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☆ Glenn Lowry, director of New York’s MoMA, to step down after 30 years
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Glenn Lowry, the longest-serving director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), is stepping down after three decades in the role, he announced Tuesday. Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesJoining MoMA from Canada’s Art Gallery of Ontario in 1995, Lowry is the sixth director in the storied museum’s 95-year history. Welcoming 2.7 million visitors a year, according to the latest figures, MoMA is the USA’s third-most-visited art museum after the nearby Metropolitan Museum of Art and Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art. Through exhibitions, commissions and acquisitions, Lowry used art to address some of the most pressing social themes of the day. Tuesday’s announcement comes just over a week after Lowry sat down with CNN’s Richard Quest for an interview at MoMA.

Persons: Glenn Lowry, “, ”, Spencer Platt, Lowry, CNN’s Richard Quest, Quest, Paul Cézanne’s “, Robert Rauschenberg, India’s Kiran Organizations: CNN, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, New York Times, Times, MoMA, Modern Art, Getty, Canada’s Art, of Ontario, Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington DC’s, of Art, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Locations: Manhattan, Queens, Red, ”

☆ Swiss Museum in Financial Straits Sells Three Cézannes for $53 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Catherine Hickley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Three paintings by Paul Cézanne that a Swiss museum foundation said it had to sell to ward off insolvency fetched $52.5 million, with buyer’s fees, at a Christie’s auction in New York last night. Markus Stegmann, the director of the Museum Langmatt in Baden, said that after subtracting buyer’s fees, its parent foundation will reap 42.3 million Swiss francs from the sale of the three paintings, enough to keep the museum operating. The money will be used to create an endowment that will secure the museum’s future. It’s a relief.”The Foundation Langmatt’s decision to sell the Cézannes earned wide criticism before the auction. The Swiss branch of the International Council of Museums, which said the sale was a clear breach of its guidelines for de-accessioning from museum collections, called for the paintings to be withdrawn.

Persons: Paul Cézanne, Markus Stegmann, ” Stegmann, “ Organizations: International Council of Museums Locations: Swiss, New York, Baden

☆ Museum Sells Restituted Cézanne for $39 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Kelly Crow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Paul Cézanne’s ‘Fruits and Jar of Ginger’ was won by an anonymous telephone bidder. Photo: Christie’s ImagesA Paul Cézanne still life sold for $39 million on Thursday as part of a fundraising effort by a beleaguered Swiss museum. The 1890-93 scene, “Fruits and Jar of Ginger,” was sold by Museum Langmatt in the Swiss community of Baden as part of a broader campaign to renovate its 1900-01 art nouveau villa and establish an endowment. Before the auction could happen, the museum reached a restitution settlement with the heirs of a Jewish collector who previously sold the Cézanne under duress.

Persons: Paul Cézanne’s, Ginger ’, Paul Cézanne, ” Organizations: Langmatt Locations: Swiss, Baden

☆ Amid Criticism, a Museum Says It Must Sell Its Cézannes to Survive
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Catherine Hickley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One of the Cézannes in particular, a still life titled “Fruits et pot de gingembre,” is a highlight of the Museum Langmatt in Baden, which houses a small collection of Impressionist works. The museum said it was financially necessary to sell the painting, and perhaps two others, to keep the foundation that owns it from insolvency. The still life is estimated to fetch $35 million to $55 million at an auction on Thursday at Christie’s in New York. “Bequests and donations come to museums because people think they will be safe,” said Bezzola, who argued the sale should be canceled. “All the important collections in Switzerland come from private donations and bequests, so this sends a terrible signal.”

Persons: Paul Cézanne, Tobia Bezzola, ”, Bezzola Organizations: International Council of Museums Locations: Swiss, Baden, Christie’s, New York, Switzerland

PARIS (AP) — Planted in a field, Vincent van Gogh painted furiously, bending the thick oils, riotous yellows and sumptuous blues to his will. And it had a doctor who specialized in depression, Paul Gachet, who took Van Gogh on as a patient. The exhibit includes 11 paintings that Van Gogh painted on unusual elongated canvases, experimenting to stunning effect. Another version of the exhibition, with 10 of the elongated canvases, was first shown at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum earlier this year. “It’s a real fireworks show.”"Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: The Final Months" runs at the Musée d'Orsay through Feb. 4, 2024.

Persons: —, Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh, Van Gogh's, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gachet, ” Emmanuel Coquery, “ He’d, ” Coquery, ”, Jimi Hendrix, Sylvia Plath, Jean, Michel Basquiat, Gogh's, Coquery, “, Musée d'Orsay Organizations: PARIS, Orsay Locations: Wheatfield, Paris, French, Auvers, Oise, Van, Amsterdam, Dutch, York, Musée

☆ Nvidia's big break has been a long time coming, Jim Cramer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Wall Street may be shocked by Nvidia 's record-breaking move on Thursday, but not CNBC's Jim Cramer. Cramer said Huang has been ahead on the value of generative artificial intelligence since the jump, buying up a valuable kind of graphics card — the H100 processor — early on. "If you have enough Nvidia cards put together, you can enable all of this incredible artificial intelligence stuff that everybody's so excited about now. Cramer said Huang showed him the power of ChatGPT when he visited Nvidia headquarters months ago, well before it saw mainstream popularity. "And had the cards ready for all who wanted them when Wall Street finally came around to generative artificial intelligence.

Persons: Jim Cramer, Cramer, he's, Jensen Huang, Huang, Andy Reid, Reid, Paul Cezanne, " Cramer, Jensen, Wall, We're Organizations: Nvidia, Kansas City Chiefs, Oracle, Microsoft, Meta, Intel Locations: Washington

☆ Picasso: Love Him or Hate Him?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Deborah Solomon | April | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

It is not hugely cool to profess a love for Picasso these days. This is what Picasso’s detractors — like Hannah Gadsby, the Australian comedian and Picasso basher, who will help curate a Picasso show at the Brooklyn Museum opening on June 2 — often miss. Picasso, by contrast, brought the weight of lived experience into his work, even when he was tethered to archetypal subjects. “The Mother” (1901), an early painting by Picasso, shows a view of motherhood purged of Renaissance idealization. The conventional view of the painting holds that the women are “dolled-up cocottes,” as John Richardson glibly put it in his biography of Picasso.

☆ Paul Allen's art collection hauls in record $1.5 bln at auction
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Lisa Richwine | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The total represented the highest amount ever collected at a single art auction, according to the auction house, Christie's in New York. Among the priciest works sold was Pointillist pioneer Georges Seurat's Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version), an 1888 oil on canvas depicting three nude women. Cezanne's "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire", a colorful landscape painted from 1888-1890, sold for $137.8 million, another record. And a Gustav Klimt 1903 painting, "Birch Forest," set the high mark for a Klimt work, selling for $104.6 million. Additional pieces from Allen's collection will be offered at auction on Thursday.

☆ An auction of 60 works from the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's art collection smashes records by raising $1.5 billion
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An auction of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's art collection raised just over $1.5 billion. The Christie's auction has set a new record as the biggest art sale in history. The most expensive work was Georges Seurat's "Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version)", which fetched $149.2 million. This painting, which depicts three nude women, is considered a pioneering work of Seurat's signature style of Pointillism. A total of five pieces went for more than $100 million each at the auction in New York on Wednesday night.

☆ Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's art collection tops $1.5 billion at auction
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Robert Frank | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Christie's sold 60 works from the Paul G. Allen Collection for over $1.5 billion Wednesday night, as wealthy collectors around the world shrugged off economic and crypto worries to invest in trophy artworks. Several works sold for three or four times their estimates, with several artists setting new records at auction, including Vincent van Gogh, Edward Steichen and Gustav Klimt. The sales total of $1.506 billion shattered the previous record for the most expensive collection ever auctioned, set by the Harry and Linda Macklowe collection auctioned at Sotheby's for $922 million. The sales total for the Allen collection will soar even higher Thursday morning, when another 95 lots head to auction. The collection of Paul Allen, the late co-founder of Microsoft, was a treasure trove of masterpieces spanning 500 years.

☆ Paul Allen’s Art Collection Sets Record With $1.5 Billion Sale
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Kelly Crow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen ’s estate made auction history on Wednesday when a group of 60 artworks from his estate sold for $1.5 billion, smashing the record for priciest collection ever sold at auction. Lush landscapes and rare examples by artists like Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Sandro Botticelli and Jasper Johns anchored a sale at Christie’s in New York that reaffirmed the depth of the trophy-hunting art market at a time of broader economic uncertainty.

☆ New York art auction fall highlights include Paul Allen collection and a rare Warhol
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Eduardo MunozNov 4 (Reuters) - The fall art auction season kicks off in New York City next week, with auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's both expecting to bring in record-breaking sales. Among the highlights is Christie's Paul G. Allen Collection, which includes more than 150 pieces spanning 500 years. The collection, from the estate of the late Microsoft co-founder, includes works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Seurat, Paul Cezanne and Lucien Freud. Sotheby's Modern Art Evening Auction will be held on Nov. 14, followed by a Contemporary Evening Auction on Nov. 16. "There are so many amazing works on offer," Sotheby's head of impressionist and modern art for the Americas, Julian Dawes, said.

☆ Cezanne, Seurat works headline $1 bln sale from late Microsoft co-founder's estate
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Described as "the sale of this century" by auction house Christie's, the collection of more than 150 pieces spans 500 years of art history from Sandro Botticelli to David Hockney. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterChristie's Global President Jussi Pylkkanen said he expected overall proceeds "well in excess of $1 billion." Allen, who together with school friend Bill Gates started Microsoft in 1975 before leaving the software company several years later, died in 2018, aged 65. Hockney's "Queen Anne's Lace Near Kilham" has a price estimate of $8 million-$12 million and Alberto Giacometti's sculpture "Femme de Venise III" $15 million-$20 million. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; editing by John StonestreetOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Top 10 cele mai scumpe tablouri din lume care au fost vândute. Vezi care sunt acestea
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-16 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Top 10 cele mai scumpe tablouri din lume care au fost vândute. Vezi care sunt acesteaPictura reprezintă o formă de artă extrem de complexă, în care oamenii au dreptul să vadă lucrurile diferit. Există picturi pe care le putem considera reușite și valoroase, dar sunt și picturi complexe, catalogate opere de artă, pe care mulți din noi nu le putem înțelege. Mai jos puteți vedea un top 10 al celor mai scumpe tablouri vândute până acum. Portretele lui Maerten Soolmans și Oopjen CoppitArtist: RembrandtPreț de vânzare: 180 de milioane de dolari#7.

Persons: Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Maerten, Gustav Klimt, Jackson, Nafea, Paul Gauguin, Willem, Salvator, Leonardo Locations: Alger

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