"Joan Mitchell's work is both abstract and emotionally precise. She had this idea that at certain moments, daily situations could be filled with a higher life. And it's that higher life that she was attempting to convey in her work." Patricia Albers, author of "Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter," reflects on these two staggering works painted more than 20 years apart.
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The top lot of the night was Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec’s Pierreuse, which surpassed its high estimate by $4 million to sell for $9,062,000.
What color is love? Fear? Desire? Richard Mayhew discusses the connection between emotion and color. Learn more about the mystique of his landscape paintings, how his work connects with his Native American and African American heritage, and his involvement with the Spiral, a New York–based collective that formed in the mid-1960s to discuss the role of African American artists in the civil rights movement and American culture.
A mammoth 42" x 58" poster for probably the biggest series of concerts the Clash ever played. Eventually playing 17 concerts at the Bonds International Casino in New York City, the Only Band That Matters was promoting their triple-LP Sandinista! at the time. Eight shows were originally planned, but demand was so strong for the band that a whopping 17 shows happened.
A leading expert on the works of Leonardo da Vinci thinks she has found a new drawing by the Renaissance master.
Jean-Michel Basquiat crowns a king in this portrait of friend and fellow street artist Anthony Clarke. Executed during Basquiat's meteoric rise to fame in 1982, "Portrait of A-One A.K.A. King" exemplifies the gestural, painterly prowess and distinctive iconography that denoted the peak of his career.
One of the world's best-known and least-seen collections of marble statuary is making its twenty-first-century debut.
Dated 1845, Eduard Gaertner’s view of Berlin’s Royal Opera captures a renewed national and civic pride in the Prussian capital. In this episode of Anatomy of an Artwork, discover how Gaertner captures the serenity of a balmy summer evening, find out how it differs to a similar version in Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, and marvel at the originality of Gaertner’s proto-photographic realism. ‘The Royal Opera Unter Den Linden, Berlin’ is a highlight of our upcoming sale of European & British Art (2 - 9 December | London).
German police have arrested three men in connection with the daring theft of more than a billion dollars in diamonds last year.
Though his works feature prominently in many of Canada’s most prestigious arts institutions and he is considered one of the country’s most celebrated modernist artists, David Milne has been described as having worked at the periphery of Canadian modernism.
