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Luxist (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Surrealist, modern and postwar pieces will go under the gavel next week at the Christie's Impressioniste et Moderne auction in Paris . More than 140 lots will be offered on December 1, 2009, with presale estimates ranging from $6 million to $9 million. Among the artists represented in the auction, which consists of the Lefebvre-Foinet collection, are Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst , Henri Matisse and...
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scaryideas (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
DU Kulturmagazin : Eye tracking Alberto Giacometti [Image] Every page an eye-catcher. DU. Arts and Culture Magazine. In the true sense of the claim, a real eye-tracking device recorded how a reader looked at a page of a "DU" issue. The original lines generated during that recording were printed as an ad and showed how compelling every single page of a "DU" issue is. Advertising...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
MIAMI, FL.- Art Miami , the longest running contemporary art fair in Miami and the anchor art fair for the city of Miami, continues to be an important venue for high quality modern and contemporary art. In today's art market, collectors are concerned about quality; they want the best possible pieces by well-established artists. One of the highest quality pieces of art that will be seen Art Miami 2009...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Jasper Johns (b. 1930, August, Georgia; lives and works in New York) Map, 1962, Encaustic and collage on canvas, 60 x 93 in., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Marcia Simon Wiseman MOCA--the Museum of Contemporary Art --opened 30 years ago in Los Angeles. To celebrate the anniversary, the museum opens its largest installation tomorrow, featuring more than 500 works from more than...
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ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The Wall Street Journal reports that the art market may be on the mend. The fall art sales at Christie's and Sotheby's showed recovery in certain markets. Above is Picasso's "Bust D'Homme," which sold for $10.3 million, although the estimate was $12 million. The U.S. art market appears to be on the mend. The major fall art auctions may not have sold everything on offer, but collectors showed...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Si Newhouse made out better than expected during a Sotheby's auction last night. The item he was selling off -- a sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti entitled "L'Homme Qui Chavire" (pictured left) -- only fell $2.8 million short of what he paid for it . And while that might seem like a big chunk of change to us, Newhouse was expecting to lose $10-$12 million off the piece he originally...
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Victorian Paintings (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
[ Alberto Giacometti, L’Homme qui Chavire. Est. $8/12 million. Sold for $19,346,500. Photo: Sotheby's] Sotheby's Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art Surpasses High Estimate An Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby’s in New York was a resounding success, surpassing the high estimate and bringing a total of $181,760,000 (est. $115.3/163 million). The sale was 84.8%...
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Conde Nast overseer Si Newhouse desperately put his Alberto Giacometti sculpture, "L'Homme Qui Chavire"—for which he'd paid $20 million— up for auction at Sotheby's yesterday. He was...
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The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Alberto Giacometti's 1950 bronze of a toppling man, "L'Homme Qui Chavire," sold for $19.3 million. The $181.7 million sale of Impressionist and modern art was a boost for the auction house.
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
PARIS.- The upcoming sale of 20th Century Decorative Arts & Design at Sotheby's Paris on 25 November 2009 comprises 79 lots and offers a rich panorama of iconic 20th century works by Charlotte Perriand, Robert Mallet-Stevens and Jean Dunand, along with works of impeccable provenance by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Alberto Giacometti and André Arbus that have remained in the same family since...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
HAMBURG, GERMANY - As of November 3rd, Flo Peters Gallery will present René Burri, one of the last remaining great photography legends of the 20th century. The show gives a comprehensive insight into the work of the Swiss photographer and takes the observer onto a journey through the 20th century : From Swiss rural life to roman dolce Vita as well as Argentinean Gauchos and impressions of Maoist...
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Luxist (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
While many of the art auction houses are dreading the fall season, Sotheby's has a few lots to celebrate. Art advisors can't keep their mouths shut , it seems, and following a luncheon for them, word got out that the house has picked up pieces by Alberto Giacometti and Andy Warhol next month. Most collectors have been hanging onto their art, unwilling to sell their pieces in an unfavorable economic...
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European Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1901 – Alberto Giacometti,...
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2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- Inspired by the self-glorification of certain political personages in Washington, D.C. and some of the manifestations of adoration undertaken by followers, I've been doing some reading about art in 20th century totalitarian countries. A book I just finished is Peter Adam's 1992 Art of the Third Reich. His chapter on German sculptors active in the 1930s caught...
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Streatham & Brixton Chess Club (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
Guest post by Martin Smith The French sculptor Germaine Richier stopped me dead in my tracks at the old Tate ten or so years ago. Germaine Richier 1902-1959 L'Ouragane ( Hurricane Woman ) 1948-49 Life size, L'Ouragane and her fellow L'Orage loom like the undead from the underworld, a pair of horror movie scene - or body - stealers. L'Orage ( Storm Man ) 1947-48 But in 1948 zombies hadn't really landed....
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