Grand Tour plaster intaglios and cameos by Paoletti of Rome tripled high estimates at DuMouchellesDETROIT — DuMouchelles’ July 19 sale included a collection of Grand Tour plaster intaglios and cameos by Paoletti of Rome. The firm, based on the Piazza di Spagna in Rome until 1847, specialized in the creation of these miniature impressions of ancient cameos, coins, medals, and sculptures — known in Italian as impronte — housed […]
Farrah Fawcett archive, with plaster cast signed by Warhol & Haring, in Mar. 3 auctionWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A one-of-a-kind archive of personal items that belonged to actress, artist and American pop-culture icon Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009) will be auctioned on March 3 in South Florida. The single-owner grouping is a featured highlight of Palm Beach Modern Auctions’ Modern Art & Design, Urban Culture & Jewelry sale. Absentee and […]
Tate Modern reunites plaster sculptures by Giacometti LONDON – A celebrated group of plaster sculptures will be brought together for the first time since they were made in 1956 for Tate Modern’s major Giacometti retrospective.
Met museum displays Antonio Canova plaster modelsNEW YORK – Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the greatest of all Neoclassical sculptors, remains famous above all for his elegant mythological subjects carved in marble. But he also worked in a spiritual mode, at once deeply serious and deceptively simple. This less familiar Canova is revealed in an extraordinary series of full-scale plaster models illustrating episodes […]