Painting of Picasso's pregnant lover sells for £8.5m
The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale at Christie's realised £92,583,550 ($145,541,340, 114,618,435 euros) in total with the 1949 Picasso work topping the public lots after going under the hammer for £8,553,250.
Gilot was aged 21 when she met Picasso, then 61, in a restaurant in the spring of 1943.
The couple never married but had two children together. Their son, Claude, was born in 1947 while Paloma was born in 1949.
The evening's most anticipated work, Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 1888 'Baigneuse', was sold privately before the auction.
'Les jours gigantesques' by Rene Magritte smashed pre-sale expectations after selling for £7,209,250, the second highest price for the artist at auction.
"There were particularly notable prices for Surrealist works, reflecting the current fervour for this field," said Jay Vincze, Christie's International Director.
"These were led by Magritte's 'Les jours gigantesques' which sparked a fierce battle between 10 bidders and which sold for almost five times its high estimate," he added.
There were also artist records set for Italian painter and printmaker Giorgio Morandi and German painter Kurt Schwitters.
Source: news.ph.msn.com
Joan Miro painting smashes auction record - BBC News
Joan Miro's 1927 work Peinture (Etoile Bleue) has sold for more than £23.5 million in London, setting a new auction record for the Spanish painter.
An anonymous telephone bidder saw off three rivals at the Sotheby's sale.
The abstract work has tripled in price since it was last sold in 2007 and fetched the highest price reached at a London auction so far this year.
The previous auction record for a Miro was £16.8m, set when his 1925 work Painting-Poem sold in February.
Peinture (Etoile Bleue) - which translates as Painting (Blue Star) - hails from Miro's 'dream paintings' cycle and had been expected to fetch no more than £15m.
According to Sotheby's Helena Newman, the high figure reflected the current "unprecedented demand" for the best of 20th Century art.
The second highest price at Tuesday's event was fetched by Pablo Picasso's Homme Assis, which sold for £6.2m.
A Henry Moore sculpture, Mother and Child With Apple, was one of the night's other star performers, raising well above its pre-sale forecast of £3.7m.
The auction was the first in a busy week for fine art sales in London, which continues on Wednesday at Christie's.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Painting Nature's Spirit at The Gallery, Chard - Chard & Ilminster News
Painting Nature's Spirit at The Gallery, Chard
8:00am Wednesday 20th June 2012 in What's On By Jamie Brooks
PAINTING Nature’s Spirit is the theme of the latest exhibition on show at The Gallery Café Bar and Bistro in Chard this month.
Gwyn Ardyth’s art explores the visible and invisible realms of the woodland landscape in a bid to convey a sense of the mystical and the wild, the untamed and vibrant life force in these ecosystems.
Gwyn, Californian by birth, now lives in Somerset, where she finds endless inspiration for paintings and photos with woods filled with the sound and scent of dripping rain, reflecting pools, damp earth, creaking branches, shadows, and shifting sunlight.
Having previously studied art in California, New York and England, Gwyn achieved an HND in Fine Art at Weston College, Somerset in 2003 and a BA (Hons) Degree in Drawing and Applied Art at the University of the West of England, Bristol in 2006.
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Source: www.chardandilminsternews.co.uk
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