HONG KONG.- Along with the previously announced dedicated auction “Eternal Ming – Treasures from the MQJ Collection”, Christie’s will present a total of four live sales of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 29 November 2024 during the inaugural Asian Art Week at Christie’s new Asia Pacific headquarters at The Henderson in Hong Kong. These sales will feature important and remarkable collections from around the world with exceptional provenance, with a total low estimate for the four sales reaching over HK$350 million. Following the remarkably successful sale of one of the most important private European collections – the Palmer Family Collection – in May 2023, Christie’s is honoured to present “Masterpieces of Chinese Art from the Palmer Family Collection”. Amassed over 90 years across multiple generations, this collection includes examples of classic Ming blue and white and Imperial Qing porcelain, jade carvings, and metalwork – all acquired ... More
Anthony Palliser (British, b. 1949-), ‘James Lord,’ oil-on-canvas. Estimate: $3,500-$5,000. Image courtesy of Everard Auctions.
SAVANNAH, GA.- Everard’s October 29-31 online-only auction offers collectors and interior-design aficionados a superlative selection of fine and decorative art from notable Southern estates and tastefully-curated collections. Originality, aesthetics and provenance are the watchwords seen throughout the 1,254 lots. Highlights include property from the Ira and Nancy T Koger Estate, fine American and English furniture; paintings by Latin American ... More
Carnevale 18K Gold & Simulated Stone Necklace. Estimate $15,000-$25,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.-Roland Auctions NY will present their new Multi-Estates Auction on Saturday, October 19th at 10am with a spotlight on more important jewelry from the collection of Baroness Gabriele von Langendorff, along with many personal items from the archive of General David Sloane Stanley, spanning his entire military career from a West Point Cadet, through the American Civil War, the “Indian Wars,” and beyond. This, as well as an eclectic offering of Fine Art and Decorative Art, 20th Century Modern, Antique & ... More
Dawn and Dusk in the Midnight Garden 2021. 274 x 183 cm.
LUCERNE.-Impulse Gallery will present Transmissions, an exhibition by American artist Ann Tracy. Running 17 October to 21 December 2024, this solo show presents a practice spanning painting, sculpture and mixed media, and reflects Tracy’s evolving exploration of the human figure, as well as her response to social, political and environmental climates. Tracy’s career began with a focus on figurative abstraction, developed during studies at Boston University where she earned both undergraduate and graduate ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces Ed Ruscha’s Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half will lead the 20th Century Evening Sale during Fall Marquee Week this November (estimate on request; in excess of $50 million). One of the outstanding paintings of post-war art and the last of Ruscha’s large-scale 1960s masterpieces in private hands, it comes to auction after featuring ... More
VENICE.- The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Marina Apollonio: Beyond the Circle, the most comprehensive museum retrospective in Italy dedicated to Marina Apollonio, a leading figure in the international Optical and Kinetic avant-garde whose work was championed by Peggy Guggenheim. Organized by independent art historian and curator Marianna Gelussi, the exhibition features about one hundred works on loan from the artist’s collection, ... More
MADRID.- European painters of the Early Modern age undertook their professional activities in workshops, making use of numerous collaborators. This exhibition, curated by Alejandro Vergara, Senior Curator of Flemish Painting and Northern Schools at the Museum, focuses on that of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), which was one of the most prolific and successful. On display are paintings executed by Rubens himself, works by his assistants and others ... More
MUNICH.- Surrealism was a political movement of international reach and internationalist conviction. While it had its origins in art and literature, it far exceeded both. Surrealists declared reality to be insufficient. Their ambition was to radically alter society and reimagine life. As early as the dawn of the movement in the 1920s, surrealists denounced the European ... More
Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) Armor Ensemble from Game of Thrones (HBO® Original 2011-2019, Season 7).
DALLAS, TX.- From start to finish, Heritage’s Game of Thrones™:The Auction proved almost as thrilling and historic as the HBO® Original series itself. By the time the completely sold-out Oct. 10-12 event ended late Saturday night, it realized $21,115,718 thanks to more than 4,500 bidders worldwide — most of whom were first-time bidders at Heritage and all of whom helped make this the most successful auction of costumes, props and more from a single film or TV show. Game of Thrones: ... More
LONDON.- Christie’s will present the Private Collection of Mary and Alan Hobart, founders of Pyms Gallery and leading figures in the promotion of Irish art in Britain, to be auctioned on 19 November 2024 at Christie’s in London. Over nearly five decades, the Hobarts played a pivotal role in shaping the international art market, working closely with institutions such as the National Gallery of Ireland, and influencing both public and private collections. Their pioneering efforts brought ... More
PARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery Paris is presenting Dream Time, Daniel Boyd's first solo exhibition in France, which includes a series of new paintings and an intervention in dialogue with the gallery's architecture. With his unique pictorial language, Daniel Boyd seeks to de-locate our visual perception from a single entry to one of multiplicity by directing our gaze toward narratives obscured by empire and oppressive cultural framework. Taking as his subject landscapes, historical ... More
PARIS.- On the occasion of Paris Art Basel week, the Salle de Bal opens its doors to the public for the group exhibition Panorama, featuring the new series of conceptual works by Bernar Venet titled Generative Angles Paintings. One room showcases a selection of works by Lee Bae from the Brushstroke and Issu du Feu series, as well ... More
Portrait of Ami Lien and Enzo Camacho. Photo: Diana Pfammatter.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Offerings for Escalante marks the first major US museum exhibition of artist duo Enzo Camacho (Filipino, b. 1985) and Ami Lien (American, b. 1987), on view October 10, 2024 through February 17, 2025 at MoMA PS1. For over a decade, Camacho and Lien’s multidisciplinary practice has addressed localized resistance within globalized economies of labor, particularly in the Philippines. Through ... More
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Mennour opens Dhewadi Hadjab's second solo exhibition at the gallery PARIS.- Mennour is presenting Dhewadi Hadjab’s second solo exhibition at the gallery: “Acte II : fragmenter” from October 14 to November 30, 2024. It’s a new page of research, written in fragments, in decomposed movements, in plays on hanging which suggest tension and relaxation, the spectacle of an energy released. In his new series of paintings, those in small formats in particular, Dhewadi Hadjab is no longer only interested in the moment before the fall. He shows unreal images of positions impossible to maintain: several times in one single time and several bodies in one single body, beings about whom we don’t realise for a while that their identity eludes us. By choosing photography as a tool serving painting, in the same capacity as the paintbrush or the paint, the artist organises shooting sessions with models of his inner ... More
BLUM opens London-based artist Christopher Hartmann's first solo exhibition in Paris PARIS.- BLUM and Nassima Landau Art Foundation are presenting On Your Own, London-based artist Christopher Hartmann’s first solo exhibition in Paris. Christopher Hartmann’s recent paintings examine the notion of reflection as a duplicate, a shadow, or, at times, only a hint of someone or something. Hartmann’s series of unmade, vacated beds allude to the bodies that once laid in them; his seascapes include distorted portraits of a man bathing, his face hidden from the viewer. This interest in what is not the thing itself but its remnants, in what is left behind and is doomed to fade and disappear, unleashes a set of emotions and themes that have long been present in Hartmann’s work—longing, closeness, despair, and desire as well as conflicting moods of intimacy and isolation. During recent travels in Florence, Italy, Hartmann was inspired ... More
Rare sword carried at Siege of Yorktown donated to Museum of the American Revolution PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The sword of a soldier who served in the Continental Army’s Corps of Light Infantry, given to him by the Marquis de Lafayette and carried at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 alongside Alexander Hamilton, has been donated to the Museum of the American Revolution. It will be on public display in the Museum’s core exhibit starting Nov. 5, 2024. Jeremiah Keeler, who was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1760 and initially served in the Connecticut militia as a teenager, is said to have used the sword as a crutch on his long walk home at the end of the Revolutionary War. At the Siege of Yorktown, Keeler and his comrades in the Corps of Light Infantry famously assaulted a British redoubt which led the Continental Army and its French allies to victory. Alexander Hamilton commanded that brave attack. Now, this witness object – ... More
GALLERIA CONTINUA opens a new solo exhibition by Jorge Macchi SAN GIMIGNANO.- GALLERIA CONTINUA is hosting a new solo exhibition by Jorge Macchi titled “False Autumn”. The work of the Argentine artist is positioned precisely at the turning point between two opposites, in that grey area between the real form and the fictitious form of reality. In a world where art serves as a bridge between the tangible and the intangible, Macchi’s work testifies to the power of visual expression, chance, and the enduring influence of personal experiences. His art captures the ephemeral and the transient, inviting us to reflect on the fragile boundaries that define our existence. The sculptures of various sizes, watercolors, oil paintings, and installations in this exhibition recreate the conditions for a new paradoxical reality that, through the assertion of artifice, upends our certainties and infiltrates the folds of consciousness. “Paradox ... More
Bark Salon now open in Wurrdha Marra MELBOURNE.- Featuring more than 160 bark paintings hung en masse from floor to ceiling, Bark Salon is a large-scale display of First Nations bark painting that references – and subverts – the traditional European salons of the 18th and 19th centuries. On display within the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia’s dedicated First Nations galleries, Wurrdha Marra, Bark Salon offers a uniquely Australian counterpoint to this European tradition and highlights the extraordinary creativity and diversity of bark painting from the NGV Collection. A thought-provoking First Peoples response to NGV International’s popular Salon Gallery, Bark Salon is designed to emulate the style and atmosphere of the salons popular across Europe, including at the Royal Academies in London and Paris. During the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, the salon served as a critical ... More
Cortesi Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Maurizio Donzelli MILAN.- Cortesi Gallery is presenting the exhibition by Maurizio Donzelli at its Milanese headquarters in Palazzo Morigi. The exhibition, curated by Alberto Fiz, features a site-specific installation, a sculpture and a series of works conceived in the last two years, including some created especially for this occasion from the Nets series, which gives its name to the entire exhibition. They are highly striking works, some over two metres tall, which allow us to discover the latest pictorial cycle of the Brescian artist, destined to serve as another element of experimentation with respect to an investigation that constantly examines the viewer’s gaze. Donzelli builds his nets on various supports (paper, wood, fabric, canvas) developing a lenticular vision where the fragments of a world in progress are deposited on the surface. It is through their unpredictable ... More
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On a day like today, French artist James Tissot was born
October 15, 1836. James Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836 - 8 August 1902) was a French painter, who spent much of his career in Britain. Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time in 1859, where he showed five paintings of scenes from the Middle Ages, many depicting scenes from Goethe's Faust. These works show the influence of the Belgian painter Henri Leys (Jan August Hendrik Leys), whom Tissot had met in Antwerp in 1859, over his work. In this image: Le Balcon du Cercle de la rue Royale (The Circle of the Rue Royale), 1868.
