Mexico City's Zona Maco fair offers something for everyone
The Art Newspaper
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
From emerging artists to Modern art and antiquities, by way of design and photography, around 220 exhibitors span seemingly every collecting category
‘He could be grotesquely, wildly intemperate’: biographer Blake Gopnik tells us about the great collector Albert C. Barnes
The Art Newspaper
MARCH 11, 2025
A new biography on the renowned businessman, who amassed one of the most important collections of Modern art in the US, looks at what made him tick
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Les Nabis Revealed: The 8 Artists Who Redefined Modern Art as We Know It
Invaluable
JUNE 5, 2024
Energized to achieve a “beauty beyond visible reality,” the Nabis group of French artists challenged convention to create a new artistic vision, as they harnessed Paul Gauguin’s synthetism to envisage an exciting alternative that would usher in the age of modern art. Fine collections of Nabis artwork can be found around the world.
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Meet the Mysterious Woman Who Shaped MoMA
Artnet News
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Bliss and the Birth of the Modern" is based on the art collection of the museum's enigmatic cofounder. Her efforts and collection have forged the ongoing narrative of Modern art. MoMa's exhibition "Lillie P. The post Meet the Mysterious Woman Who Shaped MoMA appeared first on Artnet News.
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A bridge between worlds: Central Asia’s first private Modern and contemporary art museum to open in Kazakhstan
The Art Newspaper
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Almaty Museum of Arts will house more than 700 works by Kazakh and Central Asian artists, while also presenting an substantial collection of international art
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Hirsch Is New Owner of Dallas Auction Gallery
Maine Antique Digest
APRIL 23, 2024
Prominent antiques dealer and appraiser Reyne Hirsch is the new owner of the Dallas Auction Gallery and aims to attract a younger generation of buyers to collecting antiques and fine art. Hirsch was already co-owner of the nearby Patrick Jones Gallery, specializing in contemporary and modern art, when she received a
Acquisitions round-up: Pierre Subleyras’s papal commission, Lasansky's horrors of the Holocaust and Archie Moore's sprawling family tree
The Art Newspaper
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
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What is American Art? What You Need to Know About Buying Native-American Art
Antique Appraisers Auctioneers
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Some American Art Buyers also consider modern art made in America to be American Art. It seems that the compass of what American Art entails is often left up to the buyer or beholder. It is the collection of art from American Indians and includes a wide scope of mediums such as pottery, paintings, and so forth.
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Female British artists headline sale
Antique Collecting
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Four of the twentieth century’s leading female British artists will headline the Modern Art and Design sale at Cotswold-based Chorley’s The post Female British artists headline sale appeared first on Antique Collecting.
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Graham Smith photography to sell Derbyshire
Antique Collecting
MAY 13, 2024
Some 11 framed photographs by Middlesbrough photographer Graham Smith, whose work is in New York’s Museum of Modern Art and The post Graham Smith photography to sell Derbyshire appeared first on Antique Collecting.
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Modern British art collection in Kent saleroom
Antique Collecting
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
A distinguished private collection of Modern British art will be offered at auction on February 27 at Hansons Penshurst, Kent. The post Modern British art collection in Kent saleroom appeared first on Antique Collecting.
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5 Hot Lots Coming to Auction in September
WorthPoint
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Billings Auction in Los Angeles, California, is offering one of his iconic designs in its Fall 2024 Modern Art + Design auction on September 14. When it comes to sports cards, baseball is king of the market for collectibility and investment potential. Brockelman Auctions , no estimate specified. WorthPoint—Discover. Preserve.
MoMA to Sell a Monet in London
McAllister Fossum Appraisal Services
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
By CAROL VOGEL The cover of Sotheby’s London Impressionist and modern art sale catalog features “Les Peupliers à Giverny,’’ one of Monet’s depictions of poplar trees in the fields at the edge of his property in Giverny. Painted in 1887, it captures the sunset of early autumn. Sotheby’s is auctioning the work on Feb. million to $18.4
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Trusted Local Antiques Buyers and Their Services in Bradenton
Sarasota Antique Buyers
JULY 18, 2024
These stones hold special significance and beauty, and we are enthusiastic about adding exceptional jade and agate pieces to our collection. Old coins and collections: At Sarasota Antique Buyers, we are enthusiastic about old coins and collections. Modern art: Our interest extends to modern art pieces.
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Ocean Liners: Speed and Style
Alfie's Antique Market
MARCH 1, 2018
Vintage tiara, available from Zeeba Jewels 1920s dress, available from June Victor 1930s beaded dress, available from Tin Tin Collectables 1920s Bathing suit "WESTOE LADIES - ASC - SOUTH SHIELDS", available from Tin Tin Collectables 1920s bathing suit with belt loops, available from Tin Tin Collectables R.M.S.
Constructivism: The Intersection of Art and Industry in the Avant-Garde Movement
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Emerging from the 1917 revolution in the newly formed Soviet Union, Constructivism wasn’t only the most influential modern art movement in 20th century Russia, but its visualization of a new aesthetic language brought with it a sea change in how we view art that redefined the role of art in society.
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Brimfield Antiques Flea Market for Beginners: What to Know
WorthPoint
APRIL 26, 2024
Available for Apple or Android devices, the WorthPoint app can search among the more than two billion images in the WorthPoint Price Guide with one quick snap, allowing users to quickly find antiques and collectibles and comps for values. WorthPoint spoke to Jenn Schaeffner, a fan and collector of mid-century modern art and décor.
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Explore the World of Post-impressionist Art
Antique Appraisers Auctioneers
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Where to see Post-Impressionist Masterpieces Today If you are interested in experiencing the beauty and innovation of post-impressionist art in person, there are several museums and galleries around the world where you can see these masterpieces up close.
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Long Overdue: Cultural Change Affecting the Art Market
MIR Appraisal
JUNE 12, 2019
Many artists are using their influence and relationship with galleries to expand the field and spread knowledge to collectors and curators, and museums are collecting artists that would not have been collected previously. They were commissioned by the museum for an unknown price in the millions and installed two years ago.
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Sarasota Antique Buyers
MARCH 5, 2024
Modern Art: You may be surprised that a random piece of art living on your property is worth more than you think. Modern art includes cubist, impressionist, and minimalist art. Just because you cannot see a signature does not mean art cannot be identified.
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The Black Market for Stolen Antiques Is Booming
WorthPoint
APRIL 12, 2024
Image Source: Vittoriale degli Italiani via Artnet While collectors have long prized antiques, art, cultural artifacts, jewelry, and other valuables, they are also increasingly popular targets of thieves. A collection that takes someone years to painstakingly build can take a thief only one night to wipe out.
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Baker Schorr Fine Art
Art Advisor's Blog
JUNE 21, 2019
The gallery’s focus is Post-Impressionist and Modern art. As someone who has been making regular trips to Midland for artwork appraisals for many years, I know the locals do love to collect great art but they often acquire pieces in far-flung locations. American landscapes. I wish the very best to Ms. Permalink
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Patrick Boyd Carpenter: ' It’s a Proper Old Fashioned Antique Shop.'
Grays Antiques
OCTOBER 6, 2018
I just bought an amazing collection of Eduardo Paolozzi sculptures. He was an extraordinary figure within British art. Influenced by Giacometti and the Surrealists, now much of his work is exhibited at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. How would you describe your collection ? I buy from the gut.
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The Rise of African Modern & Contemporary Art
Grays Antiques
JULY 12, 2019
Part of a collection of tribal art from across the African continent available at Tabunov Antiques This spring, Bonhams African Modern & Contemporary Art department declared that they have seen 'an explosion of interest in modern and contemporary art from Africa' (1). 103cm height.
Print or Poster?
MIR Appraisal
AUGUST 11, 2022
Nowadays, contemporary corporate posters are typically mass-produced on an industrial scale; they are often unsigned and hold little monetary value, though sentimental value or niche interest can outweigh such concerns; that doesn't mean they're not beautiful or collectible! The Museum of Modern Art. Christies.com.
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Gertrud Arndt: Exploring the Bauhaus Visionary
Invaluable
JULY 3, 2024
Today no longer unappreciated, her work can be seen in the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany, while a number of her photographs can be seen in the permanent collection of The J.
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Mabel Dwight's American Scene
Michael Rose Fine Art
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Mabel Dwight, Night Work , lithograph, 1931, via Swann Auction Galleries Mabel Dwight’s work is well respected in print circles and held in numerous collections including those of the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and others.
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Buckskin Ceiling
Reagan Upshaw Fine Art
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Collection New-York Historical Society. The painting of Niagara Falls above recalls Frederic Church’s monumental 19th-century painting of the same subject, but WalkingStick has added geometric patterns similar to those found in indigenous art of the area in a symbolic attempt to reclaim the landscape.
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“Focus on What’s Essential to You” - Franklin Parrasch on Making Your Own Way in the Art World
Art Dealers Association of America
JUNE 20, 2019
What inspired you to pursue a career in visual art? I was five years old, in kindergarten in New Jersey, and my friend’s mother, who was an artist, took us to the Museum of Modern Art one day. and there was a thriving art community going on in D.C. It was sort of the tail-end of the Reagan era and people were collecting.
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“People Realized the Need to Make Connections Along the Whole Spectrum of Art History” - Leon Tovar on Latin American Art
Art Dealers Association of America
APRIL 30, 2021
And from that period I started to learn to be involved in the arts all my life. When I was young there was an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá, and it was one of my first exposures to geometric abstraction and optical art. You don’t need to be rich to start to collect. It’s important. Start today.
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“You Need Energy and Conviction” - Gallery Chat with San Francisco’s Rena Bransten
Art Dealers Association of America
JUNE 21, 2018
I grew up in New York City and went to Dalton—a school that was very art-oriented. My father built an extraordinary manuscript collection but, for me, that didn’t really develop into an interest in contemporary or modern art. Were they artists you were collecting? ©The artist. Courtesy Rena Bransten Gallery.
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5 Hot Lots Coming to Auction in October
WorthPoint
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Their functional simplicity gave carvers unlimited freedom to use their imaginations when making these pieces, and as such, the styles, subjects, and materials used differ widely, making them highly collectible. In 1971, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of Hunt’s work, the first for an African-American sculptor.
Wassily Kandinsky: The Pioneer of Abstract Art and Color Theory
Invaluable
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Well highlight key landmarks in his career while also showcasing essential paintings that helped secure his status as one of the most influential painters of modern art. Wassily Kandinskys Formative Years Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and attended school not for art but rather for economics and law. Ursula (1908).
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Going Ape
Reagan Upshaw Fine Art
MARCH 25, 2024
The previous summer, the Museum of Modern Art in New York had held an exhibition entitled, “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture” to inaugurate the museum’s newly renovated building. To emphasize the collective nature of the movement, the identities of individual members were kept secret.
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4 Things To Look For To See Your Georgia O’keeffe Is An Original
Sarasota Antique Buyers
APRIL 19, 2024
paid $5 million for 28 Georgia O’Keeffe water color paintings and had them displayed at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Nearly six years later – after loaning the collection out to countless other museums – it was found that the paintings were actually fakes. In 1993, Kansas City banker Crosby Kemper Jr.
Henning Koppel: A Jensen Designer That Made a Modern Splash
WorthPoint
OCTOBER 14, 2024
These are the sculptural beauties I would relish adding to my collection of wearable modern art. In addition to three books on topics relating to antiques and collectibles, she frequently shares her expertise through online writing and articles for print-based publications.
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A Few Great Book Finds for Your Holiday!
Art Advisor's Blog
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Shapiro and her three novels inspired by real occurrences in art history. Shapiro uses artwork, dealers, the mysteries and powers of the art itself and those who make, collect, curate, sell and steal the works in her thrilling novels. What a find! The books are listed here in order of publication, oldest to newest.
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The Essential Guide to Minimalist Art: 10 Artists Who Mastered the Art of Simplicity
Invaluable
APRIL 14, 2024
Minimalism’s lasting legacy is evident across art, architecture, and design, as well as in some of the country’s most renowned museums, allowing people to explore the relationship between form, color, and space, up close and in-person. Can’t make it in person? Then why not step inside the Guggenheim from the comfort of your home.
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American Folk Art: Celebrating the Creativity and Craftsmanship of Everyday Artisans
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APRIL 24, 2024
At the same time, though, his sculptures took on an almost historicizing totemic quality, a combination of past and present that perhaps contributed to Edmonson’s solo showcase in 1937 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the first retrospective held at the lauded museum to honor an African-American artist.
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American Folk Art: Celebrating the Creativity and Craftsmanship of Everyday Artisans
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APRIL 24, 2024
At the same time, though, his sculptures took on an almost historicizing totemic quality, a combination of past and present that perhaps contributed to Edmonson’s solo showcase in 1937 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the first retrospective held at the lauded museum to honor an African-American artist.
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Assemblage and Collage: From Found Objects to Fine Art
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JULY 1, 2024
Themes and Concepts Together, Assemblage and Collage shared common themes, but it’s the questioning of what constitutes art that unites Assemblage and Collage in their subversion of traditional art.
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A Forgotten Woman Artist: Lilian de Glehn Thibaut
Mark Hill
MAY 3, 2023
Despite being cheap, cold, draughty, damp and largely rat-infested, they became a crucible of modern art and central to the hugely influential School of Paris movement. Gauguin, Modigliani, Brancusi, Soutine, the list goes on. They’re in the Montparnasse district of Paris and terminated with a large, grander hôtel villa (No.14)
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The Unflinching Realism of New Objectivity
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MAY 14, 2024
As a collective they “wanted to see things quite naked, clearly, almost without art,” according to Otto Dix , who along with Max Beckmann and George Grosz employed caricature, satire, Neoclassicism, and Surrealism to portray politicians, bohemians, and society to reflect the society they inhabited with unflinching honesty.
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Collection Brief // March 2025
Art Peritus
MARCH 4, 2025
Van Gogh courtesy of Museum of Modern Art Not to be Missed The Museum of Modern art is holding a special exhibition on Lillie Plummer Bliss, co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art. Share Collection Brief with friends or colleagues that you feel may benefit from it. MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS Lillie P.
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