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March 12, 2021 Given my general preference for art created before World War II, it would seem trundling along to view the new exhibition, “Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint” — which opened last weekend at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia — wouldn’t be on the cards. Yet this intriguing show not only shines a deserving spotlight on a truly intense, talented artist but also reveals a great deal about the unexpected art-historical influences on an artist whose work I’ve al...

Picasso’s second wife Jacqueline (1927-1986) is immediately identifiable by her almond-shaped eyes and dark hair. Femme assise dans un fauteuil noir (Jacqueline) was painted in 1962, a few months after their marriage. Gill describes it as ‘a more sculptural image, but like the Marie-Thérèse there is great physicality there. ‘At the time of the Jacqueline portrait,’ adds Gill, ‘Picasso was looking back at Old Master painters, engaging with artists such as Delacroix and Manet. The ba...

Basquiat’s Warrior — the most valuable Western artwork ever offered in Asia This powerful work is one of the finest created by the artist in 1982 — the year in which, Basquiat declared, he ‘made the best paintings ever’. On 23 March 2021 it sold for HK$323,600,000 The year 1982 was a special one for Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88). In March he had his first solo show in the US, at the Annina Nosei Gallery in New York. In June he became — at the age of 21 — t...

Palmer Museum of Art acquires rare and important work by Grafton Tyler Brown Grafton Tyler Brown, "Hot Springs at Yellowstone," 1889, oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches. Purchased with funds from the Terra Art Enrichment Fund, Palmer Museum of Art, 2020. Image: Penn State Palmer Museum of Art acquires rare and important work by Grafton Tyler Brown March 09, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has announced the purchase of the 1889 painting "Hot Springs at Yellowstone...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   ATHENS, GA .- Long overshadowed by the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, magic realism’s reputation is on the way up again. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting the exhibition “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism” from February 27 to June 13, 2021, seeking to reexamine how we define magic realism and expand the canon of artists who worked within this category. The term “magic rea...

The inside story of the extraordinary art heist at Christ Church Oxford Could there be a Mr Big with a passion for Baroque art behind this mystery worthy of Inspector Morse? 9 March 2021 • 5:00am The Meadow Building, part of Christ Church Oxford University Credit: PA One Saturday last March, art historian Jacqueline Thalmann was enjoying dinner at a friend’s in Oxford when, a little after 11pm, her phone rang. It was the porters’ lodge at Christ Church, the university’s richest college,...

Christies to offer rediscovered pastel by Eugene Delacroix Eugène Delacroix, Arab Hunting a Lion. €250,000-350,000. © Christies Images Ltd 2021. PARIS .-Christie’s announced the top lot of the Old Master and 19th Century Drawings auction (24 March 2021), an important rediscovered pastel by celebrated romantic artist Eugène Delacroix, an Orientalist drawing which reappears on the market after having belonged to the painter Edgar Degas, estimated at €250,000-350,000. The artist’s trip to N...

Michaans to hold specialty auction of traditional furnishings and Old Masters works of art Ernst Stache (German 1849-1889) "A Venetian Backwater", oil on canvas. Estimate: $2,000 / 4,000. ALAMEDA, CA .- A widely anticipated specialty auction is happening at Michaan’s on March 19: the Traditional Furnishings and Old Masters Auction. Nearly 300 lots of fine furniture, decorations and works of fine art will be offered. Featured in this sale is the property of Arthur Thomson, an inveterate San F...

Four panels of Fragonards 1771-72 The Progress of Love series at the Frick Madison The Frick Collection; photo: Joe Coscia Before the Frick Collection closed last year for a $160m renovation and expansion, its European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts had largely remained where the industrialist Henry Clay Frick first placed them in 1915 in his sumptuous East 70th Street mansion. Now stripped from their Gilded Age surroundings, highlights of the museum’s collection...

The signature of the Old Master Titian has been found on a Renaissance painting of The Last Supper in Ledbury Parish Church, and now its value…