Tag: Art

CAMBRIDGE, UK – Maggi
Hambling ~ The Wave
brings together a powerful group of large-scale paintings depicting the
power
and energy of the North Sea. A series of evocative and sensual portraits
of the
wave, these works reveal the artist’s long-standing fascination with the

elemental character of the sea. On exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum
through
8 August, 2010.

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s auction of
American
Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 19 May 2010 will offer collectors a
rich
array of works by American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The
auction
contains a strong selection of modern pictures, with many paintings that
are
both rare and fresh to the market. Works from the sale will be exhibited
at
Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning 15 May.

Flagstaff, AZ – Founded in
2001,
Beaver
Street is Northern
Arizona’s premier fine arts gallery, with scheduled exhibitions
year-round.  Beaver Street Gallery represents artists from both the US
and
abroad, and in addition, BSG’s own collection includes work by some of
the best,
and best-known, contemporary artists from around the world, including
Rudy
Autio, Christo and Jean Claude, Jun Kaneko, Paul Soldner, Peter Voulkos,
Andy
Warhol, and Betty Woodman, among others.

LONDON – “The Printed Image in China” presents
for the first time highlights
from the entire collection of Chinese prints at the British Museum. The
collection is one of the most comprehensive and finest in
Europe.According to
present knowledge, printing on paper was invented in China around 700
AD, making
China the country with the longest history of printing in the world.
About 120
prints will illuminate the history of printing from its inception to the

present, and explore the role of the Chinese pictorial print in various
cultural
contexts. On exhibition 6 May through 5 September, 2010.

OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) has acquired a
spectacular Monet Masterpiece thanks to the generosity of Montreal fine arts’
connoisseur, philanthropist and National Gallery of Canada Foundation patron
Marjorie Bronfman. Claude Monet’s, “Rock Needle seen through the Porte d’Aval”,
1886 is considered an innovative, daring and provocative painting created in the
remote resort town of Étretat towards the end of a prodigious campaign on the
Normandy coast. It is now on view in the NGC permanent collection galleries that
are devoted to the Realists, Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.