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