Invite modern masters into your home with prints from Jasper52’s Sept. 2 auction

Roy Lichtenstein triptych As I Opened Fire, 1966, each of the three measuring 641 x 530mm, part of the rare Lifetime Edition published by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, est. $600-$800

 

NEW YORK – Ask any interior designer the most affordable way to add color and style to your home, and you might hear the reply, “Modern art prints.” A blank wall is like a clean slate, waiting for you to add your own personality through prints and works on paper by modern masters. You can start or add to your collection of prints by bidding in Jasper52’s Sept. 2 online auction, which is filled with wonderful works by Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder and other greats of the modern art era. Bid absentee or live online exclusively through LiveAuctioneers.comContinue reading

Studio 54 Memoir, Auction of Diana’s Handbag to Benefit Red Cross, and More Fresh News

Richard P. Manning (American, 1941-2013) gelatin silver print of Jerry Hall, Andy Warhol and Truman Capote at Studio 54. Auctioned by Palm Beach Modern Auctions on Feb. 4, 2017. Photo copyright Estate of Richard P. Manning, courtesy of LiveAuctioneers Archive/Palm Beach Modern Auctions

 

News and updates from around the arts and auction community:

  • On Sept. 19 Mark Fleischman, the second owner of New York’s most famous disco of the 1970s/’80s, will release a memoir titled Inside Studio 54. His tales from behind the velvet rope are guaranteed to raise a few eyebrows. [Read more from the NY Daily News]
  • Even now, 20 years after her death, Princess Diana continues to help charities that were important to her. Designer Lana Marks has created a one-of-a-kind handbag honoring her late friend Diana, which will be auctioned to benefit the American Red Cross. [Read more from Hello]
  • Real estate has become a trendy sideline business with the Hollywood set. Jeremy Renner is a serial house flipper, and the list of celebrity landlords is a long one that includes Christie Brinkley, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock, Orlando Bloom, and Brooke Shields, who talks about it in the new issue of Architectural Digest. [Read more from ArchDigest.com]
  • There were few bidders and lackluster sales in the world’s first legal online auction of rhino horns. A public outcry followed a South African court’s ruling that the auction could go forward. [Read more from The Guardian]

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Artist David Hockney gives close-up look at self in exhibit

Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986, #2, David Hockney (British, born 1937-). Chromogenic prints mounted on paper honeycomb panel, 181.6 x 271.8 cm (71 ½ x 107 in.). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Copyright 1986 David Hockney

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The aspiring artist was 17 when he took pencil to paper in 1954 and sketched a stunningly mirror-like image of himself as a student at England’s Bradford School of Art. In the 63 years since, David Hockney has become world famous, not for self-portraits, but for colorful painted landscapes, portraits of others and brilliant photo collages of everything from backyard swimming pools to scenic desert vistas.

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Tiny Idaho museum seeks to revive interest in forgotten artist

Archie Boyd Teater (American, 1901-1978), Mountain Scene. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers Archive and Susanin’s Auctions

 

BOISE, Idaho (AP) – An Idaho-born landscape painter who traveled the world on the strength of his sales, had one-man shows in New York and commissioned a studio by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright is mostly forgotten now.

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Oregon prepared to sue if Trump shrinks national monument

Soda Mountain is the center of the Soda Mountain Wilderness inside Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Photo by John Craig, BLM. U.S. Bureau of Land Management photo

 

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon’s attorney general said Friday she is ready to take legal action if the Trump administration tries to shrink a national monument in this Pacific Northwest state.

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Artemis Gallery to auction expertly authenticated antiquities, Asian, ethnographic art, Aug. 31

Large and important Pre-Columbian Chavin (Peru) vessel, circa 600-500 BCE, 9.75in diameter, formerly in Maui, Hawaii private collection, est. $7,000-$9,000

 

BOULDER, Colo. – While entire libraries are devoted to cultures of the past, no book, no matter how scholarly, can explain the story of an ancient society quite as well as the objects and art its people left behind. “The tools, weapons, clothing, jewelry, implements and everyday wares of any given culture are, in the truest sense, living history for the generations to follow,” said Teresa Dodge, executive director of the specialist auction house Artemis Gallery.

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PBA to auction rare books, manuscripts, ephemera on Aug. 31

Early 1968 Jimi Hendrix Experience concert poster with Rick Griffith ‘Flying Eyeball’ design. Est. $5,000-$8,000

 

SAN FRANCISCO – PBA Galleries’ August 31 Fine Books in All Fields Auction will feature over 450 lots of interesting, unusual and valuable material in a broad range of subject areas, from early printed books and finely bound sets to scarce items from Japan and China. Included are books, manuscripts, rare ephemera, photographs, colored botanical plates, original comic and illustration art, vintage rock posters, and much more. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Walton family gives $120M for Arkansas art school

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., opened in November. Image by Charvex. This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., opened in November. Image by Charvex. This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., established through the major philanthropic effort of the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation. Image by Charvex. This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A foundation established by the family of Walmart’s founder has given $120 million to the University of Arkansas to establish the first school of art in the state.

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Lowriders subject of upcoming photo exhibit in Silver City

A lowrider showing off at Fiestas Patrias Parade held at South Park, Seattle, Sept. 19, 2015. Photo by Joe Mabel, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

 

SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) – Lowriders, the iconic cars popularized by Mexican Americans, will be the subject featured at an upcoming photo exhibit at Western New Mexico University.

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