![Maker formerly known [Halona:wa (Zuni Pueblo)], polychrome jar, circa 1865. Clay and pigment, 9 by 13 by 13in. Collection of Shelburne Museum, Anthony and Teressa Perry collection of Native American art. 2023-5.17. Photography by Andy Duback.](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/jupiterx/images/Maker-formerly-known-Halonawa-Zuni-Pueblo_Polychrome-Jar_2023-5.17-1-b16843a.jpg)
![Maker formerly known [Halona:wa (Zuni Pueblo)], polychrome jar, circa 1865. Clay and pigment, 9 by 13 by 13in. Collection of Shelburne Museum, Anthony and Teressa Perry collection of Native American art. 2023-5.17. Photography by Andy Duback.](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Maker-formerly-known-Halonawa-Zuni-Pueblo_Polychrome-Jar_2023-5.17.jpg)
Passion for pots: Pueblo pottery collection shown at Shelburne Museum
Rijksmuseum Vermeer show prompts Philly museum to reassess its ‘Lady with a Guitar’
Johannes Vermeer, Dutch (active Delft, 1632 – 1675), ‘The Guitar Player (Lady with a Guitar),’ around 1670–1720. Oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson collection, 1917, cat. 497. Courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art
PHILADELPHIA – Throughout the 20th century and to the present day, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Lady with a Guitar has been the subject of deep fascination and many questions. Long cataloged as a ‘Copy after Vermeer’ in the John G. Johnson collection at the museum, the work is a replica or close duplicate of Johannes Vermeer’s The Guitar Player (circa 1672), today in the collection of Kenwood House, London. The hairstyles of the sitter are different – the Philadelphia musician does not have corkscrew ringlets – but otherwise the images are nearly identical.
Whistler’s mother portrait returns to Philly after 142 years for special show
PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates an exceptional loan from the Musee d’Orsay, Paris of Whistler’s 1871 portrait of his mother in a new exhibition that explores the portrait’s creation and its legacy in the city of Philadelphia. James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s iconic portrayal of his mother, Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, will be on view in Philadelphia for the first time in 142 years. This exhibition, The Artist’s Mother: Whistler and Philadelphia, will bring Whistler’s portrait into dialog with works by artists associated with Philadelphia — Cecilia Beaux, Henry Ossawa Tanner, John Sloan, Dox Thrash, Alice Neel and Sidney Goodman. The show opens on June 10 and continues through October 29.
Barbara Walters’ longtime Manhattan co-op listed for $19.75M
NEW YORK – The longtime New York co-op home of TV reporter and media personality Barbara Walters has come on the market, priced at $19.75 million. Located on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue adjacent to Central Park, Walters lived there from 1989 until her death in 2022 at age 93. The five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bathroom apartment takes up the entire sixth floor in a 14-story building designed in 1925 by architect Nathan Korn.
New Madrid museum set to unveil five centuries of Spain’s royal collections
MADRID (AP) – It’s not as if Madrid were short on world-ranking galleries with the likes of the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Reina Sofia, among others. But in June, Spain is set to unveil what is touted as one of Europe’s cultural highlights of the year with the opening in the Spanish capital of the Royal Collections Gallery (Museo de Colecciones Reales). The swanky new museum will feature paintings, tapestries, sculptures, decorative art pieces, armory and sumptuous royal furniture collected by Spanish monarchs during five centuries, spanning the empire’s Hapsburg and Bourbon dynasties. King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will inaugurate the gallery on June 28, after which it will be open to the public, free of charge for the first few days.
‘Succession’ character Kendall Roy’s Manhattan penthouse lists for $29M
NEW YORK – HBO’s critically acclaimed series Succession follows the lives of the Roy family, heirs to a global media and entertainment conglomerate known as Waystar Royco, as they squabble for dominance in the wake of their father’s declining health. Awarded both the Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in 2020 and 2022, the four-season show earned 24 additional Emmy awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor for Jeremy Strong, who plays Kendall Roy. The series is filmed mostly in New York, where the rival factions of the lead family live in opulent penthouses on either side of Central Park. Kendall Roy’s TV home is a three-level penthouse at the top of the tallest tower north of 72nd Street. The five-bedroom, 5,500-square-foot abode has been listed for sale at $29 million.
Louise Nevelson architectural sculpture restored at Boca Raton museum
BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Boca Raton Museum of Art has announced the completion of the restoration of a major sculpture by Louise Nevelson, a leading American sculptor of the 20th century and an innovator in site-specific art installations. The restoration was funded by a grant from Bank of America’s Art Conservation Project, a global program providing grants to nonprofit cultural institutions to conserve historically or culturally significant works of art, including works that have been designated as national treasures.
Where Ideas Come From: Dali’s Drawings opens in Florida May 27
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Dali Museum will present more than 100 works on paper from the museum’s vault in Where Ideas Come From: Dali’s Drawings from May 27 through Oct. 22. Showcasing the artist’s utilization of various media, including pencil, pen, charcoal, watercolor and gouache, Dali’s Drawings will highlight Dali’s creative process throughout the many phases of his career. More than half of the artworks will be on view for the first time in 35 years and will rarely be displayed again due to their fragile nature. Through the support of donations from the community, the majority of the works featured in the exhibition were recently conserved — for the first time — in alignment with the Dali’s mission to care for and share Dali’s work and legacy.
Chiswick Auctions to offer Sally Jacobs costume designs for major UK stage productions, May 24
LONDON – An archive containing hundreds of stage costume designs by Sally Jacobs (1932-2020) are featured in Chiswick Auctions’ Books and Works on Paper sale slated for May 24. One of the lots (Lot 161), which includes mixed-media designs for important stage Royal Shakespeare Company productions from the 1960s, is expected to sell for £18,000-£22,000 ($22,465-$27,460).
Palm Springs museum gains 100 new artworks from generous supporters
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Palm Springs Art Museum has announced that two of its most devoted longtime supporters — Gwen Weiner and Donna MacMillan — have separately given more than 100 objects to the museum’s permanent collection.