Tate Liverpool announces the Turner Prize 2022 shortlist
Tate Liverpool today announced the shortlist for the prestigious and sometimes controversial Turner Prize: Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin.
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Picasso’s portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter as a sea creature to be auctioned at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s has announced the sale of “Femme nue couchée,” one of the portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter painted by Pablo Picasso in 1932, offered with a pre-sale estimate in excess of $60 million.
Michelangelo drawing expected to sell for €30 million at Christie’s
Christie’s has announced the sale of a drawing by Michelangelo, offered with an estimate on request (in the region of €30 million).
Sotheby’s to auction an important abstraction by Philip Guston
Next May, Sotheby’s will offer Philip Guston’s “Nile” (1958), a painting carrying a pre-sale estimate of between $20 million and $30 million, the highest ever assigned to a work by the artist.
From Paris to Sao Paulo, the best art fairs of the week
The first week of April 2022 welcomes a considerable number of international art fairs.
Rembrandt, as active as ever
The Gemäldegalerie has announced that a landscape hitherto attributed to Govert Flinck is actually the work of his master, Rembrandt van Rijn.
Another blockbuster auction for the blockbuster spring season: the Anne H. Bass Collection
Christie’s has announced that next May it will auction 12 works from the Anne Hendricks Bass collection, including paintings by Rothko and Monet, and a sculpture by Degas.
Lights and Shadows · Sotheby’s Orientalist Auction
A brief and subjective review of Sotheby’s Orientalist art auction in London, March 2022, in which -as usual in this kind of auctions- it was not difficult to find excellent works sold for surprisingly low prices.
Oil, jade, scrolls and dollars: Asian art auctions at a glance
Summary of the most notable works from the Asian art auctions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams in New York, March 2022.
A still life by Chardin breaks records in Paris
Jean-Siméon Chardin’s “The Basket of Wild Strawberries” (1761) has been sold for €24.4 million by Artcurial Paris, a record for the artist.