Fresh to the market works announced at Sotheby’s Paris sale of Contemporary art

PARIS.- The next Sotheby’s sales of Contemporary Art in Paris will welcome connoisseurs and collectors to the Galerie Charpentier for two auction sessions, on 7 December (Evening Sale) and 8 December 2011 (Day Sale). Some of the 141 works to be offered for auction are fresh to the market and come from prestigious collections – notably the Art Institute of Chicago, with Jean Dubuffet’s Tête d’Homme (Theatre Mask XX, est. €70,000-90,000 / $96,500-125,000) and Jean-Michel Atlan’s Agrigente (est. €120,000-180,000 / $166,000-249,000), to be [...]

Power to the Imagination: Artists, Posters and Politics at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

HAMBURG.- The exhibition presents in excess of 180 works by approximately 90 internationally renowned artists and thus offers a fresh and comprehensive overview over protest and opposition movements in the course of the past 60 years. At the same time it highlights the tensions between utopia, the wish for participation and political history – looking at the newly reviewed protests this subject is highly topical. Artists’ posters tell the story of protest, commitment to freedom and human rights, the fight [...]

European Abstraction Post World War II Opens at Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

CHARLOTTE, NC.- The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art presents School of Paris: European Abstraction Post World War II September 10, 2010 through January 3, 2011. The exhibition presents more than 60 works (paintings, drawings, prints and artist books) from the Bechtler collection created by artists who are well represented in European museums but not as broadly known in the United States. Key artists include: Alfred Manessier, Gustave Singier, Alberto Magnelli, Pierre Soulages and Nicolas de Stael who, along with other [...]

Butler Art Museum Rescues Pierre Soulages Masterpiece

YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- Pierre Soulages (born 1919), an internationally renowned artist of French origin, has a worldwide following. Recently, the Pompidou Centre in Paris hosted a retrospective of work by Frances famed “painter of black,” drawing from collections around the globe to honor Soulages, a French cultural icon. In 1968, Pierre Soulages created a site-specific tile mural commissioned by the owners of One Oliver Plaza, a building in Pittsburgh. In the spring of 2009, the Oliver building was sold and the [...]

Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art in Paris Totals $11.7 Million

PARIS.- Yesterday in Paris, Sotheby’s Summer Evening Sale of Contemporary Art achieved a successful total of €9,517,050 / $11,679,324 / £7,932,168, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €5.1-7.0 million / $6.3-8.6 million / £4.2-5.8 million. The sale achieved exemplary sell through rates of 93% by lot and almost 100% by value and these rank as some of the highest sell through rates ever seen in a Contemporary Art sale at Sotheby’s Paris. In addition, the sale saw two [...]

New Paintings in Black by Lee Bae at Andrew Shire Gallery

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Pierre Soulages has made the point often: it is not black that interests him, but the way black causes the light to react, the way it projects it in front of the canvas so that it changes as we move around it. The same goes for Lee Bae, but the other way round: what interests him is not the white or cream spaces, even though they are immediately visible, but the powerful contrast they afford with the [...]

Works by Pierre Soulages Bring the Two Highest Prices at Sotheby’s in Paris

PARIS.- Sotheby’s biannual Evening Sale of Contemporary Art in Paris realised the remarkable total of €8,051,100 (£7,302,584 /$11,947,027), far surpassing pre-sale expectations of €4,680,000 – 6,440,000* ($6,938,240-9,547,493 / £4,192,797 – 5,769,575). The auction saw all but one lot sell, achieving the joint-highest sell-through rate of 96.3% for a Sotheby’s Paris Evening Sale of Contemporary Art, and established a sold-by-value rate of 98.1% – the second-highest for an Evening Sale of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Paris. Pierre Soulages, Peinture 130x162cm, 28 [...]