Tag: Masterpieces

Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale in NY Expected to Exceed $240 Million

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will present one of the greatest rosters of master works in a single auction. The Post-War and Contemporary Evening sale, which will take place in New York on November 10, 2010, comprises seminal works by the foremost art…

Former Gallery Owner Lawrence Salander: The Art World’s Bernie Madoff, and His Deceptions

NEW YORK (AP).- In a clattery, uptown bistro, not far from the studio where he once watched his father paint bold abstract masterpieces, Earl Davis contemplates the greatest loss of his life. Not his beloved father, Stuart Davis, who died in 1964 when …

Exhibition Brings Together Masterpieces by Carl Beam, Who has Been a Vital Force in Contemporary Art in Canada

OTTAWA, ON.- Carl Beam was a vital force in contemporary art in Canada. At the vanguard of a new and assertive First Nations art discourse, his art builds intellectual and philosophical bridges between cultures. His powerful works explore the space bet…

New Collaborative Agreement Between the Museo del Prado and the Japanese Media Group Yomiuri Shimbun

MADRID.- The Museo del Prado and the Japanese media group Yomiuri Shimbun today signed a collaborative agreement relating to the organisation of the exhibition Goya: light and shade. Masterpieces from the Museo del Prado. It will be held from 22 Octobe…

Exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery Focuses on Cézanne’s Paintings of Card Players and Pipe Smokers

LONDON.- Paul Cézanne’s famous paintings of peasant card players and pipe smokers have long been considered to be among his most iconic and powerful works. This landmark exhibition, organised by The Courtauld Gallery in London and The Metropolita…

Exhibition of Titian Masterpieces Opening at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta

ATLANTA, GA (AP).- An exhibition of works by the Italian master Titian and others is opening in Atlanta and puts two of the Renaissance artist’s finer masterpieces on U.S. display for the first time. “Diana and Actaeon” and “Diana and Callisto” were pa…

Exhibition of Titian Masterpieces Opening at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta

ATLANTA, GA (AP).- An exhibition of works by the Italian master Titian and others is opening in Atlanta and puts two of the Renaissance artist’s finer masterpieces on U.S. display for the first time. “Diana and Actaeon” and “Diana and Callisto” were pa…

Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York Expected to Exceed $200 Million

NEW YORK, NY.- The Christie’s announced further details of its upcoming Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on November 3. Led by significant works by Henri Matisse, Juan Gris, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Gustave Caillebotte, Georges Seura…

Landmark Exhibition "Venice: Canaletto and His 18th-Century Rivals" at the National Gallery in London

LONDON.- This landmark exhibition presents the finest assembly of Venetian views by Canaletto and his 18th-century rivals to be seen in a generation. Bringing together around 50 major loans from the public and private collections of the UK, Europe and …

The Christian Stein Collection: A History of Italian Art at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art

VALENCIA.- This exhibition, organised by the IVAM and the Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano, presents for the first time in Spain a selection of over one hundred masterpieces of postwar Italian art from one of the most important and internationally pres…

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