Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Christie's to offer graphic masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn (1606-1669), Christ crucified between the two Thieves: 'The Three Crosses', drypoint, 1653. Estimate: £800,000 – 1,200,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
LONDON.— Building on the unprecedented success of the first sale from this fabled collection, Christie’s will present The Sam Josefowitz Collection: Graphic Masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn – Part II. Taking place on 5 December 2024 during Christie’s Classic Week, the auction will feature 90 fine and rare prints from this outstanding private collection. Rembrandt’s etchings were an enduring passion for the late Sam Josefowitz, whose collection of the Dutch master’s graphic works remains unparalleled by any other 20th-century collector. The dedicated auction offers a compelling insight into Rembrandt’s masterful and experimental approach to printmaking, featuring a comprehensive selection of works encompassing his entire career: from the immediacy of his early self-portraits and studies of beggars, through the innovative depiction of Biblical scenes and landscapes, to his late years of the highly finished portraits of patrons and friends, studies of nudes, and one extremely rare erotic print. The collection includes several important masterpieces and many fine sheets whose historic provenance, in some cases, can be traced back to the 17th-century. Tim Schmelcher, International Specialist, Prints and Multiples, Christie’s London: “We are delighted to present The Sam Josefowitz Collection: Graphic Masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn – Part II, following the remarkable success of last year’s sale. This collection stands as the finest private ensemble of Rembrandt’s graphic works, and its depth is truly unparalleled. Sam Josefowitz’s passion for Rembrandt’s prints was a lifelong pursuit, driven by the artist’s inventive techniques and profound humanity. This auction offers a rare opportunity to acquire some of Rembrandt’s most significant and elusive works, including masterpieces like The Three Crosses and the extremely rare The Monk in the Cornfield. These prints not only showcase Rembrandt’s...
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2024 Autumn Luxury Sales running total: US$108M poised for market leadership in 2024

HONG KONG.— Christie’s achieved an impressive running total of HK$836M / US$108M in the inaugural Luxury Marquee Week at The Henderson. This outstanding performance, highlighted by a strong 92% sell-through rate and 106% hammer over low estimate, underscores Christie’s unparalleled expertise in curating exceptional offerings that resonate with luxury collectors. The results place Christie’s on track for Asia market leadership of the category in 2024. The strategic move to The Henderson has enabled Christie’s to engage collectors more effectively in a dynamic environment. Buyer
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Saatchi Gallery opens the first major survey of Anastasia Samoylova

LONDON.— Saatchi Gallery & Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography are presenting Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation, the first major survey of contemporary American photographer Anastasia Samoylova. Curated by Taous Dahmani, this exhibition will present works from five of Samoylova’s most significant series: Floridas, FloodZone, Landscape Sublime, Image Cities, and Breakfasts. A modern-day flâneuse with a camera in hand, Anastasia Samoylova observes the everyday to reveal its absurdities and challenge our societal constraints. Wandering through urban and ‘natural’ landscapes, Samoylova
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Gagosian to participate in West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai

SHANGHAI.— Gagosian will participate in West Bund Art & Design with an extensive group presentation. The gallery will exhibit works by Derrick Adams, Maurizio Cattelan, Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, Helen Frankenthaler, Cy Gavin, Simon Hantaï, Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Oscar Murillo, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, David Reed, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Mary Weatherford, Cameron Welch, Stanley Whitney, and Zeng Fanzhi. Many of the artists featured
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Green Art Gallery now represents Rossella Biscotti

DUBAI.— Green Art Gallery announced the representation of Rossella Biscotti (born 1978 in Molfetta, Italy). Rossella Biscotti uses montage as a gesture to reveal individual narratives and their relation to society. In her cross-media practice, cutting across filmmaking, performance and sculpture, she explores and reconstructs social and political moments from recent times through the subjectivity and experiences of individuals often posed against the backdrop of institutional systems. In the process of composing
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Caitlin Keogh's fourth solo exhibition at Bortolami opens in New York

NEW YORK, NY.— Every week for the past fifteen years, Caitlin Keogh has received images in the mail. Most often they arrive as postcards––sometimes a single card, other times in batches of two or three. Occasionally she gets a big envelope with clippings from museum catalogs and art books. The pictures reflect the taste and expertise of their sender, a specialist in nineteenth-century
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Works by Christo, LA II, Bob Gruen, Richard Hambleton, Steve Schapiro and more lead Heritage auction

DALLAS, TX.— One collecting trick that seasoned collectors know is that artworks by both veteran artists as well as rising stars often give shape to a charity event or auction. The art world, with all of its talent, presents a bounty for charitable organizations looking for a draw, and the artworks are the draw; informed bidders know to keep an eye out for the charity auction that features the kind of work they’d like to add to a collection (and they know that retail prices may or may not apply).
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Dorothy's ruby slippers, wicked witch's hat are among Hollywood treasures in Heritage Auctions sale

DALLAS, TX.— If Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Ozwere the sole item in Heritage’s December 7 auction filled with treasures from cinema’s rich and vast history, it would already rank among the most important auctions ever held. When Heritage announced in March that it would offer one of the four pairs of surviving ruby slippers from the 1939’s masterpiece, they garnered worldwide attention because of their backstory and beauty. This was the pair famously stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand
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RAF Museum London displays Noor Inayat Khan's George Cross

LONDON.— The RAF Museum London will open a new display that shares the story of Noor Inayat Khan GC, who served under cover in Paris during the Second World War with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and ultimately gave her life for the Allied cause. Born to an Indian father and an American mother, Noor was living in Paris when Germany invaded France in 1940. She escaped to Britain where she joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and trained
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Berlin-based artist Kaifan Wang's first solo exhibition with BLUM opens in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA.— BLUM is presenting One Piece, Berlin-based artist Kaifan Wang’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. There is a nomadic underpinning to the way that Wang thinks—this mindset sentimentally unifies the artist’s practice as well as this exhibition. Born in Hohhot, China, an area with a long cultural history that has been buried by rapid urban development, and living in Berlin, Wang is a masterful and worldly storyteller with the unique ability to find overlap between
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Exhibition at CIVA reflects on the latent potential of architecture

BRUSSELS.— For one of its last exhibitions before moving to the cultural hub in the heart of Brussels, KANAL, CIVA reflects on the latent potential of architecture. With the participation of a transdisciplinary field of architects, artists, sociologists and archeologists, the exhibition pre- architectures critically unveils how the study of prehistory might uncover not only causes of modernity’s present crisis, but also signs of architecture’s future
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Joan B Mirviss LTD and Asia Week New York Zoom into the History of Textile Art in Japan on November 14th

NEW YORK, NY.— Material Transformation a webinar–co-hosted by Joan B Mirviss LTD and Asia Week New York– will delve into the vibrant history of Japanese textile art, the evolution of the kimono, the continued use of recycled materials in textile creation, and the ways contemporary makers use traditional aesthetics and techniques innovatively to expand the field of Japanese textile art. To register for the webinar on November 14th at 5:00 p.m. (EST), click: https://us02web.zoom.
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The Baltimore Museum of Art opens Dana Claxton solo exhibition, including a newly commissioned work

BALTIMORE, MD.— The Baltimore Museum of Art opened Dana Claxton: Spark, a solo exhibition that focuses on the artist’s large-scale, backlit, color transparency photographs. Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation) refers to her photographs as “fireboxes,” playing on the commonly used term “lightboxes” to capture the elemental energy that she finds embedded in the form and to root her work in Indigenous sensibility and perspectives. In addition to Claxton’s photographic
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