Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Henry John Boddington’s “Early Morning on the Thames”
Source: Early Morning on the Thames – Here is one from our late 1970s / early 1980s sold archives by the 19th century British Victorian landscape artist Henry John Boddington (1811-1865). Henry John was born into the Williams family and decided … More…
Ashmolean Museum hands back Renaissance riches linked to Nazi looters
Here is a nice story about a museum doing the right thing … after the Ashmolean Museum received a large gift from the estate of Michael Wellby they proceeded to trace the provenance of the items. Professor Tim Wilson, the museum’s … More…
Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Montague Dawson’s “The Crest of a Wave”
Source: The Crest of a Wave – Here is a dramatic ship portrait by the 20th century British artist Montague Dawson (1895-1973) that we sold in 2011. Dawson is considered, by many, to be Britain’s most important marine artist of the 20th … More…
Jackson Pollock’s forgotten bleak masterpieces – Tate Liverpool
This should be a very interesting exhibition of Jackson Pollock in monochrome. In 1951 Pollock began to explore a middle ground between abstraction and figuration in a series of works painted in black on raw canvas. He exhibited them at … More…
Why Was Whistler’s Mom Such a Grump? At The Clark Art Institute.
Considered, by many, to be the most important American work of art to have never lived in the U.S., Whistler’s “Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother)” was painted in 1871, purchased by the French government in … More…
Sending Art to the Moon
The Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institution has plans to send a four-chambered ‘Ark’ to the moon. The size of half a soda can, this ark will hold four engraved sapphire disks, small metal sculptures, biological samples of life on earth, … More…
Painting of the Day (SOLD) Elena Green’s “Vestiges I”
A recently SOLD work by Elena Green, Vestiges I. In Greek mythology, the vestigial siren is part-bird and part-woman whose song lures men to their destruction. Vestiges I traces the historical archetype of women as depicted in literature and … More…
Looted in Syria – and sold in London: the British antiques shops dealing in artefacts smuggled by Isis
A very interesting story about the market for looted antiquities. Mark Altaweel, an archaeologist, went on a hunt in London and it did not take long to find many suspect items being offered for sale. According to the article, … More…
Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Edouard Cortes’s’ “A Little River in Normandie”
Meet Some of the Art World’s New Leaders
Here is an interesting article by Kelly Crow, in The Wall Street Journal, about the new faces at the three main auction rooms. Two are veterans of the art world, Patricia Barbizet and Edward Dolman; the third, Tad Smith, is … More…
Topekan pays $2 for painting worth thousands
Another remarkable story about a lucky thrift store find. Heather Brown purchased a painting for $2 at a Kansas City thrift store several months ago. After researching the artist, she connected with an art appraiser who told her he believed the … More…