The Procuress: Fake or Mistake? Painting Featured in the Third Episode of BBC One’s Fake or Fortune

LONDON.- The Procuress, the painting featured in the third episode of BBC One’s Fake or Fortune, went on view to the public at The Courtauld Gallery, London, on Monday 4 July 2011, the day after the television programme was broadcast. In the late 1940s Geoffrey Webb, an officer responsible for the restitution of art seized by the Nazis in Germany and The Netherlands, was given a version of the 17th-century painter Dirck van Baburen’s The Procuress (the original painting, dated 1622, is [...]

“The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt Named Most Romantic Oil Painting for Valentine’s Day 2011

WICHITA, KAN.- The popular online art gallery overstockArt.com, published today its official Top 10 list of most romantic oil paintings for Valentine’s Day 2011. Topping the chart is Gustav Klimt’s sensual masterpiece “The Kiss.” Other artists named on the 2011 Valentine’s Day Top 10 Romantic Oil Paintings list include Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. Dance in the City by” Pierre-Auguste Renoir The oil paintings that made the 2011 Valentine’s Day Top 10 Romantic Oil [...]

Christopher Stone’s Adam and Eve and Christmas Musings

What do Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Rodin, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, and Robert Rauschenberg all have in common ? except being great artist’s, they all suffer, or suffered from some form of Dyslexia. Barry Flanaganonce told me that he’d seen boys beaten in school for Dyslexia, he did however go on to say that its good for artistic endeavors, something about the brains left side, Talking of Barry Flanagan, I remember one time near Christmas a few years [...]

Any one got a spare two grand

The following email was received by me, It come from a London based gallery, and I feel that it indicates the desperate times we as artists are going through, I would very much appreciate your comments on Vanity galleries. My comments are highlighted in RED All the best. Chris. Christopher Stone, Sculptor Mob. 0034-654-921.441 stoneibiza@hotmail.com www.sculptormine.com Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:36:51 +0000 > Subject: Call for Artists- 3 weeks exhibition in London Mayfair and Paris > > Dear Artist, > [...]

International carriers, Caution! please

I am about to relate a tale, a tale that revolves around the life of an artist, and a huge multinational transport giant. In the first instance, the artist who resides in Spain arranged with his representing gallery in the USA to take part in an exhibition of his work, the date for the exhibition Vernissage was to be 28th May, 2010 running until August 15th. The artist now had a plan, and a space in a gallery to show his [...]

Talking about Creativity: Rodin, Cellini and Picasso

Creativity is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest them from thought into reality. The process involves original thinking and then producing. The process of creation was historically reserved for deities creating “from nothing” in Creationism and other creation myths. Over time, the term creativity came to include human innovation, especially in art and science and led to the emergence of the creative class. [from Wikipedia] Creativity is like sex. You fumble your way through, you get lost in [...]

Commercial Galleries

After more than twenty years of vocational art, and more than a decade of working with international commercial galleries, I will be resigning from this form of representation. I will, of course fore fill all professional commitments, and complete the exhibitions which are now running, and those which are planned for later this year. I am currently represented by galleries in New york, and Connecticut in the USA, Antwerp Belgium, Dublin Eire, Omagh,and Belfast Northern Ireland, and Sussex, in the UK, I have recently terminated with galleries in Bressuire, [...]

Yeah, We killed the golden goose

I read recently of someone having a pop at Damien Hirst because he is laying off staff, the same article refers to “Sliced up cows”, it states how much money Hirst has supposedly to have made from such, another article tells us about his plans for his own gallery in Hyde park. My take on all this is as follows, Multinationals with very deep pockets are always laying people off, no one can, or wants to “Keep paying” when the in coming [...]

Did Duchamp was a quack? What about contemporary artists?

How an artist can consider his masterpiece an object that he even produced? For me, Duchamp was a quack, but I forgot one thing: the historical context!