Miami’s Frost Art Museum celebrates the art of Mexican photography

Manuel Carrillo – Rope Vendor In Marketplace, gift of Alvin J. Gilbert. Courtesy Frost Art Museum FIU

 

MIAMI ― The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU celebrates the art of Mexican photography this summer with two exhibitions: Becoming Mexico: The Photographs of Manuel Carrillo and Possible Worlds: Photography and Fiction in Mexican Contemporary Art.

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Lucian Freud’s Pricey Produce, Bowie’s Tintoretto Reveals a Surprise, and More Fresh News

Lucian Freud (British, 1922-2011), Strawberries, oil on copper, 4 x 4.7in., painted circa 1950. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s

 

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • So you think the price of fresh fruit has gone up at the supermarket? Consider this: A small (4 x 4.7in.) group of luscious strawberries, painted by Lucian Freud around 1950, at the height of his fascination with the still-life paintings of the Old Masters, recently sold at Sotheby’s for $1,568,000, or $156,800 per strawberry [Read more at Sotheby’s]
  • For 30 years, David Bowie cherished his altarpiece by Jacopo Tintoretto, even naming his record label after the Venetian painter. But little did Bowie know that beneath the layers of oil was an underdrawing that suggests the work was created earlier than previously thought. [Read more from The Art Newspaper]
  • A memorable scene from Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean theme park ride is getting a makeover. The company announced on Thursday that they are replacing the auction scene in which women are sold off as brides with an auction for plundered goods. The sign reading “AUCTION” and “Take a wench for a bride” will soon feature the words: “AUCTION” and “SURRENDER YER LOOT.” [Read more from Huffington Post]
  • Which celebrity consigned a sensational Hermes 18K solid gold brooch in the shape of a lion cub with large emerald eyes to a Saturday, July 1 auction? Whoever it is, they have highly refined taste and are considered a highly valued customer by the French luxury goods design house, since the brooch bears the Hermes marks used only on commissioned pieces for VIPs. [Read more from LiveAuctioneers.com]

 

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GWS to auction celebrity’s unique Hermes 18K gold and emerald brooch

Custom-designed by Hermes, a one-of-a-kind solid 18K gold lion cub brooch with high-quality emerald eyes will be auctioned on July 1 with an $18,000-$20,000 estimate. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com and GWS Auctions

 

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. – A fabulous custom-designed Hermes brooch will cross the auction block on Saturday, July 1, in a sale conducted by GWS Auctions Inc., with absentee and Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers.com.

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Met’s exhibition illustrates how World War I impacted modern art

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (British, 1889-1946). ‘Returning to the Trenches’ (detail), 1916. Drypoint, plate: 6 x 8 1/16 in. (15.2 x 20.4 cm); sheet: 8 3/8 x 11 in. (21.3 x 28 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1968 (68.510.3)

 

NEW YORK – The impact of World War I on the visual arts is chronicled from its outbreak to the decade after the armistice in a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “World War I and the Visual Arts” opens July 31 and runs through Jan. 7.

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Gallery Report: June 2017

ATLANTA – At the start of each month, ACN columnist Ken Hall gathers top auction highlights from around the United States and beyond. Here’s what made headlines since last month’s report:

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