New York - On May 22, Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Prints & Multiples Sale will offer a rare impression of M.C. Escher's most famous print, "Relativity," 1953 (estimate: $15,000-20,000). "Relativity" is one of Escher's most popular examples of his "impossible constructions" where faceless inhabitants ascend and descend seven stairways, apparently oblivious to the scientific impossibility of their activities.
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Philadelphia, PA—Premiering May 6, 2018, at the Barnes Foundation—home to the world’s largest collection of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir—is a major exhibition examining the artistic exchange between the renowned impressionist painter and his son, celebrated filmmaker Jean Renoir. Renoir: Father and Son/Painting and Cinema brings together over 120 works,including paintings, films, drawings, ceramics, costumes, photographs, and posters—many never before shown in the US—for an illuminating
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, a groundbreaking exhibition of both historical and contemporary Iranian works that highlight ways in which artists have used and continue to use the past as a metaphor for the present day. This notion is revealed in art and literature in which ancient kings and heroes are used in later contexts as examples of virtue or as objects of derision, while long-gone Shi‘ite saints are evoked as champions of the poor and the oppressed.
London, 4 May – Painted during Pablo Picasso’s ‘year of wonders’, this monumental, yet remarkably tender and intimate, painting of Marie-Thérèse absorbed in the act of writing evokes a private moment from the artist’s clandestine relationship with his most beloved muse.
DALLAS, Texas — Hobby-changing discoveries of World and U.S. coins paced Heritage Auctions' late April Chicago Coin Expo (CCE) & Central States Numismatic Society (CSNS) auctions to $38,150,247, registering a 99 percent sell-through rate by value and lot for U.S. Coins.
Marian Goodman Gallery New York is pleased to announce an exhibition of John Baldessari’s new body of work All Z’s (Picabia/Mondrian), 2017, opening on Friday, May 4th and on view through Saturday, June 22nd, 2018.
Building on Baldessari’s homages to the art historical canon, which have centered on subjects from Giotto to Miro to Pollock/Benton, the new exhibition pairs two icons of art, Picabia and Mondrian.
(New York, London, & Hong Kong – May 2, 2018) David Zwirner is pleased to announce its exclusive worldwide representation of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, which is committed to enhancing recognition of the work and life of acclaimed abstract painter Joan Mitchell. The gallery is planning a solo exhibition of Mitchell’s work for 2019 in New York.
London – Christie’s will offer "Portrait of Clara Serena, the Artist's Daughter" by Peter Paul Rubens in the London Old Masters Evening Sale on 5 July, during Classic Week (estimate: £3-5 million). Never intended for public display, this seminal work offers a rare glimpse into the private life of the greatest artist of the Northern Baroque. The portrait is on public view in New York until 5 May, later going on view in Hong Kong from 24 to 28 May, before being exhibited in London in the lead up to the sale.
BALTIMORE, MD —The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents "Meleko Mokgosi: Acts of Resistance," an exhibition that includes a suite of new paintings by the artist that examines the idea of resistance, defined by Mokgosi as any instance in which a subject refuses to give in to the oppression of her or his spirit. On view May 2 through August 12, 2018, these large-scale figurative paintings rethink the tradition of historical European compositions by depicting daily life in southern African nation-states and post-colonial ideals of democracy.
James Ensor's Nos deux portraits (1860-1949) (estimate: $300,000-500,000) will be a highlight of Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Sale on May 15, 2018. Distinguished by its important early provenance and extensive exhibition history, Nos deux portraits is a rare double portrait of the artist and his close companion Augusta Boogaerts.
