Wednesday, December 26, 2007

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...

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

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

Monday, December 24, 2007

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

Saturday, December 22, 2007

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$

Saturday, December 15, 2007

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]

Friday, December 14, 2007

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

Thursday, December 13, 2007

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

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

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)

Monday, December 10, 2007

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

Sunday, December 9, 2007

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.

Friday, December 7, 2007

If Kandinsky were alive he would agree with this prize?


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

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

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.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

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.

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