NEW DELHI, India – From Jan. 28 to March 29, a major retrospective of Gérard Garouste’s work will be held at the National Gallery of Modern Art. The survey exhibition will feature around 60 paintings covering 40 years of artistic creation, from 1980 to 2019. It is the biggest exhibition of the French artist’s work outside Europe.
DENVER, Pa. – Top-notch guns from premier collections comprise the high-powered lineup to be offered at Morphy’s Field & Range Firearms Auction slated for Feb. 17-19. The selection includes both antique and modern rifles, shotguns and handguns; and the types of elusive ammunition and accessories most desired by today’s collectors. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
LONDON – An exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art brings together more than 300 works on paper by Pablo Picasso spanning the artist’s 80-year career. The show opened Jan. 25 and runs through April 13.
NEW YORK – Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930-2002), a French-American who was born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint-Phalle, battled her inner demons through her art. After following a golden path – becoming a top fashion model, marrying, then starting a family, she suffered a nervous breakdown. Art, expressing deep, fearless aggression, became her only solace.
LOS ANGELES – Julien’s Auctions kicked off the new year with its Online Charity Auction for MusiCares’ 30th Anniversary of Person of the Year, Featuring Aerosmith. In celebration of MusiCares’ milestone 30th anniversary, Julien’s Auctions hosted this special online-only auction with advance bidding that began Dec. 27, to registered bidders not able to attend the MusiCares Person of the Year benefit gala honoring Aerosmith at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Jan. 24. All proceeds of the sale benefit MusiCares, a Recording Academy charity.
CHICAGO – Bringing together over 55 paintings and sculptures, the Art Institute of Chicago presents El Greco: Ambition and Defiancefrom March 7 to June 21, 2020. The first major exhibition in over 15 years devoted to Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known widely as El Greco, Ambition and Defiance foregrounds the artist’s personality to chart the development of his distinctive style, offering a new view of his prescient aesthetic. The exhibition is organized by the Art Institute with the Réunion des musées nationaux–Grand Palais, Paris and the Musée du Louvre.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – In 2007, Springfield’s gleaming new shrine to Abraham Lincoln was open, but it lacked touchstone pieces to show off, so organizers paid $6.5 million for the most symbolic Lincoln artifact available: one of the 16th president’s stovepipe hats.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A Rembrandt portrait that hasn’t been exhibited in the U.S. in more than half a century is coming to a Connecticut museum.
BOSTON – Two original watercolor and gouache paintings by President John F. Kennedy were sold by RR Auction for $126,233 on Jan. 23. The fully illustrated auction catalog with prices realized can be viewed on LiveAuctioneeers.
CRANSTON, R.I. – Bruneau & Co.’s next major auction, slated for Saturday, Feb. 15, will be a two-session affair. Session 1, beginning promptly at 10 a.m. Eastern time, will feature an important single-owner collection of steam engines, cast-iron and other pre-World War II toys. Session 2, starting at 12:30 p.m., will feature Bruneau & Co.’s normal mix of antiques, fine art, decorative arts, silver and more. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.