A pair of French gilt bronzes sailed past their pre-auction estimates to boost the final total from Heritage Auctions' Fine & Decorative Arts Including Estates Auction beyond $2 million.
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The Portland Art Museum is pleased to present Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955. Featuring 100 paintings and drawings from the collection of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, the exhibition opens June 16 and will be on view through September 23, 2018.
BALTIMORE, MD (June 14, 2018)—The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMOMA) are co-organizing a comprehensive retrospective of American artist Joan Mitchell. The exhibition will bring together a breathtaking array of paintings, drawings, and prints from public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe that together reveal Mitchell’s inner landscape—experience, sensation, memory—expressed with an intensely athletic grace.
"Donnelly's Hollow" by the Irish artist Jack B. Yeats sold for £344,750 (€391,475) at Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art Sale in London on Wednesday, June 13th. It had been estimated at £300,000-500,000 (€340,000-570,000). The sale made a total of £4,026,000.
Following a four-year-long conservation treatment, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's "Bacchus and Ariadne" (c. 1743/1745) will return to public view in the West Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, on June 14, 2018. The comprehensive restoration has revealed elements by the Venetian master hidden from view since the work was removed from its original location at the end of the 18th century.
The Spring sale of Asian Art at Sotheby’s France attracted a packed saleroom, and 20 phone lines with bids from around the world. The sale got off to an explosive start with the auction record achieved in France by the extraordinary recently-discovered treasure of Imperial China: a unique Imperial 18th century ‘Yangcai’ Famille-Rose porcelain vase, bearing a mark from the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736-1795).
BOSTON—The fragility of powdery pigment and the light sensitivity of the paper on which it rests mean pastels can rarely be exhibited—typically for only a few months per decade. French Pastels: Treasures from the Vault at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), provides an opportunity to see nearly 40 masterworks by 10 avant-garde artists who reinvigorated the challenging medium in the 19th century, from depictions of rural life by Jean-François Millet to portrayals of ballerinas by Edgar Degas.
As the western art world gradually wakes up to the realization that for centuries, it has been dominated by white male artists and curators–and that this state of affairs is neither sustainable nor desirable–the Berlin Biennale, Germany’s most important contemporary art event after the quinquennial Documenta, offers a timely new perspective.
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves (2014/2017), a large-scale installation by Argentine-born, New York-based artist Liliana Porter. Featuring hundreds of objects and fragments of various scales—from tiny figures and miniature train sets to a life-size piano that has been broken into pieces—the work is the most ambitious installation by the artist to date.
From June 8 to September 12, 2018, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present the work of the Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966)—the first major museum exhibition in the United States in more than 15 years dedicated to the Swiss-born artist. Installed within the museum’s rotunda, Giacometti examines this preeminent modernist who is renowned for the distinctive figurative sculptures that he produced in reaction to the trauma and anguish of World War II, including a series of elongated standing women, striding men, and expressive bust-length portraits.
