2010 Art Market Status Report – 2nd half – artmarketblog.com
The art market has found its self in a rather interesting predicament. On the one hand, confidence in the art market has increased considerably since the beginning of the year. On the other hand, the ever increasing likelihood of a major financial crisis has seen more cautious and selective buying. Adding to the drama is the increasingly obvious lack of top quality paintings by the Old Masters, which the market is currently showing ...
CANBERRA, AU - The first retrospective of Australia’s first major colonial trained professional artist, Robert Dowling (1827–1886), opens today at the National Gallery of Australia. The exhibition will be complemented by a completely new display in the early Australian colonial gallery dedicated to Tasmanian colonial art from the late 1820s to the mid 1850s. On view 24 July through 3 October. ...
The reality show's latest casualty talks about why making self-portraits and realist paintings of people doing cocaine is kind of like being Rembrandt. ...
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Published 23-Jul-10
Source: rss.artinfo.com
LONDON
- An impression of Edvard Munch’s controversial work
Madonna has
sold for an amazing £1,252,000 ($1.91) at Bonhams – twice its lower estimate of £500,000. This
makes it the most expensive print ever sold in the UK and the second
most
expensive print in the world. Another Munch image, Vampire II, sold in
Oslo in
2007 at the height of the market for around
£1,256,000. ...
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Published 15-Jul-10
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LONDON.- An impression of Edvard Munch?s controversial work Madonna has sold for an amazing £1,252,000 at Bonhams ? twice its lower estimate of £500,000. This makes it the most expensive print ever sold in the UK and the second most expensive print in the world. Another Munch image, Vampire II, sold in Oslo in 2007 at the height of the market for around £1,256,000. Thought to be the first hand coloured version of this iconic image, the print shows the Madonna in yellow and white set against a ...
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Published 14-Jul-10
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Artwork doubles estimate to become the most expensive print sold in the UKA hand-coloured image of Edvard Munch's Madonna has been sold in London for £1.25m, doubling its estimate and making it the most expensive print ever to be sold in the UK.An estimate for the controversial artwork, in Munch's famous swirling style, had suggested the work would fetch £500,000 to £700,000 at the Bonhams prints sale in the capital.The auctioneers said that as well as setting a UK record, the image was also the...
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Published 13-Jul-10
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
It's blockbuster season at the big galleries. But Stuart Jeffries knows where he'd rather be – at Britain's small spaces, where the truly thrilling work is to be foundThere is a tiny house made from human skin at the start of the Barbican gallery's current Surreal House exhibition. It's a sculpture called My Mother. My Father. My Sister. My Brother, and was made from pieces of artist Donald Rodney's skin, removed during one of many operations he underwent to combat sickle cell anaemi...
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Published 09-Jul-10
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By Joshua MackRachel Harrison, Regen Projects, 27 May – 10 JulyRachel Harrison balances her disparate materials in elegant, classically beautiful compositions that demonstrate a greater maturity in her work but lack the edge that has made her practice fascinating and challenging to follow. Harrison’s prickly aesthetic, her often aggressive combinations of lumpy, seemingly crudely painted masses and cheaply mass-produced stuff – canned goods, brittle Halloween masks, polyester wigs – can be disco...
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Published 09-Jul-10
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The rare power and intensity of Frida Kahlo's work makes Google's decision to honour her on its homepage richly deservedToday is the birthday of Frida Kahlo, born in Mexico on 6 July 1907, and Google USA has decorated its homepage in honour of this socialist feminist icon. Quite right too. Kahlo was one of the most fascinating portraitists of the 20th century. Her subject was herself, but her character, adventures, sufferings and talent made her more than worthy of her own scrutiny.Kahlo's paint...
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Published 06-Jul-10
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Very excited about the upcoming Edvard Munch: Master Prints exhibition opening on July 31, 2010, at the National Gallery of Art.
Edvard Munch is renowned for his haunting portrayals of love, alienation, jealousy, and death—universal human experiences that he filtered through events in his own life. By manipulating color, line, texture, and pictorial details, he reworked these images in multiple print variations, continually renewing their power to express his artistic goals.
In this fascinating...
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Published 02-Jul-10
Source: www.curatedmag.com
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