A report by Jack Malvern for The Times of London. First, the bad news: a British gallery’s portrait of a stern woman with closed palms, supposedly by the hand of Francisco Goya, has been discovered to be the work of a more obscure artist. The good news is that the Barber Institute in Birmingham now…
Mark Bryce isn’t particularly keen on what he calls the “digital age.”
Sure, he sees the benefit in the troves of visual art available to view on the internet, instantly accessible with a few taps, clicks and swipes. But for the veteran painter, who has perfected a very specific method of brushwork, looking at his work on a screen just isn’t the same as looking at it in person. It’s a common misgiving among artists for sure, but for Bryce, it’s particularly pressing given the depth and techniques used in his work.
“I paint in an other-world manner, even though the ideas are very conceptual, social and spiritual,” says Bryce from his home in South Park. “If you actually look at the physical paintings, you get the technical aspects, and it’s a bit unusual.”
Georgia O Keeffe s
Green Oak Leaves (ca. 1923) was the star lot of the Newark Museum s sale. Courtesy of Sotheby s.
The Newark Museum of Art today sold off a slate of works at Sotheby’s, despite considerable objections from experts and scholars, to bring in $5.9 million into the institution.
Of the 11 works on offer at the auction of American art in New York, one was unsold, two sold for under estimate, and the remaining eight exceeded their presale expectations.
The highest price paid was $1.2 million for Georgia O’Keeffe’s
Green Oak Leaves (1923), which had an irrevocable bid and was estimated at $500,000 to $700,000.
A handful of U.S. museums sent collection artworks to the auction block at a Sotheby's American art sale that totalled $15 million on Wednesday. Women artists in the sale including Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grandma Moses and Gertude Abercrombie brought big prices for some small-sized works overall. Although some of the sales could be earmarked to fund new acquisitions, the sell-off from public institutions falls within a two-year period in which museum association guidelines .
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