LONDON.- Sotheby’s London is to offer Skaters, A Scene on Duddingston Loch near Edinburgh by Scottish artist Charles Lees (1800‐1880) in its sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Tuesday, 17 May 2011. Estimated at £100,000‐200,000, the pa…
Sotheby’s London to Sell Important Scottish Skating Scene on Duddingston Loch
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London is to offer Skaters, A Scene on Duddingston Loch near Edinburgh by Scottish artist Charles Lees (1800‐1880) in its sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Tuesday, 17 May 2011. Estimated at £100,000‐200,000, the pa…
Rediscovered Rothko to Highlight Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces the auction of a previously undocumented masterpiece by the great Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko (1903-1970), to be offered as the highlight of the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale at Christie’…
Rediscovered Rothko to Highlight Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces the auction of a previously undocumented masterpiece by the great Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko (1903-1970), to be offered as the highlight of the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale at Christie’…
West Coast Minimalist Artist, John McCracken, Dies at 76 in New York After a Long Illness
NEW YORK, NY.- John McCracken, a West Coast Minimalist artist who became known in the 1960s for his singular sculptural forms, has died in New York on April 8, 2011 due to complications from a long illness. He was 76. McCracken developed his earliest s…
Exhibition of New Paintings by the Renowned Colorist Ron Ehrlich at Stephen Haller Gallery
NEW YORK, NY- Stephen Haller Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by the renowned colorist Ron Ehrlich. With a rare level of skill and a complex methodology Ehrlich tackles his paintings with a contrasting muscularity and intellectual vigor…
Picasso Loan to Palestinian Art Academy Suffers Complicated Obstacles
JERUSALEM (AP).- A Palestinian art academy is preparing to spruce itself up for a famous guest: a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece that would be the first displayed in the West Bank. But simply arranging the painting’s journey remains a far more di…
Prado Museum Presents an Exhibition of a Previously Unknown Period in Ribera’s Career
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado presents The Young Ribera, a survey of Ribera’s activity during his period in Rome and in the years following his arrival in Naples in 1616. The exhibition runs from April 5 through July 31, 2011. This is a period of …
William Bouguereau ~ An Artistic Revolution at Hirschl & Adler Gallery
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Hirschl & Adler Gallery presents William Bouguereau & His Milieu, on view until April 30th, 2011. In the 1950s, the art establishment had a rather narrow view of art and art history. When abstract art was at its peak, Hudson…
Picasso Loan to Palestinian Art Academy Suffers Complicated Obstacles
JERUSALEM (AP).- A Palestinian art academy is preparing to spruce itself up for a famous guest: a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece that would be the first displayed in the West Bank. But simply arranging the painting’s journey remains a far more di…