The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents an exhibition focusing on early painting styles that emerged in the Pahari courts of North India during the 17th and 18th centuries. Featuring some 20 of the most refined paintings produced in South Asia during the period, "Seeing the Divine: Pahari Painting of North India" examines the innovative ways in which Pahari artists depicted the Hindu gods.
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Sotheby’s annual December auctions of Important Judaica and Israeli & International Art concluded yesterday in New York with a combined total of $5.5 million. From important manuscripts to ceremonial silver and fine art, below is a look at what drove the results:
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announces today that its Board of Trustees recently approved the acquisition of 48 works of art, including four purchased using proceeds from the auction of recently deaccessioned works.
These eight inspirational artists have found the motivation to create, every day, year after year, into their eighth decade or further, and are still inventing new ways to see the world.
A 1969 painting from The Haunted Mansion in New Orleans Square sparked a flurry of competitive bidding en route to claiming top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ Animation Art Auction Dec. 8-9 in Beverly Hills, California. With sell-through rates of 99.1 percent by value and 99.76 percent by lots sold, the sale totaled $1,956,296, making it Heritage Auctions’ most successful Heritage Auctions animation auction in the history of the company, and one of the biggest ever held.
Opening at The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL on December 15, Magritte and Dali is a first-of-its-kind special exhibition dedicated to the world’s two most celebrated surrealists, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali.
Long admired for her meticulous renderings of natural imagery, including ocean waves, desert floors and night skies, artist Vija Celmins has created paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints for more than five decades. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents the global debut of Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory—the first North American retrospective of the artist’s work in 25 years—on view at the museum from December 15, 2018, through March 31, 2019.
Employing a distinctively unrestrained visual vocabulary of vivid colors and bold patterns, anthropomorphic forms and irregular shapes, Noségo's richly colorful, dreamily surreal new series explore themes of resilience and rebellion.
The most sought after floral-motif Tiffany lamp is the 1903 Pond Lily, if auction figures are any indication, having just fetched $3,372,500 at Christie’s Design auction on Dec. 13, establishing a new record for the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
It was a fight to the very end as Sotheby’s dedicated auctions of Lady Blue Eyes: Property of Barbara and Frank Sinatra concluded last week, bringing the series total to an outstanding $9.2 million
