DAYTON, OH.- Winslow Homer is best known as a great American painter, but he was also a prolific and expert wood engraver. Most of Homer’s engravings were published in Harper’s Weekly where Homer worked as a freelance illustrator between 1857 and …
Highlights of Bonhams & Butterfields $1.6 Million Fine Prints Auction
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On May 3, 2011, Bonhams & Butterfields presented its $1.6-million Fine Prints auction, marked by strong surrealism sales: the exceptional $134,000 purchase of Salvador Dalí – La Divine Comédie, a complete signed portfolio of 1…
Dali, Warhol, Chagall Highlight Bonhams & Butterfields $1.6 Million Fine Prints Auction
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On May 3, 2011, Bonhams & Butterfields presented its $1.6-million Fine Prints auction, marked by strong surrealism sales: the exceptional $134,000 purchase of Salvador Dalí’s La Divine Comédie, a complete signed portfolio of 100 col…
Fleming Museum Exhibition Focuses on Georges Rouault’s Circus of the Shooting Star
BURLINGTON, VT.- The world of the circus had always interested French artist Georges Rouault, with its contrast of superficial brightness and the infinite sadness of the clown’s life. From 1926 to 1938, he and his Parisian print publisher and dealer, A…
New York State Museum Exhibits Works by Leading Printmaker Frank C. Eckmair
ALBANY, NY.- The first exhibition of its kind — “The Landscape of Memory: Prints by Frank C. Eckmair” — on view at the New York State Museum showcases the works of one of the nation’s most accomplished printmakers. Open until September…