From the Piel Collection, this lithograph by Pierre-Auguste Renoir led the auction at $18,750. Review by Z.G. Burnett; Images Courtesy of Capsule NEW YORK CITY — Capsule’s American and European Art sale on June 15 was a showcase of fine art from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, highlighting names that have endured in popular culture
ADDS FINAL FIGURE INFORMATION FILE – Gustav Klimt’s ‘Dame mit Faecher’ (Lady with a Fan) is displayed at Sotheby’s auction rooms in London, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has sold for 85.3 million pounds ($108.4 million), in London, making it the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe.
Setting a new record for the most expensive work of art ever auctioned in Europe—Gustav Klimt’s final portrait Dame mit Fächer (Lady With a Fan), for a premium-inclusive £85.3 million ($108.4 million)—Sotheby’s hit its high target in a mini-marathon of sales held in London this afternoon and early evening. The artwork, which the auction house
The Harvard Art Museums are now free to all visitors. The museums’ announcement, released Friday, June 23, stated that the intentions are for this to be a permanent change. “It’s our invitation for people to come,” said Harvard Art Museums Director Martha Tedeschi. “There’s no right or wrong way for them to use this museum.
©️ Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy the artist and Templon, Paris, Brussels, and New York. A towering 13-foot bronze equestrian statue gets its own dedicated room in Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition at the de Young Museum. Modeled after a monument portraying Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart, An Archaeology of Silence (2021) depicts a shirtless Black man draped over the
Courtesy: LEN/Christina Marmet The Artistic Swimming European Championships got underway today in Oświęcim, Poland at the III European Games with the Duet Free and Team Free Preliminary events. In the morning, 18 pairs faced off in the hopes of finishing in the top 12 to qualify to the Duet Free Final on 24 June. Anna-Maria
A towering 13-foot bronze equestrian statue gets its own dedicated room in Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition at the de Young Museum. Modeled after a monument portraying Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart, An Archaeology of Silence (2021) depicts a shirtless Black man draped over the saddle of a horse. Here, Wiley unflinchingly portrays the ugly reality of Black
The work in question is up for auction later this month It’ll be the first time the painting has come to auction in nearly three decades In art news, a piece being auctioned at Sotheby’s in London on June 27 could be the most expensive painting ever sold in Europe. The piece in question is
1918 was the year Spanish flu swept across the globe, claiming more lives than all those lost in World War I. It was also the year Vienna’s Golden Age drew to a close with the unexpected loss of its most gilded talent, Gustav Klimt. Left in his studio were two unfinished paintings still standing on
Courtesy: LEN Artistic swimming events will run from 21-25 June at the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games. The sport was last featured on the European Games programme in Baku 2015 but was then a junior-only competition. This year and in front of a sold-out crowd in Oświęcim, artistic swimmers from 25 countries will compete across eight