New fine art and antiques fair in London

Masterpiece is a new fine art and antiques fair due to take place in the former Chelsea Barracks in London in June

An ambitious new fair will make London in June the epicentre of the antiques trade. Masterpiece London, combining fine art and antiques with contemporary works, jewellery, wine and cars, now has planning permission to be run in the former Chelsea Barracks on June 24-29. Aiming to fill the gap left by the demise of the Grosvenor Fair, it has signed up such names as Cahn International, MacConnal-Mason and Wartski, and was conceived ‘over lunch' by five leading figures in the industry.


Thomas Woodham Smith of Mallet, Robert Procop, president of Asprey, Simon Phillips of Ronald Phillips, Harry Apter of Apter-Fredericks and Harry van der Hoorn of Maastricht builder Stabilo will underwrite the new fair. Nicola Winwood, formerly assistant director at the Grosvenor, is the organiser. ‘We felt the industry needed a shot in the arm,' says chairman Mr Woodham Smith. ‘There is still a tremendous appetite for collecting and decorating and furnishing houses, and we hope this will be something different.'

Masterpiece follows the London International Fine Art Fair at Olympia (June 4-13), Haughton's Art Antiques London (June 10-16) and the Russian, Eastern & Oriental Fine Art Fair (June 9-12). ‘Overall, I think this is a good thing,' comments Ivan Macquisten, editor of Antiques Trade Gazette. ‘It will create a critical mass we haven't seen before. With the Gros-venor gone, there was a vacuum, and the space at the Barracks will mean more opportunities for dealers. There's always a risk, but I'm optimistic.'

Art collector Dirk Hannema proved right as Van Gogh work verified

AN ECCENTRIC art collector mocked for insisting one of his paintings was an unknown van Gogh has been vindicated 25 years after his death.

Nc Museum Of Art Gets Picasso Paintings

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is getting four paintings as it prepares to reopen, including a nude portrait by Pablo Picasso of one of his lovers.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Thursday the paintings are being donated by Julian and Josie Robertson. Julian Robertson is a Salisbury native who owns a hedge fund called Tiger Management.
Deputy art director John Coffey says the museum never would have considered such a painting 50 years ago. He says the museum's collection has always been "polite."
The Picasso is titled "Seated Woman, Red and Yellow Background" and was painted in 1952. It depicts Francoise Gilot, the mother of two of his children.
The museum has been closed since September, while moving more than 750 pieces to a new building. It's scheduled to reopen April 24.

Divvya & Arjun Nirula reveal their artistic side with Captured Glass

For Divvya and Arjun Nirula, their first exhibition together—Captured Glass—is an opportunity to give expression to the family’s artistic talent and thought. The siblings belong to the famous family that set up fast food chain Nirula’s. “I was never cut out to join the family business and have always been keen on creative pursuits. After we sold our stake in the family business, it was time for my parents, my sister and me to actively move into artistic pursuits which we all love. The current exhibition is the first collaborative effort from our family,” says Arjun Nirula.

The exhibition, which is on at Arpana Caur’s Academy of Fine Arts and Literature in Delhi between Feb 20 and Feb 28, showcases work contained within the framework of two traditions - stained glass and stone carvings and etchings.

While Divvya Nirula is an art curator and consultant, Arjun is a film-maker. The family’s Nirula Family Company is into art investment and advisory services. “Even though we advise our clients on how to make money out of art, we also help them to form their own understanding of art. We advise them to invest at least a part of their portfolio on young and upcoming artists,” says Divvya.

The works at the exhibition are inspired by the universal mysticism and balance and was created around the playful nature of light and dark. “We had long discussions with our parents Renoo and Nalin Nirula and the pieces that have been created have become extensions of our discussions and expressions of our perceptions,” adds Divvya.

The family now plans to make this an annual affair. “We are already working on ideas for the next exhibition and I’m travelling to Italy to meet companies that make different kinds of glass. We hope to be able to tie-up with some of them in getting good material into India,” said Divvya Nirula. The family foundation Star Light also plans to provide a platform for various artists and art forms from India and overseas. “We will diversify into various forms including performing arts. From a very young age, I have pursued music and dancing, while my brother has been trained in theatre and films. We will not restrict ourselves to any one art form alone,” she says.

The Captured Glass exhibition is a fusion of western and eastern art forms and combines stained glass and Nakashi work. A diverse range of material has also been used such as glass, stone, wood and semi-precious stone. “This exploration of the battle between light and darkness took us more than a year to put together. There is a huge amount of interest in these works and the exhibition is already 100% sold out. People are showing a great interest in the next exhibition which we plan in a year’s time,” says Arjun Nirula.

What is adding to the interest in the exhibition is the fact that Divyya is curating it herself. It has been divided into four chapters namely The Falling; The Dialectics of Light and Dark; Form - where the artwork is presented in the forms of panels and mandalas and a fountain - and the concluding chapter, which is more of a beginning.

Oil Landscape Paintings by Xiangyuan (Jay) Jie at Walls Fine Art Gallery in Wilmington, NC

An exhibition of landscape paintings by Xiangyuan (Jay) Jie featuring imagery of both the eastern and western United States runs through March 20th at Walls Fine Art Gallery in Wilmington, NC.

Xiangyuan (Jay) Jie, a native of Hunan, China, now lives and paints full time in Atlanta, GA.  He received his formal art education in China, Europe, and the United States. In 1982, Jie graduated with a BFA in theater set design from the Central Academy of Drama at Beijing. He then taught art and design at Hunan University. In 1987 and 1988, Jie studied and lectured at the Ecole Cantonal d’ Art de Lausanne, Switzerland. Upon immigrating to the United States, Jie taught at Auburn University as a visiting professor. In 1995, he received his master’s degree in industrial design from Georgia Tech. Since then, he had been working at the Disney and Fox Feature Animation studios as a background stylist and visual development artist.  His screen credits include Mulan, Tarzan, Lilo & Stitch, Brother Bear, Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown.
“Xiangyuan Jie (affectionately called Master Jay) painted a stunning color script that helped guide us in painting our keys. Master Jay is probably the best painter I have ever met (we don't throw around the title "Master" to just anyone). Sitting next to him was kind of like going to graduate school.” –Robert MacKensie on “Ice Age, The Meltdown”

Jay’s expressive painterly approach is largely influenced by the direct and fluent style of early European, Russian, and American impressionists and realists.  Jie enjoys painting people from life settings and landscape on location wherever he goes on the road trips.

“There’s a hallway on the studio’s third floor where Disney artists show their own work in a gallery setting, and one day the wandering directors were exposed to the work of Xiangyuan (“Jay”) Jie. “Bob and I knew we wanted a real rugged, artful-looking film,” says Blaise. “We didn’t want it to be really detailed and highly rendered.” When they saw Jie’s bold, impressionistic landscapes, they were hooked. “You could see every brushstroke,”

says Bob Walker, “and the way he handles color is incredible.” The rest of the unit was immediately trained to paint like Jie.” –Taylor Jessen, on the film “Brother Bear”

Jie’s artworks have been featured in national and regional juried art exhibitions around the country. He has been published in Artist’s Magazine and International Artist’s Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine. He also received second place in 2003 and the honor award in 2002 and 2005 at the international competition sponsored by the Portrait Society of America. Jie also received third prize in Artist Magazine’s portrait competition in 1999. His landscape paintings were selected for the Top 100 in the 2002 and 2003 “Art for the Parks” competition, and received Landscape Art Award and Grand Teton Natural History Association Purchase Award and Judge's Choice Award.

Xiangyuan (Jay) Jie is a member of the Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Plein Air Painters of West. 

Michelangelo drawing show explores the hand of a master

Michelangelo created this circa 1532 study of a soldier for a work known as the "Resurrection of Christ." (Courtesy of Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy / February 16, 2010)

Even in his own lifetime, the works of Michelangelo stood out in ways that commanded awe and reverence.

While many other Italian Renaissance artists strove to understand the unclothed figures of their subjects, he often peered beneath the skin to understand the exact relationship of the bones, tendons and muscles.

And where others sought to depict lifelike physical forms, "Il Divino" — as he was often called by his admiring peers — injected his twisting, turning portraits with such convincing energy that they bristled with emotional and spiritual life as well as movement.

Such unequaled understanding of the human body revolutionized the world of sculpture and painting — and helped make 16th-century Italian art one of the high-water marks of Western Civilization. But in Michelangelo's ceaselessly restless hands, it rewrote the laws of architecture, too, introducing a game-changing approach to building design based on the parts, as well as the bilateral symmetry of the human face and body.

"When people think of architecture, they think of mathematical precision. But Michelangelo didn't see it that way," says Aaron De Groft, director of the Muscarelle Museum of Art, which explores the subject in "Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture, Drawings by the Master."

"He trusted his eyes — because he knew it not only had to be right, it had to look right, too. And he trusted his understanding of human anatomy because, to him, you couldn't understand architecture until you understood anatomy."

Drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy — which was Michelangelo's ancestral home — this small group of about a dozen images represents a genuinely rare opportunity to look first-hand into the mind of one of history's greatest artists.

Though he was known to draw incessantly — using and reusing sheets of paper to explore the faces, figures, muscles and bones of his subjects, as well as the forms and ornaments of his buildings — only about 600 sheets survived after the artist began destroying them shortly before his death at the age of 88 in 1564.

Fewer than 20 examples can be found in American museums. Several important small groups reside in the vaults of the Louvre, the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University, Windsor Castle and the British Museum. Yet even the largest surviving collection at the Casa Buonarroti numbers just more than 200 sheets of drawings.

"These are his ideas — his preparatory studies — and with multiple images per page, there originally would have been thousands of them. So you're seeing inside his mind," De Groft says.

"But he didn't want people to see the struggles behind his work — and he burned most of them before he died."

Indeed, Michelangelo used his drawings like a workbench and his crayons and pens like tools, pressing them into service whenever he needed to perfect the ideas found in his sculptures, architectural designs and paintings.

Despite this utilitarian attitude, however, his genius as a draftsman easily matched if not surpassed his other artistic talents as a sculptor and painter. So even the quickest, most fragmented and seemingly most casual sketch shows the incontrovertible hand of a master.

"Michelangelo had a very special quality of expression that was recognized in his own time — and these drawings are part of that," says College of William and Mary professor emeritus Miles Chappell, who collaborated with De Groft on the exhibit.

"They're sketchy, but they're also full of life — and they're an indispensable part of the mosaic of his work."

Michelangelo drew in the Florentine style he learned as a young man, delineating the contours of his subject first, then following up with hatched lines to add shading.

He also used a quick, masterful and decisive line, Chappell says, altering its width and weight to produce a nearly infinite range of expression.

Sometimes he peers inside the body, as in the anatomical studies of torsos and legs that might have been conducted in preparation for two male figures sculpted for the Medici Chapel. Other times he explores the surface, as in a circa 1525 sketch tracing the way light falls across the muscled back of a classical Venus.

In another study of a soldier witnessing the resurrection of Christ, the artist's habitual attention to the evocative power of physical detail is so well-honed that you can almost feel the sense of tension, surprise and alarm in the headless figure's muscles.

"There's nothing here but a few lines," Chappell says. "But you can really sense the expression he was looking for."
Michelangelo devoted equal attention to his architectural studies, sketching tirelessly in search of forms, proportions and ornaments that would not only echo the lessons of the human body but also suggest its energy and emotions.

Among the most persuasive examples on view here is a study for the Medici Chapel, where the elaborate bases of the pilasters against the tomb's walls resemble the profile of a face consumed by sorrow.

Even in Michelangelo's day, his biographers noted that such devices were designed to echo the qualities expressed more overtly in the artist's figure sculptures.

That enabled the seemingly inanimate parts of the building to cry out in unison with its marble figures.

"There's real anguish in this room," De Groft says, studying a photograph of the finished chapel. "Everything about the architecture here is calculated to evoke sadness."

G-tokyo: The 'boutique' art fair

Quality over quantity: A view of G-tokyo art fair, which was held on Jan. 30-31 and had only 15 booths, including one from the Kodama Art Gallery (below). KEIZO KIOKU PHOTO

Although its contemporary art market is considered small in relation to the country's overall economy, Japan has no shortage of commercial art fairs.

Events held in the past year including Art@Agnes (since discontinued), Art Fair Tokyo, 101Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair, Tokyo Photo and Ultra: Emerging Directors Art Fair have all sought to tap into a limited collector base, all to varying degrees of success. Some fairs focus exclusively on local art galleries and others attempt to attract international participants while Art Fair Tokyo, notably, presents contemporary art alongside antiquities and other genres.

The latest fair to join the crowded art calendar is G-tokyo, which launched on Jan. 29 with a VIP preview and concluded Jan. 31. Organized by a committee of five leading galleries and fair director Toshiko Ferrier, G-tokyo was designed with the limitations of the domestic market in mind. It featured only 15 participants, with boxlike booths arranged along a single connecting corridor in the Mori Arts Center Gallery on the 52nd floor of the Mori Tower overlooking Roppongi.

The no-nonsense layout and the venue's wood flooring, high ceilings and crisp lighting resulted in a clean, easy viewing experience. All 15 participating galleries recorded sales by the end of the fair's run, and collectors expressed satisfaction with the wares on offer.

Dealers who spoke with The Japan Times said that they conducted most of their business during the preview. Sueo Mizuma of Mizuma Art Gallery devoted his booth to artist Akira Yamaguchi's "The Art of Electric Pole Arrangement," comprising drawings, paintings and sculptures imagining a fictional society dedicated to the aesthetic presentation of electric poles in the urban environment. Mizuma said that he sold almost all of the works, starting from ¥500,000, within the first 10 minutes of opening, and eventually sold out his entire booth.

Hidenori Ota of Ota Fine Arts was also busy, selling works by gallery artists Tomoko Kashiki, Yayoi Kusama and Yee Sookyung. A Korean collector beat out an Indonesian competitor for Kusama's colorful self-portrait, quoted by a gallery staff member as being between ¥20 million and ¥30 million. Wako Works of Art found numerous buyers for its installation of Gerhard Richter's mixed-media "Overpainted Photographs," which ranged from ¥2.9 million to ¥3.6 million although there were no takers for a ¥240 million large-scale painting by the German blue chip artist.

Works that remained unsold by the third day underscored the limitations of the local market. Measuring over two meters high, Tamotsu Ikeya's handsome canvas covered in a patchwork of thick, colored paint scored with concentric lines was a steal at ¥450,000 at Kodama Art Gallery, but remained unclaimed. Gallery staff said that potential buyers were hesitant about the size of the work, which would not fit into most Japanese homes.

Still, Tokyo's leading collectors all turned up for the preview, including Toshio Hara, founder of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art; Eijiro Imafuku, publisher of the online art publication ART-iT; and Takeo Obayashi, whose nonprofit Backers Foundation sponsors international artist and curator residencies in Tokyo. Additionally, snatches of Mandarin, Korean, French and English could be heard throughout the venue.

Imafuku said that he was impressed with the professional look of the fair.

"With only 15 galleries, there's a limitation on what you can see, but the booths with new works are very interesting," he said. "I think the concern going forward is how to expand the fair without losing quality."

Obayashi was also positive, saying, "In the current economic climate, if you have clients coming from overseas and have dealers making sales, then that's a success."

Shinwa Art Auction President Yoichiro Kurata, launching a new joint venture in Hong Kong, the Asian Art Auction Alliance Company, brought collectors' groups from China and Taiwan to visit the fair. He explained that although the Chinese collectors were not so active on this trip, he expected them to return. "They are not very familiar with international contemporary art, so this time their focus was on looking and studying," he said. "They are very interested and I think they will be back."

While visitors generally said all the right things, fair participants themselves took the initiative in offering suggestions for improvement. Dealer Ota jokingly compared the fair to the Liberal Democratic Party, the conservative party that has run Japan for most of its postwar history.

Similarly, Junko Shimada of Gallery Side 2 said that while she felt G-tokyo's central location had provided incredible visibility, one aspect to improve upon with future editions would be to allow room for more project-based participation.

Galleries not included in the fair, which did not have an application process, organized their own counter activities. Wada Fine Arts spearheaded Mancy's Tokyo Art Nights on Jan. 30 and 31 at the Azabu-Juban venue Mancy's Tokyo, a deluxe karaoke and nightlife parlor where exhibitors were each given private rooms. Wada played video art on the karaoke monitors, while Mori Yu Gallery spread paintings, drawings and other works across a king-size bed.

Taking a long-term approach, the young galleries association New Tokyo Contemporaries has organized a series of monthlong events and collaborations between artists and emerging creators from fields including architecture, design and fashion, which kicked off with a party at the still unopened Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Marunouchi on Jan. 30.

Prior to the launch of G-tokyo, director Ferrier, who has a background as a collector and art consultant, said that she would seriously consider expanding participation to other local and international galleries, although she stressed that producing a navigable, "boutique" experience was core to the fair's identity.

"Collectors want good works; they don't want events," she said. "They want to be assured that if they go to a fair then they can find good works, and that's what G-tokyo offers."

Later, she acknowledged the bottom line in the fair business. "If you don't create a hierarchy," she said, "the market can't develop."

Giacometti statue claims highest price ever at auction

A sculpture from the 1960s has achieved world fame overnight after becoming the most expensive artwork ever sold at an auction. Its previous owner, a German bank, already has plans for the profits generated by the sale.

A life-size bronze sculpture entitled "L'homme qui marche I" ("Walking Man I") by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti has been sold by the Sotheby's auction house in London for 65 million pounds ($104.3 million). This is the highest price ever paid for a work of art at an auction.

According to Sotheby's, it only took eight minutes of "fast and furious" bidding between ten prospective buyers before the piece was sold to an anonymous phone bidder. It had been estimated to sell for 12 to 18 million pounds.

The thin sculpture depicts a man in mid-stride with his arms hanging at his side. Commenting on the price achieved in the sale, Helena Newman, vice chairman of Sotheby's impressionist and modern art department worldwide, said, "The price is a reflection of the extraordinary importance of this exceptionally rare work, and the only life-time cast of this iconic subject ever to have come to auction."

The piece broke the price record previously held by Picasso's 1905 "Garcon a la Pipe" ("Boy with a Pipe"), which had sold for $104.2 million at a 2004 New York auction.

German bank's giant asset

Cast in 1961, "L'Homme Qui Marche I" belonged to the art collection of Germany's Dresdner Bank before coming into possession of Commerzbank when it took over Dresdner Bank in 2009.

Following the unexpected price record, Commerzbank is "very happy about this big success," a spokeswoman for the bank told Deutsche Welle. Proceeds from the sale are to go towards supporting Commerzbank's foundations and a number of selected museums.

"Promoting cultural education is one of the key aims of the Commerzbank foundations," said Klaus-Peter Mueller, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Commerzbank and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Commerzbank Foundation."

Established in 1970, the Commerzbank Foundation has an endowment capital of 53 million euros ($73 million) and is the most significant of all foundations operated by the bank. In 2008, the Commerzbank Foundation committed funds of approximately 1.5 million euros, 35 percent of which went to art and cultural projects.

Commerzbank is set to restructure the art collection of the former Dresdner Bank as part of the ongoing integration process. Around 100 outstanding modern and contemporary works will be made available to museums in Frankfurt, Dresden and Berlin on a permanent loan basis.

"We want as many people as possible to be able to see the works in the art collection of the former Dresdner Bank, and are keen to support the museums in expanding the focus of their collections," said Martin Blessing, CEO of Commerzbank.

Johns, Picasso to Top $30 Million Sale of Writer Crichton’s Art

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Christie’s International is to sell four paintings from the collection of the best-selling author Michael Crichton, with a total value of at least $30 million.
A Jasper Johns “Flag” and works by Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein bought by the late Beverly Hills-based novelist will be sold in New York on May 11 and go on show in London today, the auction house said in an e-mail.
Confidence is returning in art sales after record prices, said dealers, such as the 65 million pounds ($103.4 million) paid for an Alberto Giacometti sculpture at Sotheby’s.
“We wanted to capitalize on the marketplace in London,” Brett Gorvy, deputy chairman of Christie’s, Americas, said in an interview. “The new emerging buyers such as Russians are much more present. It’s the perfect time to offer a 1960s Picasso.”
Like all four works in the Crichton group, Picasso’s 1961 painting of a woman and two girls, “Femme et Fillettes” (Woman and Children), has yet to receive an individual valuation. The writer’s family beneficiaries have not been guaranteed a minimum price, said Gorvy.
“We’re waiting to see how the London sales perform next week, then calibrate the estimates from there,” said Gorvy. The Crichton works will be shown next to lots that Christie’s will be offering in its Feb. 11 contemporary sale.
Late paintings by Picasso have been in demand from wealthy collectors. At Christie’s Feb. 2 auction, Picasso’s 1963 painting “Tete de Femme (Jacqueline)” was the top lot with a price of 8.1 million pounds with fees, double the upper estimate.
Graff’s Picasso
The painting was bought by the London-based collector Laurence Graff, chairman of Graff Diamonds Limited, against competition from Russian bidders. The purchase was confirmed yesterday in an e-mail to Bloomberg News from Penny Weatherall, Graff’s personal assistant.
Crichton, who died aged 66 in November 2008, was the author of scientific thrillers that sold more than 150 million copies worldwide, such as “The Andromeda Strain” and “Jurassic Park.” He was also known for the television series “ER.”
The novelist was an authority on -- and friend of -- Johns, writing the catalog for the artist’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1977.
Johns’s painted newspaper collage “Flag,” dating from 1960 to 1966, is likely to be the most valuable work in the group. The 2-foot-3-inch-wide canvas was acquired by Crichton directly from the artist in 1974 and has never appeared at auction, said Christie’s.
The artist’s ‘Flag’ paintings are recognized as among the first images of Pop Art, challenging the supremacy of Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Much prized by museums and private collectors, they rarely appear at auction.
The 1973 example, “Two Flags,” sold for $12.1 million in Sotheby’s, New York, in November 1989. The price is an auction record for a Johns ‘flag,’ according to the Artnet database.
Rauschenberg’s “Studio Painting (Combine)” dating from 1960 to 1961, and Lichtenstein’s 1965 “Girl in Water” complete the quartet. The paintings are on show in London through Feb. 12.

Rare, old painting of N.Y. Harbor to be auctioned

BRANFORD — The old, nautical painting, donated to the James Blackstone Memorial Library many years ago by one of the town’s old families, sat for decades in storage. Then, during library renovations a few years back, it was rediscovered. The library brought in an expert to clean and restore the painting and research its origin. As it turns out, the painting proved to be a rare view of New York Harbor around 1884 by Danish-American painter Mathias Jakob Frederik Lutken, who lived from 1841 to 1905, spent the last 25 years of his life in this country and specialized in painting maritime scenes.

Now it’s being offered up to the world. It will be auctioned off Tuesday as part of a major auction of maritime art and antiques by Bonhams & Butterfield, which bills itself as “the world’s oldest and largest auctioneer of fine art and antiques still in British ownership. ”Proceeds from the sale — which Bonhams, as it is known, estimates is likely to bring $8,000 to $12,000 — will help support the libary. Douglas Armistead of The Frame Gallery in North Branford, who cleaned and restored the painting, called it “ an unusually large and impressive waterscape.

“It’s a major work by this artist,” said Armistead, who donated his services to clean and restore the painting, but will be paid a percentage upon its sale. “No one’s seen one this big — most of the other works that we know about are much smaller. This one is 31 by 49 without the frame, which is very large.”

“Anyone who is interested in the history of sail would be interested in this,” Armistead said.

“This particular view is really a time capsule because it shows four different types of watercraft: the main one is a barkentine, second is a schooner-pilot boat, the third is a cat boat, and the fourth is a sidewheeler steamboat ferry,” which “speaks to the age of steam” and sets the painting in time, he said.

The view “appears to be off the Battery, looking south toward Governor’s Island,” with “boats ... rounding the tip of Manhattan,” Armistead said. “A storm has just cleared and the water is just beautiful.”

The painting can be viewed and bid on online by navigating fromhttp://www.bonhams.com. Look for marine paintings and decorative arts under “Sales This Week.”

According to Armistead, who often works with the Branford Historical Society, the L�tken painting was one of 15 to 20 “that had accumulated over many years” in the Blackstone Library. “Most were sold off earlier.”

“This one, they couldn’t really tell what it was,” Armistead said. “It was so dirty and the varnish was so dark that you needed a halogen light to see it at all.”

When Library Director Kathy Reiger called Armistead in through Jane Bouley of the Branford Historical Society, “they said they wanted to do something with it. They wanted to move it along,” he said.

“I really have no idea how the library ended up with it,” said Library Director Kathy Rieger, who has been with the library for six years. “It had been in storage for many years.”

She said that proceeds from the sale would most likely go into the library’s endowment fund, although she had no idea how much it really might fetch. Initially, “we were in an area of the auction world where things had slowed down considerably,” said Armistead. But then, “we found that things had opened up a little” and he found someone interested in selling it in Gregg Dietrich, an auction house veteran and authority on maritime paintings who was putting together Tuesday’s maritime auction for Bonhams.
 
Dietrich said he thinks the painting has a good chance of selling. “First of all, I think it’s a beautful painting.,” he said. “While very dark, it’s beautifully painted.” The subject, New York Harbor, “always draws a lot of interest, regardless of who the painter is...because a lot of these older paintings document details” of things that no longer exist, but which still interest people, Dietrich said. Lutken “is well-known,” he said. “He has quite a few different sales records.”

But “based on the square inch, it’s a very good value ... and we have had a fair amount of interest in it,” Dietrich said. “We do have a couple of (absentee) bids on it already.”

EXPO ON PAINTINGS OF MYSORE'S HERITAGE BUILDINGS

Mysore, Jan. 25 (KMC)- Nanna Preethiya Mysooru, a solo painting exhibition by artist Nanda R. 

Putty, dedicated to her father Raghothama Putty, an accomplished artist, was inaugurated by 

Dr. R. Gopal, Director of Archaeology, at Prathima Gallery opposite Zoo in city yesterday.

Speaking on the occasion, he suggested that a University must be set up in city exclusively for 

The three-day exhibition displays most of the heritage buildings of Mysore depicted in colourful 


paintings, 47 in all. The expo will be open to public from 10 am to 7 pm till Jan. 26.
identifying and developing drawing and painting skills among the art enthusiasts.

"Despite being called as a cultural capital of Karnataka, Mysore does not have an adequate 

(art) gallery," regretted Dr. Gopal and suggested that the land near Chamundi Vihar Stadium 

could be used for the proposed art gallery for which there was ample funds with Archaeology 

Department. He suggested that a committee be constituted for the project.

Van Gogh Painting in $150M Court Dispute

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“The Night Cafe” was painted in Arles, France in 1888 by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh, who once described it as “one of the ugliest pictures I have done.”

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — A Van Gogh painting at the center of a dispute between Yale University and a man who believes that the artwork was stolen from his family during the Russian Revolution is worth $120 million to $150 million, the man's attorney said.

The evaluation is the first public estimate of the painting's value, and the lawyer, Allan Gerson, said Friday that it comes from a top auction firm.

Gerson represents Pierre Konowaloff, the purported great-grandson of industrialist and aristocrat Ivan Morozov, who bought "The Night Cafe" in 1908. Russia nationalized Morozov's property during the Communist revolution, and the Soviet government later sold the painting.

The artwork, which shows the inside of a nearly empty cafe with a few customers seated at tables along the walls, has been hanging in the Yale University Art Gallery for almost 50 years.

A Yale spokesman said the university could not offer a value of the 1888 painting, saying the goal is to have it on public display for perpetuity.

Yale filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court in March to assert its ownership rights over "The Night Cafe" and to block Konowaloff from claiming it.

Yale claims that the ownership of tens of billions of dollars of art and other goods could be thrown into doubt if Konowaloff is allowed to take the painting. Any federal court invalidation of Russian nationalization decrees from the early 20th century would also create tensions between the United States and Russia, Yale argues.

The university says former owners have challenged titles to other property seized from them in Russia, but their claims were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court and state, federal and foreign courts.

"Yale is confident that the court will see through Konowaloff's latest rhetoric and recognize that he is asking a U.S. court to turn back the clock 90 years and undo the Russian Revolution," Yale said Friday.

Gerson said in court papers Thursday that Yale was engaging in "scare tactics." He said neither Russia nor the United States expressed any concerns about the case and that any ruling would not affect Russian paintings.

Gerson says the trend by U.S. courts has been to

invalidate confiscations of art. He said in court papers that Yale's argument amounted to compelling U.S. courts to "rubber-stamp good title on any dictator's plunder."

Yale received the painting through a bequest from Yale alumnus Stephen Carlton Clark. The school says Clark bought the painting from a gallery in New York City in 1933 or 1934.

Konowaloff has filed court papers calling Yale's

acquisition "art laundering." He argues that Russian

authorities unlawfully confiscated the painting and that the United States deemed the theft a violation of international law.

Mona Lisa mystery: Is da Vinci painting of bearded man?

The Mona Lisa's mysterious smile may hide an uncomfortable secret - that she's really a bearded MAN.

Some scientists believe the world's most famous painting could be a disguised self-portrait of artist Leonardo da Vinci.

And now they want to test their amazing theory by getting permission to exhume the remains of Leonardo and study his skull.

Anthropologist Giorgio Gruppioni said the project could throw new light on Leonardo's famed work, explaining: "If we find his skull, we could rebuild Leonardo's face and compare it with the Mona Lisa."

The identity of the Mona Lisa has been debated for centuries, with speculation ranging from Leonardo's mother to Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine merchant.

Some scholars have suggested that Leonardo's presumed homosexuality and love of riddles led him to paint himself as a woman.

American expert Lillian Schwartz drew on computer studies to highlight apparent similarities between the features of the Mona Lisa and those of a self-portrait by the artist. A team from Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage , a leading association of scientists and art historians, has now asked to open his tomb.

The Renaissance painter is buried at Amboise castle, in France's Loire valley, where he died in 1519, aged 67.

After talks with French cultural officials and the owners of the chateau the Italians hope to receive the go-ahead this summer.

Silvano Vincenti, head of the team, said its first step would be to verify the remains are those of Leonardo by using carbon dating and comparing DNA from the bones with that from known relatives.

The tests could also reveal if he died of a disease such as syphilis or tuberculosis.

Bone tests may also establish whether Leonardo suffered lead poisoning due to toxic pigments in paint.

But the plans are going down like a lead balloon with some scholars.

Nicholas Turner, a former curator of drawings at the Getty Museum, said: "It sounds a bit fanciful, slightly mad, as if the Leonardo bug has taken hold too firmly in the minds of these people.

"We know Mona Lisa was a specific person, she existed and it's her portrait. If Leonardo heard about all this, he would have a good chuckle."

Picasso painting ripped by New York woman's fall

The painting should be repaired in time for an April exhibition

A woman who was taking an art class at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has accidentally fallen into a Picasso painting and damaged it. The painting called The Actor sustained a vertical tear of about six inches (15cm) in the lower right-hand corner. But the damage did not affect the "focal point of the composition" and should be repaired for an exhibition later this year, the museum said. The work from the Rose period was painted in the winter of 1904-1905. The repair should be completed in time for the Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, which will feature some 250 works from the museum's collection and is due to open at the end of April. The unusually large canvas, measuring 6ft by 4ft (1.8m by 1.2m) and which depicts an acrobat posed against an abstracted backdrop, was damaged on Friday

Van Gogh exhibition launches in London

Relatives of Vincent Van Gogh have launched a major exhibition of the artist's work in London.

The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters opens at the Royal Academy of Arts on Saturday.

The exhibition features 35 letters written by Van Gogh, as well as paintings and drawings reflecting themes in the correspondence.

This is the first major exhibition of Van Gogh's work to be held in London since 1968.

Highlights of the exhibition include Self-Portrait As An Artist (1888), The Yellow House (1888), Still-Life: With A Plate Of Onions (1889) and Van Gogh's Chair (1888).

Josien Van Gogh, the great-great-granddaughter of Van Gogh's brother Theo, to whom the artist wrote most of his letters, said it was a very important exhibition.

"To combine the letters with the paintings is wonderful," said Ms Van Gogh, who is also chair of the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation.

"The letters tell us everything about Van Gogh. In his letters he is angry, he is happy, he is sad, he reads a lot. He talks about the weather, things he sees, people he meets, and I think you get to know the person very well."

Art enthusiast John Trew studies the works by Van Gogh

Willem Van Gogh said growing up knowing the artist as a relative was a "very normal" part of their lives.

"I remember very well that when I visited houses of friends they would have reproductions of the Sunflowers on their walls, I would think 'oh, he is a relative of mine'.

"When you get older you get to appreciate it a lot more that he was so special and extraordinary. Sometimes for me it is breathtaking to look at his paintings, and some of the paintings here I have never seen before."

Curator Ann Dumas said: "Van Gogh is obviously extremely famous as a painter but less well known is that he was a talented writer and a prolific letter writer.

"The letters are extremely revealing. He writes in great detail about individual works of art, he often includes sketches of works of art that he had recently completed to give his correspondent, usually his brother Theo, an idea of his latest work.

A letter the artist sent to Australian artist John Peter Russell in 1888

"We discover a very different Van Gogh from the one of popular myth that he was just a crazy artist who cut off his ear and eventually killed himself. Although both of those facts are true, what comes out of the letters is that he was a very thoughtful, very reflective man, very highly educated and a phenomenal reader.

"His letters are full of fascinating reflections about art and life, as well as much more detailed information about how he was teaching himself to be an artist and about how he thought about and made his works of art."

                                                             

THE MOST EXPENSIVE PAINTINGS EVER SOLD

There are a lot of lists in Internet talking about "the 10 most expensive paintings ever sold", or something like that. But unfortunately, most of these lists are incorrect, often being obsoletes, often ignoring the private sales and talking only about those pictures sold at auction. Here I tried to create a list as exact and complete as possible, and I'll try to keep it actualized. At the end of the list I've added a few works whose price has not being confirmed despite the rumours about exorbitant sums

1. JACKSON POLLOCK

"Number 5, 1948", 1948 
$140 million

Private sale, 2006. Seller: David Geffen. Buyer: David Martínez (rumoured, denied by Martinez)Right now, this stunning "drip" by Jackson Pollock is the most expensive painting ever sold, though the stunning price is still not confirmed (but also not denied). The exorbitant sum demonstrates not only the strenght of the Art market, but also the increasing interest for the contemporary works of Art.

2. WILLEM DE KOONING
"Woman III", 1952-53
$137.5 million
Private sale, 2006. Seller: David Geffen. Buyer: Steven Cohen
Pollock the first. De Kooning second. The inmediate conclusion is that the american abstract expressionism has displaced the impressionism as the most sought-after Art period. This painting is the only "Woman" by Willem de Kooning still in private hands. One of this women -described by T. Hess as "black goddesses"- has been chosen by theartwolf.com as one of the 50 masterworks of the history of painting.

3. GUSTAV KLIMT

"Adele Bloch-bauer I", 1907
$135 million
Private sale, 2006. Buyer: Ronald Lauder.
The acquisition of this iconic work by cosmetic magnate Ronald Lauder caused a shock in the Art world, not only for the spectacular sum paid for it, but also for the way it was sold, far away from the noisy auction houses. The painting was part of a group of five canvases recently returned to the heirs of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. The Nazis confiscated his paintings during the World War II, and after the war, the canvases were placed at the National Gallery of Austria in 1948.

4. PABLO PICASSO

"Garçon a la pipe", 1904
$104.1 million
Sotheby's New York , May 2004. Buyer: anonymous
The sale of this young smoker was a milestone in the Art auctions world. First, it's still the most expensive painting ever sold at auction (the case of the Klimt is a private sale). But it also broke the record that Vincent van Gogh held since 1990, and it was the first time that the $100 million barrier was broken. Although the name of the buyer was not revealed, some sources says that it could be Guido Barilla, the Italian pasta magnate.

5. ANDY WARHOL
"Eight Elvises", 1963
$100 million
Private sale, 2008. Buyer: anonymous
This unique work by Warhol, measuring over 12 feet long, was at the collection of Roman collector Annibale Berlingieri for over 40 years. It surpassed the previous world record for a Wahol, the $71.7 million paid at Christie's New York in 2007 for "Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)"

6. PABLO PICASSO

"Dora Maar au chat", 1941
$95.2 million
Sotheby's New York , May 2006. Buyer: anonymous
Dora Maar (1907-1997) met Picasso in 1930, and their sentimental relation lasts until 1946. A native from Paris, grown in Argentina and fluent in Spanish, Maar was one of Picasso's favourite models. This painting, measuring 130- 97 cm, was recently rediscovered and authenticated by Picasso's daughter, Maya Widmaier Picasso. You can read theArtWolf's article informing about this sale in this link.

7. TITIAN

"Diana and Actaeon", 1556-1559
$91 million
Private sale, February 2009. Buyer: United Kingdom
This work have all the splendour and glory of the best of Titian's poetries. It was previously at the collection of the Duke of Sutherland, who offered it to the U.K. It has a "sister picture", "Diana and Callisto"

8. GUSTAV KLIMT

"Adele Bloch-bauer II ", 1912
$87.9 million
Christie's New York , November 2006. Buyer: unknown
Sold only a few months later than Klimt's first version of Adele, this extremely appealing canvas was the star lot in a highly succesful auction in which four works by Klimt -including this- totalled a stunning $192 million

9. FRANCIS BACON
"Tryptich 1976"
$86.3 million
Sotheby's New York , May 2008. Buyer: European private
Francis Bacon is one of the most sought-after names in the Art market, and this work easily surpassed its impressive $70 million estimate

10. VINCENT VAN GOGH

"Portrait of Doctor Gachet", 1890
$82.5 million
Christie's New York , May 1990. Buyer: Ryoei Saito
The story about this famous and brilliant work resumes by itself the "Japanese buyer boom" on the late 80s and early 90s: great painting, sold for an astronomic amount of money to a Japanese buyer (Ryoei Saito), who was later ruined, and the whereabouts of the painting are now unknown. Some sources places it in Europe , waiting for its return to the Art market

ART MUSEUM

Art museum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest, Willem van Haecht, 1628. A private picture gallery as an early precursor of the modern museum.



The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, United States.



The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.

The Louvre in Paris, France.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.

The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany.

The Uffizi in Florence, Italy.

The Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, Russia.

São Paulo Museum of Art in São Paulo, Brazil.
An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. Museum can be public or private but what distinguishes a Museum is the ownership of a collection. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculpture, photographs, illustrations, installation art and objects from the applied arts may also be shown. Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as music concerts or poetry readings.
Contents
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• 1 Types of galleries
o 1.1 Galleries in museums
o 1.2 Contemporary art gallery
o 1.3 Online galleries
o 1.4 Vanity galleries
• 2 Visual art not shown in a gallery
• 3 Architecture
• 4 Major art museums
o 4.1 Africa
o 4.2 Asia
o 4.3 Europe
o 4.4 North America
o 4.5 Oceania
o 4.6 Latin America
• 5 List of notable contemporary galleries
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• 8 External Links
[edit] Types of galleries
The term is used for both public galleries, which are museums for the display of selected collection of art. On the other hand private galleries refers to the commercial enterprises for the sale of art. However, both types of gallery may host traveling exhibits or temporary exhibitions including art borrowed from elsewhere.
[edit] Galleries in museums
The rooms in museums where art is displayed for the public are often referred to as galleries as well, with a room dedicated to Ancient Egyptian art often being called the Egypt Gallery, for example.
[edit] Contemporary art gallery
Main article: Contemporary art gallery
The term contemporary art gallery refers usually to a privately owned for-profit commercial gallery. These galleries are often found clustered together in large urban centers. The Chelsea district of New York City, for example, is widely considered to be the center of the contemporary art world. Smaller cities are usually home to at least one gallery, but they may also be found in towns or villages, and remote areas where artists congregate, e.g. the Taos art colony and St Ives, Cornwall.
Contemporary art galleries are usually open to the general public without charge; however, some are semi-private. They usually profit by taking a cut of the art's sales; from 25 to 50% is usual. There are also many not-for-profit and art-collective galleries. Some galleries in cities like Tokyo charge the artists a flat rate per day, though this is considered distasteful in some international art markets. Galleries often hang solo shows. Curators often create group shows that say something about a certain theme, trend in art, or group of associated artists. Galleries sometimes choose to represent artists exclusively, giving them the opportunity to show regularly.
A gallery's definition can also include the artist run centre, which often (in North America and Western Europe) operates as a space with a more democratic selection and mentality. An artist-run space also typically has a board of directors and a support staff that select and curate shows by committee, or some kind of similar process to choose art that typically lacks commercial ends.
[edit] Online galleries
With the emergence of the internet many artists and gallery owners have opened art galleries online.
• International Art Gallery - www.internationalartgallery.org - Airbrush, Ceramics And Glass, Paintings, Photography, Sculptures, Tapestries, Tattoo...
• Premier Gallery - www.premiergallery.co.uk - Gallery of art & photography - serving artists, photographers, art lovers and print collectors
• [1] - BBL Gallery is a gallery dedicated to artists by artists as well as a destination for art makers and art lovers alike.The ultimate goal of BBL is to give emerging and underexposed artists recognition and exposure.
[edit] Vanity galleries
Main article: Vanity gallery
A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges fees from artists in order to show their work, much like a vanity press does for authors. The shows are not legitimately curated and will frequently or usually include as many artists as possible. Most art professionals are able to identify them on an artist's resume.
[edit] Visual art not shown in a gallery
Works on paper, such as drawings and old master prints are usually not chosen by curators to be permanently displayed for conservation reasons. Instead, any collection is held in a print room in the museum. Murals generally remain where they have been painted, although many have been removed to galleries. Various forms of 20th century art, such as land art and performance art, also usually exist outside a gallery. Photographic records of these kinds of art are often shown in galleries, however. Most museum and large art galleries own more works than they have room to display. The rest are held in reserve collections, on or off-site.
Similar to an art gallery is the sculpture garden (or sculpture park), which presents sculpture in an outdoor space. Sculpture installation has grown in popularity, whereby temporary sculptures are installed in open spaces during events like festivals.
[edit] Architecture
The architectural form of the art gallery was established by Sir John Soane with his design for the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1817. This established the gallery as a series of interconnected rooms with largely uninterrupted wall spaces for hanging pictures and indirect lighting from skylights or roof lanterns.
The late 19th century saw a boom in the building of public art galleries in Europe and America, becoming an essential cultural feature of larger cities. More art galleries rose up alongside museums and public libraries as part of the municipal drive for literacy and public education.
In the middle and late 20th century earlier architecural styles employed for art museums (such as the Beaux-Arts style of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City or the Gothic and Renaissance Revival architecture of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum) were increasingly replaced with more modern styles, such as Deconstructivism. Examples of this trend include the Guggenheim Museum in New York City by Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Mario Botta's redesign of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Some critics argue that these galleries are self-defeating, in that their dramatic interior spaces distract the eye from the paintings they are supposed to exhibit.

[edit] Major art museums

The Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.

The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France.

Inside the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom.

Inside the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Miami Art Museum in Miami, Florida, United States.

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (National Galerie of Liechtenstein), Vaduz, Liechtenstein.

Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France.

Grand hall inside the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany.

Grand hall inside the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary.

Grand hall inside the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.

The Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland.

The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Czartoryski Museum in Kraków, Poland.

The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

The front of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

The Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, United States.

The National Art Gallery in Islamabad, Pakistan.

The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Israel.

The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran.
[edit] Africa
• Cairo: Egyptian Museum, Museum of Islamic Art
• Cape Town: South African National Gallery
• Harare: National Gallery of Zimbabwe
• Johannesburg: MuseuMAfricA, Johannesburg Art Gallery
[edit] Asia
• Baghdad: National Museum of Iraq
• Beijing: Palace Museum
• Dhaka: Zainul Gallery
• Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art
• Islamabad: National Art Gallery Islamabad
• Jakarta: Indonesian National Gallery
• Jerusalem: Israel Museum, Rockefeller Museum
• New Delhi: National Gallery of Modern Art, National Museum
• Seoul: National Museum of Korea
• Shanghai: Shanghai Museum
• Taipei: National Palace Museum
• Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum
• National Art Gallery, Islamabad
[edit] Europe
• Amsterdam: Hermitage Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Van Gogh Museum
• Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet
• Albi: Musée Toulouse-Lautrec
• Antwerp: Royal Museum of Fine Arts
• Arles: Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques
• Athens: National Archaeological Museum of Athens, New Acropolis Museum
• Bagnols-sur-Cèze: Musée Albert-André
• Barcelona: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Museu Picasso
• Barnard Castle: Bowes Museum
• Basel: Kunstmuseum
• Bath: Holburne Museum of Art
• Berlin: Pergamonmuseum, Bodemuseum, Altes Museum, Neues Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie, Gemäldegalerie, Neue Nationalgalerie, Museum Berggruen, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Brücke-Museum, Friedrichswerder Church, Berlinische Galerie
• Bern: Kunstmuseum, Zentrum Paul Klee
• Bilbao: Guggenheim Museum
• Biot, Alpes-Maritimes: Musée Fernand Léger
• Birmingham: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Barber Institute of Fine Arts
• Bremen: Kunsthalle
• Bristol (UK): Royal West of England Academy, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
• Bruges: Groeningemuseum, Old St John’s Hospital
• Brussels: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Cinquantenaire Museum, Horta Museum
• Bucharest: National Museum of Art of Romania, The Art Collections Museum, K.H. Zambaccian Museum, Theodor Pallady Museum
• Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Applied Arts, Hungarian National Gallery
• Cádiz: Museo de Cádiz
• Caen: Musée des Beaux-Arts
• Cambridge (UK): Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle's Yard
• Cardiff: National Museum
• Castres: Musée Goya
• Chantilly: Musée Condé
• Chemnitz: Museum Gunzenhauser
• Clermont-Ferrand: Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot
• Colmar: Unterlinden Museum
• Cologne: Museum Ludwig, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Romano-Germanic Museum, Museum Schnütgen
• Copenhagen: Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Statens Museum for Kunst, Thorvaldsens Museum
• Córdoba, Spain: Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Córdoba
• Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts
• Dresden: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Grünes Gewölbe, Albertinum
• Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Dublin: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Irish Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Ireland
• Écouen: Musée national de la Renaissance
• Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Dean Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
• Épinal: Musée départemental d'Art ancien et contemporain
• Essen: Museum Folkwang
• Florence: Galleria degli Uffizi, Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, Palazzo Pitti, Bargello
• Frankfurt: Städel, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Museum für Moderne Kunst
• Genève: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire
• Ghent: Museum of Fine Arts
• Glasgow: Gallery of Modern Art, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Burrell Collection, Hunterian Art Gallery
• Granada: Sacristy Museum (Sacristía-Museo) of the Royal Chapel of Granada
• Grenoble: Musée de Grenoble
• Groningen: Groninger Museum
• Haarlem: Frans Hals Museum
• Halle, Saxony-Anhalt: Stiftung Moritzburg / Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
• Hamburg: Kunsthalle
• Helsinki: Ateneum Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
• Heraklion: Heraklion Archaeological Museum
• Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
• Istanbul: Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Pera Museum, Dogancay Museum, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Topkapı Palace, Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
• Karlsruhe: Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
• Kassel: Schloss Wilhelmshöhe
• Kiev: Museum of Western and Oriental Art
• Kraków: Czartoryski Museum
• Lausanne: Collection de l’Art Brut
• Le Cateau-Cambrésis: Musée Matisse
• Le Havre: Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux
• Leeds: Royal Armouries Museum, Temple Newsam, Leeds Art Gallery
• Leipzig: Museum der bildenden Künste, Museum für angewandte Kunst
• Lille: Palais des Beaux-Arts
• Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Museu Colecção Berardo
• Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery, Tate Liverpool, Sudley House
• London: National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Courtauld Gallery, Queen's Gallery, Sir John Soane's Museum, Kenwood House, Wallace Collection, Apsley House, Foundling Museum, Guildhall Art Gallery, Leighton House Museum, Ranger's House (Wernher Collection), Hermitage Rooms, The Hayward
• Lyon: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Gallo-Roman Museum
• Madrid: Museo del Prado, Museo Reina Sofia, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza
• Málaga: Museo Picasso Málaga
• Mannheim: Kunsthalle
• Manchester: Manchester Art Gallery
• Milan: Castello Sforzesco, Pinacoteca di Brera, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Museo Poldi Pezzoli
• Mönchengladbach: Abteiberg Museum
• Montauban: Musée Ingres
• Montpellier: Musée Fabre
• Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum, Kremlin Armoury, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow House of Photography, State Historical Museum
• Munich: Alte Pinakothek, Neue Pinakothek, Pinakothek der Moderne, Lenbachhaus, Glyptothek, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Museum Brandhorst, Villa Stuck, Die Neue Sammlung
• Münster: Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History
• Nancy: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée de l'École de Nancy, Musée lorrain (works by Jacques Callot and Georges de la Tour)
• Nantes: Musée des Beaux-Arts
• Naples: Museo di Capodimonte, Naples National Archaeological Museum, Caserta Palace
• Nelahozeves: Lobkowicz collection in the Castle (Zamek Nelahozeves)
• Nice: Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Musée Chagall
• Nuremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum
• Oslo: National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Munch Museum
• Osnabrück: Felix Nussbaum Haus
• Otterlo: Kröller-Müller Museum
• Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, Christ Church Picture Gallery
• Paris: Musée du Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Musée Rodin, Centre Pompidou, Musée Picasso, Guimet Museum, Musée Marmottan Monet, Musée de Cluny, Musée de l'Orangerie, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Musée Jacquemart-André, Musée du quai Branly, Petit Palais, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée Gustave Moreau, Musée Delacroix, Musée Carnavalet, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Musée Maillol, Musée de la Monnaie de Paris
• Prague: National Gallery, Náprstek Museum, Rudolfinum Gallery, Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague
• Riehen: Beyeler Foundation
• Rome: Galleria Borghese, National Museum of Rome, Palazzo Barberini, Capitoline Museums, National Etruscan Museum, Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Museum of Roman Civilization, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
• Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
• Rouen: Musée des Beaux-Arts
• Saarbrücken: Saarlandmuseum
• Saint-Étienne: Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Étienne
• Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes: Fondation Maeght
• Salzburg: Residenzgalerie, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
• San Lorenzo de El Escorial: El Escorial
• Saratov: Radischev Art Museum
• Schwerin: Staatliches Museum
• Seville: Museum of Fine Arts, Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla
• Sofia: National Archaeological Museum, National Art Gallery
• St Ives: Tate St Ives
• St. Moritz: Segantini Museum
• St. Petersburg: Hermitage, Russian Museum
• Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, Moderna Museet, Tensta Konsthall
• Strasbourg: Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Musée des Arts décoratifs
• Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie, Neue Staatsgalerie, Kunstmuseum
• Syracuse, Sicily: Archaeological Museum
• Taganrog: Taganrog Museum of Art
• The Hague: Mauritshuis
• Thun: Kunstmuseum Thun
• Toledo, Spain: Casa y Museo El Greco, Sacristy of Toledo Cathedral
• Toulouse: Musée des Augustins
• Turin: Museo Egizio, Museum of Ancient Art, Turin Museum of Natural History, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
• Utrecht: Centraal Museum, Museum Catharijneconvent
• Venice: Accademia, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Ca' Rezzonico, Ca' d'Oro, Ca' Pesaro
• Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Leopold Museum, Albertina, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, MUMOK, Liechtenstein Museum, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste
• Vaduz: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
• Varna: Varna Archaeological Museum
• Vatican City: Vatican Museums
• Warsaw: National Museum, Lanckoroński Collection in the Royal Castle, Academy of Fine Arts Museum inside Czapski Palace
• Weimar: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar
• Winterthur: Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten, Sammlung Oskar Reinhart «Am Römerholz»
• Zürich: Kunsthaus, Foundation E.G. Bührle
[edit] North America
• Atlanta, Georgia: Michael C. Carlos Museum, High Museum of Art
• Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum
• Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Shaw Center for the Arts
• Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Museum of Art
• Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art
• Buffalo, New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
• Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Art Museums
• Charleston, South Carolina: Gibbes Museum of Art
• Charlotte, North Carolina: Mint Museum of Art
• Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania: Brandywine River Museum
• Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oriental Institute
• Cincinnati, Ohio: Cincinnati Art Museum
• Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art
• Columbia, South Carolina: Columbia Museum of Art
• Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art, Wexner Center
• Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum
• Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, Meadows Museum
• Davenport, Iowa: Figge Art Museum
• Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum
• Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center
• Detroit, Michigan: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, University of Michigan-Museum of Art
• Edmonton, Alberta: Art Gallery of Alberta
• Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
• Glens Falls, New York: Hyde Collection
• Grand Rapids, Michigan: Grand Rapids Art Museum
• Greensboro, North Carolina: Weatherspoon Art Museum
• Greenville, Delaware: Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum
• Halifax, Nova Scotia: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
• Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art
• Hartford, Connecticut: Wadsworth Atheneum
• Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Menil Collection
• Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
• Indianapolis, Indiana: Indianapolis Museum of Art
• Ithaca, New York: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
• Jackson Hole, Wyoming: National Museum of Wildlife Art
• Jacksonville, Florida: Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
• Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
• Little Rock, Arkansas: Arkansas Arts Center
• Lower Merion, Pennsylvania: Barnes Foundation
• Los Angeles, California: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Louisville, Kentucky: Speed Art Museum
• Manchester, New Hampshire: Currier Museum of Art
• Memphis, Tennessee: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
• Mexico City, Mexico: Palacio de Bellas Artes
• Miami, Florida: Bass Museum, Frost Art Museum, Lowe Art Museum, Miami Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum
• Minneapolis, Minnesota: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center, Weisman Art Museum
• Monterrey, Mexico: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo del Palacio de Gobierno de Nuevo Leon
• Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
• Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Musee d'Art Contemporain
• Naples, Florida: Naples Museum of Art
• New Britain, Connecticut: New Britain Museum of American Art
• New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery
• New Orleans, Louisiana: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans Museum of Art
• New York City: Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Frick Museum, The Morgan Library & Museum, The Cloisters, Dahesh Museum, Asia Society, Neue Galerie, Hispanic Society of America, Museum of the City of New York, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Rubin Museum of Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Dia Art Foundation
• North Adams, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
• Norfolk, Virginia: Chrysler Museum of Art
• Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum
• Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum
• Ottawa, Ontario: National Gallery of Canada
• Pasadena, California: Norton Simon Museum
• Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rodin Museum
• Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Art, Andy Warhol Museum
• Ponce, Puerto Rico: Ponce Museum of Art
• Portland, Oregon: Portland Art Museum
• Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum
• Providence, Rhode Island: Rhode Island School of Design Museum
• Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Museum of Art
• Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
• Rochester, New York : Memorial Art Gallery
• Rockland, Maine: Farnsworth Art Museum
• Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum
• San Antonio, Texas: Artpace, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio Museum of Art
• San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Femina Potens Art Gallery
• San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
• Sarasota, Florida: Ringling Museum of Art
• Savannah, Georgia: Telfair Museum of Art
• Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum
• Shelburne, Vermont: Shelburne Museum
• St. Louis, Missouri: Saint Louis Art Museum
• Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, Gardiner Museum
• Toledo, Ohio: Toledo Museum of Art
• Vancouver, British Columbia: Vancouver Art Gallery, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)
• Vaughan, Ontario: McMichael Canadian Art Collection
• Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Phillips Collection, Dumbarton Oaks, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery
• West Palm Beach, Florida: Norton Museum of Art
• Williamstown, Massachusetts: Clark Art Institute, Williams College Museum of Art
• Wilmington, Delaware: Delaware Art Museum, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
• Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Winter Park, Florida: Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
• Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Art Museum
[edit] Oceania
• Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) and the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)
• Canberra: National Gallery of Australia
• Mangaweka : Permanent display of New Zealands most famed forger C.F. Goldie (aka Karl Sim)
• Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria
• Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Wellington: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
[edit] Latin America
• Buenos Aires: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
• Havana: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
• Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima
• Mexico City: Palacio de Bellas Artes
• Rio de Janeiro: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
• Santiago de Chile: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
• São Paulo: São Paulo Museum of Art
[edit] List of notable contemporary galleries
• Bombay: The Arts Trust - Institute of Contemporary Indian Art
• Delhi: Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
• Lausanne, Switzerland: Lucy Mackintosh Gallery
• London: Saatchi Gallery Victoria Miro Gallery Alwin GalleryThe Noble Sage Art Gallery
• Los Angeles: Paragon Fine Art
• Madrid: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
• Mexico City: Galería OMR
• Miami: Art Basel Miami Beach, Romero Britto Gallery, Virginia Miller Galleries
• Minneapolis: Walker Art Center
• New York: Bodley Gallery Gagosian Gallery Park Place Gallery Zach Feuer Gallery
• Paris: Daniel Templon Emmanuel Perrotin Yvon Lambert
• San Miguel de Allende: Galeria/Atelier Fabrica La Aurora
• São Paulo: Museum of Contemporary Art
• Moscow: Contemporary museum of calligraphy
• Sedona: Exposures International Gallery of Fine Art
• Tampa: Contemporary Art Museum
• Tehran: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
• Tel Aviv: Raw Art Gallery
• Tokyo: Itsutsuji Gallery
• Toronto: Peak Gallery
• Valencia : Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM)
• Waterloo, Canada: The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery

[edit] See also
• Art exhibition
• Artist-run initiative
• Artist-run space
• Arts centre
• Contemporary art gallery
• List of notable museums and galleries
• National gallery
• Vanity gallery