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*MADRID, PALACIO DE GAVIRIA* *5 October 2018 – 24 February 2019* This coming 5 October Arthemisia opens a new exhibition to the public at Palacio de Gaviria. On view through 24 February 2019, the first survey show in Madrid dedicated to Tamara de Lempicka includes a selection of around 200 works coming from over 40 private collections, museums and lenders worldwide. [image: Cover_Mostra_TDL MADRID] The exhibition in Madrid contextualises Lempicka’s art practice within a carefully designed and immersive mise en scène, in which the artworks are arranged in spaces decorated with… more »

*TURIN, MUSEI REALI* *Sale Palatine della Galleria Sabauda* *16 November 2018 – 17 March 2019* A unique exhibition on Anthony van Dyck, the great Flemish painter who revolutionized 17th-century portraiture, opens in Turin. [image: Cover_VD] Marchesa Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo; On 16 November 2018 an extraordinary show devoted to Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp, 1599–London, 1641) opened to the public, in the Sale Palatine of the Galleria Sabauda at the Musei Reali in Turin. Van Dyck was Rubens’ star pupil and one of the greatest exponents of 17th-century European art, revolutionizing… more »

* February 15 , 2019 to May 19 , 2019 * A new exhibition celebrates the Morgan Library & Museum’s extensive collection of Italian Drawings , exploring how the concept of disegno ( a w ord that means both “drawing” and “design ” ) emphasized the artist’s creative power and fundamentally changed Italian Renaissance art. Giovanni Agostino da Lodi (active ca. 1467 – ca. 1524), Head of a Youth Facing Left, ca. 1500, red chalk on paper. The Morgan Library & Museum, 1973.35:2, Gift of János Scholz. Photography by Steven H. Crossot, 2014. Opening February 15, Invention and Design : Ea… more »

– *January 25, 2019–April 7, 2019* *Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa* – *June 3, 2019–August 9, 2019* *David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park* – *October 6, 2019–December 6, 2019* *Clark Atlanta University Art Museum* – *January 17, 2020–May 10, 2020* *Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn* John Wilson, Compositional study for *The Incident*, 1952. Opaque and transparent watercolor, ink, and graphite, squared for transfer. Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund. Art © Estate of John Wilson/… more »

*Yale Art Gallery* *June 29, 2018–October 7, 2018* Leonardo da Vinci, *The Annunciation* (detail), ca. 1475–79. Oil on panel. Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. no. M.I. 598. Photo: Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF), Jean-Louis Bellec Leonardo da Vinci, *The Annunciation*, ca. 1475–79. Oil on panel. Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. no. M.I. 598. Photo: Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF), Jean-Louis Bellec This landmark exhibition investigates a virtually unknown period in the career of Leonardo da Vinci, one of the most famou… more »

* Strawberry Hill house* *20 October 2018 through 24 February 2019. * Good review with images For the first time in 176 years, pieces from Horace Walpole’s collection return to Strawberry Hill house in Twickenham, along the banks of the Thames west of London, England. The Lewis Walpole Library, 154 Main Street Farmington, Connecticut 06032 has hosted curators from Strawberry Hill as Fellows in Farmington to research Walpole’s collection and pick up where Lewis and LWL curators have left off on tracking down the lost and not-so-lost treasures with which Walpole filled his “l… more »

*Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Houston* *through Feb. 6, 2019. * * An American View Revisited: The Hosek Collection of American Art* is the second time the museum has showcased the extensive collection of Howard (Chip) Hosek, Jr. Originally exhibited at the Pearl during the fall of 2009, the Hosek Collection has continued to expand as the Texan collector has pursued his passion to collect works of art that hold a special interest to him and present the American story. [image: Image result] The Hosek Collection, which initially concentrated on American Art from 1850-1950, … more »

*ASTI, PALAZZO MAZZETTI* *27 September 2018 – 3 February 2019* Marc Chagall: his expressive and colourful style, his life and his traditions, in a major exhibition bringing over one hundred and fifty works to Asti’s Palazzo Mazzetti opening 27 September. [image: Cover_Mostra_Chagall] From 27 September 2018 to 3 February 2019, Asti will welcome the elegant and utopian world of Marc Chagall, with paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings. It is a world full of wonder and amazement; artworks in which childhood memories, fairy tales, poetry, religion and war coexist; a univers… more »

*Louvre* *October 18, 2018–January 14, 2019* *In a pioneering miscellany of 120 prints preserved in the most significant Parisian collections (Edmond de Rothschild collection, Musée du Louvre; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Fondation Custodia; École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts), as well as loans from French museums (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon) and institutions abroad (British Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Rijksmuseum), this exhibition retraces one particular technique and aesthetic approach in the realm of printmaking: chiaroscuro printmaking, also known as color woo… more »

* J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center* *December 11, 2018 – April 28, 2019* *The Head of a Young Man*, about 1539 – 1540, Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) (Italian, 1503 – 1540). Pen and brown ink. 16 × 10.5 cm (6 5/16 × 4 1/8 in.). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles During the Italian Renaissance—the period from about 1475 to 1600 that is often seen as the foundation of later European art—drawing became increasingly vital to the artistic process just as it grew dramatically more sophisticated in technique and conception. Today, Italian Renaissance drawings are considered some… more »

Next March, Tate Britain will open a major exhibition about Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). *The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain* will be the first exhibition to take a new look at the artist through his relationship with Britain. It will explore how Van Gogh was inspired by British art, literature and culture throughout his career and how he in turn inspired British artists, from Walter Sickert to Francis Bacon. Bringing together the largest group of Van Gogh paintings shown in the UK for nearly a decade, *The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain *will include over 45 works by th… more »

xx Jheronimus Bosch, De Aanbidding der Koningen, ca. 1475. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York *On 1 December 2018, Het Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch will open the exhibition From Bosch’s Stable. Hieronymus Bosch and The Adoration of the Magi. Just two years after the successful exhibition Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of a Genius in the spring of 2016, the museum is once again bringing work by the world-famous Den Bosch master himself back to the city where he lived, worked and then died in 1516. The loan is exceptional: throughout the world, there remain only about 25 or… more »

*Kunsthaus Zürich **14 December 2018 – 10 March 2019* The Kunsthaus Zürich presents Oskar Kokoschka – Expressionist, migrant and pacifist – in the first retrospective of his work in Switzerland for 30 years. The highlight among the more than 200 exhibits is the monumental ‘Prometheus Triptych’, which has never before been seen in Switzerland. Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) is, along with Francis Picabia and Pablo Picasso, one of a generation of artists who retained their allegiance to figurative painting after the Second World War, even as abstract art was consolidating its predomina… more »

Clark Art Institute December 15, 2018–March 10, 2019 Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851) and John Constable (English, 1776–1837) rose to prominence as landscape artists in early nineteenth-century Britain. Their inspired subjects, their distinctive compositions, and their innovative brushwork combined to elevate a genre traditionally considered less important than history painting and portraiture. *Turner and Constable: The Inhabited Landscape*, on view at the Clark Art Institute December 15, 2018–March 10, 2019, explores the significance of human figures and the built… more »

*Palazzo Ducale, Venice, September 7–January 6, 2019National Gallery of Art, Washington, March 10–July 7, 2019* *Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice*, the first retrospective of the artist in North America, features nearly 50 paintings and more than a dozen works on paper spanning the artist’s entire career. Included in the rich selection of domestic and international loans are works ranging from regal portraits of Venetian aristocracy to religious and mythological narrative scenes. In addition, *Tintoretto *will explore the artist’s working methods. The exhibition curators … more »

*Exhibition Dates:* October 16, 2018–January 27, 2019 *Exhibition Location:* The Met Fifth Avenue, Floor 1, Gallery 955 Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/19–1594) was one of the preeminent Venetian painters of the 16th century and was renowned for his dynamic narrative scenes and insightful portraits. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the artist’s birth, The Met will present *Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings*. This focused exhibition will unite 21 works from European and American museums and private collections, bringing them into a larger discussio… more »

*Clark Art Institute * *December 1, 2018 – March 17, 2019* inSharAlthough Thomas Gainsborough English, 1727–1788) is widely recognized as one of the most fashionable portrait painters of the eighteenth century, a new installation at the *Clark Art Institute* provides an opportunity to study the artist’s landscape drawings, working methods and imaginative approach to representing nature. *Thomas Gainsborough: Drawings at the Clark, on view from December 1, 2018 – March 17, 2019,* marks the first time that the Clark’s entire collection of rarely exhibited Gainsborough drawings will be… more »

*Dallas Museum of Art* *November 18, 2018 to February 24, 2019* Image: Ida O’Keeffe, *Variation on a Lighthouse Theme II*, c. 1933, Private Collection The Dallas Museum of Art announced today the presentation of *Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow*, an exhibition that will premiere at the DMA as the first venue of a national tour. The exhibition will showcase for the first time approximately 40 paintings, watercolors, prints and drawings, to be supplemented with photographs of the artist taken by Alfred Stieglitz in the 1920s. Although she was an artist recognized as art… more »

Venice is celebrating one of her most famous sons, the great painter Jacopo Tintoretto, born 500 years ago, with a series of outstanding exhibitions: at the Doges’ Palace, at the Academia Galleries, at *Scuola Grande San Rocco* and at *Scuola Grande San Marco-September 6th 2018 until January 6th, 2019.* Scuola Grande San Marco used to be the seat of a powerful benevolent lay organization, that during the centuries accumulated a striking art collection. Today this magnificent early Renaissance building, a 10 minutes’ walk from St Mark’s Square, is the seat of Venice’s major hospi… more »

*Alte Pinakothek * * 18.10.2018 ‐ 27.01.2019* With some 120 masterpieces, the show presents the groundbreaking artistic innovations at the birthplace of the Renaissance. A comprehensive selection of exquisite panel paintings, sculptures and drawings transports visitors back to the time of the Medici and traces the development of the art in the modern age, from its beginnings with Giotto’s work to Leonardo da Vinci’s creations. [image: Image result] Filippino Lippi Bildnis eines jungen Mannes, um 1485 © Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collectio… more »

*Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Wniston-Salem, NC* *Feb. 15 – May 13* [image: Edward Hopper, The Camel’s Hump, 1931, oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 50 1/4 in., Edward W. Root Bequest, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, 57.160. Photographer: John Bigelow Taylor and Diane Dubler] Edward Hopper, *The Camel’s Hump,* 1931, oil on canvas, 32 1/4 x 50 1/4 in., Edward W. Root Bequest, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, 57.160. Photographer: John Bigelow Taylor and Diane Dubler inShare Works of art from nearly every major Ameri… more »

*Cleveland Museum of Art* *November 18, 2018, to January 21, 2019* This unique set of eight hangings was almost certainly commissioned in the 1570s by Catherine de’ Medici, the indomitable queen mother of France, to celebrate the future of the Valois dynasty as continuing rulers of France. Juxtaposing the hangings with paintings, drawings and exquisite art objects of the period, the exhibition explores the tapestries’ role as an artistic and political statement involving two of the most powerful European dynasties of the Renaissance—the Valois and the Medici—and their respective p… more »

—————————— Freeman’s winter American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists auction features works of art by distinguished American artists including Martin Lewis (1881-1962), Milton Avery (1885-1965), Joseph Stella (1877-1946) and William Glackens (1870-1938), as well as Pennsylvania Impressionists Fern Coppedge (1883-1951), Edward Redfield (1869-1965) and Daniel Garber (1880-1958). Anchored by two quintessential works by two generations of Wyeths (Newell Convers, 1882-1945, and Andrew, 1917-2009), the sale also includes several fine groupings of paintings, such as … more »

*Museum der Moderne Salzburg * *10 November 2018―17 February 2019* The prints of Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn, AT, 1886―Montreux, CH, 1980) occupy a prominent position in his output. He first explored the technique while studying art in turn-of-the-century Vienna; over the years, and especially in the final decades of his long life, he built a sizable graphic oeuvre. The Museum der Moderne Salzburg possesses an exceptionally comprehensive collection of Kokoschka’s prints and has repeatedly mounted presentations of selections from this treasure since it was established. *Oskar Kok… more »

Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition *Max Weber: Becoming Modern*. Spanning the years 1905-1930, the paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures that make up the exhibition will explore Weber’s transformation from art student to arbiter of the avant-garde. *Two Sisters*, ca. 1910, watercolor on paper, 12 1/2 x 8 inches Weber arrived in Paris in 1905 and enrolled at the Academie Colarossi, pursuing a traditinoal, academic course of study. He left Paris four years later an avant-garde artist, an acolyte of Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne, and Rousseau… more »

[image: Image result] René Magritte’s masterpiece *Le Lieu Commun*, 1964 (estimate: £15,000,000-25,000,000), one of the finest and largest examples of his iconic bowler-hatted men, will lead Christie’s *The Art of the Surreal *Evening Sale on 27 February 2019. Never before offered at auction, and poised to set a new world auction record for the artist, the work offers a unique vision of the wandering icon in that it offers a view of the figure both full-face and hidden behind a column in an ambiguous landscape of either impossible or multiple reality. The large scale (39 3/8 x 3… more »

*Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza * *25 October 2018 to 27 January 2019 * *CaixaForum’s exhibition space in Barcelona, * *21 February to 26 May 2019.* The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting Beckmann. Exile figures, the first exhibition in Spain in twenty years to be devoted to the a rtist, one of the most important of the 20 th century. While close to New Objectivity at the outset o f his career, Max Beckmann (Leipzig, 1884 – New York, 1950) created a unique and independent ty pe of painting, realist in style but filled with symbolic resonances, which came to consti… more »

This exhibition is the first ever devoted to the relationship between two of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance: Giovanni Bellini (active about 1459–1516) and Andrea Mantegna (1430/1–1506). Through exceptionally rare loans of paintings, drawings, and sculpture, travelling to London from across the world, ‘Mantegna and Bellini’ offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compare the work of these two important artists who also happened to be brothers-in-law – a family connection from which both drew strength and brilliance throughout their careers. Neither’s career or … more »

*The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 199 * *April 24–July 30, 2017 * The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major retrospective of the photographs of Irving Penn to mark the centennial of the artist’s birth. Over the course of his nearly 70-year career, Irving Penn (1917–2009) mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous attention to composition, nuance, detail, and printmaking. *Irving Penn: Centennial*, opening April 24, 2017, will be the most comprehensive exhibition of the great American photographer’s work to date and… more »

[image: Two Comedians, 1965 – Edward Hopper] Sotheby’s has announced that Edward Hopper’s *Two Comedians* will lead the American Art Auction in New York on 16 November 2018 (estimate $12/18 million). Painted in 1966, *Two Comedians* ranks among the most poignant and personal works in Hopper’s celebrated oeuvre. Evocative of many of the most important themes in Hopper’s body of 2work, this seminal painting is distinguished further by its notable provenance: it was acquired by Frank and Barbara Sinatra in 1972, and remained in their collection until it was purchased by the current o… more »

Today more perhaps than at any time since Caspar David Friedrich’s death almost 180 years ago, his sublime and timeless landscapes are being appreciated by artists and public alike.The artistic embodiment of landscape painting of the Romantic era, Friedrich strove to express mood and meaning through nature, his aesthetic informed by his Protestant upbringing and the idea of divine creation manifesting itself in the natural world. On 12 December in London, Sotheby’s will offer two landscapes by Friedrich, each work a distillation ofthe artist’s search for deeper meaning within the … more »

*Frans Hals Museum*13th October 2018 – 24th February 2019Hals meets Manet, Singer, Sargent, Van Gogh Frans Hals was rediscovered as a modern idol two hundred years after his death. He was admired, even adored by late 19th-century artists such as Édouard Manet, Max Liebermann and Vincent van Gogh. They were all impressed by his loose touch and rough painting style, which came across as ‘Impressionist’. This exhibition shows Frans Hals’s immense impact on these modern painters. For the first time, paintings by the famous 17th-century portrait painter are being shown alongside reactio… more »

*National Gallery London * *5 November 2018 – 10 February 2019 * “Lotto was the first Italian painter who was sensitive to the varying status of the human soul. Never before or since has anyone brought out on the face more of the inner life….” Bernard Berenson, art historian, 1895 In autumn 2018 the National Gallery will stage the first-ever exhibition of portraits by the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto. Lorenzo Lotto Portraits will bring together many of Lotto’s best portraits spanning his entire career from collections around the world. [image: Lorenzo Lotto, ‘Portrait o… more »

*Tate Liverpool* *3 NOVEMBER 2018 – 17 MARCH 2019* *VAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern * *2 May to 15 September 2019.* Tate Liverpool presents the first major UK exhibition in 30 years of renowned modern artist Fernand Léger (1881–1955). *Fernand Léger: New Times, New Pleasures* brings together more than 50 paintings from across Europe, including many never before seen in the UK. Featuring abstract and figurative paintings, drawings, a large-scale mural, films, graphic design, books and textiles, the exhibition explores how Léger redefined the value of art to 20th century … more »

*Fairfield University – Walsh Gallery, Quick Center for the Arts * * October 26 – December 15, 2018 * Born in Damascus, raised in Saudi Arabia, and educated in the Midwestern U.S., artist and architect Mohamad Hafez explores the impact of the political turmoil of the Middle East through hyper-realistic streetscapes crafted from found objects, paint, and scrap metal. Architectural in appearance yet politically charged in content, his miniaturized tableaus are alternately nostalgic, charming, and deeply painful. Mohamad Hafez: Collateral Damage features a selection of work across m… more »

*Milwaukee Art Museum * *February 15 through May 12, 2019* *Memphis Brooks Museum of Art * *June 22 to September 22, 2019* *San Diego Museum of Art,* * November 9, 2019, to March 15, 2020* [image: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905) Admiration, 1897. Oil on canvas, 58 × 78 in. San Antonio Museum of Art, bequest of Mort D. Goldberg,] William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905) *Admiration,* 1897. Oil on canvas, 58 × 78 in. San Antonio Museum of Art, bequest of Mort D. Goldberg, (Photography by Roger Fry) inShare The work of French academic painter *William-Adolphe… more »

*Lower Belvedere, Vienna: * *23.03 – 26.08.2018* *BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels: * *21.09.2018 – 20.01.2019* Exactly one hundred years on from their deaths, the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele are still big names on the international art scene. The exhibition Beyond Klimt doesn’t just present the late work of these great masters, it gives visitors the chance to familiarise themselves with the international avant- garde movements – surrealism, expressionism, new realism, constructivism, Bauhaus etc. – which flourished after WWI in the young national states… more »

11.10.18 – 17.02.19 On display at Palazzo Blu in Pisa the most important surrealist works by great artists as Salvador Dalì, René Magritte and Marchel Duchamp*From 11 October 2018 to 17 February 2019* Great expectations for the next exhibition scheduled at *Palazzo Blu in Pisa* which, from 11th October 2018 to 17th February 2019, will host *’From Magritte to Duchamp. 1929: the great surrealism from the Centre Pompidou’*. On display, for the first time in Italy, more than 90 works including paintings, collages, installations, sculptures and photographs by the famous National Center f… more »

*Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien * *10 October 2018 – 20 January 2019 * The autumn exhibition of the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien 2018 is devoted to “Japomanie” – the passion of the West for the aesthetics and world of images of the Far East. It traces how the fascination for the exotic and the new developed, from its beginnings in the 1860s until long after the turn of the century, and includes both its amalgamation into the vocabulary of forms of Western painting as well as the influence of its aesthetics on the development of Modernism around 1900. As early as the 1860s the elegant… more »

Christie’s announced a prestigious collection of Hudson River School paintings from the Collection of Kevin and Barrie Landry will be offered in the American Art sale on November 20 in New York. One of the finest groupings of Hudson River School artists to appear on the market in decades, all sale proceeds will benefit philanthropies that support the global refugee crisis, UNICEF USA, RefugePoint, and The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. Inspired by their love for America the couple were drawn to the Hudson River School artists who celebrated nature, discovery, exp… more »

* Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid * *10/9/2018 – 1/27/2019* Bartolomé Bermejo was one of the most fascinating figures within Spanish art of the second half of the 15th century. Bringing together a remarkable group of paintings from Spanish, European and American museums, the Prado is able to present this survey exhibition, which has been organized with the collaboration of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and, for the first time, allows for an appreciation of the technical virtuosity and distinctive visual universe of this Cordovan painter active in the Kingdom of Aragon. … more »

* New Orleans Museum of Art * * October 26, 2018 through January 27, 2019* In celebration of the city of New Orleans’ Tricentennial in 2018, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will present *The Orléans Collection*, an exhibition of selections from the magnificent collection of the city’s namesake, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674-1723). Universally praised during his lifetime, the exceptional collection was comprised of some of the most important works in the history of art. On view from October 26, 2018 through January 27, 2019, *The Orléans Collection* will bring together, fo… more »

*Van Gogh Museum * *5 October 2018 to 13 January 2019* *Gauguin & Laval in Martinique is the first ever exhibition devoted to a crucial, but up until now neglected period in the artistic career of Paul Gauguin: the four months that he spent in Martinique in 1887, together with Charles Laval. The colourful, innovative artworks that the two friends created on the island proved to have a huge impact on their artistic development and future careers.* *Gauguin & Laval in Martinique* unites a large number of the paintings, drawings and sketches that the two French artists created on the … more »

*J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center * *October 30, 2018 – January 27, 2019* *Royal Academy of Art in London* *March 3 through June 2, 2019.* Drawing inspiration from classical sculpture and the study of the live model, Renaissance artists made the nude central to their art, creating lifelike, vibrant, and varied representations of the human body. This transformative moment is one that would shape the course of European art history and resonate through the present day. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum October 30, 2018 through January 27, 2019, *The Renaissance Nud… more »

Städel Museum) *19 September 2018 to 17 March 2019* After its launch at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, the exhibition will travel to the Berlinische Galerie, where it will be complemented with, among others, works created by Lotte Laserstein while in exile. —————————— *From 19 September 2018 to 17 March 2019*, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main presents a comprehensive solo exhibition with works by the painter Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993). Laserstein’s oeuvre is one of the great recent art historical rediscoveries and features sensitive and com… more »

*Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey,* *Oct. 13, 2018-Jan. 6, 2019* * Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts* *Feb. 2-May 5, 2019* *Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas * *May 25-Sept. 9, 2019* *. * Charles Willson Peale. *The Artist in His Museum*. 1822.Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Gift of Mrs. Sarah Harrison (The Joseph Harrison, Jr. Collection), 1878.1.2. *Significance: *The story of our changing relationship with the natural world will be comprehensively told through this groundbreaking exhibition encompassing three c… more »

Dulwich Picture Gallery In autumn 2018, Dulwich Picture Gallery will present *Ribera: Art of Violence*, the first UK show dedicated to the Spanish Baroque painter, draughtsman and printmaker Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652), bringing together his most sensational and shocking works. A selection of eight monumental canvases will be displayed alongside exceptional drawings and prints exploring the powerful theme of violence in Ribera’s art. Showcasing 45 works, the exhibition will be arranged thematically, examining his arresting depictions of saintly martyrdom and mythological violen… more »

*Rijksmuseum* * 12 October 2018 to 20 January 201 * This year is the 450th anniversary of the outbreak of the Eighty Years’ War, and to mark the event the Rijksmuseum is holding an exhibition entitled ’80 Years’ War. The Birth of the Netherlands’. From 12 October 2018 to 20 January 2019, satirical cartoons, items of clothing, weapons and paintings by Bruegel, Rubens and Ter Borch will be our ‘eyewitnesses’, telling the story of how the Dutch nation was born. *In a contemporary exhibition created by the Flemish stage designer Roel van Berckelaer, the Rijksmuseum will show how th… more »

Museo Picasso Málaga’ 9 Oct. 2018 – 3 Feb. 2019 Museo Picasso Málaga’s exhibition *Picasso’s South. Andalusian References* takes a look at the history of Spanish art by displaying works by Picasso alongside valuable archaeological artefacts and paintings by great masters such as Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo, Goya, María Blanchard and Juan Gris, amongst others. This ambitious show moves from Iberian art through Classical Antiquity, and ends with the modern art of Picasso’s own contemporaries. ​*Picasso’s South. Andalusian References* provides a synthesis of *Spanish art history*,… more »

* Oklahoma City Museum of Art* *October 13, 2018 – January 6, 2019* *Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL * *February 9–May 5, 2019* *Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA* *June 13–September 8, 2019* *San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX* *October 10, 2019 – January 5, 2020* *Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT* *February 13–May 10, 2020* *Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV* *June 20–September 13, 2020* *The Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA* *October 29, 2020–January 24, 2021* Kate Elizabeth Bunce, *Musica*, ca. 1895–97, Oil on canvas, 40 3/16 x 30 3/16 x 1 3/4 in… more »

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CaliforniaOct 28, 2018 – Jan 27, 2019 Above: George Forster, *Still Life with Fruit and Nest, *1869. Oil on panel, 16 ½ × 12 ½ in., Crocker Art Museum, Judith G. and Steaven K. Jones Collection. The Crocker Art Museum has announced the October 28 opening of “American Beauty and Bounty,” an exhibition of 19th-century American paintings that are as treasured for their aesthetic as for their national importance. The exhibition features 27 works from an iconic, private collection of pastoral landscapes, masterfully painted still lifes, and narrative genr… more »

* Xavier Hufkens * *6 rue St-Georges | St-Jorisstraat, Brussels,* *26 October—8 December 2018* Three years after the gallery’s first exhibition of portraits by the American painter Alice Neel (1900—1984), Xavier Hufkens is delighted to present a different facet of her oeuvre: the landscapes, still lifes and portraits that she made in the rural surroundings of Spring Lake and Vermont. The paintings provide an intimate insight into the artist’s personal world and reveal the delight she took in the simple pleasures of life, away from the daily grind of New York. Alice Neel is con… more »

50 masterpieces from the world-renowned collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, following their presentation at Palazzo Reale in Milan. Claude Monet,* Japanese Footbridge, Giverny*, 1895, oil on canvas, 78.7×97.8 Gift of F. Otto Haas, and partial gift of the reserved life interest of Carole Haas Gravagno, 1993-151-2. The exhibition spans a period of 90 years of artistic development, from the late 19th to the 20th century, including canonical artists of European art such as Pierre Bonnard, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí, Edgar… more »

*The Lamp implies that although Olga was chatelaine of Boisgeloup, Marie-Thé**rè**se, wreathed in tendrils of philodendron, was queen of the sculpture studio**’* —John Richardson [image: Image result] PABLO PICASSO, *La Lampe*, oil on canvas, Painted in Boisgeloup, 21 January-8 June 1931, $25,000,000-35,000,000. Christie’s will offer Pablo Picasso’s *La Lampe, *1931 ($25-35 million) as a central highlight of its Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on 11 November in New York. The golden light from the lamp’s scarlet flame bares a closely guarded secret, known in early 1931 t… more »

– *Hamburger Bahnhof * – *12 Oct 2018 – 3 Mar 20**19* Exhibition Overview —————————— [image: Image result] *Otto Mueller, Self Portrait with Pentagram, around 1924 * From Berlin to Wrocław: for the first time an exhibition addresses the huge artistic influence of Die Brücke painter and German expressionist Otto Mueller (1874–1930). As a mentor for a younger generation, he taught for more than 10 years at the State Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts in Wrocław, which in the 1920s was regarded as one of Europe’s most progressive art schools. Here, the … more »

Two portraits of Charles I’s eldest children – the eleven year- old Prince of Wales, (later King Charles II), and his nine year- old sister Mary, the Princess Royal, (later, the mother of the future king, William III) will be among the highlight s of Sotheby’s London Old Master Evening sale on 5 December. [image: Image result] Sir Anthony Van Dyck, *Portrait of Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange*, 1641 Oil on canvas Estimate: £ 600,000 – 800,000 [image: Image result] Sir Anthony Van Dyck, *Portrait of Charles II, when Prince of Wales *, 1641 Oil on canvas Estimate: … more »

‘Astonishing for its overarching quality’ — The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection On the 6 and 7 of December in London, Christie’s will offer almost 400 lots from the celebrated Dutch collection of Eric Albada Jelgersma, including a pair of portraits by Frans Hals which are considered to be the finest left in private hands The top lot of the sale is a pair of portraits by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals (1580/5-1666). Dating from 1637, when the artist was at the pinnacle of his fame and fortune, the works depict an unidentified couple thought to be a prosperous Dutch merc… more »

Sotheby’s announced a few more works in its World War I-themed sale within a sale, The Beautiful and Damned. Today’s announcement includes an Oskar Kokoschka and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner work. Each work is being restituted and will be sold with an estimate of between $15 and $20m. Sotheby’s is honored to announce that two Modern masterworks recently restituted to the heirs of art-world luminary Alfred Flechtheim will highlight *theirImpressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale* in New York on 12 November 2018. Among the finest examples by their respective artists ever to appear at auction… more »

Working with prominent gallerists and auction house specialists, the Klappers steadily acquired important examples of Old Master paintings, Impressionist, and Modern art. The couple carefully curated their assemblage to focus on the very best by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Jean Arp, Claude Monet, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas. [image: Image result] Leading the collection is Claude Monet’s *L’escalier à Vétheuil, *1881 ($12-18 million) – *pictured left*. With its extraordinary profusion of flowers and foliage, th… more »

David Hockney’s large-scale painting Montcalm Interior with 2 Dogs from 1988, a highly regarded period within the artist’s career, will highlight their Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on 14 November 2018. The work comes to auction from the collection of legendary television producer and writer Steven Bochco, who acquired it in 1997, and appears at auction for the first time this fall with an estimate of $9/12 million. Jacqueline Wachter, Sotheby’s Vice President of Private Sales, Contemporary Art, said: “We are thrilled to present this dynamic Los Angeles interio… more »

*Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna* *October 2, 2018 to January 13, 2019* [image: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30 Breugel or Antwerp? – 1569 Brussels) View of the Bay of Naples c. 1563?, panel, 42.2 × 71.2 cm Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphilj © Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphilj] Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30 Breugel or Antwerp? – 1569 Brussels*) View of the Bay of Naples *c. 1563?, panel, 42.2 × 71.2 cm Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphilj © Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphilj inShare From October 2 to January 13, 2019, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna presents the first-ever majo… more »

Neue Galerie New YorkUntil January 21, 2019 Musée de l’Orangerie March 6 to June 17, 2019 “Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909-1914” is an exhibition that explores the life and work of two German artists and the power of their friendship. In the four years prior to Macke’s death in 1914 (Marc himself died in 1916), they wrote each other scores of letters, visited each other’s homes, traveled together, and often discussed the development of their work. They shared ideas about art, and through their innovations helped create the movement known as Expressionism in early twentieth-century… more »

*Pinakothek der Moderne Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München * * 13.10.2018 ‐ 06.01.2019* It was in monumental painting that Italian art reached its apogee. Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling and ‘Last Judgement’, the frescoes of Raphael, Pietro da Cortona and Tiepolo are among the most memorable creations of the human imagination. One of the earliest exponents of Italian monumental art was Andrea Mantegna, among whose major works is the ‘Triumph of Caesar’, made up of ten, large-scale panels which were originally mounted on one wall. [image: Image result] Mantegna … more »

The Holburne Museum*October 5, 2018 – January 20, 2019 * Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Linley the elder, c. 1770, oil on canvas, 76.5 x 63.5, DPG140. By Permission of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. By bringing together some of Thomas Gainsborough’s finest portraits of his friends in the theatre, this exhibition will create a conversation between the leading actors, managers, musicians, playwrights, designers, dancers and critics of the 1760s-80s. Gainsborough & the Theatre explores themes of celebrity, naturalism, performance and friendship through some of the most touching… more »

*The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia* * Oct. 19, 2018-Jan. 27, 2019* [image: Untitled (University of Virginia), 1912-1914, Georgia O’Keeffe, Watercolor on paper 11 7/8 x 9 (30.16 x 22.86), Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Gift of The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation (2006.05.614), © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum] This rare exhibition explores Georgia O’Keeffe’s watercolor studies produced during her time at the University of Virginia (UVA) and will include several key sketches and paintings as well as other works demonstrating her developing style. While in Charlottesville in th… more »

On 11 November, *Le bassin aux nymphéas* will be offered in the *Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale* at Christie’s in New York. [image: Le bassin aux nymphéas – Claude Monet.jpg] Claude Monet's (1840-1926), *Le bassin aux nymphéas*, 1917-19. Oil on canvas. 39 3/4 x 79 in (100.7 x 200.8 cm) Estimate: $30,000,000-50,000,000. On 24 June 2008 *Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas*, sold for almost £41 million at Christie's in London, almost double the estimate of £18 to £24 million.I do not have long to live, and I must dedicate all my time to painting,’ wrote Claude Monet in a 1918 letter… more »

‘*Between the winter of 1886 and the summer of 1887 Van Gogh effectively crossed the divide into contemporary art*.’ – *Richard Kendall, art historian* *and **curator at large at the Clark Art Institute* *[image: Image result] * Vincent Van Gogh,* Coin de jardin avec papillons*, oil on canvas, 1887 New York – On 11 November Christie’s will offer the painting that marked the moment Vincent Van Gogh ‘crossed the divide into contemporary art,’ *Coin de jardin avec papillons*, 1887 (estimate on request). Presented at auction for the first time, *Coin de jardin avec papillons* possesses … more »

*Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), * *March 10, to June27, 2019* Few artists have left behind as complete an account of their life and work as Vincent van Gogh(1853–1890). In March 2019, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents* Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Ar*t, an exhibition showcasing key passages in the artist’s life, fromhisearly sketchesto his final paintings, and chronicling his pursuit of becoming an artist. His Life in Art presents more than 50 portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, the exhibition will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston(MFAH), from … more »

*Worcester Art Museum * *September 8 through November 25 July 26, 2018* *A stunning array of over 40 paintings from the New – York Historical Society’s collection by renowned Hudson River School artists, including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Albert Bierstadt, Jasper Cropsey, John F. Kensett, and William T. Richards, will be on view at the Worcester Art Museum from September 8 through November 25, 2018. Painted between 1818 and 1886, the works illustrate America’s scenic splendor as seen through the eyes of some of the country’s most important painters. * *In the first decad… more »

Longmont Museum, COJanuary 2019 – May 2019 ​William D. Cannon Art Gallery, CASeptember – November, 2019 *“I knew little of these basic problems [of environmental conservation] when I first made snapshots in and around Yosemite. I was casually making a visual diary – recording where I had been and what I had seen – and becoming intimate with the spirit of wild places. Gradually my photographs began to mean something in themselves; they became records of experiences as well as of places. People responded to them, and my interest in the creative potential of photography grew apace. My… more »

– *The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao September 21, 2018–March 24, 2019* Drawn from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s Thannhauser Collection, *Van Gogh to Picasso: The Thannhauser Legacy *features nearly fifty works by Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early modern masters, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh. The exhibition marks the first occasion that a significant portion of the renowned Thannhauser Collection has been exhibited outside of New York since its arrival at the Guggenheim in New York in 1965—over fifty ye… more »

*Clark Art Institute * *November 10, 2018–February 3, 2019* – [image: Currier & Ives (American, 1834–1907) after Artist Unknown (American, 19th Century), The Great Fire at Boston, Nov. 9 & 10, 1872, 1872. Hand-colored lithograph on paper, 7 15/16 x 12 11/16 in. Clark Art Institute, Gift of J. Thomas Wilson, 1981.23] Currier & Ives (American, 1834–1907) after Artist Unknown (American, 19th Century), *The Great Fire at Boston, Nov. 9 & 10, 1872*, 1872. Hand-colored lithograph on paper, 7 15/16 x 12 11/16 in. Clark Art Institute, Gift of J. Thomas Wilson, 1981.23 inShare … more »

*Orangery, Lower Belvedere* *19 October 2018 to 17 February 2019* *“[…] I think it may be time for at least one painting to be hanging at the St.-G. [Staatsgalerie].”* Egon Schiele to his friend and patron Arthur Roessler, 21 June 1916 His wish would be fulfilled as there are now a total of twenty works by Egon Schiele in the Belvedere’s collection, including two permanent loans. 2018 is the centenary of his death. Marking this occasion, an in-depth exhibition considers all of the artist’s works that are – or were – in the Belvedere’s collection. It traces the genesis of a collecti… more »

*Tate Britain * * 24 October 2018 – 24 February 2019 * This autumn, Tate Britain will present the first major Burne-Jones retrospective to be held in London for over 40 years. Renowned for otherworldly depictions of beauty inspired by myth, legend and the Bible, Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) was a pioneer of the symbolist movement and the only Pre-Raphaelite to achieve world-wide recognition in his lifetime. This ambitious and wide-ranging exhibition will bring together over 150 works in different media including painting, stained glass and tapestry, reasserting him as one of the … more »

*Musée national Picasso-Paris * *From 4 September 2018 to 13 January 2019* What does ‘masterpiece’ mean to Pablo Picasso? The exhibition “Picasso. Masterpieces !” seeks to answer this question by assembling many of Picasso’s great works from around the world, some of which are being exhibited in Paris for the very first time. Thanks to exceptional loans, masterpieces from all over the world will dialogue with those from the collection of the Musée national Picasso-Paris to offer a new interpretation of Picasso’s creations, with particular attention to the critical reception of … more »

Kimbell Art Museum *October 7, 2018 to January 6, 2019* Francisco de Goya y Lucientes is among the best-known figures in the history of Spanish art and renowned as one of the greatest painters of all time. He is also revered as one of history’s greatest draftsmen and printmakers. This exhibition will showcase more than seventy-five of his paramount works on paper from the unparalleled collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. *Goya in Black and White *will explore the evolution of the artist’s graphic work in all media. The importance of black and white will be shown throughou… more »

*Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, * Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & MuseumHamilton, Ohio *OH**October- November, 2018* Drawn from a single private collection, *Arbus, Frank, Penn: Masterworks of Post-War American Photography *comprises 38 glorious vintage gelatin silver prints of many of the icons of the era, including Diane Arbus’s [image: Image result] “Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J.,” [image: Image result] “Boy with a Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park,” [image: Image result] and “Jewish Giant at Home with his Parents in the Bronx”; Robert Frank’s [image: Robert Fr… more »

[image: J. M. W. Turner, Venice: Looking Across the Lagoon at Sunset 1840, Watercolour on paper, 244 x 304mm, Tate] J. M. W. Turner, *Venice: Looking Across the Lagoon at Sunset *1840, Watercolour on paper, 244 x 304mm, Tate *JMW Turner: Watercolours from Tate* will be the first major exhibition of the work of Turner in Latin America, and the first Tate exhibition to be shown in Argentina. It opens today, 26 September 2018, at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. J.M.W. Turner is undisputed as the greatest exponent of English watercolour in its golden age. This ex… more »

*THE FRICK PITTSBURGH * * February- May 2019* In the early 20th century , between the two world wars, Paris saw a fervor of change. From 1910 to 1940, the city became a creative epicenter for artistic exploration, attracting international avant-garde artists —including photographers experimenting with Surrealism, Modernism, and the new reportage. *French Twist: Masterworks of Photography from Atget to Man Ray*, features 100 vintage prints from this golden age of French photography and explores the variety and inventiveness of native and immigrant photographer s working … more »

*Sept. 14 through Dec. 30, 2018* *Reynolda House Museum of American Art * *January – April, 2019Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, PA​September– December, 2019Gilcrease Museum, OKSeptember – December, 2020Pulaski Tech, AR* The exhibition, “Dorothea Lange’s America,” presents Lange’s haunting photographs of 1930s and 1940s America and features some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. “Lange’s documentary photographs appeared in local newspapers, reaching both the masses across middle America and the lawmakers in our nation’s capital, becoming poignant catalysts for so… more »

*Musée d’Orsay* *18 September 2018 – 6 January 2019* *Fondation Beyeler, Basel * *3 February to 26 May, 2019* The Musée d’Orsay, associated with the Musée Picasso-Paris, presents the first exhibition on the blue and pink period of Pablo Picasso in France. This exhibition offers an unprecedented gathering of masterpieces, some never presented in France, and a new analysis of the years 1900-1906, an essential phase in the artist’s career. The album shows the evolution of Picasso’s painting year by year and comments on the central works of the exhibition, giving the reader an overview… more »

*The Morgan Library & Museum* *October 12, 2018 through January 6, 2019* *National Gallery of Art, Washington, * *Early 2019.* The dramatic canvases of Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/1519 – 1594) , with their muscular, expressive bodies, are some of the most distinctive of the Italian Renaissance. His drawings , however, have received less atte ntion as a distinctive category in his oeuvre . Opening October 12, *Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice *will be the first exhibition since 1956 to focus on the drawing practice of this major artist . It will offer a new perspective on Tintoretto’s… more »

*Kunstmuseum Bern * [image: Ferdinand Hodler, Thunersee mit Niesen, 1910, Öl auf Leinwand, 105,5 x 83 cm. Privatsammlung Schweiz – © Peter Schälchli, Zürich] Ferdinand Hodler, *Thunersee mit Niesen*, 1910, Öl auf Leinwand, 105,5 x 83 cm. Privatsammlung Schweiz © Peter Schälchli, Zürich To commemorate the centenary of the death of Ferdinand Hodler, the Kunstmuseum Bern is – jointly with the Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève – mounting a large special exhibition. The show presents the work of this famous Swiss artist from a new perspective: from that of his theory of parallelism. … more »

*The Meadows Museum, **Southern Methodist University, Dallas * *September 9, 2018 –January 13, 2019* This fall, the Meadows Museum, SMU, will present a major exhibition of works by Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), exploring an overlooked or lesser-known aspect of the artist’s oeuvre. With *Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929–1936*, the Meadows is organizing the first in-depth exploration of the artist’s small-scale paintings—some measuring just over a foot, and others as small as 3 by 2 inches. A major part of the artist’s output during the early part of his Surrealist period (1929–1936), t… more »

[image: Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Eight Bells, 1886, oil on canvas, 25 3/16 x 30 3/16 in. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover. Gift of an anonymous donor. Credit: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA / Art Resource, NY] Winslow Homer (1836–1910), *Eight Bells,* 1886, oil on canvas, 25 3/16 x 30 3/16 in. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover. Gift of an anonymous donor. Credit: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA / Art Resource, NY This fall the Brandywine River Museum of Art, in Chadds Ford, Penn., will present *Winsl… more »

In its November 11 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie’s will offer Property from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection, comprising a suite of four works by Pablo Picasso representing the artist’s muses, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque. Together, the collection is expected to exceed $28 million. Conor Jordan, Deputy Chairman, Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie’s, remarked: “As a noted Picasso connoisseur, Sam Rose spent many years assembling these compelling portraits with his wife, Julie Walters. It is Christie’s pr… more »

Denver Art Museum is the sole venue for *Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker*, opening Sept. 16. Coinciding with the 350th anniversary of the Dutch artist’s death (1606–1669), the exhibition will offer fresh insight into the life and career of the masterful printmaker. About 100 prints from Rembrandt van Rijn’s career spanning from 1625 to 1665 will be showcased, including biblical, portrait, allegory, still life, landscape and genre artworks that demonstrate the mastery that cemented Rembrandt as one of the greatest artists in history. The exhibition will show how Rembrandt used his … more »

*Di Donna Galleries * *September 13 – October 12, 2018Monday – Friday, 10AM to 6PMSaturday, 12PM to 6PM September 15 and 29* Edvard Munch, Sommernacht im Studentenhain (Summer Night in Studenterlunden), 1899. Pérez Simón Collection. © 2018 The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Di Donna Galleries announces a rare glimpse into the renowned private art collection of Juan Antonio Pérez Simón with the exhibition *A Passion for Collecting: Modern Works from the Pérez Simón Collection*, to be held from September 13 to October 12, 2… more »

*The Meadows Museum, **Southern Methodist University, Dallas * *September 9, 2018 –January 13, 2019 * In 1966, the publisher Samuel Shore of New York commissioned Salvador Dalíto produce a series of works by 1968, when their completion would celebrate the 20th anniversaryof the founding of the State of Israel. Inspired by the historic challenges and post-World War II renewal of the Jewish people, Dalí created a series of 25 mixed-media paintings on paper that loosely trace major moments in Jewish history—both the tragic and the joyous—culminating in the creation of Israel in 19… more »

The Beautiful and Damned: Radical Art of the Great War This November, as the world pauses to remember the events of the First World War on the centenary of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that drew it to its close, Sotheby’s will bring together a group of works that illustrates the tremendous and varied impact of the War on the artistic production of those whose lives it transformed. Incorporated into the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 12 November, the offering will assemble works that capture the period from immediately prior to the outbreak of the war th… more »

Christie’s *Post**-**War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction* will present work by some of the great artists of the 20th Century alongside those currently at the forefront of their artistic practice. The season will be led by Francis Bacon’s *Figure in Movement *(1972, estimate: £15,000,000-20,000,000), a seminal work which creates a vivid sense of the transition from life to death, and Gerhard Richter’s *Schädel (Skull)* (1983, estimate on request), unveiled for the first time in 30 years. Alongside these are masterpieces by American Contemporary artists Jeff Koons and Mark Grot… more »

This October during London’s Frieze Week, Christie’s will present the largest and most diverse selection of 12 works by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, two British masters of the 20th century. The group is led by Francis Bacon’s *Figure in Movement *(1972, estimate on request), held for 41 years in the prestigious collection of Magnus Konow. The work is a poignant meditation on human existence, expressed through the memory of Bacon’s muse and lover George Dyer, whose tragic suicide took place less than thirty-six hours before the opening of Bacon’s career-defining retrospective at… more »

Christie’s has announced *An American Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection,* will be offered in a dedicated evening and day sale in November as a highlight of its flagship *20th Century Week* in New York. The collection of Barney A. Ebsworth represents an extraordinary achievement in the history of collecting — a singular assemblage of over 85 artworks that illuminates the rise of American art across the 20th century. Highlights of the collection include *Edward Hopper’s* *Chop Suey, *1929, the most important work by the artist still in private hands (estimate in the region of… more »

*De Young Museum * *November 17, 2018 through April 7, 2019 * [image: Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) “Woman with Mango Fruits,” ca. 1889 Painted oak, 11 3/4 x 19 1/4 in. (30 x 49 cm) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1781 Photograph by Ole Haupt © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen] Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) “*Woman with Mango Fruits,*” ca. 1889 Painted oak, 11 3/4 x 19 1/4 in. (30 x 49 cm) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1781 Photograph by Ole Haupt © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) inShare The Fine Ar… more »

*Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NYFebruary 9-May 12, 2019* *James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PAJune 1-September 8, 2019* [image: Oscar Florianus Bluemner (American, born in Germany, 1867-1938). Moon Radiance, 1927. Watercolor with gum coating on hot pressed off-white wove paper laid down by the artist to thick wood panel. Collection of Karen and Kevin Kennedy.] Oscar Florianus Bluemner (American, born in Germany, 1867-1938). *Moon Radiance, *1927. Watercolor with gum coating on hot pressed off-white wove paper laid down by the artist to thick wood panel. Collection of … more »

*Princeton University Art Museum * *Oct. 13, 2018-Jan. 6, 2019* *Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts * *Feb. 2-May 5, 2019* *Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas* *May 25–Sept. 9, 2019* [image: Albert Bierstadt, American, 1830–1902, Mount Adams, Washington, 1875. Oil on canvas. Gift of Mrs. Jacob N. Beam.] Albert Bierstadt, American, 1830–1902, *Mount Adams, Washington,* 1875. Oil on canvas. Gift of Mrs. Jacob N. Beam.(Princeton University Art Museum) inShare This fall, the story of our changing relationship with the natural world will be… more »

*ReTooled: Highlights from the Hechinger Collection*, an engaging and thought-provoking look at the unexpected subject of tools, will be on view at the* Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, from September 22 through December 30, 2018*. Featuring more than 40 richly imaginative, quirky, and thought-provoking paintings, sculptures, photographs, and sketches, ReTooled celebrates the prevalence of tools in our lives with art that magically transforms utilitarian objects into fanciful works that speak of beauty, insight, and wit. The museum’s signature fall exhibition, ReTooled profiles 28 v… more »

* ARKEN* *1 September 2018 to 20 January 2019* [image: VAN GOGH] Vincent van Gogh, *Self-portrait, *April-June 1887. Detail. Coll. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo For the first time in 50 yearsIt is more than 50 years since the Danish public has been able to experience a large exhibition devoted exclusively to van Gogh’s paintings and drawings. In a unique collaboration with the Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands, ARKEN now open its doors for a wide-ranging exhibition of van Gogh’s works with a focus on the relations among art, humanity, nature and religion. ’The guy with th… more »

Kunsthaus Zürich From 31 August to 18 November 2018 Robert Delaunay, *The Runners,* 1924–1925. Oil on canvas, 153 x 203 cm. Private collection. This most comprehensive exhibition in Switzerland to date on Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) pays homage to the artist’s devotion to his native city, Paris. As a passionate advocate and practitioner of abstract art, Delaunay became a central figure within the Parisian avant-garde in the first decades of the 20th century. [image: Image result] “*Air, Iron, and Water. Study for a mural*,” 1936–1937, Robert Delaunay, Gouache on paper… more »

*At the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center* *August 28–December 2, 2018* Courtiers feasting at elaborately set tables, knights in gleaming armor, a richly clad monarch presiding over elegant festivities—these are the images often associated with the medieval and Renaissance courts of Europe. For rulers and members of the nobility at the center of these privileged spaces, the visual arts—illuminated manuscripts, paintings, drawings, enamels, and textiles—were central aspects of their political and cultural identities. *All that Glitters: Life at the Renaissance Court*, on view fr… more »

*The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University* *October 24, 2018 – February 10, 2019* *[image: Image result] * Frédéric Bazille, *Young Woman with Peonie*s, 1870. Oil on canvas, 23-5/8 × 29-9/16 in. (60 × 75 cm). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. Image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [image: Image result] Frédéric Bazille, *Young Woman with Peonies,* 1870 The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in New York City will present the exhibition *Posing Modernity: The … more »

*The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State* *[image: Image result] * Martin Johnson Heade, “*The White Rose,*” c. 1874–80, oil on artist’s board, 11 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches. Promised gift of Barbara Palmer. Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State “Object Lessons: American Still-Life Painting in the Nineteenth Century” opens Sept. 4 in the first-floor special exhibitions gallery. The show highlights the rich tradition of still-life painting in the United States with an emphasis on Pennsylvania’s influential role in that history. The 22 works featured in “Object Lessons” explore a variety … more »

*Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel* *2 September 2018 to 1 January 2019* *Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza* *From 19 February to 26 May 2019* In 2019 the museum will be presenting an exhibition on the legendary artist Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908-2001), known as Balthus. The exhibition is jointly organised with the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel, where it will be seen from September 2018 to January 2019. [image: Image result] Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola) *The Card Game*, 1948-50 Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Considered one of the great maste… more »

*Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza* * From 23 October 2018 to 27 January 2019* *CaixaForum, Barcelona* *From 20 February to 28 May 2019* Max Beckmann (Leipzig, 1884 – New York, 1950) was one of Germany’s leading 20th-century artists. Initially close to Expressionism and New Objectivity, Beckmann developed a unique and independent pictorial style of a realistic type but one filled with symbolic resonances, offering a powerful account of society of his day. [image: Image result] MAX BECKMANN “*Autorretrato con vaso de champagne*” —————————— ——————-… more »

*Richard H. Driehaus Museum* *September 8, 2018 – January 6, 2018 * [image: George Peter Alexander Healy (American, 1813 –1894). Jeannette Ovington, 1887. Oil on canvas. New- York Historical Society, Gift of the Estate of Ina Love Thursby, through Walter M. Brown, 1944.18] George Peter Alexander Healy (American, 1813 –1894). *Jeannette Ovington, *1887. Oil on canvas. New- York Historical Society, Gift of the Estate of Ina Love Thursby, through Walter M. Brown, 1944.18 Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits inAmerica, organized by the New-York Historical Society, looks at the popula… more »

[image: Jacob Lawrence Forward Together] Jacob Lawrence; “*Forward Together,*” 1997; silkscreen on paper; 25.5 x 40.125 inches. Copyright 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Experience a comprehensive overview of printmaking works by the influential American artist Jacob Lawrence (b.1917, d. 2000) in the exhibition “History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence” on view at the Moss Arts Center this fall. Jacob Lawrence, “*New York in Transit I,*” 1998, silkscreen, edition of 50 with 5 AP, © 2015 The Ja… more »

From Aug. 31 to Oct. 21, 2018, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, Mass., will present *Adolph Gottlieb in Provincetown*, curated by Sanford Hirsch, Executive Director of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. [image: Adolph Gottlieb, Sea and Tide, 1952, oil on canvas, 60 x 72”, ©Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY] Adolph Gottlieb, *Sea and Tide, *1952, oil on canvas, 60 x 72”, ©Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY One of the original Abstract Expressionist artists, Adolph Gottlieb was … more »

The Lyman Allyn Art Museum will open a new permanent exhibit this October, dedicated to life and works of American artist and designer, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 – 1933), who was best known for his innovative work with stained glass. The installation will feature three newly conserved stained glass windows which were commissioned in the early 1900s to memorialize loved ones in New London. The collection, which will showcase never before exhibited objects (many of which came from the artist’s descendants), will illustrate Tiffany’s early career as a painter, then show his work as … more »

*The Frick Collection* *September 18, 2018, through January 13, 2019 * For the first time in twenty-four years and only the second timein their history, two masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting commissioned by the Carthusian monk Jan Vos will be reunited in a special exhibition at The Frick Collection. These works—the Jan van Eyck and Workshop The Virgin and Child with St. Barbara, St. Elizabeth, and Jan Vos , ca. 1441–43 Oil on panel 18 5/8 × 24 1/8 inches The Frick Collection, New York Photo: Michael Bodycomb Frick’s *Virgin and Child with St. Barbara, St. Elizabeth*, *… more »

Dutch paintings from the 17th Century *Jan Baptist Weenix & Jan Weenix: the paintings**, *by Anke A. Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven, is the result of art historical research on the work of the 17th-century Dutch artist Jan Baptist Weenix (1621-1659) and his son Jan Weenix (1641-1719). Works by both these artists can be seen in all major museums with holdings of Dutch and Flemish paintings. [image: File:Jan Baptist Weenix – The Ford in the River – WGA25522.jpg] Jan Baptist Weenix – *The Ford in the River* This book fills a gap in art history and throws new light on the appreciation o… more »

On August 17, 2018, the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine opened *Americans Abroad, 1860-1915*, an exhibition of watercolors, prints, and paintings by American artists who travelled to Europe for training and inspiration in the late 19th century. The exhibition of 24 works by artists such as Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, draws from the PMA collection and special loans, and includes rarely seen watercolors by John Singer Sargent, Maurice Prendergast, and more. [image: File:Winslow Homer – Looking out to Sea, Cullercoats (1882).jpg] Winslow Home… more »

*Denver Art Museum (DAM) * *Oct. 20, 2019 through Feb. 2, 2020.* *Museum Barberini* *Spring of 2020* The Denver Art Museum (DAM) will be home to the most comprehensive U.S. exhibition of Monet paintings in more than two decades when it presents *Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature*, in the fall of 2019. The exhibition will feature more than 100 paintings spanning Monet’s entire career and will focus on the celebrated French impressionist artist’s enduring relationship with nature and his response to the varied and distinct places in which he worked. [image: Claude Monet, Water Lili… more »

Hamburger Kunsthalle In a large-scale exhibition spanning several epochs, the Hamburger Kunsthalle traces based on important works how artists working in different media picture natural catastrophes while also shedding light on humanity’s failure to come to terms with nature due, among other things, of our faith in technology. *Nature Unleashed: The Image of Catastrophe since 1600 *features approximately 200 exhibits, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, films and videos. As viewers make their way past blazing fires, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruption… more »

[image: Pieter Bruegel. The Complete Works] Pieter Bruegel. The Complete WorksJürgen Müller, Thomas Schauerte Hardcover, 11.4 x 15.6 in., 492 pages TASCHEN ISBN 978-3-8365-5689-7 Edition: English The life and times of *Pieter Bruegel the Elder* (*c*. 1526/30–1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Alba’s brutal rule as governor of the Netherlands, and the palpable effects of the Inquisition. To this day, *the Flemish artist remains shrouded in mystery*. We know neither where nor exactly when he was born. But while early scholarshi… more »

*Tate Modern* *23 January 2019 – 6 May 2019* In January 2019 Tate Modern will stage the UK’s first major Pierre Bonnard exhibition in 20 years, showing the work of this innovative and much-loved French painter in a new light. The exhibition will bring together around 100 of his greatest works from museums and private collections around the world. It will reveal how Bonnard’s intense colours and modern compositions transformed painting in the first half of the 20th century, and will celebrate his unparalleled ability to capture fleeting moments, memories and emotions on canvas. Spa… more »

* Fondation Louis Vuitton* *October 3, 2018–January 14, 2019* A solo exhibition of work by 19th century Austrian painter Egon Schiele will be on view on the first floor of the Fondation Louis Vuitton. The first exhibition in Paris dedicated to the artist in 25 years, *Egon Schiele *will feature approximately 120 works—drawings, gouaches, and paintings—including masterpieces such as [image: Image result] *Self-Portrait with a Chinese Lantern Plant *(1912, Leopold Museum, Vienna), [image: Image result] *Pregnant Woman and Death *(1911, Národní Galerie, Prague), [image: Egon Schiele… more »

*National Gallery of Canada* *May 16, 2018 – September 9, 2018* A landmark show has opened at the National Gallery of Canada: the first and only presentation in North America of paintings from the world-renowned Ordrupgaard collection. *Impressionist Treasures: The Ordrupgaard Collection*, on view until September 9, 2018, offers a survey of leading artistic movements in French painting from the beginning of the nineteenth century through to Impressionism and Post-impressionism, as well as works from the Danish Golden Age. In one compelling presentation, the luminous landscapes of C… more »

* Toledo Museum of Art * *Oct. 13, 2018-Jan. 6, 2019* * Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium * *Feb. 2-April 28, 2019* *Collection Frits Lugt in Paris * *(dates are to be determined)* In 2011 the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) added a remarkable Old Master painting to its magnificent collection – Frans Hals (Dutch, 1582/83–1666), *The Van Campen Family in a Landscape (fragment)*, ca. 1623–25, oil on canvas. 151 x 163.6 cm. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, inv. 2011.80 *Van Campen Family Portrait in a Landscape *(circa 1623-25) by Frans Hals. [image: Image result] [image: … more »

MUSEO PICASSO MÁLAGA 26th February.- 2nd June 2019 This exhibition examines the relationship between Picasso and his first wife, Olga Khokhlova. It puts into perspective the creation of some of Picasso’s major works and reconstructs his body of work within the context of a personal story that developed alongside a different political and social one. Throughout the artist’s classical period, Olga was the Picasso model *par excellence.* [image: Image result] During the upheaval of Europe between the wars, his depictions of her were to undergo a metamorphosis, as their relationship… more »

*Neue Galerie New York* *June 28–September 3, 2018 * Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and Egon Schiele (1890-1918) are two of the greatest artists Austria produced in the early twentieth century. Although born nearly thirty years apart, both tragically died in 1918—the same year that the Austro-Hungarian Empire ceased to exist following its defeat in World War I. Over the intervening century, the works of Klimt and Schiele have come to define the fertile creativity that marked the so-called “joyous apocalypse,” an apt term used to connote the waning days of Habsburg rule. This show pays t… more »

*Graphik Kabinett * *June 8 – September 16, 2018* *[image: Image result] * Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, *Brücke signet *(In: Exhibition of the artists’ group ‘Brücke’ (Bridge) at Galerie Commeter Hamburg, 1912), 1912, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Department of Print, Drawings and Photographs Exhibition Complementing the exhibition »Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – The Unknown Collection«, the Graphik Kabinett is showing a display of drawings and prints by the other members of the »Brücke« group, which Kirchner had co-founded in 1905. The cabinet exhibition draws on the rich holdings of the Staatsgaler… more »

*Staatsgalerie Stuttgart* *June 29-0ctober 21, 2018* Among the great treasures of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart’s Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs is a group of 82 drawings and 84 prints as well as a few illustrated books by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 – 1938), the co-founder of the artists’ group Brücke. This remarkable body of work encompasses all periods of the artist’s work and many of the subjects that were important to him: metropolitan life, dance as well as landscapes on the island of Fehmarn and in the Alps. Kirchner’s prints are almost as rare as his drawings. M… more »

*The Met Breuer, * *July 3–October 7, 2018* At The Met Breuer this summer, the exhibition *Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection *will present a selection from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Scofield Thayer Collection of some 50 erotic and evocative watercolors, drawings, and prints by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso, whose subjects, except for a handful, are nudes. The exhibition will provide a focused look at this important collection and mark the first time this brilliant group of works are being shown toget… more »

*The Met Fifth Avenue* *July 17–November 12, 2018* [image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/G%C3%B6etz_von_Berlichingen_Being_Dressed_in_Armor_by_His_Page_George_MET_DP162299.jpg/693px-G%C3%B6etz_von_Berlichingen_Being_Dressed_in_Armor_by_His_Page_George_MET_DP162299.jpg] Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863). *Göetz von Berlichingen Being Dressed in Armor by His Page George*, 1826–27. Watercolor and bodycolor with gum arabic. 8 3/8 x 5 5/8 in. (21.3 x 14.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eu… more »

*J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center* *July 24–October 28, 2018* During the seventeenth century, Dutch political and religious freedom as well as maritime trade and military strength ushered in an era of economic prosperity. In this golden age, artists inspired by the everyday made vast numbers of highly finished drawings. *Masterful Likeness: Dutch Drawings of the Golden Age*, on view July 24–October 28, 2018, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, brings together landscapes, topographical views, portraits, and scenes of daily life, underscoring Dutch artists’ masterful descri… more »

*Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh* *7 July – 14 October 2018* Britain’s love affair with one of history’s greatest artists will be explored in the major Festival exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery this summer. *Rembrandt: Britain’s Discovery of the Master* is the first exhibition to tell the exceptionally rich story of how *Rembrandt’s *work in Britain has enraptured and inspired collectors, artists and writers over the past 400 years. This major new exhibition, which will only be shown in Edinburgh, will bring together key works by Rembrandt which remain in British coll… more »

*From 15 June to 23 September 2018, the Musée Fabre de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole will be presenting the Picasso – Donner à voir exhibition, in association with ‘Picasso-Méditerranée’, an international cultural event launched by the Musée National Picasso-Paris. Montpellier – a Mediterranean metropolis located halfway between Catalonia and Provence – is involved in this programme. * *The Musée Fabre is presenting a major exhibition encompassing the artist’s entire career and offering an overview of the creation of a prodigious oeuvre with a particular focus in the … more »

*Colby College Museum of Art* *July 11, 2015 – October 18, 2015 * *Cleveland Museum of Art * *04/30/2017 – 08/06/2017* *Neuberger Museum of Art* *July 01, 2018 – October 14, 2018* *Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s* is the largest museum exhibition to showcase Alex Katz’s (b. 1927) innovative portraits, landscapes and still lifes from this pioneering period. Organized by the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, in close collaboration with Katz, this presentation explores the first decade of the artist’s career, a period characterized by fierce experimentati… more »

*Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris* *February 8–July 22, 2018* *National Gallery of Art * *September 9 through December 31, 2018* [image: 29.100.193] *Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot* *The Muse: History*, c. 1865 oil on canvas overall: 46 × 35.2 cm (18 1/8 × 13 7/8 in.) framed: 73.7 × 61 × 11.5 cm (29 × 24 × 4 1/2 in.) Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 Dressed in rustic Italian costume or nude on a grassy plain, rendered with a sophisticated use of color and a deft, delicate touch, Corot’s women convey a mysterious… more »

*Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA* *June 2 through September 2, 2018* [image: Charles Demuth, Marine, n.d., watercolor on paper, collection of the Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA] Charles Demuth, *Marine*, n.d., watercolor on paper, collection of the Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA inShare The exhibition *Charles Demuth: Definitively Modern* and accompanying catalog focus on the Demuth Museum’s collection of original art by Charles Demuth. The collection is now the largest in the world with 52 works of art as well as it is the largest repository of original archival material on the art… more »

*Exhibition Dates:* October 16, 2018–October 1, 2020 *Exhibition Location:* The Met Fifth Avenue, Lower Level, Robert Lehman Wing, Galleries 964–965 Dutch paintings of the 17th century—the Golden Age of Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer—have been a highlight of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection since the Museum’s founding purchase in 1871. Opening October 16, the exhibition *In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met *will bring together some of the Museum’s greatest paintings to present this remarkable chapter of art history in a new light. Through roughly 65 wor… more »

*Yale University Art Gallery * *June 29–October 7, 2018* *A landmark exhibition investigating Leonardo da Vinci’s early years as an artist, featuring paintings newly attributed to the Renaissance master* On view at the from June 29 through October 7, *Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio’s Studio* investigates a virtually unknown period in the career of perhaps the most famous artist of the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). Leonardo da Vinci and Lorenzo di Credi, *A Miracle of Saint Donatus of Arezzo* (detail), ca. 1475–85. Oil on panel. Worcester Art Museu… more »

*Exhibition Dates:* October 16, 2018–October 1, 2020 *Exhibition Location:* The Met Fifth Avenue *Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings *will focus on the small-scale, informal portraiture of Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto in celebration of the 500th anniversary of his birth. Jacopo Tintoretto was one of the preeminent Venetian painters of the sixteenth century, renowned for his monumental narrative scenes and his insightful portraits of patricians and citizens. In celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the artist’s birth, this exhibition explor… more »

John Singer Sargent. *Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth)*, 1897. Wirt D. Walker Collection. From *July 1* through *September 30, 2018*, the *Art Institute of Chicago* will present an exhibition of American portraitist *John Singer Sargent* with a focus on his numerous Chicago connections. Featuring nearly 100 objects from the Art Institute’s collection, private collections, and public institutions, *John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age* examines Sargent’s impressive breadth of artistic practice and the network of associations among the artist, his patrons, his creat… more »

Comprehensive exhibition divided into eight thematic emphases highlights periods in the artist’s oeuvreMarking the transition from historicism to Jugendstil, Gustav Klimt’s oeuvre shaped the beginning of modern art in Vienna. 100 years after his death, the Leopold Museum pays tribute to the leading figure in Vienna around 1900 with a comprehensive exhibition divided into eight thematic emphases and illustrating all the periods of the artist’s oeuvre by means of some 35 paintings, 90 drawings, 30 photographs and approx. 150 archival documents. Along with exhibits from the Leopold M… more »

*TATE BRITAIN * *24 October 2018 – 24 February 2019 * This autumn, Tate Britain will present the first major Burne-Jones retrospective to be held in London for over 40 years. Renowned for otherworldly depictions of beauty inspired by myth, legend and the Bible, Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) was a pioneer of the symbolist movement and the only Pre-Raphaelite to achieve world-wide recognition in his lifetime. This ambitious and wide-ranging exhibition will bring together over 150 works in different media including painting, stained glass and tapestry, reasserting him as one of the m… more »

Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries 5 June – 23 September 2018 [image: George Grosz Grey Day 1921.] George Grosz *Grey Day *1921. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie. Acquired by the Federal State of Berlin © Estate of George Grosz, Princeton, N.J. 2018. Marking 100 years since the end of the First World War, this exhibition explores the immediate impact of the conflict on British, German and French art. As the first exhibition to examine the culture of memorials alongside new developments in post-war art it will consider how artists responded to the physical and psycholo… more »

Musée Matisse *Du 23 juin 2018 au 29 sept. 2018* [image: Image result for [[[“xjs.sav.en_US.y5vqFNLwkD0.O”,5]],[[“id”,”type”,”created_timestamp”,”last_modified_timestamp”,”signed_redirect_url”,”dominant_color_rgb”,”tag_info”,”url”,”title”,”comment”,”snippet”,”image”,”thumbnail”,”num_ratings”,”avg_rating”,”page”,”job”]],[[“dt_fav_images”]],10000]] Henri Matisse, *Marguerite,* 1907. Huile sur toile Musée national Picasso-­‐Paris. Donation en 1973 © Succession H. Matisse. Photo: © RMN-­‐Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-­‐Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau. [image: Henri Matisse] Henri Matiss… more »

Hermitage Amsterdam’s new exhibition (through Jan. 18), *Classic Beauties. Artists, Italy and the Esthetic Ideals of the 18th Century*, is a summer art highlight on the Continent. [image: amsterdam_hermitage_beauties_003.jpg] —————————— The show tells how artists and tourists flocked to Italy, and more especially Rome, in the second half of the eighteenth century. From all over Europe they travelled to the Eternal City in search of inspiration and to see for themselves the newly excavated classical Greco-Roman sculptures and buildings. Their experiences promp… more »

*The Baltimore Museum of Art,* *June 13–October 28, 2018 * [image: Dox Thrash. Griffin Hills, c. 1940. The Baltimore Museum of Art, BMA 1942.35] Dox Thrash. *Griffin Hills,* c. 1940. The Baltimore Museum of Art, BMA 1942.3 inShare In 1939, The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presented one of the first major exhibitions in the U.S. to feature African American artists. *Contemporary Negro Art* served “as a declaration of principles as to what art should be in a democracy and as a gauge of how far in this particular province we have gone and may need to go,” wrote renowned phi… more »

*Hart Museum* October 6 – December 31, 2017 Ackland Art Museum *26 January 2018 – 8 April 2018* Crocker Art Museum *May 13, 2018 — August 19, 2018* Jean-Baptiste Oudry, *Seated Lady in a Garden * n.d. Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 35 7/16 in. The Horvitz Collection. This exhibition examines the many paths and stages of women’s lives through the art of 18th-century France. Works by Fragonard, Boucher, Watteau, Greuze, and others, all drawn from the finest private collection of French art in the United States, show a variety of women, from court ladies to washerwomen, in their many soci… more »

*San Antonio Museum of Art* *June 23–September 16, 2018* *[image: Image result for [[[“xjs.sav.en_US.y5vqFNLwkD0.O”,5]],[[“id”,”type”,”created_timestamp”,”last_modified_timestamp”,”signed_redirect_url”,”dominant_color_rgb”,”tag_info”,”url”,”title”,”comment”,”snippet”,”image”,”thumbnail”,”num_ratings”,”avg_rating”,”page”,”job”]],[[“dt_fav_images”]],10000]]* Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664), *Saint Isabel of Portugal*, ca. 1635, Oil on canvas, h. 72 7/16 in. (184 cm); w. 38 9/16 in. (98 cm), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid P01239 © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. EL GRECO. VEL… more »

Sotheby’s Old Masters Evening Sale on 6 December 2017 John Constable ( 1776 – 1837 ) is one of Britain’s best – loved and most significant landscape painters. A key figure in the British Romantic movement of the early 19th century, Constable, together with J.M.W. Turner, changed the course of European landscape painting forever. This winter, Sotheby’s London will present a recently rediscovered landscape by the British artist which is without question one of the most exciting and important additions to Constable’s oeuvre to have emerged in the last fifty years. Painted between… more »

Sotheby’s Sale of Master Paintings on 1 February 2018 The February auction offers an impressive pair of Venetian views by Canaletto, whose inimitable success in capturing the architecture of 18th -century Venice has made him the undisputed leader of the genre (estimate $3/4 million). Most likely completed in England in the 1740s, the pair offers waterfront views of two of the most recognizable façade in La Serenissima: [image: http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/stb/lots/N08/N08825/763N08825_69XYB.jpg] the Church of the Redentore [image: http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/st… more »

*Delacroix **to Open September 17* *Exhibition Dates:* September 17, 2018–January 6, 2019 *Exhibition Location:* The Met Fifth Avenue, The Tisch Galleries, Gallery 899, 2nd Floor *Press Preview:* Wednesday, September 12, 10 am–noon French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was one of the greatest creative figures of the 19th century. Through his choice of daring subjects and compositions, a vibrant palette, and bold brushwork, he set into motion a cascade of innovations that changed the course of art. As Van Gogh wrote in 1885: “What I find so fine about Delacroix is precisely… more »