening Sale held on November 29 at the [Read More]
Christie’s will offer an auction of 24 Orientalist masterpieces on November 25, 2009 in London. An important Private Collection of 9 works will form the core of the sale and includes four works by Jean-Léon Gérôme and three exceptional watercolors by John [Read More]
Ezra Mabengeza, South African photographer, along with artist Jonathan Freemantle paint a powerful portrait of Africa that opens October 13, 2009 at the Alliance Française in Cape Town. Dedicated to the late Helen Suzman, one of South Africa’s most fearless anti-apartheid activists, [Read More]
Regen Projects presents an exhibition of works by New York artist, Marilyn Minter. For her debut at Regen Projects, Minter presents a series of decadent paintings, photographs and her new film Green Pink Caviar. Marilyn Minter, “Amoeba”, 2008, C-print, 64 x 86 [Read More]
Sotheby’s fall Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York on 4 November 2009 presents a remarkable offering ranging from an exquisite group of classic Impressionist pictures by Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley from the family of legendary dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, [Read More]
Collectors of fine art around the world will be taking careful notice of the happenings at Heritage Auctions in Dallas on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 11-12, as an array of American and European artwork – led by names like William Merritt Chase, [Read More]