5 mars 2010

"Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John", by Sandro Botticelli (c1493-5). Tempera on panel, 47.6 x 38.1 cms. HELVOIRT.- An exquisitely beautiful study of the young Saint John kneeling in prayer before the Madonna and the infant Christ by Sandro Botticelli is to be offered for sale by the leading international art dealers Dickinson for a price in the region of US$15 million (€11.1 million) at TEFAF Maastricht. "Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John", sometimes known as the Rockefeller Madonna... [Lire la suite]

Photographer: Craig McDean - Models: Meghan Collison, Dorothea Barth Jörgensen, Yuri Pleskun, Nimue Smit, Lisanne de Jong, Jacquelyn Jablonski, Jenny Sinkaberg, Patricia van der Vliet, Nanou Vanderuys, Kate Kosushkina, Sara Blomqvist, Frey Mudd, Alexey, Ian, Kristina, Zachary

An employee poses for photographers as she walks past the ''ANT 93, Le Buffle (The Buffalo)'' painting from 1960-61 by French artist Yves Klein at Christie's auction house in London March 4, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will offer a large-scale masterpiece by Yves Klein at the auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York on the evening of 11 May 2010. ANT 93, Le Buffle (“The Buffalo”), 1960-61, is a monumental work from the artist’s celebrated Anthropométrie series that stands over 9... [Lire la suite]