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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, September 21, 2009
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 | Before the Desert: O'Keeffe's 'more interesting' work at the Whitney
New York Times - September 21st, 2009 03:11
There are two Georgia O’Keeffes. They’re closely related, but one is far more interesting than the other. Not so interesting, except maybe as a marketing phenomenon, is the post-1930s cow-skull painter and striker of frontier-priestess poses. More interesting, and less familiar, is the artist found in “Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction,” a vivid and surprisingly surprising show of more than 130 paintings and drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art.Read more | |
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 | Richly-storied Rembrandt: Old Master headliner with record price estimate
NY Times - September 21st, 2009 00:56
Polish-born collector Barbara Piasecka Johnson, widow of the heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune, is parting with her monumental Rembrandt. “Portrait of a Man, Half-Length, With His Arms Akimbo,” from 1658, not seen by the public for nearly 40 years, is being sold at Christie’s in London on Dec. 8. The estimate is $29.7 million to $41.2 million, the highest estimate ever for an old master painting coming to auction.Read more | |
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 | Polar Medals Have Admirers: Six-figures for Endurance expedition glory
London Times - September 21st, 2009 00:00
The medals of one of the world’s greatest polar explorers have been sold by auctioneer Dix Noonan Webb in London for £132,000, more than double what was expected. Frank Wild, CBE, received four Polar Medals from the Royal Geographical Society, the only man to hold so many, and was part of Shackleton’s famed Endurance expedition of 1914. With their ship trapped in ice, Wild was in charge for five months as Shackleton and others left for help in what became known as one of ...Read more | |
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 | Travel Posters Take Flight: Collectibles ignite fierce bidding in U.K.
New York Times Art - September 19th, 2009 04:45
At the Sept. 9 Christie's sale in London of ordinary 20th-century posters and commonplace furniture, buyers ignored the recession. The finest lot was an Art Deco lithograph, “Nord Express,” designed by Cassandre in 1927 under the twin influence of Cubism and Italian Futurism. That shot up to £22,500, or $37,125. Read more | |
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