WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2011 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kristina Wilson for her book The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA and the Art of Exhibition, 1925-1934 (Yal…
Phillips de Pury & Co. Announces Highlights from New York Contemporary May Sales
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced the highlights from the May Contemporary Art Part I and Contemporary Art Part II sales. The sales will feature important and iconic modern and contemporary works. Contemporary Art Part I includes 51 l…
Sotheby’s to Hold Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York in May
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 3 May 2011 in New York will offer an impressive range of paintings and sculpture from across the period. A spectacular group of 10 paintings by Pablo Picasso will be led by Femmes…
Gagosian Gallery Presents Picasso and Marie-Therese: L’amour fou In NYC
NEW YORK, NY.- Following the critical and popular success of Picasso: Mosqueteros in New York in 2009 and Picasso: The Mediterranean Years in London in 2010, Gagosian Gallery presents the next chapter in an ongoing exploration of Picasso’s princip…
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Exhibits "Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso"
Richmond VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is presenting a landmark exhibition in honor of its 75th anniversary, “Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris”. VMFA is the only East Coast venue for the exhibition’s seven-cit…
Early Picasso to Highlight Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on May 4
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces a special highlight of its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 4 May: Les enfants et les jouets, an extraordinary work by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) painted in the spring of 1901 when the artist was on…
19th Century European Art & Collection of Sculpture at Sotheby’s NY
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s New York auction of 19th Century European Art on 5 May 2011 – timed to coincide with the May sales of Impressionist & Modern Art–is distinguished by important and rare works, as well as a number of major discoverie…
19th Century European Art Including an Important Collection of Sculpture at Sotheby’s New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s New York auction of 19th Century European Art on 5 May 2011–timed to coincide with the May sales of Impressionist & Modern Art–is distinguished by important and rare works, as well as a number of major discoverie…
Modern Art from the Collection, 1910-1918 at the Guggenheim New York
New York, NY – When Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc formed Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group in late 1911, the artists predicted a watershed in the arts, a große Umwälzung (great upheaval) that would radically challenge traditional artisti…
One Hundred Masterpieces from the Städel Museum at Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni
ROME.- The exhibition presents, for the first time in Italy, a selection of works from the collection of the internationally renowned museum of Frankfurt, founded in 1815 through a bequest by merchant and banker Johann Friedrich Städel (1728-1816) and…