The museum says the show represents every period of the Russian-born painter’s four-decade career, from his early figurative works to his modern pieces. Considered a pioneer of abstract art, he was also a wood engraver, lithographer and teacher.
The exhibit also features a mural Kandinsky designed during his Bauhaus years, the first time it can be seen in the United States.
The museum organized the exhibition with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, one of the major repositories of Kandinsky’s work. The Paris collection, which came from his widow, is composed of his favorite works.
“Kandinsky: A Retrospective” runs through Sept. 1.
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An example of rare Fenton glass, this vase is decorated in the Hanging Vine motif and has an iridized cobalt-blue foot. This particular piece, which is not part of the upcoming Fenton auction, was crafted by the group of European workers who were at Fenton in 1925-26. The vase was sold for $6,200 + buyer’s premium by Randy Clark & Associates Auctioneers on Nov. 9, 2008. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers Archive and Randy ClarkWILLIAMSTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – More than 500 Fenton Art Glass pieces are expected to be sold when the Fenton Art Glass Museum holds its final auction.
Collectors from around the world are expected to attend the July 26 auction at the Dexter City Auction Gallery in Dexter City, Ohio. The auction is the last of three to be held.
Fenton Art Glass in Williamstown stopped traditional production in 2011 and now produces jewelry beads. The museum closed in December 2013.
Fenton historian Jim Measell tells the Parkersburg News and Sentinel that bidders can expect to see a wide range of colors and historical items from the second half of the 20th century, along with stretch glass pieces from the 1920s and 1930s.
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An example of rare Fenton glass, this vase is decorated in the Hanging Vine motif and has an iridized cobalt-blue foot. This particular piece, which is not part of the upcoming Fenton auction, was crafted by the group of European workers who were at Fenton in 1925-26. The vase was sold for $6,200 + buyer’s premium by Randy Clark & Associates Auctioneers on Nov. 9, 2008. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers Archive and Randy Clark
LONDON – Lord Snowdon has given 130 original prints of some of his most iconic photographs to the National Portrait Gallery, London, one of its largest gifts, it was announced Tuesday. Several of them will be shown at the gallery for the first time in a major display this autumn.
Coinciding with a new monograph published by Rizzoli, Snowdon: A Life in View (Sept. 26 through June 21, 2015), will highlight studio portraits from the 1950s to the 1990s, alongside selections from Private View Snowdon’s important 1965 examination of the British art world created in collaboration with art critic John Russell and Bryan Robertson, then director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Curated from a major gift to the gallery in 2013, in close consultation with the photographer’s daughter Frances von Hofmannsthal, the display includes over 40 black-and-white portraits taken throughout his expansive and influential career.
When he started photographing in the early 1950s Snowdon focused on theater, fashion and society subjects, and began a six-decade career with British Vogue. In 1960, he married Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, in the first globally televised royal wedding. In the early 1960s Snowdon worked with The Sunday Times Magazine on a range of documentary subjects from mental health to loneliness.
Since then Snowdon has photographed a vast range of cultural figures and the display includes portraits of actors such as Maggie Smith, John Hurt, Alan Bates, Julie Christie and Laurence Olivier, writers such as Nell Dunn, Agatha Christie, Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jane Howard and Graham Greene and musicians and dancers such as Yehudi Menuhin, George Melly, Anthony Dowell and Margot Fonteyn. Figures from the art world include Anthony Blunt, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, William Coldstream, Kenneth Clarke and John Piper. A selection of portraits of the Royal Family from the 1950s is also included.
“The National Portrait Gallery is delighted that Lord Snowdon should have made such a generous further gift of prints to the collection. These are wonderful portrait images of some most creative and engaging contributors to Britain in the second half of the 20th century,” said Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
