Damien Hirst, ‘Histidyl,’ estimated at $4,000-$6,000. Image credit: Palm Beach Modern Auctions staff photographer
LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. – On Saturday, March 4, beginning at noon Eastern time, Palm Beach Modern Auctions will open its winter premier sale with a 194-lot single owner collection of works by famed 20th- and 21st-century artists. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Francois-Hubert Drouais (French, 1727-1775), ‘Young Girl Holding a Basket of Fruit,’ mid-18th-century oil on canvas, 28 3/4 by 23-1/4in (73.0 by 59.1cm). Norton Simon Art Foundation
PASADENA, Calif.— The Norton Simon Museum presents All Consuming: Art and the Essence of Food, an exhibition that explores how artists responded to and shaped food cultures in Europe from 1500 to 1900. It will open on April 14 and continue through August 14.
First edition of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ in its unrestored dust jacket, estimated at $15,000-$20,000
NEW YORK — Swann Galleries will hold a Fine Books & Autographs sale on Thursday, March 2. The auction will feature autographs from political figures, pop culture icons, artists and authors, and will include first editions of key 19th- and 20th-century literary works. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Announcing the creation of the Brind Center for African and African Diasporic Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (from left): Carlos Basualdo, Marion Boulton “Kippy” Stroud deputy director and chief curator; Museum Trustee Ira Brind; Sasha Suda, George D. Widener director and CEO; and Alphonso Atkins, Miller Worley director of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
PHILADELPHIA – Sasha Suda, the George D. Widener director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, announced on February 23 that the museum will create a new center to be endowed by Trustee Ira Brind that will be dedicated to the study, acquisition, and care of art from continental Africa and the African Diaspora. This transformational investment in the curatorial future of the museum will establish the Brind Center for African and African Diasporic Art, with the specific goal of expanding the scope and reach of the collection, a key objective of the newly published PMA Equity Agenda.
Gertrude Abercombie’s untitled 1963 painting of a stallion and shed achieved $280,000 plus the buyer’s premium in February 2023. Image courtesy of Hindman and LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK — A rule of thumb in fine art holds that larger paintings are generally deemed more valuable, but one artist whose works are disproving that maxim is the late Chicago Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie.