Stay in touch with the Art world with theartwolf.com Art News en-us http://www.theartwolf.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:44:11 +0100 Tue, 1 Dec 2009 19:51:33 +0100 Painted by the most influential artist of the 20th century, 'Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker)', 1903 comes from the artist’s celebrated Blue Period, arguably the greatest period in Picasso’s career. The painting will be priced at £30 million to £40 million and all the proceeds will benefit The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, a charity founded by the celebrated composer in 1992. Working for the public benefit, The Foundation focuses on the promotion of arts, culture and heritage in Britain http://www.theartwolf.com/news/picasso-absinthe-drinker-christies.htm http://www.theartwolf.com/news/picasso-absinthe-drinker-christies.htm Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:44:11 +0100 This show comprises 48 of Købke’s most beautiful and distinguished works spanning a variety of genres: landscape, topography, portraiture and his charmingly oblique depictions of national monuments informed by a decidedly avant-garde sensibility. They present some of the most innovative aspects of his work – including outdoor sketching, his fascination with painterly immediacy and his unique treatment of light and atmosphere. http://www.theartwolf.com/exhibitions/christen-kobke-london.htm http://www.theartwolf.com/exhibitions/christen-kobke-london.htm Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:24:52 +0100 The Mori Art Museum presents “Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?” from Saturday, 20 March to Sunday, 4 July 2010. “Roppongi Crossing” is a series of exhibitions, held once every three years by the Mori Art Museum, located on the top floor of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the heart of Tokyo. The exhibition series began in 2004 and introduces the most exciting Japanese artists of today, as a barometer of the local art scene. It features original and stimulating works that are selected with the participation of guest curators to ensure a range of viewpoints. http://www.theartwolf.com/exhibitions/can-there-be-art-mori.htm http://www.theartwolf.com/exhibitions/can-there-be-art-mori.htm Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:45:29 +0100 On Wednesday, June 2, 2010, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale one of the finest figure paintings by Jean- Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) ever to have appeared on the market. Estimated at £800,000-1,200,000, Jeune femme à la fontaine enjoyed an exceptional early provenance before it was requisitioned during the Nazi period. It has now been restituted to the heirs of its erstwhile owners and will be one of the centrepieces of Sotheby’s forthcoming sale of 19th Century European Paintings. http://www.theartwolf.com/news/corot-restituted-sothebys.htm http://www.theartwolf.com/news/corot-restituted-sothebys.htm Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:33:26 +0100 20 masterpieces from the Allen Memorial Art Museum —19 paintings and one sculpture— will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for five months. Masterpieces exhibited will include the great Ter Brugghen painting Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene (one of the most important North Baroque painting in the U.S.), Cézanne's Viaduct at l'Estaque, Kirchner's Self-Portrait as a Soldier, and a striking Kirchner sculpture. Each of these works will be integrated into the Metropolitan Museum's great collection, creating new, provocative juxtapositions. March 16 – August 29, 2010 http://www.theartwolf.com/exhibitions/oberlin-metropolitan.htm http://www.theartwolf.com/exhibitions/oberlin-metropolitan.htm Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:10:02 +0100 Tate and Unilever have announced that the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will undertake the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern (12 October 2010 – 25 April 2011). He will be the first artist living and working in the Asia-Pacific region to be commissioned for the series. Born in Beijing in 1957, Ai Weiwei is one of the most prominent and influential figures in Chinese art today. In his many roles as conceptual artist, curator, critic, designer and architect, his work encompasses a wide range of challenging and often provocative activity. http://www.theartwolf.com/news/ai-weiwei-unilever.htm http://www.theartwolf.com/news/ai-weiwei-unilever.htm Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:03:31 +0100 Christie’s will offer a large-scale masterpiece by Yves Klein at the auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York on the evening of 11 May 2010. ANT 93, Le Buffle (“The Buffalo”), 1960-61, is a monumental work from the artist’s celebrated Anthropométrie series that stands over 9 feet wide (70 x 110 3/8 in. / 177.8 x 280.4 cm.) Offered at auction for the first time, the work is expected to realise in the region of $10 million http://www.theartwolf.com/news/yves-klein-buffle.htm http://www.theartwolf.com/news/yves-klein-buffle.htm Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:34:11 +0100 To start its 40th anniversary year, the Serpentine Gallery presents Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters, a solo exhibition by one of the world’s most respected living artists. Richard Hamilton has embraced many different media since the 1950s, including painting, printmaking, installation, typography and industrial design. This major exhibition will reassess the nature of the British artist’s pioneering contribution, focusing on Hamilton’s political, or ‘protest’, works. 3 March – 25 April 2010 http://www.theartwolf.com/exhibitions/hamilton-serpentine.htm http://www.theartwolf.com/exhibitions/hamilton-serpentine.htm Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:54:23 +0100 TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s most influential art and antiques fair, opens at the MECC (Maastricht, southern Netherlands) from 12-21 March 2010. Exhibitors at TEFAF will show some 30,000 works of art and antiques, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, furniture, classical antiquities, illuminated manuscripts, jewellery, textiles, porcelain, glass, silver, design and other works of art. Every era from classical antiquity to the 21st century will be represented. Highlights include 'Deux Femmes' by Paul Gauguin and the 'Rockefeller Madonna' by Sandro Botticelli http://www.theartwolf.com/news/tefaf-2010.htm http://www.theartwolf.com/news/tefaf-2010.htm Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:41:51 +0100 One of the most beautiful manuscripts in the world is the lavishly illustrated medieval prayer book known as the Belles Heures (Beautiful Hours). It was created by the Limbourg Brothers—three of the greatest illuminators in Europe—for one of the most famous art patrons of all time, Jean de France, duc de Berry (1340–1416). On view from March 2 to June 13, 2010 http://www.theartwolf.com/news/belles-heures-met.htm http://www.theartwolf.com/news/belles-heures-met.htm Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:47:54 +0100