An Old Bearded Man by Gerard Dou; A Highlight in the Old Master Paintings Sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM.- Sotheby’s Amsterdam Old Master Paintings sale on 30th November 2010 will feature An old bearded man by the Leiden fijnschilder Gerard Dou (1613 – 1675). This recently discovered and hitherto unrecorded little panel was part of a private collection for over 70 years and perfectly illustrates the artist’s talent for portraying a certain archetype of person in a highly finished style. Gerard Dou, the first and most famous pupil of Rembrandt van Rijn was, after his Master, the most [...]

Cologne Fine Art & Antiques: Showcase Juxtaposes Works of Art from Different Cultures

COLOGNE.- Cologne Fine Art & Antiques runs from 17-21 November 2010. A rich mix of exhibits testifies to the success of the Fair’s new planning. It provides an optimum showcase to juxtapose works of art from different cultures, epochs and collecting fields ranging from antiquity to the 21st century. The Fair’s aim is to promote visual interplay and dialogue, and this year sees an even sharper focus on an exciting contrast between modernism and the art of the antique world, Old Masters, [...]

Falmouth Art Gallery Celebrates Top Artists at Ten Year Collecting Retrospective

CORNWALL.-Gainsborough, Sargent, Tuke, Romney, Picasso, Moore, Warhol, Nicholson – works by these acclaimed artists and more have been acquired for Falmouth Art Gallery over the past ten years.  In celebration of ten years of fantastic acquisitions aided by donations, grants and bequests, the gallery is hosting a major new exhibition, A Decade of Collecting, which is running until 5 February 2011. The exhibition showcases an impressive selection of works by key artists, many of which were bought for Falmouth with the Art [...]

Archaeologists in Egypt Unearth Twelve More Sphinx Statues Along the Ancient Avenue

CAIRO (AP).- Egypt’s antiquities department says archaeologists have unearthed 12 more sphinx statues along the ancient avenue connecting Luxor and Karnak temples.  The discovery was made in a newly excavated section of the Avenue of the Sphinxes, most of which is buried beneath the modern city of Luxor in southern Egypt.  An unearthed sphinx statue of Pharaoh Nectanebo I, on the Avenue of the Sphinxes on a sandstone section of a road that dates back from 380-362 B.C., at the city [...]

Art Historian Michael Peppiatt Writes About Giacometti’s Studio in New Book

NEW YORK, NY.- Eykyn Maclean announced the publication of art historian Michael Peppiatt’s ‘In Giacometti’s Studio’. The book coincides with their inaugural exhibition “Inside Giacometti’s Studio – An Intimate Portrait”, which has been curated by Peppiatt, author of the critically acclaimed ‘Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma’.  The book focuses on the creative chaos of the tiny, cluttered studio behind Montparnasse, where Giacometti spent nearly all of the last four decades of his life (1926-66). Peppiatt prefaces his story with a [...]

Swiss-Based Gallery, Artvera’s Gallery, Helps Crack Artwork Forgery Ring in Germany

GENEVA.- The largest scandal involving an artwork forgery ring in Germany just broke and has made front-page news in German media for the past few weeks. Forgers belonging to the same family managed to sell over 20 forged artworks from the so-called “Jägers Collection, ”which probably never existed, for a total sum estimated between 30 and 80 million Euros. They have been jailed since 27 August 2010 in Germany . The effort was spearheaded by the Swiss-based Artvera’s Galleryand the law firm [...]

Gift from Brody Estate Expected to Yield More than $100 Million for the Huntington

SAN MARINO, CA.- A gift from the estate of Frances Lasker Brody to The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is expected to yield in excess of $100 million, the largest single cash gift to the institution and one that will go a great distance toward providing much-needed financial stability, says Huntington President Steven S. Koblik. The equivalent of a 40 percent increase of the institution’s endowment, Brody’s gift also will require intense fiscal discipline to ensure it has the [...]

Paris Louvre Asks Public for Help to Buy Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Painting “The Three Graces”

PARIS (REUTERS).- France’s Louvre museum is making an unprecedented appeal to the general public to help it raise the cash to buy a 16th century painting deemed a national treasure by art experts. The Louvre has already scraped together 3 million euros ($4.19 million) for “The Three Graces,” an oil painting of three nudes by German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, but is a million euros short of the price tag set by the work’s private owners. The 16th century oil [...]

Extensive Survey of Impressionist Gardens Opens at Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza

MADRID.- This autumn the Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza and Caja Madrid are presenting the exhibition Impressionist Gardens, an extensive survey of the theme of gardens in painting from the mid‐ 19th century to the early 20th century. This is a major project undertaken in collaboration with the National Gallery of Scotland and curated by Clare Wilsdon, Professor at Glasgow University and author of In the Gardens of Impressionism (Thames and Hudson, 2004). The exhibition includes a large group of Impressionist paintings with masterpieces [...]

14th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show to be Held this Week at The Cyclorama

BOSTON, MA.- Galleries from London, Paris, Madrid, New York and across the United States will offer more than 3,000 original works of art at The 14th Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), which takes place Thursday – Sunday, November 18-21, 2010 at The Cyclorama, Boston Center for The Arts, 539 Tremont Street in the South End. The show opens with a Gala Preview on Thursday, November 18 from 5:30 to 8:30pm to benefit Boston Symphony Orchestra. The weekend show [...]

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art Announces Details of Its Three Opening Exhibitions

DOHA.- Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art revealed the details of the three exhibitions it will present when it opens to the public on December 30, 2010. Historic works of Arab modernism and a multitude of new works commissioned by Mathaf will be on view at two sites in Doha, Qatar. The new Museum will open its 5,500-square-meter (59,000-square-foot) building with Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art. This will be the first in an ongoing series of exhibitions that will [...]

Johan Thorn Prikker: Beyond Art Nouveau at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

ROTTERDAM.- This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing more than 200 highlights from the multifaceted oeuvre of Johan Thorn Prikker (1868-1932). This is the first major exhibition devoted to one of the most prominent designers from the heyday of Dutch art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Beyond Art Nouveau illustrates Thorn Prikker’s enormous creativity and love of experimentation. Johan Thorn Prikker gained recognition early in his career for his paintings and drawings, which are among the finest examples [...]

Rare Photographic Albums and Portfolios Break Records at Swann Galleries’ Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- The top lots at Swann Galleries’ October 19 auction of Fine Photographs & Select Photobooks were scarce or unique photographic albums and portfolios that captured cultures on the brink of extinction. Adam Clark Vroman’s A Trip to Snake Dance, Moqui-Indian-towns, and Petrified Forests of Arizona, an album with 76 platinum print photographs of southwestern Native American culture, 1895, sold for a record $48,000. The album was once owned by Senator Barry Goldwater. Another record-setting album was Roman Vishniac’s [...]

Kunsthalle in Dresden Opens Exhibition of Works by German Artist Eberhard Havekost

DRESDEN.- Central to Eberhard Haverkost’s artistic realization is the critical reflection on the present, being saturated with pictures. He deals with the optical perception of the realistic world and its pictorial abstraction. Purposefully, he examines the visual rhetoric of media images and the picture forms typical of their time, which condition our daily image consumption. The exhibition focuses on works that were created after 2007. The confrontation of diverse conceptual approaches in the oeuvre of Eberhard Haverkost – between abstraction [...]

The Etchings of Etcher John Taylor Arms on View at the Chrysler Museum of Art

NORFOLK, VA.- The etcher John Taylor Arms (1887–1953) is ranked among the most renowned printmakers in early 20th-century America. The Chrysler Museum of Art presents his work in a free exhibition, An Eye for Architecture: The Etchings of John Taylor Arms, which are on view in the Kaufman Theatre Lobby. The 23 works on display were selected from the Chrysler’s extensive collection of Arms etchings and memorabilia. Donated in the mid-1950s by the artist’s widow, Dorothy Noyes Arms, the collection includes [...]