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press.christies.com
Gerhard Richter Abstraktes Bild (809-1) from the Eric Clapton collection is highlighted as a top work in Christie’s fall season and will be sold in New York on November 12, 2013, after on-viewings in London and Paris; the release includes quotes about the work and provenance mentioning its 2001 auction acquisition by Clapton.
dallasnews.com
The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University has acquired an important late portrait by Francisco Goya in honor of the museum's 50th anniversary. The oil-on-canvas depicts Goya's grandson Mariano, painted in 1827, and marks a major addition to the Meadows Collection. The acquisition was financed through the Meadows Foundation and Eugene McDermott Foundation.
bbc.com
Francis Bacon’s triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) is expected to fetch at least $85m (£53m) at auction in New York. The work, one of Bacon’s greatest masterpieces, will premiere in the UK at Christie's during Frieze Art Week in London, with a preparatory version having sold for £23m in 2011.
press.christies.com
Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud, an icon of twentieth century painting, is highlighted in a Christie's press release issued in New York Americas on 11 October 2013. The release discusses the painting’s exhibition timeline during Frieze Art Week and its anticipated sale at Christie’s New York on November 12, mentioning a world auction record for Bacon and Freud’s collaboration as a centerpiece of post-war and contemporary art.
press.christies.com
Andy Warhol’s Mercedes-Benz W 196 R Grand Prix Car (Streamlined Version, 1954), executed in 1986, from the Daimler Art Collection. The release notes the work, its relation to Warhol’s late oeuvre, and its estimate of $12–16 million.
globalnews.ca
Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud is discussed as potentially selling for up to $100 million at Christie’s New York sale, potentially surpassing the artist’s current record. Christie’s Francis Outred comments that the market has moved on since Bacon’s 2008 Triptych sold for $86 million.
noma.org
The New Orleans Museum of Art announces the gift of Five Brushstrokes, 1984 (Fabricated 2010) by Roy Lichtenstein, a 20-foot tall painted aluminum sculpture installed in front of the museum by the end of 2013. The work is a gift from Sydney and Walda Besthoff with partial gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
press.christies.com
Untitled (No. 11) by Mark Rothko is described as a radiating sunset-orange abstract masterpiece to be offered at Christie’s in New York in November 2013. The release notes its orange-yellow and white cloud-like colors within a deep orange field, mentions prior record sale of a Rothko painting, and notes the piece’s exhibition history and estimated price range.
independent.co.uk
Gustav Klimt's unfinished portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl, on loan to the National Gallery for Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna in 1900, is discussed as Nazi-looted art. The painting was connected to Amalie Zuckerkandl, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, and Erich Führer, with a history of confiscation and restitution involving Maria Altmann and the Klimt paintings.
gallerix.org
The heirs of Erich Lederer, a Jewish collector, request restitution of Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze after claiming it was sold under duress in Austria post-World War II. Marc Weber, the family’s lawyer, says the Austrian Ministry of Culture has received the restitution lawsuit, noting the work was sold for 15 million Austrian shillings (about 1.09 million euros) far below its estimated value. The fresco, created in 1902 for the Vienna Secession, is currently in Austria.
mutualart.com
Andy Warhol’s Coca-Cola (3) is discussed as a famous Pop Art masterwork highlighted by Christie’s, with an estimate of 40,000,000–60,000,000 USD. The work, painted in 1962, is described as hand-painted rather than silkscreen and has been in a private collection for nearly two decades, with a London preview and Rockefeller Plaza sale on November 12.
concordia.ca
The Max Stern estate reclaims Andreas Achenbach’s painting Scandinavian Landscape (1837), restituted after being sold under duress in 1937 at Lempertz Auction House in Cologne; the return, announced on October 29, 2013, was aided by Van Ham Fine Art Auctions and announced at the Embassy of Canada to Germany in Berlin.
thecjn.ca
The article reports that a Nazi-looted 1837 painting, Scandinavian Landscape by Andreas Achenbach, was withdrawn from auction in Germany and restitution was announced to the Canadian and Israeli university heirs of Montreal art dealer Max Stern. Concordia University led the Max Stern Art Restitution Project, representing Stern's estate and its beneficiaries (Concordia, McGill University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s reports on Dia Art Foundation’s renewed New York presence and the institutional history behind its presentation of Minimal and Conceptual art.
Sotheby’s
An open letter considers Xu Zhen’s selection for the Armory Show commission and the artist’s decision to work through the MadeIn Company identity.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s examines Zhang Huan’s skull paintings and their connections to Buddhist imagery, opium history and collective remembrance.