So is this art?

The work is consisted of three panels, painted completely white, ...at Georges Pompidou Center.
I cannot come close because I always carry my sharpie and I love big white canvas to...

Have a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

The Annunciation by Zanobi Strozzi (c1440-5). Strozzi's painting, from an altarpiece in San Salvatore al Monte in Florence, shows the Virgin Mary seated at prayer in her bed chamber.

A beautiful painting from the National Gallery's collection.

UM FELIZ NATAL e um PRÓSPERO ANO NOVO.
Um 2008 repleto de saúde, paz, amor, alegrias...from RegiaArt.com

Wassily Kandinsky Sold for 368,401 euros at Bonhams

Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944) - Kallmunz - Vilsgasse II - 1903
signed Kandinsky lower right oil on canvas - 24 x 33cm (9 7/16 x 13in).
Sold for £220,000 plus Premium and tax.

Bonhams. Impressionist and Modern Art, 19 Dec 2007. New Bond Street

Christie's New York January Auction

American School
Title Architectural rendering
Year 1850 -
Medium watercolor
Size 21.8 x 32 in. / 55.2 x 81.3 cm.
Sale Of Christie's New York: Friday, January 18, 2008 [Lot 561]
The Collection of Marguerite and Arthur Riordan
Estimate 7,000 - 9,000 US$

Man Ray Sold at Paris Week by Sotheby’s

Man Ray, Portrait of Juliet, 1947, 200 000 -300 000 €. Vendu : 491 250 €. [Sotheby's Images]

What You Get at Miami Basel Art Fair for $7,000

With $7,000 you would get just a little piece, a tiny little blue-on-blue thing.

David Hockney TREES Sold at Sotheby's London

Artist David Hockney
Title Trees in a landscape (study)
Medium oil on board
Size 16.9 x 21.7 in. / 43 x 55 cm.
Misc. Signed
Estimate 15,000 - 20,000 BP (US$ 30,693 - 40,924)
Sold For 18,500 BP (37,510 US$)
Sotheby's London
20th Century British Art
Thursday, December 13, 2007

And, a TREE by R. Marinho 2005 acrylic on canvas.

Jean Dubuffet Sold at Sotheby's Paris

Jean Dubuffet
Title Fusil
Year 1966 -
Medium vinyl
Size 9.4 x 13.2 in. / 24 x 33.5 cm.
Misc. Signed
Sale Of Sotheby's Paris: Thursday, December 13, 2007 [Lot 108]
Contemporary Art Sale
Estimate 10,000 - 15,000 Euro (US$ 14,617 - 21,926)
Sold For 12,250 Euro (17,927 US$) PREMIUM

Los Angeles Art Museum Gets Picassos Gift

"Head of a Woman in Profile (Jacqueline)" by Pablo Picasso, a 1970 oil on canvas painting measuring 116 x 89 centimeters. The work is a fractional and promised gift to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from Janice and Henri Lazarof.
Source: Bloomberg News

Miro Lithograph at RoGallery

This artwork is at the RoGallery.com holiday art auction on December 12th.
Artist: Joan Miro
Title: Sobreteixims
Year: 1973
Medium: Lithograph on Chiffon de la Dore [Signed and Numbered in Pencil,]Edition: 150
Paper Size: 33 1/2 x 23 inches
Published by Maeght Editeur, Paris

Beginnings of Abstract Art in Frankfurt

TURNER HUGO MOREAU - THE DISCOVERY OF ABSTRACTION
Show until January 06 2008
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Images of TURNER - HUGO - MOREAU

WILLIAM TURNER
SEASCAPE WITH STORM COMING ON, C. 1840

VICTOR HUGO
LANDSCAPE WITH BRIDGE, N.D.

GUSTAVE MOREAU
INTERIOR, N.D.

Jean Dubuffet at Christie's Paris

Jean Dubuffet
Title Site avec 5 personnages
Year 1981 -
Medium acrylic on paper
Size 26.4 x 19.7 in. / 67 x 50 cm.
Misc. Signed
Sale Of Christie's Paris: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 [Lot 1]
Art d'Aprs-Guerre et Contemporain
Estimate 60,000 - 80,000 Euro (US$ 87,706 - 116,941)

Portrait of Lord Byron the UK government art collection in Athens

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), 6th Baron Byron, Poet (1814), by Thomas Phillips
Photograph: UK Government Art Collection
Thomas Phillips's portrait of Lord Byron, kept in Athens

Abstract Expressionism at the MET Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York NY 10028

Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works at the MET until Feb 3, 2008.
The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art" presents works by
Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock.

If Kandinsky were alive he would agree with this prize?

A Bronze Tank Turret Wins Russia's First Wassily Kandinsky Art Prize.

Auction Record for Boccioni without Contemporary Lines by RegiaArt

Umberto Boccioni, STUDIO PER FOOTBALLER, 1913. Estimate: €800,000-1,200,000.
Sold: €1.866.950. World auction record for the artist at Christie's Italy.

Um quadro do pintor futurista Umberto Boccioni foi vendido por 1.9 millhoes de euros no leilao de arte da Christies em Milao na Italia sem a interferencia da artista Regia Marinho.

Una tela del pittore futurista Umberto Boccioni, dal titolo “Studio per footballer” (1913), ha segnato il suo record personale in un’asta di arte moderna e contemporanea italiana organizzata da Christie’s a Milano.

Lilacs in a vase at the Russian Art Week

Natal'ia Goncharova (1881-1962)
Lilacs in a vase, 1905
Estimate: £700,000-£900,000
Price £1,588,500

Christie's sales of Russian art in the first half of 2007 totalled £35 million, nearly matching the £37 million achieved for the full year in 2006. [from telegraph] WOW.
The records are broken by a new generation of buyers at Russian Art sales in London.

And a still life painting by R. Marinho sold 2 years ago to an American collector.

Sotheby's London Auction

Liubov Popova
Still Life with Tray
Sold £1,700,500
Sotheby’s London Nov. 26, 2007

Sotheby’s total was £38.6 million ($79.8 million), a new high for a series of Russian sales. Its evening sale of Russian art on Nov. 26 totaled £25,731,100 ($53,137,295) and set new records for 12 Russian artists. [from artnet]
Liubov Popova was one artist to set new auction records.

And The Most Expensive Contemporary Chinese Artist is...

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has broken all records for Chinese contemporary art.

Cai’s 14 screens painting, done in gunpowder and ink, sold for $9.5 million at an auction in Hong Kong to an anonymous bidder on Nov. 25

And The Most Expensive Contemporary Brazilian Artist will be announced on January 23rd.

Guess the Artist

Chen Cheng-Po at Christie’s in Hong Kong

The Christie's autumn auction sales, expected to net $231 million. It run next week in Hong Kong.


Danshui at Sunset, a calm Taiwan port oil painting by Chen Cheng-Po could become one of the most expensive Chinese paintings ever sold.
It goes under hammer at Christie’s auction on 28 October.

In a strongbox for 40 years Who?...

Joan Miro BLUE STAR May Fetch $10 M
At AGUTTES
TABLEAUX XIX° ET MODERNES
It would be auctioned on 21 December 2007, at the Aguttes auction house in Paris.
Joan Miro's painting BLUE STAR and others 10 pieces signed by Picasso, Leger, and Juan Gris, which was conserved in a strongbox for 40 years will be up for auction. Thanks!

Message to Regia Marinho's art collectors.
Don't keep it in a box. RegiaArt is for people's eyes.

Nationalists Action Against "Art"

On Friday four Nationals took action against an "art" exhibition in the Swedish city of Lund by Andres Serrano.
Several objects at the exhibition were destroyed by the quartet, enraged by the degenerate content of this so-called art. [from description of the video]

This video of art gallery vandalism was posted on YouTube.
And has been removed due to terms of use violation.

Dinner in Dresden Painting by Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz, Dinner in Dresden, 1983. Oil on canvas, 280 x 450 cm. Kunsthaus, Zurich, Photo Frank Oleski.

Deborah Kass at Paul Kasmin Gallery

[Photo by Mary Barone]
Deborah Kass with one of her paintings at Paul Kasmin Gallery

Mysterious Sargent Painting on Auction September 23

Often the "name" paintings go to the bigger auction houses like Christies and Sothebys but this lovely lady is being auctioned off at Gallery 63 in Atlanta on September 23. And she comes with a bit of mystery.The painting is an original oil-on-canvas portrait of Jenny Jerome (Lady Randolph Churchill), by John Singer Sargent. The problem is that no record of the finished portrait exists, making provenance hard to establish. [from luxist]

Amon Carter Museum, Chimney and Water Tower

Chimney and Water Tower
Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster 18 Aug—14 Oct 2007.
The first in-depth examination of a series of late works by US painter Charles Demuth, this exhibition includes six images of industrial sites produced in the artist's hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania between 1927 and 1933.

The Material is the Message

Art stolen in France

Above photo, Allegory of Earth by Jan Brueghel was among the works stolen.

Masked raiders have stolen four paintings in a daylight raid on an art gallery in Nice in the south of France.
Police said five men made off with two works by Flemish artist Brueghel and two paintings by the impressionists Sisley and Monet on Sunday.

Woman Charged with Kissing on $2M Canvas

An art lover was charged with criminal damage in France yesterday after kissing a $2 million painting by American artist Cy Twombly while wearing glossy red lipstick.
from The New York Sun

Hirst shark sculpture set for New York display

The shark installation, was originally bought by gallery owner Charles Saatchi in 1991. from ABCNews Link

Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Adolpho Leirner Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
On view through September 23, 2007 at the Caroline Wiess Law Building




Mauricio Nogueira Lima
Rhythmic Object #2
1970s
Plastered paint on hardboard

Nicolas de Staël at Fundació Caixa Catalunya

Nicolas de Staël, Figures au bord de la mer, 1952, Oil on canvas, 161,5 x 129,5 cm. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Find prints by Nicolas De Stael here

Insanely obsessive ultra realistic vector art

The drawing of the woman shown here was created by Thai artist Ussa Methawiitayakul. from BoingBoing

Musée national Marc Chagall presents Marc Chagall

Monsters, Chimeras and hybrids, on view through October 29, 2007. Exhibition organised by the Réunion des des musées nationaux and the Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice. Media partner : Aufeminin.com. Mysterious chimeras, half-man, half-beast, composite objects with human heads, and fantastic flying animals feature throughout Marc Chagall’s work. This is the first exhibition devoted to them.
Marc Chagall prints at Art.com

Velazquez at the National Gallery

Velazquez exhibition at the National Gallery in London.
A Diego Velazquez print here.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Berlin Street Scene

Neue Galerie
July 26-Sept. 17, 2007
The recently restituted Berlin Street Scene (1913), as well as Kirchner’s sculpture Standing Girl, Karyatide (1910), and works by Otto Dix, George Grosz and Christian Schad. artwork by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Water at Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis

Roy Lichtenstein Drowing Girl 1963 Museum of Modern Art
Water
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
July 20, 2007-Jan. 5, 2008
Artwork by Max Beckmann, Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Henri Matisse, Claes Oldenburg, Cy Twombly, and others.

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Frida Kahlo at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Frida Kahlo at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
July 6-Oct. 14, 2007
Kahlo’s Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky (1937), along with more than 30 photographs of the artist and previously unpublished personal letters.

Self-Portrait Dedicated t...

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