GENEVA.- Sotheby’s Geneva announced that it will offer – in its sale of Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels on 14 May 2012 – the jewellery collection of one of the most important jewellery designers of the 20th century: Suzanne Belperron (190…
LONDON.- Christie’s announces the sale of The Pieter & Olga Dreesmann Collection of Dutch Old Master Paintings which will be offered in the Old Master & British Paintings Evening Auction on Tuesday 3 July. The Dreesmann family name is synonymous w…
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum today announced a generous donation of 25 photographs by acclaimed 20th century photographer Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). A gift of Carol Vernon and her husband Robert Turbin in memory of Marjorie a…
LONDON (AP).- Britain’s Tate gallery has bought a work by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei made up of 8 million porcelain sunflower seeds — a portion of the 100 million he brought to London in 2010. Tate said Monday that it had purchased “Sunflower Seeds …
MALAGA.- The interest that Pablo Picasso aroused among the photographers of his time led to a large number of pictures that have now become part of our collective imagery. This endless quantity of photographs shows us an artist who was devoted to his w…
Vienna, Austria – Under the title “Monet to Picasso”, the Albertina will exhibit its vast holdings of paintings from the period of Modernism, which are primarily made up of works from the Batliner Collection. The epochs covered by this reinstalla…
BOSTON, MA.- The search for the utopian realm of Shambhala, also sometimes known as “Shangri-la” has captured the imagination of people for thousands of years. Be it a state of mind or an actual place somewhere in Central Asia, this legendary ki…
Berlin.- The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is pleased to present “Native American Modernism: Art from North America” on view at the Ethnological Museum in Dahlem from March 3rd through October 28th. About 90 artworks – paintings, graphics and sculptu…
London.- The Courtald Gallery at Somerset House is pleased to present “Mondrian I Nicholson: In Parallel”, on view through May 20th. This exhibition tells the remarkable story of the creative relationship between Piet Mondrian, one of the most celeb…
Hamburg, Germany.- The Hamburger Kunsthalle is proud to present “Exhausted Heroes: Ferdinand Hodler – Aleksandr Dejneka – Neo Rauch” on view through May 13th. The exhibition deals with the utopian ideal of the ‘Neue Mensch’ (‘new man’) an…
