- Man posing as customer walked into Manhattan gallery and put it in a bag
- The painting - Dali's 1949 Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio - is worth $150,000
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A man walked into an upmarket New York art gallery and snatched a $150,000 Salvado Dali painting from the wall.
The audacious thief posed as a customer at the Venus Over Manhattan art gallery, on Madison Avenue, before he removed the small watercolour and ink painting and put it into a bag,
The piece, Dali's Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio which was painted in 1949, formed part of the gallery's inaugural exhibition.
Audacious: The thief, who was posing as a customer, was caught on CCTV leaving the gallery with the painting's frame poking out of his bag
Gallery owner and art dealer Adam Lindemann told police the thief took the piece during 'regular business hours, with a security guard', the New York Post reported.
According to the New York Post, the man told the security guard: 'I want to take a picture of this painting.'
He was given permission, on the condition he did not use a flash, but when the guard was distracted by another gallery visitor the thief slipped the painting off the wall and put it into his bag.
Police are now hunting the man, who was captured on the gallery's CCTV leaving with the artwork on Tuesday.
Stolen: The $150,000 Dali painting - Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio - was completed in 1949 and formed part of the gallery's inaugural exhibition
Surrealist: Spanish artist Salvador Dali, who died in 1989, was famous for his paintings of melted clocks and dream-like landscapes
Surveillance footage shows the man carrying a heavyweight paper shopping bag into the third-floor gallery.
The CCTV footage shows the frame from the painting poking out of the top of his shopping bag.
Jacquie Tellalian, a 58-year-old visitor to the gallery, told the New York Post: 'We went inside to see the show, and we were wondering where the Salvador Dali painting was.
'It’s a small painting, but how did he just put in his bag and walk out like that? I hope somebody finds it.'
The suspect is a white man, about 5ft 6in, 160lbs and aged between 35 and 42 years.
Detectives say he was wearing a black and white checked shirt as well as dark coloured jeans and shoes.
Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali, who died in 1989, was famous for his paintings of melted clocks and dream-like landscapes.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
$150,000 Salvador Dali painting stolen from New York City art gallery - msnbc.com
A Salvador Dali painting worth an estimated $150,000 was stolen from a Manhattan gallery earlier this week, police sources told NBC 4 New York on Thursday.
NYPD via AP
Salvador Dali's painting, 'Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio,' which was stolen from a New York art gallery on June 19.
The 1949 painting, known as "Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio," appears to have been stolen on Tuesday from The Venus Over Manhattan gallery on Madison Avenue, police sources said.
Surveillance cameras show a man wearing a dark shirt with white polka dots enter the gallery with a black cloth bag, police sources said. He is later seen on cameras leaving the gallery with the painting.
The New York Daily News reported that the man took an elevator from the third floor onto street level and fled down 77th Street.
The painting was included in a display with other paintings as part of an exhibit at the gallery, which opened in May of this year, at 980 Madison Avenue between 76th and 77th Streets.
NYPD via AP
This image provided by the New York Police Department shows a surveillance camera image of a man suspected of stealing a $150,000 Salvador Dali painting from a Manhattan art gallery Thursday.
Anyone with information is asked to call police.
NBC New York and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
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Furniture Fantasies: "Modern Furniture: 150 Years of Design" - EDGE Boston
Furniture Fantasies: "Modern Furniture: 150 Years of Design"
One of the world’s most revered design meccas, Vitra Design Museum, located in Germany a short ride from Basel, Switzerland, attracts architecture and furniture aficionados from around the world for its jaw-dropping collection by designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Alvar Aalto, Jean Prouvé, and numerous other modern masters of furniture flights of fancy.
If this summer doesn’t include a pilgrimage to the Vitra, then consider the next best thing: the monograph of modern furniture published by h.f.ullmann. The new trilingual, 720-page edition of "Modern Furniture: 150 Years of Design" is a sweeping retrospective of furniture design, ranging from an 1859 "bistro chair" to the latest design trends through 2011.
Organized in reverse chronological order, the five-pound tome is an encyclopedia of furniture pornography. Seductively photographed, the various chairs (as well as tables, chests, and other furniture fetishes) take on personalities as vivid as individuals - and particularly when aligned with brief texts (written in English, French, and German) that describe the composition and manufacturing process behind each anthropomorphic creation.
A coiled felt chair soaked in silicon from The Coiling Collection (2011) suggests an upholstered mushroom while a futurist "Hemp Chair" (2011) would fit in perfectly with "The Jetsons." Eileen Gray’s Transat chair (1927), named for trans-Atlantic ocean crossings, evokes the romance of cruise liners in the days before commercial aviation.
In flipping through "Modern Furniture: 150 Year of Design," design mavens and decor lovers might find themselves walking a fine line between temptation and torture. How to afford, for example, Tejo Remy’s "Chest of Drawers," which Dutch design firm Droog has produced since 1993 and which has sold for five-figure sums at auctions around the world? (Is it a comfort to know that one of Remy’s "Chest of Drawers" resides in the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art?)
And speaking of princely sums, what would one have to hock in order to obtain Josef Hoffman’s "Kubus" (1910), his cubic black leather chair, for one’s own office (or dungeon)?
The authors, Martin Wellner and Andrea Mehlhose (also known as Fremdkorpher), highlight the most significant developments in traditional furniture design while also featuring avant garde pieces.
For every piece by Aalto, Jacobsen, Panton, and Eames, there’s a lesser-known object such as Tom Dixon’s "S-Chair" (1989) looking like a sculpture by Brancusi. Or Alessandro Mendini’s "Proust" chair from 1978 looking as imposing as Gertrude Stein and every bit as lushly lapidary as Proust’s prose.
Essays on selected styles and themes, written by design experts, are interspersed throughout the book - as if to punctuate the lush photographs (and allow the reader pause from such covetous cravings).
Author Max Borka contributes a short history of design fairs, contending that "fairs are to design what museums are to art," which goes a long way in explaining how it is that Marc Newsom’s "Lockheed Lounge Chair" sold by Christie’s at auction is the singular most expensive design object.
No tome on modern furniture would be complete without commentary on Philippe Starck, whom Karianne Fogelberg terms "agent provocateur" for Starck’s trademark provocation and "complete disregard for rules." Perhaps as much as Arne Jacobsen during his lifetime, Starck has shaped our public spaces and the shapes into which we place our fannies.
And speaking of "The Jetsons," George and Judy would’ve loved Michel Feith’s polished gold tea trolley (1984) created from soldered sheet brass and powered by an electrical drive that enables the trolley to speed across the room by remote control. Imagine this little toy at your summer share on the Island.
And what about a sofa called "Newtone" (1989), created by the former comic book illustrator, Massimo Iosa Ghini, whose absinthe and Kryptonite green divan suggests Madame Recamier, as well as Joey Arias and Jessica Rabbit.
"Modern Furniture: 150 Years of Design" is filled with playful pieces that remind you anew that your home is your crib (or playhouse or country club) - and that free will enables you to furnish it according to your fantasy.
And for the true collector with deep pockets, "Modern Furniture" is nothing less than a bound wish list, populated with all the great work of the best masters of furniture design.
As a corollary to the adage, "You are what you eat," "Modern Furniture" posits the theory that in an increasingly design-obsessed world, who we are is where we sit.
Details:
Modern Furniture: 150 Years of Design
Author: Martin Wellner, Andrea Mehlhose, alias Fremdkorpher
Hardcover: 720 pages
Publisher: hf ULLMANN; Mul edition (April 27, 2012)
Language: English, French, German
ISBN-10: 384800030X
ISBN-13: 978-3848000302
Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.7 x 2 inches
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