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fineartpublicity.com
Bloomberg-style? Not applicable. The page notes Bonhams announces the November 9, 2010 bi-coastal auction of Modern and Contemporary Art in New York and Los Angeles, featuring works from the School of Paris including four Fernand Léger paintings, plus pieces by Renoir, Poliakoff, Buffet, Archipenko and Rodin, among others; also highlights Eastern European artists and a notable Guston cover lot.
paulfrasercollectibles.com
Irma Stern's Bahora girl sold for £2.4m (€3.8m) at Bonhams London, setting a new world record for South African art. The sale totaled £6m for 151 works, with Mandela-related pieces among the lots.
nytimes.com
Carol Vogel reports that Titian’s Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child With Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria, dating to about 1560, will be shown at Sotheby’s in New York ahead of a January 27 auction with an estimated value of $15 million to $20 million.
news.wisc.edu
The UW–Madison news page reports the gift of the Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection, a private collection of more than 70 sculptures and 250 preparatory drawings by artists including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Pablo Picasso, and David Smith, to the Chazen Museum of Art. The collection spans 1915 to the mid-1980s and was first presented publicly in 1995 at the Chazen; it will be installed in the expanded facility opening in October 2011. The Lanes built the collection over four decades, acquiring works and related drawings, with notable pieces such as José de Rivera’s Construction #46, Lee Bontecou’s Bird, Seymour Lipton’s Cerberus, and John Storrs’ Forms in Space, along with numerous works by David Smith and others.
fiddlestyles.com
The article discusses Nagyvary, a biochemist at Texas A&M, and his pursuit to uncover why Antonio Stradivari’s violins are so exceptional. It notes his background, his experiments with wood preservation, and his belief that Cremona-era techniques protected wood from infestation.
broadwayworld.com
Joseph Lin, a 32-year-old violinist and alumnus of Harvard and The Juilliard School Pre-College, will join the Juilliard String Quartet as first violinist starting in 2011 and will join the Juilliard violin faculty in fall 2011. He is on leave from Cornell University and will replace violinist Nick Eanet who resigned for health reasons; the other quartet members are Ronald Copes, Samuel Rhodes, and Joel Krosnick.
oxfordmail.co.uk
The article reports that Angel, a greyhound, sniffed out a case containing 11 antique violin bows worth £110,000 stolen from Oxford musician Peter Oxley. The bows were recovered and handed to British Transport Police for return to Oxley; the find earned Angel’s owner, Chris Laflin, a £5,000 reward.
gazeta.ua
The article reports on a Stradivari violin being sold for a record price, with accompanying photographs. The page is from Gazeta.ua and discusses the auction/result of the instrument sale.
vesti.ru
The Stradivari Molitor violin, created by Antonio Stradivari, sold for 3.6 million USD. The buyer was American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Some experts suggest the instrument may have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte, but there is no documentary evidence.
m.newsru.com
The violin Molitor, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1697 and possibly once owned by Napoleon Bonaparte, was sold in an online auction for a record $3.6 million. The buyer is American violinist Ann Akiko Meyers, who cited its exceptional sound as the motivation for the purchase.
accordo.it
The article discusses Salvatore Accardo and the Cannone violin attributed to Guarneri del Gesù, built in 1743 and reputed as the best violin by luthier John Dilworth. It notes that the Cannone is in Palazzo Tursi, Genoa, and that Salvatore Accardo owns two Stradivari; the text includes historical praise and a personal anecdote about the instrument's fame.
dailyrecord.co.uk
The article reports on a performance by the Scottish Ensemble at St Ninian’s Cathedral, describing the acoustics and quality of sound. It mentions soloist Pieter Wispelwey and works by Vivaldi, Sibelius, and Sallinen, including Vivaldi’s Cello Concerto in B minor RV424 and Sallinen’s Chamber Music VIII ‘The Trees, All Their Green’.
bashinform.ru
The article reports that residents of Ufa could hear Antonio Stradivari’s violin in its original sound, brought to the city by Austrian violinist Lutz Leskovits and performed at the Bashkir State Philharmonic in Ufa. The event featured pianist and composer Vasily Shcherbakov and the Oscar Ensemble, with the concert opening a festival of chamber and symphonic music.
artnews.conteart.com
Jeff Koons’ Balloon Flower (Blue) is to be highlighted in Christie’s New York November 2010 Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale. The sculpture from 1995–2000 is estimated at $12,000,000 to $16,000,000; part of Koons’ Celebration series which includes a Magenta version that set a world auction record in 2008.
artnews.conteart.com
Gerhard Richter’s Zwei Kerzen will be offered at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on November 10, 2010, with an expected realization of $12,000,000–$16,000,000. The painting will be exhibited publicly at Christie’s in London from October 11–15 during Frieze Art Fair.
artnews.conteart.com
Gerhard Richter’s Zwei Kerzen will be offered at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on November 10, 2010, with an estimated realized price of 12,000,000 to 16,000,000 USD; the work will be publicly exhibited at Christie’s London during Frieze Art Fair from October 11–15.
eadt.co.uk
Colin Adwent reports that antique violin bows worth more than £110,000 are feared stolen after being left at Ipswich railway station. British Transport Police are appealing for information about 11 historic bows dating to the 19th century, with one bow alone valued over £30,000; the case was left on a train from London to Ipswich.
welt.de
Gerhard Richter wird laut WELT bei Christie's in New York am 10. November eine Versteigerung seines Ölbildern „Zwei Kerzen“ angeboten. Der Schätzpreis liegt bei 12 bis 16 Millionen US-Dollar, mit Aussicht auf einen neuen Rekordpreis für Richter; der bislang höchste Preis für ein Richter-Gemälde liegt bei 15,8 Millionen US-Dollar.
nytimes.com
Anthony Tommasini reviews Magnus Lindberg’s Kraft performed by the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, conducted by Alan Gilbert. The work features amplified cello, clarinet, piano and percussion including unconventional items like brake drums and nitrogen tank. Joshua Bell was the soloist in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, program also included Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
reuters.com
Marc Chagall's 1969 oil painting Bestiaire et Musique sold for $4.18 million in Hong Kong, setting a new record for a contemporary Western painting sold in Asia. The work was auctioned by Seoul Auction to an unidentified Asian buyer during a Monday sale, aligning with Sotheby's biannual Asian sales in Hong Kong.
artnews.conteart.com
Amedeo Modigliani's Nu assis sur un divan (La Belle Romaine) is described as the finest painting by the artist to appear at auction in recent years and is set to lead Sotheby’s 2 November 2010 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York, with an estimated value in excess of $40 million.
artnews.conteart.com
Amedeo Modigliani's Nu assis sur un divan (La Belle Romaine) tops Sotheby’s 2 November 2010 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York with an estimate above $40 million. The painting is described as a definitive nude and is associated with Modigliani’s reputed stature in Sotheby’s history; the work will be shown in Sotheby’s Hong Kong and London galleries before exhibition in New York.
artnews.conteart.com
Henri Matisse’s life-size bronze sculpture Back IV (Nu de Dos, 4eme etat), circa 1930, is expected to bring up to $35 million at Christie’s on November 3, sold by a private European collector. Christie’s notes the owner’s recognition of a strong market for modern sculpture, with Conor Jordan of Christie’s praising the work’s scope and significance in modernist sculpture.
artobserved.com
The page reports on Sotheby’s Hong Kong auctions showing growth in the Chinese art market. It mentions a record sale for Zhang Xiaogang (1992) at the Contemporary Asian sale, realized 52,180,000 HKD, and notes other top results including Zeng Fanzhi, Zao Wou-Ki, and Wu Guanzhong with their respective estimates and realized prices (all in HKD).
chicagoclassicalreview.com
Chicago Classical Review reports on the Chicago premiere of Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No. 2, performed by Robert McDuffie and the Venice Baroque Orchestra at the Harris Theater as part of a 30-city tour. The piece, subtitled The American Four Seasons, is a four-movement work with a solo violin introduction and a keyboard synthesizer, roughly 40 minutes in length.