NCML Surakshit Mandi’s auction volumes top 10,000 tonnes
March 10, 2021
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Post-harvest management company National Collateral Management Services Limited (NCML) said on Wednesday that it has achieved over 10,000 tonnes auction quantity under its Surakshit Mandi project for which the value of the commodity is more than ₹10 crore.
NCML had initiated the programme during the lockdown to help farmers in selling their crops through its warehouses. Surakshit Mandi provides a direct platform to farmers to get the right price, timely and affordable credit and has also ensured a safe and easy transaction. It uses the latest RBI-approved escrow accounts, provides an e-wallets payment gateway, the company said in a statement.
Museum of Russian Icons announces death of founder Gordon B. Lankton
Gordon left an indelible mark on the town of Clinton, turning old, otherwise abandoned buildings on Union Street into Nypro Inc. and the Museum of Russian Icons, both globally recognized organizations.
CLINTON, MASS
.- The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Russian Icons announced the death of founder Gordon B. Lankton. After opening a branch of his plastics manufacturing company in Moscow in 1992, he came to appreciate Russian culture, particularly the icon, the emblematic sacred art form stemming from the Byzantine traditions of the Russian Orthodox Christian faith. Gordon founded the Museum of Russian Icons in 2006. From his early days as a Boy Scout collecting pennies, Gordon was a studious and passionate collector. Whether it was icons, African sculpture, World War I and II posters, or die-cast model cars, Gordon tirelessly pursued not only the objects, but also information about their origins and the artis
From Titian to van Dyck: Koller s Old Master auction features works by great names of Renaissance and Baroque art
A portrait of a nobleman by Titian, circa 1550 (lot 3032, CHF 800 000/1 200 000), apparently served as a model for paintings by both Rubens ( Self-Portrait in the Circle of His Mantuan Friends , 1602, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne) and van Dyck ( Self-Portrait with Endymion Porter , 1635, Museo del Prado, Madrid).
ZURICH
.- The Old Master Paintings auction on 26 March features works by an all-star selection of artists, including a powerful painting of St Jerome in the wilderness by Anthony van Dyck (lot 3027, estimate upon request). This small-format work is remarkable for its virtuoso, free-flowing execution. Painted when the young van Dyck was still in Peter Paul Rubens s workshop, the work seems to correspond with one mentioned in the elder artist s estate, and so may have been a part of Rubens s personal collection.
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ATHENS, GA
.- Long overshadowed by the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, magic realisms 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 realism was popularized in 1943 during the exhibition American Realists and Magic Realists at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), organized by curator Dorothy C. Miller with assistance from museum director Alfred H. Barr Jr. and arts impresario Lincoln Kirstein. The Georgia Museum of Arts exhibition includes works originally presented in MoMAs show, including paintings by Ivan Albright, Paul Cadmus, Z. Vanessa Helder and Patsy Santo, as well as other . More
Sotheby s to offer group of works by the Scottish Colourists from the Harrison Collection
George Leslie Hunter, Lobster on a Blue Plate, est. £60,000-80,000. Courtesy Sotheby s.
LONDON
.- Bidding opens this Wednesday on a group of works by the Scottish Colourists acquired by Major Ion Harrison an important patron and friend of the quartet of artists between the 1920s and 1940s. This offering of 24 works from the Harrison Collection follows Sothebys sale in June 2018 of some 30 pictures from the collection, which sold for a combined total of £4.5 million and saw a new auction record achieved for Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell. Passed down through the family, the works remained together at Croft House, Major Harrisons home where he openly welcomed the Colourists.