Tag: Collection

The Association for Art Museum Directors, a prominent industry group, has refined a policy guiding the sales of artworks from institutional collections after pandemic-era pushback over a separate but related guideline. A narrow majority of its overall membership has voted to change its policy for what to do with funds gained from deaccessioning (or selling) artworks from a given museum’s permanent collection. Previously, the ...

Works from the collection of David Solinger, a lawyer and former president of the Whitney Museum who died in 1996 at the age of 90, will be offered by the collector’s family at Sotheby’s this fall. A group of 90 paintings and sculptures by the likes of Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Joan Miró, Jean Dubuffetm and others will be sold across sales in New ...

For most of the past six hundred years, Korea’s leaders have resided in the same area of northern Seoul, first in Gyeongbokgung, a sprawling palace built in 1395 for the kings of the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910). A meticulous reconstruction undertaken in recent decades now includes the National Palace Museum and the National Folk Museum. Looming behind it is a sizable traditional Korean-style building with ...

Works by Vincent van Gogh, Lucian Freud, Jasper Johns, Gustav Klimt, Georgia O’Keefe, and other major artists have been revealed to be part of the $1 billion collection of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen that will be auctioned at Christie’s this fall. News of Allen’s estate coming to auction was first reported in August. The tech mogul, who died in 2018 at the age of ...

Christie’s will auction $50 million art from the collection of Virginia-based electrical power mogul Roger Sant, including works by Paul Gauguin and Joan Mitchell. Together with his wife Vicki, who died in 2018, the AES corporation founder accumulated a collection centered around Post-Impressionists like Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard, and Nabis artists like Maurice Denis. The Sants, who gifted an acquisition fund for 19th-century ...

A remarkable collection that inspired a Richmond-based artist is being sold at auction on Wednesday – September 21 - following her death.Swiss-born Romy Rey trained in Paris and Geneva before settling in Richmond, where she part-owned a well-known bookshop;, and embarking on a 21-year artistic career that saw her exhibiting across Europe.She drew strong inspiration from her extensive collection of Pre-Columbian, African and Oceanic Art, which ...

Some of the BNZ Art Collection is auctioned off at Webb's on Sunday. Photo: RNZ / Felix Walton Five works by NZ artist Colin McCahon have sold for a combined total of $3.7 million at the BNZ Art Collection this afternoon - and concerns about their sale are still being raised. McCahon's Is there anything of which one can say, look, this is new? ...

A foundation set up by media mogul and CBS founder William Paley will sell a trove of artworks at Sotheby’s that have long been on loan to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The groups of works, which include paintings and sculptures by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, and Auguste Rodin are expected to fetch a collective $70 million at ...

Avid walker Albert Wierenga stumbled across some unique works of art on Friday morning Bradford resident Albert Wierenga is used to finding random objects while out on his weekly walks picking up garbage along the rural roads of the town; from full bottles of booze to soccer balls, he has seen it all. On Friday morning, he was out on one of his walks looking for apples, to ...

RM, the 27-year-old leader of the Korean pop group BTS and an avid art collector and influencer, released a new video on YouTube in late July and several Instagram posts showing off his recent art-related travels and apparent growing art collection to fans. Most prominent among the works was a $1.2 million sculpture by American multidisciplinary artist Roni Horn titled Untitled (But the boomerang ...