LONDON
– The painting, “Self Portrait with a Palette”, was bought for a record
price by
New York dealer Franck Giraud, who was bidding at the Sothebys sale, in
central
London. The Manet was among 51 lots in Sotheby’s sale of Impres…
LACMA Presents 150 Years of American Masterpieces
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of
Art (LACMA) presents American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, a
major exhibition highlighting the variety and strength of
American artistic achievement during an epochal centur…
Site-Specific Installation by Markus Linnenbrink at Number 35
NEW YORK, NY.- Number 35 presents a site-specific installation by Markus Linnenbrink. Known internationally for his brightly colored resin paintings and sculptures, here Markus Linnenbrink will create an installation that will cover the walls, ceiling …
Artist Banksy’s Rat with Suitcase Stolen in Australia
MELBOURNE (REUTERS).- Thieves have stolen a valuable painting of a rat carrying a suitcase, by the anonymous British graffiti artist Banksy, from a meter box outside a house in the Australian city of Melbourne, police said on Thursday. Police said the …
Designer-Turned-Artist Kenzo Shows Paintings
PARIS (AP).- Designer Kenzo Takada, who founded the upscale Kenzo label, has tried his hand at painting, with a Paris exhibition of eight self portraits. The large-scale paintings shown at the Studio 55 gallery in Paris feature the Japanese-born desig…
Art Gallery of Ontario Announces Major Julian Schnabel Exhibition
TORONTO.- American art superstar Julian
Schnabel
has spent his life pushing the limits of painting and crossing artistic
boundaries as an award-winning filmmaker. Now, for the first time, a
major
retrospective examines the connections betwee…
National Museum Wales Purchases Painting by William Dyce for the Nation
CARDIFF.- Today, the National Museum Wales announces it is able to save for the nation a painting by William Dyce entitled Welsh Landscape with Two Women Knitting, 1860, thanks to crucial funding grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), …
Early Mondrian Painting Stolen in Netherlands
AMSTERDAM (AP).- Police say a portrait painted by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian early in his career has been stolen from a museum in the Netherlands. Thieves apparently forced the doors at the Freriks Museum in the eastern town of Winterswijk in the earl…
World Record Price for a Modigliani Sculpture Sold at Auction at Christie’s in Paris
PARIS (AP).- A sculpted stone head by artist
Amedeo Modigliani sold at Christie’s in Paris on Monday for euro 43.18
million
($52.8 million), breaking the record for a work by the Italian artist,
the
auction house said. It was also the hi…
World Record Price for a Modigliani Sculpture Sold at Auction at Christie’s in Paris
PARIS (AP).- A sculpted stone head by artist Amedeo Modigliani sold at Christie’s in Paris on Monday for euro 43.18 million ($52.8 million), breaking the record for a work by the Italian artist, the auction house said. It was also the highest-priced w…