LONDON.- Sotheby’s February Series of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Art auctions**, realised £242,109,075 / $393,550,838 / €286,186,170. This exceptional sum, which surpasses pre-sale expectations (combined pre-sale estimate for the…
Kunsthalle Mannheim Presents Ré Soupault: Rediscovery of a Companion of the Avant-Garde
MANNHEIM.- The Kunsthalle Mannheim is the first museum in the world to be honoring the oeuvre of one of the key female figures in the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s with the extensive retrospective Ré Soupault—Künstlerin im Zentrum …
University of Virginia Art Museum Opens Excavating New Ground: American Art in the 1970s
RICHMOND, VA.- The 1970s featured the announcement of the break-up of the Beatles, the Kent State shooting, the meltdown of Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station and the $1.5 billion bailout of Chrysler Corporation. These tumultuou…
Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby’s this Week Total £140m /$225m /165m
LONDON.- Sotheby’s series of Impressionist & Modern Art sales in London this week realised a combined total of £140,156,325 / $225,190,077 /€165,107,883 – surpassing the pre-sale estimate* for the series (£95,924,000 – £136,388,000). Helena Ne…
Picasso’s La Lecture Sells at Sotheby’s for £25.2 Million in Sale Totalling £68.8 Million
LONDON.- Tonight, Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Evening sale was led by Pablo Picasso’s iconic 1932 painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter, La Lecture, which sold to a round of applause for £25,241,250 /$40,711,612 / €29,744,296, more th…
Gauguin Masterpiece Leads Christie’s Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in London
LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Auction and the sale of The Art of the Surreal will take place on 9 February 2011 at 7pm with a pre-sale estimate of £73,880,000 to £109,060,000 (corresponding estimate in 2010: £56.5 million to £80…
American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White at the Art Institute of Chicago
CHICAGO, IL.- A special exhibition that explores the evolution of documentary images through the work of three of the foremost photographers of the 20th century will be on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from February 5 through May 15, 2011. Ameri…
Mid-Career Overview of Vicky Civera’s Work at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art
VALENCIA.- This exhibition is not so much a mid-career coverage of Vicky Civera’s work over the last twenty years but it is rather a celebratory focusing on major aspects and key incidentals of her work. It picks up the precisions that seem unconsciou…
The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection Opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- When Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc formed the group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in late 1911, the artists predicted a watershed in the arts, a große Umwälzung (great upheaval) that would radically challenge traditional artistic…
Mid-Career Overview of Vicky Civera’s Work at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art
VALENCIA.- This exhibition is not so much a mid-career coverage of Vicky Civera’s work over the last twenty years but it is rather a celebratory focusing on major aspects and key incidentals of her work. It picks up the precisions that seem unconsciou…