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A Blog on Art history by Jonathan Kantrowitz.
Art History News
1w ago
Schoelkopf Gallery is pleased to share the details on John Marin's Full Moon Over the City, No. 1, executed in 1949.
Full Moon Over the City, No. 1 belongs to a pair of paintings John Marin produced in 1949 of a New York City night scene. The present work is the first of only two examples of this subject Marin painted that year and likely served as Marin's model in developing the second version of the composition, Full Moon Over the City, No. 2. Notably, he used experimental tools such as syringes to create varied textures across the surface of this ..read more
Art History News
2w ago
Musée d'Orsay
March 28 to July 23, 2023
The Met Fifth Avenue
September 24, 2023–January 7, 2024
Some 160 paintings and works on paper, including rarely loaned masterpieces, will illuminate the friendship and rivalry between these two giants of 19th-century French art
Manet/Degas examines one of the most significant artistic dialogues in the genesis of modern art. Born only two years apart, Édouard Manet (1832–1883) and Edgar Degas (1834–1917) were friends, rivals, and, at times, antagonis ..read more
Art History News
3w ago
Art Institute of Chicago
(May 14–September 4, 2023)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
(October 13, 2023–January 14, 2024)
Vincent van Gogh. Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières), 1887. The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and the Estate of Roger McCormick.
During an intensely creative period between 1882 and 1890, Vincent van Gogh and other notable Post-Impressionists found new inspiration in the changing landscape just outside of Paris. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago May 14 through September 4, 2023, V ..read more
Art History News
3w ago
Van Gogh Museum
12 May to 3 September 2023
Wheatfield with Crows, Vincent van Gogh, 1890, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
From 12 May, the Van Gogh Museum presents a major exhibition on Vincent van Gogh’s final months. The artist was immensely productive during the period that he spent in the northern French village of Auvers-sur-Oise, and where he created several of his best-known paintings, including Wheatfield with Crows (1890, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) and Dr Paul Gachet (1890, Musée d’Orsay, Paris). This is the first exhibition to offer an ..read more
Art History News
3w ago
Around 200 works by 75 artists illustrate the (amazing) variety of Modernist and contemporary art production in the most comprehensive exhibition of the Würth Collection to date in Austria
The Würth Collection is among the largest private collections in Europe and one of the most eminent art collections worldwide. The collector Prof. Reinhold Würth gave the Leopold Museum’s Director Hans-Peter Wipplinger carte blanche to choose around 200 masterpieces from the collection’s approximately 19,000 works for the exhibition AMAZING. The Würth Collection at the Leopold Museum.
The presen ..read more
Art History News
3w ago
LOT 18 CCHRISTOPHER WOOL (b. 1955)
Untitled
EstimateUSD 15,000,000 - 20,000,000
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LOT 23 CGERHARD RICHTER (b. 1932)
Badende
EstimateUSD 15,000,000 - 20,000,000
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LOT 30 CWILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
Untitled
EstimateUSD 8,000,000 - 12,000,000
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LOT 35 CPABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Buste d'homme lauré
EstimateUSD 9,000,000 - 12,000,000
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LOT 10 CLEE KRASNER (1908-1984)
Untitled
EstimateUSD 6,000,000 - 8,000,000
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LOT 21 CWILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
East Hampton III
EstimateUSD 6,000,000 - 8,000,000
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Art History News
1M ago
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ARLETTE SCHLITT-GERSON, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
LOT 15
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
(1841-1919)
Roses
US$500,000 - US$700,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK
LOT 25
MAN RAY
(1890-1976)
Reliure (Bookbinding)
US$400,000 - US$600,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK
LOT 26
ANDRÉ MASSON
(1896-1987)
Nu à la flamme
US$120,000 - US$180,000
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF SEVERIN WUNDERMAN
LOT 5W
JEAN COCTEAU
(1889-1963)
Judith et Holopherne
US$100,000 - US$150,000
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JAMES LIPTON
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Art History News
1M ago
The Frist Art Museum May 26–August 13, 2023
1. Al Aumuller. Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, holding
guitar, 1943. Gelatin silver print; 8 1/8 x 8 6/8 in. Prints and Photographs
Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
2. Michael C. Thorpe. Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 2021. Fabric; 46 x 33 1/4 in. Private
collection, courtesy of LaiSun Keane, Boston
3. Lonnie Holley. The Music Lives after the Instrument Is Destroyed, 1984. Burned musical instruments, artificial flowers, and wire; 33 x 36 x 3 in. Souls Grown Deep Foundation
The Frist Art Museum pre ..read more
Art History News
1M ago
Guy Carleton Wiggins (American, 1883-1962)
At the Library
Oil on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed ...
Auction 8113 | Lot: 67027
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000.
Current Bid: $12,500
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Time Left: 11 days
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Guy Carleton Wiggins (American, 1883-1962)
A Walk in Central Park
Oil on canvasboard
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
...
Auction 8113 | Lot: 67028
Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000.
Current Bid: $6,000
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Guy Carleton Wiggins (American, 1883-1962)
Old Trinity from Wall Street
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1M ago
Christie’s is pleased to present El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile), a masterpiece from the oeuvre of Jean-Michel Basquiat as the jewel of the 21st Century Evening Sale taking place on Monday, May 15, 2023 live at Rockefeller Center.
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION: PARTIAL PROCEEDS INTENDED TO BENEFIT ACCADEMIA VALENTINO JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile)
Estimate on request; in the region of $45,000,000
Thepainting comes to Christie’s from a distinguished collection, with partial proceeds of the sale intended to benefit the Accademia V ..read more