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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Sotheby's New York to Offer an Exceptional Tahitian Sculpture Carved by Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin's "Jeune tahitienne", a sculpture carved during the artist's first trip to Tahiti between 1891 and 1893, is seen at Sotheby's in New York. The intricate wooden bust is expected to sell for as much as $15 million when it is auctioned on May 3, according to Sotheby's. It depicts a young, unidentified Tahitian woman and includes jewelry which Gauguin made himself using seashells and pieces of red coral. REUTERS/Mike Segar.
By: Bernd Debusmann Jr.
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- An intricate wooden bust carved by Paul Gauguin is expected to sell for as much as $15 million when it is auctioned on May 3, according to Sotheby's. "Jeune tahitienne," which was carved by Gauguin during his first trip to Tahiti between 1891 and 1893, depicts a young, unidentified Tahitian woman and includes jewelry which Gauguin made himself using seashells and pieces of red coral. A piercing left on the ear is believed by experts to have once held a flower, and two foxes carved in the back of the neck represent a sort of signature Gauguin often used, with the foxes being representative of sexuality. "It's rare to see a piece of art of such great quality and with such a great story," said Simon Shaw, Sotheby's head of Impressionist and Modern Art. "It's truly unique." The 9.5 inch-high carving, which has not been seen in public since 1961, was given as a gift to then 10-year old Jeanne Fournier, the dau ... More
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SAN SEBASTIAN.- Visitors walk by a picture wall in one of the showrooms of the San Telmo Museum in San Sebastian, Spain, which reopened the same day after a five-year restoration period. EPA/JAVIER ETXEZARRETA.
DC Moore Gallery Announces Acclaimed Painter George Tooker Dead at 90George Tooker, The Subway, 1950 (detail), egg tempera on gesso panel, 18 1/8 x 36 1/8 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, purchased with funds from the Juliana Force Purchase Award, 50.23. Photograph courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art.NEW YORK, N.Y.- One of the most acclaimed painters of his generation, George Tooker (1920-2011) possessed an originality and depth of vision that is unsurpassed in modern American art. For over sixty years, he has been highly regarded for his luminous and often enigmatic work. His themes range from alienation and the dehumanizing aspects of contemporary society to personal meditations on the human condition. By reducing action and anecdote to subtle gestures and juxtapositions that carry meaning and express essential truths, Tooker created modern allegories without traditional narrative content. Tooker died at his home in Hartland, Vermont, on Sunday, March 27 at the age of ninety. The cause was kidney failure according to DC Moore ... More
Getty Museum to Return Looted Painting Previously Owned by Jacques Goudstikker Pieter Molijn and Jan van Goyen, Landscape with Cottage and Figures, about 1640 (detail). Oil on canvas. 175.3 x 228.6 x 12.7 cm (69 x 90 x 5 in.) No. 72.PA.27. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.LOS ANGELES (AP).- The J. Paul Getty Museum has agreed to return a 370-year-old painting that once belonged to an art dealer who fled Holland when the Nazis invaded in 1940. Jacques Goudstikker was the Netherlands' biggest art dealer in the 1930s. He was fleeing the Nazis with his wife and young son at the beginning of World War II when he fell through a trap door on an outbound ship and died. His collection was looted, with some works claimed by Adolf Hitler chief deputy Hermann Goering. Goudstikker's daughter-in-law, Marei von Saher, has spent years trying to track down the works. Her successes have been on tour around the country in an exhibition that ends Tuesday in San Francisco and featured 45 recovered pieces from the collection. The Getty bought the 1640 Pieter Molijn painting titled "Landscape With Cottage and Figures" in good faith ... More
The Whitney Explores New Narratives through a Multi-Year Series of Collection ExhibitionsPreston Dickinson, Industry, c. 1923. Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 1/4 in. (76.2 x 61.6 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.173NEW YORK, N.Y.- This spring, the Whitney Museum of American Art inaugurates a multi-year exhibition initiative aimed at reassessing the Museum's collection and, by extension, the history of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art. As we approach groundbreaking for our downtown building project, the Whitney's curatorial team has devised a series of collection installations that will serve as a laboratory for possible approaches to displaying the Museum's holdings in its new building. From late April 2011, through the end of 2013, each of six consecutive exhibitions on the second floor of the Whitney's Breuer building will present a focused look at roughly one to two decades of American art seen through a novel, sometimes revisionist lens. These exhibitions, unfolding in chronological order as part of a larger "exhibition in time," collectively offer a panorama of a century of art in the Un ... More
UC Berkeley Art Museum Receives Grant To Conserve Hans Hofmann CollectionHans Hofmann, Sanctum Sanctorum, 1962; oil on canvas; 84 1/8 x 78 1/8 in.; gift of Hans Hofmann.BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is the recipient of a $93,825 award from the federal grant program Save America's Treasures to conserve the museum's remarkable collection of paintings by German-born artist Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), one of the most significant figures in the development of Abstract Expressionism. The grant supports essential conservation work on forty-eight paintings to resolve threats ranging from accumulated dust and debris to paint loss and instability, discoloration, and abrasions. Conservation work will take place over two years in collaboration with conservators at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Plans are currently under way for future exhibitions and a possible international tour following completion of the conservation project in 2013. A gift from the artist to
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