19 juillet 2016

Cartier. Drawing of Snake-motif necklace. Cartier. Snake-motif necklace. Platinum, yellow diamond eyes, emeralds, briolette-cut beads, diamonds. Photo: Vincent Wulveryck © Cartier 2011

Cartier. Drawing of the necklace in the form of a serpent. Cartier. Necklace in the form of a serpent, paved with diamonds and set with two pear-cut emeralds of 205 and 206 carats.

Issey Miyake by Irving Penn.

David Orr, Unknown (shattered; reconstructed), 2015. Archival dye-infused aluminum disc, 30-inch diameter © 2016 David Orr PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Perfect Vessels, a new exhibition of 22 photographs by Los Angeles-based artist David Orr, is on view at The Mütter Museum from July 15, 2016 — January 5, 2017. Completed between 2014 and 2016, the work is inspired and in response to the preeminent museum of medical history’s collection of human skulls.  In Perfect Vessels, Orr explores aesthetic and... [Lire la suite]

Irving Penn, Issey Miyake Fashion: White and Black, New York, 1990, printed 1992, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation.

Vincent van Gogh. The Bedroom, 1889. Oil on canvas (73.6 x 92.3 cm (29 x 36 5/8 in.). The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum will present an installation of Vincent van Gogh’s tender and intimate Bedroom from 1889, a highlight of the Art Institute of Chicago’s superb 19th-century collection. A meditation on friendship, hope and crushing disappointment, Van Gogh’s Bedroom serves not only as a kind of self-portrait, but also as a symbol of the artist’s... [Lire la suite]

Issey Miyake by Irving Penn

Antler and Flower Photography by Kari Herer © Kari Herer   Antler and Flower Photography by Kari Herer © Kari Herer    Antler and Flower Photography by Kari Herer © Kari Herer    Antler and Flower Photography by Kari Herer © Kari Herer    Antler and Flower Photography by Kari Herer © Kari Herer 

Tile, fritware, glazed and painted in cobalt blue and lustre, Iran (probably Kashan), early 14th century. Width: 19.7 cm; 1508-1876 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2016. Tile in the shape of an eight-pointed star, fritware. The central field is decorated in reserve against a ground of golden-brown lustre. A smaller eight-pointed is drawn within the central field and surrounded by a circle which is outlined in blue. Simple leaf forms fill the outer and inner points of the star. A central compartment is formed by... [Lire la suite]

Tile, fritware, glazed and painted in cobalt blue and lustre, Iran (probably Kashan), early 14th century. Width: 20 cm; 1493A-1876 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2016. Tile in the shape of an eight-pointed star, fritware. A smaller eight-pointed is drawn within the central field and surrounded by a circle which is outlined in blue. Simple leaf forms fill the outer and inner points of the star, and the whole border area is coloured cobalt blue. Within the inner star, the field is decorated in reserve against a... [Lire la suite]