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Leslie Waddington, Pioneering Art Dealer, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / December 1st, 2015
A fixture on the international art scene for more than five decades and an esteemed promoter of 20th-century modernist masters, London art dealer Leslie Waddington, 81, passed away on Nov. 30 surrounded by his family. He was born in 1934 in Dublin. Leslie Waddington was Chairman of Waddington ...
Miami Art Week Organized with App
Miami Herald / November 29th, 2015
It's a whirlwind of activity from Dec. 1 to 6, so the modern and contemporary art mecca dubbed Miami Art Week has got an app. The Miami Herald offers the free Art Finder Miami app for the tens of thousands of visitors descending on the city this week who will navigate Art Basel Miami Beach, ...
American Art: Rockwell Tops Christie's Sale; Taubman's Heade Heads to Museum
ArtfixDaily / November 19th, 2015
Following Christie's major auctions devoted to Impressionist, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art last week, which generated $1.1 billion in total sales, the auction house offered up about 100 lots of American art on Nov. 19 bringing a total $45 million in New York. The sale was strong ...
Mixed Results, Multiple Artist Records in Sotheby's American Art Sales
ArtfixDaily / November 18th, 2015
Two sales of American Art at Sotheby's on Wednesday night brought a total near-$40 million, with a season total of $52.2 million in American Art, according to Sotheby's. The Taubman collection fell short of some hefty estimates on a number of works, and 8 of 31 offered lots went unsold, ...
Inside Iran's Hidden World-Class Modern Art Collection
Bloomberg / November 17th, 2015
As the Tehran Contemporary Art Museum prepares to open its first exhibit of modern art in years on November 20—and plans for international shows—Bloomberg reporter Peter Waldman is the rare Western journalist to go inside the Museum’s locked basement vault to view its hidden collection of the ...
Whistleblower CFO Fired by San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
SF Chronicle / November 17th, 2015
San Francisco Fine Arts Museums whistle-blower Michele Gutierrez is out of a job — and it happened soon after the San Francisco Chronicle revealed that she had gone to the city and the state attorney general with allegations of financial misconduct involving powerful museums ...
Highlights of American Paintings Week in New York
ArtfixDaily / November 10th, 2015
A seven-day fête of historic American art, particularly 19th to 20th-century painting and sculpture, kicks off this weekend in New York City. The American Art Fair begins the week of events with a by-invitation preview on Sat., Nov. 14 and public viewing of its 8th edition ...
Records Set for Bourgeois, Fontana in $331.8 Million Christie's Sale
ArtfixDaily / November 10th, 2015
Christie's continued on its winning streak Tuesday night with a $331.8 million sale of post-war and contemporary art, just a day after it sold a Modigliani nude portrait for a record-shattering $170.4 million. While not every lot in the sale was a winner (some fell below guarantees/estimates and ...
Sale of Norman Rockwell Painting Sets Up High School's Scholarship Fund
Boston Globe / November 10th, 2015
The Massachusetts House late last week passed a bill establishing a scholarship fund, using money from the 2014 sale of a painting that Norman Rockwell donated to a Gardner, Mass., principal in the 1940s, reports the Boston Globe. “Willie Gillis in Convoy," Rockwell's World War II-era work ...
Modigliani Nude Fetches $170.4 Million, Plus More World Records at Christie's
ArtfixDaily / November 9th, 2015
Naked ladies reclining on couches and a worried-looking nurse were two subjects that resonated with the world's most deep-pocketed buyers of blue-chip art on Monday night. Works by masters Modigliani, Lichtenstein, Courbet and Balthus brought record prices for the artists at ...
New Monograph, Building Mark the Rising Seven-Decade Career of Artist Ellsworth Kelly
Guardian / November 8th, 2015
Artist Ellsworth Kelly tells the Observer of his signature works: “The abstract expressionists didn’t use colour so much, and I wanted to bring it back in some sense. What I also always say about them is that they found their picture as they made it – the process led to its shape – whereas I had ...
Stella Reaches Record Price in $377 Million Taubman Art Auction
ArtfixDaily / November 4th, 2015
This month's anticipated sales in New York have begun with some of the finest artworks from the Taubman collection bringing a total $377 million, on the low side of its total estimate of $374.8 million to $526.5 million, on Wednesday night at Sotheby's. Several of 77 lots in the ...
Taubman Collection Kicks Off November's $2.1-Billion Auction Series
Bloomberg / November 1st, 2015
About $2.1 billion of art is offered for sale at the major November auctions in New York. Nearly half of that staggering sum is guaranteed--basically already sold since the auction houses (or others) will buy it at a pre-determined price if a bidder does not--making $1 billion in art already ...
Monumental Civil War-Era Paintings Surface at Auction
Winston-Salem Journal / November 1st, 2015
A 410-foot, 360-degree panoramic painting depicting the Battle of Gettysburg was purchased in the 1960s by North Carolina artist Joseph Wallace King (d. 1996). The famous 1883 cyclorama (another version is at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center) was bought directly by King ...
George Lucas Museum Gets Approval from Chicago City Council
CS Monitor / October 29th, 2015
Chicago City Council voted Wednesday to approve the 30,000 square foot museum planned by 'Star Wars' creator George Lucas on the city's coveted lakefront. Months of opposition have stalled the green light for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art which would house his collection of American art, ...
San Francisco Fall Antiques Show Highlights Something Old, Something New Aesthetic
ArtfixDaily / October 22nd, 2015
Rooted in Victorian times and infused with the energy of today's tech industry, San Francisco is a place where old and new, tradition and innovation, blend seamlessly. West Coast art collectors and designers just as easily mix styles and periods, and flock ...
Art Swindler Luke Brugnara Gets 7 Years in Prison
Courthouse News Service / October 21st, 2015
On Tuesday in San Francisco a federal judge sentenced former commercial real estate mogul Luke Brugnara to 7 years in prison for swindling a New York art dealer. The fraud verdict comes after the June 2014 disappearance of millions of dollars worth of art delivered to Brugnara. Art ...
Renovated Westmoreland Museum of American Art Showcases Newly-Acquired Collections
ArtfixDaily / October 20th, 2015
After a two-year renovation and expansion project tied to a $38 million capital and endowment fundraising campaign, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art marks its reopening in Greensburg, Penn., this weekend with special events and the debut of exhibitions showcasing the transformational gifts ...
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Gifted $200 Million American Art Collection
Richmond Times-Dispatch / October 18th, 2015
A major private collection of American art, spanning the Hudson River School to modernism, has been gifted to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin have boosted the VMFA's American art holdings with 73 ...
S.F. Fine Arts Museums Refutes Allegations Against Board President
San Francisco Chronicle / October 19th, 2015
Dede Wilsey, the president of the board of trustees at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and a major philanthropist, was reported to be under investigation by city officials after a complaint was filed of financial misconduct, according to an Oct. 16 article in the San ...