NEW YORK — Fu Baoshi lived through some of the most tumultuous times in China’s history. Born in 1904 in the Jiangxi Province, near the close of the Qing dynasty, his informal art education began in a ceramics shop at age 12. His art is closely tied to China’s politics, and the two stories are deeply interwoven.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. – Provincetown Art Association and Museum has extended the exhibition, “Edward and Josephine Hopper from the Permanent Collection,” from Jan. 28 to April 1 and added new material. The cases will be replaced with new examples from Josephine Hopper’s diary entries, letters to Edward Hopper from artists Charles Burchfield and John Sloan and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and ephemera from the artists’ lives.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cowan’s Cleveland Market Winter Live Salesroom Auction on Friday, Jan. 26, will feature a mechanical bank collection as well as vintage stuffed toys and antique shaving mugs. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
CRANSTON, R.I. – A fine bronze sculpture of a female nude by Mexican-born realist Enrique Alferez (Louisiana/Texas, 1901-1999), titled The Bather (1983), climbed to $13,750 and a beautiful Tiffany & Co. pearl necklace with a diamond-encrusted platinum clasp brought $10,625 at Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers’ Winter Antiques & Fine Arts Auction held Jan. 6. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
PRAGUE (AP) – A 16th century book that belonged to Prague’s Jewish community before World War II and surfaced at a New York City auction last year was brought back to the Czech Republic on Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO – On Thursday, Jan. 25, PBA Galleries will offer 500 lots of rare and significant items of historical, cultural and visual interest, including books, manuscripts, photographs and ephemera, with a particularly strong gathering of cartographic material. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Two drawings of a hill in Paris have been confirmed as works by Vincent van Gogh and went on display today at a Dutch museum.
BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions’ next Asian sale will feature an important collection of Chinese porcelains from a prominent Newport, Rhode Island, collector. The auction will take place on Sunday, Jan. 21, beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern time. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
RENO, Nev. (AP) – Weeks ahead of the opening of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in South Korea, the El Dorado Arts Council has opened a new exhibition celebrating the 1960 Winter Olympics held at Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Scientists are using information gleaned from both illegal ivory art and elephant dung to provide clues that could help save the lives of pachyderms that are being slaughtered for their tusks in Africa.