MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- An important international exhibition, “Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection” opens at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) February 6 and runs through May 15. Additionally, t…
Singer Laren Restores Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker After It was Damaged When Stolen
LAREN.- Singer Laren has restored The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. The work was carried out by the University of Amsterdam’s Department of Conservation and Restoration in the Ateliergebouw (the Rijksmuseum’s new conservation studio) in the Dutch…
Mayor Boris Johnson Announces Rocking Horse and Rooster Set for Trafalgar Square
LONDON (AP).- A giant blue rooster and a boy on a rocking horse will stand alongside a statue of military hero Adm. Horatio Nelson in London’s Trafalgar Square. Officials on Friday announced the next two artworks to fill the square’s empty “fourth plin…
Art Miami Continues Attracting Buyers and Reports Robust Sales on Day Three of the Fair
MIAMI, FL.- Art Miami, Miami’s longest running contemporary art fair and anchor fair to the city of Miami, continues to attract major buyers with many dealers reporting multiple sales on day three of the fair. Numerous five and six figure acquisit…
Reacquisition of "The Sower" by Constantin Meunier for the National Gallery
BERLIN.- An important bronze sculpture in the history of European modern art has been successfully reacquired on behalf of the National Museum’s National Gallery, thanks to support from the Kulturstiftung der Länder (a nationwide cultural foundation) …
A Life-Size Bronze Sculpture by Henri Matisse Could Fetch $35 Million at Auction
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A life-size bronze sculpture by Henri Matisse, which has never been sold at auction, is expected to be the star of the autumn art sales and could fetch up to $35 million, art experts said. Matisse’s “Back IV (Nu de Dos, 4eme etat)…
A Life-Size Bronze Sculpture by Henri Matisse Could Fetch $35 Million at Auction
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A life-size bronze sculpture by Henri Matisse, which has never been sold at auction, is expected to be the star of the autumn art sales and could fetch up to $35 million, art experts said. Matisse’s “Back IV (Nu de Dos, 4eme etat)…
Matisse Bronze Could Fetch $35 Million at Auction
By: Chris Michaud
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A life-size bronze sculpture by Henri Matisse, which has never been sold at auction, is expected to be the star of the autumn art sales and could fetch up to $35 million, art experts said. Matisse’s “Back IV (Nu …
Salvador Dalí Sculpture Donated to the City of Andorra
ANDORRA.- The Salvador Dali sculpture, the ‘Nobility of Time’ has been placed in Andorra’s capital city, in the Piazza Rotonda Andorra la Vella. It was donated to the Andorran government by Enric Sabater, who was Dali’s agent, col…
dOCUMENTA (13) Begins Its Activities by Planting a Tree in the Park
KASSEK.- On June 21st, 2010, Giuseppe Penone’s Idee di Pietra (Ideas of Stone) was inaugurated in the Karlsaue park in Kassel as the first artwork on the way to dOCUMENTA (13). At first sight a small cloud seems to be caught in the branches of a tree, …