Blockbuster Van Gogh exhibition leads 2021 Dallas Museum of Art lineup
Photo courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art Juan Gris: Cubism in Color comes to the DMA next year.
Photo courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Ex-voto Dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, 1886, Mexico, part of Devoted: Art and Spirituality in Mexico and New Mexico.
Photo courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art After being closed for much of 2020 due to the pandemic, the
Dallas Museum of Art is back up and running and has solidified its schedule of exhibitions for 2021. The year s blockbuster attraction sure to draw visitors near and far will feature rarely seen works by master painter Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh and the Olive Groves will be the first exhibition dedicated to the artist s important olive grove series. It was announced in early March, just before the shutdown, and has stayed on the DMA s calendar for October 17, 2021-February 6, 2022. (Read more about it here.)
First auction of artists of the WPA at Swann establishes four records
Arthur Getz, Untitled (WPA Practice Piece), casein and tempera, 1938. Sold for $10,625, a record for the artist.
NEW YORK, NY
.- The Artists of the WPA were on display in Swann Galleries Thursday, February 4 auction. The multi-departmental sale was headed by Harold Porcher, the houses director of Modern and Post-War Art, and featured paintings, prints, photographs, posters and related ephemera by artists whose careers were sustained by the Works Progress Administration and other agencies of the New Deal.
The sale was led by a selection of 38 vintage silver prints spanning 1932 to 42 by John Vachon, a record for the grouping, at $37,500. Vachon began his work for the Farm Security Administration as an assistant messenger. As his interest in photography grew, he began to make his own photographs and accompanied Arthur Rothstein on one of his assignments; in 1938 Vachon would have his first solo assignment f
Vettriano and other Scottish figurative painters flex saleroom muscles
The Stephen Conroy (b.1964) oil on board Figure Study - 2000, signed and dated verso, brought £18,750.
EDINBURGH
.- Several auction records were set for works by some of Scotlands best-known 20th and 21st century painters at international auctioneers Lyon & Turnbulls recent Contemporary & Post-War Art sale held live online on January 27. The auction totalled £630,000 against a top estimate of £510,000, with at least three auction records set. Some 1167 international bidders competed of which 1076 were online leading to a selling rate of 86%.
Leading the pack at a cool £100,000 was Fish Teas by Jack Vettriano (b.1951). Measuring 60 x 50cm, it depicts a smartly dressed man lounging against a railing on a promenade smoking a cigarette, while a woman in a 1950s style dress looks into the distance on a seafront. A saltire flag flies in the background and the words Fish Teas can be seen painted on a wood