Sale of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculptures Announced at Sotheby’s in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s auction, on January 27, 2011, of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture in New York will feature significant works by artists from across Europe. The morning session of Important Old Master Paintings is led by Titian’s monumental Sacra Conversazione, a rare work by the artist still in private hands (est. $15/20 million*). The afternoon session of Old Master Paintings and Sculpture is led by An Italian Marble Relief Portrait of Cosimo I de ‘Medici by Baccio [...]

Sotheby’s to Offer one of the Most Important Work by Titian to Appear at Auction in Nearly Twenty Years

NEW YORK, NY.- A monumental work by the Renaissance master Titian will be offered early next year in Sotheby’s sale of Important Old Master Paintings in New York on 27 January 2011. A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria is one of only a handful of multi-figured compositions by the 16th century artist remaining in private hands and the most important to appear at auction since 1991. It will be shown the public for the first [...]

La Belle Romaine to Lead Sotheby’s November 2010 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale

NEW YORK, NY.- Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu assis sur un divan (La Belle Romaine), the finest painting by the artist to appear at auction in recent years, will lead Sotheby’s 2 November 2010 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York (est. in excess of $40 million). La Belle Romaine ranks among the definitive nudes in the history of Western art, continuing in the tradition of Botticelli’s Venus, Velazquez’s Rokeby Venus, Ingres’ Baigneuse turque and Manet’s Olympia. The work will [...]

BBC Partners with the Victoria & Albert Museum for Modern Masters Exhibition

LONDON.- BC One and the V&A are collaborating to offer a free exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The exhibition will enable the public to learn more about Warhol, Matisse, Picasso and Dali, who feature in a major new BBC One multi-platform television series – Modern Masters. The programme will broadcast in May, fronted by new presenter and arts writer Alastair Sooke. The four-part series traces the lives of Warhol, Matisse, Picasso and Dali on television and online through [...]

Exhibition Surveys the Impact of Picasso and His Circle in Paris

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- One of the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) was at his most inventive between 1905 and 1945. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris (February 24 – April 25, 2010) surveying Picasso’s remarkable output during these years, from the pioneering role he played in the development of Cubism to his dialogue with Surrealism and other important art movements in the 1920s and 1930s. The [...]

Live Nudity at the Museum of Modern Art

NEW YORK, NY.- The human form, disrobed and displayed in all its glory, is arguably the most enduring motif in the history of Western art. Museums dedicated to art both ancient and modern are filled with nudes rendered every which way: painted, chiseled, molded, sketched and photographed. They’re just usually not living and breathing. But come March 14, New York’s Museum of Modern Art will host daily performances of five seminal works by Marina Abramović, three of which feature performers [...]