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.