Frick announces new and upcoming volumes in Diptych series
The Frick Diptych series is published by The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Ltd., London, sold online through the Museum Shop at www.frick.org/shop
NEW YORK, NY
.- The popular Frick Diptych series continues with books on masterpieces in the collection. Since 2018, five titles have been published, each illuminating a single work with an engaging, in-depth essay by a curator paired with a contribution from a contemporary cultural figure. Connecting the Old Masters with the voices of today, the series is designed to foster critical engagement appealing to the specialist and non-specialist alike. Comments Ian Wardropper, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director, These fresh takes on our holdings have often included close inspections and deeply personal reflections. We are delighted with the response to the first group of books, which focuses on Holbeins Sir Thomas More, Vermeers Mistress and Maid, and Rembran
Bonhams first stand-alone Western Art sale in Los Angeles features important American works
Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Appeal to the Great Spirit, 22 inches high, Estimate: $50,000 - 70,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.- Isleta, New Mexico, by the German-born American Western artist Walter Ufer, leads Bonhams first stand-alone Western Art sale in Los Angeles on Friday, February 26, 2021. It is estimated at $125,000 - 175,000. For the past 40 years, Bonhams Californian and Western Art department has consistently realized top results for a variety of Western artists, including early American Frontier painters, Taos Society Artists, and many members of the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America. Building on recent successes selling the Collection of L.D. Brink Brinkman, The Eddie Basha Collection, and Western works from the Estate of Barron Hilton, Bonhams will now conduct stand-alone sales of Western Art. The inaugural stand-alone sale is being led by Katherine Halligan, Bonhams
Dancing for many cameras, in the round: It s Muybridge on steroids
In an undated image provided by Steven Sebring, Skylar Brandt, left, with Herman Cornejo. Brandts pirouettes were captured by Steven Sebrings multiple cameras to produce the sensation of watching in 4-D. Steven Sebring via The New York Times.
by Marina Harss
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Midway through 2020, Herman Cornejo, one of the best male dancers of his generation, lost his mojo. The company he dances for, American Ballet Theatre, had to close its studios because of the pandemic. He was tired of training at home, by himself, on a 5-by-7-foot square of vinyl flooring provided by Ballet Theatre. If I do a single grand jeté one of the powerful, spacious jumps he is known for I end up next to the wall, he said at the time.
Paintings by Lois Dodd, Mercedes Carles Matter and Gillian Ayres sell for a combined $150,000
Large, 66 inch by 48 inch oil on canvas painting by Lois Dodd (American, b. 1927), untitled (Cant See the End Table for the Trees), with a Fischbach, N.Y. gallery label verso ($71,875).
INDIANAPOLIS, IND
.- Original oil on canvas paintings by Lois Dodd (American, b. 1927), Mercedes Carles Matter (American, 1913-2001) and Gillian Ayres (UK, 1930-2018) sold for a combined $150,000, and a beautiful black ebony Bosendorfer grand piano played a sweet tune for $53,125 in a live and online auction held Jan. 16 by Ripley Auctions, based in Indianapolis.
The Estate Art & Antiques auction was headlined by items from the estate of the legendary British conductor and composer Raymond Leppard (1927-2019), a Grammy-winning recording artist and scholarly revivalist of 16th and 17th century baroque operas. Also offered were fine items pulled from prominent estates and collections in the Indianapoli