Giorgio Morandi

Jusqu'au 3 janvier 2021, Le musée Marmottan Monet propose une exposition intitulée « Cezanne et les maîtres. Rêve d’Italie ». Pour la première fois, le travail de l’Aixois sera mis en regard de chefs-d’œuvre des grands maîtres italiens, du XVIIe au XIXe siècle. Ainsi une remarquable sélection de toiles de Cezanne, parmi lesquelles l’iconique Montagne Sainte-Victoire, les incontournables Pastorale et natures-mortes, fera face à un rare ensemble de peintures anciennes signées Tintoret, Bassano, le Greco,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 28. Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), Natura morta (Still Life). Signed Morandi (lower right). Oil on canvas, 14⅞ by 17¾ in. (37.8 by 45.1 cm), Framed: 24¼ by 27 in. (61.5 by 68.5 cm). Painted in 1951. Estimate 1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD. Sold for 1,580,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's. NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s first-ever Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Online concluded yesterday afternoon, achieving $9.9 million. Attracting an average of 3.5 bidders for every lot sold, the auction... [Lire la suite]

PARIS - L’exposition Giorgio de Chirico. La peinture métaphysique retrace le parcours et les influences artistiques et philosophiques qui ont nourri l’artiste Giorgio de Chirico de Munich à Turin, puis à Paris où il découvre les avant-gardes picturales de son temps et enfin à Ferrare. De manière inédite, seront mis en lumière les liens du peintre, découvert par Apollinaire puis soutenu par le marchand Paul Guillaume, avec les cercles culturels et littéraires parisiens. Né en Grèce et formé dans le creuset de la culture... [Lire la suite]

Lot 5. Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), Natura morta, signed 'Morandi' (lower left), oil on canvas, 10 1/8 x 16 in. (25.7 x 40.6 cm.) Painted in 1955. Estimate USD 500,000 - USD 700,000. Price realised USD 1,695,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2019. Provenance: Acquired from the artist by the late owner, 19 June 1956. Exhibited: Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, October-December 1955, no. 201. Edinburgh, Ingleby... [Lire la suite]

Giorgio Morandi leafing through a art publication [detail]. Photo: Libero Grandi. © Giorgio Morandi, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2019 BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents A Backward Glance: Giorgio Morandi and the Old Masters . This survey of a great 20th-century Italian painter explores the relationships between his still lifes and some of his main art historical sources. This exhibition brings together, for the first time, an extensive selection of Morandi’s exceptional paintings and works by the Old Masters who... [Lire la suite]

MILAN.- Dedicated to offering the best of 20th century Italian art, Christie’s annual auction in Milan, now part of the Thinking Italian series aligned with the global Post-War and Contemporary sales, will take place on 3 and 4 of April. Highlighted by Lucio Fontana’s intense pink-red Concetto Spaziale, Attesa (estimate: €800,000 – 1,200,000), the sale features historical works by major icons such as Gino Severini, Alberto Boccioni, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani and Piero Manzoni, through to a group of contemporary... [Lire la suite]

Lot 15. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Fillette à la corbeille fleurie, signed ‘Picasso’ (upper right); signed again, dated and inscribed ‘Picasso 1905 13 Rue Ravignan’ (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 60 7/8 x 26 in. (154.8 x 66.1 cm.) Painted in 1905. Estimate On Request. Price realised USD 115,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018 The opening evening sale of works from The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller generated huge international interest, which resulted in new world auction... [Lire la suite]

Pierre Soulages (Rodez, 1919), Peinture, 2006. Acrylic on canvas, 181 x 128 cm (71.3 x 50.5 in.). Signed, titled and dated on verso upper right 'SOULAGES 181 x 128 cm 15 12 2016'. Galerie Karsten Greve © TEFAF 2018 Louise Bourgeois (Paris, 1911 - New York, 2010), Pregnant Woman II, Circa 1947-1949. Bronze with polished patina, 132 x 40.6 x 40.6 cm (52 x 16 x 16 in.). Stamped 'LB 4/6 MAF 04'. Galerie Karsten Greve © TEFAF 2018 Giorgio Morandi (1890 - Bologna -... [Lire la suite]

Francis Bacon, Three Studies for a Portrait, Oil on canvas, 1976, Estimate: £10,000,000-15,000,000. © Christie’s Images Limited 2018 LONDON.- Christie’s will offer The Eye of the Architect, a diverse collection of Modern and Post-War art, during ‘20th Century at Christie’s’, a series of sales that will take place in London from 20 February to 7 March 2018: Impressionist and Modern Art and The Art of the Surreal Evening Sales (both 27 February), Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale (28 February) and Post-War and... [Lire la suite]

Carlo Carrà, The Metaphysical Muse, 1917. Oil on canvas, 90 × 66 cm. © 2018 Pinacoteca di Brera. LONDON.- The Estorick opens its 20th anniversary year with a major exhibition of works from one of the world’s most important collections of modern Italian art, housed at Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera. Comprising paintings and sculptures donated to the museum by Emilio and Maria Jesi, it includes iconic images by Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini and Mario Sironi, an extraordinary nucleus of Metaphysical... [Lire la suite]