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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 realism” was popularized in 1943 during the exhibition “American Realists and Magic Realists” at the...

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 Sotheby’s 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 ...