Feb-May 2018

* Musée Jacquemart-Andréfrom 09 March 2018 to 23 July 2018 158 boulevard Haussmann - 75008 Paris * Culturespaces and the Musée Jacquemart-André are presenting a major retrospective devoted to Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) in Paris through July 23. Considered during her lifetime as the greatest American artist, Cassatt lived in France for more than sixty years. She was the only American painter to have exhibited her work with the Impressionists in Paris. [image: Mary Cassatt, Petite fille dans un fauteuil bleu, vers 1877-1878, Inv. 1983.1.18, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collec... more »

At Auction May 8 Old Master Through Modern PrintsThe highlight of this wide-ranging event from our Prints & Drawings department is* Tête de femme, de profil*, 1905, an extremely early work by Pablo Picasso, executed when he was just 24 years old. Works by visionaries who shaped the trajectory of twentieth century art will also be offered, including Jean Arp, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí and László Moholy-Nagy. Iconic works by Thomas Hart Benton, Martin Lewis represent American art movements from the same period. [image: Pablo Picasso, Tête de femme, de profil] Lot 398: Pablo Picasso,... more »

View catalogue The Day Sale features a broad span of genres and eras, beginning with Impressionist and Modern Art, including works by Odilon Redon, Paul Klee, Kees Van Dongen, and Édouard Vuillard. The 19th Century European art section is highlighted by works from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Édouard Manet. A fine selection of Post-War and Contemporary artists include Alexander Calder, Lucien Freud, Jasper Johns and Bridget Riley, underscoring the full breadth of David Rockefeller’s collecting, well into his later years. [image: Image result] D... more »

[image: Image result] Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1916, oil on canvas. © Christie’s Images Limited 2018. Kazimir Malevich’s* Suprematist Composition,* 1916, will lead Christie’s Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art (estimate upon request). Suprematist Composition is among the groundbreaking abstract paintings executed by Malevich that would forever change the course of art history. The present canvas was last sold at auction in November 2008, when it established the world auction record for the artist, which it continues to hold today.* One decade later, S... more »

*ART OF THE AMERICAS, EVENING SALE* *Wednesday 9 May, 7pm* Browse sale View catalogue [image: Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Rich’s House, 1930. Watercolour and charcoal on paper. 16 x 25 in (40.6 x 63.5 cm). Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000. This lot is offered in The Collection of David and Peggy Rockefeller: Art of the Americas, Evening Sale on 9 May at Christie’s in New York.] Edward Hopper (1882-1967), *Rich’s House,* 1930. Watercolour and charcoal on paper. 16 x 25 in (40.6 x 63.5 cm). Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000. The Collection of David and Peggy Rockefeller: Art of the Amer... more »

Francis Bacon, *Study for Portrait, *1977, oil and dry transfer lettering on canvas 78 x 58⅛ in. (198.2 x 147.7 cm.). Estimate on Request. © Christie’s Images Limited 2018. [image: Image result] Francis Bacon*Two Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer *(Sara Hildén Art Museum, Finland), Francis Bacon’s Study for Portrait (1977, estimate on request) will star in Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction, which will take place on 17 May 2018. The powerful large-scale eulogy to his great muse and lover George Dyer was painted in Paris in 1977 and was last ... more »

*Number 32, 1949* by Jackson Pollock will be featured in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 16 May 2018 in New York. The production of the artist’s drip paintings of 1948-9 stands as one of the most radical events in 20th-century art, in which the boundaries of painting were pushed and a new aesthetic established. Number 32, 1949 comes from a critical year for the artist and epitomizes the chaotic vibrancy, heroic drama and thrilling vigor that have come to define Pollock’s prodigious legacy. Jackson Pollock executed his first drip painting in 1947. Over the next two yea... more »

*[image: Image result] * Pablo Picasso, *Le Repos*, oil on canvas, 1932 Photo: © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Courtesy of Sotheby’s The centerpiece of the Sotheby’s May 14 Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York will be *Le Repos*. Pablo Picasso’s “*Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)*” from 1937 was the prize piece in the Sotheby’s sale. 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Sotheby's Like *Femme au Béret*, this stunning masterwork from 1932—estimated to s... more »

*THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM* *May 11 to August 19, 2018 * Renowned for hisportraiture and depictions of rural landscapes, the eighteenth-century British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) is best known as a painter. However, he was also a draftsman of rare ability who extended the traditional boundaries of drawing technique, inspiring an entire generation of British artists such as John Constable (1776–1837) and J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). Beginning May 11, the Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition solely focused on Gainsborough’s works on paper, bringing together t... more »

*Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid * *4/10/2018 - 8/5/2018* *Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum * *September.* The Museo del Prado and the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum are presenting the exhibition *Rubens. Painter of Sketches*. Sponsored by Fundación AXA and with the collaboration of the Government of Flanders, it offers an analysis of Rubens as the most important painter of oil sketches in the history of European art. Of the nearly 500 oil sketches executed by Rubens over the course of his career, this exhibition includes 73 loaned from leading institutions world-wide, includ... more »

[image: Image result] The Old Masters sale features a very rare signed and dated painting by the Le Nain Brothers representing Saint Jerome, recently included in a major retrospective of the artists’ work. [image: Image result] Another recently discovered work is Vigée Le Brun’s *Portrait of Tatyana Borisovna Potemkina,* which has never been on the market, and it was included in the monographic exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Grand Palais, Paris. [image: Image result] The top lot of the sale is Ruben’s *A satyr holding a basket of grapes and qui... more »

*Vatican Micromosaic of Saints Valeria and Martial * Everyone loves a good story. In the realm of fine art and antiques, a good story, or what we call “provenance”, has the power to take a work of art from exceptional to awe-inspiring. In terms of workmanship, subject matter and sheer size, this incredible micromosaic detailing the Biblical story of Saints Valeria and Martial has it all. Measuring over 10 feet tall, the precision and detail required to execute such a piece is baffling. Combined with the high cost of materials, micromosaics of this immense size and artistry are ... more »

Musée du Louvre, Paris *March 29, 2018 to July 23, 2018 * This exhibition is organized by the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. http://presse.louvre.fr/delacroix-1798-1863-2-en/ *Eugène Delacroix was one of the giants of French painting, but his last full retrospective exhibition in Paris dates back to 1963, the centenary year of his death. In collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre is holding a historic exhibition featuring some 180 works—mostly paintings—as a tribute to his entire career. From the young arti... more »

Whitney Museum of American ArtMar 2–Jun 10, 2018 Grant Wood's *American Gothic*—the double portrait of a pitchfork-wielding farmer and a woman commonly presumed to be his wife—is perhaps the most recognizable painting in 20th century American art, an indelible icon of Americana, and certainly Wood's most famous art work. But Wood's career consists of far more than one single painting. *Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables* brings together the full range of his art, from his early Arts and Crafts decorative objects and Impressionist oils through his mature paintings, mural... more »

*Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide * * 29 March-29 July 2018 * More than 65 Impressionist masterpieces from the renowned collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris feature in a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. *Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay* charts the revolution of colour that lies at the very heart of Impressionism and includes master works by Monet, Renoir, Manet, Morisot, Pissarro and Cézanne, among many others. From the dark tones of Manet's Spanish-influenced paintings, to the rich green and blue hues of the Fre... more »

Christie’s two-day sale of Prints & Multiples includes nearly 200 lots spanning the 20th to 21st centuries and features modern works by Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso—and Post-War and Contemporary editions by Keith Haring, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, among others. [image: Image result][image: Image result] He Disappeared into Complete Silence, Plate 91947engraving in black on wove paperplate: 22.54 x 10 cm (8 7/8 x 3 15/16 in.)sheet: 25.4 x 17.78 cm (10 x 7 in.)Wye/Smith 1994, 37, VI/VIPurchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner2010.132.... more »

*The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston* *March 11 through June 10, 2018* The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents *Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples*, an exhibition highlighting the artistic legacy of Pope Paul III (1468–1549) and the vital role that drawing played in artistic production throughout Europe in the late 15th and 16th centuries. Largely drawn from the renowned collection of the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, Italy, *Michelangelo and the Vatican *features drawings, cartoons, paintings, sculpture and prints by Renaiss... more »

*Sotheby’s Hong Kong* *9th March to 3rd April* Panorama: A New Perspective – a selling exhibition featuring over 40 paintings and sculptures by the foremost names in Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art – will open to the public from 29th March to 3rd April , alongside Sotheby’s Spring 2018 Hong Kong Sale Series. The show will be led by four powerful works by Pablo Picasso, spanning 50 years of the artist’s extraordinary career and all coming direct from the collection of the artist’s grand - daughter, Marina Picasso. These will ... more »

The sale of 26 masterworks from the collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel will take place in a dedicated auction on the evening of 16 May 2018 in New York. A pioneering entrepreneur and philanthropist, Morton Mandel, together with his wife Barbara, amassed an enviable collection over several decades, which spans many of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century: from Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism; to Minimalism and Pop, with an equal emphasis on paintings, works-on-paper and sculpture. Joan Miró, *Femme, oiseau*, 1969-74 Estimate: $10,000,000-15,000,0... more »

*This spring, Christie’s will offer* *Pablo Picasso’s Le Marin, 28 October 1943 (estimate upon request), in the May 15 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art. Executed at the height of Occupation, Le Marin, widely recognized as Picasso himself, clad in his iconic striped fisherman’s jersey, offers one of the most profound and revealing views into the artist’s wartime psyche.* *Adrien Meyer, Co-Chairman, Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie’s New York, remarked: “From the depth and power of expression to his striped Breton shirt, Le Marin is an extraordinarily vivid por... more »

Christie’s is honored to present for sale Lucas Cranach the Elder’s *Portrait of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, *called John Frederick the Magnanimous, once part of Fritz Gutmann’s renowned art collection in the pre-war Netherlands. Missing for nearly 80 years before its recent rediscovery in America, Christie’s is privileged to have facilitated the return of this important work to the Gutmann family. Cranach’s *Portrait of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony *will be presented in public exhibitions in Hong Kong (March 30 – April 4) and New York leading up to the Old Masters... more »

*Hamiltons Gallery* *28 March - 11 May 2018* Hamiltons presents a selection of exceptional and rarely seen Robert Frank prints, including pictures from Frank’s seminal visit in 1953 to a coal-mining village in Wales, along with a selection of prints from his sojourns in London, Paris and America taken during the 1950s and early 60s. Frank’s endeavour to establish a new form of poetic, narrative photography is a common thread throughout these images. Read "Robert Frank: The Man Who Saw America" published in the New York Times in Summer 2015, written by Nicholas Dawidoff: https://www... more »

*Galerie St. Etienne* *March 20, 2018 - July 6, 2018 * ARTISTSBeckmann, Max Dix, Otto Feininger, Lyonel Gerstl, Richard Grosz, George Heckel, Erich Kandinsky, Wassily Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig Klee, Paul Kokoschka, Oskar Kubin, Alfred Macke, August Marc, Franz Mueller, Otto Nolde, Emil Pechstein, Hermann Max Schiele, Egon Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl *Galerie St. Etienne exhibition *essayRealism and abstraction are frequently cast as opposing forces in modernism’s developmental narrative. For reasons that had to do less with art-historical inevitably than with geopolitics, abstraction was decla... more »

*Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College* *March 17 - June 17* The exhibition includes more than 50 works of art and features the iconic [image: Image result] [image: Image result] [image: Image result] [image: Image result] [image: Image result] [image: Image result] “Tauromaquia” (Bullfighting) series of etchings by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, as well as rare late-career works by Pablo Picasso in multiple media from ceramic to cardboard. [image: Goya, Picasso Exhibition Set to Open at the Polk Museum of Art] *Francisco Goya, 'Termeridad de martincho en ... more »

Heide Museum of Modern Art *21 March 17 June 2018 * *Art Gallery of South Australia, SA 16 July – 30 September 2018 * The National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition, *Diane Arbus: American Portraits*. Diane Arbus, Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N.Y.C., 1967 1967. Gelatin silver photograph. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 1980. The photographs of Diane Arbus (1923–71) are among the most widely recognised in the history of photography. Her images stand as powerful allegories of post-war America, and once seen are rarely fo... more »

Lyman Allyn Art Museum *April 5 through May 25, 2018* *West Baton Rouge Museum**June 25th - * d manufacture, sell, or transport intoxicating beverages from 1920 until 1933. *Spirited: Prohibition in America*, a new exhibition opening at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum explores this tumultuous time in American history, when flappers and suffragists, bootleggers and temperance lobbyists, and legends, such as Al Capone and Carry Nation, took sides in this battle against the bottle. [image: Image result] Organized by the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA, in partnership with M... more »

*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston* * February 25 through May 28, 2018* Marking the centenary of the deaths of Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) and Egon Schiele (1890–1918), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents a special exhibition of drawings on loan from the Albertina Museum in Vienna. *Klimt and Schiele: Drawn*, on view from February 25 through May 28, 2018 in the Lois B. and Michael K. Torf Gallery, examines the separate, yet parallel experiences of the acclaimed Austrian modernists, as well as the compelling ways in which their work relates—particularly in their provocative depic... more »

Musée Jacquemart-André9 March to 23 July 2018 In the spring of 2018, Culturespaces and the Musée Jacquemart-André will be holding a major retrospective devoted to Mary Cassatt (1844–1926). Considered during her lifetime as the greatest American artist, Cassatt lived in France for more than sixty years. She was the only American painter to have exhibited her work with the Impressionists in Paris. The female representative of ImpressionismThe exhibition focuses on the only American female artist in the Impressionist movement; she was spotted by Degas in the 1874 Salon, and subsequentl... more »

*Kunsthaus Zürich * *9 March to 8 July 2018 * The Kunsthaus Zürich showcases 56 works of representational painting spanning the years 1890 to 1965. Common to all of them is an objectivity that is also visionary: emerging on the cusp of modernity, it runs through Böcklin and Vallotton, the ‘ naïve artists ’ and painters of New Objectivity, to the Surrealism of Dalí and Magritte. This new exhibition at the Kunsthaus revisits a form that, like abstraction, was crucial to Classical Modernism: representational art. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN PAINTING By the mid -19th century, a... more »

* Delaware Art Museum* *March 10 – May 27, 2018* “Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating,” wrote British critic and artist John Ruskin. Nearly one hundred years later, Brandywine Valley artist Andrew Wyeth advised artists to simply, “hold a mirror up to nature. Don’t overdo it, don’t underdo it.” Even though Ruskin came of age during the Industrial Revolution, and Wyeth after the World Wars, the two artists shared a life-long obsession with the close observation of nature. The exhibition *Eye on Nature: Andrew Wyeth and John Ruskin*, on view Ma... more »

inShare The San Diego Museum of Art announced last month the acquisition of two outstanding paintings,* Nymph of the Spring *(ca. 1540) by Lucas Cranach the Younger and *Portrait of John Alfred Parsons Millet *(1892) by John Singer Sargent. Both works fill important gaps in the Museum’s holdings, with the Sargent strengthening the already expansive collection of portraits, and the Cranach being the most important Northern Renaissance painting in the collection. *Nymph of the Spring* is currently on display in *Genre and Myth*, and *Portrait of John Alfred Parsons Millet* is ... more »

*Museo de Arte de Ponce* *March 17 through August 6, 2018* This spring, The Frick Collection is pleased to collaborate with Puerto Rico's Museo de Arte de Ponce on an upcoming exhibition. Starting March 17 and running through August 6, 2018, Museo de Arte de Ponce presents *Pequeños tesoros de la Frick Collection (Small Treasures from The Frick Collection)*. The intimate show of ten works, mostly on paper, includes an engraving, a watercolor, four drawings and four oil sketches. They cover four centuries of artistic production, from Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving, *Melencolia I,*... more »

*Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam* *03/23/18–06/24/18* Beginning on 23 March, the Van Gogh Museum will present *Van Gogh & Japan* – a major international exhibition on the influence of Japanese art on the work of Vincent van Gogh. The show, which comprises around 60 paintings and drawings by Van Gogh and a rich selection of Japanese prints, highlights Vincent’s all-embracing admiration for this art and how fundamentally his work changed in response to it. Famous paintings and drawings by Van Gogh from collections all over the world have been brought to Amsterdam for *Van Gogh & Japan*, ... more »

*J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center* * March 13 –June 24, 2018 * Among the most surprising aspects of Rembrandt’s prodigious output are twenty-three surviving drawings closely based on portraits made by artists working in Mughal India. These drawings mark a striking diversion for this quintessentially Dutch “Golden Age” artist, the only time he made a careful and extensive study of art from a dramatically different culture. *Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India* explores for the first time the artist’s Mughal drawings, exhibiting them alongside the Mughal miniature painti... more »

*J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center* * March 13 –June 24, 2018 * Among the most surprising aspects of Rembrandt’s prodigious output are twenty-three surviving drawings closely based on portraits made by artists working in Mughal India. These drawings mark a striking diversion for this quintessentially Dutch “Golden Age” artist, the only time he made a careful and extensive study of art from a dramatically different culture. *Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India* explores for the first time the artist’s Mughal drawings, exhibiting them alongside the Mughal miniature painti... more »

*The Vancouver Art Gallery* *March 3 to May 21, 2018* Representing one of the most important donations ever made to a university gallery in Canada, *A Cultivating Journey* presents five centuries of magnificent art from the McMaster Museum of Art’s Levy Collection and Bequest from Herman Herzog Levy. This exhibition reflects the remarkable acumen of Levy as a collector and explores new scholarship and perspectives on the objects and the collector himself, demonstrating the continuing impact of one man ’s passion for art. Works by renowned artists such as Gustave Courbet, Camille Pi... more »

*Denver **Art Museum* *Oct 22, 2017–Jan 15, 2018* *Speed Art Museum Louisville, Kentucky* *February 17 – May 13, 2018* *Clark Art Institute Williamstown, Massachusetts * *June 6–September 3, 2018* The groundbreaking exhibition *Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism* broadly surveys a key chapter in art history in which an international group of female artists overcame gender-based restrictions to make remarkable creative strides. Featuring more than eighty paintings by thirty-seven artists from thirteen countries, drawn from prominent collections across the United States and ... more »

*Bowdoin College Museum of Art (245 Maine Street, Brunswick, Maine) * *through October 1* Spanning a century from the introduction of electric light to the dawn of the Space Age, this first major survey of American night scenes by artists such as Winslow Homer, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, and Joseph Cornell proposes the central importance of nocturnal images in the development of modern art. Retooling their palette and reconsidering their techniques, artists cherished the night as a time of heightened alertness and active imagination. Mysterious and provocative, the darkness was... more »

The Mennello Museum of American Art ,*Orlando, FL.* has received its largest gift in the museum’s history from museum founder Michael A. Mennello, Winter Park collector, businessman, and philanthropist. Michael A. Mennello has promised extraordinary gifts of art from his private collection to the museum. This generous gift of 14 paintings and 5 sculptures includes work by world-renowned American artists that greatly enhance the permanent collection of the museum with examples of the finest work by critical American artists associated with the Ashcan School of Art, the prestigious... more »

Worcester Art Museum (11/11/17–02/04/18) Milwaukee Art Museum (03/02/18–05/20/18) The 19th-century painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is one of the most beloved figures in American art, perhaps most associated with the pastoral beauty of rural America and his dramatic Maine seascapes. The new exhibition *Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England*, opened March 1 and on view through May 20, 2018 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, explores how English artists and Homer’s nearly two-year stay in the seaside village of Cullercoats, England, impacted the style and subjects of the artist’s work fo... more »

*The Vancouver Art Gallery* *March 3 to May 21, 2018* *Living, Building, Thinking: art and expressionism* uses the German Expressionist collection from the McMaster Museum of Art to explore the development of Expressionism in art from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The term Expressionism is invariably associated with the period of art and social activism in Germany between 1905 and 1937, encompassing visual art, literature, philosophy, theatre, film, photography and architecture. In the context of an expanded view on the subject, Expressionism offers a rich and ... more »

By David Wade [image: https://ms-newsouthbooks-com-au.s3.amazonaws.com/WorkImage/WorkEdition/9781627951050.jpg] This fascinating and authoritative look at how geometry changed the world of art forever. Geometry & Art follows the artists of the Renaissance, whose search for perspective and visual depth led them to the study of geometry. Influencing the work of artists such as Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesco, and Leonardo da Vinci, this incredible artistic breakthrough quickly spread to Germany, where a passion for polyhedral- based geometrical designs flourished as a d... more »

*LACMA * *November 19, 2017-March, 18, 2018* *The Metropolitan Museum of Art* *April 24–July 22, 2018* The vitality and inventiveness of artists in 18th-century New Spain (Mexico) is the focus of the exhibition *Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici*, opening April 24 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through some 112 works of art (primarily paintings), many of which are unpublished and newly restored, the exhibition will survey the most important artists and stylistic developments of the period and highlight the emergence of new pictorial genres and subjects. *P... more »

*de Young * *March 24 through August 12, 2018* *Dallas Museum of Art* *September 9, 2018, through January 6, 2019* The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) is set to premiere *Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art*, the first large-scale exhibition in over 20 years to survey this characteristically American style of early twentieth-century Modernism. Organized by FAMSF and on view at the de Young, the exhibition addresses the aesthetic and intellectual concerns that fueled the development of this artistic style during the 1920s and 1930s. More than 100 Precisi... more »

* The National Museum of Western Art / The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art. Tokio / Kobe 2/24/2018 - 5/27/2018* Comprising 61 thematically organised paintings, the exhibition aims to offer Japanese visitors an exceptional opportunity to appreciate the art of Velázquez and to understand it in relation to the art of his Spanish and European contemporaries, in addition to coming closer to the Spanish court and Spanish society of the Golden Age through some of the finest works created in this context, including paintings by Velázquez himself and others by Titian, Rubens, Luca Giord... more »

* Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens**February 16 through June 3, 2018* [image: Click to enlarge] *Thomas Hart Benton, Cut the Line*, oil on canvas, 1944. [image: Cut the Line (1944), Thomas Hart Benton. Image courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C.] *Cut the Line* (1944), Thomas Hart Benton. Image courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C. This exhibition presents an important series of works from the peak years of the artist’s fame and influence. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Har... more »

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum *February 22 - May 20, 2018* About the Exhibition Renaissance master Fra Angelico (about 1395–1455) transformed Western art with pioneering images, rethinking popular compositions and investing traditional Christian subjects with new meaning. His altarpieces and frescoes set new standards for quality and ingenuity, securing his place in history. With the intellect of a Dominican theologian, the technical facility of Florence’s finest craftsmen and the business acumen of its shrewdest merchants, he forged the future of painting in Italy and beyon... more »

*Centre for Fine Arts Brussels* 23 February ’18 — 27 May ’18 *Musei Reali di Torino * *Still life* occupies a prominent place amongst the pictorial genres of Western visual art, but is too often seen as an academic exercise in imitation. This ambitious, original exhibition turns this perception upside down with an overview of *400 years* of Spanish still lives. Spanish still lives occupy a unique place within the European context, and have an unmistakeable relationship with Flemish and Italian models, but resolutely unique imagery, developed by *Sanchez Cotán* and his contemporarie... more »

*The Robbers: German Art in a Time of Crisis * The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) opened *The Robbers: German Art in a Time of Crisis *February 23. The exhibition of 21 German prints executed between the World Wars highlights George Grosz’s 1922 lithographic suite *The Robbers:* *Nine Lithographs on Maxims from Schiller’s “The Robbers*" as well as artworks by other printmakers of the era, including Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and Käthe Kollvitz. The works on display powerfully blend issues of history, politics, art, and national identity, provoking questions about who we are and what ... more »

On *Tuesday, March 13, *Swann Galleries will offer a superlative auction of *19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings*, featuring original artworks and scarce multiples by some of the most influential artists of the last 200 years. Following the house’s record-breaking autumn sale of [image: The Lonely House, Edward Hopper (American, Nyack, New York 1882–1967 New York), Etching] *Edward Hopper*’s 1923 print *The Lonely House* for $317,000, Swann will offer an even more scarce etching by the master: *House by a River,* 1919, an early example of his theme of isolation... more »

The Art of the Surreal sale will follow the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 27 February 2018. [image: Image result] René Magritte , Le groupe silencieux , oil on canvas, 1926, estimate: £6,5 00,000 - 9,500,000 Magritte’s large *Le groupe silencieux *of 1926, one of a handful of large and important early works by the artist, is the highlight of the sale . [image: Pablo Picasso. Figure, 1930] Pablo Picasso , Figure , oil and charcoal on panel, 1930, estimate: £3,000,000 - 5,000,000 Picasso’s *Figure *of 1930, not seen at auction for half a century, is a powe... more »