Andrew Lloyd Webber’s disputed Picasso set for auction March 17th, 2010 After the resolution of a four-year old claim by a German academic that a 1903 Picasso painting had been sold under duress to the Nazis in the mid-1930s, Christie’s announced on Wednesday that it would now auction the work, “Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker)’’ in London on June 23.
The portrait, which is from the artist’s Blue Period, was painted in Barcelona, Spain. It depicts the artist’s friend, Angel Fernandez de Soto, seated at a cafй table, shrouded in tobacco smoke. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, which the composer founded to benefit theaters and actors, is selling the work, which it had bought at Sotheby’s in 1995 for $21.9 million. It had belonged to the New York collectors Donald and Jean Stralem.
Christie’s was to have sold the painting in New York in November 2006 to benefit the foundation but it was forced to withdraw it 24 hours before the auction after the collector Julius Schoeps filed a lawsuit saying said it had been forcibly sold by his great uncle Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a Jewish banker in Berlin. Three years ago Christie’s expected it to bring $40 million to $60 million. Now, after a settlement between the heirs and the foundation, the auction house believes it can fetch around $60.9 million. Источник: The New York Times наверх | |
International Conference devoted to the Global Influence of Paul Cezanne in Saint -Petersburg March 1st, 2010 In March 2010 in Saint -Petersburg the international conference "Russia and the Global Cezanne Effect, 1900-1950" will bring together major Cezanne scholars from across the globe. The conference theme is highly relevant today, reflecting a recent interest in the global reaches of modernist practice and art historyЎЇs continued fascination with Paul Cezanne's life and art.
The conference will be held over a three day period, and an international program committee of prominent Cezanne-specialists has been formed to ensure a high intellectual standard for the conference. Speakers will present on modernist art from 10 countries (Russia, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, USA, India, Japan and Argentina). We expect that over 400 people from more than 20 countries will attend the conference.
Parallel with the main session a special one will be devoted to the fine art professional management today. It will consist of several workshops provided by the most specialized persons of art from Russia and abroad. The topics of the workshops will touch, among others, marketing and PR, social networking and Internet, art banking and fundraising in the art sphere.
In addition to the traditional collected articles usually published after a conference, an online translation of the event will be provided as well. This means that, in theory, everyone who has access to the Internet can take part in the conference.
The number of participants will be over 300, fine art lovers, academics, art critics, representatives of the largest International museums, curators of international exhibitions, employees of the leading global Mass Media and diplomatic personnel.
The international coverage, the geographic breadth of the invited audience and the technologically advanced facilities will make this event the first of such quality and reach in the new history of Russia and in the study of global modernism at large. Источник: cezanneconference.com наверх | |
