6 février 2014

  “Wave” by Mark Schneider (Long Beach, California) won the highest honor awarded to a design. "Wave" also won the Fashion Award.    “Obi” by Stanislav Drokin (Ukraine) won the Luster Award for “most marketable” of all the entries in the competition. This design will have the most overall appeal for the retail marketplace.    “Midnight Comet” by Darryl Alexander (Gilbert Arizona) won the Designer's Award for the entry that takes pearls to the far corners of the imagination and beyond.   ... [Lire la suite]

New world record price for a bronze sculpture by Salvador Dali set at Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale. Photo: Bonhams. LONDON.- Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale yesterday (4th February) has set a new world record for a Salvador Dali bronze sculpture among a number of outstanding results. A frenzy of international interest from the packed saleroom, online and on the telephones drove seven of the top ten lots to double, or even triple, their estimates. A great buzz from the telephone bidders set the tone:  ... [Lire la suite]

Constantin Brancusi, Tête d’enfant endormi, 1906-1907. Plaster, coloured dark brown, 10.8 x 13.6 x 15.2 cm. Private collection. ROTTERDAM.- A previously unknown sculpture by Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) can be seen in ‘Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray - Framing Sculpture’, the exhibition opening at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen on Saturday. The museum is especially delighted by the arrival of ‘Tête d’enfant endormie’ (Head of a Sleeping Child, 1906-07). This early sculpture is an important key work in Brancusi’s development of his... [Lire la suite]

Jean-Joseph Carriès (French, 1855–1894), Flask with face. Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, ca. 1890. Glazed stoneware. H. 15 1/2 in.; wt. confirmed: 9.5 lb. (39.4 cm, 4.3 kg). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Purchase, Acquisitions Fund; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and 2011 Benefit Fund, 2013 NEW YORK, NY.- Making Pottery Art: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of French Ceramics (ca. 1880-1910) celebrates the... [Lire la suite]