New Musée Jacqueline et Pablo Picasso to Open 2021
Picasso’s stepdaughter is planning to open a museum dedicated to the artist and his second wife, Jacqueline Roque, in a former convent in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence. The project is driven by Catherine Hutin-Blay, Jacqueline's daughter. Hutin-Blay inherited her mother’s collection of Picasso works and owns the Château de Vauvenargues near Aix-en-Provence, where the couple are buried. The Musée Jacqueline et Pablo Picasso will house around 1,000 paintings—more than the respective collections of the Picasso museums in Paris, Antibes, Barcelona and Malaga.
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Major Warhol Exhibition To Show at The Vatican
Thirty-nine years after he traveled to Rome to meet Pope John Paul II, Andy Warhol will be honored with an exhibition at the heart of the Vatican. The Vatican Museums are in final talks with the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh to stage a show of the Pop artist’s religious works in 2019. It will be seen in Rome and Pittsburgh and will mark the 25th anniversary of the opening of the US museum.
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“The Last Da Vinci” Leonardo’s Christ sells for $450 Million
Leonardo sells for biblical proportions at a profit $322 million after Russian billionaire, Dmitry Rybolovlev, enjoyed Salvator Mundi, Saviour of The World, for four short years.
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Underscoring the Strength of the Art Market
The Van Gogh led Christie’s $479.3 million sale that surpassed the auction house’s high presale target and posted a 95 percent increase from a similar event a year ago. Asian collectors were active.
Fernand Leger previous record of $39.2 million smashed with the sale of "Contraste de formes" for $70.1 million.
Additional artist records set for René Magritte, Jean Crotti, Suzanne Duchamp, Emil Nolde, Man Ray and Edouard Vuillard evince both a broader offering and deeper bidding compared with last year’s equivalent auction. That the sale’s top ten lots were all over $10m “really underscores the strength of the market”, said Jessie Fertig, head of sale. Pablo Picasso’s portrait of his second wife Jacqueline Roque also inspired a bidding war from collectors based in Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and Dubai, Christie’s said.
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Andrew Wyeth Forever Stamp Released by United States Postal Service
Andrew Wyeth, one of the most prominent artists of the 20th-century — whose realistic style defied artistic trends — was commemorated today on his birth centennial with the issuance of 12 Forever stamps highlighting his paintings.
The Andrew Wyeth Forever stamps were dedicated in his home town of Chadds Ford, PA. Mastering a realistic style, Wyeth (July 12, 1917 – Jan. 16, 2009) created haunting and enigmatic paintings based largely on people and places in his life, a body of work that continues to resist easy or comfortable interpretation.
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Hollywood Spellbound with Surrealism
In 1945, Salvador Dali's movie agent called him up and ordered a nightmare. The request came at the behest of director Alfred Hitchcock, busy planning the dream sequence for his psychoanalytic thriller Spellbound (1945).
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Graphic Masters: Dürer, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya, Picasso, R. Crumb
Graphic Masters: Dürer, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya, Picasso, R. Crumb features groundbreaking and timeless artists who worked in the medium of printmaking over its 500-year history, including a masterwork by one of the seminal graphic artists of our time.
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