Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
LOS ANGELES - The J. Paul Getty Museum says it has acquired a 17th century Flemish landscape and a drawing by famed sculptor Auguste Rodin for its world-renowned collection.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... 19th-century giants such as James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Antoine-Louis Barye, Honoré Daumier and Auguste Rodin. Many of the 20th-century pieces are personally inscribed by the artist. A 1963 de Kooning is signed, “To Olga, Love Bill.” A 1968 Picasso bears the legend, “Pour Olga, son ami Picasso” (For Olga, her friend Picasso). A 1965 Niki de St. Phalle is simply inscribed, “To Olga.”...
Learning Curve on the Ecliptic (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
... Augustus's sister Gwen." Later on, Gwen fell ecstatically in love with the 63-year-old sculptor Auguste Rodin."Unfortunately, her obsessive love so wore him out. He complained that sex gave him a headache and once a fortnight was enough; he felt devoured by her. When Rodin became involved with someone else, Gwen Rodin died in 1917.""Augustus John died in 1961. He was...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
It’s not all gloom and doom on the Los Angeles museum front: the J. Paul Getty Museum announced Wednesday that it had acquired a rare landscape by the 17th-century Flemish painter Roelandt Savery and a drawing, right, by the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The Savery work, “Landscape With the Temptation of St. Anthony,” was painted in 1617 and depicts the saint reading in a rustic cell, oblivious...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The announced today the acquisition of two new works: Landscape with the Temptation of Saint Anthony (1617) by 17th-century Flemish landscape and still-life painter Roelandt Savery (1576-1639) and a brown wash and graphite drawing entitled Sphinx (c. 1898-1900) by renowned 19th-century French sculptor and draftsman Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Savery's Landscape is one...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
LOS ANGELES, CA - The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of two new works: Landscape with the Temptation of Saint Anthony (1617) by 17 th-century Flemish landscape and still-life painter Roelandt Savery (1576-1639), and a brown wash and graphite drawing entitled Sphinx (c. 1898-1900) by renowned 19th-century French sculptor and draftsman Auguste Rodin (1840-1917).
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... of paintings and suddenly claiming she had a $600,000 (U.S.) sculpture by the great French artist Auguste Rodin tucked out of sight.Both types of lies are deal-breakers, star litigator Peter Griffin argued this week before justices Susan Lang, Russell Juriansz and Gloria Epstein of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. They are to rule later.He said Chubb underwriters look for wealthy,...
