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Thinking ahead about artist market values
Huffington Post / March 25th, 2010
The appreciation and market valuation of an artist's ouevre can sometimes boil down to estate planning. Lee Krasner, who managed her husband Jackson Pollock's estate until her death in 1984, provided an even flow of works onto the market in order to keep prices high and maintain a scarcity. ...
Record price achieved for Australian art at auction
The Australian / March 25th, 2010
A bold, modernist Sidney Nolan painting of infamous bush outlaw Ned Kelly, titled "First-Class Marksman," sold for $5.4 million (including a 20% buyer's premium), making it the most expensive Australian artwork ever sold at auction. About 200 people packed Menzies Arts Brands in Sydney for the ...
Tiffany, Nakashima featured in Skinner's 20th-century design sale
Auction Central News / March 25th, 2010
Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, Art Deco, Mid-century Modern and Studio Movement furniture and decorative arts, including Scandinavian modern, will be auctioned March 27 at Skinner's in Boston. Highlights include a Tiffany student lamp, bronze with green damascene shades, estimated at ...
Philadelphia Antiques Show loan exhibit is "A Call to Arms"
Antiques and the Arts / March 24th, 2010
From April 17 to 20, the Philadelphia Antiques Show will showcase a loan exhibit, "A Call to Arms: Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the British and American Markets, 1700–1850," an homage to renowned dealer Elinor Gordon (1918–2009), the specialist in Chinese Export porcelain who exhibited at the ...
U.S. record price for Chinese classical art at Sotheby's
AFP / March 24th, 2010
Sales during Asia Week continue strongly in New York. On Tuesday, Sotheby's sold Bada Shanren's "Two Mynas on a Rock" for $2.994 million, the highest US auction price paid for a classical Chinese artwork. The pre-sale estimate was conservative at $400,000-600,000. Chinese calligraphy also ...
Women artists celebrated at Chrysler Museum
Hampton Roads / March 24th, 2010
A dazzling, impressionistic scene titled "Lilies, Lanterns, and Sunshine," painted by Helen M. Turner in 1923, is among more than 150 works by women artists now on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. "Women of the Chrysler: A 400-Year Celebration of the Arts" comes with a ...
Parisian curators spotlight dark-themed art
Bloomberg / March 24th, 2010
The Musee d’Orsay in Paris has assembled more than 400 paintings, prints, drawings, posters and photographs under the title “Crime and Punishment.” Sinister works, with subjects from serial killers to femmes fatales, by artists from David to Degas, comprise this thematic exhibition which also ...
King Tut returns to NYC
Huffington Post / March 23rd, 2010
A 25-foot statue of the Egyptian jackal-headed god Annubis arrived at New York City's South Street Seaport by barge. The ceremony announced the coming arrival of artifacts from King Tut's tomb, in a show opening April 23 at the Discovery Times Square Exposition, after traveling from San ...
Cy Twombly redecorates Louvre
Associated Press / March 23rd, 2010
Even after pop artist Jeff Koons ruffled French feathers with his inflatable 'Lobster' and giant balloon dogs---installed at Versailles in 2008---another American was invited to create a more permanent fixture at the Louvre. Cy Twombly, the first artist given the honor of decorating a Louvre ...
Children's classic 'Wind in the Willows' sold for $48,800
Associated Press / March 23rd, 2010
A signed copy of "The Wind In The Willows" sold at a Bonhams auction in London for 32,400 pounds ($48,794) - around 10 times its estimated value. Author Kenneth Grahame had inscribed the book with a dedication to the girl who inspired the character Ratty. Children's literature has attracted ...
'Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917' on view at the Art Institute of Chicago
LA Times Arts / March 22nd, 2010
This exhibition, on through June 30, includes some of the greatest, most enigmatic works of Henri Matisse's long career, as the artist responded to the cruel chaos of World War I. Among the 117 works in the show, a weirdly beautiful 1913 still life, "Flowers and Ceramic Plate," an almost ...
Asian art sale total triples low estimate
The Epoch Times / March 22nd, 2010
Asia Week in New York began with a robust $3 million auction at Doyle New York on Monday. The pre-sale expectation for the auction was $946,150-$1,375,950. The top lot was a 6-inch tall Chinese jadeite incense burner which sold for over $1 million to a buyer from China. The estimate was modest ...
Excellence sells in Maastricht
Bloomberg / March 22nd, 2010
The 10-day Dutch art fair Tefaf attracted 72,500 visitors, an increase of 7 percent on 2009, say the organizers. Most were white, middle-aged Americans and Europeans, and they were in a buying mood. Middle market sales were soft, but the seven-figure sales soared. For example, Basquiat’s 1982 ...
Behind one of Boston's big museum expansions
Wall Street Journal / March 22nd, 2010
Anne Hawley, Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, says her slogan is 'Elitism for all.' She believes the public is hungry for 'real meaning,' which the Gardner translates into scholarly art shows. Now, Hawley is going full steam ahead with ambitious (and controversial) plans to ...
Enthusiasm for Americana at TAAS
Maine Antique Digest / March 22nd, 2010
From William and Mary gate-leg tables to Art Deco silver, The American Antiques Show saw some swift sales last January, but nothing was selling like hotcakes, according to Maine Antique Digest's recap of the Americana Week event in New York. "It is a good time for savvy money to be in the ...
Catherine the Great's emerald at auction
Luxist / March 21st, 2010
Christie's is offering a brooch once owned by Catherine II of Russia, the powerful 18th-century monarch known for her taste in art and jewelry. The 60-to-70 carat emerald was a gift to Sophie Dorothea when she wed Catherine's son Tsar Paul I in 1776. The hexagonal cut Colombian emerald is ...
Larry Salander pleads guilty, ordered to pay $120 million
New York Post / March 21st, 2010
Last Thursday, the debacle perpetuated by bankrupt Manhattan gallery owner Lawrence Salander culminated in a guilty plea. His $120 million fraud scheme included duping clients such as actor Robert De Niro, tennis star John McEnroe as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Salander's crimes ...
Young art dealer, Old Master heritage
Financial Times / March 21st, 2010
Jan Six XI, age 31, has opened a new gallery in Amsterdam specialising in Dutch and Flemish Old Master. In a promising powerhouse move, Jan Six Fine Art has teamed up with London art dealership Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, famous for identifying a long-lost Rembrandt self-portrait in 2007. Six, ...
Pleissner to Paxson please bidders in Montana auctions
Great Falls Tribune / March 21st, 2010
Western Art Week in Great Falls, Montana, featured a trinity of auctions with the highest-grossing one, "The Russell," tallying $1.57 million. Popular lots included Grace Carpenter Hudson's (1865-1937) "Wip-on and the Poppies," which sold for $55,000; Ogden Minton Pleissner's (1905-1983) "Poling ...
Signature Winslow Homers in summer exhibition
artdaily / March 18th, 2010
Maine's Portland Museum of Art has organized "Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place," on view June 5 through September 6, 2010, in honor of the centennial of the artist’s death in September. The exhibition will showcase 20 works from the museum’s collection, including rarely exhibited ...