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32 Fine Arts
Summer 2008 Newsletter – Number 32
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Dear Art Lovers,
With the Euro being so strong this year, I present our summer newsletter that serves as a guide to the arts for travel around the United States. Included is a comprehensive list of exhibitions all over America to view this summer.
As always, I would love to hear feed back and your comments about the art and museums that you discover wherever your summer travels take you.
The team at 32 Fine arts will take few weeks break but can still be reached for questions and assistance with acquisitions. I will be traveling to find new artists and new paintings for the autumn season.
Have a fantastic ART summer 2008.
Warm regards,
Brigitte Saint-Ouen
Founder and Director
Congratulations to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on the new addition to their growing family. A boy named Knox and a girl named Vivienne were born on July 12th 2008.
Jocelyn Bain Hogg Photographer .Title: Star, Endura F Glossy Kodak Paper, Size: 20 x 24in (51x61cm), Price: $1,800,Edition 2 of 8
Request Information: (212) 780 0932 or visit our website.
On this occasion I would like to introduce you to my twin girls named Charlotte Anne and Caroline Marie. They were born on December 11th 2007.
This picture was taken at the Elle Décor party hosted by Christies in New York City on June 26, 2008.
Artist of the Month
Edwige Mitterrand
Plage a Deauville, Tente Bleues
21 5/8 x 18 1/8 (10F)
Oil on Canvas
$ 2,100
Edwige Mitterrand: As her name may suggest, Edwige’s childhood was influenced by politics, the military and aerospace. Her uncle was Francois Mitterrand, the former President of France, while her father was a general in France’s Air Force. Her father’s occupation took the family all over the world but her fondest memories were the period when her father was stationed in Washington, DC.
Born in France in 1952, Edwige was academically gifted. She studied languages in college and eventually earned degrees in English, German and Russian. To further explore her creative talents, she studied architecture, decorative arts and painting. Since 1989, she decided to focus on painting on canvas. Her subject matter has been influenced by her familiar family surroundings, as she often paints from her garden in her family home in Normandy and Charente
(near Bordeaux).
Visit our website at www.32finearts.com to read more about her biography and see where her paintings have been shown.
Edwige Mitterrand
Les Lavandes
21 5/8 x 18 1/8 inches (10F)
Oil on Canvas
$ 2,100
Museum and Gallery Exhibitions
Summer Exhibitions in the United States via Google Maps
Atlanta, GA
The Louvre and the Ancient World Through September 7, 2008
The High Art Museum of Atlanta 1280 Peachtree Street (between 15th and 16th Streets)
Explore antiquities from the Birth of Civilization. The Louvre and the Ancient World features masterpieces from the founding cultures of Western civilization, including more than 70 works from the Louvre’s unparalleled Egyptian, Near Eastern and Greco-Roman antiquities collections. Showcasing works dating from the third millennium BC through the third century AD, the exhibition examines the rise of the museum and its collections of antiquities under Napoleon, the discoveries and decipherment of hieroglyphics and cuneiform and the Louvre’s leading role in excavating the cradle of civilization at the end of the nineteenth century and during the twentieth century (most of the excavations for Near East).
Austin, TX
LeWitt x2 May 24 - August 17, 2008
Austin Museum of Art 823 Congress Avenue at 9th Street
This two part exhibition focuses both on the artworks of Sol LeWitt and on his personal collection of contemporary art. The artist is renowned for his contribution to minimalism and conceptual art. LeWitt x2 has been organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Birmingham, AL
Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin September 28 - November 9, 2008
Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Eighth Avenue North
The Birmingham Museum of Art will host one of the most significant groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci to be loaned to a U.S. museum by the Biblioteca Reale (Royal Library) in Turin, Italy. The drawings have never before traveled as a group nor been made available outside of Italy in their entirety.
Peter Guttman
Travel photographer
Hiker in a Remote Slot Canyon (2002)
Cibachrome
27 x 40 in (69 x 102 cm)
Price: $3,000
Summer price $1890
Request Information: (212) 780 0932 or visit our website.
Boston
El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III (1598 to 1621) April 20 - July 27
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 465 Huntington Avenue
Spain in the seventeenth century has been called the country’s golden age, when art and literature flourished and the kingdom enjoyed enormous wealth and power. Artists served the king, his court, and the Catholic Church, creating works that gave form to ideals of divinely sanctioned rule and earthly magnificence.
Chicago, IL
Jeff Koons May 31 - September 21, 2008
Museum of Contemporary Art 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago
The major contemporary artist-provocateur Jeff Koons is one of the most well-known and intriguing artists of the 20th century. His works, with their seductive surfaces and flawless execution, transform everyday objects and fantasies into high art. The artist is working closely with the MCA to create a carefully selected survey focusing on his most iconic sculptural works. The MCA presented Koons’s first American survey in 1988, before he began his often controversial series of works in porcelain.
Many of the works to be included in the exhibition will come from the MCA’s own collection with in-depth concentrations of Koons’ work. Additional new paintings by Koons will also be included. Jeff Koons is developed as a unique presentation for Chicago, which will be its only venue.
Alexander Calder in Focus July 28, 2007 - March 1, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago
View Calder’s mobiles, stabiles, drawings, and paintings in this small exhibition presented annually at the MCA. These works, drawn primarily from the Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan and dating from 1927 to 1968, demonstrate the artist’s development throughout his fifty-year career. Calder combined colorful shapes taken from nature, such as snowflakes, birds, and animals, with an interest in mechanics to create whimsical mobiles that move with air currents. His explorations of both geometric and organic shapes have distinguished him as an innovator of art that responds to its physical environment. Though Calder began his career as an artist focused on drawing and painting, he is best known for creating stabiles, mobiles, and large-scale sculptures of natural forms simplified into dynamic, often whimsical creatures.
Peter Guttman
Travel photographer
Covered Wagons Creak Across the Dakota Prairie (2004)
Photography Museum Dorachrome Print, Limited Edition of 15
23 1/2 x 16 in
33 x 26 1/2 in
Price: $1,500
Summer price: $980
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Fort Worth, TX
The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago June 29 – November 2, 2008
Kimbell Art Museum 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd
The Kimbell plays host to ninety-two of the most celebrated works of the great Impressionist painters. The Art Institute’s Impressionist collection has never before left Chicago in such a large group, and it will be shown only at the Kimbell.
Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism June 14 – August 24, 2008
Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard
See the Southwest through the eyes of Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), one of America’s great modernists. Organized by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, this exhibition features nearly forty works from Hartley’s New Mexico perihod (1918–24), perhaps the most overlooked facet of his career.
Indianapolis, IN
Edward Hopper: Paper to Paint August 30, 2008-January 11, 2009
Indianapolis Museum of Art 4000 Michigan Road
This exhibition will feature the IMA’s Hopper painting Hotel Lobby and ten sketches the artist produced as studies, on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art. The show will also pair another Hopper painting from the IMA’s collection, New York, New Haven and Hartford, with watercolors related to South Truro, where New York, New Haven and Hartford was painted.
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Upon completion, the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park will provide an urban oasis with 100 acres of woodlands, wetlands, lake and meadows located adjacent to the Museum. The Park will contain outdoor art works, as well as recreational experiences for visitors including nature walks and interactive outdoor art exhibitions.
Peter Guttman
Travel photographer
Emerald Cul de Sac (2003)
Photography Museum Dorachrome Print, Limited Edition of 15
23 ½ x 16 in
Framed: 33 x 26 ½ in
Price: $1,500
Summer price: $980
Request Information: 1 212 780 0932
Los Angeles, CA
The Age of Imagination: Japanese Art, 1615–1868, from the Price Collection June 22 – Sept 14, 2008
Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Boulevard
The Etsuko and Joe Price Collection is world-renowned for its collection of Japanese paintings of the Edo Period (1615–1868) featuring screens, hanging scrolls, and fan-format paintings. The Price Collection reflects the eclectic diversity of a remarkably creative span in Japan’s history of visual art and is highlighted by some of the finest examples of the distinctive and compelling renderings of animal life by Ito Jakuchu (1716–1800), an artist who caught Joe Price’s eye five decades ago, when the artist was fairly unknown. The collection also features Kansai-region artists such as Maruyama Okyo, Nagasawa Rosetsu, and Mori Sosen, and artists of the Edo Rimpa school including Sakai Hoitsu and Suzuki Kiitsu. The exhibition has been on a four-city tour in Japan with enormous success; it was the highest-attended exhibition in the world in 2006.
Broad Contemporary Art Museum Inaugural Installation Through Sept 2008
Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Boulevard
The newly opened Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA holds some of the most iconic artworks from the last four decades—most from the famed Broad Collections. BCAM provides rich representations of some of the most important artists of the last forty years, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, Cindy Sherman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Baldessari, Jeff Koons, Chris Burden, Mike Kelley, and Richard Serra.
Memphis, TN
The Prints of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again June 14 - September 7, 2008
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 1934 Poplar Avenue
Peter Guttman
Travel photographer
Saugerties Lighthouse (1996)
Photography Museum Dorachrome Print, Limited Edition of 15
23 ½ x 16 in
Framed: 33 x 26 ½ in
Price: $1,500
Summer price: $980
Request Information: (212) 780 0932
New York City
Louise Bourgeois June 27 – September 28
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue
In the 1970s Louise Bourgeois became increasingly engaged with a new generation of artists working with installation and performance art. Confrontation (1978) represents an important foray into both disciplines.
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 May 04, 2008 - September 21
The Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue
In Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to rethink Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed, over fifty key works by 32 artists – among them Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko – will be viewed from the perspectives of influential, rival art critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, the artists, and popular culture.
Philadelphia PA
Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966) June 27 - September 1, 2008
Philadelphia Museum of Art 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
This is the first exhibition to travel outside of Asia showcasing the exquisite and historically groundbreaking work of Nandalal Bose, a major artist who has been called the father of Indian modernism and one of the patriarchs of India’s cultural revival. Organized by the San Diego Museum of Art in a historic collaboration with the government of India and the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, this exhibition includes more than one hundred of the artist’s works. Philadelphia is the only East Coast venue for this major event.
Rhythms of India explores the crucial period of India’s transition from a British colony to an independent nation through the country’s premier artist of the time.
The works on view reveal the way Bose contributed to the development of a new Indian art and laid the foundation for modern visual culture in independent India, as well as illustrate how Bose contributed to the success of India’s nonviolent struggle for independence through his association with Mahatma Gandhi.
Peter Guttman
Travel photographer
An Icelandic Boy (2004)
Photography Museum Dorachrome Print, Limited Edition of 15
23 ½ x 16 in
Framed: 33 x 26 ½ in
Price: $1,500
Summer price: $980
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Pittsburgh, PA
Piet (Mondrian) in Pittsburgh May 3 – August 31, 2008
The Andy Warhol Museum Sandusky and General Robinson Streets
Collection of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
San Francisco, CA
Frida Kahlo June 14 - September 28, 2008
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard Streets)
Advanced timed tickets are required for this exhibition.
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo began painting in 1926, while recovering from a near-fatal bus accident, and soon became captivated by the medium’s expressive possibilities. Kahlo’s folkloric style, influenced by Mexican popular art, and her fantastical imagery earned her recognition among the Surrealists, but her intriguing persona and unmistakable originality propelled her beyond the confines of a specific movement to become a leading figure in modern art. This exhibition, commemorating the centennial of the artist’s birth, brings together paintings that span her career, along with a selection of her own collection of photographs, most of which have never been on public display.
Chihuly at the de Young June 14 – September 28
de Young Museum Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
The exhibition is an exploration of the groundbreaking artwork of Dale Chihuly. From the Mille Fiori (a 56-foot garden of glass) to the Saffron Tower (a 30-foot neon sculpture), this exhibition challenges convention with a feast of bold color, dramatic forms and extraordinary
composition
Women Impressionists June 21 — September 21, 2008
Legion of Honor Lincoln Park 34th Avenue & Clement Street
Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond. At the time Impressionism was born, female artists were starting to come to the forefront of the art world. Women Impressionists breaks new ground by looking at the work and contributions of four female Impressionists, shown together for the first time in the United States. Many of the works deal with images of women—women at home, women with family, and women at leisure—in addition to other themes typical of Impressionism.
Peter Guttman
Travel photographer
Jungle Waterfall (1995)
Photography Museum Dorachrome Print
Limited Edition of 15
23 ½ x 16 in
Framed: 33 x 26 ½ in
Price: $1,500
Summer price: $980
Request Information:(212) 780 0932
Santa Fe NM
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Legacy in New Mexico Through September 9, 2010
New Mexico Museum of Art 107 West Palace Avenue
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) first painted in New Mexico during the summer of 1929. During the 1930s, O’Keeffe perfected her landscape paintings that have become identified with her mature style. These paintings reduce the complexities of New Mexico landscapes to simplified, flattened forms that shift back-and-forth between representation and non-objectivity. O’Keeffe’s aesthetic vision is her legacy to New Mexico. Her paintings offer sublime environments for contemplation, meditation, and renewal.
Seattle, WA
Inspiring Impression: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past June 19 – September 21
Seattle Art Museum 1300 First Avenue
Inspiring Impressionism, featuring nearly 100 works of art, launches an in-depth exploration of the links between the Impressionists and the major European art historical movements that preceded them.
Beneath the Impressionists’ commitment to capturing contemporary life, there lay a deep exploration of the art of the past, as well as of their more recent early-19th-century predecessors. The Impressionists learned from art historical sources by making painstaking oil copies executed at such museums as the Louvre. These copies, as well as drawings and sketchbook studies by the Impressionists, are shown with the old masters works they copied.
The exhibition then unfolds into a series of subject groups—portraits, still lifes, landscapes, interiors and nudes—with specific comparisons drawn between Impressionist works and the art of the past, as well as broader connections related to issues of subject, composition and technique. These thematic groupings are punctuated with small dossier sections on the three artists who drew most heavily on art historical sources: Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne.
Dalí: Painting and Film June 29–September 15
The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street
Bringing together more than 130 paintings, drawings, scenarios, and films by Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), this exhibition explores the role that cinema played in the artist’s work. Both an inspiration and an outlet for experimentation, film was Dalí’s passion, and cinematic vision became a model for his own work. Collaborations between Dalí and legendary filmmakers are displayed alongside his paintings and other works, illuminating the ways in which ideas, iconography, and pictorial strategies are shared and transformed across mediums. Among the provocative works on display are Un Chien andalou, a film made with Luis Buñuel, which features the notorious, almost unwatchable sequence of an eye being slit by a razor; L’Age d’Or, another collaboration with Buñuel and one of the landmarks of Surrealist film; projects undertaken in Hollywood with Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney; and such important paintings as The First Days of Spring and Illumined Pleasures. In conjunction with the gallery exhibition, a series of screenings in the MoMA theaters presents the classic and avant-garde motion pictures Dalí treasured, films on which he collaborated, and examples of his legacy in contemporary cinema.
Focus: Picasso Sculpture July 3–November 3, 2008
The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street
Pablo Picasso is perhaps best known for his paintings, but his sculptures are among the most radical, thought-changing artworks of the modern period. While the artist’s two-dimensional work was frequently exhibited during his lifetime, the first comprehensive exhibition of Picasso’s sculpture was mounted in 1966, when the artist was eighty-five years old. This installation provides a broad overview of the artist’s career as a creator of three-dimensional objects through selections from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection. The strength of the Museum’s collection in this area is due, in part, to the support it received from the artist himself, who donated his sheet-metal construction Guitar (1914), on view here, to the Museum in 1971.
Peter Guttman
Travel photographer
Aerial Ballet (1994)
Cibachrome Print,
Limited Edition of 15
23 ½ x 16 in
Framed: 33 x 26 ½ in
Price: $1,500
Summer price: $980
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Washington, DC
Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul May 25 – September 7
National Gallery of Art Constitution Avenue NW between 3rd and 7th Streets
Some 228 extraordinary artifacts unearthed in modern Afghanistan—most on view for the first time in the United States—attest to the region’s importance as a vital and ancient crossroads of trade routes known as the Silk Road, which stretched from Asia to the Mediterranean. Many of the objects were long thought to have been stolen or destroyed during some 25 years of conflict until they were dramatically recovered from a vault under the Presidential Palace in 2004. Dating back 2,000 years and more, the works belong to the National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul, whose motto is “A nation stays alive when its culture stays alive.” The exhibition, which begins its U.S. tour at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, explores the cultural significance of the treasures and illustrates the story of their discovery, excavation, and heroic rescue.
Ranging in date from 2200 BC to AD 200, the objects present a rich mosaic of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage and are drawn from four archaeological sites. The works include gold bowls with artistic links to Mesopotamia from Tepe Fullol in northern Afghanistan; bronze and stone sculptures from the site of the former Greek city of Aï Khanum; bronzes, ivories, and painted glassware imported from Roman and Indian markets discovered in Begram; and more than 100 gold ornaments from among the 20,000 pieces known as the “Bactrian Hoard,” found in 1978 in Tillya Tepe, the site of six nomad graves.
Maps will illustrate the locations of some 1500 archaeological sites, ancient cities, the routes known as the Silk Road, and regions that relate to the artifacts. A documentary film narrated by celebrated Afghan-American author, Khaled Hosseini, explores ancient Afghan culture, the history of these collections and their dramatic rediscovery. Short films throughout the show will include recreations of Aï Khanum and one of the intricately carved chairs—thought to be thrones—found there.
The Great American Epic: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series May 3-October 26, 2008
The Phillips Collection 1600 21st Street, NW
The complete 60-panel series, rarely seen in its entirety, will be on view until October 26, 2008 exclusively at the Phillips. Told through vivid patterns and colors, this masterpiece of narrative painting is the first ever produced on the great 20th-century exodus of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. The exhibition will take an in-depth look at Lawrence’s powerful interpretation of this significant moment in American history and examine how the story still resonates today.
Jocelyn Bain Hogg
Photographer
Red Carpet
Endura F Glossy Kodak Paper
20 x 24 in (51 x 61 cm)
$1.800
Edition 2 of 8
Request Information: (212) 780 0932
Art Fairs
The Armory Show
March 4-8, 2009
The International Fair of New Art – Pier 94
The Armory Show – Modern – Pier 92
While putting together your itinerary for next year’s art fairs, do not miss this important weekend in New York. Twelve fairs will be exhibiting.
32 Fine Arts in association with a concierge can design your weekend in New York City for lodging, shopping, and transportation. See http://32finearts.com/concierge.php for more information.
Auctions and The Art Market
The art market has seen a number of large sales this spring, including some that were record breaking.
A triptych from 1975 entitled “Three Studies for Self-Portrait” by artist Francis Bacon sold for $34.4 million at the June 30 sale at Christie’s. At the same sale, Lucian Freud’s “Naked Portrait With Reflection” reached $23.5 million and Jeff Koons’ “Balloon Flower (Magenta)” sold for $23 million. (NYT)
A day later at the Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction, Francis Bacon’s “Study for Head of George Dyer” from 1967 sold for $27.4 million. (Sotheby's)
Christie’s in London held its Impressionist and Modern Art sale on June 24. Tania Buckrell Pos of Arts & Management International bid £40.9 million, or $80.4 million, on Monet’s “Le Bassin aux Nymphéas” for an unknown client, setting a record the most expensive work for the artist sold at auction. (NYT)
Le bassin aux nymphéas by Claude Monet. Image courtesy of Christies.com
In our June newsletter, we included information about the Tate Modern’s Street Art exhibition. Those interested in the entry of street art into mainstream museums and auction houses would care to know that a number of works by Banksy were included in Christie’s of London Postwar and Contemporary Art sale. Six works totaled just under $1,000,000. (Christie’s)
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Brigitte Saint-Ouen
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