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Chinese Imperial clock leads $15.2 million Patricia Kluge sale
ArtfixDaily / June 10th, 2010
The contents of Albermarle House, the massive Virginia mansion owned by Patricia Kluge, brought in $15.2 million in a two-day sale conducted on-site by Sotheby's. The firm also sold sixteen pieces of jewelry and other pieces for Kluge in April, bringing total sales to $20.2 million. The ...
Major gift of master prints bolsters Bowdoin College Museum of Art holdings
ArtfixDaily / June 10th, 2010
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has received a large and significant gift to its permanent collection from print collector Charles Pendexter, a resident of Brunswick, Maine, where the museum is located. Totaling more than 1,500 prints and eight drawings, the Pendexter collection ...
Art Basel set to impress
ArtfixDaily / June 9th, 2010
"Collector Power: Who Has It and Who Doesn't' is just one of the provocative-sounding talks on the docket during Art Basel. The who's who of the art world, powerful and not so much, will be among the 60,000 visitors to swarm the Swiss city of Basel for Europe's premier modern and contemporary art ...
Minimalist mobile sets auction record for Calder in France
ArtfixDaily / June 9th, 2010
An Alexander Calder mobile swept to €2.3 million, including buyer's premium, against a pre-sale estimate of €500,000-€800,000, at the May 31 contemporary art sale at Artcurial in France. A Swiss collector went home with the 6-foot long piece. Titled 'Pour Vilar,' the early 1950s mobile came ...
Eagle bowl, ship-form pipe lead Bonhams' Native American art sale
ArtfixDaily / June 9th, 2010
Bonhams & Butterfields' June 7 auction of Native American Art in its San Francisco galleries tallied more than $1.6-million for baskets, pottery, jewelry and blankets. Northwest Coast and Plains material proved particularly strong in the 440-lot sale. The leading lot was a seven-inch long ...
"The Search for Beauty: Whistler and His Time" at Colby College Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / June 8th, 2010
An advocate of "art for art's sake," American-born painter James McNeill Whistler valued the beauty found in everyday life. He was a leading figure in the 19th-century Aesthetic Movement as it evolved in Victorian England, ultimately transforming Americans' ideas of art's purpose. His ...
PBS series probes moon museum caper
ArtfixDaily / June 8th, 2010
Did a tiny art museum secretly get launched to the moon? Evidence is emerging that a miniscule piece of pop art got smuggled aboard the Apollo 12 lunar module in 1969. The ceramic chip was embedded with original sketches by six artists including Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Robert ...
Biennale to present next generation of French art dealers
ArtfixDaily / June 8th, 2010
A new exhibition space to showcase 25 emerging galleries will be introduced at France's 25th Biennale this fall. The prestigious art and antiques show, featuring 80 established art dealers and 7 leading jewellers, takes place September 15 to 22, under the dome of the Grand Palais in Paris. ...
"The Subtle Genius of Henry Cooke White" opens June 26 at Cooley Gallery
ArtfixDaily / June 7th, 2010
"The poetry, the spontaneity, the stillness, or the depth," a wide range of qualities attracted gallery owner Jeffrey Cooley to the work of American artist Henry Cooke White (1861-1952) as presented in last year's exhibition "Visions of Mood" at the Florence Griswold Museum. Inspired by the ...
Market-fresh Picasso cherries painting may fetch $1 million
ArtfixDaily / June 7th, 2010
So far, 2010 has been the year of Picasso in the press. In May, Christie's sold the 1932 Picasso painting of his mistress, titled "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," for the staggering sum of $106.5 million, a world record price for any work of art at auction. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is ...
Sotheby's begins sale of Albemarle House interiors
ArtfixDaily / June 7th, 2010
The contents of the opulent 45-room English country manor owned by vintner and philanthropist Patricia Kluge will be sold by Sotheby's June 8 and 9 at her estate near Charlottesville, Virginia. The collection is rich in Georgian furniture, decorative arts, and paintings, and estimated in excess ...
Bankrupt Lehman Bros. to auction more art at Sotheby's
ArtfixDaily / June 6th, 2010
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is seeking to raise at least $10 million in an auction of its art collection this fall. A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge must rule on whether to allow the sale which is scheduled for Sept 25. at Sotheby's. Proceeds would go the bank's creditors. On offer will be ...
Fearsome predators perform well at Heritage Auction
ArtfixDaily / June 6th, 2010
Multi-million-year-old treasures extracted from exotic locales worldwide found eager buyers at Heritage Auction Galleries Beverly Hills’ June 6 sale of Natural History. The $1.6 million auction featured spectacular gems and mineral specimens, gold and precious metals, rare dinosauria and ...
Monet may push Christie's auction to record total in U.K.
ArtfixDaily / June 3rd, 2010
A Claude Monet water-lily painting is expected to reach 40 million pounds ($58.6 million) at Christie's June 23 sale of Impressionist works in London. Together, Monet’s 1906 “Nympheas” and Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period “Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto” may push the sale total to between 163.7 ...
Top ten things to know about the American flag
ArtfixDaily / June 3rd, 2010
Many people think that the flag we love so much as Americans was born alongside the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776, or at least in the general vicinity of that day, but it was actually brought to life by the Flag Act of 1777, passed by Congress on June 14th of that year. York, ...
Olana exhibit explores impact of Jamaica on the art of Frederic Church
ArtfixDaily / June 3rd, 2010
Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), known as a leading figure in the Hudson River School of landscape painting, had a passion for the tropics. In 1865, Church and his wife, Isabel, journeyed to Jamaica for a respite after losing their two young children to diphtheria. Immersing himself in the ...
Gilbert Stuart to star in Grogan & Co.'s June auction
ArtfixDaily / June 2nd, 2010
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), famous for his presidential portraits of George Washington, also depicted the American leader’s war enemy. General Charles Rainsford, a British officer responsible for recruiting Hessian soldiers to fight the colonists during the Revolutionary War, was painted in ...
Close to Home: The New England Landscapes of Aaron Draper Shattuck (1832-1928)
ArtfixDaily / June 2nd, 2010
Intimate, detailed views of nature were the focus of 19th-century American artist Aaron Draper Shattuck. A newly-discovered cache by this Hudson River School painter will be presented in an exhibition at The Cooley Gallery, beginning June 3 with an evening opening reception. Described as ...
Cruise with Canaletto: National Gallery of Art offers summer fun for kids
ArtfixDaily / June 2nd, 2010
In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is a summer destination with a number of free, drop-in programs perfectly tailored for children of all ages. Among the many choices of art-centric activities is the Stories in Art series, beginning with a cycle of events themed "Explore ...
Four fairs burst on London antiques season
Financial Times / June 1st, 2010
The Financial Times has the low-down on the high art being offered at London antiques fairs this month. Timed to coincide with the major summer auctions are four fairs, beginning June 3-6 with West London Art and Antiques Fair. Next up is David and Lee Ann Lester's revamped Olympia, now dubbed ...