DALLAS — Achieving the highest price in Heritage Auctions’ Fine European Art Signature Auction on June 9 was William Adolphe Bouguereau’s (French, 1825-1905) “Bergère (Shepherdess),” an oil on canvas composition painted in 1888 that sold for $325,000, including premium. The painting’s provenance included two “Museum Makers,” having previously been in the personal collections of both
A look at the luxe designs of five exhibitors at the May art show. TEFAF New York is far from the largest show on the art fair calendar, but you wouldn’t know that from the crowds that flocked to the event’s May 11 invitation-only preview at the Park Avenue Armory. Contemporary jewelers and dealers brought
Italy is poised to slash VAT rates on art imports to 5.5% in an effort to turn the country into a major competitor in the global art market. Italy currently applies a reduced VAT rate of 10% on art imports, which is higher than those in France (5.5%), Belgium (6%) and Germany (7%). The proposal
NYCxDesign, a design festival held each May in New York City, wrapped up its 11th edition last week with a strong array of group shows across boroughs — in Soho showrooms, artist studios and backyards in Brooklyn, vacant office spaces in Chinatown and galleries in between. Though officially billed as a weeklong festival beginning May
Photo Marcel van Hoorn/ANP/AFP via Getty Images Less than a year after he was hired as global managing director, Bart Drenth has left TEFAF, one of the world’s top art fairs, after Artnet News reported last week on his behavior on social media. TEFAF, full name The European Fine Art Fair, hosts annual editions in
THIS SUMMER, THE Museum of Fine Arts, Houston invites visitors to travel back in time to Paris at the turn of the century to explore the cross-cultural connections between some of the most revered artists of the modern age. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Pearlman Foundation, which opened May 21, features 38 paintings from
The fourth floor of The American Art Fair extends up to the fifth floor, where Avery Galleries and Thomas Colville Fine Art were situated. Chenyu Huang photo for The American Art Fair. Review & Onsite Photos by Madelia Hickman Ring NEW YORK CITY — For art lovers in or around New York City, mid-May is
By Carol Carter Published May 26, 2023Last Updated June 30, 2023 Looking for fine art? Antiques? Interiors galleries? Rugs? Stop in at The Galleries on Peachtree Hills at 425 Peachtree Hills Ave. NE and stroll through gallery after gallery. The center is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 7
Named after the prominent Czech artist Josef Mánes (1820–1871), the Mánes Association of Fine Artists was founded in 1887 in Prague (with initial origins in 1885 in Munich) and became an influential establishment for promoting and exhibiting modern Czech artists as well as a purportedly international (though primarily European, and especially French) milieu. At its
Over an intense nine weeks in the summer of 1905 in the modest fishing village of Collioure on the French Mediterranean, Henri Matisse and Andre Derain embarked on a partnership that led to a wholly new, radical artistic language later known as Fauvism. Their daring, energetic experiments with color, form, structure, and perspective changed the