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hojeemdia.com.br
The article reports that Gol Linhas Aéreas was ordered to compensate a passenger after her cello was damaged during a July 2007 trip. The instrument was valued at R$ 26,000, and the judge ruled that damages were evident even though they were not noticed at baggage pickup and noted the cello was in a sealed box.
nordonart.wordpress.com
Cézanne and Modigliani are highlighted as leading works in Sotheby’s May 2013 Impressionist and Modern sale. The post notes that Lot 7, Paul Cézanne’s Les Pommes (1889-90) sold for $41,605,000 and Amedeo Modigliani’s L’Amazone (1909) sold for $25,925,000, among other results that helped the sale gross about $230 million. The Lewyt estate provided a major portion of the total with 20 works, including the Cezanne and Modigliani pieces mentioned.
benningviolins.com
The page reports that Benning Violins, a Los Angeles area violin shop, announced an open house on April 28 to mark 60 years in business. The event will be held at their Ventura Boulevard shop in Studio City from 1:00 to 6:00 PM and will feature exhibits, hors d’oeuvres, and live performances by Benning instrument owners. Benning Violins traces its origins to Studio City Music, established in 1953 by Paul Toenniges, and passed to Nancy Benning and Hans Benning, who, along with Eric Benning, will attend the event.
artribune.com
Carla Accardi, Giuseppe Capogrossi and Francesco Lo Savio are highlighted in a Christie’s Milano spring session report. The sale total was 8.6 million euros with 91% lot sold and 96% by value; top lot was Lucio Fontana’s Concetto spaziale, Attese sold for €757,200. Carla Accardi’s works (1965 painting on sicofoil and a 1990 canvas) sold for €114,600 and €57,900 respectively; Giulio D’Anna, Giorgio de Chirico, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Francesco Lo Savio, Victor Vasarely, Gianni Colombo, Donald Baechler, Bertozzi and Casoni, and Pierre et Gilles are also mentioned with various prices. The report attributes strong results to second half of the twentieth century works and overall positive market sentiment in Italy.
artribune.com
The article discusses Christie’s auctions in Dubai (April 16–17) and Sotheby’s in Doha (April 22), highlighting record results for Middle Eastern artists such as Farhad Moshiri with The Secret Garden (2009) at $987,750, Chafic Abboud and Safwan Dahoul, Fateh Moudarres, Louay Kayyali, and notes an upcoming Doha sale including Maurizio Cattelan’s installation Andreas and Mattia with an estimated $1–1.5 million, and a total estimate around $11 million across multiple works by Ai Weiwei, Rudolf Stingel, Subodh Gupta, Donald Judd, Damien Hirst, Mahmoud Said, and others.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s charts Jean-Michel Basquiat’s rise from the 1980s art scene to sustained demand at the top of the contemporary auction market.
rickertmusicalinstruments.com
Don Rickert presents the Electro-mechanically Augmented Violin (EAAV-A, plus B+B+C) and explains its three-part sound system: the violin (EAAV-A), the Baritone and Bass unit (B+B) with seven sympathetic strings, and the Contra-bass unit (C) which outputs sub-harmonics. The design was created as an entry for the Margaret A. Guthman Musical Instrument Competition and Rickert was a semi-finalist.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s traces Zao Wou-Ki’s reception in China while documenting auction demand, including RMB 610 million in 2012 public-auction transactions and recent Hong Kong sales.
press.christies.com
Charles Le Brun's Sacrifice of Polyxène (lot 36) fetched €1,441,500/£1,229,311/$1,885,194. Other notable works included François de Troy's Portrait de la famille Davène de Fontaine (€577,500/£492,492/$755,255) and Jan Brueghel The Younger’s L’Arche de Noé (€481,500/£410,623/$629,706). The Old Master paintings sale totalled €5,117,200/£4,363,948/$6,692,274 with 62% sold by lots and 84% by value.
lfpress.com
The article reports Juno-winner Alexandre Da Costa performing with Orchestra London using the 1730 Guarneri del Gesu violin for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto at Centennial Hall, with music director Alain Trudel conducting. The Canimex Company loaned both the violin and Sartory bow.
hyperallergic.com
Pablo Picasso’s Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Eva) (Woman in an Armchair) (1913) is noted among the works in the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will create the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art as part of a $22 million endowment. The gift comprises 78 Cubist works by Picasso, Braque, Gris, and Léger, and is described as transforming the Met into a major Cubist art center.
paulfrasercollectibles.com
Zao Wou-Ki painting leads Sotheby’s April 6 auction of 20th century Chinese art in Hong Kong, selling for $4.8m and setting a new auction record for the artist. The 1983 oil on canvas is signed in both Pinyin and Chinese and was acquired from the artist by a Swiss private collector.
stlouismusic.com
The page announces J. Rémy Deluxe Fiberglass Bows from Knilling, available for violin, viola, cello, and bass at prices listed (violin $59.95, viola $79.95, cello $79.95, bass $249.95). It quotes Jim Eaton, vice president of Knilling and Orchestral Sales, and describes features such as nickel silver mounted ebony frogs and mother of pearl slide. For ordering, contact email and phone number are provided.
sandiegouniontribune.com
The NeNorwegian Henie Onstad Art Centre near Oslo owns Henri Matisse’s 1937 painting Blue Dress in a Yellow Armchair, which family of Parisian dealer Paul Rosenberg demands returned after Nazi seizure during World War II; the painting was bought by the Onstad center in 1950 from Galerie Henri Benezit in Paris.
cremonaoggi.it
La viola Medicea di Antonio e Gerolamo Amati, realizzata dai figli di Andrea Amati nel 1595, torna al maestro Luigi Alberto Bianchi dopo una causa civile che si è conclusa in tribunale. L’oggetto era stato affidato temporaneamente al Comune di Cremona in attesa dell’esito e la disputa tra Bianchi e Lloyd’s si è risolta con un accordo.
artlyst.com
Gerhard Richter’s painting Domplatz, Mailand, an estimated $30/40 million, was auctioned by Sotheby’s as a highlight of the spring Contemporary Art Evening Auction. The work, a commission for Siemens Elettra in 1968, measures over 9 by 9 feet and is noted as Richter’s largest figurative work; it previously sold in 1998 at Sotheby’s London, acquired by the Pritzker family for $3.6 million. It was later associated with the Hyatt Hotels Corporation and was shown in Hong Kong, Zurich, London, and New York before the sale.
welt.de
Gerhard Richters Gemälde Domplatz, Mailand, wird am 14. Mai in New York versteigert. Das Bild entstand 1968 als Auftragsarbeit für Siemens Elettra in Mailand und misst 2,75 mal 2,90 Meter; es wird auf 30 bis 40 Millionen USD geschätzt (etwa 23,4 bis 31,2 Millionen EUR). Das Werk hing lange im Siemens-Büro bzw. später bei Hyatt Hotels und wird nun von der Hyatt Hotels Corporation verkauft.
bbc.co.uk
A violin that was played aboard the Titanic as it sank is exhibited at Belfast City Hall. The instrument belonged to Wallace Hartley, the ship’s band leader, and was found in a Yorkshire attic seven years ago; experts have confirmed it belongs to Hartley. The violin is part of a Titanic memorabilia exhibition and will be auctioned at year’s end; it will be in Belfast for only a few more days.
artobserved.com
Gerhard Richter’s 1968 photo-realist painting Domplatz, Mailand, will headline Sotheby’s spring Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York with an estimated price of $30-40 million.
news.illinoisstate.edu
Metcalf school teachers and students participate in an El Sistema violin and cello project funded by the Thake Grant. The project involved 8th grade technology students constructing prototypes and 1st graders decorating and assembling instruments, with plans for a final performance and an assembly on May 10.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s reviews Zhang Xiaogang’s new work at Pace, focusing on the artist’s shift in imagery and the narrative tension of his recent paintings.
middle-c.org
The article covers Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music presenting the NZSM Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Young with viola soloist Irina Andreeva, performing Britten Suite on English Folksongs, Milhaud Viola Concerto No.2 Op.340, and Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 Pathetique at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington on Tuesday 9 April 2013.