NEW YORK.- Phillips de Pury & Company announce its inaugural mid-season Design auction, dedicated to early 20th-century Viennese design, totaled $1,243,800, including premium. The auction comprised 52 works, 66% of which sold, by important designers i…
First Institutional One-Man Show to Present Ouyang Chun Outside of China Opens in Vienna
VIENNA.- Ouyang Chun’s Painting The King is the first institutional one-man show to present the artist, who was born in Beijing in 1974, outside of China. The exhibition is on view from March 2, 2011 and runs June 12, 2011 at Augarten Contemporary. His…
First Institutional One-Man Show to Present Ouyang Chun Outside of China at Augarten Contemporary
VIENNA.- Ouyang Chun’s Painting The King is the first institutional one-man show to present the artist, who was born in Beijing in 1974, outside of China. The exhibition is on view from March 2, 2011 and runs June 12, 2011 at Augarten Contemporary. His…
The Belvedere in Vienna Dedicates Comprehensive Show to Austrian Artist Egon Schiele
VIENNA.- The Belvedere dedicates a comprehensive show to Egon Schiele (1890-1918), one of the most outstanding Austrian artists of the twentieth century; it is the first to concentrate on his selfportraits and portraits. Beginning with works in the aca…
Maria Altmann, Who Recovered Gustav Klimt Paintings Looted from Her Family, Dies
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Maria Altmann, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who successfully fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings looted from her Jewish family, has died. She was 94. Altmann died Monday at her home in the Cheviot Hills area of Los Ange…
Thirty-Six Splendid, Virtuoso Ivory Carvings on View at Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung
FRANKFURT AM MAIN.- Ivory has been one of the most popular materials since ancient times. Its origins in unknown faraway lands and its rarity account for its costliness. It was particularly the Baroque era that had an extraordinarily high demand for iv…
New Exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum Surveys the Art of Gottfried Helnwein
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum presents a survey of the work of artist Gottfried Helnwein in the new exhibition “Gottfried Helnwein: Inferno of the Innocents,” on view from January 29 through April 24, 2011. Organized by the Crocker,…
Louvre Hosts a Group of Sculptures by Leading British Contemporary Artist Tony Cragg
PARIS.- As a counterpoint to the presentation at the Louvre of the first retrospective in France devoted to the Bavarian-born Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783), the museum plays host to a group of sculptures by the leading Br…
Seventy Impressive Black-and-White Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein on View at Albertina
VIENNA.- The 1960s marked a dramatic change of direction in the art of Roy Lichtenstein: while his earlier works consisted mainly of paintings of American history and the American West, in 1961 he turned to black-and-white drawings. Inspired by advert…
Louvre Hosts a Group of Sculptures by Leading British Contemporary Artist Tony Cragg
PARIS.- As a counterpoint to the presentation at the Louvre of the first retrospective in France devoted to the Bavarian-born Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783), the museum plays host to a group of sculptures by the leading Br…