Gustave Caillebotte’s portraits and pastels owned by his butler Jean Daurelle are now on view at the Musée d’Orsay. The works were donated by Marie-Jeanne Daurelle shortly before her death, ending their private status, and include two pastels of Daurelle’s son Camille and two oil paintings of Daurelle in a frock coat and top hat, along with a landscape. The paintings join other Caillebotte works from the museum’s collection.
David Bowie’s Tintoretto altarpiece of Saint Catherine by Jacopo Tintoretto returns to Venice after more than 200 years, with buyer revealed as Belgian collector Marnix Neerman; the work purchased from Colnaghi in 1987 and loaned to the Rubens House in Antwerp for a long-term display.
Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró works are among recovered items after the 1993 Hollywood thefts; police are identifying specific artworks and assessing value with the Getty Museum, as authorities recover more than a hundred stolen items.
The article reports Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art adding works by Kehinde Wiley, Jordan Casteel, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and 23 pieces from the Gordon W. Bailey Collection to its permanent collection. It highlights diversifying the collection and includes quotes from Austen Barron Bailly and Lauren Haynes about the acquisitions and their impact on representation in American art.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced 29 acquisitions, including works by Emma Amos, Jordan Casteel, Clementine Hunter, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Kehinde Wiley. The article notes the acquisitions span historic and contemporary works, many by African American artists, and highlights works from the Gordon W. Bailey collection among others.
Banksy’s Devolved Parliament, a painting depicting The House of Commons as primates, sold for £9.9 million at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London. The work’s sale set a new record for Banksy, surpassing previous records ninefold and occurred near the UK’s Brexit timeline.
The article reports that female artists accounted for only about 2 percent of global auction spending from 2008 to mid-2019, with five artists accounting for over 40 percent of that share. It also notes underrepresentation in museum acquisitions and exhibitions, citing data from artnet News and In Other Words (Sotheby’s).
The page reports on the Jackson Hole Art Auction hosted by Trailside Galleries and the Gerald Peters Gallery, noting that 84 percent of the 518 lots sold over two days and total sales exceeded $5.6 million. The cover lot was Carl Rungius’s "Alaskan Wilderness," which sold for $642,500, a house record for the artist. Other notable results include Roy Andersen’s world-record price-per-square-inch for a piece titled “The Red Shield,” G. Harvey’s bronze "The Spirit of Texas" selling for $36,000, Bob Kuhn’s pieces including "The Look Before the Leap" at $180,000 and "Cat on the Qui Vive" at $175,500, and wildlife works by Tucker Smith and Robert Bateman.
Banksy online auction totals £1,122,750 / $1,470,802 / €1,256,357. Top lot was Banksy, Girl with Balloon - Colour AP (Gold) at £395,250 / $517,777, a record for a Banksy print and European record for a work sold online at Christie’s.
Eugène Delacroix’s Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1833–34) joins the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston after being purchased from Paris gallerist Philippe Mendes. The work, the first version of Femmes d’Alger (1834), now sits in Houston’s collection and will be on view October 3. The painting’s authentication was by Virginie Cauchi-Fatiga, with provenance tracing back to its sale after the 1850 sale.
KAWS, UNTITLED (KIMPSONS #1), 2004, estimate HK$48,000,000 , 68,000,000. UNTITLED (KIMPSONS #1) is described as the largest work among KAWS’s KIMPSONS paintings, commissioned by NIGO in 2004. The piece and the KIMPSONS series originate from 2001, with connections to the PACKAGE PAINTING SERIES and KAWS’s early fine art career.
Christie’s documents the market development behind The Matthys-Colle Collection to be offered at Christie’s. Its account reports that pioneering in spirit, outstanding in provenance and exceptional in quality, the Matthys-Colle Collection is among Europe’s most important and influential private collections of contemporary art.
Christie’s documents the market development behind Christie's Announces The Collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf. Its account reports that marilynn Alsdorf’s passion for collecting never ceased, and she continued to collect works by RenéMagritte, Wassily Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, and others before passing away peacefully at the age of 94 in 2019.
Sotheby’s documents the market development behind Highlights from Landscape of the Spirit: Property from A Private Collection, Washington, D.C.. Its account reports that anging from abstractions by Joan Snyder, Gene Davis and Mary Heilmann to sculptures by Isaac Witkin and Milton Hebald to varying landscape scenes by Leonardo Nierman, Richard Sheehan and Woody Gwyn – the Landscape of the Spirit collection offers a panoply of exceptional compositions and…
Sotheby’s documents the market development behind The Sauer Collection. Its account reports that the Sauer Collection is led in September by Josef Albers’s Study to Homage to the Square: Sixteen from 1958 ($200,000 - 300,000).