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Julian Roup

2020

PRESS RELEASE

8th June 2020 for immediate release

‘THE VULTURE KING’ BY NIKKI TURNER

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First time author Nikki Turner says: My reasons for writing the book were extremely personal. “My eldest daughter has ADHD and my youngest is hearing impaired. I want my girls to read books in which differently-abled characters deal with and overcome the same challenges they face daily. I believe we sorely need more diversity in fantasy.”

This stunning new fantasy novel was written in the ‘old world’ but has emerged into the horror of our new world beset by Coronavirus, a carrion-land of our own. As such, it bears a potent message for our time and the future. Man, disabled by his own greed and blindness, needs to partner once more with nature and wild animals to find salvation.

It is already winning five star literary reviews from respected writers and playwrights, Dawn Hosmer, American Author of Bits & Pieces, The End Of Echoes, Something In Between and Mosaic – psychological thrillers and a book of short stories; and from Karen Jeynes, head writer for Both Worlds Productions, overseeing ZANews: Puppet Nation(winner of 22 SAFTAs, two WGSA awards for Best TV Comedy, and two time International Emmy Nominee for Best TV Comedy).

Author Nikki Turner adds: “I think in our world of climate change denialism and frightening politics, it is easy for children to believe that they can’t make a difference. Children like Greta Thunberg are changing this thinking. The characters in my books, with the physical challenges they face, are unlikely heroes but they don’t let fear hold them back. By standing up, the smallest of us can make all the difference in the world.”

The young adult novel ‘The Vulture King’ takes readers into a terrifying world, the Carrionlands, where magic users are born blind or deaf  and bond with bird familiars to provide sight and hearing. Orphan Aram has survived alone for five years; his only friend, the thieving magpie Ryu, acts as his eyes. When he rescues a voiceless girl, Bina, from being sacrificed to the Vulture King, he is taken in by an underground resistance group. They reveal that Aram’s mother is alive, but the King is using her and other slave magicians to fuel his unnaturally long life.

Blindsided by hope, Aram promises to do anything to save her. The Vulture King rules a world where magic disables then kills its users. But the children overcome and succeed thanks to their partnership with animals from the natural world.

The child characters are courageous and resourceful in a terrifying world that is beautifully realised by this writer from South Africa. Turner has created an absorbing magical universe that is utterly compelling. Early readers say that the book is unputdownable.

Nikki Turner: Biog

Nikki graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with an Honours Degree in Drama and English. She later received a distinction in the Community Journalism course she studied through Unisa.

 

Her career as a professional actress began with two cabarets which she wrote and performed. Her first show 3D on Broadway went on to feature on MNet’s TV series, It’s a Funny Country! Her second show, It’s a Koch Up!, was featured on Nataniel’s talk show on Kyknet.

 

Nikki worked for twelve years with children’s theatre company, The Lilliput Players, as an actress, singer and choreographer. She had a two year stint as a script editor and presenter trainer on the eTV children’s show Craz-e. She currently runs CCH Productions, which tours musical theatre shows around the country. Here she wears the cap of director, writer, stylist, producer and choreographer.

She currently lives in Cape Town with her husband Jon, under the benevolent dictatorship of their daughters Sophia and Abigail. She spends what little free time she has writing books filled with magic and adventure. Her hobbies are reading, dancing and adopting as many dogs as she can sneak into the house. She also shoots TV commercials in which she is often cast as an American, despite, she says, being terribly bad at an American accent.

 

 

 

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         First five star reviews

“Poignant and powerfiul young adult fantasy, good for readers of all ages,” says Dawn Hosmer, American Author of Bits & Pieces, The End Of Echoes, Something In Between and Mosaic – psychological thrillers and a book of short stories. The Vulture King is an enjoyable and powerful young adult fantasy novel. It was especially poignant to read during these times of unrest in the United States – it made the characters and the plot even more relatable. The characters were well fleshed-out and believeable. I was invested in Aram and his journey. And Bina was an absolutely delightful addition to the story. It was fast-paced and the plot kept me engrossed until the very end. Even though it is a fantasy novel, there were so many themes that are relevant today like how power can corrupt, people who are different facing judgment and discrimination, how sometimes winning the fight for justice is more important than individual lives.This book made me laugh out loud several times and made me shed a few tears. I look forward to reading more by Nikki Turner.”

“A gem for literary kids,” says Karen Jeynes is the head writer for Both Worlds Productions, overseeing ZANews: Puppet Nation(winner of 22 SAFTAs, two WGSA awards for Best TV Comedy, and two time International Emmy Nominee for Best TV Comedy). She was the President of the International Centre for Women Playwrights for 6 years.

“The Vulture King is a book which feels both classic and fresh. It’s a story with timeless storylines and themes – magic, brave rescues, epic quests – but one that young readers will doubtless find gripping and engaging as it also handles themes of abandonment, loneliness, and rebellion. The language is beautiful………….”

 

 

 

 

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‘Life in a Time of Plague’ a Daily Diary of Lockdown in Britain by author Julian Roup is Serialised by BizNews in Both Print & Podcast Formats

UNITED KINGDOM / AGILITYPR.NEWS / 26th May, 2020

 

Julian Roup, author of ‘Boerejood’ and ‘A Fisherman in the Saddle’ has a new book out this week, ‘Life in a Time of Plague.’ It is a daily diary of Covid-19 under lockdown at his secret valley home in Sussex, England, which he describes as a tanker moored in the English countryside. It is being issued in a serialised format by BizNews in print and podcast formats with the author himself reading his work.

Link: BizNews – iono.fm.webloc

 

The diaries explore his life and feelings about the pandemic and range far and wide to the Cape in South Africa and California where his sister and brother live with their families. His age and medical issues colour this diary with a dark humour as his age group is most at risk and the UKs NHS ride shotgun on him. He is determined to make his 70th birthday at least on May 18, despite the 30,000 deaths in Britain to date.

Alec Hogg, Editor of publisher BizNews says:

 

“We are delighted to be able to publish Julian Roup’s new book. His writing has been described by the FT as: “Brilliant, terrific, really very, very good. Engaged, intelligent, personal, fast moving and funny.” And this new book underlines that gift.”

 

Hogg adds: “We’ve launched the work as a serialised book today with UK-based South African Julian Roup reading each chapter of his in-gestation novel called Life in the Time of Plague. This is Roup’s fourth book, one which moves at a leisurely pace with a deadly undertone – the author is almost 70 and lives in a country where his age group dominates 28,500 mortalities to Covid-19 thus far.

 

Prodigious nineteenth century novelist Charles Dickens is known for many things, but what few know, is the one time Parliamentary reporter was also the creator of the concept popularised by television soap operas. Dickens disrupted his industry by publishing his novels as monthly serials, not complete works, starting in 1836 with The Pickwick Papers, published in 19 double chapter booklets over 20 months. More than a dozen more followed.

 

Please have a listen (or a read if you prefer). We’ll be publishing a chapter a day for the next couple of months. We are hoping you make the project as popular as it deserves to be. If so, it could resuscitate Dickens’ long forgotten innovation. Which is sure to earn the gratitude of deadline-challenged writers everywhere.”

 

Roup comments: “When I studied Journalism at Rhodes University from 1977 to 1980 I learned that journalism is the first draft of history. So with this terrible threat hanging over us I felt that I would like to add my voice to what will become the human story of death and survival of this pandemic that has brought the world to a screeching halt.

 

What has surprised me most is that amid the death, heartache and economic carnage, there is also a silver lining, a chance to simply stop and stare, and rethink our lives. I do hope that I have captured something of the essence of this time in Life in a Time of Plague.”

CONTACTS

Bendigo Communications

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Phone: +44 (0)7970563958

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LINKS

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SALON DU DESSIN

PRESS RELEASE

5th FEBRUARY 2020 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

THEME OF ‘ODE TO NATURE – IN GARDENS & THE WILD’ ATTRACTING BRITISH GARDENERS & ART LOVERS TO 29TH SALON DU DESSIN – THE WORLD’S PREMIER ART DRAWING FAIR IN PARIS

29th Edition

Palais Brongniart, Paris March 25–30, 2020

Press opening: Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 2 p.m.

Greener than ever, the Salon du dessin will devote this year’s International Symposium to the art of gardens and botany. The 2020 fair guest, the Musées de Marseille, will present a selection of their best works based on nature and several galleries will present drawings related to the theme. The 29th Salon du dessin is expecting a larger than usual number of British visitors because of this years theme of nature and gardens.

On display at the fair will be many artists who enjoyed a love affair with gardens and nature in their work. On display will be the art of gardening and the garden as art. For art lovers  and for those whose real passion is gardening, this 29th Salon du dessin is a must.

Gustave Doré, a seasoned hiker, painted the Alps, the hills of Scotland, the Brittany coastline and other natural areas. The artist made marvelous use of watercolors in his landscapes, as can be seen in this picture of the setting sun in the mountains, to be presented at the fair by Galerie Terrades.

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Gustave Doré (1832-1883) Setting Sun in the High Mountains, c. 1870.

Watercolor and gouache. 400 x 270 mm (15.7 x 10.6 in). © Galerie Terrades

Ode to nature: atmosphere

The New York gallery W.M. Brady and Co. will present a beautiful pencil drawing by Georges Seurat, Rain, which belonged to the collection of the American John Quinn (1870-1924). Seurat, who loved to draw, takes this black-and-white study to the limit, using a soft Conté crayon on coarse-grained Ingres paper to represent the gradations of light and shade.

Gérard de Palézieux (1919-2012) was a little-known Swiss artist whose work was revealed to the public through a wonderful exhibition at the Fondation Custodia in Paris in 2019. An outstanding illustrator, Palézieux excelled at still lifes and was also a great landscape artist. The Swiss gallery Ditesheim & Maffei will feature a group of delicate works by the artist, a follower of Corot.

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Georges Seurat (1859-181) Rain. Conté crayon on Ingres paper. 238 x 302 mm (9.4 x 11.9 in).

© W.M. Brady & Co, New York

Gérard de Palézieux (1919-2012) Pramont, 1994. Lithographic pencil on paper. 300 x 485 mm (11.8 x 19.1 in). Signed on left: “P.” Ditesheim & Maffei Fine Art © Christophe Brandt, Neufchâtel

 

The virgin forest flourishes in Sam Szafran’s work. A good example is this watercolor, to be shown by Galerie Berès. Szafran became enamored of nature in the 1970s, when he discovered a plant genus that was new to him, the philodendron, in the Paris studio of a friend, the painter Zao Wou-Ki. “That was when my obsession with plants found the best way to express itself”, he said.

 

In 1901, Henri le Sidaner moved to Gerberoy, in the Oise department of France, where he created three monochrome gardens: an all-white garden, a rose garden (site of his summer studio) and a yellow and blue garden. In this beautiful work on paper presented by Talabardon & Gautier, the painter evocatively depicts the softness and clarity of the moonlight on the plants.

 

The work of Walter Leistikow, an avant-garde Berlin artist active at the end of the 19th century, can be found in the museums of Berlin, Munich and Leipzig. His contacts with Edvard Munch, his travels in northern countries and a stay in Paris in 1893 influenced the naturalist, symbolic lyricism seen in this watercolor and gouache on paper presented by Martin Moeller & Cie.

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Sam Szafran (1934-2019) Untitled. Watercolor on paper. Signed lower right. 740 x 477 mm (29.1 x 18.8 in) ©Galerie Berès

 

Henri Le Sidaner (1869-1939) Moonlit White Garden, Gerberoy, 1910. Black pencil and watercolor. 321 x 413 mm (12.6 x 16.3 in). Signed lower right. ©Talabardon & Gautier

 

Walter Leistikow (1865 – 1908) In the Forest, c. 1890. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed. 312 x 478 mm (12.3 x 18.8 in) ©Martin Moeller & Cie

The London gallery Stephen Ongpin Fine Art will present two watercolors and gouaches on paper by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, a famous cartographer and illustrator who accompanied Jean Ribault’s second expedition to the New World in 1562. He is known for his artistic depiction of the landscape and flora and fauna, and for his descriptions of the inhabitants.

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Jacques le Moyne de Morgues (1533-1588) An Artichoke and a Pink Clove

Watercolor and gouache on paper. ©Stephen Ongpin Fine Art

 

From his youth in the Jura until his death on the shores of the Mediterranean, Le Corbusier was always interacting with nature: he collected stones, bones and shells, experimented with a wealth of materials and sought to bring green spaces to the city. He was also fascinated by women’s bodies, as seen in a work presented by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau.

 

A watercolor and gouache by Hans Reichel to be shown by Martin Moeller & Cie, demonstrates the artist’s kinship with Klee: witness the bird, the blade of grass and the star. Reichel and Klee worked together in Munich during the war, then at the Bauhaus in Weimar in the 1920s, an adventure they experienced together, both of them somewhat on the sidelines. Reichel moved to Paris in 1928 and died there 30 years later.

 

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Hans Reichel (1892-1958) Dream of the Little Bird, Paris 1929. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Initialed and dated. 193 x 148 mm (7.6 x 5.8 in). ©Martin Moeller & Cie

Charles Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier (1887- 1955) Composition with Two Women, 1937. Ink and gouache on paper. 205 x 305 mm (8.1 x 12 in). Signed and dated 1937 lower right. ©Brame & Lorenceau

 

 

 

 

 

Three centuries of drawings from the Musées de Marseille – Nature in all its states

The presence of the Salon du dessin’s guest this year, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, offers an opportunity to show a selection of drawings from its graphic arts department as well as from two other Marseille museums with Old Master drawing collections, the Musée Grobet-Labadié and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode. In line with the theme of this year’s fair, the art of gardens and botany, works depicting nature in one form or another were selected from the three museums’ collections. Forty drawings dating from the 15th to the 19th century – including works by Pierre Puget, Jean-Baptiste Huet, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Jean-Antoine Constantin and Camille Corot – will offer a sampling of the treasures to be found in Marseille’s museums.

 

Jean Honoré Fragonard The Tivoli Waterfalls. Red chalk. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode. © City of Marseille, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/image: Musées de la Ville de Marseille

 

              

 

 

Jean-Antoine Constantin Study of Trees. Pen and gray ink on paper. Musée des Beaux-arts de Marseille

Joseph Colla Study of Trees. Charcoal on paper. Musée des Beaux-arts de Marseille

© City of Marseille, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/image: Musées de la Ville de Marseille

 

 

Link to Full English Press Kit

https://www.art-et-communication.fr/_media/_pdf/2020/Press_Kit_Salon_du_dessin_2020_ENGLISH.pdf

 

 

Salon du Dessin: Open noon-8 p.m., until 10 p.m. on Thursday, March 26

Admission: €15 – Free catalogue

Press Contacts:

Julian Roup on info@bendigopr.co.uk or call

0044 07970563958

Sylvie Robaglia / Samantha Bergognon / Charlotte Corre

Agence Art & Communication

29, rue de Ponthieu 75008 PARIS

www.art-et-communication.fr

 

Sylvie Robaglia/sylvie@art-et-communication.fr /+33 (0)6 72 59 57 34

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NOTES FOR EDITORS:

Salon du dessin

Founded in 1991 by nine art dealers, the Salon du dessin has raised the status of drawing to such a level that the number of aficionados has greatly expanded and contemporary artists now see drawing as an end in itself.

 

The Salon du dessin, recognized as a major international art fair, has nevertheless managed to retain the intimate atmosphere that visitors appreciate so much. Every year, a fixed number of 39 exhibitors takes part. That does not allow for much turnover, but this year, four new galleries – Ary Jan, Boulakia, Taménaga, and Romano Fine Arts – will participate in the fair for the first time, while Haboldt & Co. returns after several years of absence.

 

The Museums of Marseille will be responsible for the museum exhibition this year, which will be accompanied by the publication of a catalogue of 18th-century drawings. In keeping with the theme of this year’s fair, the art of gardens and botany, works referring to all aspects of nature were chosen from the collections of the various museums of Marseille.

 

Other highlights include the presentation of the 13th Daniel and Florence Guerlain Foundation for Contemporary Art Drawing Prize and the Salon du dessin’s international symposium, titled “The Art of Gardens on Paper: Designing, Projecting, Representing.”

 

During Drawing Week, a popular off-site event organized by the Salon du dessin for the past 21 years, visits will be arranged to graphic art collections in over 23 museums and institutions, including the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay and the Centre Pompidou. This year, several museums will participate for the first time: the Musée de l’Armée, the Musée Roybet Fould, the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner and the Fondation Jean et Simone Lurçat.

 

The Salon du dessin will revamp its decor this year while retaining its structure, selectivity and the intimate ambiance that is so pleasing to visitors.

PIASA X ASPIRE AUCTIONS

3RD FEBRUARY 2020

 

EROTIC PAINTING BY MARLENE DUMAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE COMES TO AUCTION – TOP WOMAN ARTIST WITH WORKS SELLING FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

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IN 1995 DUMAS REPRESENTED HOLLAND IN THE VENICE BIENNALE, AND IN 1996 THE TATE GALLERY EXHIBITED A SELECTION OF HER WORKS ON PAPER.

IN 2005, DUMAS HELD THE DISTINCTION OF ACHIEVING THE HIGHEST PRICE EVER AT AUCTION FOR A WOMAN ARTIST WHEN HER PAINTING OF 1987, ENTITLED THE TEACHER (SUB A), SOLD AT CHRISTIE’S LONDON IN 2005 FOR £1.8 MILLION ($3.3 MILLION) . HER CURRENT AUCTION HIGH WAS SET WHEN THE VISITOR (1995) SOLD IN 2008 FOR £3,177,250 (OVER $6.3 MILLION)

 

A superb, early erotic painting by internationally acclaimed Marlene Dumas, never before seen on the market adorns the catalogue cover of the first joint auction by the French and South African houses Piasa and Aspire on February 14 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Titled Oktober 1973, it is only the third Dumas painting ever offered at auction in South Africa. Estimated at £160,000 – £260,000 (R3–5million), the work is set to attract significant interest.

This erotic painting by world renowned artist Marlene Dumas is sure to set the art market alight when it comes to auction in Cape Town on 14 February 2020, in a landmark auction of modern and contemporary African art hosted by Aspire Art Auctions and the Paris-based Piasa.

 

Dumas, widely regarded as one of the most influential painters working today, grew up on a wine farm in the Cape, enjoying local schooling and university education, before relocating to Amsterdam in 1976.

 

Oktober 1973 was painted in Dumas’ second year at Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art during a time of local and global student uprisings seeking political and sexual liberation. This remarkable work, a refreshingly candid painting of a naked woman in the throes of erotic pleasure, fearlessly addresses many of the social issues of its time.

 

The large expanse of the pink torso with its green genitalia, pays homage to the powerful paintings of Pop artists like Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Its painterly exuberance echoes that of the Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning who were exploring more gestural approaches.

 

However, it’s subject—erotic passion—was to become an abiding interest for the artist throughout her career. In many ways, this early painting prefigures later works such as those in her 2018 exhibition Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals at David Zwirner in New York.

 

Dumas has produced paintingscollagesdrawingsprints and installations. She now works mainly with oil on canvas and ink on paper. The sources she uses for her imagery are diverse and include newspaper and magazine cuttings, personal memorabilia, Flemish paintings, and polaroid photographs.

The majority of her works may be categorised as ‘portraits‘, but they are not portraits in the traditional sense. Rather than representing an actual person, they represent an emotion or a state of mind. Themes central to Dumas’ work include race and sexuality, guilt and innocence, violence and tenderness.

French flair and passion from Piasa combined with South African energy and local knowledge from Aspire promises to deliver an auction sale of Modern & Contemporary African Art to remember on February 14th at 3pm in Cape Town.

 

This collaboration is unprecedented and represents the first time an African and European auction house have partnered to present a sale of African art, in Africa, for a global audience.

The landmark auction: Modern and Contemporary African Art takes place on Friday, 14 February at OroAfrica House in Cape Town. The curated collection comprises 198 lots, featuring 139 artists representing 27 countries from Africa and the diaspora. While presenting a broader pan-African offering, it spotlights key collecting segments from 20th Century modernism to contemporary production and photography.

Christophe Person, of French auction house Piasa, says: “The South African market is one of the most dynamic on the continent. But until now collectors have been mostly focussed on local artists and less on art from other African countries. What is special about this new partnership between Aspire and Piasa is that it offers a pan-African vision of contemporary creation.” Ruarc Peffers of Aspire, adds: ”We are delighted to be working with Piasa who have made significant inroads into the Contemporary African Art Market in Europe. Creating both depth and breadth geographically is one of the real excitements of this joint initiative.”

Ever-increasing global interest in art from Africa is changing the art market. To meet the growing demand, Aspire has partnered with Paris-based house Piasa, to introduce an Africa-focused auction that presents some of the best examples of modern and contemporary art produced on this continent.

PRESS ENQUIRIES:

Julian Roup at info@bendigopr.co.uk

Tel 07970563958 or Marelize van Zyl | +27 83 283 7427 | marelize@aspireart.net

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PUBLIC OPENING | VERNISSAGE

Tuesday, 11 February at 6 – 8:30 pm

PREVIEW DAYS

Wednesday 12 February
12 to 5 pm

Thursday 13 February
10 am to 5 pm

Friday 14 February
10 am to 3 pm

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ASPIRE X PIASA AUCTION
28th January 2020 – For immediate release
FIRST FRENCH-SOUTH AFRICAN AUCTION
PARTNERSHIP PROMISES NEW WORLD
RECORDS ON CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART
THIS VALENTINE’S DAY, FEBRUARY 14TH
PAN AFRICAN VISION SPANNING 10,000 MILES
FROM PARIS TO CAPE TOWN SET TO SHAKE UP

AFRICA’S ART MARKET

Pierneef’s Baobabs with Soutpansberg in the distance, 1920
Estimate: £315,000 – £470,000 (R6–9million)

French flair and passion from Piasa combined with South African
energy and local knowledge from Aspire promises to deliver an auction
sale of Modern & Contemporary African Art to remember on February
14 th at 3pm in Cape Town.

This collaboration is unprecedented and represents the first time an
African and European auction house have partnered to present a sale
of African art, in Africa, for a global audience.
The landmark auction: Modern and Contemporary African Art
takes place on Friday, 14 February at OroAfrica House in Cape Town.
The curated collection comprises 198 lots, featuring 139 artists
representing 27 countries from Africa and the diaspora. While
presenting a broader pan-African offering, it spotlights key collecting
segments from 20 th Century modernism to contemporary production
and photography.
Christophe Person, of French auction house Piasa, says: “The South
African market is one of the most dynamic on the continent. But until
now collectors have been mostly focussed on local artists and less on
art from other African countries. What is special about this new
partnership between Aspire and Piasa is that it offers a pan-African
vision of contemporary creation.” Ruarc Peffers of Aspire, adds:
”We are delighted to be working with Piasa who have made significant
inroads into the Contemporary African Art Market in Europe. Creating
both depth and breadth geographically is one of the real excitements
of this joint initiative.”
Ever-increasing global interest in art from Africa is changing the art
market. To meet the growing demand, Aspire has partnered with
Paris-based house Piasa, to introduce an Africa-focused auction that
presents some of the best examples of modern and contemporary art
produced on this continent.
Headlining the collection, and the top lot by value, is J.H.
Pierneef’s Baobabs with Soutpansberg in the distance, 1920
(R6–9million). Pierneef’s baobab paintings are extremely rare.
Painted a century ago and never before seen on the market, this large,
splendid painting, with impeccable provenance, will enhance any
serious art collection.
Adorning the catalogue cover is a superb, early painting by
internationally acclaimed Marlene Dumas, never before seen on
the market. Oktober 1973 is only the third Dumas painting ever
offered at auction in South Africa. Estimated at £160,000 – £260,000
(R3–5million), the work is set to attract significant interest.

Marlene Dumas – Oktober 1973

An impressive variety of drawings and sculpture by William
Kentridge leads the contemporary selection. Topped in value,
Kentridge’s mixed media work Whilst Reaching Down (Slowly), 2013,
£160,000 – £260,000 (R3–5million) is a series of drawings on
dictionary paper which highlights the artist’s command of drawing, text
and animation.

William Kentridge Whilst Reaching Down (Slowly), 2013, £160,000 –
£260,000 (R3–5million).
The auction introduces some of the most in-demand African artists on
the market. A remarkable painting by Chéri Samba (Congo) titled
Retour au Bercail, 1995, (R225,000 – 300,000), is the first work to be
offered at auction in South Africa by this seminal painter.

Chéri Samba – Retour au Bercail, 1995, (R225,000 – 300,000)

Other prominent artists debuting locally on auction include Aboudia
Abdoulaye Diarrassouba (Ivory Coast), with two expressive mixed
media works from the mid-1990s; Marc Padeu (Cameroon) with a
large and iconic, figurative painting; Salah Elmur (Sudan) with an
enchanting work The Green Forest, 2016 (R195,000 – 255,000) and
Gareth Nyandoro (Zimbabwe) with a 2016 paper-based work titled
Tauya Nadzo Tsoka Dzenyu (Brand New Second Hand Nikes),
estimated at R180,000 – 240,000.

Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba (Ivory Coast)

Collectors of contemporary art are particularly well provided for. Works
by Kudzanai Chiurai (Zimbabwe), Zemba Luzamba (Congo) and Kay
Hassan, alongside Mustafa Maluka’s large scale We forgot how life’s
supposed to be, 2007 (R250,000–350,000); Moshekwa Langa’s
Untitled abstract in blue ink, 2010 (R300,000–400,000) and a striking
city-scape Full Moon, 2017 (R100,000–150,000) by the late, much
celebrated David Koloane, amongst others, add to the strength of the
overall offering.
A strong lead of women artists showcases an exceptional still life
painting by Irma Stern from 1954. African and Chinese ceramics with
oranges and open book reflects her sophistication, love of travel,
delight in the discovery of diverse cultures and their artefacts, and her
mastery of oil painting. Helen Sebidi’s colourful Figures and birds,
1991 (R80,000–120,000) will appeal to the discerning collector.

Contemporary highlights include work by Lisa Brice, Deborah Poynton
and Frances Goodman, as well as Georgina Gratrix’s compelling
portrait Girl with Purple Hair, 2013 (R250,000–350,000) and Mary
Sibande’s powerful photograph, A Terrible Beauty is Born (from the
Long Live the Dead Queen series), 2013 (R300,000–400,000).
Aspire has made meaningful advances in developing the market for
photography at auction, and the exciting range of photographic works
and lens-based media will excite discerning collectors. Included are
works by some of the best-known, established and emerging, names
in film and photography from Africa, like Guy Tillim, Cyrus Kabiru, the
brothers Hasan & Husain Essop, Nyaba Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso),
Mario Macilau (Mozambique) and Mohau Modisakeng.
Rarely exhibited in South Africa and making its inaugural local auction
appearance, is an early 1980s photograph Every Mother’s Son /
Children of Suffering (R70,000–90,000) by the late Nigerian/British
photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode. Legendary photographer David
Goldblatt is represented with seminal images from his famous
photobooks Some Afrikaners Photographed and TJ/Johannesburg
Photographs, including the highly sought-after work; A railway shunter
who dreamed of a garden without concrete or bricks, watered by this
dam, Koksoord, Randfontein. 1962 (R250,000– 400,000). Aspire
currently holds the world auction record for Goldblatt’s work and
continues to dominate this market globally.
Three striking examples from Benin photographer Leonce Raphael
Agbodjélou draw upon his hallmark portrait vernacular while José
Chambel (São Tomé and Príncipe) documents the preservation of
cultural heritage in his Tchiloli series of studio-like photographs.
Two remarkable sets of pen and ink drawings; Oja Suite, 1962 and
Nok Suite, 1958/59 by Uche Okeke, a seminal figure in modern
Nigerian art and academia, together with a powerful, early drawing by
Dumile Feni Mother and Child, 1966 (R200,000–300,000) introduces
the outstanding selection of rare and sought-after 20th century
modernist works by artists from the continent – one of the key

strategic focus areas pioneered by Aspire.
Impressive works from established, canonical artists like John
Koenakeefe Mohl, Ablade Glover (Ghana), Ernesto Shikhani
(Mozambique), Alexis Preller, Cecil Skotnes and Walter Battiss will
draw attention.
Namaqualand landscapes are the most sought-after subject by early
Cape impressionist, Hugo Naudé. The beautifully painted Namaqualand
flowers and quiver tree (R750,000–1million), is to date one of the best
– and largest – oil on canvas paintings by this artist ever to come to
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Bizarre, Exciting, and Fascinating Discovery.a first for Africa –
a plant being pollinated by a lizard

 

Dr Sandy Steenhuisen and the ‘hidden flower’ plant

NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY BY TEAM FROM THE UNIVERSITIES OF THE FREE STATE & KWAZULU-NATAL: DRAKENSBERG CRAG LIZARD POLLINATES ‘HIDDEN FLOWER’ – A FIRST FOR AFRICA
The worlds of science and botany have been electrified by the discovery that flowers high up in the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site in South Africa, are being pollinated by the Drakensberg Crag Lizard. As the Romans were fond of saying: “Always something new out of Africa.”

This first for continental Africa – a plant being pollinated by a lizard – is a discovery by a research group including Dr Sandy-Lynn Steenhuisen, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences and affiliate of the Afromontane Research Unit (ARU) at the Qwaqwa Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS), in collaboration with Dr Timo van der Niet, Prof Steven Johnson, and project leader Ruth Cozien, all from the Pollination Ecology Research Laboratory and Centre for Functional Biodiversity at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

This research finding on lizard pollination which reads like a fairy tale with its mountain islands, hidden flowers, nectar and little dragons, shows that there are still many unknown and surprising interactions that need to be discovered and conserved to ensure a healthy ecological system.

A Drakensberg Crag Lizard under the ‘Hidden Flower’ plant
‘Hidden Flower’, true to its name, is a plant species with flowers hidden at ground level, underneath the leaves of the plant. Like the leaves, the flowers are also green. With the flowers filled with nectar (up to 2 ml per plant) and strongly scented, one concludes that, just as with other flowers, these flowers must be visited by a pollinator. The question asked by academics was, is it a bee, a bird, perhaps a mouse or non-flying mammal?

According to Dr Steenhuisen, who was brought into the project because of her experience with rodents pollinating proteas, many plants are adapted to attract and be pollinated by a specific animal. They attract their pollinators using particular scents and colours and reward them for their service with, for example, nectar, oil, fragrance, and sometimes even shelter.

The ‘Hidden Flower’ initially had the group of researchers thinking that it was being pollinated by a non-flying mammal. “Everything about the plant made it look like it should be mammal-pollinated,” Dr Steenhuisen said.

 

The researchers investigated all options, using several techniques to assess the contribution of different possible animals to set seed. To further assist them in their quest to find the true pollinator, the team put up motion cameras that recorded activity in the area of the ‘Hidden Flower’.

Studying the video material after a week of fieldwork in the mountains, the researchers were surprised to find the shy lizards dipping their snouts in the ‘Hidden Flower’ and lapping up the nectar.

Dr Steenhuisen described this discovery as completely bizarre, exciting, and fascinating.

To make 100% sure that lizards are pollinating the ‘Hidden Flower’, these animals were excluded from the plants. Results published in a paper in Ecology showed that when the lizards were experimentally excluded from the plants, the number of seeds produced dropped dramatically by almost 95%. This finding helped to further prove their discovery.

Strong scent and bright orange colour attract

The team researched the new phenomenon and found that although flower visitation by lizards is not unknown, it occurs almost exclusively on oceanic islands. Ruth Cozien says one should keep in mind that mountains are like sky islands and might therefore have similarities with oceanic islands in terms of their ecology.

The strong scent and the touch of orange at the base of the inside of the flowers is believed to play an important role in attracting lizards. The little lizard may recognise the spots of orange inside the flowers which resemble the orange colour of a male lizard in mating season, attracting females. Lured by the strong scent and the orange spots, the reptiles stick their snouts into the flower in search of nectar, pollinating the ‘Hidden Flower’; thus, making sure that this flower will continue to grow on the slopes of Sentinel Peak in the Maloti Drakensberg range.

The research findings of this study were published in April 2019.

 

Professor Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State
Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State, Professor Francis Petersen, comments: “At the UFS we are always delighted when our academics make an impact that broadens scientific knowledge. This latest discovery by two African Universities highlights Africa’s importance on the issues of botanic and zoological diversity, which is relevant to the huge and growing concern about the environment and the loss of plant and animal species.”
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Notes for Editors:

The University of the Free State:

115 years old (1904-2019)
7 faculties
114 departments
40, 491 total students
31, 135 Undergraduate students
7, 486 Postgraduate students
1, 870 International students
2, 521 permanent staff members
157 renovated buildings (2012-2017)
12 new buildings (2012-2017)
1 200 works of art
1, 584 collaborating institutions
2, 751 co-authored publications from 2013-2018
240 postgraduate research degrees on average conferred per year
100.45% research output increase since 2010

 

 

 

 

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Dr Sandy-Lynn Steenhuisen and Ruth Cozien at a spot high up in the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site, close to Sentinel Peak, photographing a Drakensberg crag lizard underneath the leaves of the ‘Hidden Flower’.

Photo: Leonie Bolleurs

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A first for continental Africa – a plant exclusively pollinated by lizards – is a discovery by a research group including Dr Sandy-Lynn Steenhuisen, Dr Timotheus van der Niet, and Prof Steve Johnson, led by PhD student Ruth Cozien. The ‘Hidden Flower’, with its strong scent, loads of nectar (up to 0,2 ml per flower), and low growing flowers, initially had the group of researchers thinking that it is being pollinated by non-flying mammals. Great was their surprise when studying the video material after a week of fieldwork in the mountains, finding shy lizards dipping their snouts in the ‘Hidden Flower’ to drink the nectar. Dr Steenhuisen described this discovery as completely bizarre, exciting, and fascinating.

Links

Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site https://www.portfoliocollection.com/visit/maloti-drakensberg-world-heritage-site
Department of Plant Sciences https://www.ufs.ac.za/natagri/departments-and-divisions/plant-sciences-home
Afromontane Research Unit (ARU) https://www.ufs.ac.za/research/research-at-the-ufs-home/aru—afromontane-research-unit/general
Ruth Cozien https://pollinationresearch.wordpress.com/ruth-cozien/
Pollination Ecology Research Laboratory https://pollinationresearch.wordpress.com/
University of KwaZulu-Natal https://www.ukzn.ac.za/
Dr Sandy-Lynn Steenhuisen https://www.ufs.ac.za/natagri/departments-and-divisions/plant-sciences-home/general/staff?pid=DoEBF6TBkkE%3D

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Video caption:
The team of researchers put up motion cameras to record activity in the area of the ‘Hidden Flower’. On camera, they caught the Drakensberg Crag Lizard visiting the flowers of the ‘Hidden Flower’.

Video clip: Supplied

 

Video caption (provided via WeTransfer):

Dr Sandy-Lynn Steenhuisen, Senior Lecturer in the UFS Department of Plant Sciences and affiliate of the Afromontane Research Unit (ARU) at the Qwaqwa Campus, relating their bizarre, exciting, and fascinating discovery: the Drakensberg Crag Lizard pollinating the Hidden Flower.

Video clip: Leonie Bolleurs

2019

FINE ARTS PARIS

12TH NOVEMBER 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THE ORGANIZERS OF THE SALON DU DESSIN AND FINE ARTS PARIS FAIR ANNOUNCE AN AMBITIOUS NEW DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR 2020.

FINE ARTS PARIS will hold its fourth edition in the courtyard of the Dôme des Invalides on November 18-22, 2020. This new space will accommodate between 65 and 70 exhibitors (as opposed to the current 46). The prestigious and museum-like character of the site corresponds perfectly to FINE ARTS PARIS classic, refined presentation and high standards in the choice of exhibitors. The larger space will also allow the fair to open up to new specialties such as furniture and decorative arts dating from Antiquity to the present.

“Thanks to this new venue, Fine Arts Paris will be able to grow large enough to take its place in the calendar of major international fairs.”

Louis de Bayser, President of Fine Arts Paris and Salon du Dessin

This growth will be achieved with the support of Connaissance des Arts, a subsidiary of Groupe Les Echos-Le Parisien and LVMH. Negotiations are underway for the acquisition of an interest in the company that organizes Fine Arts Paris and the Salon du Dessin. Connaissance des Arts will become a shareholder of reference, along with the eight founding partners(1), who will retain control of the organization and choice of gallery-selection committees for both art fairs.

“With Connaissance des Arts and our other media, we are determined to defend Paris position as an art-world capital. The Fine Arts Paris and Salon du Dessin art fairs are institutions whose growth we want to support in close cooperation with the Group’s Arts division.”

Pierre Louette, Chairman and CEO, Groupe Les Echos-Le Parisien The next SALON DU DESSIN, to be held March 25-30, 2020, at the Palais Brongniart in Paris, will

have a new design and the same structure, selectivity and conviviality so appreciated by visitors.

FINE ARTS PARIS and the SALON DU DESSIN plan to grow while retaining the qualities that have made them unique and have ensured their success:

• the presence of both large international galleries and young dealers with strong personal tastes, who add a breath of fresh air and a daring touch to the fair while meeting its high quality standards.

• a cultural program with museum-quality exhibitions, scholarly conferences and off-site tours in partnership with museums and other institutions.

• world-class art fairs of a modest size, they are representative of a demanding classical art market.

The third edition of FINE ARTS PARIS continues at the Carrousel du Louvre through Sunday, November 17, 2019.

www.finearts-paris.com • www.salondudessin.com

SALON DU DESSIN

HINDMAN

For Immediate Release: – 7th November 6, 2019

 

WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR FIRST EDITION OF CHARLES DARWIN’S ‘ON THE ORIGINS OF SPECIES’ – $564,500 AT HINDMAN’S SALE OF THE LIBRARY OF A MIDWESTERN COLLECTOR

SALE MAKES OVER $1.9 MILLION, THE HIGHEST GROSSING AUCTION FOR THE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS DEPARTMENT AT HINDMAN

Chicago: The top lot of this Hindman Books & Manuscripts sale, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species set a world auction record for a first edition of Darwin’s landmark work. Realizing $564,500, the superb Garden Copy, previously owned by American philanthropist Paul Mellon (1907–1999), sold for more than double the presale estimate of $120,000- $180,000.

 

Hindman’s November 5th single-owner sale of the Library of a Midwestern Collector featuring landmark works in the fields of science and technology, mathematics, literature, Americana and the social sciences realized over $1.9 million. Strong international bidding set several significant records at auction.

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Also exceeding presale estimates, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K Rowling brought $150,000 against a presale estimate of $80,000 – $120,000. The exceptionally fine copy of a signed first edition achieved the second highest price ever at auction for Rowling’s work.

Other highlights from the auction include Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which realized $112,500 against a presale estimate of $70,000 – $90,000 and Isaac Newtown’s Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, which sold for $212,500.

Gretchen Hause, Director of Fine Books and Manuscripts: “Active bidding across all channels combined to energize the room and the strong prices realized reinforce the strength of the market for fine copies of the most significant works in a variety of collecting fields. We are thrilled with today’s exceptional results, setting a record sale total for the department.”

The Books and Manuscripts department is currently accepting consignments for spring auctions. For complete sale results, visit www.hindmanauctions.com.

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Press Release

6th November 2019 –For immediate release

 

BONHAMS AUCTIONS TO HOST LAUNCH OF NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION BASED ON T.S. ELIOT’S GREAT MASTERPIECE

“THE WASTE LAND”

“Falling towers”

“THE WORK BY ADRIAAN VAN HEERDEN ILLUMINATES OUR CONTEMPORARY WASTELAND WITH COLD & UNDERSTATED FEROCITY” SAYS OXFORD DON & EMINENT IRISH POET BERNARD O’DONOGHUE

 

 

THREE YEARS FROM THE CENTENARY OF T.S. ELIOT’S MASTERPIECE “THE WASTE LAND” A BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHY LENDS POWERFUL VISUAL IMAGERY OF LONDON

 

The Irish poet Bernard O’Donoghue, lecturer in medieval literature and modern poetry at Oxford University and biographer of Seamus Heaney, says that Adriaan van Heerden’s new photographic collection Unreal City illuminates our contemporary wasteland with cold and understated ferocity through the prism of T.S. Eliot’s great masterpiece, The Waste Land.

 

Eliot wrote The Waste Land in the immediate aftermath of the Great War, with civilization apparently in ruins. As we are approaching the centenary of the first publication of this monumental literary achievement, van Heerden suggests that one does not have to look far for evidence of our current wasteland. A decade of austerity has resulted in 130,000 unnecessary deaths and 320,000 homeless people living on our streets, as wealth inequality keeps growing and property becomes more and more unaffordable, especially in London. Property development has brought uneven benefits, with tens of thousands of poorer families displaced and struggling to cope as a result of welfare cuts.

 

Van Heerden’s interpretation of The Waste Land in bleak but beautiful photographs shows how wealth inequality, homelessness, the waste of young lives due to crime, spiritual vacuity, political and moral failure in our contemporary society are prefigured in Eliot’s great poem. Brexit has lifted the lid on these horrors and van Heerden’s Unreal City forces us to face up to them and challenges us to do something radical to solve them, by setting up a conversation between photographic imagery and poetic text in a way that has never been done before.

 

In Eliot’s poem London is the Unreal City, the background against which many of the characters have their entrances and exits. Van Heerden takes us into the heart of darkness of contemporary London, forcing us to experience the harsh everyday realities of its most vulnerable inhabitants.

O’Donoghue, who wrote an essay for Unreal City, says: “When Bertrand Russell read these lines in the final section of the poem –

 

Falling towers

Jerusalem Athens Alexandria

Vienna London

Unreal

 

he remembered that he once told Eliot of a nightmare in which he had a vision of London as an unreal city, its inhabitants like hallucinations, its bridges collapsing, its buildings passing into a mist. In some senses of course, as Adriaan van Heerden’s photographs richly illustrate, London is all too real, in its inequalities, materialism and the failure of its inhabitants to make meaningful contact with each other. Elsewhere Eliot said “Human kind / cannot bear very much reality”; van Heerden insists that we must acknowledge the intolerable discomforts and harshness of city reality which are not hallucinatory.”

 

“This music crept by me upon the waters”

 

According to O’Donoghue, van Heerden shows that we now live in the future of Eliot’s Waste Land, and that much of what is traumatic in our world is anticipated or described with great urgency in this prophetic document of nearly a century ago. Van Heerden’s pictures show how it is literally true, but more importantly they show the ways in which it is spiritually and figuratively true. For example, it would be easy to illustrate from the modern nightmare city literal representations of some of the most familiar lines of Eliot’s poem, such as the Dantesque passage from which he takes his title:

 

Unreal City,

Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,

I had not thought death had undone so many.  (lines 60-63)

 

This might well have been illustrated by trudging, despondent lines of people, like in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. But van Heerden’s chosen picture is much more imaginative: a street of seedy shopfronts with a single dark figure walking past.

 

Similarly, for line 17, “In the mountains, there you feel free” there is a picture of a tapering high-rise block of flats, an ironic image of unfree, prosaic aspiration: a subject which is returned to for line 343 of the poem: “There is not even solitude in the mountains.”

 

“The black clouds gathered far distant”

 

Many of these pictures illustrate the familiar modern paradox, noted by Elias Canetti and others: being lonely amid crowds.

 

This kind of creative mismatching is the hallmark of van Heerden’s style; the illustrations of other familiar lines from the poem manifest the same adjustments from the physically real to the abstract and vice versa. “A heap of broken images” (line 22) might invite an image of detritus; but van Heerden’s is a beautiful reflection of towers and clouds in the glass panes of the Gherkin.

 

His picture for “I will show you fear in a handful of dust” (line 30) shows furniture discarded in a leaf-strewn walkway: an unlikely but evocative symbol of transience. We are reminded of Dr Johnson’s critical statement, admired by Eliot, about the seventeenth-century Metaphysical poets: that by them “heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.” Johnson did not like the habit; but it describes very well Eliot’s own practice and van Heerden’s response to it.

 

Van Heerden follows Eliot into the city’s real, named places, often its historic churches: Saint Mary Woolnoth, Magnus Martyr, All Hallows-by-the-Tower, St Pancras Old Church. The churches are in keeping with one of his recurrent themes: the failure of religion to fulfil a spiritual or socially healing role – in Eliot’s terms, “the dead tree gives no shelter.” There are other real places too: King William Street, the Lloyds Building, Carnaby Street, Madame Tussaud’s, Canary Wharf, the Blavatnik Building – linking to another primary theme in the book: the inequalities and brutalities of a materialist, mercenary society. Most urgently real are the bus-stop where Stephen Lawrence was mortally wounded, and the burnt Grenfell Tower.

 

Van Heerden describes his work with Eliot’s poem as “a conversation”; but progressively as you work through the pictures, you see that it is close to the contradictory essence of Eliot’s great poem. His project is a decidedly political one, motivated by outrage at injustice and inequality. Generally, Eliot is seen as apolitical – Old Possum who keeps out of sight – or even reactionary. But it is remarkable how well the salient lines of The Waste Land lend themselves to radical perspectives.

 

Great art, it has often been said, must not be depressing; we must not despair in the face of the futility and anarchy of our world. It has also been said that good art is always political; that is certainly true of van Heerden’s response to The Waste Land. The injustice, violence and materialism of the unreal city are squarely faced; but the city represented here is also recognisably real. Coleridge said of Charles Lamb that to him no sound was “dissonant that tells of life.” Eliot’s view of the world has sometimes been said to be disdainful or supercilious. Van Heerden shows that it also has within it a humanity to which these pictures give vivid, if harsh, reality.

 

“In rats’ alley where the dead men lost their bones”

 

 

 

 

Unreal City will be launched at Bonhams in London (the international fine art auction house) on Monday 2 December, 6-8 pm. The event will include a small exhibition of pictures from the collection, a drinks reception and a short speech by Bernard O’Donoghue. The event is sponsored by Denbies Wine Estate and supported by London South Bank University.

 

To attend this exciting event, please RSVP to Matthew Haley: +44 (0) 20 7393 3817 or email matthew.haley@bonhams.com. Places are strictly limited so early reservation is advised.

 

 

For more press information please contact Julian Roup of

Bendigo Communications on info@bendigopr.co.uk

or call 07970 563958

 

 

 

Notes to Editors:

 

  1. Link to Adriaan van Heerden’s webpage: www.adriaanvanheerden.com. Contact: Adriaan van Heerden, info@adriaanvanheerden.com, +44 7813 306 434.

 

  1. Online resources are available via the following link (including high resolution files of some of the pictures from the book): http://bit.ly/avh-pr-191106.

 

  1. Bernard O’Donoghue was born in Cullen, County Cork, in 1945, later moving to Manchester. He studied Medieval English at Oxford University, where he is a teacher and Fellow in English at Wadham College. He is a poet and literary critic, and author of Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry (1995). His poetry collections are Poaching Rights (1987); The Weakness (1991); Gunpowder (1995), winner of the 1995 Whitbread Poetry Award; Here Nor There (1999); and Outliving (2003). His work of verse translation, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, was published in 2006 and a Selected Poems in 2008. He received a Cholmondeley Award in 2009. His most recent poetry collections are Farmers Cross (2011) and The Seasons of Cullen Church (2016), both of which were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

 

  1. Adriaan van Heerden is an international award winning photographer whose poetic and poignant photographs have garnered accolades around the world. He came to photography via a PhD in Philosophy at King’s College, Cambridge, where his dissertation explored the fundamental roles that tragedy, humour and love play in our shared human existence and experience of the world, and he now uses photography as a means to illuminate these themes. Adriaan’s work has been exhibited in London (including Cork Street, Pall Mall, and Mayfair), Barcelona, Kyoto and Singapore, and his pictures are held in private and corporate collections in the UK, the USA and South Africa. Unreal City is his most ambitious project to date and brings together four of his main interests: philosophy, poetry, photography and politics.

 

  1. One of the pictures from Unreal City is currently shortlisted for the ArtGemini International Art Award. Three other pictures from the collection were shortlisted for international art awards in 2018.

 

  1. An estimated 320,000 people were homeless in the UK in 2018: https://www.bigissue.com/latest/social-activism/how-many-people-are-homeless-in-the-uk-and-what-can-you-do-about-it/

 

  1. Austerity resulted in an estimated 130,000 preventable deaths: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/01/perfect-storm-austerity-behind-130000-deaths-uk-ippr-report

 

  1. The book launch will take place at the Knightsbridge offices of Bonhams, on Montpelier Street, SW7 1HH.

 

  1. Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world’s largest and most renowned auctioneers, offering fine art and antiques, motor cars and jewellery. The main salerooms are in London, New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, with auctions also held in Knightsbridge, Edinburgh, Paris, San Francisco and Sydney. With a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 22 countries, Bonhams offers advice and valuation services in 60 specialist areas. For a full list of forthcoming auctions, plus details of Bonhams specialist departments, please visit bonhams.com.

 

  1. Copies of the Unreal City limited edition art book can be pre-ordered at: http://bit.ly/avh-unreal-city-book.

 

HINDMAN AUCTIONS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 1ST NOVEMBER 2019

SIGNIFICANT WORKS BY WESTERN ARTIST A.R. MITCHELL FOR ADVENTURE MAGAZINES IN ‘ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST’ AUCTION IN DENVER WITH HINDMAN

Macintosh SSD:Users:Julian:Desktop:Wagon Master.jpgArthur Roy Mitchell’s The Wagon Master, is expected to fetch $5,000-7,000

 

Hindman’s November 7 Arts of the American West auction in Denver, Colorado, will also offer a selection of original paintings by Arthur Roy Mitchell in partnership with The A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art in Trinidad, Colorado. The items come to auction as part of an effort to raise awareness of the artist’s legacy and also to perpetuate long-term preservation of the collection.

 

Colorado native Arthur Roy Mitchell was once considered “The King of Pulp” for his significant contribution to the adventure-themed magazines that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. Mitchell neither sought nor received the widespread acclaim given to his better-known Western art contemporaries.

 

“By partnering with Hindman, we anticipate introducing Arthur Roy Mitchell’s body of work — as well as his life as an illustrator, fine artist, historian, working cowboy and ardent lover of his native southwest — to a broader audience of art appreciators who may be unaware of this prolific and passionate artist.” -Allyson Sheumaker, Executive Director, A.R. Mitchel Museum

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      Work by Harvey Dunn titled Cattle Herd $8,000 – $12,000

 

Funds received through the sale will support the Museum in better serving its mission and local community by maintaining the extensive collection of Mitchell original paintings, sketches, Native American and Hispanic artifacts, and personal effects;  making facility upgrades to the 113-year-old former department store building that houses the museum; and publishing a book of A.R. Mitchell’s art.

 

Highlights from the collection include two works by Harvey Dunn titled Cattle Herd and Cowboy and Bet a Stack of Blues both holding a presale estimate at $8,000 – $12,000 and Harold von Schmidt’s River Crossing estimated at $12,000 – $18,000. Additionally, there will be three works by A.R. Mitchell highlighting the collection: Tit for Tat (presale estimate $3,000.00 – $4,000.00), Morning Friskies (presale estimate $2,000- $4,000) and Driving off Rusters (presale estimate $2,000 – $4,000).

 

Hindman will be hosting a public friend raiser for the A.R. Mitchell Museum on Wednesday, October 30th, 5:30 – 7:30 during the auction preview at the Denver gallery space. Western art collectors and enthusiasts will have an opportunity to learn more about the Pulp Western artist and illustrator as well as the museum, an important venue for art, culture, history and tourism in southeastern Colorado.

 

The sale will be conducted in the Denver saleroom at 10am MT and will be available for preview November 2 – November 6. To view the full catalog online visit hindmanauctions.com.

About Hindman

Hindman is one of the nation’s leading fine art auction houses offering holistic solutions that connect cities nationwide to the global art market by providing expertise across all categories, sales channels and price points. Hindman operates more salerooms in the United States than any other auction house and conducts over 100 auctions a year in categories such as ImportantJewelry and Timepieces, Post War and Contemporary art, 20th Century Design, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Fine Furniture, and Decorative arts, Luxury Accessories and Coutreouture, Asian works of Art, American Indian Art and Artifacts, Western art, Numismatics, and more. Hindman was formed through the acquisition of two premier auction houses, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers (est.1982) and Cowan’s Auctions (est. 1995). Headquartered in Chicago, Hindman is home to 150 employees, with additional offices in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Milwaukee, Naples, Palm Beach, Scottsdale and St. Louis. Visit hindmanauctions.com for more information.

 

 

 

HINDMAN

 

For Immediate Release: – October 29, 2019

 

ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST AUCTION AT HINDMAN DENVER FEATURES HISTORIC AND CONTEMPORARY WESTERN ART AND AMERICAN INDIAN ART

 

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Joseph Henry Sharp’s Ditch Workers, is estimated to bring to $50,000-70,000

 

The November 7th Arts of the American West auction in Denver will be the first major collaborative effort between Hindman and their partners at Cowan’s.

The auction, consisting of over 500 lots, will feature a strong session of fine art by important historic western artists such as Joseph Henry Sharp, Harold von Schmidt, and Harvey Dunn.  The fine art session also includes Contemporary works by Native American artists such as Fritz Scholder, Allan Houser, Dan Namingha, Arlo Namingha, Kevin Red Star and Earl Biss .  Highlights include Allan Houser’s bronze, entitled He Will Be Home Soon, which is estimated at $30,000-50,000 and Kevin Red Star’s Bad Bear and His Medicine Shield which is expected to fetch $4,000-6,000.

 

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Cheyenne River Sioux Beaded Hide Child’s Vest, Estimate at $20,000-40,000,

 

The sale will also feature a very strong selection of Plains beadwork, pueblo pottery, baskets and American Indian jewelry from various private collections from Jackson, Wyoming, Golden, Colorado and locations throughout the country.  Additionally, we are honored to be offering objects from important institutions including property sold to benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation and the A. R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art.

 

“As our playing field has greatly expanded, it is going to be extremely exciting to watch the growth of this category for Hindman and Cowan’s. The strength of both of our fall sales are a good indication of future success.” Maron Hindman, Vice President of the West.

 

 

This carved redware wedding vase by important Santa Clara artist, Margaret Tafoya is estimates to at  $6,000.00 – $8,000.00

 

Highlights from the American Indian collections sessions include a Western Apache Polychrome Olla, circa 1900, which is estimated at $10,000-15,000, a Cheyenne River Sioux Beaded Hide Child’s Vest, estimate at $20,000-40,000, a Late Classic Child’s Blanket, with a pre-sale estimate of $10,000-15,000 and a Margaret Tafoya (Santa Clara, 1904- 2001), carved redware jar, estimated at $5,000-7,000

 

The Arts of the American West preview will open to the public on Saturday, November 2nd in our Denver showroom located at 1024 Cherokee Street, suite 200. The catalog is available online at www.hindmanauctions.com.

HINDMAN OFFERS SIGNIFICANT WORKS BY COLORADO PULP WESTERN ARTIST A.R. MITCHELL IN ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST AUCTION IN DENVER

Macintosh SSD:Users:Julian:Desktop:Wagon Master.jpgArthur Roy Mitchell’s The Wagon Master, is expected to fetch $5,000-7,000

 

Hindman’s November 7 Arts of the American West auction in Denver, CO will also offer a selection of original paintings by Arthur Roy Mitchell in partnership with The A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art in Trinidad, Colorado. The items come to auction as part of an effort to raise awareness of the artist’s legacy and also to perpetuate long-term preservation of the collection.

 

Colorado native Arthur Roy Mitchell was once considered “The King of Pulp” for his significant contribution to the adventure-themed magazines that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. Mitchell neither sought nor received the widespread acclaim given to his better-known Western art contemporaries.

 

“By partnering with Hindman, we anticipate introducing Arthur Roy Mitchell’s body of work — as well as his life as an illustrator, fine artist, historian, working cowboy and ardent lover of his native southwest — to a broader audience of art appreciators who may be unaware of this prolific and passionate artist.” -Allyson Sheumaker, Executive Director, A.R. Mitchel Museum

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      Work by Harvey Dunn titled Cattle Herd $8,000 – $12,000

About Hindman

Hindman is one of the nation’s leading fine art auction houses offering holistic solutions that connect cities nationwide to the global art market by providing expertise across all categories, sales channels and price points. Hindman operates more salerooms in the United States than any other auction house and conducts over 100 auctions a year in categories such as ImportantJewelry and Timepieces, Post War and Contemporary art, 20th Century Design, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Fine Furniture, and Decorative arts, Luxury Accessories and Coutreouture, Asian works of Art, American Indian Art and Artifacts, Western art, Numismatics, and more. Hindman was formed through the acquisition of two premier auction houses, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers (est.1982) and Cowan’s Auctions (est. 1995). Headquartered in Chicago, Hindman is home to 150 employees, with additional offices in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Milwaukee, Naples, Palm Beach, Scottsdale and St. Louis. Visit hindmanauctions.com for more information.

 

 

 

Funds received through the sale  will support the Museum in better serving its mission and local community by maintaining the extensive collection of Mitchell original paintings, sketches, Native American and Hispanic artifacts, and personal effects;  making facility upgrades to the 113-year-old former department store building that houses the museum; and publishing a book of A.R. Mitchell’s art.

 

Highlights from the collection include two works by Harvey Dunn titled Cattle Herd and Cowboy and Bet a Stack of Blues both holding a presale estimate at $8,000 – $12,000 and Harold von Schmidt’s River Crossing estimated at $12,000 – $18,000. Additionally, there will be three works by A.R. Mitchell highlighting the collection: Tit for Tat (presale estimate $3,000.00 – $4,000.00), Morning Friskies (presale estimate $2,000- $4,000) and Driving off Rusters (presale estimate $2,000 – $4,000).

 

Hindman will be hosting a public friend raiser for the A.R. Mitchell Museum on Wednesday, October 30th, 5:30 – 7:30 during the auction preview at the Denver gallery space. Western art collectors and enthusiasts will have an opportunity to learn more about the Pulp Western artist and illustrator as well as the museum, an important venue for art, culture, history and tourism in southeastern Colorado.

 

The sale will be conducted in the Denver saleroom at 10am MT and will be available for preview November 2 – November 6. To view the full catalog online visit hindmanauctions.com.

 

STRAUSS & CO

 

Press release -24th October 2019

SOUTH AFRICAN ART’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH PARIS EXPLORED AT STRAUSS & CO’S NOVEMBER SALE

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Alexis Preller’s ‘Icon Barbare (Adam)’ R8.5m-10m(£450,000- £530,000 – reveals his admiration for French Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy

 

Paris: A Beacon For Countless South African Artists

 

Forthcoming Johannesburg sale, to be held at Strauss & Co’s Houghton offices on Monday, 11 November will focus collectors’ attention on the strong influence Paris has exerted on South African art throughout the twentieth century.

“Paris was a beacon for countless South African artists,” says Susie Goodman, executive director at Strauss & Co. “The first South African artist to study in Paris was Robert Gwelo Goodman, in 1895. The list of local artists who followed in his footsteps is as remarkable as it is long. The top three lots in our upcoming sale are by Alexis Preller, William Kentridge, and Penny Siopis, highly acclaimed artists who each spent time in Paris early in their careers.”

Alexis Preller:

The top lot is Preller’s Icon Barbare (Adam), an oil painting quoting his powerful 1969 intaglio Adam (sold by Strauss & Co in 2016 for R6.8 million). Shown on the artist’s 1972 Pretoria Art Museum retrospective, Icon Barbare (estimate R8.5 – 10 million) depicts the biblical first man with Prelleresque flourishes.

“The Christ-like beard and hair are ambiguously transformed with green and leaf-like tendrils thus assuming a pagan quality,” notes artist and Preller expert Karel Nel. “The transmuted presence feels more like an icon of Pan, the Greek god of nature, of fertility, the mountains and wilds.”Assuredly loose in style, this oil on canvas reveals Preller’s admiration for French Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy, a lifelong friend of painter Othon Friesz.

Preller met Friesz, a teacher at Académie de la Grande Chaumière, in 1937 during his first trip to Paris. Lacking funds to study at his art school, Preller invested his energies in the “tireless examination of the works of modern artists on view in galleries,” according his biographer Esmé Berman. During these expeditions Preller recognised in Gauguin “a guide to the direction he himself might follow”. This influence is evident in Mapogga Wedding (R2 – 3 million), a 1952 oil depicting a bride and groom set slightly askew with Gauguinesque figures in the background.

 

William Kentridge

The influence of Paris is also evident in the work of contemporary masters such as William Kentridge and Penny Siopis. In 1981 Kentridge studied mime and theatre at a Paris acting school founded by Jacques Lecoq. A decade later, having decisively returned to making art, he produced the collage Iris, a highly unusual colour work portraying a single flower in Van Gogh’s Provencal tones of blue and purple (estimate R3 – 5 million).

 

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‘Iris’ by William Kentridge – £160,000-£265,000 (R3m to R5m) – a single flower in Van Gogh’s Provencal tones of blue and purple

 

 

Penny Siopis:

Five years later, Siopis undertook a seven-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts after winning the Volkskas Atelier Award with her well-known painting Melancholia. The forthcoming sale includes a companion work, Act I Scene II (estimate R2.8 – 3.5 million), which was interrupted by Siopis’s stay in Paris and completed upon her return to Johannesburg à la Melancholia. This lot includes various pictorial elements (tortoise shell, porcupine quills, classical statuettes, red arum lilies) appearing in Melancholia.

The upcoming sale is an opportunity for collectors and art lovers to explore South African art’s indebtedness to Paris. Artists from various periods are represented in the catalogue, including Ruth Everard Haden, Clément Sénèque and Maud Sumner, who all studied in Paris during the interwar years. Sumner’s Woman Seated at a Mirror (estimate R350 000 – 500 000) is an intimate domestic scene in the style of Bonnard and Vuillard.

 

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Penny Siopis – Act 1 Scene 11 – £150,000 – £185,000 (R2.8m – R3.5m) she undertook a seven-month residency at the Paris Cité Internationale des Arts

 

Postwar painters also feature prominently. They include Erik Laubscher, who studied at the Académie Montmartre under Fernand Léger, Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, Sydney Goldblatt and Anna Vorster, who all studied at the Paris art school founded by cubist painter André Lhote. Standout lots include Laubscher’s School of Paris work from 1956, Abstract Landscape (R250 000 – 300 000) and Cilliers-Barnard’s international style Abstract Composition (estimate R80 000 – 120 000) painted a year later.

Paris was more than simply a workshop for painterly innovation; it provided shelter for dissidents and exiles. Following in the footsteps of pioneering abstract painter Ernest Mancoba, who settled in Paris in 1938. Gerard Sekoto choose to leave apartheid South Africa for the City of Lights a decade later. A highly collectible artist, Sekoto is represented in a wine-coloured composition from 1968, Three Figures (estimate R350 000 – 500 000).

 

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Gerard Sekoto chose to leave apartheid South Africa for the City of Light.  Sekoto composition from 1968, Three Figures £18,500-£27,000

      (R350 000 – 500 000).

Highlights from the contemporary selection include Diane Victor’s There’s Fire in the Thatch (estimate R300 000 – 500 000), a large charcoal and chalk pastel drawing portraying six figures locked in an embrace hovering over a burning landscape. Victor won the 1988 Absa l’Atelier Art Competition and – like Siopis – stayed at the Cité Internationale des Arts. During her ten-month residency she produced drawings combining classical references with contemporary social comment and autobiographical detail.

All these works will go under the hammer on Monday, 11 November at Strauss & Co’s new sales and exhibition space at 89 Central Street, Houghton, in Johannesburg. The Paris-themed sale will also include a collection of Edoardo Villa bronze sculptures from the estate of Aldo Carrara, a lifelong friend of the artist, as well as a number of noteworthy landscape scenes by JH Pierneef.

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JH Pierneef Marone District Lydenburg £106,000- £160,000 –           (R2m – R3m)

 

ART FAIR GUIDE : EVERYTHING
YOU NEED TO SEE DURING
FINE ARTS PARIS – NOVEMBER 13-17https://gallery.mailchimp.com/55f585788866cc5813a5e1211/images/2e53937d-5698-4eb7-b786-ad08f74c6790.jpgFINE ARTS PARIS, the international fair
What: FINE ART PARIS is making its way among the biggest international fairs. The third edition of the event promises great things. Founded by the organizers of the Salon du dessin, the fair will welcome 46 exhibitors this year, including 10 new galleries from Paris and outside of France. Amongst them, Rafael Valls Ltd and Charles Beddington Ltd will streghten the Old Master painting section.
When: From November 13 to 17
Where: Carrousel du Louvre, ParisTALBARDON--GAUTIER-Henri-Mi.jpgHenri Michel-Lévy (1844-1914), The Auction. Oil on canvas, 99 x 131.4 cm Talbardon & Gautier galleryFINE ARTS WEEK, the off-site cultural program
What: The fair strives to create synergy between museums, the art market, art lovers and collectors. This off-site event offers access to some of the French capital’s most guarded and secret spaces, behind the scenes at major and smaller museums.
When: From November 13 to 17
Where: In 20 Parisian institutions: Beaux-Arts de Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, COARC, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Musée Condé, Domaine de Chantilly, Fondation Custodia, Château de Fontainebleau, Collection privée Emile Hermès, Musée Jacquemart-André, Musée du Louvre, Musée de Montmartre, Atelier Chana Orloff, Musée de l’Orangerie, Musée d’Orsay, Petit Palais, Musée Picasso Paris, Musée Rodin, Musée de la Vie Romantique, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Musée Zadkine.https://gallery.mailchimp.com/55f585788866cc5813a5e1211/images/e9c28e99-16b9-4d21-bc22-6d245a578c3e.jpgConservation of Religious and Civil Works of Art (COARC) in a disused water plant at Ivry near ParisEXHIBITION BY LA PISCINE
What: A museum-quality exhibition, to be presented at the fair by La Piscine-Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André Diligent in Roubaix,France, will sum up the spirit of the museum with a selection from its collection.
When: From November 13th to 17th
Where: At Fine Art Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Parishttps://gallery.mailchimp.com/55f585788866cc5813a5e1211/_compresseds/de0ec977-dd80-488a-bbc0-3624af3e51a5.jpg

La Piscine in Roubaix. Architect: A. Baert, 1932; J.-P. Philippon, 2001 and 2018. Photo: A. Leprince

 

STREET ART LIVE PERFORMANCE
What: Italian street artist Andrea Ravo Mattoni, who uses contemporary techniques to recreate masterpieces from the past on buildings around the world, will paint a 3×2 meters canvas based on a work by Luca Giordano on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition of the artist’s work at the Petit Palais.

When: Thursday, November 14 (from noon to 10pm)

Where: At Fine Art Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

 

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Andrea Ravo Mattoni, after Caravaggio, Boy with a Basket of Fruit, 2016, spray paint, Angera

FINE ARTS PARIS
From 13 to 17 November 2019
Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

PRESS OPENING
Tuesday 12 November, from 2 PM

 

Indar Pasricha Fine Arts

23rd September 2019 – For immediate release

EXHIBITION OF CERAMIC WORKS BY STUART SMITH, WHOSE FILM WORK INCLUDES INDIANA JONES & THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN & PHOTOGRAPHS BY WILDLIFE MASTER ALASTAIR BOYD

Wednesday 30th October – Saturday 16th November
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Majestic elephant by Stuart Smith who works in bronze and ceramic.

 

For anyone who has a love for the natural world the Exhibition at the Indar Pasricha Fine Arts Gallery in London – ‘The Wolf and the Lamb Shall Graze Together’ – is a must see. It runs from 30th October to 16th November.

 

The exhibition features magisterial sculpture of renowned artist Stuart Smith and the sensational wildlife photography of Alastair Boyd and provides an opportunity to see something of the wonder of the animal kingdom which is currently being lost at a rate of 200 species a day according to leading environmentalists.

 

Stuart Smith has had a great deal of praise for his work. One comment from the late art critic, Brian Sewell, stands out.

 

“I have lived with a Stuart Smith sculpture for more than thirty years and it has never ceased to give me pleasure; its wry humour and subtle beauty nourish my senses’ 2010 Brian Sewell

 

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Stuart Smith Sculptor who has worked in film, television and theatre, starting as a portrait sculptor at Madame Tussauds. Here he is seen with a French Magpie.

 

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Boris Johnson – congratulating Stuart Smith on his Peel House Panel (see below)

 

Born in the UK, Stuart Smith trained in Fine Art at St Albans School of Art and studied sculpture at City and Guilds, Kennington and The Royal Academy in London. His first job after graduating was as a portrait sculptor for Madame Tussauds (1973 – 78) in London and Amsterdam modelling key personalities for exhibition.

 

Stuart has worked for television, films and theatre productions. His modelling work in films includes: Three Muskateers, French Lieutentants Woman, Greystoke, Return to Oz, Razors Edge, Indiana Jones, Santa Claus, Hypersapien, Little Shop of Horrors.

Macintosh SSD:Users:Julian:Desktop:Wolf& Lamb:PIXr:Stu at Peel House2.jpegHis Public Art Commissions include the 2007 Bronze panels for Gloucester Gate Bridge, London; and the 2008 Bronze relief  for Peel House, Regency St, London for Westminster Council and Candy & Candy.

 

Philomena Davidson, First Woman President of the Royal Society of Sculptors, comments on this work:

“Stuart’s tall bronze relief located at the entrance to Peel House in Regency Street, Pimlico, is a really good example of the rich narrative that is a signature feature of Stuart’s distinctive and highly original work. Coming up with a convincing composition for this historic setting in the heart of Westminster was right up his street!”

 

He has work in private collections in the UK, Ireland, France, Jersey, USA, Canada, Holland and Spain.

 

SENSATIONAL WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER ALASTAIR BOYD

 

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Alastair Boyd and cheetah friend in Kenya

 

Alastair Boyd was born in Kenya, where he spent his early childhood years, the son of a big game hunter. When he was 7, he moved with his mother and sisters to Cornwall, though this did not change his fascination and love for the outdoors. But unlike his father, his hunting has always been with a camera.

 

He spent most of his time rummaging around the hedges, fields and farm buildings. His mother kept up the safari tradition with regular game-drives, looking for foxes and badgers.

 

When Alastair was 18, he moved back to Kenya, which allowed him to reconnect with the landscape, nature, animals and culture. This connection has only grown stronger over the years. In his twenties, Alastair travelled regularly back to Kenya and started his passion for discovering other countries and environments. During that time, he lived in Nepal, North and Central America, France, Greece and Denmark.

 

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Leopard by Alastair Boyd

 

After living in New York for several years and training at the New York Institute of Photography, he decided to move back to Kenya on a more permanent basis. He started managing Loisaba Lodge, which is located in a vast conservation area in northern Kenya.  It was here that his passion for photography and his love for nature and animals came together.  He started developing his own eye and technique with some of his favourite animals and subjects.

 

After five years, he decided to move back to London, where he currently lives. He regularly returns to Kenya and wherever else his curiosity takes him. This has resulted in trips to the Pantanal in Brazil, Alaska, Equador, Cuba, different regions in Spain, discovering the animals and people and building his portfolio of photographs.

 

This exhibition brings together the highlights of his work.

 

 

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Scops Owl by Alastair Boyd

 

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT INDAR PASRICHA ON

info@ipfa.co.uk

07703 341942

or

Julian Roup at info@bendigopr.co.uk

Tel 07970563958

 

HINDMAN

 

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10TH September 2019 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

TWO CHARMING PAINTINGS BY TOP CHINESE ARTIST WU GUANZHONG WHOSE WORK COMMANDS PRICES OF $30M

FOR SALE WITH HINDMAN AUCTIONS IN CHICAGO ON SEPTEMBER 24TH

 

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Jiangnan by Wu Guanzhong

 

Two beautiful modern paintings by the late Chinese artist, Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) are the lead items in Hindman Auctions sale of Asian Works of Art estimated at $1.4m in Chicago on Sept 24th

 

One of China’s leading auction houses, Poly, set a record in 2016 for an oil painting by Wu Guanzhong of $30m and  according to the influential publication Artprice, last year Wu had sales of $103m.

 

Estimates for the two Wu Guanzhong pictures at Hindman are $80,000.00 – $120,000.00 for the painting titled ‘Jiangnan’ and: $120,000.00 – $150,000.00 for ‘Bridge and City’.

 

Director of Asian Art at Hindman, Annie Wu, says of the Wu Guanzhong paintings: “In these two works we see the distinct style of this great Chinese art innovator, one image, a townscape and one that encapsulates the change that engulfed China. His work is collected because it is visually stunning and because it represents a moment in time in Chinese culture when the impact of modern French art added its own impact to that of Asia.”

 

‘A snake swallowing an elephant,’ is how Wu once described himself — the snake symbolising the Chinese artist in him, the elephant representing Western influence.

 

The Wu Guanzhong work titled Jiangnan is a framed oil on canvas work, signed and dated 1996 in Chinese. It is 40 x 50 cm in size.

 

Wu Guanzhong was from Yixing, a city in the Jiangnan region. Jiangnan, literally “river south (江南)”, refers to lands immediately to the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including cities like Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou, Shanghai. Wu Guanzhong painted a lot of scenery of his hometown and the nearby region, which is characterized by many rivers and bridges as seen in this stunning image.

 

Throughout his career, Wu revisited the motif of Jiangnan to capture the region’s tranquil beauty, giving full play to his homesickness after decades of living in Beijing. Wu traveled frequently in Jiangnan in the firm belief that he would find a way to show its beauty in oil on canvas. He said of it: “I love the gloomy spring days,” and added, “Black, white and gray are the main tones of Jiangnan. It thus became the base on which my works are grounded, and also the start of my career.”

 

Born in 1919 in the Jiangsu province of eastern China, Wu Guanzhong is now viewed as one of the most important Chinese painters of the 20th century. He’s renowned for his landscapes, which fuse Western and Oriental artistic traditions, the result, partly, of three years’ study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1947 and 1950.

 

Wu was born the son of a village schoolteacher. He studied initially at the National Academy of Art in Hangzhou, under Lin Fengmian, a painter often called the ‘father of Chinese modernism’.

 

Then he moved to Paris in 1947, where he was particularly drawn to the work of Pissaro, Cezanne and Van Gogh. Returning to China in 1950, he found himself out of step artistically, the Communist authorities favouring a Social Realist style that featured heroic workers, farmers and soldiers. And now his life mirrored the cultural change sweeping the country.

 

In 1966, at the start of the Cultural Revolution, Wu destroyed many of his oil paintings, for fear of what the Red Guards would make of them if they searched his house. But he was banned for seven years from painting; denounced as a ‘bourgeois formalist’; and banished from Beijing to the remote countryside to perform manual labour far from his wife and family.

 

Finally in the mid-1970s, Wu was allowed to return home and paint again — and over subsequent decades he became one of his country’s most revered artists. The year before his death — aged 90, in 2010 — he received two major retrospectives: one at Shanghai Art Museum, and another at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.

 

Below: signed Wu Guanzhong, dated 1996 and titled in Chinese on the reverse.

50 x 60 cm

吳冠中

都市

1996年作,油畫

 

 

 

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Bridge and City by Wu Guanzhong

Wu Guanzhong(1919-2010)Bridge and City is a framed oil on canvas work, signed and dated 96 in

 

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT JULIAN ROUP AT EMAIL:

info@bendigopr.co.uk

or call: 00 44 (0)7970 563 958

 

About Hindman

 

Hindman is one of the nation’s leading fine art auction houses offering holistic solutions that connect cities nationwide to the global art market by providing expertise across all categories, sales channels and price points. Hindman operates more salerooms in the United States than any other auction house and conducts over 100 auctions a year in categories such as fine jewelry and timepieces, contemporary art, 20th century design, rare books, furniture, decorative arts, couture, Asian works of art, Arts of the American west, numismatics, and more. Hindman was formed through the acquisition of two premier auction houses, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers (est.1982) and Cowan’s Auctions (est. 1995). Headquartered in Chicago, Hindman is home to 150 employees, with additional offices in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Milwaukee, Naples, Palm Beach, Scottsdale and St. Louis. Visit hindmanauctions.com for more information.

 

 

 

 

 

10TH September 2019 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TWO CHARMING WORKS BY TOP CHINESE artist WU GUANZHONG WHOSE WORK COMMANDS PRICES OF $30M
FOR SALE WITH HINDMAN AUCTIONS IN CHICAGO ON SEPTEMBER 24TH

Jiangnan by Wu Guanzhong

Two beautiful modern paintings by the late Chinese artist, Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) are the lead items in Hindman Auctions sale of Asian Works of Art estimated at $1.4m in Chicago on Sept 24th

One of China’s leading auction houses, Poly, set a record in 2016 for an oil painting by Wu Guanzhong of $30m and according to the influential publication Artprice, last year Wu had sales of $103m.

Estimates for the two Wu Guanzhong pictures at Hindman are $80,000.00 – $120,000.00 for the painting titled ‘Jiangnan’ and: $120,000.00 – $150,000.00 for ‘Bridge and City’.

Director of Asian Art at Hindman, Annie Wu, says of the Wu Guanzhong paintings: “In these two works we see the distinct style of this great Chinese art innovator, one image, a townscape and one that encapsulates the change that engulfed China. His work is collected because it is visually stunning and because it represents a moment in time in Chinese culture when the impact of modern French art added its own impact to that of Asia.”

‘A snake swallowing an elephant,’ is how Wu once described himself — the snake symbolising the Chinese artist in him, the elephant representing Western influence.

The Wu Guanzhong work titled Jiangnan is a framed oil on canvas work, signed and dated 1996 in Chinese. It is 40 x 50 cm in size.

Wu Guanzhong was from Yixing, a city in the Jiangnan region. Jiangnan, literally “river south (江南)”, refers to lands immediately to the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including cities like Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou, Shanghai. Wu Guanzhong painted a lot of scenery of his hometown and the nearby region, which is characterized by many rivers and bridges as seen in this stunning image.

Throughout his career, Wu revisited the motif of Jiangnan to capture the region’s tranquil beauty, giving full play to his homesickness after decades of living in Beijing. Wu traveled frequently in Jiangnan in the firm belief that he would find a way to show its beauty in oil on canvas. He said of it: “I love the gloomy spring days,” and added, “Black, white and gray are the main tones of Jiangnan. It thus became the base on which my works are grounded, and also the start of my career.”

Born in 1919 in the Jiangsu province of eastern China, Wu Guanzhong is now viewed as one of the most important Chinese painters of the 20th century. He’s renowned for his landscapes, which fuse Western and Oriental artistic traditions, the result, partly, of three years’ study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1947 and 1950.

Wu was born the son of a village schoolteacher. He studied initially at the National Academy of Art in Hangzhou, under Lin Fengmian, a painter often called the ‘father of Chinese modernism’.

Then he moved to Paris in 1947, where he was particularly drawn to the work of Pissaro, Cezanne and Van Gogh. Returning to China in 1950, he found himself out of step artistically, the Communist authorities favouring a Social Realist style that featured heroic workers, farmers and soldiers. And now his life mirrored the cultural change sweeping the country.

In 1966, at the start of the Cultural Revolution, Wu destroyed many of his oil paintings, for fear of what the Red Guards would make of them if they searched his house. But he was banned for seven years from painting; denounced as a ‘bourgeois formalist’; and banished from Beijing to the remote countryside to perform manual labour far from his wife and family.

Finally in the mid-1970s, Wu was allowed to return home and paint again — and over subsequent decades he became one of his country’s most revered artists. The year before his death — aged 90, in 2010 — he received two major retrospectives: one at Shanghai Art Museum, and another at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.

Below: signed Wu Guanzhong, dated 1996 and titled in Chinese on the reverse.
50 x 60 cm
吳冠中
都市
1996年作,油畫

 

Bridge and City by Wu Guanzhong
Wu Guanzhong(1919-2010)Bridge and City is a framed oil on canvas work, signed and dated 96 in
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT JULIAN ROUP AT EMAIL:
info@bendigopr.co.uk
or call: 00 44 (0)7970 563 958

About Hindman

Hindman is one of the nation’s leading fine art auction houses offering holistic solutions that connect cities nationwide to the global art market by providing expertise across all categories, sales channels and price points. Hindman operates more salerooms in the United States than any other auction house and conducts over 100 auctions a year in categories such as fine jewelry and timepieces, contemporary art, 20th century design, rare books, furniture, decorative arts, couture, Asian works of art, Arts of the American west, numismatics, and more. Hindman was formed through the acquisition of two premier auction houses, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers (est.1982) and Cowan’s Auctions (est. 1995). Headquartered in Chicago, Hindman is home to 150 employees, with additional offices in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Milwaukee, Naples, Palm Beach, Scottsdale and St. Louis. Visit hindmanauctions.com for more information.
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3rd September 2019 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

SALE OF REMARKABLE SINGLE-OWNER COLLECTION OFFERS SOME OF CIVILIZATION’S MOST INFLUENTIALBOOKS AT HINDMAN AUCTIONS CHICAGO

AT ESTIMATES OF $5,000 TO $250,000

 

CHARLES DARWIN, ISAAC NEWTON, GALILEO GALILEI, ADAM SMITH, JAMES JOYCE, ALBERT EINSTEIN, EUCLID

J.K. ROWLING FINDS A PLACE IN THIS $1m to $1.5mCOLLECTION

 

Chicago on November 5, 2019: Hindman will sell the 85-lot rare book collection of a single Midwestern collector that includes extremely fine first editions of Charles Darwin, Euclid, Galileo Galilei, James Joyce, Issac Newton, J. K. Rowling, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and many others. The whole collection is estimated to sell for $1m to $1.5m.

 

Head of Hindman Book Department, Gretchen Hause, comments: “This highly curated, 85-lot sale offers the rare opportunity to own a number of the most influential books in the development of western thought and civilization. It is a unique opportunity for all bibliophiles or anyone who values rare objects of great cultural significance.”

 

The collection consists of landmark titles, many with notable provenance, in the fields of science, technology, math and statistics, literature, Americana, and the social sciences, including:

 

 

CHARLES DARWIN. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859. First edition.

Est. $120,000–180,000.

The superb Garden Copy, also previously owned by American philanthropist Paul Mellon (1907–1999), the most significant scientific work of the nineteenth century in which Darwin “revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things.” (Printing and the Mind of Man).

 

SIR ISAAC NEWTON. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society, to be sold by Samuel Smith and other booksellers, 1687. First edition.

Est. $150,000–250,000

This edition of Newton’s pivotal book was described by Albert Einstein as “The greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make,” and in Printing and the Mind of Man as “The greatest work in the history of science.”

 

GALILEO GALILEI: Dialogo. Florence: Giovanni Batista Landini, 1632. The First edition of Galileo’s Dialogo, which, “more than any other work, made the heliocentric system a commonplace” (Printing and the Mind of Man)

Est. $30,000-40,000

EUCLID: Elementa geometriae. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, May 25, 1482. First edition of (Printing and the Mind of Man)

One of the “oldest mathematical textbooks still in common use today” (Printing and the Mind of Man) and one of the earliest printed books with geometrical figures.

Est. $60,000-80,000

 

JAMES JOYCE. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First Edition.Original publisher’s “Greek flag” blue wrappers in a cloth slipcase. Limited issue, copy 74 of 100 copies on Dutch handmade paper, signed by the author on the limitation page.

Est. $120,000–180,000

First edition of the most significant English-language novel of the 20th century.

 

 

ADAM SMITH. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. First edition. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776. 2 volumes. Provenance: Jn. Evans (signature on title-page).

Est. $70,000–90,000

Smith’s landmark opus is considered the first classic of modern economic thought, and the first major exposition of free trade.

[FEDERALIST]. ALEXANDER HAMILTON. — MADISON, James. — JAY, John. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution.First edition. New York: J. and A. M’Lean, 1788. 2 volumes.

Est. $60,000–80,000

A collection of all 85 essays written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay in defense of the new Constitution, first published anonymously and serially in New York newspapers.Described in Printing and the Mind of Man as “One of the new nation’s most important contributions to the theory of government.”

 

J. K ROWLING. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. First edition. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. Original publisher’s pictorial boards. Signed by the author (6/9/97).

Est. $80,000–120,000

A superlative copy of the first edition of Rowling’s first work, signed by the author in the year of publication.

 

 

Auction Viewing:  Chicago, October 31-November 4

27TH AUGUST 2019 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HAUTE COUTURE & HOLLYWOOD DESIGNS WORN BY GONE WITH THE WIND ACTRESS DAME OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND FOR SALE WITH AUCTION HOUSE HINDMAN

 

AUCTION ALSO INCLUDES 400 DRESSES AND ACCESSORIES BY CHRISTIANDIOR, YVES SAINT LAURENT, EMANUEL UNGARO & HALSTON, AMONG OTHERS

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Christian Dior Haute Couture Day Dress and Belt, Autumn/Winter 1954 worn by Dame Olivia de Havilland on the day before her wedding to Pierre Galante. Estimate: $3,000.00 – $5,000.00

A stunning array of dresses worn by Dame Olivia de Havilland, the 103-year-old British-American-French actress whose career from 1935 spanned the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema to the late 1980s, will be sold by auction house Hindman in Chicago on September 17th.

 

De Havilland is one of the top actresses of all time, with a career that includes49 feature films. One of her most remembered roles was Melanie Hamilton inGone With the Wind (1939), in which she plays Scarlett O’Hara’s sister-in-law.

 

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Christian Dior by Marc Bohan Haute Couture Ensemble, Autumn-Winter 1967. Worn by Dame Olivia de Havilland when she arrived in Atlanta in October 1967 for the premiere of the Wide Screen Presentation of Gone With the Wind. Estimate $1,500.00 – $2,500.00

 

 

The September 17, 2019 Haute Couture & Luxury Fall Fashion Auction at Hindman includes an impressive collection of 400 lots of vintage clothing gathered from around the United States and Europe. This compelling group of designs features wearable early 20th century dresses, numerous examples from post-WWII American

fashion designers such as Norman Norell, Adele Simpson and James Galanos,and unique haute couture creations from Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Emanuel Ungaro, among others.

 

Headlining this auction is an exciting collection of Parisian haute couture and Hollywood designs worn by Dame Olivia de Havilland from 1954 to 1989. A majority of the items (27) are haute couture creations by Christian Dior, including ensembles made under the creative direction of Christian Dior himself, Yves Saint Laurent and Marc Bohan.

 

“Dame Olivia de Havilland is a timeless fashion icon and this couture is nothing short of historical,” said Timothy Long, Hindman’s director and senior specialist of luxury accessories and couture. “Olivia’s collection, along with the auction’s other offerings, must not be missed by fashion experts and enthusiasts alike.”

 

Three of the Dior ensembles were worn by de Havilland in her movies, such as Light in the Piazza (1962) and the iconic Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).

 

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Christian Dior by Marc Bohan Haute Couture Dress, Inner Bodice and Shoes, Spring- Summer 1964. Worn by Dame Olivia de Havilland in the 1964 movie ‘Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte’. Estimate: $1,200.00 – $1800.00

 

A Dior coat was worn for her role in the Broadway production of A Gift of Time (1961), while other Dior designs were worn by de Havilland to the premieres of her movies, such as Proud Rebel (1958), Lady in a Cage (1964) and the 1961 special showing of Gone with the Wind (1939) in honour of the Centennial of the Commencement of the Civil War.

 

There are also eight evening gowns worn by de Havilland to formal events between 1977 and 1989. These events include the 1977 American Film Institute tribute to Bette Davis, for which de Havilland wore a gown designedby Hollywood costume designer Edith Head. Another dress was made by Hollywood costume designer Paul Zastupnevitch and worn in 1989 by de Havilland when she accepted the People’s Choice Award for Gone with the Wind as the favourite film of all time.

 

In addition to Christian Dior clothing and accessories, this collection includes six paper programmes, printed by

the House of Christian Dior, detailing the garments included in Dior’s fashion shows in Paris, which were attended by Olivia de Havilland. Each programmefeatures hand-written notes by de Havilland, including her thoughts on eachcollection and scheduling details.

 

With these programmes are two photographic prints, provided with the clothing, of Olivia de Havilland with Christian Dior. One image is of de Havilland wearing a wedding dress, designed by Dior, for her role in The Ambassador’s Daughter (1956). The second image is of Dior seated at a table with deHavilland in a white hat.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT JULIAN ROUP AT EMAIL:

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Christian Dior by Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Ensemble, Spring/Summer 1958 Worn by Dame Olivia de Havilland to the opening of the 1958 movie ‘Proud Rebel’. Estimate: $1,500.00 – $2,500.00

About Hindman

 

Hindman is one of the nation’s leading fine art auction houses offering holistic solutions that connect cities nationwide to the global art market by providing expertise across all categories, sales channels and price points. Hindmanoperates more salerooms in the United States than any other auction house and conducts over 100 auctions a year in categories such as fine jewelry and timepieces, contemporary art, 20th century design, rare books, furniture, decorative arts, couture, Asian works of art, Arts of the American west, numismatics, and more. Hindman was formed through the acquisition of two premier auction houses, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers (est.1982) and Cowan’sAuctions (est. 1995). Headquartered in Chicago, Hindman is home to 150 employees, with additional offices in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Milwaukee, Naples, Palm Beach, Scottsdale and St. Louis. Visit hindmanauctions.com for more information.

 

 

 

25th July 2019 –for immediate release

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BASEBALL LEGEND BABE RUTH’S

COACHING UNIFORM EXPECTED TO FETCH

HALF A MILLION DOLLARS IN

JULIEN’S AUCTIONS SPORTS LEGENDS

MEMORABILIA EVENT

ON THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14

 

SIGNED BASEBALL COMMEMORATES

JOE DIMAGGIO & MARILYN MONROE’S

BRIEF MARRIAGE

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COLLECTION SET TO SAIL ON

CUNARD’S FLAGSHIP QUEEN MARY 2 – DEPARTS NEW YORK ON SEPTEMBER 15 AND ARRIVES IN SOUTHAMPTON ON SEPTEMBER 22

 

SPORTS UNIFORMS WITH STORIES TO TELL

 

Los Angeles, California – (July 24, 2019) – What makes a cotton baseball uniform worth $500,000? The answer is that the Brooklyn Dodgers coaching uniform was worn by Babe Ruth, America’s baseball hero.  For baseball fans, this uniform is the equivalent of the Holy Grail.

 

This Babe Ruth uniform is the top item in a stunning 350 piece private collection amassed over 30 years and it will all be offered by Julien’s Auctions, the world record breaking auction house specializing in Sports, Hollywood, Rock ‘N’ Roll, Contemporary Art, and more.

 

The Babe Ruth Brooklyn Dodgers coaching uniform was worn by him during the 1938 season and it is without doubt one of the top highlights in the sale. Recently, a Babe Ruth New York Yankees road jersey dating from 1928-30 sold for $5.64 million, breaking the record for the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold. The market for celebrity sports items is one of the fastest growing alternative investment sectors in the auction world.

 

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Babe Ruth was known to many as the “Sultan of Swat” and “The Great Bambino”. Babe Ruth – quite arguably the greatest baseball player of all time – earned himself a plethora of nicknames. Debuting in 1914 for the Boston Red Sox, Ruth was a pitcher more than a hitter early on his career. From 1914 to 1919, as a member of the Red Sox, Babe Ruth started 143 games and compiled a record of 89-46 with an earned run average of 2.19, which ranks 5th all-time in Red Sox history. Ruth joined the Brooklyn Dodgers as a first base coach in June of 1938. It was his final official major league appearance. The uniform for sale with Julien’s is estimated to sell for $300,000-500,000.

 

Julien’s Auctions has announced its highly anticipated Sports auction event to take place on Thursday, 14th November, 2019at The Standard Oil Building in Beverly Hills and live online at juliensauctions.com. In the multi-volume catalogue set, you will find a lifetime of fantastical and diverse items:  Sports Memorabilia, Hollywood Memorabilia, Marilyn Monroe Memorabilia, and more.

 

In addition, Julien’s Auctions and luxury ocean liner company Cunard will bring this sports collection to the high seas in an exclusive auction exhibition aboard flagship Queen Mary 2 in a voyage departing New York on September 15 and arriving in Southampton on September 22.

 

On this Transatlantic Crossing, guests will enjoy:

 

      A daily, rotating exhibit with highlights from the collection

      Exclusive opportunity to bid on choice items in advance of the November general auction

      Q&A with Brett Hughes of Julien’s Auctions and Collector Dr. Goodman Espy

 

There are many other exciting and historically significant items in this sale, including a unique baseball signed by Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, who were briefly married for nine months in 1954-55. The marriage was full of unhappiness, tears, and general strife. However, once they divorced, their relationship was far from over, with Joe still trying to win her back. It seems Marilyn was deeply in love with Joe, even though her feelings most likely stemmed from her own tumultuous past and need for a figure like him in her life. The ball that commemorates the brief union of one of sports brightest stars with Hollywood’s most glamorous actress is estimated to sell for $100,000-$200,000.

 

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The Julien’s sale also features five Babe Ruth single signed baseballs, of which two are in near perfect condition; these areestimated to sell for $40,000 to $60,000 each. Besides celebrity baseball memorabilia the sale also includes many sports trophies from boxing and football to Olympic gold medals.

 

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A pair of Muhammad Ali boxing shorts from 1980 with a handwritten message reads: “Service to others is the rent we pay for our room here on earth” – these are estimated to sell for $20,000-40,000.

 

Brett Hughes, Managing Director of Global Sports for Julien’s Auctions, says: “This sports celebrity market is one of the fastest growing areas of alternative investment collectables; their value just keeps on growing. This particular collection from Dr. Goodman Basil Espy is comprised of carefully chosen items not seen on the market for three decades. These items represent the dreams and ambitions of the sportsmen who captured the hearts of millions. To own any of these items will doubtless be a dream come true for the lucky buyers. For true fans, the value of each lot is beyond price and will become a family heirloom.”

 

More highlights include…

 

CHARLIE GEHRINGER 1934 U.S. TOUR OF JAPAN JERSEY

A grey flannel jersey worn by Charlie Gehringer during the 1934 U.S. tour of Japan.  The Tour was an essential and vital aspect of baseball’s growth in Japan. In November and December of 1934, the “All Americans” – an all-star like team composed of American League players of Major League Baseball – made their way to Japan as part of a 12-city tour. The team included Lou Gehrig, Lefty Gomez, Jimmie Foxx, Charlie Gehringer, and Babe Ruth. This was the sixth time that American baseball players had toured Japan, but it was the first time they had the opportunity to face professional Japanese ballplayers. Before heading to Japan, Gehringer had been selected as a member of the MLB All-Star Games for the 1933 and 1934 seasons (Inaugural All-Star Game in 1933), had finished second in Most Valuable Player voting in 1934, and had led the Detroit Tigers to the 1934 World Series.

Estimate: $100,000-200,000

 

MICKEY MANTLE 1960 GAME WORN NEW YORK YANKEES JERSEY

Mantle, nicknamed “The Commerce Comet”, was one of the most illustrious, powerful, and decorated players of all time.Debuting in 1951 for the historic and dynamic New York Yankees, a franchise that had just won back-to-back World Series Championships in 1949 and 1950, Mantle began his career playing right field. In Game 2 of the 1951 World Series, Mantle sustained a right knee injury that plagued the rest of his career while chasing a Willie Mays fly ball that was eventually caught by teammate Joe DiMaggio. Touted and tabbed as the next Yankee great, Mantle was promoted full-time starter at center field in 1952, while replacing all-time great Joe DiMaggio. Mantle went on to be a 20-time Major League All-Star, 7-time World Series Champion, 3-time AL Most Valuable Player, 4-time AL home run leader, Triple Crown winner in 1956, and part of baseball’s All-Century Team. Mantle is the all-time World Series leader in a number of categories, including home runs, runs batted in, total bases, and walks.

 

Upon being called up to the Majors in 1951, Mickey Mantle was assigned the #6 due to the expectation that he would be the next Yankee great. He would be following in the footsteps of Babe Ruth (#3), Lou Gehrig (#4), and Joe DiMaggio (#5). After being sent back down to the Minors and being called back up, he had changed his number to #7.

Estimate: $60,000-80,000

 

LOU GEHRIG’S 1933 SIGNED MAJOR LEAGUE CONTRACT

A contract agreement between Henry Louis Gehrig and the American League Baseball Club of New York for the 1933 season. The contract is signed by club President Jacob Ruppert and Gehrig with his legal signature Henry Louis Gehrig.Additionally signed as witness to the event, E.G. Barrow, Yankee’s General Manager, dated March 10, 1933. The contract states the Yankees will pay Gehrig $23,000 in semi-monthly installments for that year. The contract was approved by the American League President as signed William Harridge and stamped April 12, 1933. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from JSA and certificate of authenticity from Thomas R. Andrews.

Estimate: $80,000-120,000

 

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LOU GEHRIG 1934 SIGNED GOUDEY CARD #61

A 1934 Goudey Lou Gehrig card #61 signed in black ink. This is the second of the two Gehrig entries in the 1934 Goudey issue, both of which are considered the tops in the hobby. Accompanied by a COA.

Estimate: $30,000-60,000

 

CASEY STENGEL 1962 NEW YORK METS COACHING JERSEY

The pinstriped home jersey features “Mets” arching across the chest in blue and orange lettering, and number “37” to the back.  Stengel established himself as a staple of Major League Baseball throughout the latter years of his career as a manager. Stengel’s playing career spanned from 1912 to 1925, as he donned the jersey of five historic franchises, including the Brooklyn Dodgers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants (San Francisco Giants), and Boston Braves (Atlanta Braves). Hobbled by injuries, his playing career was cut short, but he was able to be part of two World Series Championships with the New York Giants (San Francisco Giants).

Stengel became the first man in Major League Baseball to have his jersey retired by two organizations solely based on managerial accomplishments. Stengel’s #37 was retired by the New York Mets in 1967 and by the New York Yankees in 1970. Stengel was voted “Greatest Living Manger” in 1969, which also marked the centennial of Major League Baseball and had a total of 12th all-time in managerial wins.

Estimate: $40,000-60,000

 

HANK AARON 1974 ATLANTA BRAVES JERSEY

Hank Aaron began his career playing for the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro League in 1952, but his soon brought into the Braves organization midway through 1952. The greatest homerun hitter in 20th century, and currently ranking second all time, only behind Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron displayed extraordinary power throughout his 23-year professional career. One of the most accomplished athletes in sports, Aaron, also famously known as “Hammerin’ Hank”, holds the record for most seasons as an All-Star and most All-Star Game selections. Aaron ranks first in a variety of Major League Baseball categories, including leading in most career runs batted in with 2,297, extra base hits with 1,447, and total bases with 6,856. He ranks third in most hits all time, third in career games played, and fourth in most runs scored all time. Aaron spent the majority of his career with the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, from 1954 to 1974. After the 1965 season, the Milwaukee Braves relocated to Atlanta. His #44 jersey was retired by the Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers. Currently, Aaron is serving as the senior Vice President of the Atlanta Braves.

Estimate: $60,000-80,000

 

A special exhibition in the U.S. for the public to view highlighted items prior to the auction will be held at The Standard Oil in Beverly Hills November 11th – November 13th, 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Halls Fine Art Auctions

5th July 2019 – for immediate release

400 YEAR OLD CHESHIRE DISCOVERY:
RARE CARVED ENGLISH OAK ‘THANK YOU’ TO GOD FOR BEING SPARED THE PLAGUE
IN 1647 – FOR SALE WITH HALLS AUCTIONS

A 17th century carved vernacular oak panel portraying the facade of God’s Providence House, 9 Watergate Street, Chester, left untouched by the Plague which decimated the town. It is estimated to sell for £800 to £1,200.

A 400-year-old commemorative oak panel from a family home in Chester that was leapfrogged by the Plague in 1647, when everyone in every other house in the street was killed, is for sale with Halls Fine Art on July 17th in Shrewsbury. It is estimated to sell for £800/1200 (+BP)

That seemingly miraculous event motivated the gracious thank you carving to God for being spared a dreadful and all too common fate, one that cost 2,000 live on this occasion. On the panel the words ‘Gods Providence Is Mine Inheritance’ are inscribed below an image of the house that was spared.

Jeremy Lamond, Director of Halls Fine Art in Shrewsbury, says that the oak plaque was brought in by a client who was not sure of its provenance. He says: “I was aware of the story and of the house of which this carving is an illustration, but I could not be sure if there was a direct link until I saw the date 1652 carved into the panel. That is the precise date when the house was rebuilt. Then I was sure that this dedication panel and its thanks to divine providence was the real thing, an object that once decorated the ‘Gods Providence House’ at 9 Watergate Street, Chester.”

For the last century the panel has been in the same local family. It was owned by Robert Beswick (1884-1973) who was the grandfather of the present owner, Juliet Blackie. Robert Beswick was a Staffordshire solicitor and entrepreneur and a connoisseur and collector of historic artefacts. He began collecting in his teens and probably owned the panel by the Edwardian period. He was an active member of archaeological and antiquarian societies. For most of his life, Robert lived in Newcastle under Lyme and later Stone in Staffordshire. He was related to the Beswick family of potters although was not a potter himself.

The name ‘Gods Providence House’ is reputed to have been given due to the legend surrounding the building that stood here prior to the construction of the present house on the site. The original property, which is believed to date from the 13th century, is reported to have been the only one in a considerable area whose inhabitants escaped the plague that swept through Chester in 1647-48, which killed some 2,000 in the city. The population at the time is estimated to have been only around 5,000.

The original building was destroyed and the current house built in 1652. Reconstructed in 1862 the building, like many in Chester, is not as old as it first appears, and not a renovation of an ancient Tudor house, but in fact a completely new building.

Although the Civil War siege of Chester had been lifted with the surrender of the City on the 3rd Feb 1646, the effects of famine and other privations were such that in 1647 the plague broke out. From June 22nd until April 20th 1648 over 2,000 people died of disease, over a third of the population.
⦁ “The Plague takes them very strangely, strikes them black of one side, then they run mad, some drowne themselves, others would kill themselves, they dye within a few hours, some run up and downe the streets in their shirts to the great horror of those in the Citty” (Kennet, Loyal Chester)

 

The house at 9 Watergate Street, Chester in 1862
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Halls
Halls are specialist auctioneers with a rich history of conducting auctions in Shropshire, Mid Wales and the West Midlands. Over almost two centuries we have worked with the people of this region to help them realise the best price for everything from their livestock to their home.
We operate two livestock auctions, one in Shrewsbury at our purpose built modern auction centre, and the other at the livestock market in the heart of Bishops Castle near the Welsh border.
Working with farmers and land owners in the region means we operate regular machinery auctions from our sites in Shrewsbury and Kidderminster. Our reputation locally has also gained us the trust of local land owners to carry out sales on their land including dispersal sales, standing straw and grass keep sales.
Amongst the most popular and well attended of our sales are the property and land auctions which are operated out of our head office in Shrewsbury covering Shropshire and the Mid Wales and by our Kidderminster office who cover the West Midlands, Worcestershire and Herefordshire. These auctions happen regular intervals throughout the year and can include everything from small pieces of amenity land to commercial properties, residential houses, development opportunities and larger pieces of land.
Our fine art department has international recognition and carries out a wide variety of specialist and collective auctions every year. If you need help understanding the value of antiques and collectables they offer a valuation service and free valuation days every monday (excluding bank holidays). To find out more about our fine art sales and the services we offer just click the fine art tile below.
To best understand the variety of the auctions at Halls please take a look at our auction calendar which details the names and dates of all our sales and will advise you on how you can request or download a catalogue.

 

FINE ARTS PARIS

November 13-17, 2019 – Carrousel du Louvre

A promising third edition to this fast growing Paris art fair invites you to the City of Light from November 13-17

 

The eyes of all art lovers and museum curators will be fixed on FINE ARTS PARIS from November 13 to 17, 2019, with the third edition promising great things.

The art fair, created by the organizers of the Salon du Dessin, will have 46 exhibitors, including 10 new galleries from Paris and outside of France.

This year’s FINE ARTS PARIS will welcome new areas of expertise with the addition of the galleries Gilgamesh and Jean-David Cahn, specialists in archeology, and the tapestry experts from the gallery Chevalier. The Old Master painting section will be strengthened by the arrival of the galleries Valls, Beddington and G.Sarti, while modern painting will be reinforced by the return of the gallery Brame & Lorenceau and new dealers like Toninelli and Taménaga.

In addition to attracting new exhibitors, FINE ARTS PARIS is also developing its cultural program. A museum-quality exhibition, to be presented at the fair by La Piscine – Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André Diligent de Roubaix, will sum upthe spirit of the museum with a selection from its collection.

The first edition of Fine Arts Week, an off-site event held in partnership with 18 museums, was devoted to sculpture. This year, participants will be taken behind the scenes of museums during the event.

And that’s not all: Italian street artist Andrea Ravo Mattoni, who uses contemporary techniques to recreate masterpieces from the past on building walls around the world, will perform at the fair on Thursday, November 14. He will paint a 13.1 x 9.8-foot canvas based on a work by Luca Giordano, which will inaugurate an exhibition at the Petit Palais at the same time.

 

FINE ARTS PARIS: new exhibitors

                           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Torso of Nude Aphrodite – Marble, H. 50.5 cm – Late Hellenistic, 2nd- 1st century B.C. – Cahn International

Gregorio Di Cecco Di  Luca (documented in Sienna between 1418 and 1424) Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine with Saints, Cherubim and Seraphim. Circa 1410-1415. Tempera and gold on wood panel- 60 x 32 cm. – Galerie G. Sarti

The Camel, Beauvais Royal Manufactory Tapestry H. 2.75 x L. 4.05 m – Louis XIV period, circa 1700 – Galerie Chevalier

 

 

 

 

FINE ARTS PARIS diversity

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

Georges Lucien Guyot (1885-1973) Lioness’s head – Circa 1940-1943 – Bronze signed ‘Guyot’ – Stamped by the foundry Susse Frères

H. 24 ; L .20 ; P.13 cm – Galerie Xavier Eeckhout

L. A. Ring (1854-1933) Woman on the balcony, 1912, oil on canvas 31 x 26,5 cm signed lower right : L.A. Ring 1912 –

Van der Meij Fine Arts

Giovan Battista Gaulli dit Il Baciccio (1639 – 1709) Rest during the flight to Egypt, circa 1690 – oil on canvas 66 x 49 cm –

Galerie Terrades

 

 

 

FINE ARTS PARIS: an ebullient spirit

 

You will receive the full press kit before the summer holidays

 

 

 

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FINE ARTS PARIS

November 13-17, 2019

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PRESS RELEASE

1st July 2019 – for immediate release

ARTIST COLLECTED BY DAVID BOWIE & CATE BLANCHETT OFFERS: DREAMSCAPES:A MYSTIC’S VIEW OF INDIA  – PAINTINGS BY TOBIT ROCHE

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David Bowie and Cate Blanchett are just two celebrity fans of the British artist with Bloomsbury Group connections, Tobit Roche, whose latest exhibition, Dreamscapes, A Mystic’s View of India will be held at Indar Pasricha Fine Arts, Pimlico gallery,44 Moreton St Pimlico, London SW1V 2PN 18th September 2019 – 19thOctober 2019

 

 

In Tobit’s paintings, there is always a back story. Duncan Grant of the Bloomsbury Group, who was close to his father, gave him the following advice: that discipline is essential in any artistic endeavour.  This advice has remained with him.

Tobit began painting as a nine-year-old while living in Canada, and was influenced by the Group of Seven, which included the prolific landscape painter, Tom Thomson.  At fifteen, Roche moved to India where he lived with his mother and stepfather.  In India he was exposed to the cultural heritage of that country and it was at a time when the vestiges of empire were being forgotten.

Roche recalls a particularly important experience which occurred when, at the age of sixteen, he was taken to the Himalayas.  The experience was of an overwhelming feeling of freedom and adventure.  Roche’s works appear to be an homage to the landscapes and memories of India, but are in fact an insight into his psyche.

Roche will be showing semi abstract Indian landscapes which are a blend of his memories and experiences. The mysticism in his paintings is created by his use of soft focus and sfumato.  A patchwork of memories provide a key point of reference for his paintings.

A new direction in Roche’s work manifests itself in the Lingam paintings, which are a bridge between tantric and abstract art.  Roche uses colour and light to deepen the narrative and capture that elusive feeling of India.

The work of an artist is the accumulation of his life experience.  Tobit’s life has been an adventure which, few of us could survive.  He has, in a great part, done so by expressing his angst in his paintings.

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Roche attended the American International School in New Delhi.  While Tobitattributes much of his feelings as an ‘outsider’ to an unorthodox schooling experience; the differences between him and his peers as a result of physical and mental childhood trauma.   It was during these formative years that Tobit was exposed to the people and experiences that would most significantly impact his work and leave a lasting impression.  Tobit cites American Abstract Expressionism and the works of Pollock and Rothko as key influences in his work.  He was also influenced by writers of this period, having been introduced to American literature by his English teacher, who was the sister of Thornton Wilder.

 

The exhibition will run from 18th September 2019 until 19th October 2019.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT INDAR PASRICHA ON

info@ipfa.co.uk

07703 341942

INDAR PASRICHA FINE ARTS

Indar Pasricha Fine Arts 44 Moreton St Pimlico, London SW1V 2PN

DREAMSCAPES

A MYSTIC’S VIEW OF INDIA

PAINTINGS BY TOBIT ROCHE

18th September 2019 – 19th October 2019

‘The emotional weight of a recalled moment is deeper and stronger than the episode itself’

Tobit Roche

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Tobit Roche’s new exhibition, Dreamscapes, A Mystic’s View of India will be held at Indar Pasricha FineArt’s Pimlico gallery.  Roche will be showing semi abstract Indian landscapes which are a blend of his memories and experiences. The mysticism in his paintings is created by his use of soft focus and sfumato. A patchwork of memories provide a key point of reference for his paintings.

A new direction in Roche’s work manifests itself in the Lingam paintings, which are a bridge between tantric and abstract art.  Roche uses colour and light to deepen the narrative and capture that elusive feeling of India.

The work of an artist is the accumulation of his life experience.  Tobit’s life has been an adventure which, few of us could survive.  He has, in a great part, done so by expressing his angst in his paintings.

Macintosh SSD:Users:Julian:Desktop:Tobit Roche:Paintings May 2019-014 small.jpg

 

In Tobit’s paintings, there is always a back story. Duncan Grant of the Bloomsbury Group, who was close to his father, gave him the following advice: that discipline is essential in any artistic endeavour.  This advice has remained with him.

He began painting as a nine-year-old while living in Canada, and was influenced by the Group of Seven, which included the prolific landscape painter, Tom Thomson.  At fifteen, Roche moved to India where he lived with his mother and stepfather.  In India he was exposed to the cultural heritage of that country andit was at a time when the vestiges of empire were being forgotten.  Roche recalls a particularly importantexperience which occurred when, at the age of sixteen, he was taken to the Himalayas.  The experience was of an overwhelming feeling of freedom and adventure.  Roche’s works appear to be an homage to the landscapes and memories of India, but are in fact an insight into his psyche.

Roche attended the American International School in New Delhi.  While Tobit attributes much of his feelings as an ‘outsider’ to an unorthodox schooling experience; the differences between him and his peers as a result of physical and mental childhood trauma.   It was during these formative years that Tobit was exposed to the people and experiences that would most significantly impact his work and leave a lasting impression.  Tobit cites American Abstract Expressionism and the works of Pollock and Rothko as key influences in his work.  He was also influenced by writers of this period, having been introduced to American literature by his English teacher, who was the sister of Thornton Wilder.

 

The exhibition will run from 18th September 2019 until 19th October 2019.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT INDAR PASRICHA ON

info@ipfa.co.uk

07703 341942

 

PRESS RELEASE
25 JUNE 2019

 

The auction house of Marc Labarbe and Cabinet Turquin announce the private treaty sale of the painting byCaravaggio, Judith and Holofernes, estimated at 100-150 Million Euros.

 

CARAVAGE Judith et Holpherne Crédit photo Cabinet Turquin

Michelangelo Merisi, da Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Judith and Holofernes (circa 1607)
On canvas 144×173.5 cm, @copyright : Cabinet Turquin
The painting by Caravaggio (1571-1610), Judith and Holofernes, painted circa 1607, discovered in an attic in Toulouse five years ago by the French auctioneer Marc Labarbe and which was to be sold at public auction this next 27 June in the Halle aux Grains in collaboration with the experts of Cabinet Turquin, has been sold privately to a foreign buyer. The painting will consequently be leaving French soil.
This transaction is covered by a confidentiality clause regarding the price of purchase and the identity of the buyer.

 

 

 

« We received an offer that could not be ignored and which we communicated to the owners of the painting. The fact that the offer came from someone close to an important museum convinced the sellers to accept »
Eric Turquin, expert in Old Master paintings

 

« We had everything organized to make the auction a grand event open to the public but our responsibility is to accept the decision of the sellers, our clients. We thank them for the trust they placed in us over these past 5 years and the support they gave to the research undertaken by our teams»
Marc Labarbe, auctioneer in Toulouse

 

Estimated at 100-150 million euros, this work by Caravaggio, known from several documents dating from the early 17th century and lost since 1617, is in an exceptional state of conservation for an artist whose paintings in museum collections are often very worn by successive restoration and cleaning. This painting by Caravaggio, an artist for whom only 65 works are known in the world, was the subject of numerous analyses: technical, stylistic and historical, undertaken by Cabinet Turquin over the course of 5 years. The attribution to Caravaggio was supported by the most important American, English, French, and Italian specialists for the artist. The painting was exhibited in Milan, London, Paris, New York and Toulouse; over 20,000 people came to admire the work in person these past months.

The story of this Caravaggio, perfect illustration of the courage and determination of Judith, the great biblical heroine, has just begun; it will soon be exhibited in an important museum. Having been forgotten in an attic for 150 years, Judith and Holofernes will finally come into the light for all to see, which is what compelled the vendors to accept this sale.

 

 

 

 

Press Contact :

PARIS – Art & Communication (FR) : Sylvie Robaglia / +33 (0)6 72 59 57 34, sylvie@art-et-communication.fr      www.art-et-communication.fr

 

LONDON – Bendigo Communications (UK): Julian Roup / + 44 (0)7970 563958, info@bendigopr.co.uk

 

NEW YORK – Homage PR (U.S.) : Mozell Miley-Bailey/ homagepr@gmail.com (646) 653-3105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

26TH June 2019 – for immediate release

INDAR PASRICHA FINE ARTS

Indar Pasricha Fine Arts 44 Moreton St Pimlico, London SW1V 2PN

DREAMSCAPES

A MYSTIC’S VIEW OF INDIA

PAINTINGS BY TOBIT ROCHE

18th September 2019 – 19th October 2019

‘The emotional weight of a recalled moment is deeper and stronger than the episode itself’

Tobit Roche

Macintosh SSD:Users:Julian:Desktop:Tobit Roche:Paintings May 2019-013 small.jpg

Tobit Roche’s new exhibition, Dreamscapes, A Mystic’s View of India will be held at Indar Pasricha FineArt’s Pimlico gallery.  Roche will be showing semi abstract Indian landscapes which are a blend of his memories and experiences. The mysticism in his paintings is created by his use of soft focus and sfumato. A patchwork of memories provide a key point of reference for his paintings.

A new direction in Roche’s work manifests itself in the Lingam paintings, which are a bridge between tantric and abstract art.  Roche uses colour and light to deepen the narrative and capture that elusive feeling of India.

The work of an artist is the accumulation of his life experience.  Tobit’s life has been an adventure which, few of us could survive.  He has, in a great part, done so by expressing his angst in his paintings.

Macintosh SSD:Users:Julian:Desktop:Tobit Roche:Paintings May 2019-014 small.jpg

 

In Tobit’s paintings, there is always a back story. Duncan Grant of the Bloomsbury Group, who was close to his father, gave him the following advice: that discipline is essential in any artistic endeavour.  This advice has remained with him.

He began painting as a nine-year-old while living in Canada, and was influenced by the Group of Seven, which included the prolific landscape painter, Tom Thomson.  At fifteen, Roche moved to India where he lived with his mother and stepfather.  In India he was exposed to the cultural heritage of that country andit was at a time when the vestiges of empire were being forgotten.  Roche recalls a particularly importantexperience which occurred when, at the age of sixteen, he was taken to the Himalayas.  The experience was of an overwhelming feeling of freedom and adventure.  Roche’s works appear to be an homage to the landscapes and memories of India, but are in fact an insight into his psyche.

Roche attended the American International School in New Delhi.  While Tobit attributes much of his feelings as an ‘outsider’ to an unorthodox schooling experience; the differences between him and his peers as a result of physical and mental childhood trauma.   It was during these formative years that Tobit was exposed to the people and experiences that would most significantly impact his work and leave a lasting impression.  Tobit cites American Abstract Expressionism and the works of Pollock and Rothko as key influences in his work.  He was also influenced by writers of this period, having been introduced to American literature by his English teacher, who was the sister of Thornton Wilder.

 

The exhibition will run from 18th September 2019 until 19th October 2019.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT INDAR PASRICHA ON

info@ipfa.co.uk

LOST CARAVAGGIO PAINTING

JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES

FOR SALE WITH MARC LABARBE AUCTIONS IN TOULOUSE, FRANCE, ON JUNE 27, 2019 AT 6PM

 

ESTIMATE €100/150 MILLION EUROS
($171 MILLION USD)

 

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Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610)

Judith and Holofernes (c. 1607)

Canvas: 1.44. L. 1.735 cm

 

 

PLEASE REGISTER TO ATTEND

 

Sale of Masterpiece Established as ‘The Lost Caravaggio’ Old Master painting to be soldin Toulouse by Maison de Ventes Marc Labarbe at 6pm on June 27.

 

 

Judith and Holofernes (1571-1610), the long lost painting by Caravaggio, discovered by the auctioneer Marc Labarbe five years ago in an attic in Toulouse, France, where it had lain forgotten for over 100 years, will be sold at auction at 6pm on June 27, 2019 in Toulouse in collaboration with the art appraisal firm Cabinet Turquin.

 

Media representatives should register if they want to attend the auction in Toulouse. For those unable to attend in person, they will be able to watch it live onwww.thetoulousecaravaggio.com

A post sale press release with Electronic Press Kit and photos will be issued immediately after the sale.
The auction takes place at :
Halle aux grains 1, Place Dupuy 31000 Toulouse
Auction on 27th June at 6 pm
The doors open between 4 pm and 5.30 pm, no admission after 5.30 pm
The auction will be live broadcasted on www.thetoulousecaravaggio.com

 

Today Caravaggio is almost a mythological figure, considered to be one of the geniuses of pictorial creation. The rediscovery of Judith and Holofernes is a major event and a decisive contribution to the œuvre of one of the greatest painters in history.

 

The painting has recently been exhibited in London, Paris, New York and Toulouse before being soldat auction in Toulouse. The painting by Caravaggio, “Judith and Holofernes’, has been estimated by Cabinet Turquin at €100/150 million and will be offered at auction by Marc Labarbe SVV in Toulouse. The sale, organized by Marc Labarbe with Cabinet Turquin, is without reserve and biddingwill start at 30 million.

 

This estimate reflects the rarity of works by the artist, the exceptional state of conservation of the painting and the fact that it is a unique masterpiece.

 

The authenticity of the rediscovered work, which is in exceptional condition for a painting dating from 1607, is well documented. Furthermore, many experts of the work of the Lombardi master have supported the attribution to Caravaggio (watch videos on www.thetoulousecaravaggio.com).

 

It has also been confirmed by a number of scientific analyses and supported by the results of a recent light cleaning of the old varnish. Scientific analyses reveal a total concordance of thepainting with the works of Caravaggio dating from 1600-1607 in both the preparation and the stages of execution.

 

An amazing discovery.

 

In 2014, Marc Labarbe, a Toulouse-based auctioneer known for having discovered a Chinese imperial scroll in 2011, sold for €22 million – the highest price ever fetched at auction for an Imperial Chinese painting – received a call from one of his clients in Toulouse. While clearing out the attic, the client had discovered a painting belonging to his family. Labarbe quickly recognized it as an important 17th century Italian work.

 

He called on the art appraiser Eric Turquin, a renowned expert in Old Master paintings, who, together with his team, researched the painting for two years in the greatest secrecy. All the experts recognized it as a major work and while the research continued, the French Ministry of Culture classified it as a National Treasure, which prevented it from being taken out of the country for a period of 30 months. The deadline expired 24 December 2018, making it possible for the painting to circulate freely. The canvas has now been lightly cleaned and will be auctioned on 27 June 2019 in Toulouse.

 

The family that owns it has lived in Toulouse for decades and descends from a Napoleonic officer who participated in the Spanish campaign from 1808 to 1814. Forty years ago, the heirs sold another famous painting that dated from the Spanish Golden Age. A few years before the discovery of the present painting, incompetent thieves stripped this same attic of a certain number of small objects while Judith and Holofernes, asleep under the eaves, luckily remained unnoticed.

 

The painting’s remarkable state of preservation, exceptional for a 400-year-old work, is an indication that it has probably passed through few hands since it was remounted around 1800.

 

 

Press Contacts:

 

      LONDON – Bendigo Communications (UK): Julian Roup / + 44 (0)7970 563958,info@bendigopr.co.uk

 

      PARIS – Art & Communication (France): Sylvie Robaglia / +33 (0)6 72 59 57 34,sylvie@art-et-communication.fr
www.art-et-communication.fr

 

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ART OF EARLY MAN FOUND IN 186 MILE WIDE VREDEFORT METEORITE CRATER, A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE IN SOUTH AFRICA IMPORTANT TO THE KHOI-SAN PEOPLE WHO LEFT CARVINGS THERE OVER 8,000 YEARS AGO

 

THE IMPACT WAS BIGGER THAN THAT WHICH DESTROYED THE DINOSAURS AND WOULD HAVE LED TO THE EXTINCTION OF MAN HAD WE EXISTED

Leading South African scientists from the University of the Free State are about to undertakeresearch into the destruction caused by a huge ancient meteorite that could hold clues critical to the history, mechanisms and consequences of meteorite strikes on earth and elsewhere in theSolar System. The results of this work could mean a better understanding of the effects of such impacts and the greater safety of the earth.

The vast crater is also fascinating for its human interest from early man who used it as a centre of cultural importance and left rock carvings as proof of their presence. The site was of great spiritual significance, comparable to the stone circles of Stonehenge in the UK. The Khoi-San patently understood that the rock remains found on the surface were unique and important.

The University of the Free State is fortunate to be situated only 180 miles from the largest meteorite crater, which has an initial diameter of 300 kilometers (186.4 miles) and at over twobillion years old is the oldest impact crater on Earth – known as the Vredefort impact structure. The meteorite that made the impact was travelling at 70,000 kilometres (43,495.98 miles) per hourwhen it struck the earth. The effect on the earth has lasted millennia in a dynamic, changing process. The recent meteor impact discovery in Scotland is tiny by comparison. Had man been present at the time of the Scottish impact it would have destroyed the whole Scots community,whereas the Vredefort impact would have led to human extinction on earth.

The University of the Free State study of the Vredefort impact structure will look in particular at the Granophyre dykes, the only remnants of the now eroded impact melt sheet that intruded downwards through fractures in the crater floor.

GOLD IN THE CRATER

In addition to the planetary-scale importance of impact events, some impact craters are connected with ore deposits. The Vredefort impact structure in South Africa is situated in the center of the Witwatersrand goldfields, and the richness, location, and accessibility of the gold mineralisation areclearly connected to the impact structure, which moved the gold deposits around, concentrating it,say the UFS scientists studying the crater. The impact structure, therefore, influenced economic interest in the area, and as a result created the city of Johannesburg, one of the largest cities on the African continent.

An international team of scientists is being led by principal investigator Dr. Matthew S. Huber of the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Geology, who says: “As impact events can potentially represent a threat to life with the ability to alter the development of entire planets, it is critical that we develop a better understanding of their history, mechanisms, and consequences. By studying the traces of impact events on Earth, we can reconstruct the mechanisms of such processes, and gain greater understanding of our own ecosystem and origin.”

He adds: “The Vredefort impact was massive – it was larger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs.  If it happened today, civilization might be at an end.  We only know of three such impact craters preserved on Earth: the Chicxulub crater that killed the dinosaurs, the Sudbury crater in Canada, and the Vredefort crater.  What is really unique about Vredefort is that we get to see the deep architecture below these massive impact craters, and those deep rocks tell not only the story of what happened at the moment of impact, but also how those rocks adjusted and shifted for thousands of years after the impact.”

“We are pretty sure that the asteroid that caused the Vredefort impact event was about 10-15 kilometres (6.2-9.3 miles) in diameter.  Many space programs around the world are tracking asteroids that are potentially dangerous to life on Earth.  These programs have discovered that there are hundreds of asteroids that are at least 1 km in diameter that would cause massive devastation if they impacted the earth.  Fortunately, at the moment, none of these asteroids appears to be on a collision course with us!”

And on the subject of early man’s link to the crater, he says: “We suspect that one reason the San took interest in the crater’s Granophyre dykes was that the dyke resembles the shape of the Rain Snake.  The location of the dyke on top of a hill, near a body of water, and in the shape of an important deity probably brought them there so that they could perform rainmaking rituals, and possibly other important cultural activities.  We hope that detailed investigation will show us more about how the site might have been utilised.”

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       KHOI-SAN CARVINGS

Observations of rocky bodies such as the Moon, Mars, and asteroids have revealed that impact craters are common throughout the Solar System. Meteorite impacts have also left scars over the surface of the Earth, and some of these impact events have had major effects on our planet. A powerful meteorite impact 65 million years ago, known as the Chicxulub impact event, led to the extinction of 65% of life on earth, including the dinosaurs.

On Earth, erosion and active plate tectonics remove meteorite impact craters from the surface comparatively quickly. When impact craters are exposed at the surface, they are often utilised by people living in the area for cultural purposes.

The structure is easily accessible for sampling and research, providing an opportunity to study this impact crater. Vredefort is an ideal impact structure to study, as it is deeply eroded, showing features not seen elsewhere on Earth, is accessible at the surface, and has not been modified by any major tectonic event, due to its position on the stable Kaapvaal craton. Additionally, it has cultural significance, with early man, Khoi-San rock art, rock shelters, pottery, and engravings.This provides opportunities to enhance knowledge of South Africa’s “First Peoples”.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES:

The University of the Free State will combine geological investigations with cultural investigations to provide a unique perspective on the Vredefort impact structure that is both scientifically advanced and grounded in humanity.

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE:

The Vredefort impact structure is a UNESCO world heritage site, based on its socio-cultural, aesthetic, conservational, historical and scientific significance. In addition, this site has traces of San rock art indicative of material remains attached to a specific socio-cultural reality. These rock art sites form an integral part of the South African cultural heritage landscape.

GRANOPHYRE DYKES

The proposed University of the Free State study of the Vredefort impact structure will look inparticular at the Granophyre dykes, the only remnants of the now eroded impact melt sheet that intruded downwards through fractures in the crater floor. Because the impact melt intruded downwards, capturing rock fragments on its way, it can provide samples of rock formations that are long eroded and are otherwise not accessible. Such samples allow observations of shock microstructures, formed in target rocks that were located near the earth’s early surface at the time of impact. Studying the granophyre dykes can answer many geological questions. The overarching questions the UFS research team want to answer are: 1) what did the Vredefort structure look like?And 2) what was it composed of before it was eroded?

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           Granophyre dyke

These dykes, exposed by erosion, have been exploited by the Khoi-San culture as ceremonial sites, so from a heritage perspective, the above stated objectives offer great potential to contribute alsoto the existing body of knowledge of the scientific and aesthetic significance of this heritage site.

By studying the impact structure at both macro- and micro-scales, the UFS team will make important contributions about the knowledge of impact craters, the processes that take place during large impact events, and processes and outcomes attached to the scope of heritage.

These geological observations and results can then be applied to other planetary bodies, giving us a greater understanding of the Moon, Mars, and other planets. In terms of the heritage scope, our outcomes will contribute to the body of anthropological knowledge on the socio-cultural reality of the Khoi-San within the Free State as well as the concept of “living” heritage.

Anthropological literature on the San is limited to the South African Provinces of the Western Cape and the Northern Cape, as well as countries such as Botswana and Namibia. Anthropological understanding of the San in the Free State and specifically in relation to the concept heritage is lacking.

EXPECTED RESULTS OF THE PROJECT:

The new data generated from this project will help the team to constrain the stages and processes that occurred during the formation and subsequent development of the impact structure. This data will fill in gaps in the scientific literature and have global implications, with results being applicable to not only other impact structure on Earth, but also on the Moon and Mars. The work will grow the scientific understanding of impact-cratering processes.  It will furthermore contribute to the scholarly understanding of the heritage significance of this site with specific reference to the Khoi-San.

The UFS team is led by:

Dr. Matthew S. Huber, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Geology (CV attached) and co-workers: Dr. Francois Fourie, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Institute for Groundwater Studies; Dr. Elizaveta Kovaleva, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Geology; Dr. Martin D. Clark, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Geology; Ms. Liezel Blomerus, Faculty of the Humanities, Department of Anthropology.

FOR MORE PRESS INFORMATION & IMAGES PLEASE CONTACT:

 

Julian Roup of Bendigo Communications

Telephone +44 (0)7970563958

Or email

info@bendigopr.co.uk

 

Notes for Editors:

 

The University of the Free State:

115 years old (1904-2019)
7 faculties

114 departments
40, 491 total students
31, 135 Undergraduate students
7, 486 Postgraduate students
1, 870 International students
2, 521 permanent staff members
59 satellite campuses
157 renovated buildings (2012-2017)
12 new buildings (2012-2017)
1 200 works of art

1, 584 collaborating institutions
2, 751 co-authored publications from 2013-2018
240 postgraduate research degrees on average conferred per year
100.45% research output increase since 2010

 

 

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INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED INTO THE 186 MILE WIDE VREDEFORT METEORITE CRATER, A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE IN SOUTH AFRICA

CULTURALLY IMPORTANT SITE TO THE KHOI-SAN PEOPLE WHO LEFT CARVINGS THERE OVER 8,000 YEARS AGO

THE IMPACT WAS BIGGER THAN THAT WHICH DESTROYED THE DINOSAURS AND WOULD HAVE LED TO THE EXTINCTION OF MAN HAD WE EXISTED

 

Leading South African scientists from the University of the Free State are about to undertakeresearch into the destruction caused by a huge ancient meteorite that could hold clues critical to the history, mechanisms and consequences of meteorite strikes on earth and elsewhere in theSolar System. The results of this work could mean a better understanding of the effects of such impacts and the greater safety of the earth.

The vast crater is also fascinating for its human interest from early man who used it as a centre of cultural importance and left rock carvings as proof of their presence. The site was of great spiritual significance, comparable to the stone circles of Stonehenge in the UK. The Khoi-San patently understood that the rock remains found on the surface were unique and important.

The University of the Free State is fortunate to be situated only 180 miles from the largest meteorite crater, which has an initial diameter of 300 kilometers (186.4 miles) and at over twobillion years old is the oldest impact crater on Earth – known as the Vredefort impact structure. The meteorite that made the impact was travelling at 70,000 kilometres (43,495.98 miles) per hourwhen it struck the earth. The effect on the earth has lasted millennia in a dynamic, changing process. The recent meteor impact discovery in Scotland is tiny by comparison. Had man been present at the time of the Scottish impact it would have destroyed the whole Scots community,whereas the Vredefort impact would have led to human extinction on earth.

The University of the Free State study of the Vredefort impact structure will look in particular at the Granophyre dykes, the only remnants of the now eroded impact melt sheet that intruded downwards through fractures in the crater floor.

GOLD IN THE CRATER

In addition to the planetary-scale importance of impact events, some impact craters are connected with ore deposits. The Vredefort impact structure in South Africa is situated in the center of the Witwatersrand goldfields, and the richness, location, and accessibility of the gold mineralisation areclearly connected to the impact structure, which moved the gold deposits around, concentrating it,say the UFS scientists studying the crater. The impact structure, therefore, influenced economic interest in the area, and as a result created the city of Johannesburg, one of the largest cities on the African continent.

An international team of scientists is being led by principal investigator Dr. Matthew S. Huber of the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Geology, who says: “As impact events can potentially represent a threat to life with the ability to alter the development of entire planets, it is critical that we develop a better understanding of their history, mechanisms, and consequences. By studying the traces of impact events on Earth, we can reconstruct the mechanisms of such processes, and gain greater understanding of our own ecosystem and origin.”

He adds: “The Vredefort impact was massive – it was larger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs.  If it happened today, civilization might be at an end.  We only know of three such impact craters preserved on Earth: the Chicxulub crater that killed the dinosaurs, the Sudbury crater in Canada, and the Vredefort crater.  What is really unique about Vredefort is that we get to see the deep architecture below these massive impact craters, and those deep rocks tell not only the story of what happened at the moment of impact, but also how those rocks adjusted and shifted for thousands of years after the impact.”

“We are pretty sure that the asteroid that caused the Vredefort impact event was about 10-15 kilometres (6.2-9.3 miles) in diameter.  Many space programs around the world are tracking asteroids that are potentially dangerous to life on Earth.  These programs have discovered that there are hundreds of asteroids that are at least 1 km in diameter that would cause massive devastation if they impacted the earth.  Fortunately, at the moment, none of these asteroids appears to be on a collision course with us!”

And on the subject of early man’s link to the crater, he says: “We suspect that one reason the San took interest in the crater’s Granophyre dykes was that the dyke resembles the shape of the Rain Snake.  The location of the dyke on top of a hill, near a body of water, and in the shape of an important deity probably brought them there so that they could perform rainmaking rituals, and possibly other important cultural activities.  We hope that detailed investigation will show us more about how the site might have been utilised.”

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       KHOI-SAN CARVINGS

Observations of rocky bodies such as the Moon, Mars, and asteroids have revealed that impact craters are common throughout the Solar System. Meteorite impacts have also left scars over the surface of the Earth, and some of these impact events have had major effects on our planet. A powerful meteorite impact 65 million years ago, known as the Chicxulub impact event, led to the extinction of 65% of life on earth, including the dinosaurs.

On Earth, erosion and active plate tectonics remove meteorite impact craters from the surface comparatively quickly. When impact craters are exposed at the surface, they are often utilised by people living in the area for cultural purposes.

The structure is easily accessible for sampling and research, providing an opportunity to study this impact crater. Vredefort is an ideal impact structure to study, as it is deeply eroded, showing features not seen elsewhere on Earth, is accessible at the surface, and has not been modified by any major tectonic event, due to its position on the stable Kaapvaal craton. Additionally, it has cultural significance, with early man, Khoi-San rock art, rock shelters, pottery, and engravings.This provides opportunities to enhance knowledge of South Africa’s “First Peoples”.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES:

The University of the Free State will combine geological investigations with cultural investigations to provide a unique perspective on the Vredefort impact structure that is both scientifically advanced and grounded in humanity.

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE:

The Vredefort impact structure is a UNESCO world heritage site, based on its socio-cultural, aesthetic, conservational, historical and scientific significance. In addition, this site has traces of San rock art indicative of material remains attached to a specific socio-cultural reality. These rock art sites form an integral part of the South African cultural heritage landscape.

GRANOPHYRE DYKES

The proposed University of the Free State study of the Vredefort impact structure will look inparticular at the Granophyre dykes, the only remnants of the now eroded impact melt sheet that intruded downwards through fractures in the crater floor. Because the impact melt intruded downwards, capturing rock fragments on its way, it can provide samples of rock formations that are long eroded and are otherwise not accessible. Such samples allow observations of shock microstructures, formed in target rocks that were located near the earth’s early surface at the time of impact. Studying the granophyre dykes can answer many geological questions. The overarching questions the UFS research team want to answer are: 1) what did the Vredefort structure look like?And 2) what was it composed of before it was eroded?

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           Granophyre dyke

These dykes, exposed by erosion, have been exploited by the Khoi-San culture as ceremonial sites, so from a heritage perspective, the above stated objectives offer great potential to contribute alsoto the existing body of knowledge of the scientific and aesthetic significance of this heritage site.

By studying the impact structure at both macro- and micro-scales, the UFS team will make important contributions about the knowledge of impact craters, the processes that take place during large impact events, and processes and outcomes attached to the scope of heritage.

These geological observations and results can then be applied to other planetary bodies, giving us a greater understanding of the Moon, Mars, and other planets. In terms of the heritage scope, our outcomes will contribute to the body of anthropological knowledge on the socio-cultural reality of the Khoi-San within the Free State as well as the concept of “living” heritage.

Anthropological literature on the San is limited to the South African Provinces of the Western Cape and the Northern Cape, as well as countries such as Botswana and Namibia. Anthropological understanding of the San in the Free State and specifically in relation to the concept heritage is lacking.

EXPECTED RESULTS OF THE PROJECT:

The new data generated from this project will help the team to constrain the stages and processes that occurred during the formation and subsequent development of the impact structure. This data will fill in gaps in the scientific literature and have global implications, with results being applicable to not only other impact structure on Earth, but also on the Moon and Mars. The work will grow the scientific understanding of impact-cratering processes.  It will furthermore contribute to the scholarly understanding of the heritage significance of this site with specific reference to the Khoi-San.

The UFS team is led by:

Dr. Matthew S. Huber, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Geology (CV attached) and co-workers: Dr. Francois Fourie, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Institute for Groundwater Studies; Dr. Elizaveta Kovaleva, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Geology; Dr. Martin D. Clark, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Geology; Ms. Liezel Blomerus, Faculty of the Humanities, Department of Anthropology.

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SCIENTIST SAYS THE UNIQUE SKIN REMNANTS OF ‘SKINNY’ THE DINOSAUR AT HEATHROW  WILL TEACH US MORE ABOUT THE DIPLODOCUS

 

POSSIBLE FEATHERS AND SCALES WHICH DON’T OVERLAP UNLIKE SNAKES OR LIZARDS

 

Aguttes link: https://www.aguttes.com/?&setLng=en

The skeleton of a 155 million year old diplodocus is on exhibition at Heathrow Terminal Five from April 2nd until the end of May before being sold by the leading French auction house Aguttes in Paris in June for an expected £2m.

Nicknamed ‘Skinny’ the Diplodocus skeleton shows important and significant impressions of the skin of the dinosaur, which has never been discovered in such quantities before on a Diplodocus,making this a uniquely valuable skeleton – a world first. It was discovered in shale beds in Wyoming USA in 2012. It has been erected at the airport using a ground breaking new technology developed by Paleomoove of Marseille. It took three nights to erect the dinosaur which has almost 90% of its bones.

Delicately packaged and shipped to Paleomoove Paleontological Preparation Laboratory, in France the sedimentary blocks containing Skinny have spent the last 12 months, some 3000 hours, in the hands of experts to clear the bones, skin prints in a revolutionary method. Millimeter by millimeter, grain-by-grain, the chief fossil scientist on this project and his team, cleared the skin and bones.

 

For a paleontologist, finding dinosaur skin is the most exciting discovery. “Having such a level of fossilization is as rare as winning the UK lotto. The Skinny dinosaur was probably buried very quickly which has preserved the skin to a significant degree,” says Eric Mickeler who has led the preservation and research into  this diplodocus cousin.

 

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Diplodocus
walked the earth in the Late Jurassic some 155-145 million years ago and was a vegetarian dinosaur species with a very long neck, allowing it to feed both high and low. The species is the mascot of the British Museum which has a Diplodocus cast known as ‘Dippy’ whose292 bones are cleaned every two years.

It was huge, tipping the scales at 20,000 kg, feeding on leaves and other soft vegetation using rows of comb-like teeth.

This totally unique dinosaur skeleton is presented in a revolutionary way as a contemporary work of art, but respects all the scientific criteria of preparation and reconstruction. It will be possible to change its initial position a little and to make it take another stance thanks to the great interpretation capabilities of the French company, Paleoomove Laboratory, based in Marseille which specializes in the articulation of dinosaur skeletons.

 

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Eric Mickeler, International  expert in Natural History, and a specialist in dinosaurs is also a special advisor to Aguttes Auction house, says: “This exceptional  skeleton is from a cousin of the Diplodocus. As an original skeleton it is quite remarkable.
It is currently the only Diplodocus dinosaur in the world to carry such a large area of its skin: it is therefore a world first.”

A simple observation shows that Skinny’s skin, the unknown dipodocidae, Heathrow’s new star, was covered with tiny scales of a few millimeters each. Unlike the lizard or snake, Skinny’s scales did not overlap. If we had touched this dinosaur, the sensation would probably not have been that of a smooth skin, but a rather uneven surface.

 

Skinny offered researchers samples from several areas of the body of a diplodocidae but not the full suit’ They are researching the possibility that this dinosaur might have had some feathers in some parts of his body or not.

 

For more than a century, paleontologists were forced to imagine the appearance of dinosaurs, having found only their bones. Thus, based on the image of contemporary reptiles, the researchers imagined dinosaurs with thick skin and dark color, adopting brown and green tones (like crocodiles and lizards), or completely gray.

 

Eric Mickeler says: “It was very difficult to imagine what a dinosaur looks like by looking only at its skeleton (especially with the limited scientific means of the nineteenth century). Imagine trhing to imagine what a duck or swan without feather and without beak would look like? A cat or a rabbit, without fur, without ears or snout? In the same vein, how do you imagine the layer of fat covering certain animals, such as hippos or whales? Or the crest of cockerels and turkeys? Or the elephant’s trunk?”

 

The past 30 years have have witnessed a renaissance of dinosaurs to whom we now lend colors, feathers or proto feathers. Therefore it might emerge that Skinny had a colored skin. In the past it was impossible to know the skin color of the dinosaurs (the pigmentation is not preserved in the fossil state), new scientific procedures have been experimented on the remains of the feathered dinosaurs found in China.

 

FOR MORE PRESS INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Julian Roup on 0044 (0)7970563958 or 01892 669200 email atinfo@bendigopr.co.uk

or the Heathrow Press Office at media_centre@heathrow.com

 

NOTES FOR EDITORS:

 

For more information on the dinosaur exhibited at Heathrow, which will be auctioned in France in June 2019, please contact the dinsaur expert, Mr. Eric Mickeler, well-known consultant of international sales of dinosaurs.

 

Tel0033 6 72 74 71 42

Email erics@wanadoo.fr

 

 

ABOUT AGUTTES AUCTION HOUSE

AGUTTES is the first independent auction house in France (without external shareholders) and was ranked as the fourth largest auction house in the French market in 2018. Founded by Claude Aguttes in 1974, the company holds 80 auctions per year with a team of 40. AGUTTES is also a major actor at Drouot in Paris, where it achieved the highest sale records in 2015, 2017 and 2018. In 2017, the auction house was chosen by the French Commercial Court to organize the sale of the tremendous Aristophil Collections of Rare Books and Manuscripts. In June 2018, AGUTTES reached a world record by selling a new carnivorous dinosaur species for more than 2 million euros at the Eiffel Tower. In 2019, the company opened a new sales representative office in Brussels and completed significant renovations in its saleroom in Lyon – the former train station of Brotteaux – which will allow new events to be created.

 

 

 

H&H CLASSICS

 

8th May 2019 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

CHANCE TO REJUVENATE AN ICON

 

LIVERPOOL ‘GARAGE FIND’ 1936 ASTON MARTIN MARK II 1.5 LITRE SPORTS SALOON – ONE OF 24 BUILT – A HIGHLY DESIRABLE RESTORATION PROJECT GOING UNDER THE HAMMER WITH H&H CLASSICS AT DUXFORD ON JUNE 19TH FOR £45,000 – £55,000

 

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This highly desirable ‘garage find’ from Liverpool – an Aston Martin Mark II 1.5 Litre Sports Saloon- which has been in storage since the early 1970s will be sold by H&H Classics at their next DuxfordImperial War Museum sale on June 19th. The car has been untouched for 50 years.

 

It was bought in 1953 by a brilliant self-taught electrical engineer, Philip Kenyon, who worked for radio companies on the development of the first Radar system during WW2 and spent time with the Radio Secret Service.

 

Often these cars were ‘chopped’ in the 70’s and 80’s to create open top tourers, as that was then the fashion. But this car has virtually had no modifications at all. Aston Martin fans see features in this car that they have never seen before. So this incredibly rare example of an iconic historical car, a piece of British automotive history, would add significant lustre to the most select classic car collection.

 

When the car finds itself at Duxford it will be just a hundred yards from the runway which todaysees another 1930s icon still in action, the legendary Supermarine Spitfire (in production from 1938) that fly in and out of this aerodrome.

Supplied new on 31/1/36 by Watson & Co Ltd of Liverpool this car was originally finished in green with green upholstery. Much of the car’s history is known and documented.

 

The Aston Martin has stayed with the Kenyon family since then and they are now offering it for sale. Joan Kenyon, recalls travelling in the car with her father at the wheel all over the Lake District and into Wales, driven hard across mountain passes and thinking of that as nothing unusual. It was only when the cable on the handbrake went that the car was laid up for decades.

 

Bought in 1953 by Philip Kenyon, seen here with his daughters Joan and Ann.

 

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Nick Lumby of H&H Classics says: “This is a wonderful opportunity to acquire a rare and charismatic pre-War Aston for restoration, one of just 24 of these historic cars built. When new the car was capable of an 80mph top speed from its 1.5 litre four-cylinder engine. Its predecessors in the years between the wars had established the marque’s reputation on the racetrack.”

 

Once restored this wonderful pre-war Aston Martin will surely reward its happy new owner with a superb driving experience as well as the opportunity to continue the preservation of an historically significant motorcar.

Introduced in 1934, the replacement Mark II model sported a new, stronger chassis and a revised engine incorporating a counter-balanced crankshaft and dry sump lubrication.

 

FOR MORE PRESS INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE H&H CLASSICS PRESS OFFFICE: Julian Roup ON +44 (0) 7970 563958 OR email info@bendigopr.co.uk

 

NOTES FOR EDITORS:

 

H&H was founded by Simon Hope in 1993 as a specialist auction house dedicated solely to the sale of collectors’ motorcars and motorcycles. Some 26 years later, the company can boast a continuous trading history, which exceeds that of any UK rival. The company is staffed by hands-on enthusiasts with over 600 years’ combined experience, and its specialist valuers are among the most knowledgeable in the industry.

 

H&H has had the pleasure of handling everything from 1890s London to Brighton runners through to 1990s Formula 1 cars, not to mention a variety of iconic motorcycles and holds a considerable number of World Record auction prices.

 

With the head office near Warrington, Cheshire and its Private Sales Garage nearHindhead in Surrey and specialists based throughout Europe, H&H holds regular physical sales at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in Cambridgeshire, National Motorcycle Museum in the West Midlands and Pavilion Gardens, Buxton. There are alsoAutomobilia Online Sales and Live Auctions Online throughout the year.

 

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7th MAY 2019 – for immediate release

STRAUSS & CO SALE HIGHLIGHTS

HOW ARTIST-TEACHERS HAVE SHAPED

SOUTH AFRICAN ART THAT SELL FOR MILLIONS

 

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Irma Stern – Still Life With Fruit and Dahlias – £600,000 to £800,000

 

Strauss & Co, the world’s foremost auction house for South African art, is delighted to announce details of its forthcoming Johannesburg sale at the Wanderers Club on 20 May. Following shortly on the company’s recording-breaking R106-million sale in Cape Town, this offering includes important artworks by moderns Alexis Preller, Irma Stern and Anton van Wouw, as well as contemporaries William Kentridge, Penny Siopis and Athi-Patra Ruga.

 

A dedicated supporter of further education in art, having in 2018 established a bursary for postgraduate study, Strauss & Co is delighted to be offering works by Anton van Wouwrepresenting the cutting-edge of new research. Recent scholarship by Gerhard de Kamper, chief curator of collections at the University of Pretoria, has revealed that Van Wouw worked with five Roman foundries, not three as was long thought. The Strauss & Co bursary will be awarded to a postgraduate student to pursue this line of research.

 

The forthcoming sale includes castings from five different foundries used by Van Wouw, including the previously unknown Buongirolami foundry for his bust of statesman Louis Botha (estimate R200 000 – 300 000). But the undisputed highlight is a full-length bronze maquette of the larger Church Square (Pretoria) sculpture depicting Paul Kruger (estimate R2.2 – 3.2 million), produced by theNisini foundry and previously owned by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who gifted it to the Rand Club, the consignor.

 

Van Wouw’s Kruger bronze is among the sale’s top-five lots by value, ranking alongside a rare mosaic by Alexis Preller and three paintings, including a magnificent still-life by Irma Stern, South Africa’s leading artist at auction.

 

Great anticipation surrounds the offering of Alexis Preller’s only known mosaic, a pristine work depicting five towering figures (estimate R6 – 8 million) that was originally installed at a private home in Waterkloof, Pretoria. The forthcoming sale also includes exquisite smaller paintings, such as A Box of Mangoes (estimate R300 000 – 400 000), and homoerotic student work Two Male Nudes (estimate R250 000 – 400 000) from 1934.

 

Flowers were a staple of Stern’s valued output, her floral still lifes functioning both as a source of painterly innovation and personal delight. Dated 1946, Still Life with Fruit and Dahlias (estimate R12 – 15 million) was produced after Stern’s second visit to Zanzibar in 1945 and portrays a generous bouquet of dahlias in a partially glazed Chinese martaban jar, dramatically presented in a Zanzibari frame with carved flower motifs. Still Life with Basket of Flowers (estimate R4.5 – 6 million) from 1937 records Stern’s fluent use of colour and innovative paint techniques within a nominally constraining genre.

 

In February, Strauss & Co established a new benchmark when it sold a vibrant photograph by multimedia artist Athi-Patra Ruga for R1.7 million. The forthcoming sale includes an early tapestry by Ruga, Ilulwane … he’s not one of youz (estimate R200 000 – 300 000), produced shortly after his breakout textiles inspired by Irma Stern.

 

Other notable contemporary artists with works on this sale are Deborah Bell, Zander Blom, Willem Boshoff, Georgina Gratrix, Moshekwa Langa and – cresting high following his work’s appearance on the cover of Time magazine – Nelson Makamo, whose 2014 charcoal drawing Power over Love (estimate R150 000 – 200 000) is a fine example of his pathos-infused work.

 

Two early works by William Kentridge, South Africa’s most acclaimed contemporary artist, will undoubtedly attract strong bidding: Untitled: Man, Woman and Warthog (estimate R1.8 – 2.5million) from 1985, and the triptych Art in a State of Grace, Hope and Siege (estimate R1.2 –1.6 million) from 1988 – the latter screenprints are rarely offered as a complete set.

 

The forthcoming sale includes a soft focus on artists who were or are still educators, with works by prominent teachers such as Bill Ainslie, Karel Nel, Cecil Skotnes and Penny Siopis. Cake: Treats (estimate R400 000 – 600 000) is an early “cake” painting by Siopis made in 1982, when she was still teaching art in Durban, while Nel’s Presence: Leaf Shrine, North Island, Seychelles (estimate R400 000 – 600 000) from 2014 dates from his last years at Wits University, where he taught alongside Siopis.

 

Bill Ainslie is well known for championing abstract expressionism in South Africa, and smart collectors with a keen sense of art history will appreciate his untitled two-metre wide mixed media on canvas (estimate R80 000 – 120 000). Ainslie is notable for having taught both Kentridge and Sam Nhlengethwa, whose Abstract with Yellow Triangle (R200 000 – 300 000) reveals the influence of his participation in the Thupelo series of artist workshops organized by Ainslie and David loane.

 

Strauss & Co will host a preview of its innovative, education-themed sale at the Wanderers Club, Johannesburg, from Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May, from 10 am to 5 pm. The sale commences on Monday 20 May at 3pm, with the premier Evening Sale starting at 7pm.

 

Press Enquiries:

 

Julian Roup: info@bendigopr.co.uk

 

call 07970 563958

 

or

 

Bina Genovese, bina@straussart.co.za

 

 

About Strauss & Co:
Strauss & Co is South Africa’s leading auction house and the global leader for South African art. It was founded in 2009 by a consortium of business leaders and industry experts, including the late auctioneer Stephan Welz, Elisabeth Bradley, Dr Conrad Strauss, Vanessa Phillips, Ann Palmer and Bina Genovese. Frank Kilbourn, a respected entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector, was appointed Executive Chairperson in 2016. Strauss & Co has the highest market share amongst the four leading auction houses specialising in South African art globally. In 2017 the company’s turnovertotalled R329 million – a sum unrivalled by any auction house dealing in South African art in a single year. Strauss & Co annually holds five live auctions, three in Cape Town and two in Johannesburg, and up to eight online-only auctions. Strauss & Co was awarded the prestigious Chairman’s Premier Award at the 2018 annual BASA Awards for its sustained and extraordinary commitment to the arts in South Africa.
www.strausssart.co.za

Strauss & Co Board of Directors: Frank Kilbourn (Executive Chairperson), Vanessa Phillips and Bina Genovese (Joint MDs), Elisabeth Bradley, Dr Conrad Strauss, Caro Wiese, Carmen Welz, Susie Goodman. Jack Ginsberg

Lot 224

 

Anton vanWouw

Paul Kruger

bears the foundry mark

bronze with a dark brown patina; cast by the Nisinifoundry, Rome

height: 102cm

 

R 2 200 000 – 3 200 000

Lot 233

 

Irma Stern

Still Life with Fruit and Dahlias

signed and dated 1946

oil on canvas

85 by 95cm

 

R 12 000 000 – 15 000 000

Lot 216

 

Alexis Preller

Profile Head

signed and dated69

oil on canvas

40,5 by 46cm

 

R 600 000 – 800 000

Lot 268

 

Cecil Skotnes

Abstract Figure

signed

incised and painted wood panel

61 by 45,5cm

 

R 140 000 – 180 000

Lot 288

 

Athi-Patra Ruga

Ilulwane … he’s not one of youz

thread on tapestry canvas

86 by 136cm

 

R 200 000 – 300 000

 

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3rd April 2019 – for immediate release

HEATHROW TERMINAL FIVE EXHIBITS SKELETON OF NEW SPECIES OF DINOSAUR: COUSIN OF THE DIPLODOCUSFROM THE LATE JURASSIC PERIOD – SOME 155-145MILLION YEARS OLD

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The skeleton of a 155 million year old diplodocus has gone on exhibition at Heathrow Terminal 5 from April 2nd until the end of May before being sold by the leading French auction house Aguttesin June for an expected £2m.

Nicknamed ‘Skinny’ the Diplodocus skeleton shows important and significant impressions of the skin of the dinosaur, which has never been discovered before on a Diplodocus, making this a uniquely valuable skeleton – a world first. It was discovered in shale beds in Wyoming USA in 2012.

Ross Baker, Chief Commercial Officer at Heathrow said, “What a sizeable welcome for families travelling this Easter! We’re excited to see the ‘roar-some’ reaction from our passengers, as they encounter this completely unique specimen before heading on their travels with loved ones.”

Scientific study indicates it is a new species, a cousin of the diplodocus. It will be seen by the millions of passengers at Heathrow’s Terminal Five for two months during April and May before its sale at auction.

 

Last year Aguttes Auctions sold a dinosaur skeleton for £2m in the Eiffel Tower. The sale of this new dinosaur is expected to achieve a figure greater than £2m. The Aguttes-Paleomoove dinosaur is an authentic fossil with an original skeleton that is 90% complete and measures 13 meters in length.

Diplodocus
walked the earth in the Late Jurassic some 155-145 million years ago and was a vegetarian dinosaur species with a very long neck, allowing it to feed both high and low. The species is the mascot of the British Museum which has a Diplodocus cast known as ‘Dippy’ whose292 bones are cleaned every two years.

It was huge, tipping the scales at 20,000 kg, feeding on leaves and other soft vegetation using rows of comb-like teeth.

 

This totally unique dinosaur skeleton is presented in a revolutionary way as a contemporary work of art, but respects all the scientific criteria of preparation and reconstruction. It will be possible to change its initial position a little and to make it take another stance thanks to the great interpretation capabilities of the French company, Paleoomove Laboratory, based in Marseille which specializes in the articulation of dinosaur skeletons.

Eric Mickeler, International  expert in Natural History, and a specialist in dinosaurs is also a special advisor to Aguttes Auction house. He says: “This exceptional  skeleton is from a cousin of the Diplodocus. As an original skeleton it is quite remarkable.
It is currently the only Diplodocus in the world with the imprint of its skin: it is therefore a world first.”

Asked why people invest in buying dinosaurs, Eric Mickeler says: “They are powerful symbols which act as memento mori and remind us of the outcome of all species over the ages. Their sheer size awes people, they are immense and that is part of their fasciation for collectors.  Buyers look for big impressive aesthetically attractive and well-preserved examples. It is also a case of supply and demand. There are very few found and so prices grow because there is a strong demand for them.So if you are looking seriously to buy one choose the best you can find, the best preserved.”The dinosur carries the Eric Mickeler Fossile Label, which is a protected brand, to indicate and strongly emphasize the scientific value of this fantastic dinosaur.

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AT 13 METRES LONG IT WOULD HAVE WEIGHED 20 TONNES

DINOSAUR SKELETON CAN HOLD DIFFERENT POSITIONS THANKS TO CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY FROM PALEOMOOVE, FRANCE

 

The Innovative Paleomoove Laboratory Process:

Paleomoove Laboratory is a French company established in Marseille which specializes in the restoration of fossils. This company is headed by Nicolas Tourment, a French expert in the presentation of archeological items. He has done work for Christie’s and Sotheby’s and has worked on many skeletons of dinosaurs and mammoths: some of these specimens now belong to institutions.

Supporting structures for dinosaur skeletons have long been made from iron and steel despite their significant lack of resistance to rust. Paleomoove decided to use stainless steel for its durability and aesthetics.

 

This particular means of construction has led us to finally be able to design structures that can be transformed into different shapes giving a dynamic visual presentation that can accommodate itself to different settings.

 

Stainless steel has improved mechanical properties at various temperatures in comparison with other materials which is an undeniable asset in the construction. It also allows the reduction in the weight or the dimensions of the structural elements. Its elasticity and its hardness allow it to be used in different types of implementation while offering a resistance to wear (friction, abrasion, shocks, elasticity …).

 

Recycled Stainless steel is the “green material” par excellence, recyclable to infinity. In construction, the effective recovery rate approaches 100%. It is also completely neutral with respect to the environment. In addition, the longevity of stainless steel meets the needs of sustainable construction giving lifetime guarantees.

 

FOR MORE PRESS INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Julian Roup on 0044 (0)7970563958 or 01892 669200 email atinfo@bendigopr.co.uk

or the Heathrow Press Office at media_centre@heathrow.com

 

NOTES FOR EDITORS:

 

For more information on the dinosaur exhibited at Heathrow, which will be auctioned in France in June 2019, please contact the dinsaur expert, Mr. Eric Mickeler, well-known consultant of international sales of dinosaurs.

 

2019

Salon du Dessin

7th March 2019 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946)The Glass Roof £1m

 

DRAWINGS WORTH UP TO £3M?

FOR SALE AT THE WORLD’S TOP DRAWINGEVENT –

THE SALON DU DESSIN IN PARIS, MARCH 27 TO APRIL 1

 

TREASURES ON OFFER INCLUDE WORKS BYPICASSO, EGON SCHIELE, EDOUARD MANET

& MUSEUM COLLECTIONS NOT USUALLY OPENTO THE PUBLIC

 

Download the press kit in English

https://www.art-et-communication.fr/_media/_pdf/2019/PR-Salon-du-dessin-2019.pdf

 

The eagerly anticipated Salon du dessin will take placeagain this spring under the vaulted roof of Paris’s Palais Brongniart and will once again feature a selection of outstanding works on paper, some of them well in excess of £1m. It is the place where the highest density of collectors, connoisseurs and museum curators to be found.

 

Now a ritual for 20 years, Drawing week, a highly popular off-site event organized in partnership with over 20 museums and institutions, will offer access to graphic arts collections that are usually off-limits to the public.

 

Highlights of Salon du dessin (27th March / 1st April – Palais Brongniart – Paris)

 

 

Among the 39 exhibitors from around the world will be four handpicked new galleries and two that are returning after an absence of a few years. Among the treasures on display will be a rare drawing by EgonSchiele (€1,900,000), which has been exhibited at Louis Vuitton’s Foundation exhibition Basquiat/Schielein Paris, presented by the  Austrian galleryWienerroither & Kohlbacher.

 

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Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Standing Woman Covering Face with BothHands, 1911.

Gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper, signed and dated center right, 44.7 x 31.5 cm (17.6 × 12.4 in).

Wienerroither & Kohlbacher (€1,900,000)

 

With its spontaneous lines and subtle contrasts of light rendered with sometimes dense crosshatching, thisunpublished drawing by Guercino (1591-1666), presented by Galerie Terrades, is the artist’s first sketch for a painting that now belongs to a private collection. This remarkable drawing bears the stamps of three collections.

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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (1591-1666).

Lucretia, c. 1638. Pen and brown ink, 14.5 x 12.3 cm (5.7 x 4.8 in). Galerie Terrades

 

Jean-Luc Baroni and Emmanuel Marty de Cambiaire will exhibit together for the first time, presenting a selection of fine works on paper . Edouard Manet’sravishing drawing of a “Man with a top hat” (€185,000) and a sketch-book by the most famous Russian painter of the 19th century, Ilya Repin(1844-1930), comprising 120 pencil drawings including drawings studies for  Ballet Scene, A Paris Café, Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, and A Newspaper Seller in Paris (€ 600,000).

 

Ilya Repin (1844-1930), study for A café parisien, dated 1874

Jean-Luc Baroni & Emmanuel Marty de Cambiaire (€ 600,000).

 

 

“The Glass Roof,” by Leon Spilliaert (€1,000,000) which has been published and exhibited worldwide, will be featured by the Belgian Lancz Gallery, one of the fair’s new exhibitors. It shows a tight view of the porch on the family house, which also served as the artist’s studio.

Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946). The Glass Roof.

India ink, brush and colored pencil on paper, signed and dated top left,

64 x 50 cm (25 x 20 in). Lancz Gallery (€1,000,000)

 

 

Works by Picasso, Chagall, Degas will be shown by Helene Bailly Gallery, which will present this beautiful mixed technique on paper by Chagall (1887-1985),The blue cock or the village’s dream (1958) (€ 2,000,000/€ 3,000,000).

 

 

Marc Chagall (1887-1985), The blue cock or the village’s dream (1958)

mixed technique on paper 84x77cm – HELENE BAILLY GALLERY

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights of Drawing week

 

The 20th edition of the off-site event Drawing week will coincide with celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci.The Beaux-Arts de Paris, whose collection of 25,000 master drawings is the second largest in France after that of the Louvre, will present 30 masterpieces for the first time, including four drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, donated in 1883 and 1904. The show will offer an exciting look at the practices of Renaissance drawing workshops.

The Fondation Custodia will present 200 drawings by masters of European and Russian art from the 15th to the 20th century, loaned by the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

The delightful Musée du Montmartre will inaugurate an exhibition of the work of Georges Dorignac, spotlighting the striking “black” drawings that made his reputation. This series of high-contrast drawings prompted Rodin to say, “Dorignac sculpts his drawings.”

The Musée Nissim de Camondo will open an exhibition on Edouard Benedictus, a leading theatre set and costume designer who has fallen into oblivion.

The Centre Pompidou will offer a private view of Marc Chagall’s 74 drawings for the set of The Magic Flute, commissioned by New York ‘s Metropolitan Opera in 1966-67

The Petit Palais pays tribute to Jean-Jacques Lequeu, while the Bibliothèque Nationale de France will offer a private tour on the theme of architectural drawings of theaters.

The Louvre will also offer a private tour, of its exhibition “Engraving for the King,” which presents the original engraved plates.

The Domaine de Chantilly will hold a private tour of an exhibition on Eugène Lami, painter and decorator of the Orléans family, a wonderful illustration of life in the time of Louis Philippe.

 

Download the full press kit in English

https://www.art-et-communication.fr/_media/_pdf/2019/PR-Salon-du-dessin-2019.pdf

 

Download press kit and HR images

https://www.art-et-communication.fr/_media/_archives/2019/2019_03_27_sdd-2019.zip

 

 

Press contacts

Sylvie Robaglia – Art & Communication

sylvie@art-et-communication.fr +33 (0)6 72 59 57 34

Le Salon du dessin

Participants

Exhibitors at the Salon du dessin

Didier Aaron – Paris

Galerie AB – Paris

Arnoldi-Livie – Munich

Hélène Bailly Gallery – Paris

Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd & Marty de Cambiaire – Paris/ London

De Bayser – Paris

Galerie Berès – Paris

Christopher Bishop Fine Art – Milford, CT, USA

W.M. Brady and Co. – New York

Brame and Lorenceau – Paris

Galerie Eric Coatalem – Paris

Art Cuéllar-Nathan – Zurich

Galerie Michel Descours – Lyon

Galerie Ditesheim and Maffei Fine Art SA – Neuchâtel

Galerie Jacques Elbaz – Paris

Eric Gillis Fine Art – Brussels

Martin Grässle-Florian Härb – Munich

Galerie Grand-Rue – Geneva

José de la Mano Galería de Arte – Madrid

Lancz Gallery – Brussels

Galerie Antoine Laurentin – Paris

Nathalie Motte Masselink – Paris

Martin Moeller and Co. – Hamburg

Maurizio Nobile – Bologna – Paris

Mathieu Néouze – Paris

Jill Newhouse Gallery – New York

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art – London

Onno van Seggelen Fine Arts – Rotterdam

Pandora Old Masters Inc. – New York

Galerie de la Présidence – Paris

Galerie Paul Prouté – Paris

Artur Ramon Art – Barcelona

Reginart Collections – Geneva

Rosenberg and Co. – New York

Galerie Talabardon and Gautier – Paris

Galerie Tarantino – Paris

Galerie Terrades – Paris

Wienerroither & Kohlbacher – Vienna

Galerie Zlotowski – Paris

Galleries listed in blue are first-time exhibitors at the Salon dudessin

 

Drawing week partners

The Salon du Dessin’s partners, all of them major institutions located in the Île de France, will offer visits to graphic arts collections that are usually closed to the public.

 

Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Centre Pompidou

Emile Hermès Collection

Beaux-Arts de Paris

Fondation Custodia

Galerie Malingue

Maison de Victor Hugo

Musée Cognacq-Jay

Musée Condé, Domaine de Chantilly

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

Musée Nissim de Camondo – Les Arts Décoratifs

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

Musée du Petit Palais

Musée du Louvre

Musée d’orsay

Musée Eugène Delacroix

Musée de Montmartre

Musée National de Port-Royal des Champs

Sèvres-Cité de la Céramique

 

 

Salon du dessin

A success story

 

> 1991: First Salon du dessin at the George V Hotel in Paris, with 17 exhibitors

 

> 2000: The Salon du dessin founds Drawing week, with the participation of most Paris museums, turning the city into the capital of drawing

 

> 2004: The Salon du dessin moves to the Palais Brongniart on Place de la Bourse in Paris and has 29 participants

 

> 2006: First colloquium at the Salon du dessin, entitled“International Symposia at the Salon du dessin.”

The Salon du dessin introduces contemporary drawings for the first time, showing works by students from the École NationaleSupérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

 

> 2007: The Salon du dessin introduces a new tradition of hosting an institution or a collector at the art fair. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the first guest exhibitor, shows seven panels by Charles de Wailly.

 

> 2009: Daniel and Florence Guerlain present their collection. The Salon du dessin has three contemporary art galleries among its 36 exhibitors.

 

> 2010: Presentation of the first Daniel and Florence GuerlainDrawing Prize, which will become an annual event.

 

> 2011: The Salon du dessin celebrates its 20th anniversary

 

> 2014: Louis de Bayser is appointed President of the Salon dudessin, replacing Hervé Aaron, who remains a member of the organizing committee.

 

      2019: The Salon du dessin welcomes 39 exhibitors, including four first-time participants.

 


STRAUSS & CO

26th February 2019 – for immediate release

THE FINEST ART FROM AFRICA: ZANZIBAR, SOPHIATOWN & CAPE TOWN FROM SEKOTO, STERN,PRELLER

MUSEUM QUALITY PAINTINGS OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE AT AUCTION IN CAPE TOWN WITHSTRAUSS & CO MARCH 18Th

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Irma Stern Meditation, Zanzibar, £800,000 – £1m  The Shill Collection, Cape Town

South Africa’s leading auction house, Strauss & Co, is delighted to announce details of its extraordinary offerings from two major private collections due to be sold at its much-anticipated 18TH March 2019 auction in Cape Town at the Vineyard Hotel.

This sale offers museum quality masterpieces by South Africa’s leading artists, Irma Stern, Gerard Sekoto and Alexis Preller. “These paintings by Irma Stern, Gerard Sekoto and Alexis Preller represent some of the most important and historically significant works to appear in a South African saleroom in recent years,” said Bina Genovese, Strauss & Co’s joint managing director. “Works of this calibre rarely come to market and Strauss & Co is proud to be offering them to collectors.”

Art highlights from this sale include three scintillating portraits of single sitters bySouth Africa’s top artist, Irma Stern, dating from her acclaimed Zanzibar period. And there are works from Sekoto and Preller at the height of their power.

Meditation, Zanzibar – Irma Stern

Stern’s commanding portrait, ‘Meditation, Zanzibar’ (1939), originates from the artist’s first visit to Zanzibar. Stern was keenly aware of the second-class status of women in this former sultanate in the Indian Ocean. Her portrait is marked by the great dignity and melancholy of its sitter.

 

In 1939 Irma Stern made the first of two trips to Zanzibar, the East African island that she described as “the gateway into the centre of Africa.”

The extent to which Stern was seduced by what she saw as the island’s mystery, colourfulness and exoticism is abundantly expressed in the illustrated 1948 travelogue Zanzibar 2 that she published after her second visit to the island in 1945. Such was the effect of her Zanzibar visit that Joseph Sachs, writing in 1942, suggested that Stern’s Zanzibar paintings are the “high water mark of her art. Canvases are full of gorgeous colour and the strange mysterious atmosphere of this tropical island, but they have also recaptured the spirit of the diverse humanity that is found on the East Coast of Africa.” Indeed, so enthralled was Stern by the rich visual culture of Zanzibar that she brought back a pair of Zanzibar doors, which she had installed as the front door to herCape Town home ‘The Firs’ in Rosebank, and also began framing her Zanzibar paintings in frames made from Zanzibar woodcarvings.

Meditation is a particularly fine example of this aspect of Stern’s Zanzibar work. On the one hand it perfectly illustrates the languid mystique of the exclusively feminine world of the harem, “filled with … lovely old eastern silks with heavy gold fringes, [the women with] trousers ruched at the ankles with the frills falling over their feet. Heavy perfumes hanging in the air – expensive, penetrating Eastern perfumes. But on the other hand it is more than a voyeuristic, orientalist glimpse behind the veil. The intensity and pathos of the woman’s expression suggests a strong empathy between Stern and her subject suggesting the possibility of a shared humanity.

THE ARAB – IRMA STERN

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Irma Stern, ‘Arab ‘from the Sol Munitz Collection, Cape Town, £650,000 – £900,000

Portrait of an Arab (1945), which is a previously unrecorded portrait of a member of the Omani nobility from the court of the Sultan of Zanzibar. The sitter, cloaked in a black subaiyah replete with gold piping (indicating his standing in the royal court), bears a striking resemblance to the Sultan.

Stern describes “White bearded figures belonging to another age – a thousand years or more back; gold glistening on their coats, silk woven into their rainbow coloured turbans, wound artfully, each particular race having a different traditional way. Their hands gesticulating, their faces expressed depths of suffering, profound wisdom and full understanding of all the pleasures of life – faces alive with life’s experiences”.

The present lot is a previously unrecorded work by Stern in a series of only four portraits known to exist that depict noble figures from the court of His Highness Sultan Sayyid Sir Khalifa II bin Harub Al-Said, who reigned as the ninth Sultan of Zanzibar from 1911 to 1960. A cadet branch of the Al- Said dynasty of Oman, the Sultanate of Zanzibar was established as its own principality in 1856 after a succession battle between the sons of the deceased Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Said bin Sultan Al-Said.

Despite this apparent separation, the nobility of the Zanzibari court maintained their Omani heritage as evidenced in the colours of the sitter’s turban, commonly referred to as a mussar. Reserved exclusively for royalty, the specific combination of blue, lilac, purple and orange is known as a ‘Saidi mussar’ and has been used by Omani nobility for over three centuries, with the present-day Sultan, His Majesty Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, donning the colours for official state occasions.

THE MAUVE SARI – IRMA STERN

 

The Mauve Sari is one of several remarkable works in this genre dating to 1946. Presumably produced either from sketches done during Stern’s second stay in Zanzibar in 1945, or in response to meeting the wives of Indian merchants in east Africa on a trip to the Congo and present-day Rwanda in mid-1946, these works attest to Stern’s daring juxtaposition of vibrant colours and her increasing attention to richly varied patterns.

When Stern published Zanzibar (1948), her remarkable account of her second trip to the island in 1945, she commented repeatedly on her encounters with the local Bahoracommunity. Originally Hindi traders who were gradually absorbed into the larger Muslim community, Stern described the surroundings of these wealthy merchants and their families as ‘gay and colourful’, the furnishing of their homes as ‘modern’. Noting at one point that it was lovely to see Bahora women resting in groups on the green lawns of parks, or sitting at the seaside to get a fresh breeze, she referred again and again to the saris they wore, even those of ten-year old girls, which she described as ‘expensive’.

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Irma Stern The Mauve Sari signed and dated 1944 oil on canvas 78 by 78cm,From The Sol Munitz Collection £700,000 – £950,000

Astutely observant, Stern mentioned saris that were ‘as fine as cobwebs, or brocaded in real gold’. Attending a dance held in a dark house in the Bazaar, ‘women sat on the floor in all colours imaginable, combining the most absurd colours, and yet looking most beautiful, like a heap of multi-coloured gems shaken together’.

These extraordinary powers of observation are immediately evident in Stern’s inventive exploration of form and colour in The Mauve Sari. Importantly, though, the artist’s careful attention to detail extended beyond her fascination with saris to include what she described as the shining black hair and eyes, and the fragile, elegant bodies of the Bahora women she encountered on the island. Although, in The Mauve Sari, the sitter averts her gaze, thereby affording the viewer a chance to take pleasure in the voluptuous painterliness of the composition without transgressing her privacy, this work is perhaps most remarkable for Stern’s fine sense of balance between calm introspection and lively animation

Gerard Sekoto: Saturday Afternoon

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Gerard Sekoto Saturday Afternoon signed; numbered 11, From The Sol Munitz Collection, £165,000 – £220,000

In 1945, after a lengthy stay in Cape Town, Gerard Sekoto moved to Pretoria to live with his mother and stepfather in Eastwood. The two years he spent in this settlement before his departure for France, via London, represent the highpoint of his artistic career.

Already attuned to describing aspects of black urban life following creative sojourns in Sophiatown and District Six, Sekoto concentrated on producing gregarious studies of domestic life marked by their formal innovation and painterly maturity

Dominated by the mustard tones in the foreground, Sekoto’s palette is sensuous rather than exuberant, his brushwork attentive without being overly precise. Despite his naturalistic approach, elements of his painting remain mysterious. For instance, the identity of the two male cyclists wearing hats is hidden in shadow. Similar to Sixpence a Door (1946), a comparably toned work from the same period, Sekoto imbues this study of quotidian life with a warm glow. Sekoto’s frontal vantage, which places him on the dirt road, immersed in the comings and goings of Eastwood, bears notice. It distinguishes this lot from a better-known earlier work, Cyclists in Sophiatown (1942), in which Sekoto described the hurried, mechanistic quality of township life by portraying a group of male cyclists from a removed vantage.

Eastwood’s future erasure wasn’t yet known when Sekoto first exhibited this work at Christiaan ‘Christi’ Truter’s eponymous gallery, most likely in 1947. A former lover of Alexis Preller, Truter opened Christi’s Gallery in 1946. His inaugural group exhibition included work by Sekoto. In April 1947 Sekoto held a successful solo exhibition at Christi’s and in July participated in a New Group show at dealer Joan Ginsberg’s Gainsborough Galleries, where this work was also shown. In September he left South Africa on the Carnarvon Castle, never to return.

Alexis Preller – Collected Images (Orchestration of Themes)

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Alexis Preller, Collected Images (Orchestration of Themes), signed and dated ’52 oil on canvas
61 by 76cm, From The Shill Collection. £385,000 – £495,000.

Painted in 1952, Collected Images by Alexis Preller is a seminal piece by this highly regarded artist. Illustrated on the cover of Esme´ Berman and Karel Nel’s 2009 monograph of the same name, Collected Images depicts a cabinet with 18 compartments and is a resonant catalogue of the artist’s key metaphors. Conceived in a rented Pretorian cottage in the heat of a blazingcreative streak, and executed with a cool, mature confidence, it reads as an ingenious and beguiling account of the artist’s imagination. Precious, endlessly fascinating, meticulously painted and gorgeously coloured, Collected Images is a landmark, museum-worthy picture.

Relying on a strong, rectilinear, trompe l’oeil composition, the canvas is divided into eighteen equally-sized compartments, each containing an intriguing, Prelleresque vignette or object.

Familiar fragments and motifs hint at the artist’s early career phases and influences. That such diverse images could be collected together so delightfully and coherently shows just how eloquent and convincing his visual language had become.

The image in the bottom left compartment– a near restatement of Icarus, a small but hugely important painting from 1951 – gives a possible clue to a broader theme playing out in Collected Images. Not only does its humble egg box provide the larger painting’s rectilinear format, but it alludes to the idea of, and the value in, protecting what is fragile, embryonic and cherished. This favoured theme found different symbolic forms throughout the artist’s career.

Media enquiries

Julian Roup for Strauss & Co email info@bendigopr.co.uk

Or call 0044 (0)7970 563958

NOTES TO THE EDITOR

About Strauss & Co:

Strauss & Co is South Africa’s leading auction house and the global leader for South African art. It was founded in 2009 by a consortium of business leaders and industry experts, including the late auctioneer Stephan Welz, Elisabeth Bradley, Dr Conrad Strauss, Vanessa Phillips, Ann Palmer and Bina Genovese. Frank Kilbourn, a respected entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector, was appointed Executive Chairperson in 2016.

Strauss & Co has the highest market share amongst the four leading auction houses specialising in South African art globally. In 2017 the company’s turnover totalled R329 million – a sum unrivalled by any auction house dealing in South African art in a single year. Strauss & Co annually holds five live auctions, three in Cape Town and two in Johannesburg, and up to eight online-only auctions.

Strauss & Co was awarded the prestigious Chairman’s Premier Award at the 2018 annual BASA Awards for its sustained and extraordinary commitment to the arts in South Africa.

Strauss & Co Board of Directors: Frank Kilbourn (Executive Chairperson), Vanessa Phillips and Bina Genovese (Joint MDs), Elisabeth Bradley, Dr Conrad Strauss, Caro Wiese, Carmen Welz, Susie Goodman and Jack Ginsberg

 

 

                               Salon du Dessin

22nd JANUARY 2019 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WORLD’S TOP DRAWING EVENT -SALON DU DESSIN IN PARIS,
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The eagerly anticipated Salon du dessin will take place again this spring under the vaulted roof of Paris’s Palais Brongniart and will once again feature a selection of outstanding works on paper.

 

Among the 39 exhibitors from around the world will be fourhandpicked new galleries and two that are returning after an absence of a few years. Among the treasures on display will be rare drawings by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, presented bythe  Austrian gallery Wienerroither & Kohlbacher, and a solo show of the work of contemporary artist Jean-Baptiste Sécheret on the stand of Galerie Jacques Elbaz.

 

The German dealer Martin Moeller will celebrate 100 years of drawings from his country, while the Galerie de la Présidence features drawings by sculptors.

 

The 28th edition of the art fair will also host two museum-level exhibitions. “Festivities in Paris” will feature drawings from the collection of the Musée Carnavalet-Histoire de Paris (currently closed for renovation until late 2019), while the Maison Chaumet will exhibit drawings of its jewelry in an exhibition on the theme of nature, curated by botanist Marc Jeanson, who worked on the magnificent exhibition “Jardins” at the Grand Palais in 2017.

 

The 20th edition of the off-site event Drawing week will coincide with celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci.

 

Other highlights of the Salon du dessin will be the presentation of the 12th Daniel and Florence Guerlain Drawing Prize and the return of a program of international symposia, which will focus on the performing arts this year.

 

Drawing week, a highly popular off-site event organized in partnership with over 20 museums and institutions, will offer access to graphic arts collections that are usually off-limits to the public.

 

Highlights of Drawing week

 

The 20th edition of the off-site event Drawing week will coincide with celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. The Beaux-Arts de Paris, whose collection of 25,000 master drawings is the second largest in France after that of the Louvre, will present 30 masterpieces for the first time, including four drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, donated in 1883 and 1904. The show will offer an exciting look at the practices of Renaissance drawing workshops.

The Fondation Custodia will present 200 drawings by masters of European and Russian art from the 15th to the 20th century, loaned by the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

The delightful Musée du Montmartre will inaugurate an exhibition of the work of Georges Dorignac, spotlighting the striking “black” drawings that made his reputation. This series of high-contrast drawings prompted Rodin to say, “Dorignac sculpts his drawings.”

The Musée Nissim de Camondo will open an exhibition on Edouard Benedictus, a leading theatre set and costume designer who has fallen into oblivion.

The Centre Pompidou will offer a private view of Marc Chagall’s 74 drawings for the set of The Magic Flute, commissioned by New York ‘s Metropolitan Opera in 1966-67

The Petit Palais pays tribute to Jean-Jacques Lequeu, while theBibliothèque Nationale de France will offer a private tour on the theme of architectural drawings of theaters.

The Louvre will also offer a private tour, of its exhibition “Engraving for the King,” which presents the original engraved plates.

The Domaine de Chantilly will hold a private tour of an exhibition on Eugène Lami, painter and decorator of the Orléansfamily, a wonderful illustration of life in the time of Louis Philippe.

Press contacts

Sylvie Robaglia / Samantha Bergognon / Charlotte Corre

Agence Art and Communication

29, rue de Ponthieu, 75008 PARIS

www.art-et-communication.fr

 

Sylvie Robaglia sylvie@art-et-communication.fr +33 (0)6 72 59 57 34

Samantha Bergognon samantha@art-et-communication.fr +33 (0)6 25 04 62 29

Charlotte Corre charlotte@art-et-communication.fr +33 (0)6 36 66 06 77

 

Le Salon du dessin

Participants

Exhibitors at the Salon du dessin

 

Didier Aaron – Paris

Galerie AB – Paris

Arnoldi-Livie – Munich

Hélène Bailly Gallery – Paris

Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd & Marty de Cambiaire – Paris/ London

De Bayser – Paris

Galerie Berès – Paris

Christopher Bishop Fine Art – Milford, CT, USA

W.M. Brady and Co. – New York

Brame and Lorenceau – Paris

Galerie Eric Coatalem – Paris

Art Cuéllar-Nathan – Zurich

Galerie Michel Descours – Lyon

Galerie Ditesheim and Maffei Fine Art SA – Neuchâtel

Galerie Jacques Elbaz – Paris

Eric Gillis Fine Art – Brussels

Martin Grässle-Florian Härb – Munich

Galerie Grand-Rue – Geneva

José de la Mano Galería de Arte – Madrid

Lancz Gallery – Brussels

Galerie Antoine Laurentin – Paris

Nathalie Motte Masselink – Paris

Martin Moeller and Co. – Hamburg

Maurizio Nobile – Bologna – Paris

Mathieu Néouze – Paris

Jill Newhouse Gallery – New York

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art – London

Onno van Seggelen Fine Arts – Rotterdam

Pandora Old Masters Inc. – New York

Galerie de la Présidence – Paris

Galerie Paul Prouté – Paris

Artur Ramon Art – Barcelona

Reginart Collections – Geneva

Rosenberg and Co. – New York

Galerie Talabardon and Gautier – Paris

Galerie Tarantino – Paris

Galerie Terrades – Paris

Wienerroither & Kohlbacher – Vienna

Galerie Zlotowski – Paris

 

 

Galleries listed in blue are first-time exhibitors at the Salon dudessin

 

Drawing week partners

The Salon du Dessin’s partners, all of them major institutions located in the Île de France, will offer visits to graphic arts collections that are usually closed to the public.

 

 

Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Centre Pompidou

Emile Hermès Collection

Beaux-Arts de Paris

Fondation Custodia

Galerie Malingue

Maison de Victor Hugo

Musée Cognacq-Jay

Musée Condé, Domaine de Chantilly

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

Musée Nissim de Camondo – Les Arts Décoratifs

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

Musée du Petit Palais

Musée du Louvre

Musée d’orsay

Musée Eugène Delacroix

Musée de Montmartre

Musée National de Port-Royal des Champs

Sèvres-Cité de la Céramique

 

 

 

Salon du dessin

A success story

 

> 1991: First Salon du dessin at the George V Hotel in Paris, with 17 exhibitors

 

> 2000: The Salon du dessin founds Drawing week, with the participation of most Paris museums, turning the city into the capital of drawing

 

> 2004: The Salon du dessin moves to the Palais Brongniart on Place de la Bourse in Paris and has 29 participants

 

> 2006: First colloquium at the Salon du dessin, entitled“International Symposia at the Salon du dessin.”

The Salon du dessin introduces contemporary drawings for the first time, showing works by students from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

 

> 2007: The Salon du dessin introduces a new tradition of hosting an institution or a collector at the art fair. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the first guest exhibitor, shows seven panels by Charles de Wailly.

 

> 2009: Daniel and Florence Guerlain present their collection. The Salon du dessin has three contemporary art galleries among its 36 exhibitors.

 

> 2010: Presentation of the first Daniel and Florence Guerlain Drawing Prize, which will become an annual event.

 

> 2011: The Salon du dessin celebrates its 20th anniversary

 

> 2014: Louis de Bayser is appointed President of the Salon dudessin, replacing Hervé Aaron, who remains a member of the organizing committee.

 

      2019: The Salon du dessin welcomes 39 exhibitors, including four first-time participants.

 

 

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28th November 2018 – For immediate release
BRITAIN GETS EARLY CHRISTMAS GIFT:

NEW CHRISTMAS CAROL FROM BRILLIANT YOUNG COMPOSER

RUTH SELLAR

‘The snow lies thick’

FIRST PERFORMANCE, THE BACH CHOIR AT CADOGAN HALL

 

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YOUNG COMPOSER RUTH SELLAR WINS

SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS CAROL COMPETITION

 

A Christmas carol composed by Ruth Sellar, a First Class Honoursgraduate from Kings College London, has won the second year of the Sir David Willcocks Carol Competition with her composition‘The Snow Lies Thick’.

It will be performed by The Bach Choir conducted by David Hill,Music Director, at Carols at Cadogan on Wednesday 19th December. The Bach Choir is described by the London Evening Standard as: “Probably the finest independent choir in the world.”

Ruth is no newcomer to competition winning. In 2012 she was a winner in the Classic FM ‘A Carol for Christmas’ competition with her carol, ‘Patapan’, for community choir; this was performed in King’s College Cambridge and has since been published by Novello.

Following the end of her studies she began a career in teaching the piano and violin, and currently teaches at Bilton Grange Preparatory School in Rugby, as well as privately.

 

She said of her win: “I was so delighted to receive this wonderful news that I had been selected as the winner of the Sir David Willcocks Carol Competition. I am very much looking forward to the concert on 19th December!”

 

She says she very much enjoys working with children and finds music teaching to be a wonderful means of sharing her passion for music.  As a performer, her main love is accompanying, including for school concerts and examinations.  The school holidays provide an opportunity for composition; Ruth has written repertoire for Bilton Grange ensembles and her church choir, amongst others.

 

Ruth’s carol ‘The Snow lies Thick’ marks a very recent return to composing following a break for several years for health reasons.  As such, she would like her success to be viewed particularly as a thank you to the family, friends and colleagues who have supported her, and she is excited to be resuming her love of composition once again.

 

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Judges of the Competition are (from left to right) David Hill,Musical Director of The Bach Choir, Bob Chilcott, composer andconductor, and composer and conductor Jonathan Willcocks(son of Sir David)

This is the second Sir David Willcocks Carol Competition, which is now held each year as a memorial to Sir David Willcocks, who was musical director of The Bach Choir for 38 years from 1960-1998, and conductor laureate thereafter until his death in 2015.The cash prize is provided by the David Willcocks Music Trust.

Founded in 1876 The Bach Choir is recognised as one of the world’s leading choruses. It regularly performs classical repertoire in major London and international venues and has recorded widely, from a series of English music discs for Naxos to a range of music for film scores including: The Martian,Kingdom of Heaven, Prometheus, Robin Hood, The Chronicles of Narnia, Shrek the Third, and Jack the Giant Slayer.

David Hill, Musical Director of The Bach Choir says of this newcarol: “Ruth’s carol is very well written; it was the stand-out choice and a very worthy winner of the Sir David Willcocks Carol Competition. We look forward very much to performing it.”

Ends

 

The Bach Choir
Carols at Cadogan
Wednesday 19 December 2018 at 7.30pm
The Bach Choir
Philip Scriven – organ
London City Brass
David Hill – conductor
thebachchoir.org.uk/concerts

John Rutter – Colours of Christmas
The Bach Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
John Rutter – conductor
Decca 2782129

For more information and press tickets for Carols at Cadogan please contact Julian Roup of The Bach Choir on 07970 563958 or email pr@thebachchoir.org.uk

Strauss & Co

 

22ND NOVEMBER 2018

 

23 LEADING CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM TEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES IN ZEITZ MOCAA BENEFIT LIVE AUCTION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH STRAUSS & CO.

LEADING SOUTH AFRICAN AUCTION HOUSE AND MUSEUM PARTNER TO BENEFIT ARTS

 

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Ninenna Okore – Slowly but Surely

Cape Town – Exciting works of art from leading contemporaryartists from Africa and the diaspora will be auctioned at the ZeitzMuseum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in partnershipwith Strauss & Co, at the museum on Saturday 1 December 2018.

The auction will feature 28 lots, by 23 artists, from 10 countries, including William Kentridge, Nicholas Hlobo and Yinka Shonibare.Funds raised from the benefit auction will allow the museum tocontinue its community outreach efforts through the Centre for Art Education, underscoring its commitment to Access for Allwhich remains central to the mission of Zeitz MOCAA.

Zeitz MOCAA is the first museum of its kind dedicated to collecting, preserving, researching and exhibiting 21st-century art from Africa and its diaspora. The museum hosts international exhibitions, develops supporting educational and enrichmentprogrammes, encourages intercultural understanding, and guarantees access for all.

 

In addition to fulfilling the museum’s mission, its primary objectives are to provide the public with economically viable access to a contemporary art (through the Access for All initiatives, which includes free admission to South African and African citizens); to operate schools’ programmes that enrich, inspire, and bring art and culture to school children (through the Centre for Art Education); and to provide artists from Africa and its diaspora an opportunity to present their achievements in the field of visual arts on their own terms.

Brooke Minto, Director of Institutional Advancement atZeitz MOCAA, says of the auction: “We are incredibly thankful to the artists and galleries that have donated these significant works to us and made this auction possible. We are so grateful for their generosity, as we know they are continually asked to give to so many worthwhile causes – and yet they continue to be supportive of the museum, time and time again. These artists are an inspiration to future generations of creatives, and this museum is very much a place that encourages and celebrates them. With critical support from artists, collectors, and patrons alike, we can shape the museum’s future programming and ensure that ZeitzMOCAA has a deep and sustained impact on our community.”

Frank Kilbourn, Executive Chairperson at Strauss & Co, comments: “Strauss & Co strongly believes in the importance and relevance of Zeitz MOCAA. We are delighted to have the opportunity to use our brand and expertise to assist in raising funds for the laudable goal of art education, something we aredeeply committed to.”

The auction will be held in the museum’s award-winning, reimagined grain silos, expertly-guided by Strauss & Co, who have waived all auction commissions, and are providing their advice and expertise as early and sustained corporate partners of the museum.

Interested parties can register for telephone bidding, view the catalogue or find out more information, by visitingwww.straussart.co.za.

The full list of artists who will be featured in the auction:Igshaan Adams,
Peju Alatise,
Wayne Barker,
Deborah Bell,
Patrick Bongoy,
Jeanne Gaigher,
Naomi WanjikuGakunga, Kate Gottgens, Nicholas Hlobo, Cyrus Kabiru,Peterson Kamwathi, William Kentridge, Gonçalo Mabunda,Wallen Mapondera, Mongezi Ncaphayi, Blessing Ngobeni,Nnenna Okore,
Thania Petersen, Cameron Platter,
YinkaShonibare,
Hank Willis Thomas, Barthélémy Toguo,Frohawk Two Feathers.

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) Silo District, South Arm Road, V&A Waterfront
Cape Town, 8002, South Africa.
zeitzmocaa.museum.

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Cyrus Kabiru – Macho Nine the Smithsonian 2018

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Yinka Shonibare – Twins

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William Kentridge – Sister fan

 

Media enquiries

Julian Roup for Strauss & Co email info@bendigopr.co.uk

Or call 0044 (0)7970 563958

Emma King
Interim Head of Communicationsemma.king@zeitzmocaa.museum +27 (0) 72 0107704

NOTES TO THE EDITOR

About the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (ZeitzMOCAA)

Zeitz MOCAA is a public not-for-profit contemporary art museum that collects, preserves, researches and exhibits 21st-century art from Africa and its diaspora; hosts international exhibitions; develops supporting educational and enrichment programmes; encourages intercultural understanding; and guarantees access for all.

More than one hundred galleries are dedicated to a large cutting-edge permanent collection; temporary exhibitions; and Centresfor Art Education, Curatorial Training, Performative Practice, Photography, the Moving Image, and the Costume Institute.

Zeitz MOCAA was established through a partnership between the V&A Waterfront led by CEO David Green––acting on behalf ofGrowthpoint Properties Limited and the Government Employees Pension Find (GEPF), represented by the Public Investment Corporation Limited (PIC)––and collector Jochen Zeitz. Thebuilding was reimagined through a design by the acclaimed London-based Heatherwick Studio.

The Zeitz MOCAA Board of Advisors consists of David Green andJochen Zeitz (Co-chairs), Isaac Julien and Wangechi Mutu (Artist Board Members), Suzanne Berman-Ackerman, Jody Allen, Jonathan Bloch, Kate Garwood, Pulane Kingston, Gasant Orrie,Albie Sachs, Anton Taljaard and Roger Ross Williams.

About Strauss & Co:

Strauss & Co is South Africa’s leading auction house and the global leader for South African art. It was founded in 2009 by a consortium of business leaders and industry experts, including the late auctioneer Stephan Welz, Elisabeth Bradley, Dr Conrad Strauss, Vanessa Phillips, Ann Palmer and Bina Genovese. FrankKilbourn, a respected entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector, was appointed Executive Chairperson in 2016.

Strauss & Co has the highest market share amongst the four leading auction houses specialising in South African art globally. In 2017 the company’s turnover totalled R329 million – a sum unrivalled by any auction house dealing in South African art in a single year. Strauss & Co annually holds five live auctions, three in Cape Town and two in Johannesburg, and up to eight online-only auctions.

Strauss & Co was awarded the prestigious Chairman’s Premier Award at the 2018 annual BASA Awards for its sustained and extraordinary commitment to the arts in South Africa.

Strauss & Co Board of Directors: Frank Kilbourn (Executive Chairperson), Vanessa Phillips and Bina Genovese (Joint MDs), Elisabeth Bradley, Dr Conrad Strauss, Caro Wiese, Carmen Welz, Susie Goodman

 

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21st November 2018

 

THE BACH CHOIR SHARES JOY OF SINGING WITH SCHOOL CHILDRENAS PART OF ITS ‘VOCALISE!’PROGRAMME

 

SINGING PROGRAMME RELIEVES PUPIL ANXIETY & STRESS

 

“Thank you for this opportunity that my child has had. She really enjoyed to sing and it just gives her more confidence and she enjoyed going to school more than before.” Comment from a parent after Mr Lear, Nonsense & Rhyme

 

The Bach Choir outreach programme, ‘Vocalise!’ this year involves almost 1,000 school children who sing for the joy of singing.

 

Pressures faced by teachers and head-teachers have been huge over the last few years. Recently the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has suggested that 10% of children aged 5-16 years have a mental health problem. And Youngminds, the Children’s mental health Charity, says nearly one million children now have mental health problems such as depression and anxiety and numbers keep rising.

 

How is this linked to singing? With curriculums squeezed and an ever greater focus on purely academic subjects the arts are being lost along the way. One must ask if singing and other art subjects might not help to combat rising stress levels in our children?

 

Feedback comments from pupils and teachers about The Bach Choir’s Outreach programme would seem to endorse the view that singing lessens anxiety and pressure:

 

In the 2017-18 season Vocalise! (The Bach Choir’s outreach programme) delivered singing workshops to 490 children in Years 4 and 5 across 7 schools in the Tri-borough.

 

This season (2018-19) the Choir is working with 890 children in Years 4 and 5 across 10 schools – 8 in the Tri-borough and 2 in a new borough, Tower Hamlets.

 

Since beginning in 2010, the Choir has worked with 4,780 children across 24 schools.

 

Some comment from participants:

 

“I liked that the workshops are like a community” – Year 4 pupil, 2018

 

“I like learning new songs and singing with The Bach Choir” – Year 5 pupil, 2018

 

“Everyone is really friendly, I loved it all and I cannot choose one thing I did not like” – Year 5 pupil, 2018

 

“It was amazing, fantastic, awesome! Children should do this more often” – parent after 2018 Joseph concert

 

“There isn’t enough music in schools and I think this is such a wonderful opportunity for the children” – parent after 2018 Joseph concert

 

“Please do not stop this amazing work – the confidence in the children just grows every practice”  – parent after 2018 Joseph concert

 

“Absolutely wonderful that this opportunity is available for kids to enjoy. My daughter does not stop singing at home and I love to watch her perform. Thank you!” – parent after 2018 Joseph concert

 

“It gave the children a deeper understanding of music and developed their singing voices. The songs also widened their vocabulary” – teacher, 2018.

 

David Hill, the Choir’s music director says: “Our ‘Vocalise!’ Programme is now established as an outstanding example of spreading the skill and enjoyment of singing as widely as possible.  Since 2010 volunteers from The Bach Choir have come together to sing with primary school children in London in workshops, rehearsals and performances. And it’s brought us as much joy as the children.”

 

“Preserving the UK’s choral music heritage is an important part of our mission. Every season we run an Outreach programme with a number of London primary schools, aimed at introducing their older pupils to choral singing. This programme involves a series of workshops and group rehearsals and culminates in a concert, with the Choir, in central London. Unusually among London choirs, we involve members in Outreach workshops and rehearsals, as well as in the end of season concert. While involvement in Outreach is not compulsory, we encourage members to participate and hope that as many as possible will do so.”

 

“Besides the pleasure of introducing choral music to hundreds of school pupils and broadening their cultural vision we are also building a future audience for the Choir and for our kind of music. If we don’t do this who will?”

 

The 2017-18 school year ended with a performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice in Hammersmith Town Hall on 29th June. The theme of the concert was Colours in Music and, as well as Joseph, featured items as varied as Blue Suede Shoes and Greensleeves.

Read more about Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (PDF).

 

In June 2017 the Choir graced the stage of St John’s Smith Square with more than 250 children to perform The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Ian Assersohn, the winning entry to our 2016 Composers Competition, as well as other songs and music on the theme of animals.

 

In June 2016 The Bach Choir put on a spectacular show in Central Hall Westminster. The Choir was joined by children from eight primary schools, The Young Singers, and a jazz band to perform a special commission from composer Will Todd and poet Michael Rosen themed on London: Lights, Stories, Noise, Dreams, Love, and Noodles. Listen to a live recording of the evening.

 

And back in 2012 we took out Outreach programme to the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, with a world premiere performance of Bob Chilcott’s The Angry Planet.Over 250 school children sang alongside The Bach Choir, BBC Singers and the National Youth Choir, conducted by David Hill.

 

Over a century of song
Founded in 1876, The Bach Choir is recognised as one of the world’s leading choruses, building upon a tradition that combines musical excellence with creativity and innovation. From the first performance in Britain of Bach’s Mass in B minor to the soundtrack for Ridley Scott’s 2012 epic Prometheus, our musical heritage is as rich as it is diverse. Directed by David Hill, one of the country’s most eminent conductors, we regularly perform and record across London and the UK in prestigious venues, from the Royal Albert Hall to Abbey Road Studios.

 

A unique collective voice

Described by the London Evening Standard as ‘probably the finest independent choir in the world’, we value the freedom that our independence brings, allowing us to work with the very best conductors, orchestras, and soloists, and to choose the music we perform. To date we have sung over 200 works in more than 80 venues, and continue to share our work with audiences around the world.

 

A distinctive, challenging repertoire

From oratorio to film scores and from St Paul’s Cathedral to Sydney Opera House, our repertoire – which covers works from the 16th century to the present day – celebrates the power that music has to connect us, to take us beyond ourselves, and to spark our imagination. Our work has an emotional intensity that only a large choir can evoke.

 

A list of notable names
It is our people who define us. Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir David Willcocks: these are just a few of the eminent musicians that have played a part in our history and created the musical pedigree that we build upon today. With HRH The Prince of Wales as our Patron, John Rutter as our President, and David Hill as our Musical Director, our performances and recordings go from strength to strength. Our Accompanist/Assistant Conductor is Philip Scriven, who is widelyregarded as one of the finest organists of his generation, and highly respected as a conductor.

 

A choir for the 21st-century
The Bach Choir has always been and continues to be characterised by the commitment of its members. With over 220 talented singers coming from all walks of life, an international touring schedule, and an outreach programme that takes our passion for music into inner-city schools, we are an active community performing, recording and sharing music for everyone to enjoy, whatever their age or background.

 

Julian Roup of The Bach Choir on 07970 563958 or emailpr@thebachchoir.org.uk

 

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ART WORTH £500M EMERGES FROM THE SHADOWS:

BARNEBYS ART SEARCH ENGINE PUTS THE SPOTLIGHT ON THE TOP TENREDISCOVERED MASTERPIECES AND ASKS:

WHAT ELSE IS OUT THERE?

 

7TH NOVEMBER 2018 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

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Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1600-10)

 

Lost, unrecorded, rediscovered, uncovered, found or authenticated:Barnebys have compiled the best stories from around the world of artworks that have been rediscovered, much to the benefit of the astonished owners. These ten paintings are worth an estimated£471milion one can only wonder what else remains to be discovered?

 

It’s not uncommon to hear stories or rumours about rediscovered masterpieces – from the tucked away corners of grandparents’ homes, to car-boot sales, and the storage containers of garages.

Barnebys have researched and compiled the top ten rediscovered masterpieces that have astonished the art world.

One of the founders of Barnebys, Pontus Silfverstolpe, comments: “”Some people claim that the time of undiscovered art has passed because of the internet’s entry into the art and auction market. This list argues for the opposite. Many countries, especially Italy, Germany and Spain still have many treasures hidden away. In recent years, we have seen several amazing discoveries that generated museum exhibitions as well as new millionaires created once the works have been sold.”

 

10. Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1600-10)

 

The 400-year-old canvas – depicting the beheading of an Assyrian general, Holofernes, by Judith from the biblical Book of Judith – was found in 2014 when the owners of a house near the southwestern city of Toulouse were investigating a leak in the ceiling.

Discovered in remarkably good condition, specialists believe the work was painted between 1600 and 1610 and could be worth as much as €120 million (£107 mil).

However, the painting – a version of the artist’s Judith BeheadingHolofernes (1599 to 1602), on display in Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art – was cleaned and analysed in Paris, where experts debated its true origins. Some experts claim that Louis Finson – a 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter who both studied and imitated Caravaggio’s style – created the work, while others believe that the Renaissance master painted it himself sometime in the early 1600s. (According to Finson’s will, the Flemish painter owned a copy of Judith Beheading Holofernes, but it disappeared around 400 years ago.)

 

Art expert Eric Turquin asserts that the attic Caravaggio is indeed genuine, citing its brush strokes, intricate details, and use of light and energetic style as proof. Other experts, like British art critic Jonathan Jones, claim that the painting lacks Caravaggio’s ‘psychological intensity’ or signature realism. Meanwhile, the contested Caravaggio work continues to be a magnet for controversy. In 2016, art historian Giovanni Agosti resigned from the board of Milan’s Brera Art Gallery after the institution displayed the work alongside authenticated Caravaggio paintings.

That said, the French government has placed an export ban on the canvas until November 2018, to prevent it being snapped up by an international collector. With that date quickly looming, we’ll be watching this space.

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9. Eugène Atget, lost photographs of Paris

Eugène Atget, ‘Rue Asselin, Paris, 1921’. Photo: Christie’s

 

An important portfolio of images by Eugène Atget, one of the ‘founding fathers’ of modern photography, was thought to have been lost – until it was rediscovered almost by chance among the archives of the artist André Derain. Comprising 21 lots, these works dating from 1896 sold in 2016 for between £1,000 to £109,000, totalling £730,000.

Born in 1857, Atget first began taking photographs in 1890, documenting the architecture of Paris’ streets, from door handles to monuments, shop fronts and the public.

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8. Jackson Pollock, Untitled Gouache (c. late-1950s-60s)

Jackson Pollock, ‘Untitled Gouache’, c. late-1950s-60s. Photo: Creators Vice

 

In December 2015, in Sun City, Arizona, while helping an elderly neighbour prepare to move into a retirement home, a local man spotted a Los Angeles Lakers poster in the garage, signed by Kobe Bryant. They contacted Scottsdale-based J. Levine Auction & Appraisal to gauge its value, but the piece of sports memorabilia ended up being one of the least valuable artworks in the house: while investigating the garage, auction house employees stumbled upon a painting that appeared to be by Jackson Pollock, along with a cache of works by Colour Field painter Kenneth Noland, American abstract artist JulesOlitski, and visual artist Cora Kelley Ward.

The homeowner had inherited the treasure trove of paintings from his half-sister, New York socialite Jennifer Gordon Cosgriff, who died in 1993. Private investigators hired to investigate the works determined that Cosgriff had been friends with Clement Greenberg, the mid-20th-century modern art critic and essayist, and artist Hazel Guggenheim McKinley, the sister of socialite and arts philanthropist Peggy Guggenheim.

The Jackson Pollock painting is estimated to be worth around US$10 to $15 million (£7.8 to £11.7 mil). Thanks to Josh Levine, owner and CEO of J. Levine Auction & Appraisal, its provenance has been traced, at a cost of several tens of thousands, and forensic scientists have dated its materials back to the mid-20th century.

Bidding was expected to start at $5 million (£3.9 mil) on 20 June 2017, however bidding was postponed to an unconfirmed date due to ‘improper vetting and dropped bids’.

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7. Marie Krøyer, a folder of artworks and drawings

Marie Krøyer, ‘Back Turned Female Model’. Photo: BruunRasmussen
About twenty years ago, a collection of close to 60 previously unknown paintings and drawings of Danish artist Marie Krøyer was found in an attic in Dalarna, Sweden.

In 1962, Marie Krøyer’s daughter Vibeke inherited and gave the folder with drawings and paintings to a local craftsman. For nearly 40 years the folder was hidden in an attic, until it was found by chance. Based on its content, magister Tonni Arnold published the book, The Art of Marie Krøyer’s Life in 2002. Prior to the discovery of the folder, only about 20 words from Marie Krøyer’s hand were known to exist.

Krøyer was a promising young artist who laid down her brushes shortly after she married the successful Danish Skagen painter, PederSeverin Krøyer. She instead became his most distinguished model and her beauty became famous throughout the country. The marriage became turbulent and she soon left Denmark for Tällberg, Sweden, where she became the muse and wife of Hugo Alfvén. With her, she took her artworks and legacy.

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6. John William Godward, Julia (1914) Photo: Sotheby’s

 

This previously unrecorded work is an important addition to the oeuvre of Victorian painter John William Godward, R.B.A. Ratherfittingly, the presumed first owner was Julia Sophia WinkelmeyerStraub, the enterprising daughter of the St Louis brewer JuliusWinkelmeyer. It was passed down through the family ever since.

It sold in May 2017 for £844,000.

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5. Vincent van Gogh, Sunset atMontmajour (1888)

 

This Vincent Van Gogh landscape had been held in a Norwegian attic until 2013 when it was authenticated, following a two-year investigation, by the Van Gogh Museum. It is from what is arguably van Gogh’s greatest period when he lived in Arles, Southern France, and created works such as The Yellow House and The Sunflowers. It is the first full-size work by the artist to be discovered since 1928.

According to the International Business Times, Sunset atMontmajour is rumoured to be worth US$50 million (£39.2 mil).

 

 

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4. Raden Saleh, Wild Bull Hunting (Bateng) (1855)

Photo: The Jakarta Post

 

This painting by an Indonesian master of the nineteenth century, Wild Bull Hunting (Bateng), which was kept for many years in the cellar of a house in Auray (in Morbihan, France), was sold for €7.2 million (£6.4 mil) in January 2018 at auction in Vannes, a record price for a painting by Raden. Dating from 1855, this 1.10 x 1.85 m hunting scene was acquired by an anonymous collector from Jakarta.

 

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3. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, The Unconscious Patient (An Allegory of the Sense of Smell) (c. 1624) Photo: The Getty

 

Created by Rembrandt when he was in his late teens, the c. 1624 painting is one work in a series that the artist likely created to depict the five senses (to this day, the artwork that represents ‘taste’ is still missing). It portrays an unconscious young man who’s being revived with what appear to be smelling salts.

The work sat in a New Jersey basement for years, and was estimated at just US$500 to $800 (£390 to £620) when it came to the auction block at Nye and Company, in Bloomfield, New Jersey. The bidding soared to $870,000 (£680,000) when two Paris art dealers, BertrandTalabardon and Bertrand Gautier, who run Galerie Talabardon etGautier, identified it as one of the Dutch master’s first canvases. The American billionaire Thomas S. Kaplan, CEO of New York investment and management firm Electrum Group, then bought the painting at a price reported in the range of US$3-4 million (£2.4-3.1 mil) in 2016, and exhibited it at TEFAF.

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2. Artemisia Gentileschi, Lucretia (c. 1630-45) Photo: Dorotheum

 

Never auctioned before, this rediscovered masterpiece by Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi sold in October 2018 for €1.6 million (£1.2 mil) – more than double its estimate. It was consigned from an aristocratic collection where it had been kept since the mid-19th century.

Gentileschi was known to paint strong and heroic women of Ancientand Christian mythology. She herself suffered sexual abuse and the subject matter of her paintings subsequently reflected her life.

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1. Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi (c. 1500) Photo: Christie’s

 

In 2005, Salvator Mundi was acquired for less than US$10,000 (£7,800) at an auction in New Orleans by a consortium of art dealers. It had been heavily overpainted so looked like a copy, and the consortium spent the next few years having the painting restored and authenticated.

In May 2013 the Swiss dealer Yves Bouvier purchased the work for just over US$75 million (£58,500,000), and the painting was then sold to Russian collector Dmitry Rybolovlev for US$127.5 million (£100 mil). It was exhibited in Hong Kong, London, San Francisco and New York in 2017, and then sold at auction in Christie’s in New York on 15 November 2017 for US$450,312,500 (£340 mil), a new record price for an artwork.

Find out more at Barnebys website:

www.barnebys.co.uk

 

For more press information please contact Barnebys UK press office, Julian Roup on info@bendigopr.co.uk orcall 00 44 (0)7970563958.

 

NOTES FOR EDITORS

Barnebys, the world’s leading auction aggregator,

As the world’s leading auction search service (or aggregator), Barnebys features, at any given time, over a half million items for sale through about 2,000 auction houses worldwide. Barnebys is fast closing in on the 1.5 million visitors a month mark. The firm employees people in Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, Spain, China and the US.

5th November 2018
HUGH HEFNER’S OWN FIRST EDITION OF PLAYBOY 1953 FEATURING MARILYN MONROE ON THE COVER PLUS HIS PASSPORT & PAJAMAS -INTRIGUING ITEMS IN JULIEN’S AUCTION OFTHE COLLECTION OF THE PLAYBOY MAGNATE

 

All Proceeds of the Auction to Benefit The Hugh M. Hefner Foundation

 

NOVEMBER 30 & DECEMBER 1, 2018

 

Los Angeles, California – (5th November, 2018) – Julien’s Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, will celebrate the rebel, entrepreneur and activistwho launched the ground breaking men’s lifestyle magazine and built it into an empire by transforming Playboy into an iconic global brand.

 

The auction of PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF HUGH M.HEFNER will take place on Friday, November 30 and Saturday, December 1,2018 live in Los Angeles and online at juliensauctions.com. This fascinating sale includes many interesting lots these amongst many others:

 

  • Hugh Hefner’s personal copy of the first issue of Playboy magazine, in 1953 featuring Marilyn Monroe on the cover (estimate: $3,000-$5,000)
  • Hefner’s first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925) (estimate: $3,000-$4,000)
  • Hefner’s U.S. passport issued May 26, 2016 with a 1970 vaccination record from 1969-70, and 17 signed American Express Traveler’s Cheques (estimate: $3,000-$5,000)
  • Hugh Hefner’s complete personal set of bound volumes of Playboy magazines (estimate: $20,000 – $40,000)
  • Hefner’s bespoke smoking jacket (estimate: $3,000-$5,000) and silk pajamas (estimate: $1,000-$2,000)

 

It was also announced today that all proceeds of the auction of the legendary magazine founder, who was recognized as one of the leading voices in theongoing battles for freedom of expression, civil rights and sexual freedom, including reproductive and LGBT rights, will benefit The Hugh M. Hefner Foundation. Since its founding in 1964, the Foundation has supported organizations that advocate for and defend civil rights and civil liberties, with special emphasis on First Amendment rights and rational sex and drug policies.

Hugh Marston Hefner was born onApril 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois.  His parents had grown up in Nebraska and his father’s rootsdescended from the MassachusettsPuritans. In high school, Hefnerstarted chronicling his life in a long running comic strip and reinvented himself as “Hef.” He also began exploring his love of film and publishing, shooting home horror movies and starting a student newspaper.  After graduating in 1944, he served in the Army as an infantry clerk and continued his writing and cartooning in military newspapers. After the service, Hefner studied art, including anatomy, at the Art Institute of Chicago and then psychology at the University of Illinois, where he also drew cartoons for the daily newspaper, and edited the campus humor magazine, Shaft where he introduced a new feature called Coed of the Month. While in graduate school at Northwestern University, Hefner wrote a paper on sex laws in America and continued to sell his cartoons at various publications. He worked at Esquire magazine as a copywriter, but when they moved their offices to NYC, he decided to stay in Chicago and start a men’s magazine of his own. (photo top left: Hefner’s college typewriter)

In December 1953, with $8,000 cobbled together from family and friends, including $1,000 from his mother,Hefner published the first issue of Playboy featuring a nude pinup shot of Marilyn Monroe as the centerfold. The issue sold more than 50,000 copies and a publishingphenomenon was born. Celebrities and models clamoured to pose for the magazine that showcased beautiful women, lifestyle advice and some of the most acclaimed and famous journalism and literary pieces of all time including the first Playboy interview with Miles Davis conducted by Alex Haley,a 1965 sit down with Martin Luther King Jr., 1974’s “The Great Shark Hunt” byHunter S. Thompson, fiction by Margaret Atwood and more. (photo: Hefner’s silkpajamas)

Beyond being Editor-Publisher of the magazine, Hefner embodied the Playboy philosophy and image, flanked by beautiful Playboy Bunnies and hostinglegendary parties with the rich and famous at the Playboy mansions in Chicago and Los Angeles, dressed in his trademark smoking jacket and silk pajamas,smoking a pipe.

Throughout the years, Playboy Enterprises expanded into television, film, resorts, nightclubs and consumerproducts, all of which were emblazoned with its iconic logo recognized all over the world—a silhouette of the head of a dapper, bow-tie-wearing rabbit. The Playboy empire included the ground-breaking syndicated television shows Playboy’s Penthouse (1959-1961) and Playboy After Dark (1969) hosted by Hefner and featuring iconic performers such as Sammy Davis Jr., Lenny Bruce, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, The Grateful Dead, James Brown and Ike and Tina Turner among others; and forty Playboy Club properties throughout the U.S. and in England and the Bahamaswhere stars such as Bob Hope, Ray Charles, Steve Allen, Ann-Margret, and Dizzy Gillespie performed. Playboy was the first national magazine to go online, back in 1994 and had successful international editions of the magazine in over two dozencountries. (photo top left: Hefner’s cufflinks and below right his captain’s hat)

Hefner was considered one of the most influential people in the 20th century and among the many honors and distinctions he received throughout his lifetime include the Henry Johnson Fisher Award, the highest honor of the Magazine Publishers of America (2002); inductions into the Hall of Fame of the American Society of Magazine Editors (1998) and New York Friars Club (2001); a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Press Club (2011); two Guinness Book of World Records; a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star and more. Hefner died September 27, 2017 at the age of 91 of natural causes.

 

Some highlights of the auction include:

 

  • Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Legacy Collection Gold, a limited edition set of 48 chromogenic and gelatin silver prints by various photographers in a folio wooden case with gold embossed title, published in 2007 (estimate: $20,000-$30,000)
  • A vintage 1946 coin-operated Wurlitzer jukebox programmed by Hefner from his game house containing 24 original 78 rpm record albums by artists such as Artie Shaw, Frank Sinatra, Harry James, Johnny Mercer, Lena Horne, and others (estimate: $10,000-$20,000)
  • Hefner’s five large folio volumes of Salvador Dali’s “Biblia Sacra”(estimate: $8,000-$10,000)
  • A custom 1974 Monopoly board game that includes a pipe smoking Hefner and a Playboy Bunny, among other Mansion regulars, custom Hefner Monopoly money, houses, hotels, cards and more in a custom wooden box marked “Monopoly Parts for HMH” (estimate:$6,000-$8,000) (photo right)
  • Artist Bill Mack’s portrait of Hefner painted in commemoration of the restoration of the Hollywood Sign in 1978 (estimate: $4,000-$6,000)
  • Hefner’s portrait of Shannon Tweed painted by Leroy Neiman (estimate: $3,000-$5,000)
  • His custom black leather Jeff Hamilton Lakers motorcycle jacket with “Lakers” and “Playboy” logos (estimate: $3,000-$5,000)
  • A carved Briar pipe with custom Playboy Bunny logo (estimate: $2,000-$3,000)
  • Hefner’s 1980 “N.B.A. World Champions” ring with one side engraved “NBA 1980” and on the other “Hefner/Los Angeles Lakers/123-102” (estimate: $2,000-$4,000)
  • A scale model of Hefner’s childhood home in Chicago (estimate: $2,500-$3,500)
  • Hefner’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star from his mansion (estimate: $800-$1,200)
  • His bronze Vanitas 1876 Harvard Lampoon medal (estimate: $1,000-$2,000)
  • Hefner’s Asprey of London monogrammed “HH” leather travel backgammon set (estimate: $1,000-$2,000)
  • Hefner’s leather bound Saturday Night Live script when he hosted the show on October 15, 1977 (estimate: $400-$600)
  • An original vintage plate engraved “Si Non Oscillas Noli Tintinnare” from the Playboy Mansion in Chicago which translates to “If You Don’t Swing, Don’t Ring” (estimate: $400-$600)
  • His vintage Underwood Standard Portable typewriter used in college (estimate: $300-$500)
  • An original Playboy Club key with “HMH” and “C1” on the back (estimate: $300-$500)
  • Hefner’s leather bound bible imprinted with his name on the cover and his American Secular Humanist Church ordained minister card (estimate: $200-$400)
  • His Playboy logo cuff links, breakfast tray, white captain’s hat, monogrammed playing card deck holder, Playboy VIP card and more.

“Julien’s Auctions is honored to present this extraordinary auction event that celebrates pop culture icon Hugh Hefner, whose life and legacy truly embodied the American dream,” said Martin Nolan, Executive Director of Julien’s Auctions.

“Whether it was building his company into one of the most recognizable global brands in history or standing up for social, sexual and civil rights causes, my father lived an extraordinary life as a publishing, social and cultural pioneer and left a legacy that his Foundation will perpetuate. We are very proud to announce that 100 percent of the auction proceeds will benefit the Foundation that works to advance his life’s commitment to individual rights in a free society,” added Christie Hefner, President of the HMH Foundation and former Chairman and C.E.O. of Playboy Enterprises.

The Hugh M. Hefner Foundation was established in 1964 to support efforts in defense of civil rights and civil liberties, with special emphasis on First Amendment rights and rational sex and drug policies.

The Foundation is a grant maker and has worked to push back the forces of censorship by providing funding for organizations such as the ACLU and People For the American Way, which work to litigate and lobby to enhance constitutional rights, and work to educate the public on the importance of maintaining a broad concept of the First Amendment. The Foundation also seeks an end to the failedwar on drugs by supporting organizations that advocate for treating the problemas a public health matter such as the Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijuana Policy Project.

The Foundation also supports specific projects that further its mission. Recently, a grant to Brandeis University allowed the school to acquire, archive and make available to scholars, students and the public for the first time, the Lenny Bruce Archives. In response to his social satire in the ‘60s, Bruce was targeted by the government and faced multiple legal battles that left him unable to work and ultimately caused his early death. In challenging the right of the government to ‘criminalize’ speech, he helped to pave the way for future social satirists, comics and commentators. His collection of photographs, writings, transcripts, articles, audio materials, and trial materials are an important part of our country’s history of battles for freedom of expression.

Additionally, the Foundation is the sponsor of the annual Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards: a program that seeks to shine a light on individuals who have made significant contributions to society in the vital effort to protect and enhance First Amendment rights for all Americans. Since the first event in 1979, the Foundation has recognized over 150 individuals, many of whom are unsung heroes, including high school students, lawyers, librarians, journalists and educators.

IMAGE LINKS BELOW:

 

Hugh Hefner media kit link with high res images, descriptions with captions and press release. Photo credit: Julien’s Auctions.

https://bit.ly/2ORw0Ie

 

Julien’s Auctions: Property From The Collection of Hugh M. Hefner- Cufflinks

https://youtu.be/cYVyPNaux_8

 

Julien’s Auctions: Property From The Collection of Hugh M. Hefner- “Hef” Dice

https://youtu.be/oSIrZjP5ufs

PRESS CONTACT

Julian Roup

07970 563 958

info@bendigopr.co.uk

Mozell Miley-Bailey

(646) 653-3105
homagepr@gmail.com

 

info@juliensauctions.com

 

JULIEN’S AUCTIONS PUBLIC EXHIBITION AND AUCTION LOCATION

Julien’s Auctions

The Standard Oil Building Beverly Hills

257 N. Canon Drive

Beverly Hills, CA 90210

 

PUBLIC EXHIBITION

Monday, November 26th-Friday, November 30th

11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. PST

Free to the public

 

JULIEN’S AUCTIONS LIVE AND ONLINE AUCTION

Property from the Collection of Hugh M. Hefner

Friday, November 30, 2018

Session I: 10:00 a.m. PDT

Session II: 1:00 p.m. PDT

 

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Session III: 10:00 a.m. PDT

Session IV: 1:00 p.m. PDT

 

For more information please email – info@juliensauctions.com or call 310-836-1818.

REGISTERING TO BID

Registration is required to bid in this online auction and can be done in person at the exhibition, or online before the sale at the JuliensAuctions.com Registration page to bid by phone, proxy or in person, or online at JuliensLive.com to bid live online, or by calling (310) 836-1818.

 

PLACING BIDS

There are four ways to bid in this sale:

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  4. Enter Absentee bids. Absentee bid forms are included in the back of each catalogue and are also 
available by calling Julien’s Auctions or online at www.juliensauctions.com.

 

ABOUT JULIEN’S AUCTIONS

Julien’s Auctions is the world-record breaking auction house. Collaborating with the famous and the exclusive, Julien’s Auctions produces high profile auctions in the film, music, sports and art markets. Julien’s Auctions has received international recognition for its unique and innovative auction events, whichattract thousands of collectors, investors, fans and enthusiasts from around the world. Julien’s Auctions specializes in sales of iconic artifacts and notable collections including Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Lady Gaga,Banksy, Cher, Michael Jackson, U2, Barbra Streisand, Les Paul, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix and many more. In 2016, Julien’sAuctions received its second placement in the Guinness Book of World Records for the sale of the world’s most expensive dress ever sold at auction, The Marilyn Monroe “Happy Birthday Mr. President” dress which sold for $4.8 million.Julien’s Auctions achieved placement in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2009 for the sale of Michael Jackson’s white glove, which sold for $480,000 making it the most expensive glove ever sold at auction. Based in Los Angeles,Julien’s Auctions has a global presence bringing their auctions and exhibitions to targeted destinations worldwide including London, New York, Las Vegas, Japan and China. Live auctions are presented for bidders on-site and online via live streaming video and mobile technology. For more information on Julien’sAuctions, go to www.juliensauctions.com. Connect with Julien’s Auctions atwww.facebook.com/JuliensAuction or www.twitter.com/JuliensAuctions orwww.instagram.com/juliens_auctions.

 

1st November 2018 for immediate release

 

 

LEGENDARY SONG WRITER BERNIE TAUPIN, COLLABORATOR WITH ELTON JOHN, REFLECTS ON THE PAST FIVE DECADES BEFORE THE SALE OF HIS PERSONAL COLLECTION AT THE HARD ROCK CAFÉ IN NEW YORK WITH JULIEN’S AUCTIONS

 

A little more than a week before THE PERSONAL PROPERTY OF BERNIE TAUPIN auction takes place November 9 live at Hard Rock Café in New York and online at juliensauctions.com, Bernie Taupin, the legendary songwriter, pens his thoughts and reflections of his fabled five decade collaboration with Sir Elton John, who’s embarking on his final world tour, and the impact of his lyrics to their iconic classic hit songs many of which will be sold at auction for the first time by Julien’s Auctions.

 

Taupin’s auction catalogue will feature memorabilia, western ephemera and original, annotated lyrics to some of his classic creations including “Candle in The Wind 1997” tribute to Princess Diana, “I’m Still Standing,” “We Built This City,” “These Dreams,” “Nikita,” “Mendocino County Line,” “A Love that Will Never Grow Old,” and “Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)” as well as one-of-a-kind handwritten lyrics with hand-drawn interpretative Artwork signed by Bernie Taupin featuring his lyrics to classics such as, “Yellow Brick Road,” “Daniel,” “Rocket Man,” “Bennie and The Jets,” and more.  A portion of the sale proceeds will benefit The Elton John AIDS Foundation and The Wounded Warrior Project.

 

For more info: Icons & Idols: Rock-n-Roll: Bernie Taupin
http://www.juliensauctions.com/exhibition-press-release?id=201

 

To view the catalogue:

http://juliensauctions.com/flip-through-catalog?id=201

 

GOOD-BYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD

 

As Elton embarks on his final world tour, I’ve been presented with many opportunities to reflect on our musical career. We celebrated our creative partnership at a gala in Los Angeles in 2017, I joined him for his last weekend during his final La Vegas performances, we’ve co-hosted a YouTube contest where other artists reinterpreted our songs visually, we were honored with a CBS Grammy Salute presentation, and we both executive produced two new albums with covers of some of our biggest hits sung by other artists.

 

I am often asked how I feel about our biggest hits – how do I interpret them today as I reflect on the last 50 years of my professional life? As the tour has begun, I am more overwhelmed than ever before by the sell-out crowds singing along to every song.

 

Fans share often that my lyrics and Elton’s melodies have shaped and changed their lives in dramatic, everlasting ways. How can I possibly express my gratitude to the millions of fans who have impacted my life? Your love and loyalty has meant everything…

 

Vaya Con Dios,

Bernie

 

 

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Press release 31st October 2018 – for immediate release
MUSEUM QUALITY MASTERWORK PAINTINGS BY SOUTH AFRICA’S LEADING ARTISTS SET TO TAKE STRAUSS & CO’S R80-MILLION SALE (£4.5M) TO RECORD BREAKING LEVELS

 

A FEAST OF 11 IRMA STERNS; 17 PIERNEEFS; 9 MAGGIE LAUBSERS; 5 ALEXIS PRELLERS

 

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JACOB HENDRIK PIERNEEF LOWVELD EASTERN TRANSVAAL

 

Four singular artists bolster Strauss & Co’s R80-million sale

 

Strauss & Co is proud to announce its largest-ever live auction by value, with combined estimates for its 12 November sale in Johannesburg exceeding R80 million. The sale has 26 lots with estimates of R1 million or more, and includes works of astonishing range and depth by notable modernist painters MaggieLaubser, JH Pierneef, Alexis Preller and Irma Stern.

 

Based in Cape Town and Johannesburg, Strauss & Co is the global leader for South African art. It holds five live sales annually, including one sale that is solely devoted to contemporary art. Strauss & Co has sold nine of the ten most expensive paintings ever auctioned in South Africa.

 

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           Mary by Irma Stern

 

Irma Stern’s 1941 portrait of a Mary Cramer, a sister of the artist’s confidante, Freda Feldman, carries the sale’s highest estimate (estimate R5 – 7 million). This extraordinary portrait, notes art historian Federico Freschi, was once displayed in Feldman’s emerald-green dining room and captures “the complexities and contradictions that lie beneath the masks of outward appearance”.

 

The Johannesburg sale features 11 lots by Stern. They include a fine selection of her society and travel portraits, notably the gouache works Congo Woman from1942 (estimate R2 – 3 million) and Lady of the Harem from 1945 (estimate R3 – 4 million). Stern also excelled in the still life genre. Notable works in this category include Still Life with Irises from 1941 (estimate R4 – 5 million) and the sumptuous Still Life with Watermelon, Flowers and Grapes from 1933 (estimate 1.8 – 2.4 million).

 

Stern is the top-selling artist at Strauss & Co’s auctions, followed by JH Pierneefwho has 17 works on the present sale. Best known for his expertly choreographed South African scenes, including Farm Jonkershoek with Twin Peaks Beyond, Stellenbosch, which sold for R20.46 million at a 2017 Strauss & Co sale, the forthcoming sale includes two stylised and highly uncommon landscapes depicting foreign landscapes from his travels depicting the Seychelles and Dar es Salaam.

 

Cinnamon Mill, Seychelles (estimate R4 – 5 million) is an unusual post-impressionist study of tropical abundance. It was painted in 1954 during a holiday, long after Pierneef first heard of the East African island from his mentor, FransOerder. Dar es Salaam (estimate R4 – 6 million) is a verdant townscape completewith Pierneef’s ever-present cumulus cloud formations looming on the horizon.

 

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Dar es Salaam by Pierneef

 

The Johannesburg sale includes two exceptional casein landscapes from 1928, both linked to the Schweickerdt family in Pretoria: Lowveld Eastern Transvaal (estimate R3 – 4 million) is a mesmerising kaleidoscope of acutely observed natural colours, while Willow Trees, Roodeplaat Dam, (estimate R2 – 3 million) is a mosaic of autumnal colours.

 

Pierneef’s precise draughtsmanship was the bedrock of his esteemed painting practice. Collectors will delight in his three works depicting tobacconist Lodewijk deJager & Co, Tobacconist Shop, where the artist worked in the early 1900s; the two watercolours and a pencil drawing capture Pierneef’s fine sense for architectural detail (sold as one lot, estimate R200 000 – 300 000).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strauss & Co is privileged to be offering nine oils by pioneering expressionist Maggie Laubser. Five are from the Estate of a Gentleman and this impeccable consignment includes her study of labour, Harvesters in Wheatfield (estimate R2 – 3 million) which features on the cover of Dalene Marais’ catalogue raisonne’ of the artist and forms an important part of this sale offering of Laubser lots.

 

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Harvesters in Wheatfield by Maggie Laubser

 

Alexis Preller has in recent years become a sought-after artist at auction. In 2010, Strauss & Co registered the first upswing in value of Preller’s work when it sold The Flower King, a late-period metaphorical portrait from 1970, for R 2.89 million.Preller has five lots on sale in Johannesburg, including Apple II, a late-career intaglio with painted hollow that was produced in 1969 (estimate R4 – 5 million).  African Profile (R1 – 1.5 million) dates from the start of Preller’s Gold period in 1965.

 

Two years ago, Strauss & Co successfully brought a number of important Prellers to market, some owned by prominent collector Walter Hardebeck. The sale includes a contemporary art component as well with major names like William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins and Diane Victor, also strongly represented.

 

The sale of these outstanding works is preceded by a session dedicated to under-recognised historical artists. The “Unsung History” session offers collectors an expansive view of South African art history at a time of growing international interest in South African art.

 

All the lots will be available for viewing at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg from Friday 9 November until shortly before the premier evening sale commences at 8pm on Monday 12 November.

 

 

For Press enquiries please contact:

Julian Roup

info@bendigopr.co.uk

Tel 00 44 (o)7970 563958

 

Bina Genovese

bina@straussart.co.za

Tel 002721 (0)83 680 9944

 

Captions:

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Maggie Laubser

Women Carrying Wood

signed with the artist’s initials

oil on canvas

37,5 by 47cm

R 1 000 000 – 2 000 000

 

Maggie Laubser

Bird in a Landscape with Rays

signed

oil on canvas laid down on board

45 by 40cm

R 600 000 – 900 000

 

Maggie Laubser

Leentjie

signed with the artist’s initials

oil on board

45 by 37,5cm

R 1 000 000 – 2 000 000

 

Maggie Laubser

Lake Scene with Trees and Mountains

signed with the artist’s initials

oil on canvas

35,5 by 29,5cm

R 300 000 – 500 000

 

 

 

Important South African and International Art
Monday 12 November 2018

 

2 pm Session One

6 pm Session Two

8 pm Session Three

 

Venue:

The Wanderers Club, Ballroom, 21 North Street, Illovo, Johannesburg

GPS Co-ordinates: Latitude: S26 08.123 – Longitude: E28 03.454

 

Preview:

Friday 9 November to Sunday 11 November from 10 am to 5 pm

 

Walkabout:

Saturday 10 November at 11 am and Sunday 11 November at 11 am

 

Enquiries and catalogues

Office: +27 (0) 11 728 8246 Fax: +27 (0) 11 728 8247

 

Contact numbers during viewing and auction:

Mobile +27 (0) 79 407 5140 and +27 (0) 79 367 0637 Fax: +27 (0) 11 728 8247

bids@straussart.co.za conditionreports@straussart.co.za

 

Absentee and telephone bids:

Tel +27 (0) 11 728 8246 +27 (0) 82 336 8761

bids@straussart.co.za Fax 086 565 9324

 

payment

Tel +27 (0) 11 728 8246 Debbie Watson debbie@straussart.co.za

 

Condition reports

conditionreports@straussart.co.za

 

www.straussart.co.za

23rd October 2018 – For Immediate Release

 

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THE PRINCE’S TRUST TO SELL CELEBRITY OUTFITS DONATED BY:

MICK JAGGER, LIONEL RICHIE, ROD STEWART, JOAN COLLINS, BRITNEY SPEARS & OTHERS ATJULIEN’S AUCTIONS ICONS & IDOLS: ROCK-N-ROLL AUCTION NOV 10

 

All Proceeds to Benefit the Charity’s Mission of Helping Disadvantaged Young People in the UK

 

Los Angeles, California – (October 23, 2018)  The Prince’s Trust believes that every young person deserves the chance to succeed – so to raise funds for its work it is auctioning a collection of spectacular showbiz outfits of leading musicians and actors with Julien’s Auctions’ upcoming ICONS & IDOLS: ROCK-N-ROLL auction event on Saturday, November 10 live in Hard Rock Café in New York and online at juliensauctions.com.A marquee lineup featuring of items donated by Britney Spears, Lionel Richie, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Joan Collins, Sharon andOzzy Osbourne and more will star on the auction stage.

 

The mission of The Prince’s Trust is to help 11 to 30 year olds who are unemployed or struggling at school, to transform their lives. The Trust programme helps with practical advice and financial support, building confidence and stabilizing lives, helping young people to achieve their potential. Founded by HRH The Prince of Wales, the charity has helped some 900,000 young people since 1976 and supports 100 more each day. The sale byJulien’s Auctions will provide 100% of hammer price directly to the charity.

             Founded by HRH

Celebrity memorabilia is one of the most bouyant parts of the collectables market at auction says Darren Julien, chairman of the company that will be selling these glamorous items: “If you have always wanted to own something worn by one of your heroes, a rock music legend, actor or  performer, this is your opportunity to achieve that dream while assisting The Prince’s Trust to help do something great for young people in Britain.”

 

The items for sale were all worn during the performance careersof this star studded cast of singers and actors, all of whom have a huge international following with many millions of fans. Their support for The Prince’s Trust is evidence of their great respectfor the work of the Trust in changing lives.

JOAN COLLINS NOLAN MILLER COUTURE EVENING COAT

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Joan Collins has donated a Nolan Miller couture evening coat – a satin scarlet double-breasted trench coat worn by her to the opening night of La Cage aux Folles in New York in 2004. Miller designed the costumes for Collins role in Dynasty (ABC, 1981-1989). The coat is accompanied by an image from the collection of Joan Collins. Donated by Joan Collins. Estimate $1,000-2,000.

MICK JAGGER CUSTOM MADE AND SIGNED JACKET

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A custom-made black leather motorcycle jacket with “The Rolling Stones” on one sleeve, four tongue and lips logo on the other, and a tongue and lips logo on the back. Mick Jagger has signed the back in black marker “Best Wishes Mick Jagger X.” Donated by Mick Jagger. Estimate: $4,000-6,000

THE WHO SIGNED GUITAR

A Gibson SG 50th Anniversary guitar in white signed on the body in black marker by Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey. Serial number 124120668. Accompanied by a hard shell case with “WHO” stenciled in silver paint. Donated by The Who $2,000-4,000

BARBRA STREISAND’S HALTER-NECK DRESS FROM ‘ALL NIGHT LONG’.

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A custom-made mint green jersey dress worn by Streisand in All Night Long (Universal, 1981) and in promotional images for the film. Accompanied by a promotional studio image of Streisand wearing the dress and a pair of strappy sandals believed to be the pair worn in the film. Donated by Barbara Streisand.Estimate $800-1,200

JOHN LENNON
LIMITED EDITION PRINT

A limited edition print of John Lennon’s caricatures of his Quarry Bank High School schoolmates playing music, numbered 31/100. Accompanied by a handwritten letter of authenticity from Helen Anderson, Lennon’s classmate and friend at Liverpool Art College.

PAUL MCCARTNEY SIGNED COMPACT DISC SET

A Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band super deluxe anniversary edition six-disc set with compact discs and DVD, personally signed by Paul McCartney to the winning bidder of this lot. Donated by Paul McCartney. $2,000-4,000

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An ensemble worn by Britney Spears throughout her 2011 “IWanna Go” music video consisting of a white leather jacket with safety pin, studs, and metal tassel decorations from FaithConnexion, customized by her stylist, David Thomas; a black ruffled miniskirt from Ashton Michael; a Beach Bunny red and white polka dot bikini top with white fringe and red bow detail; a pair of aviator sunglasses from DVB with a reddish-orange tint; and a pair of Vivienne Westwood multicolored checkered socks. Donated by Britney Spears’ Stylist David Thomas $2,000-4,000

BRYAN ADAMS AND PRETTY WOMAN CAST SIGNED GUITAR

A Fender FA-100 acoustic guitar signed in black marker by Brian Adams and 40 additional members of the cast and crew of the Broadway production of Pretty Woman. Serial number CFF1680645. Accompanied by a handwritten and signed letter from Bryan Adams on his personal letterhead stating that this was one of the guitars used to write songs for the musical.Together with a soft gig bag. Donated by Bryan Adams $2,000-4,000

ERIC CLAPTON STAGE WORN WAISTCOAT

A blue waistcoat with black lapels and buttons stage worn by Eric Clapton. Donated by Eric Clapton $4,000-6,000

BRIAN MAY STAGE WORN AND SIGNED JERSEY

A red hockey jersey with “May 19” on the back, stage worn and signed in black marker on the left chest “Brian May 2017.” May wore the jersey while performing the finale songs “We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions” at the Queen concert at the Bell Center in Montreal on July 17, 2017. Donated by Brian May $2,000-4,000

IRON MAIDEN BRUCE DICKINSON
SIGNED RECORD AWARD

An EMI Germany presentation record award from June 2013 presented to Bruce Dickinson for sales exceeding 25000 units in Germany for Iron Maiden’s En Vivo! album, signed on the frame in silver marker by Dickinson. Donated by Bruce Dickinson $1,000-2,000

ANNIE LENNOX HANDWRITTEN LYRICS

A single sheet of handwritten lyrics in black pen by Annie Lennox to her 1992 song “Walking on Broken Glass.” Lennox has numbered each verse “V1,” “V2,” and “V3,” and titled the sheet in the center “Broken Glass Words and Music by Annie Lennox.” Housed in a Perspex case. Donated by Annie Lennox $800-1,200.

EMMA BUNTON STAGE WORN BOOTS

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A pair of purple glitter platform ankle chunky-heel boots worn by Spice Girl Emma Bunton on stage. The zip-up boots has a handwritten label that reads “Emma.” Donated by Emma Bunton$800-1,200

GERI HALLIWELL SPICE GIRLS COSTUME

A Spice Girls ensemble worn by Geri Halliwell that comprises of a white tuxedo shirt and black jacket with “Spice Girls” label, a grey fedora hat, and a pair of black chunky-heeled lace-up platform shoes. Donated by Geri Halliwell $600-800

SHARON OSBOURNE
PHOTOSHOOT WORN GOWN

A long-sleeved V-neck black gown with multi- colored sequin detail with flowers and birds throughout, mesh sleeves, label reads “Alexander McQueen/ Made in Italy.” Sharon Osbournewears the gown in a promotional photoshoot for The X-Factor (ITV, 2004- present). Two online links to images of Osbournewearing the gown are available upon request. Donated by Sharon Osbourne $1,000-2,000

OZZY OSBOURNE STAGE WORN CAFTAN

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A black long-sleeved floor length caftan with gold embroidered designs of skulls and crosses with bat wings, embellished with black rhinestones, worn by Ozzy Osbourne while performing on stage. The custom-made caftan has shoulder pad inserts and closes with velcro on the front. Donated by Ozzy Osbourne$3,000-5,000

LIONEL RICHIE STAGE WORN AND SIGNED JACKET

A red custom jacket with black and gold lamé collar, signed on the interior in black marker “ ‘Hello’ Lionel Richie.” The jacket was designed by Richie’s stylist, David Thomas. Richie wore the jacket while performing on his 2016 Lionel Richie – All The Hits residency at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Donated by Lionel Richie $2,000-4,000

ROD STEWART STAGE WORN AND SIGNED JACKET WITH SIGNED SHOES AND SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

A metallic light blue jacket with Bon Choix Couture New York label, signed on interior “AS WORN BY ME Rod Stewart.” Together with a pair of metallic gold loafers, each signed on the sole in black marker by Stewart, with a typed label within that reads “Sir Rod Stewart 43”; and a photograph of Stewart performing on stage that is signed in silver marker “My favorite blue jacket is yours! Rod Stewart.” Donated by Rod Stewart $800-1,200

JULIEN’S AUCTIONS PUBLIC EXHIBITION & LIVE AUCTION LOCATION

Hard Rock Cafe New York

1501 Broadway-Times Square

New York, NY 10036

 

Monday, November 5th, 2018  – Friday, November 9th, 2018

Free to the public: 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. EDT daily

 

LIVE AND ONLINE AUCTION

Friday, November 9

The Personal Property of Bernie Taupin

Session I: 10:00 a.m. EDT

Icons & Idols: Rock-N-Roll

Session II: 1:00 p.m. EDT

 

Saturday, November 10

Icons & Idols: Rock-N-Roll

Session III: 10:00 a.m. EDT

Featuring Property From Philanthropist Milton Verret

Session IV: 1:00 p.m. EDT

 

REGISTERING TO BID
Registration is required to bid in this online auction and can be done in person at the exhibition, or online before the sale at the JuliensAuctions.com Registration page to bid by phone, proxy or in person, or online at JuliensLive.com to bid live online, or by calling (310) 836-1818. For inquiries, please emailinfo@juliensauctions.com or call 310-836-1818.

 

PLACING BIDS
There are four ways to bid in this sale:

  1. Bid through Julien’s Auctions Online Live in Real Time at JuliensLive.com.
  2. Bid over the telephone through an auction house representative.
  3. Submit a bid in person at the Julien’s Los Angeles Gallery
  4. Enter Absentee bids. Absentee bid forms are included in the back of each catalogue, and are also available by calling Julien’s Auctions or online at www.juliensauctions.com.

 

ABOUT JULIEN’S AUCTIONS

Julien’s Auctions is the world-record breaking auction house. Collaborating with the famous and the exclusive, Julien’sAuctions produces high profile auctions in the film, music, sports and art markets. Julien’s Auctions has received international recognition for its unique and innovative auction events, which attract thousands of collectors, investors, fans and enthusiasts from around the world. Julien’s Auctions specializes in sales of iconic artifacts and notable collections including Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Lady Gaga, Banksy, Cher, Michael Jackson, U2, Barbra Streisand, Les Paul, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix and many more. In 2016,Julien’s Auctions received its second placement in the Guinness Book of World Records for the sale of the world’s most expensive dress ever sold at auction, The Marilyn Monroe “Happy Birthday Mr. President” dress which sold for $4.8 million. Julien’s Auctions achieved placement in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2009 for the sale of Michael Jackson’s white glove, which sold for $480,000 making it the most expensive glove ever sold at auction. Based in Los Angeles, Julien’s Auctions has a global presence bringing their auctions and exhibitions to targeted destinations worldwide including London, New York, Las Vegas, Japan and China. Live auctions are presented for bidders on-site and online via live streaming video and mobile technology. For more information on Julien’s Auctions, go towww.juliensauctions.com. Connect with Julien’s Auctions atwww.facebook.com/JuliensAuction or www.twitter.com/JuliensAuctions or www.instagram.com/juliens_auctions.

About Hard Rock International

With venues in 75 countries, including 182 cafes, 24 hotels and 11 casinos, Hard Rock International (HRI) is one of the most globally recognized companies. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world’s greatest collection of music memorabilia, which is displayed at its locations around the globe. Hard Rock is also known for its collectible fashion and music-related merchandise, Hard Rock Live performance venues and an award-winning website. HRI owns the global trademark for all Hard Rock brands. The company owns, operates and franchises Cafes in iconic cities including London, New York, San Francisco, Sydney and Dubai. HRI also owns, licenses and/or manages hotel/casino properties worldwide. Destinations include the company’s two most successful Hotel and Casino properties in Tampa and Hollywood, FL., both owned and operated by HRI parent company The Seminole Tribe of Florida, as well as other exciting locations including Bali, Cancun, Ibiza, Las Vegas, and San Diego. Upcoming new Hard Rock Cafe locations include St. Petersburg, Fortaleza, Casablanca and Chengdu. New Hard Rock hotel, casino or hotel-casino projects include Atlanta, Atlantic City, Berlin, Budapest, London, Los Cabos, Maldives, New York City, Ottawa, Dalian and Haikou in China. For more information on Hard Rock International, visit www.hardrock.com.

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22h October 2018 – for immediate release

FACES THAT ARE WORTH A FORTUNE

BARNEBYS THE ART SEARCH ENGINE REPORTS ON IMAGES OF THE MUSES THAT HAUNT A CENTURY

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THE KISS BY GUSTAV KLIMT

 

”Behind every successful man stands a woman. In art it is eventruer than in any other context”, says Pontus Silfverstolpe, co-founder of Barnebys.

 

There are faces one sees again and again as you view artworks amongthe almost one million featured at any one time on Barnebys, the ”Google of the Art Market”.  Barnebys offers access to 2,000 auction houses internationally on a one-stop-shop platform that makes searching for a particular item child’s play.

 

And when searching for muse inspired art it is rather like flipping through women’s magazines, seeing the same models consistently for many years, famous faces that photographers and clothing designers have fallen in love with, faces that inspire them to acts of creativity.

 

The art world is full of these muses that pursue us in the world’s leading museums, on the galleries of Bond Street, in wealthy homes and, not least, on social media.

 

And they add financial value to the artists work. A painting of a well known muse invariably outsells a work of an unknown person. For example, Andy Warhol: Triple Elvis sold for £65,100,000 in 2014 at Christie’s (a non-sexual muse); White Marilyn for £32,600,000 in 2014 at Christies; and Four Marilyns for £30,400,000 in 2013 at Phillips.

 

Whereas, his other artworks depicting non-muses (i.e. objects) sold for considerably less: For example: Big Campbell’s Soup Can with Can Opener for £20,700,000 in 2017 at Christie’s; Self-Portrait (Fright Wig) for £19,200,000 in 2016 at Sotheby’s; and Big Electric Chair for £16,000,000 in 2014 at Sotheby’s.

 

Pontus Silfverstolpe, co founder of Barnebys, the world’s leading search engine for art, design, antiques and collectibles comments: “The face and image of the muse becomes so well known they jump out at you like members of your own family. Their images are so closely associated with some of the greatest artists in the world, and the best known paintings, they become part of our shared culture. So they are both very human and also iconic, their beauty the seed that leads to the birth of a work of art. We are their beneficiaries.”

 

The first question one asks on this issue is, what is a muse? The word “muse” stems from Greek and Roman mythology, used to describe goddesses who preside over artistic disciplines. Today the word refers to a person who serves as an artist’s source of inspiration ― traditionally, a role reserved for women.
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Camille Claudel

There often a tragic element to the lives of these famous ‘faces’ as we have seen. One classic example was that of Camille Claudel who began her career, as a sculptor in her own right, working in the studio ofAugust Rodin who became her mentor. Despite the 25-year age difference they soon entered into an affair that lasted over a decade. Rodin made several sculptures depicting Claudel, including “Portrait of Camille with a Bonnet” (1886). Claudel destroyed much of her own work and spent the last three decades of her life in an asylum, a tragic life story that has inspired books, films, and plays that explore her life as both an artist and muse.

”So these men and women blessed or cursed to act as the muse of great artists bring with them so much more than a face, they inspire creativity, offer and are given love to a greater or lesser extent. And we are in their debt because their gift to us hangs in pride of place on our most hallowed artistic museums. “Their faces in short are our good fortune”, says Pontus Silfverstolpe

 

One such arresting face combined the worlds of art and fashion, perhaps not surprisingly. She was Emilie Louise Flöge an Austrian seamstress and fashion designer, who was the muse of artist Gustav Klimt. Flögecreated beautiful dresses that were ahead of her time. Shown for example in the artist’s 1908 masterwork “The Kiss”, portraying the couple as lovers ensconced in glimmering gold. Also in a 1902 painting titled simply “Emilie Flöge”, giving his muse a name in public. While the two never officially married, the couple lived together until Klimt’s death in 1918. Their deep connection speaks for itself. Her face is seen on a thousand walls in the art galleries of the world. As well as on coffee cups, puzzles and paper towels.

Some faces halt more than one artist in mid stride. Gala Diakonova was the first wife of surrealist poet Paul Éluard, lover of painter Max Ernst,and later the wife of Salvador Dalí. She met Dalí in 1929 and despite being 10 years his senior, the pair fell in love and married in 1934. Gala appears in several Dalí paintings and sculptures, notably “Imperial Monument to the Child-Woman, Gala” (1934), “The Madonna of PortLligat” (1949), “The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus” (1958–59), and “Portrait of Galarina” (1940–45). Dalí was so taken and inspired by his wife that he often signed both of their names on his works. And when she died he ran out of his creativity.

A more contemporary face associated with a ‘modern’ artist is that ofEdie Sedgwick, the muse of Andy Warhol. Edie Sedgwick, the star of “Poor Little Rich Girl,” had a co-dependent relationship with pop icon Andy Warhol that has been the subject of several books and movies. Warhol painted Sedgwick multiple times, enthralled by her great personal sense of style, a cropped haircut, dangling earrings, and fur coats.

Pontus Silfverstolpe, co founder of Barnebys adds:  ”And it is often through their faces that many of the world’s leading artists have become immortal to the global art audience”, he continues.

Germaine Greer once said in the powerful, sexual way typical of her: “A muse’s job is to penetrate the male artist and bring forth a work from the womb of his mind.” So it would seem that the female muse carries out a very male function in strange way, providing the seed that leads to a work of creation.

And then of course there is the image of Dora Maar, broken up and rearranged by her lover Pablo Picasso. She said of him: “After Picasso, only God.” This dark-haired beauty and photographer was Picasso’s muse during the 1930s and 1940s. She inspired several of his most famous paintings, including “Guernica” (1937) and “The Weeping Woman” (1937). Maar met Picasso in 1936.

There are male muses too of course and George Dyer is perhaps the best known modern male muse – painted again and again by Lucien Freud. George Dyer was figurative painter Francis Bacon’s muse and lover. Dyer was a very troubled man with a criminal history who met Bacon in 1963 and their stormy love affair ended in tragedy when Dyer took his own life. Bacon painted several portraits of his lover both before and after his death, including “Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer” (1963), “Head of George Dyer” (1967), and “Portrait of George Dyer Talking” (1966)

Find out more at Barnebys.co.uk

 

For more press information please contactBarnebys UK press office, Julian Roup oninfo@bendigopr.co.uk or call 01892 669200 or 07970563958.

 

NOTES FOR EDITORS

Barnebys, the world’s leading auction aggregator,

As the world’s leading auction search service (or aggregator), Barnebys features, at any given time, over a half million items for sale through about 2,000 auction houses worldwide. Barnebys is fast closing in on the 1.5 million visitors a month mark. T


ASPIRE ART AUCTIONS

Press release 17th October 2018 for immediate release

 

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‘Adam’ by Alexis Preller mixing African & European legends – his voice speaks afresh in an increasingly transgender world

 

 

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN SOUTH AFRICAN MODERNIST MASTERPIECE OF GENDER AMBIGUITY & EROTICISM

EXPLODES ONTO EUROPEAN MARKET WITH ASPIRE ART AUCTIONS FOR £500,000

 

AN ICONIC EXAMPLE OF PRELLER’S BLENDING OF AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN MYTH AND LEGEND IN HIS POTENT STYLE

An electrifying Alexis Preller (1911-1975) oil painting from 1972 titled ‘Adam’ comes fresh to market with leading South African auctioneer,Aspire Art Auctions.

This never previously seen work will be sold on October 28th in Johannesburg for an estimated £435 000 – £544 000. It was acquired directly from the artist and has stayed with the same family by descent.

He trained in the UK at the Westminster School of Art from which he graduated during 1934 and attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris during 1937. He was especially influenced by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, and visited European galleries and museums to study these artists’ works. Today his work commands prices ranging from £250,000 to £500,000.

 

Preller is one of the handful of South African artists whose work has found an appreciative international audience. The value of his work has risen alongside the new boom in Contemporary African Art and Preller works find a place increasingly in Contemporary Art sales rather than sales of South African art.

This Adam figure shows all the hallmark signs of the artist’s vision of an alternative universe, informed strongly by African myth and legend, but also by the themes and images of European and Classical antiquity. As an artist he was years ahead of his time with his interest in gender ambiguity linked to his understanding of classical culture.

 

‘Adam’ is one of a small group of Adamic figures that concerned AlexisPreller in his late career. He was interested in both Adam as the first human figure and also as a version of the Apollo of Classical antiquity, in many ways an ideal of male beauty.

 

This current work for auction fits exactly within this group, and demonstrates many of the key characteristics of Preller’s imagining of the male psyche in his oeuvre and in his personal mythography. In the Adamic and Apollonian works around this time there is often a gender ambiguity, and a certain eroticism, which this Adam figure embodies. Its saturated colour palette is also characteristic of some of his later work.

 

Ruarc Peffers, MD of Aspire, says: “This rare and unique painting, which was one of only five works Preller selected to represent him at the São Paulo Biennale of 1973, is one that will tantalize his collector base. The market for his work remains strong – especially with respect to significant, museum-quality examples like this one, with this standard of exhibition history, enthusiastically endorsed by the artist himself and hailed as one of his top works at the time. We anticipate a very positive response.”

 

The work of Alexis Preller remains among the most collectible in South Africa, and his reputation has steadily risen in the secondary market in the 40 years since his last exhibition.

 

Preller was a unique figure in the history of South African art. His style evolved as an amalgam of different reference points and art histories, with his early exposure to European modernism in his years spent in the UK and France, and then with his committed interest in history and anthropology, in his travels in both Europe and Africa.

 

Aspire Art Auctions has seen several highlights in sales of Preller’s work to his dedicated collectors over the last few years. In 2016, Preller’s Profile figures (Mirrored image) from 1967, sold for a remarkable £375,000 (R7 048 160), one of the top prices ever fetched for his work, and the record price at auction for that year.

 

The personal cosmology that marked his later work was again in evidence in another work sold by Aspire in March this year for

£240,000 (R4, 547 200). Gold Angel (Arêté) dates from 1970, and is one of Preller’s signature intaglio relief paintings which characterised the last few years of his career. A floating head in profile that combines many features of the deistic belief systems the artist was interested in, including Yoruba and ancient Egypt, it is a remarkable and compelling work.

 

ASPIRE ART AUCTIONS

Press release 10th October 2018 for immediate release

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‘Adam’ by Alexis Preller mixing African & European legends – his voice speaks afresh in an increasingly transgender world

 

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN SOUTH AFRICAN MODERNIST MASTERPIECE OF GENDER AMBIGUITY & EROTICISM

EXPLODES ONTO EUROPEAN MARKET WITH ASPIRE ART AUCTIONS FOR £500,000

 

AN ICONIC EXAMPLE OF PRELLER’S BLENDING OF AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN MYTH AND LEGEND IN HIS POTENT STYLE

An electrifying Alexis Preller (1911-1975) oil painting from 1972 titled ‘Adam’ comes fresh to market with leading South African auctioneer,Aspire Art Auctions.

This never previously seen work will be sold on October 28th in Johannesburg for an estimated £435 000 – £544 000. It was acquired directly from the artist and has stayed with the same family by descent.

He trained in the UK at the Westminster School of Art from which he graduated during 1934 and attended the Académie de la GrandeChaumière in Paris during 1937. He was especially influenced by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, and visited European galleries and museums to study these artists’ works. Today his work commands prices ranging from £250,000 to £500,000.

 

Preller is one of the handful of South African artists whose work has found an appreciative international audience. The value of his work has risen alongside the new boom in Contemporary African Art andPreller works find a place increasingly in Contemporary Art sales rather than sales of South African art.

This Adam figure shows all the hallmark signs of the artist’s vision of an alternative universe, informed strongly by African myth and legend, but also by the themes and images of European and Classical antiquity. As an artist he was years ahead of his time with his interest in gender ambiguity linked to his understanding of classical culture.

 

‘Adam’ is one of a small group of Adamic figures that concerned AlexisPreller in his late career. He was interested in both Adam as the first human figure and also as a version of the Apollo of Classical antiquity, in many ways an ideal of male beauty.

 

This current work for auction fits exactly within this group, and demonstrates many of the key characteristics of Preller’s imagining of the male psyche in his oeuvre and in his personal mythography. In theAdamic and Apollonian works around this time there is often a gender ambiguity, and a certain eroticism, which this Adam figure embodies. Its saturated colour palette is also characteristic of some of his later work.

 

Ruarc Peffers, MD of Aspire, says: “This rare and unique painting, which was one of only five works Preller selected to represent him at the São Paulo Biennale of 1973, is one that will tantalize his collector base. The market for his work remains strong – especially with respect to significant, museum-quality examples like this one, with this standard of exhibition history, enthusiastically endorsed by the artist himself and hailed as one of his top works at the time. We anticipate a very positive response.”

 

The work of Alexis Preller remains among the most collectible in South Africa, and his reputation has steadily risen in the secondary market in the 40 years since his last exhibition.

 

Preller was a unique figure in the history of South African art. His style evolved as an amalgam of different reference points and art histories, with his early exposure to European modernism in his years spent in the UK and France, and then with his committed interest in history and anthropology, in his travels in both Europe and Africa.

 

Aspire Art Auctions has seen several highlights in sales of Preller’swork to his dedicated collectors over the last few years. In 2016,Preller’s Profile figures (Mirrored image) from 1967, sold for a remarkable £375,000 (R7 048 160), one of the top prices ever fetched for his work, and the record price at auction for that year.

 

The personal cosmology that marked his later work was again in evidence in another work sold by Aspire in March this year for

£240,000 (R4, 547 200). Gold Angel (Arêté) dates from 1970, and is one of Preller’s signature intaglio relief paintings which characterisedthe last few years of his career. A floating head in profile that combines many features of the deistic belief systems the artist was interested in, including Yoruba and ancient Egypt, it is a remarkable and compelling work.

 

For further information please contact Julian Roup on Tel: +44 (0)7970 563958 or Email: info@bendigopr.co.uk

 

More sale information from Aspire Art Auctions

Phone.: +27 11 243 5243.

 

10th October 2018 – For Immediate Release

BANKSY’S SEMINAL PROTEST ARTWORK SLAVE LABOUR HEADS TO

JULIEN’S AUCTIONS

STREET & CONTEMPORARY ART

AUCTION

 

“WE CAN’T GUARANTEE THAT OUR BANKSY’S WILL AUTOMATICALLY SHRED OR EXPLODE BUT THEY WILL SELL TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.”- DARREN JULIEN

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Clet Abraham, Kusama,RETNA, Invader, KAWS and More Featured

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Los Angeles, California – (October 10, 2018) – Julien’s Auctions, the world record-breaking auction house, has announced that the fall edition of its biannualStreet and Contemporary Art Auction will take place November 14, 2018 atJulien’s Auctions in Los Angeles and live online at www.juliensauctions.com Front and center will be a piece of one of the most talked about street artists in the news today-Banksy-whose latest at auction made headlines around the world when the work shredded itself seconds after the gavel came down for £1million.

Slave Labour (Bunting Boy) is a black and white aerosol on concrete piece (top photo), embellished with plastic flags executed by Banksy in May 2012 on the outer wall of a Poundland discount store in Wood Green, London (estimate: $600,000-$800,000). The piece is mounted on a custom platform and is accompanied by a clear protective case. Slave Labour depicts a young child on his knees at a sewing machine, diligently producing a string of Union Jack bunting. Itis believed to have been created by Banksy as a protest against the use of sweatshops for the manufacture of souvenirs commemorating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the 2012 upcoming Summer Olympics in London. One of the most publicized and poignant examples of Banksy’s social commentary, SlaveLabour helped bring international attention to the exploitation of youth.

“We can’t guarantee that our four Banksy’s will automatically shred or explode but they will sell to the highest bidder!” said Darren Julien, President/Chief Executive Officer of Julien’s Auctions.

Other notable Banksy works are also featured in the sale including Crazy Horse (estimate: $100,000-$125,000)(photo left), TV Girl (estimate: $40,000-$60,000) and Applause($10,000-$15,000). Crazy Horse, a 2013
aerosol on car door with orange traffic cone installation was produced in New York City’s Lower East Side, consisted of two heavily painted vehicles depicting a stampede of horses bearing down on a huddled group of terrified people, and included a phone number through which audio clips could be heard from a 2007 Baghdad airstrike by an Apache helicopter troop with the call-sign “Crazy Horse 18” in which two Reuters correspondents were reportedly killed. The audio and video transmissions from the airstrike, which had been released by Wikileaks in 2010 under the title “Collateral Murder,” were shocking due to the apparent indifference of the troop regarding the loss of life, with one soldier saying “Oh well. Well it’s their fault for bringing their kids to a battle.”

Installed on October 9, 2013, as part of Banksy’s highly-publicized New York City residency “Better Out Than In,” is a reference to a quote attributed to 19th century impressionist painter, Paul Cezanne, “…all pictures inside, in the studio, will never be as good as those painted outside.” The work is accompanied by a custom-built display stand.. Banksy’s Instagram post of this artwork on his personal account can be seen via the following link https://www.instagram.com/p/fQEYojK-we/

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is an aerosol on Burger King sign) executed by Banksy in his hometown of Bristol, England. It is accompanied by a signed letter from SWRDA relinquishing ownership of the sign from the building site, and a signed letter from Brandler Galleries regarding the work’s authenticity and value. (estimate: $40,000-$60,000) (photo left).

Banksy’s Applause is a 2006
Screenprint on paper
signed and dated in pencil lower left and numbered in pencil lower right 73/150 with embossed POW logo

(estimate: $10,000-$15,000).

Macintosh HD:Users:Julian:Desktop:thlGg2YA.jpgAdditional highlights of the auction include Street Art legend Jean-MichelBasquiat and his work Head (Portfolio I)(estimate: $80,000-$100,000) – a 2001
Screenprint on paper from the series published by DeSanctis Carr Fine Art and authorized by the Basquiat Estate(photo left) and Untitled (Portrait with Crown of Thorns II) – 1981
 byBasquiat, marker on paper
signed and dated in black marker lower right (estimate: $20,000-$40,000).

A rare, personal item of Basquiat’s will also be offered at auction: his black wool Comme Des Garçons coat. (estimate$20,000-$30,000). The coat was in the possession of Basquiat’s last girlfriend Kelle Inman after the artist’s death in 1987. Basquiat is known to have been a fan of the casual, urbanstreetwear line and modeled on the runway for their Spring/Summer 197 Collection. Several photographs of Basquiat wearing the coat exist including images with Andy Warhol (shown in photo right), Spike Lee and his mother MatildeAndradas.

 

Also featured in the auction is Invader with LA_200 – 2018
executed on the side of a Los Angeles law office building (estimate: $20,000-40,000); New York’s pop art and graffiti artist Keith Haring’s Untitled (Robot and Snake) (estimate: $15,000-$20,000) with his 1984 White marker on black cardstock panels work.  The sale also features Shephard Fairey with 2012 Arab Woman, (estimate: $6,000-$8,000), a screenprint on embossed paper as well as pop culture provocateur RETNA with Sonia 2 2010
Screenprint on paper, estimate: $10,000-$15,000.) The November 14 event will also include works by Andy Warhol, Clet Abraham, Kusama, Swoon, Mr. Brainwash, KAWS and more.

JULIEN’S AUCTIONS STREET AND CONTEMPORARY ART PUBLIC EXHIBITION AND AUCTION LOCATION:
Julien’s Auctions
The Standard Oil Building Beverly Hills
257 N. Canon Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

PUBLIC EXHIBITION:
Monday, November 12th – Wednesday, November 14th
Daily: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. PDT
Free to the Public

LIVE AND ONLINE AUCTION:
Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

STREET AND CONTEMPORARY ART
Session I: 4:00 p.m. PST

Session II (evening session and VIP reception): 7:00 p.m. PST

 

For Inquiries: Email – info@juliensauctions.com or Call – 310-836-1818

 

REGISTERING TO BID

Registration is required to bid in this online auction and can be done in person at the exhibition, or online before the sale at the JuliensAuctions.com Registration page to bid by phone, proxy or in person, or online at JuliensLive.com to bid live online, or by calling (310) 836-1818.

 

PLACING BIDS

There are four ways to bid in this sale:

  1. Bid through Julien’s Auctions Online Live in Real Time at JuliensLive.com.
  2. Bid over the telephone through an auction house representative.
  3. Submit a bid in person at the Julien’s Los Angeles Gallery
  4. Enter Absentee bids. Absentee bid forms are included in the back of each catalogue and are also 
available by calling Julien’s Auctions or online at www.juliensauctions.com.

 

ABOUT JULIEN’S AUCTIONS

Julien’s Auctions is the world-record breaking auction house. Collaborating with the famous and the exclusive, Julien’s Auctions produces high profile auctions in the film, music, sports and art markets. Julien’s Auctions has received international recognition for its unique and innovative auction events whichattract thousands of collectors, investors, fans and enthusiasts from around the world. Julien’s Auctions specializes in sales of iconic artifacts and notable collections including Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Lady Gaga,Banksy, Cher, Michael Jackson, U2, Les Paul, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix and many more. In 2016, Julien’s Auctions received its second placement in the Guinness Book of World Records for the sale of the world’s most expensive dress ever sold at auction, The Marilyn Monroe “Happy Birthday Mr. President” dress which sold for $4.8 million. Julien’s Auctions achieved placement in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2009 for the sale of Michael Jackson’s white glove, which sold for $480,000 making it the most expensive glove ever sold at auction. Based in Los Angeles, Julien’s Auctions has a global presence bringing their auctions and exhibitions to targeted destinations worldwide including London, New York, Las Vegas, Japan and China. Live auctions are presented for bidders on-site and online via live streaming video and mobile technology. For more information on Julien’s Auctions, go towww.juliensauctions.com. Connect with Julien’s Auctions at www.facebook.com/JuliensAuction or www.twitter.com/JuliensAuctions orwww.instagram.com/juliens_auctions.

PRESS CONTACT

Mozell Miley-Bailey (U.S.)

(646) 653-3105
homagepr@gmail.com

 

info@juliensauctions.com

 

ASPIRE ART

AUCTIONS

5TH OCTOBER 2018 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

DRAWING OF ICONIC CHARACTER FROM FILMS THAT CATAPULTED SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST TO FAME FOR SALE WITH ASPIRE ART AUCTIONS

 

£300,000 WILLIAM KENTRIDGE WORK

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Aspire Art Auctions’ Ravelle Pillay with William Kentridge drawing from the film Stereoscope’

 

Video of work and interview with artist:

http-//ubu.com/film/ken#26C662D

 

An important work by top contemporary artist William Kentridgewhose work has been featured by the Tate and showcased on the banks of the River Tiber in Rome, in the last two years, is for sale with leading South African auction house, Aspire Art Auctions on October 28th.

 

Ruarc Peffers, Director of Aspire Art Auctions in South Africa, says of the work they are currently selling: “This work by William Kentridgestems from his early Drawings for Projection for which the artist is most celebrated and which was the driving force behind his initial rise to international fame and prominence.”

 

William Kentridge is the famous son of a famous father, SidneyKentridge, who defended Nelson Mandela in the infamous Treason Trial, thus saving his life.

 

The business-suited figure in the drawing, Soho Eckstein, is WilliamKentridge’s much discussed alter ego, a corporate figure linked to affluent South Africans’ exploitation of the sub-continent. Over the course of the films, but in many ways culminating in this one, it is revealed that Soho Eckstein, the arch-capitalist magnate, and FelixTeitelbaum, his naked nemesis and lover of Mrs. Eckstein, are in fact one and the same.

The drawing represents one of the critical moments in the film whereSoho realises with sorrow the divided nature of his identity, and feels, in the midst of the political tumult going on in the world outside, totally alone in an empty room.

This moody drawing from the film, Stereoscope – Double Page, Sohoin Two Rooms was produced in 1999. The charcoal and pastel work on paper, signed, 120 x 160 cm is estimated to sell for £230,000 (R4.5m) to £300,000 (R6m). The drawing from Stereoscope is one of the largest of 65 drawings that Kentridge used to make the 8 minute and 22 second animated film that was first shown, together with a selection of drawings, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in April 1999.

 

Kentridge is celebrated internationally as a powerful artistic voice out of Africa. At the Tate Modern recently his new work ‘The Head & The Load’ showcased the significant contribution of African men and women during WW1. The world premiere of this major new work was performed against the dramatic backdrop of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. William Kentridge’s latest project combines music, dance, film projections, mechanised sculptures and shadow play to create an imaginative landscape on an epic scale. It tells the untold story of the hundreds of thousands of African porters and carriers who served in British, French and German forces during the First World War.

In another stunning international project his work ‘Triumphs and Laments, a monumental frieze that featured 80 images, ran alongside the river Tiber in Rome and was described as being “like an unravelled triumphal column”.

 

In the year in which he made this film, Kentridge said of his method: “I believe that in the indeterminacy of drawing, the contingent way that images arrive in the work, lies some kind of model of how we live our lives. The activity of drawing is a way of trying to understand who we are and how we operate in the world. It is in the strangeness of the activity itself that can be detected judgment, ethics and morality.”

 

Historian and academic, Matthew Kentridge (William’s brother) has written, in the early Drawings for Projection, that Soho was “the embodiment of wealth and greed, arch-capitalist in his privileged world, fat to bursting on the proceeds of exploitation”.[i] This world is represented in the chaos of communication systems, manic numbers, and various forms of interpersonal abuse that invade Soho’s room on the left. From around the time of the film The History of the Main Complaint of 1996, however, Soho began to express remorse for his role in an unjust system and attempted to withdraw from this world: this space is represented on the right of the drawing.

 

Stereoscope was made during the time of the proceedings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that dealt mainly with political crimes under Apartheid but paved the way for big business to acknowledge complicity and guilt.

 

For further information please contact Julian Roup on Tel: +44 (0)7970 563958

Email: info@bendigopr.co.uk

 

More sale information from Aspire Art Auctions

Phone.: +27 11 243 5243.

Press release: 4th October 2018 – for immediate release

HARRY & MEGHAN ROYAL WEDDINGCELEBRATORY HANDBAG SET TO BREAK NEW AUCTION RECORD AT THE PEDESTALFOR £6,000 PLUS

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HANDBAGS ON A PEDESTAL – BAGS OFINVESTMENT VALUE

 

A handbag designed by Louis Vuitton as part of the company’s tribute to the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Ms MeghanMarkle on May 19 will be sold by leading furniture and collectables auction house, The Pedestal, on Tuesday 16thOctober at Kent House, Knightsbridge SW7. Sold for £1,340 originally it is expected to sell now for more than £6,000!

It is expected to set a new record at auction for this limitededition ‘Speedy’ bag. The bag, priced at £1,340 new was one ofa limited collection of 85 pieces across four styles: Keepall, Speedy, Néo Noé, and Petite Malle. Now the value of this ‘Speedy’ bag by Louis Vuitton has rocketed and it is available for sale with The Pedestal at a low estimate of £6,000.

It is one of the most hotly contested bags of 2018. Collectors worldwide and buyers are still after it, as they know its value will only increase over the coming years.

 

Handbags have become one of the newest collectables and many of the international fine art auction houses are now holding sales dedicated to designer handbags. Currently the world record for a handbag is for an Hermès matte whiteNiloticus Crocodile Himalaya Birkin 30 designed by Jean Paul Gaultier. It sold in a Hong Kong auction in June 2016 for£208,250. It was described by Christie’s as the “rarest, most sought-after, most valuable bag. Only one or two of the Diamond Himalayas are produced each year.”

 

The value of branded women’s handbags have gone through the roof and today are one of the most collectable alternateinvestment categories at auction say The Pedestal. “So next time your partner says that she wants a handbag and the price horrifies you, just think that it may in fact prove to be an investment,” says specialist Charlotte Rogers. .

 

As well as many other covetable designer handbags, watches and silver, the auction features an exclusive group of Artbags by artist Debra Franses Bean. These highly individual and personal pieces demonstrate that handbags can truly transcend into fine art. .

 

Estimates for the nine Artbags start at £1,200.

 

INTRODUCING THE ARTBAG

 

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Captions:

Left, Divine Revenge, est. £1,500-2,000

Right, Ode to Warhol II, est. £5,500-6,500

 

Debra describes Artbag as a window into her soul and it was whilst studying at Central St Martins School of Art (2002-2005) that the idea for these first materialised. Debra took a beautiful handbag from a top couture house and adapted it into a silicone mould for casting. The first bag was in heavywhite plaster, but, her next bag, Catch, was cast in resin, and featured a goldfish inside a tank of water, mounted on a plinth. Her first pieces were highly autobiographical as through these Debra visualised how she was feeling about various areas of her life. Although this focus has shifted over time Debra acknowledges that every bag is a distillation of who she has met, where she has been and what she has seen in the world. As Debra explains, ‘…all interactions leave a trace in me which inspire my work’. Every Artbag has a title and these are equally as intriguing: ranging from a single, punchy word through to smart, thought-provoking statements which brand and define the Artbag.

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Caption: Lava Bag, est. £1,200-1,800

 

Debra explores ideas centred on consumption and mass production, and recognises the complex relationship we have with material objects as consumable goods. With their kitschy elements these works are a clear nod to pop art, however, they also reference our contemporary digital age, as the contents would be acquired through online shopping and social networking. Objects span the low and high levels of comfort, prestige and style. The process of resin encapsulation results in a visually-heightened presentation of the chosen items, with the anticipation of their consumption forever suspended in time and never to be realised.

The creation of an artbag has been likened to mummification in a slick and chic resin coffin. Objects are selected to ensure that they won’t break or melt in the casting process, and occasionally delicate items need their own mould. The silicone mould of the handbag is in two parts and an initial layer of objects is laid out in each half. Liquid resin is poured in, in layers, with a day in between for each layer to cure and with further objects added to build up the layers. The completed handbag is then put into a pressure chamber where any last bits of air are removed. This is the most delicate stage of the process as bubbles can be created in the resin. Once cured the handbag stays in the mould for several days and when removed it is sanded down, polished to a high sheen and lacquered.

 

The Viewing will be in the historically interesting Kent House, aka WestminsterSynagogue: https://westminstersynagogue.org/content/history-kent-house

 

Address: Kent House, Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge, London SW7 1BX

Viewing times: Sunday 14th October, 12pm – 5pm; Monday 15th October, 9am – 5pm; Tuesday 16th October, 9am – 12pm

 

FOR MORE PRESS INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT JULIAN ROUP ON 00 44 (0)7970 563958 OR EMAIL INFO@BENDIGOPR.CO.UK

THE PEDESTAL CONTACT INFO:

Sally Stratton: sally@thepedestal.com. tel: 07484 873178 Guy Savill: guy@thepedestal.com. tel: 07931 404461

The Pedestal -55 Prince’s Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PG

 

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Sally Stratton & Guy Savill

The Pedestal, a new 21st century destination for buying and selling fine antique furniture and objects of distinction.

Co-founder, Sally Stratton says, “The Pedestal gives us the opportunity to take a fresh look at how best to showcase fine furniture, works of art and other objects.”

Buyers have the chance to bid in person, through commission bids or on the telephone. Bidding is also be possible online through The Pedestal’s website www.thepedestal.com, as well as on international bidding platforms the Saleroom and Invaluable.

www.thepedestal.com

About The Pedestal

The pedestal was created to offer a new approach to buying and selling fine furniture, works of art and other objects of distinction. It will offer both traditional auction sales and a 365 days a year online platform, bringing additional flexibility and choice in the marketplace, all expertly curated by experienced specialists.

WWW.THEPEDESTAL.COM

3rd October 2018 – For immediate release

THE NEXT ‘FINE ARTS PARIS’ FAIR ATTRACTS A FULL HOUSE OF 43 GALLERIES FROM HOME AND ABROAD
November 7-11, 2018

 

THE PLACE TO BUY A RODIN SCULPTURE OR A MANET PICTURE AMONG A TREASURE TROVE ON OFFER

 

FINE ARTS PARIS will offer many reasons to travel to the City of Light in the dark days of November 7th to 11th with some 43 galleries exhibiting.

For art lovers Fine Arts Paris is a must.

 

FINE ARTS PARIS has announced that 43 galleries – including 21 newexhibitors – from 8 countries will participate in its 2nd edition, which takes place at the Carrousel du Louvre in the center of Paris, from November 7 to11, with a preview day on November 6.

 

FINE ARTS PARIS has commanded the attention of the art world in what is only the second running of this new Paris based event run, in partnership with the major French museums including the Louvre, Petit Palais, Centre Pompidou, Zadkine, Bourdelle, Rodin and Maillol museums.

 

This new fair, organized by the Salon du dessin team in partnership with Paris Tableau applies principles that guarantee success: a mix of established dealers and emerging galleries, plus partnerships with museums, cultural program and a strong presence of overseas art galleries.

 

Exhibitors include established dealers like Canesso, Coatalem, de Bayser, Berès, Steinitz, Perrin, Art Cuellar Nathan (Zurich), Artur Ramon (Barcelona), Jill Newhouse (New York) …

Among the younger dealers are Galerie Chaptal, Mathieu Néouze, Lancz Galery (Belgium) and Lorenz Van der Meij (Holland).

 

FINE ARTS PARIS is a fair aimed at bringing a new fresh focus to painting,sculpture and drawings. New this year, the Sculpture Week, will allow privileged visitors to enter the reserve collection of major museums (including the Louvre Museum and the City of Paris collection), to attend private tours, notably on the occasion of the opening of the new sculpture gallery of the Petit Palais, inaugurated on November 7th.

 

Download the press kit in english

https://www.art-et-communication.fr/_media/_pdf/2018/PR-Fine-Arts-Paris-2018.pdf

 

 

EXHIBITORS AT FINE ARTS PARIS 2018

 

Didier AARON / Paris

Galerie Edouard AMBROSELLI / Paris

Paolo ANTONACCI  / Roma

BAILLY Gallery / Geneva

F. BAULME Fine Arts / Paris

De BAYSER / Paris

Antoine Bechet /Paris

Galerie BERES / Paris

CALLISTO Fine Arts / London

Galerie CANESSO / Paris

Antoine CECI / Formigine (Modena)

Galerie CHAPTAL/Paris

Galerie CHARVET / Paris

Galerie Eric COATALEM / Paris

Art CUELLAR- NATHAN / Zurich

Galerie Michel DESCOURS / Lyon

Galerie Xavier EECKHOUT / Paris

Galerie LES ENLUMINURES / Paris-New York – Chicago

Galerie l’HORIZON CHIMERIQUE / Bordeaux

Galerie Fabienne FIACRE / Paris

Galerie Chantal KIENER / Paris

LANCZ Gallery / Brussels

Galerie Jacques LEEGENHOEK / Paris

LEMOINE-BOUCHARD Fine Arts /Paris

José de la MANO Galeria de Arte / Madrid

Van der MEIJ Fine Arts / Amsterdam

Galerie MENDES / Paris

Galerie Mathieu NEOUZE / Paris

Jill NEWHOUSE Gallery / New York

Galerie MALAQUAIS / Paris

Galerie Maurizio NOBILE / Paris

Galerie ORSAY Paris / Paris

Galerie PERRIN / Paris

Galerie de la PRESIDENCE / Paris

Artur RAMON Art / Barcelone

Galerie RATTON-LADRIERE / Paris

ROSENBERG & Co. / New York

Galerie STEINITZ / Paris

TALABARDON & GAUTIER / Paris

Galerie TARANTINO / Paris

Galerie TERRADES / Paris

Galerie TREBOSC & VAN LELYVELD / Paris

UNIVERS DU BRONZE / Paris

 

The exhibitors shown in blue are participating for the first time in FINE ARTS PARIS.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT

Sylvie Robaglia

sylvie@art-et-communication.fr

TEL 00 33(0)6 72 59 57 34

Julian Roup
info@bendigopr.co.uk

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JULIEN’S AUCTIONS ANNOUNCES SALE OF THE

PERSONAL PROPERTY OF BERNIE TAUPIN

 

Legendary Songwriter and Famed Collaborator with Elton John:
Collection of Handwritten Lyrics to Some of the Greatest Pop Songs of All Time Take the Top of the Charts atHard Rock Cafe New York

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2018

 

(photos left to right: Taupin’s Rocket Man lyrics, songwriting chair and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road gold record)

 

Los Angeles, California – (October 1, 2018) – Julien’s Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, salutes one of the greatest songwriters of all timewith

THE PERSONAL PROPERTY OF BERNIE TAUPIN November 9 live atHard Rock Café in New York and online at juliensauctions.com.

 

This spotlight music artist auction event celebrates the 50th anniversary of Bernie Taupin’s writing partnership with pop culture icon Sir Elton John whose fabledcollaboration produced some of music’s greatest hits of all time including,“Rocket Man,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” “Your Song,” “Candle In the Wind,” and “Daniel,” earning more than 30 gold and platinum albums together, 40 top 10 hit records and worldwide renown as one of pop music’s greatest songwriting duos. The event kicks off Julien’s Auctions two-day music auction extravaganza with ICONS & IDOLS: ROCK-N-ROLL taking place Saturday, November 10. The full lineup will be announced at a future date.

 

Born on May 22, 1950 in England’s rural county of Lincolnshire, Taupin demonstrated an early interest and talent for writing and poetry as a child. At 15,he left school and worked as a farm laborer and an apprentice printer for The Lincolnshire Standard. In 1967, he answered a “talent wanted” advertisement in the New Musical Express along with a 20-year-old unknown singer/pianist named Reginald Dwight who had also applied to the post. When the two met, Taupingave him a stack of his lyrics. Reg, who would shortly after change his name to Elton John, began to write music to the lyrics and thus, began a lifelongsongwriting partnership that forever changed their lives and pop music history.Their first hit together 1970’s “Your Song” brought the duo international fame, subsequently making Bernie Taupin and Elton John household names.

 

The Taupin-John collaboration dominated the 1970s with a slew of number one andBillboard top 100 charting hits that included“Border Song,” “Tiny Dancer,” “Rocket Man,” “Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters,” “Daniel,” “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” “The Bitch Is Back,” “Philadelphia Freedom,” “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word,” “Crocodile Rock,”“Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” (duet with Kiki Dee) and more. From 1970-76, the duo created an astonishing 14 albums includingElton John, Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across The Water, Honky Chateau, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player, Caribou, Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy, which became the first album to enter the Billboard 100 at number one and the all time classicalbum Goodbye Yellow Brick Road which produced the smash hit singles “Candle In the Wind,” “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting,” “Bennie And The Jets,”and the record’s iconic self-titled track.

 

In 1978, Taupin co-wrote the album From the Inside with Alice Cooper and laterfound songwriting success with other artists. Starship’s 1985 hit song “We Built this City” and Heart’s number one 1986 hit “These Dreams” brought additional success to Taupin. The 1980s and 1990s produced more hits with Elton John including, 1982’s “Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)” a salute to John Lennon, “I’m Still Standing,” “I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues,” “Sad Songs(Say So Much),” “Nikita,” “The One,” and more. (photo top left: Candle in the Wind 1997 lyrics)

 

In 1997, Taupin rewrote the lyrics of “Candle in the Wind” in tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, which became the bestselling single in Billboard history and procured Elton John a Grammy® for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the song that year. In 2002, Willie Nelson and Kid Rock recorded Taupin’s “Last Stand in Open Country” and in 2003, Taupin’s song “Mendocino County Line,”recorded also by Nelson in a duet with Lee Ann Womack, won the Grammy for best vocal collaboration in country music. In 2006, Taupin won a Golden Globe for his lyrics to the song “A Love That Will Never Grow Old” from the filmBrokeback Mountain.

In 1992, Taupin and John were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and later in 2013 were presented with the SHOF’s prestigious Johnny Mercer Award. In 1994, asElton John was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame he beckoned Taupin to the stage and proclaimed, “Without Bernie Taupin, there would be no Elton John” as hehanded Taupin his Hall of Fame trophy. (photo right: Taupin’s National steel guitar)

In 2013, the duo collaborated on theircritically acclaimed 31st studio album, The Diving Board and their most recent studio album 2016’s Wonderful Crazy Night hit number eight on the Billboard 200 album charts and number six in the U.K. Coinciding with the duo’s 50 years of songwriting partnership, their immense catalog of work was recently celebratedwith the 2018 tribute albums Restoration and Revamp. Country and pop music artists including Lady Gaga, Mary J. Blige, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town,Demi Lovato, Sam Smith and others covered many Taupin-John classic hitsintroducing a new audience demographic to their catalog. In addition to music, Taupin is a renowned visual artist whose mixed media, contemporary works havebeen shown in select galleries and art fairs across the United States. He is also theauthor of his autobiography, A Cradle of Halos, and a first collection of poetry,Devil at High Noon. A portion of the sale proceeds will benefit The Wounded Warrior Project and the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

 

“Bernie Taupin is one of the seminal songwriters of all time whose illustriouscollaboration with Sir Elton John created some of pop music’s greatest treasures,”said Darren Julien, President/Chief Executive Officer of Julien’s Auctions.“Julien’s Auctions is honored to present this extraordinary auction event celebrating the creative genius of Bernie Taupin and his legacy as one of the mostrevered lyricists in music history.”

 

“As a story teller first and foremost, I’m grateful to have been able to share these stories with the world throughout my life,” said Bernie Taupin. “I hope that theseitems that have shaped my work and fueled my passions will inspire and give as much joy to others as they’ve given me.”

 

Highlights from the collection on offer include Taupin’s original, annotated lyrics to some of his classic creations (various estimates) including “Candle in The Wind 1997” tribute to Princess Diana, typed sheets with alternate lines handwritten; original lyrics to “I’m Still Standing” from 1983’s Too Low For Zero; two handwritten sheets with additional unused lines – accompanied by a typed sheet of final version with corrections; “We Built This City,” sheetshandwritten in blue ink on ruled yellow paper including additional unused lines;handwritten lyrics to “These Dreams,” “Nikita,” “Mendocino County Line,” “A Love that Will Never Grow Old” and from the album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy “Gotta Get a Meal Ticket,” “Better Off Dead,” “Tower of Babel” and from Tumbleweed Connection, original handwritten lyrics to “Ballad of a Well-Known Gun,” handwritten lyrics to “Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)”and more.

 

The auction will also feature Taupin’s gold and platinum record awards for albums Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (estimate: $2,000-$4,000); Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (estimate: $2,000-$4,000); Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player (estimate: $1,000-$2,000); Honky Château (estimate: $1,000-$2,000); Tumbleweed Connection (estimate: $1,000-$2,000); his 1987 Special Recognition MTV Moonman trophy (estimate: $8,000-$10,000) and more. Other highlights include one-of-a-kind handwritten lyrics with hand-drawninterpretative Artwork (acrylic on paper) signed by Bernie Taupin featuring Taupin’s lyrics to classics such as “Yellow Brick Road,” “Daniel,” “Rocket Man,” Bennie and The Jets,” and more; an autographed and personalized poster of Leonard Nimoy as Dr. Spock inscribed “To Bernie, Live Long and Prosper! Leonard Nimoy ‘Spock’ – What else does one say to a fellow rocket man?”(estimate: $800-$1,200); artwork by Leroy Neiman (bronze sculpture “Equestrian Figure” and Dave McGary (bronze sculpture “Native Figure”) both estimated $2,000-$4,000; an original program for the official 1997 funeral of Princess Diana, his vintage National steel guitar, clothing, signed prints, jewelry, memorabilia, Western ephemera and more. Also featured is a leather desk chair from Taupin’s office at Round Up Valley Ranch in Santa Ynez, California in which he has written songs for over 25 years.

 

PRESS CONTACTS

Julian Roup

info@bendigopr.co.uk

0044 (0) 7970 563958

Mozell Miley-Bailey

 

(646) 653-3105

homagepr@gmail.com

 

info@juliensauctions.com

 

 

JULIEN’S AUCTIONS PUBLIC EXHIBITION & LIVE AUCTION LOCATION

Hard Rock Cafe New York

1501 Broadway-Times Square

New York, NY 10036

 

JULIEN’S AUCTIONS NEW YORK PUBLIC EXHIBITION

Monday, November 5th, 2018  – Friday, November 9th, 2018

Free to the public: 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. EDT daily

 

LIVE AND ONLINE AUCTION

Friday, November 9

The Personal Property of Bernie Taupin

Session I: 10:00 a.m. EDT

Icons & Idols: Rock-N-Roll

Session II: 1:00 p.m. EDT

 

Saturday, November 10

Icons & Idols: Rock-N-Roll

Session III: 10:00 a.m. EDT

Featuring Property From Philanthropist Milton Verret

Session IV: 1:00 p.m. EDT

For inquiries, please email info@juliensauctions.com or call 310-836-1818.

 

REGISTERING TO BID
Registration is required to bid in this online auction and can be done in person at the exhibition, or online before the sale at the JuliensAuctions.com Registration page to bid by phone, proxy or in person, or online at JuliensLive.com to bid live online, or by calling (310) 836-1818.

 

PLACING BIDS
There are four ways to bid in this sale:

  1. Bid through Julien’s Auctions Online Live in Real Time at JuliensLive.com.
  2. Bid over the telephone through an auction house representative.
  3. Submit a bid in person at the Hard Rock Café.
  4. Enter Absentee bids. Absentee bid forms are included in the back of each catalogue, and are also available by calling Julien’s Auctions or online at www.juliensauctions.com.

 

ABOUT JULIEN’S AUCTIONS

Julien’s Auctions is the world-record breaking auction house. Collaborating with the famous and the exclusive, Julien’s Auctions produces high profile auctions in the film, music, sports and art markets. Julien’s Auctions has received international recognition for its unique and innovative auction events which attract thousands of collectors, investors, fans and enthusiasts from around the world. Julien’s Auctions specializes in sales of iconic artifacts and notable collections including Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Lady Gaga, Banksy, Cher, Michael Jackson, U2, Barbra Streisand, Les Paul, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix and many more. In 2016, Julien’sAuctions received its second placement in the Guinness Book of World Records for the sale of the world’s most expensive dress ever sold at auction, The Marilyn Monroe “Happy Birthday Mr. President” dress which sold for $4.8 million. Julien’s Auctions achieved placement in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2009 for the sale of Michael Jackson’s white glove, which sold for $480,000 making it the most expensive glove ever sold at auction. Based in Los Angeles, Julien’s Auctions has a global presence bringing their auctions and exhibitions to targeted destinations worldwide including London, New York, Las Vegas, Japan and China. Live auctions are presented for bidders on-site and online via live streaming video and mobile technology. For more information on Julien’s Auctions, go to www.juliensauctions.com.

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26th September 2018 – For immediate release

SIX ‘MUST-HAVE’ MASTERPIECES AT THE NEXT ‘FINE ART PARIS’ FAIR
November 7-11, 2018

 

RECENTLY DISCOVERED BOOKS THAT PEOPLE WERE READINGAVIDLY IN THE MIDDLE AGES

TWO BRONZES BY AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917) €500,000 & €200,000

16TH-CENTURY VENETIAN SCHOOL BRONZE OF A STANDINGNUDE

 

EDOUARD MANET (1832-1883) THE SPANISH OR DANCER AND MAJO TAMBOURIN, OIL ON PARCHMENT €500,000

THREE LARGE PAINTINGS BY NICCOLO CODAZZI (1642-1693) PAINTED FOR THE SPINOLA PALACE IN GENOA

 

FINE ARTS PARIS will offer many reasons to travel to the City of Light in the dark days of November 7th to 11th and six items on sale during this second holding of the art fair are each in their own right reason enough to go. For art lovers Fine Art Paris is a must.

 

FINE ARTS PARIS has commanded the attention of the art world in what is only the second running of this new Paris based event run in partnership with the major French museums including the Louvre, Petit Palais, Centre Pompidou, Zadkine,Bourdelle, Rodin and Maillol museums.

 

This new fair, organized by the Salon du dessin team in partnership with Paris Tableau offers a mix of established dealers and emerging galleries, plus partnerships with museums, cultural program and a strong presence of overseas art galleries. Currently there are already more than 40 foreign galleries booked to attend.

 

For FINE ARTS PARIS, the gallery Les Enluminures (Paris-New York-Chicago) will present a special exhibition of four bookswhich are remarkable survivals of what people read in the Middle Ages – the finest of medieval Bibles (the greatest text of Western civilization), one of the oldest Books of Hours (the most famous medieval manuscripts of all), biography (the unique legend of an Anglo-Saxon princess), and the history of Troy (the oldest chivalric story in European history).

All four manuscripts were unknown on the market for at least eighty years. One of the four was last described in print in 1588; the others were last catalogued for sale in 1909, 1932 and 1938 respectively. All are richly illustrated, with a total of 133 miniatures between them, as well as hundreds of borders and illuminated animals and grotesques. Some of the finest artists of the period were responsible for the miniatures, and at least two of them likely issue directly from the greatest of European courts.

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Roman de Troie, in french prose (detail) illuminated manuscript on parchment, in French southern netherlands, probably Brussels, around 1450-60

seventeen large miniatures by the master of Girart de Roussillon and workshop

image: folio 69v-70, Achille and Ajax playing chess in a tent © LesEnluminures

 

FINE ARTS PARIS is a fair aimed at bringing a new fresh focus to  painting, sculpture and drawings. The off-site events being held for the first time this year at FINE ARTS PARIS, in partnership with

various museums and institutions, will focus on sculpture.

 

The Fair will play host to more than 40 galleries, including DidierAaron, Galerie Canesso, Eric Coatalem, Xavier Eeckhout, Treboscvan lelyveld, de Bayser,Jill Newhouse (USA), Rosenberg & Co. (USA), Artur Ramon (Spain), José de la Mano (Spain), ArtCuéllarNathan (Switzerland), Bailly Gallery (Switzerland), PaoloAntonacci (italy),Maurizio Nobile (italy).

 

Auguste RODIN (1840-1917), L'amour qui passe, circa 1896-1901 - bronze à patine verte 38,2x22,5x32,7cm, poids 14,918kg, signé A.Rodin - BAILLY GALLERY.jpeg

 

BAILLY GALLERY / Geneva
Auguste RODIN (1840-1917) Love flies circa 1896-1901 Green patina bronze 38,2×22,5×32,7cm Weight : 14,918kg Signed behind the base : A. Rodin Price: €500,000 ©Bailly gallery Geneva

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De BAYSER / Paris:
Edouard MANET (1832-1883) The Spanish or Dancer andMajo Tambourin, oil on parchment Diameter: 18,5 cmSigned « Manet » on the right under the man chest
Price : €500,000 © De Bayser

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GALERIE TREBOSC VAN LELYVELD / Paris

16th century Venitian School bronze of a standing nude

Both  modern  art  and  the  old  masters  occupy  an important place at FINE ARTS PARIS a good example is the spectacular  presentation  planned  by  the  Galerie Canesso. The great Franco-Italian dealer Maurizio Canesso will show three large paintings by Niccolò Codazzi, a daring artist who painted major scenes and who worked on the decoration of the queen’s staircase at Versailles in1681 and ’82. The provenance of these works, which were probably painted for the Spinola Palace in Genoa, where the artist moved after a stay in France, was a decisive criterion in Canesso’s selection of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GALERIE CANESSO – Niccolò Codazzi (1642-1693);

figures by domenico Piola (1627-1703) Baptism of Constantineoil on canvas144 x 114,3 cm

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MAGNIFICENT GOLD EMBOSSED VESTMENTS USEDAS ‘PROPAGANDA IN SACRED THEATRE’ BY CHURCH OVER CENTURIES –

EXHIBITION AT:

INDAR PASRICHA FINE ARTS,LONDON

September 26-November 3

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Detail from El Greco’s The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586- 88) with saints wearing 16th Century vestments.

An exhibition of fabulous textiles show how the Catholic Church used glamorous rich clothes of breath-taking beauty to awe and impress its congregants – investing in a process of religious propaganda – getting its message out by packaging it in stunning clothing.

 

Now an important exhibition and sale of 16th to 19th Century textiles including church vestments goes on display at the Indar Pasricha Fine Arts gallery in Pimplico from September 30 to November 3.

 

Propaganda is a Latin word originated from the Church: in 1622, the Holy See established the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide meaning to propagate the faith or simply Propaganda. Part of that process of propaganda was the creation of garments to generate awe and wonder in congregants. Now a stunning collection of these garments,some 500 years old, will be exhibited and sold by Indar Pasricha Fine Arts in London from September 30 to November 3.

 

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Opulent vestments of the richest silks played a vital role in the ‘sacred theatre’ of the Roman Catholic Church. The grandeur of the church, solemnity of liturgical ritual and ornate vestments of the celebrant of the Mass, offered a glimpse of the glory of heaven on earth. From the Middle Ages, “sacred and secular rulers alike expressed their dynastic claims, military prowess, political aspirations and accomplishments by commissioning, displaying, wearing and offering textiles as gifts.”[1]

 

An important missive to the Jesuit mission in Ethiopia from St. Ignatius Loyola (ca.1491-1556), founder of the Society of Jesus, emphasized that it would be “ of help to you” to carry the very best vestments and church ornaments for the altar.[2] Vestments clearlyfunctioned as part of the Church’s propaganda to appeal to the faithful and gain converts in the missions.

 

The symbolic power of vestments to propagate the faith can be traced through the chasuble –one of the principle vestments worn by the priest celebrant of the Eucharistic Mass. In the 4th century AD, the conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine and official approval of Christianity lead to the adoption of Roman civil attire for ‘sacred clothing’.

 

The chasuble was adapted from a common article of clothing, the paneula, a simple cape worn as an outer garment. It was transformed during the Middle Ages into an ornate garment of the finest woven and embroidered silks often threaded with gold, silver and jewels. Maureen Miller indicates that reasons for the ‘ornate style’ included the role of the bishop in royal governance as part of his pastoral care leading to “ the association of elite status and political authority with precious attire.”

 

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An embroidered detail of a church vestment

The relationship between garments for the medieval clergy and those made at God’s direction for the first priest contributed to the concept of splendour, “You shall make sacred vestments for the glorious adornment of your brother Aaron … to consecrate him for my priesthood.” (Exodus 28:2-3).

 

Finally, the potent idea of being ‘vested’ in garments symbolizing clerical virtues that transform the bishop from a man to the ‘Vicar of Christ’ attracting “ the eye and the hearts of the faithful”. Vesting prayers while putting on each garment to create the ‘virtuous celebrant’ became widespread. “Accept the priestly robe through which charity is learned” the bishop prayed as the chasuble is put on. “ The chasuble because it covered and protects all other vestments was long regarded as the symbol of love which crowns other virtues.”

 

The Council of Trent (ca.1545-65) encouraged the use of sumptuous vestments and church interiors to propagate the beauty of God in the celebration of the Mass, in contrast to the ‘grim austerities’[3] of the Reformation. From the 16th century until the late 17thcentury, the Church reaffirmed its glory through the opulence of gilt and marble church interiors in the grand baroque and rococo styles.

 

Recognition by the Church of the value of the ‘language of clothes’ in propagating the faith was made clear by the demarcation of sumptuous vestments for use by the priest as celebrant of the Mass and in liturgical processions. These symbols of ecclesiastical status were not for day-to-day functions within or outside the Church where simple clothing was the norm. The visual rhetoric of priestly attire can be seen in the choices of the most recent Popes. Pope Benedict XVI (r.2005-13) continued the liturgical use of gold embroidered vestments and revived wearing of the ermine mozzetta. [4]In contrast, Pope Francis I, who gave himself a new name in “honour of one unembroidered”, has chosen a simple style.

 

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CONCERT VIOLINIST – ALDA DIZDARI

 

13TH SEPTEMBER 2018 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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“A GEM OF A BOOK” – ‘KISS ME AGAIN, A MEMOIRE OF ELGAR IN UNUSUAL PLACES’ BY VIOLINIST ALDA DIZDARI BEING LAUNCHED AT A CADOGAN HALL CONCERT IN LONDON ON OCTOBER 14TH

 

 

FROM THE DARKNESS OF LIFE IN EUROPE’S MOST ISOLATED COUNTRY, TO INTERNATIONAL MUSCIAL ACCLAIM, THIS IS THE STORY OF A COURAGEOUS WOMAN WHOSE VIOLIN GAVE HER A WAY OUT

 

“A remarkable talent” – Duncan Druce, Gramophone Magazine. “One to watch” Gramophone Magazine

“Extraordinary stuff, a great artist” Sean Rafferty BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’.

 

“Playing the music of George Enescu only three players, for me, have got absolutely to the heart of it: George Enescu himself, Yehudi Menuhin, and Alda Dizdari”.

– Sir Noel Malcolm, author of “George Enescu: His Life and Music”

 

“Such vivid, imaginative, brilliant playing is rare indeed. The expressiveness of her bowing was a thing of wonder.”                   – Tim Homfray, Strad Magazine

“Alda Dizdari’s playing combines technical prowess with strong ardent musical feeling, expression and intellectual understanding.” Robin Holloway.

 

Alda Dizdari Website link:https://aldaviolin.com/

 

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In a profession packed with talent, once in a while someone very special comes along and changes the way we connect with music –Alda Dizdari, the distinguished Albanian born British violinist, has been described as a “phenomenon”, compared to George Enescu, and Yehudi Menuhin.

 

Now she has found the time to put down her bow and take up a pen to write a book about her guiding passion, Elgar, titled ‘Kiss Me Again – A Memoire of Elgar in Unusual Places’ it describes her three year journey into Eastern Europe to introduce this most English of composers to new audiences. It is worth noting that her reception and that of the music was sensational.

 

A very special event is now planned to take place on the 14th of October when Alda Dizdari performs Elgar’s Violin Concerto with the Southbank Sinfonia in the Cadogan Hall to mark the completion of athree year journey taking the work of Elgar through Eastern Europe.

 

Her book will be launched at the time of the concert. To add to the importance of this occasion, the conductor Alexander Walker, who has journeyed with her, will be presented with the Elgar medal, the prestigious award previously held by Sir Colin Davis, Sir Mark Elder and Daniel Barenboim.

 

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Alda describes how her personal passion for Elgar began: “It all started in a vintage record shop near Oxford Street whereI came across a recording of Elgar’s Violin Concerto with Albert Sammons and Henry Wood conducting the New Queen’s Hall Orchestra.  I was going through an exploratory phase of listening to old recordings, trying to capture the sounds and gestures that are lost to the modern performer and I thought this would be an interesting start to discovering this work performed more authentically by people that knew Elgar personally. On the same day I found myself in Cecil Court, in another shop that sold old scores and as if in an act of faith I found a copy of Elgar’s violin concerto that once belonged to Henry Wood. The violin part was completely virgin but the piano part was heavily marked with his blue pencil. All the tempo markings, dynamics were circled and the timing for every movement clearly notated. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There was a clear serendipity to all this. I bought the score although quite a dear purchase, and the rest was already settled. What followed were two years of discovering the piece, of listening to recordings and looking for opportunities to perform this work.”

 

Now a British citizen, Alda was born into a family of musicians and left her native Albania from an early age to pursue her career in music. She studied in Romania with distinguished soloists and received a Bachelor Degree from the University of Bucharest. She continued her Master Studies at the University of Illinois in USA and her Advanced Instrumental Studies in London, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Tak
eno where she also held for two years the prestigious Leverhulme String Fellowship.

In 2008 she was appointed Musician in Residence of The Wapping Arts Trust with HRH Princess Michael of Kent as Patron.

Apart from being known for her virtuoso violin performances, Alda has established an Academy who’s philosophy is “A Conservatoire Tradition with a Community Feeling” offering children from the Borough of Southwark, some from underprivileged backgrounds and learning difficulties, the opportunity to have music lessons at the highest standard normally only available in such environments as the Purcell School and the Junior Royal Schools. Some of these children will be performing alongside the main concert, an opportunity of a lifetime for the students.

 

“Alda Dizdari is a highly accomplished musician both as performer and teacher.  As a performer she demonstrates remarkable technical control, warmth and expression in the sound,  and a profound insight into the nature of the work.  She has a striking ability to understand and interpret composers’ musical intentions with clarity and conviction.

She is a highly accomplished and passionate musician, who brings similar energy and commitment to her work with students.”

–   Sir Roger Jackling, Chairman Board of Trusties of the Purcell School

 

Website links: https://deamusic.com/

ALDA’S DIARY

 

She is performing a series of solo performances and recitals with piano starting in London and in venues around the UK and abroad.

 

November sees her in Oxford with pianist Tom Blach thence to Australia in December.

 

Plans are afoot for concerts in Sydney and New York early in 2019.

 

BIOGRAPHY:

 

Alda Dizdari is an outstanding musician of immense diversity. Since her triumphant debut at the Wigmore Hall she has appeared on all the major concert venues in the UK and has been a regular guest on BBC Radio 3 programmes.

In 2015 she started a tour promoting Elgar’s Violin Concerto in Eastern Europe including giving the premiere of this piece in her native country Albania. She has recorded her journey in a book which will be launched in her London performance of Elgar’s masterpiece in October in the Cadogan Hall.

In 2013 and 2014 she performed to high acclaim the complete works for the violin and piano by Beethoven and Brahms and has released three highly acclaimed CDs, one of which recorded live from the Wigmore Hall.

Selected by the Gramophone Magazine as “One to Watch” musician in the May 2011 issue, she launched in July 2011 a Solo Violin Tour in the UK titled “In the Footsteps of BACH”, promoting her studio CD with the same programme. She performs regularly at all London’s prestigious halls including Southbank Centre and Cadogan Hall.

Internationally she rose to fame in 2008 after performing Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Albanian Radio – Television Symphony Orchestra making their UK debut in Canterbury Cathedral in the presence of the Albanian Deputy Prime Minister. In 2006 she received her first nomination for “The Best Classical Musician of the Year” in her native Albania.In addition, as a devoted chamber musician she has been Guest Leader of Allegri String Quartet performing in all the major music festivals in the country, Leader of the Ensemble de la Chapelle St Mark, Luxembourg, as well as the founder of Chromatico Contemporary Ensemble and Competition. She has toured Europe with Ensemble Modern and Pierre Boulez.

Alongside her successful solo career Alda is a passionate teacher, currently teaching in two of the leading music schools in the country, the Purcell School and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is also the founder of DEA Music Academy, a community project in the borough of Southwark in London that helps children, some from disadvantage backgrounds and with learning difficulties, achievehigher goals by offering ‘A Conservatoire Tradition with a Community Feeling’.

For more press information please contact Julian Roup of Bendigo Communications oninfo@bendigopr.co.uk or call 07970563958.


10th September 2018 – for Immediate release

 

‘FINE ARTS PARIS’ ATTRACTS MORE THAN 40 OVERSEAS EXHIBITORS IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THIS KEY ARTS EVENT

FROM 7TH to 11TH November 2018

 

‘Night at the Museum’ Partnership With The Louvre, Petit Palais, Centre Pompidou, Zadkine,Bourdelle, Rodin & Maillol Museums Adds to Interest.

 

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‘Fine Arts Paris’ has commanded the attention of the art world in what is only the second running of this new Paris based event run in partnership with the major French museums including the Louvre, Petit Palais, Centre Pompidou, Zadkine, Bourdelle, Rodin and Maillol museums.

 

This new fair, organized by the Salon du dessin team in partnership with Paris Tableau has applied principles that guarantee success – a

mix of established dealers and emerging galleries, plus partnerships with museums, cultural program and a strong presence of overseas art galleries. Currently there are already more than 40 foreign galleries booked to attend.

 

FINE ARTS PARIS is a fair aimed at bringing a new fresh focus to  painting, sculpture and drawings.This second  running of ‘Fine Art Paris’ will is at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris from 7 to 11 November 2018.

 

New this year: FINE ARTS PARIS  has created Sculpture Week, an off-site event for art encounters in partnership with major

museums, including the Louvre, Petit Palais, Centre Pompidou,Zadkine, Bourdelle, Rodin and Maillol museums.

 

The Sculpture Week, will allow privileged visitors to enter the reserve collection of major museums (including the Louvre Museum and the City of Paris collection), to attend private tours, notably on the occasion of the opening of the new sculpture gallery of the Petit Palais, inaugurated on November 7th.

 

There will also be a museum exhibition at the heart of the fair as well as a scientific symposium.

 

Download the press kit in English

https://www.art-et-communication.fr/_media/_pdf/2018/PR-Fine-Arts-Paris-2018.pdf

 

Download press kit and HR images

https://www.art-et-communication.fr/_media/_archives/2018/2018_11_07_Fine-Arts-Paris.zip

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29th August 2018 – For immediate release

 

CELEBRITY COUPLE STING & TRUDIESTYLER’S DINING TABLE FOR SALE ATAUCTION WITH

JOHN PYE AUCTIONS

 

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A rectangular pine and beech dining table of modern design but with some 19th century elements, formerly the property of the singer Sting and his wife Trudie Styler, actress, film producer, director and Unicef ambassador, is currently for sale at ‘no reserve’ with John Pye Auctionsin Marchington, Staffs.

 

For fans of this famous couple who were married in 1992, this dining table would be a very interesting talking point. Its dimensions aremodest, 30 inches high, 99 inches wide and 77 and a half inches deep. It is made of a beech-planked top on six turned pine legs. As the couple have many homes all over the world it is not certain which home this table comes from. As it is being sold at ‘no reserve’ someone may just find they have a bargain with a fascinating provenance.

 

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE, known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1985, and launched a solo career in 1986

 

Currently this gilded couple both have projects that are in the public eye. Trudie has directed her first feature film, ‘Freak Show’, which is just out and Sting’s musical The Last Ship is running in Dublin. If tables could speak this one would doubtless have a tale or two to tell.

 

The table comes from the administration of FABB Projects Limited T/as FABB sofas.  Bidders can also browse a number of other interesting furniture items in this auction including a sofa made of cow skin and horns and a sofa in the shape of a pair of crimson lips.

 

Public viewing for this auction is being held in the Luxury room at John Pye’s premises at Marchington and all bidding takes place online. Public viewing: Monday 10th September 2018 11am – 2pm. Auction Ends: Friday 14th September from 1pm.

 

Public viewing is being held at John Pye Auctions Marchington 39 – 40 Marchington Industrial Estate
Stubby Lane, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, ST14 8LP. Auction can be viewed online at the John Pye Auctions website.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT

JULIAN ROUP AT EMAIL: info@bendigopr.co.uk or phone 07970 563958

 

NOTES FOR EDITORS:

 

John Pye Auctions:

 

The UK’s largest commercial indoor auction house, John Pye Auctions operates five trading departments;

  • Business Assets: Banking, Lending, Government, Insolvency, Private Businesses
  • Retail: Retail PLCs; Manufacturers, Partnerships & Private Businesses
  • Vehicles: Government; Automotive Dealerships, Auto Rental
  • Property: Insolvency, Government, Property Owners & Agents
  • Luxury: Pawnbrokers, High Value Luxury Retailers, Private Collectors

Successfully challenging and disrupting the UK traditional commercial auction industry, John Pye Auctions were first to initiate full transition from live auctions to online auctions, becoming the fastest growing, multi award-winning auction brand.

 

John Pye Auctions are the only auction house of its kind in the UK offering the volume and variety of UK high street retail stock and inventory all under one roof across its salerooms every week. Voted three times consecutive winner ‘Asset Valuer/Auctioneer of the Year’ in the UK TRI (Turnaround, Restructuring and Insolvency) Awards.

 

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24th AUGUST 2018 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

BERLIN BOYS CHOIR & GERMAN SOLOIST BENJAMIN APPL JOIN THE BACH CHOIR FOR END OF WWI CENTENARY CONCERT
A PERFORMANCE OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN’S WAR REQUIEMIN WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL OCTOBER 3

 

“THIS WILL BE A CONCERT OF UNITY”
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The internationally famous Bach Choir will be joined by the Staats- undDomchor Berlin and German soloist Benjamin Appl to commemorate the end of WW1 with a performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem at Westminster Cathedral on Wednesday, October 3rd.

 

In the run up to the concert a number of the 300 singers in The Bach Choir have spoken on video of their own family memories of brothers, fathers anduncles who took part in the conflict, many never to return. See links to videos:https://www.youtube.com/user/thebachchoir/videos

 

David Hill, Musical Director of The Bach Choir said: “I am delighted that boys from the Staats- und Domchor Berlin are joining forces with choristers from Westminster Cathedral for this very special event. German Baritone Benjamin Appl is a rising star and the last person to study with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,possibly the world’s greatest Lieder singer, and the baritone Britten chose for the premiere performance and recording.  We present this as a concert of unity, after the terrible divide of 100 years ago.”

 

LINK TO: Benjamin Appl – http://benjaminappl.com

 

 

For the first performance of the War Requiem in 1962 Britten engaged three soloists, one British, one Russian and one German (the Russian soprano was unable to travel at the last moment, but was present for the later recording). The Bach Choir sang on the first recording of the piece, conducted by Britten himself, still the seminal recording today.https://www.deccaclassics.com/gb/cat/4757511)

 

For the forthcoming concert by The Bach Choir on October 3 the same spirit of unity which characterized the first performance 56 years ago will once more be on display with the Staats- und Domchor Berlin, and baritone Benjamin Appl, joining The Bach Choir.

 

When war was declared in 1939, Benjamin Britten was living in the USA, having moved there earlier that year. He was already known for his strong anti-war beliefs; his first public statements of his pacifism, through his music, were his score for the short film, Peace of Britain, and his song-cycle, Our Hunting Fathers, both produced in 1936. Whilst in the USA, he said of his newly- composed orchestral Sinfonia da Requiem: ‘I’m making it just as anti-war as possible … all I’m sure of is my own anti-war conviction as I write it.’

Britten returned to England in 1942 and registered as a conscientious objector, facing a tribunal in May of that year. His statement to the tribunal began: “Since I believe that there is in every man the spirit of God, I cannot destroy, and feel it my duty to avoid helping to destroy as far as I am able, human life, however strongly I may disapprove of the individual’s actions or thoughts.”

Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem was composed in 1961 for the consecration of Coventry Cathedral – newly rebuilt following its destruction in the Second World War. Britten took as his inspiration the words of young English war poet, Wilfred Owen, himself killed in action on 4 November 1918, just days before the armistice. The War Requiem profoundly weaves together nine of Owen’s most poignant poems including Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility and Strange Meeting, with the traditional Latin mass.

 

A contemporary masterpiece, the War Requiem neither glorifies war nor celebrates its victories; Britten, a pacifist, dedicated the Requiem to four close friends – three of whom were killed during the Second World War.

 

The Bach Choir, one of the world’s leading choruses, has sung in prestigious venues around the UK, collaborated with the Rolling Stones, and worked on blockbuster films including Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.

 

The Bach Choir is very active in the recording studio.  In November 2017 the Choir released the latest in its acclaimed series of English music recordings:  Dyson’s Choral Symphony, and has released two discs of Christmas music, one of which – The Colours of Christmas, conducted by the Choir’s president, John Rutter – reached No 3 in the Official Classical Charts.  The Choir has also worked on projects for BBC Radio 3, BBC One, Sky Arts and Sky Sports News. Away from the recording studio the choir is often invited to perform for other promoters, and collaborates regularly with the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The Royal British Legion.

 

In 2014 The Bach Choir, whose roll-call of musical directors includes such notable names as Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and Ralph Vaughan Williams, added the title of Britain’s brainiest cultural institution to its honours board after winning the inaugural Sky Arts’ show The Great Culture Quiz, which pitted some of the UK’s biggest arts bodies against each other.

 

Benjamin Britten: War Requiem October 3rd.

 

TICKETS | £12–£50 (subject to booking fee)

tickets@thebachchoir.org.uk

020 7127 9114

GROUP TICKET OFFER | 20% discount when you book ten or more tickets. Group bookings: 020 7127 9114

Also available through Ticketmaster here

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL, LONDON

Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor – David Hill

The Bach Choir

Choristers of Westminster Cathedral

Staats- und Domchor Berlin

Organ – Philip Scriven

Soprano – Sally Matthews

Tenor – Andrew Staples

Baritone – Benjamin Appl

 

 

Julian Roup of The Bach Choir on 07970 563958 or email pr@thebachchoir.org.uk

 

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For Immediate Release

 

JULIEN’S AUCTIONS ANNOUNCES PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF RONNIE JAMES DIO 

OF BLACK SABBATH FAME

 

Heavy Metal Music Icon and “Black Sabbath” Frontman’sSignature Wardrobe, Guitars, Stage Props and More Roar onto the Auction Stage at Hard Rock Cafe New York

 

SEPTEMBER 14 & 15, 2018

 

 

Los Angeles, California – (July xx, 2018) – Julien’s Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, will pay tribute to one of the most influential heavy metal heroes and forefathers of the head-banging music genre withPROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF RONNIE JAMES DIO, taking place Friday, September 14 and Saturday, September 15 live at Hard Rock Cafe in New York and online at juliensauctions.com. (photo left to right: Dio’s stage worn shirt and Barry Jackson painting used as cover of The Last in Line album and Charvel guitar)

Born July 10, 1942 in Portsmouth, NH and raised in Cortland, NY, Ronald JamesPadavona, whom the whole world would later revere as Ronnie James Dio or simply Dio’s powerhouse falsetto voice, commanding stage presence and impact on the genre and fandom–from his signature horn salute to his style of wearing black t-shirts–would catapult heavy metal’s trajectory into pop cultureiconography. Dio began his music career at the age of 5, where he played the trumpet and listened to opera particularly American tenor, Mario Lanza.

It was in high school that he formed his first rock-n-roll group, The Vegas Kings,which later was changed to Ronnie & The Rumblers then to Ronnie and the Redcaps and eventually Ronnie Dio and the Prophets. In 1967, the band became known as The Electric Elves, which was shortened to The Elves until 1972, when they released their first official album under the name of what would be known asone of heavy metal’s great early 1970s bands, Elf. When Elf toured as a regularopening act for the legendary heavy metal band, Deep Purple, Dio caught the attention of the group’s lead guitarist Ritchie Blackmore who invited Dio and other Elf musicians to form the band that would eventually be known as another ultimate heavy metal band, Rainbow.

During his time with Rainbow, Dio demonstrated his mythical lyricism on all of the songs written for the band, another signature hallmark of his craft. Dio left Rainbow in 1979 to join the supreme heavy metal band, Black Sabbath, famously replacing lead singer Ozzy Osbourne. Dio displayed his songwriting prowess once again on the song, “Children of the Sea,” co-written with Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler which would appear on the Heaven and Hell album (Warner Bros., 1980), the first Black Sabbath album that would feature Dio as vocalist. (photo right: Dio’s suede vest) Other prominent albums Diowould be featured on with the group included Mob Rules (Warner Bros., 1981), Live Evil (Warner Bros., 1982) and Dehumanizer (I.R.S., 1992) which hit the Top 40 in the UK and #44 on the Billboard charts and was featured in the hit movieWayne’s World (Paramount Pictures, 1992). In 1982, Dio and departed Black Sabbath drummer Vinny Appice formed the band Dio and toured extensively and produced numerous hit albums including their debut Holy Diver (Warner Bros., 1983) that included the hit singles “Rainbow in the Dark” and the album’s title track “Holy Diver,” The Last in Line (Warner Bros., 1984), Sacred Heart (Warner Bros., 1985), the live album A Special from the Spectrum (Warner Music Group, 1984), Master of the Moon (Sanctuary, 2004) and more.

In 2006, Dio with Appice joined Black Sabbath members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler as the Heaven & Hell band and toured and recorded extensively in the next four years producing critically acclaimed and new hit songs on the albums Black Sabbath: The Dio Years (Warner Bros., 2007) and The Devil You Know (Rhino, 2009). Dio’s last performance with Heaven & Hell was on August 29, 2009 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He died on May 16, 2010 of stomach cancer and his death was mourned by thousands of fans, critics and music artists around the world.

Throughout his career and after his death, he received many accolades and recognitions including Classic Rock Magazine’s Metal Guru Award in 2006; induction into Guitar Center’s Rock Walk of Fame in Hollywood in 2007; “Best Metal Singer” at the Revolver Golden God Awards in 2010; the street Dio Waynamed after him in Cortland City, NY; a Dio monument in Kavarna, Bulgaria; Mexico’s biggest metal fest naming of “Hell and Heaven” in his honor; holograms of his likeness playing at several international heavy metal festivals; Jack Black’s band Tenacious D’s song written about him titled “Dio” and more. A tributealbum This is Your Life was released in 2014 and included Tenacious D’s rendition of “The Last in Line” which won that year’s Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. On January 18, 2017, Dio was inducted into the Hall of Heavy Metal History.

“Dio stands atop the colossal rock legends of our time as the definitive heavy metal hero whose voice, style and persona influenced heavy metal and today’smusic icons like no other,” said Darren Julien, President/Chief Executive Officer of Julien’s Auctions. “Julien’s Auctions salutes Dio’s enduring legacy in this larger than life collection of his artifacts that will surely be the ultimate metal auction of the season.”

Highlights of this auction include: several pieces of original album artwork including the acrylic painting by Barry Jackson used as the cover for the 1984 Dioalbum The Last in Line (estimate $20,000-$30,000); his pair of moon and stars patchwork jeans worn extensively on stage with Rainbow (estimate $2,000-$4,000); Dio’s custom made violet suede vest with tails and red leather shin guards worn on stage and in promotional photographs for the 1985 Sacred Heart Tour (estimate $2,000-$4,000); a personalized Black Sabbath hooded velour robe from the 1981 Mob Rules tour worn regularly back stage (estimate $1,000-$2,000); Dio’s personal rolling wardrobe case (estimate $800-$1,200); some of the most ambitious and spectacular stage design rock has ever seen with props such as a monumental animatronic sphinx on plinth base from the 1984 TheLast In Line tour (estimate $2,000-4,000) and a massive animatronic dragon’s head from the 1985 Sacred Heart tour (estimate $3,000-5,000); an array of Dio’sstudio and stage used instruments and gear such as a custom Charvel guitar featuring a one-of-a-kind wizard paint motif (estimate $3,000-$5,000);  a 1978 “Gold” record award commemorating Australian sales of the Rainbow albumRising (estimate $600-$800) and a 1978 “Gold” record award for the albumRainbow: On Stage (estimate $600-$800) and more.

JULIEN’S AUCTIONS PUBLIC EXHIBITION & LIVE AUCTION LOCATION

Hard Rock Cafe New York

1501 Broadway-Times Square

New York, NY 10036

 

JULIEN’S AUCTIONS NEW YORK PUBLIC EXHIBITION

Monday, September 10th, 2018  – Friday, September 14th, 2018

Free to the public: 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. EDT daily

 

LIVE AND ONLINE AUCTION

Friday, September 14

Property From The Estate of Ronnie James Dio

Session I: 10:00 a.m. EDT

Session II: 1:00 p.m. EDT

Saturday, September 15

Property From The Estate of Ronnie James Dio

Session I: 10:00 a.m. EDT

Session II: 1:00 p.m. EDT

For inquiries, please email info@juliensauctions.com or call 310-836-1818.

REGISTERING TO BID
Registration is required to bid in this online auction and can be done in person at the exhibition, or online before the sale at the JuliensAuctions.com Registration page to bid by phone, proxy or in person, or online at JuliensLive.com to bid live online, or by calling (310) 836-1818.

 

PLACING BIDS
There are four ways to bid in this sale:

  1. Bid through Julien’s Auctions Online Live in Real Time at JuliensLive.com.
  2. Bid over the telephone through an auction house representative.
  3. Submit a bid in person at the Hard Rock Café.
  4. Enter Absentee bids. Absentee bid forms are included in the back of each catalogue, and are also available by calling Julien’s Auctions or online at www.juliensauctions.com.

 

ABOUT JULIEN’S AUCTIONS

Julien’s Auctions is the world-record breaking auction house. Collaborating with the famous and the exclusive, Julien’s Auctions produces high profile auctions in the film, music, sports and art markets. Julien’s Auctions has received international recognition for its unique and innovative auction events whichattract thousands of collectors, investors, fans and enthusiasts from around the world. Julien’s Auctions specializes in sales of iconic artifacts and notable collections including Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Lady Gaga,Banksy, Cher, Michael Jackson, U2, Barbra Streisand, Les Paul, Neil Young,Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix and many more. In 2016, Julien’sAuctions received its second placement in the Guinness Book of World Records for the sale of the world’s most expensive dress ever sold at auction, The Marilyn Monroe “Happy Birthday Mr. President” dress which sold for $4.8 million.Julien’s Auctions achieved placement in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2009 for the sale of Michael Jackson’s white glove, which sold for $480,000 making it the most expensive glove ever sold at auction. Based in Los Angeles,Julien’s Auctions has a global presence bringing their auctions and exhibitions to targeted destinations worldwide including London, New York, Las Vegas, Japan and China. Live auctions are presented for bidders on-site and online via live streaming video and mobile technology. For more information on Julien’sAuctions, go to www.juliensauctions.com. Connect with Julien’s Auctions atwww.facebook.com/JuliensAuction or www.twitter.com/JuliensAuctions orwww.instagram.com/juliens_auctions.

About Hard Rock International

With venues in 75 countries, including 182 cafes, 24 hotels and 11 casinos, Hard Rock International (HRI) is one of the most globally recognized companies. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world’s greatest collection of music memorabilia, which is displayed at its locations around the globe. Hard Rock is also known for its collectible fashion and music-related merchandise, Hard Rock Live performance venues and an award-winning website. HRI owns the global trademark for all Hard Rock brands. The company owns, operates and franchises Cafes in iconic cities including London, New York, San Francisco, Sydney and Dubai. HRI also owns, licenses and/or manages hotel/casino properties worldwide. Destinations include the company’s two most successful Hotel and Casino properties in Tampa and Hollywood, FL., both owned and operated by HRI parent company The Seminole Tribe of Florida, as well as other exciting locations including Bali, Cancun, Ibiza, Las Vegas, and San Diego. Upcoming new Hard Rock Cafe locations include St. Petersburg,Fortaleza, Casablanca and Chengdu. New Hard Rock hotel, casino or hotel-casino projects include Atlanta, Atlantic City, Berlin, Budapest, London, Los Cabos, Maldives, New York City, Ottawa, Dalian and Haikou in China. For more information on Hard Rock International, visit www.hardrock.com.

PRESS CONTACT

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EMAIL info@bendigopr.co.uk

 

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