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Expanded Addison Gallery of American Art opens
ArtfixDaily / September 7th, 2010
The Addison Gallery of American Art, the academic art museum of Phillips Academy, has reopened to the public after a $20 million renovation, the first since its founding in 1931. Closed since 2008, the expanded museum, in Andover, Mass., is now displaying a special selection of ...
Solid sales at Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
ArtfixDaily / September 4th, 2010
The 30th Annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, from September 2 to 5, sustained a high gate as well as notable retail and trade business over Labor Day weekend. More than 550 exhibitors displayed nearly 200,000 objects from antiquarian books, fine art, jewelry, and silver, to textiles, ...
Missing Corot's co-owner is convicted crook
AP / September 2nd, 2010
The whereabouts of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's circa 1857 "Portrait of a Girl" is a mystery. A man says he got drunk and lost the work. The co-owner of the $1.3 million painting has now been identified as an art thief. Kristyn Trudgeon, who partly owns the work, sued James Carl Haggerty in ...
“A Privileged View,” Paintings by Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) at The Cooley Gallery
ArtfixDaily / September 2nd, 2010
"A Privileged View" is among the first public exhibitions of both plein air sketches and major easel paintings by the artist Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932). Closely held by the artist during his lifetime, and subsequently by his family, these often intimate and consistently vital works from ...
Significant American Art offered in Charlton Hall’s September auction
ARTFIXdaily ArtWire / September 1st, 2010
A trove of paintings from a prominent Upstate South Carolina art collector will be offered in Charlton Hall's Sept. 11-12 sale, including works by Anthony Thieme, William R. Leigh, Emile Albert Gruppe, Walter Emerson Baum, Frederick Judd Waugh and others.
Photographer Massimo Vitali exposes people at play
ArtfixDaily / September 1st, 2010
Massimo Vitali's unique views of the rites and rituals of modern-day leisure are on display in his third exhibition at M+B in Los Angeles, from September 11 to October 16, 2010. Featuring new work from 2009 and 2010, the exhibition includes eight large-scale color photographs from Austria, ...
Millet and Rural France opens at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Sept. 4
ArtfixDaily / August 31st, 2010
Jean-François Millet’s depiction of the arresting beauty of the natural world is the subject of Millet and Rural France, an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), that invites visitors to rediscover one of the most important artists of the 19th century. On view September 4, ...
Clyde Aspevig wins Maynard Dixon Country Artist Choice Award
ArtfixDaily / August 30th, 2010
Each August the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts hosts the Maynard Dixon Country, an art show, gathering and sale of work by thirty-forty of America's premier artists. This year's Maynard Dixon Country Artist Choice Award for the best body of work went to Clyde Aspevig (b. 1951). Aspevig ...
Estate of Hibbard student enters market softly
The Keene Sentinel / August 29th, 2010
New England impressionists Aldro T. Hibbard and Anthony Thieme were his teachers and his friends. Like his contemporaries, Gloucester, Rockport, and scenic points along the North Shore of Massachusetts as well as New Hampshire's snow-covered mountains figured large in his oeuvre. An estimated ...
Interconnected Beauty: Ariadne Galleries to unveil Christian and Islamic antiquities collection
ArtfixDaily / August 29th, 2010
A rare and beautiful collection of Early Christian and Islamic artworks will be debuted by Ariadne Galleries at the Grand Palais in Paris as part of the 25th Biennale des Antiquaires this September. “In all of my years collecting and dealing in ancient art, this is the first time that I have ...
Ansel Adams trust sues Rick Norsigian
LA Times blog / August 26th, 2010
The Fresno, Calif., man who says he bought a stack of glass-plate negatives created by Ansel Adams at a garage sale for $45 is being sued by the famed nature photographer's trust. Rick Norsigian assembled a team of various specialists, although none are known photography experts, to ...
Lewis & Clark book leads Leslie Hindman sale
ArtfixDaily / August 26th, 2010
Fresh-to-the-market material helped boost hammer prices well above estimates at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers' August 12 sale in Chicago. A Lewis & Clark book nearly quadrupled its high estimate. The Fine Books & Manuscripts sale featured several highly-contested lots culled from private ...
Art dealers expose their personal collections
ArtfixDaily / August 25th, 2010
Collectors sometimes suspect that dealers keep the best stuff for themselves. Recently, notable dealers have unabashedly revealed their personal tastes, which at times mirror their gallery's specialities, in exhibitions and as inventory for sale. This fall New York dealer Larry Gagosian will be ...
Andrew Wyeth: An American Legend
ArtfixDaily / August 25th, 2010
The Hyde Collection, in Glen Falls, New York, presents a loan exhibition, organized in assocation with Maine's Farnsworth Art Museum, featuring about 40 pencil, watercolor, and tempera works by celebrated American artist Andrew Wyeth. Although lacking a few of his most well-known works, such as ...
Western artists heat up Coeur d'Alene auction
Antiques and the Arts / August 24th, 2010
The annual Couer d'Alene Auction in Reno, Nevada, totalled a strong $9.2 million (with buyer's premium) on July 24. Among the 312 lots of traditional and contemporary Western, wildlife, and sporting art, were several notable record-breakers. A 13-by-10-inch portrait of Chief Joseph by Edgar ...
"John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women"
ArtfixDaily / August 24th, 2010
The Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, has on view, through Dec. 31, 2010, a dazzling assemblage of portraits by American impressionist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women features approximately 25 of Sargent's paintings of American ...
Virtual VIP Art Fair debuts in January
ArtfixDaily / August 23rd, 2010
For the first time, a world-class art fair is planned online-only. From January 22 to 30, 2010, the VIP Art Fair will aggregate leading international contemporary art galleries on an Internet platform which offers the art fair's appeal of a limited-time event featuring fresh and exicting works of ...
$50 million Van Gogh still-life stolen
Guardian / August 22nd, 2010
A Vincent Van Gogh painting valued at $50 million was stolen over the weekend from a Cairo museum. Early reports stated the painting was recovered hours after it went missing. Egypt's culture minister Farouk Hosni later said the information was inaccurate and "Poppy Flowers," also called "Vase ...
Judge denies split ownership of O'Keeffe art
ArtfixDaily / August 22nd, 2010
Fisk University can't sell a 50 percent share in its art collection to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., a Tennessee chancery court judge ruled Friday. Museum founder Alice Walton, the Wal-Mart heiress, offered $30 million for an undivided interest in the ...
Collectors' guide to Georg Jensen silver
Telegraph / August 19th, 2010
Judith Miller reveals the top ten things you should know before buying antique and new Georg Jensen silver, from popular patterns of hollowware to price ranges, as well as styles and forms to look out for. "Prices rose about 15 per cent over the past decade, but levelled out during the ...