Le 13 octobre prochain, Sotheby’s New York mettra à la vente une centaine de lots provenant de la cave de Robert Drouhin, de la célèbre famille négociante du Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. La nouvelle ravit les amateurs et collectionneurs de Grands Crus, qui ont déjà pû avoir accès à quelques trésors de cette cave en…
The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that it has received a remarkable promised gift of over 400 works by Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997). The Museum and the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation have forged an agreement that will bring the two organizations into a close and ongoing partnership and will make the Whitney a focus for Lichtenstein…
Le marchand d’art mulhousien Alain Dreyfus s’attaque à la maison de vente d’œuvres d’art Christie’s. En 2008, il avait acheté un tableau d’Alfred Sisley, qui s’est avéré avoir été volé par les nazis à la famille Lindon-Citroën, en 1940. Il consent à restituer la toile, mais exige d’être remboursé, avec des intérêts, par la maison…
Leaning on romance of Rockefeller name and its appeal to international and first-time buyers, the auction house triumphed in its marathon week of sales Christie’s brilliant lesson in storytelling paid off in its auctions of the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller this week in New York. Every single one of almost 900 lots offered…
Artnet News, Eileen Kinsella, 24.04.2018: “Is This the Next Auction Supernova? A Rare Modigliani Nude Carries a Record $150 Million Estimate at Sotheby’s” The painting, which was recently on view at Tate Modern, is reportedly owned by Irish billionaire horse breeder John Magnier. A reclining nude by Amedeo Modigliani is estimated to fetch in the region of $150…
Blouin Art Info, Mark Beech, 01.04.2018, “Picasso self-portrait set to fetch $70 million at Christie’s auction” Christie’s has raised the game with its May auctions with its announcement that it is to sell a Pablo Picasso self-portrait, seen as making as much as $70 million. “Le Marin,” an oil-on-canvas work executed on October 28, 1943, has long…
Vogue.com, Julia Felsenthal, 06.03.2018 : “Yinka Shonibare ’s “Alternative Monuments” Arrive in Central Park” The British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE makes work that trades on the razzle-dazzle aesthetic and deceptively complex history of Dutch Wax cloth, the colorful, printed fabric so beloved in West Africa that it’s often mistakenly assumed to be indigenous to…
The Art Newspaper, Gareth Harris, 26.12.2017 : “Artist and activist Tim Rollins dies aged 62″ The education pioneer founded the K.O.S. collective which challenges “elite notions of fine art”. The US artist and activist Tim Rollins, known for launching the Art and Knowledge education workshop in the Bronx in 1982, has died aged 62. Pittsfield-born…
